Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-06
FOLLOWERS OF HAHNEMANN
Annual Convention of the Missouri Valley
Association.
MARCH OF HOMEOPATHY IN THE WEST
Instructive Address by nm Omaha
Physician on the Growth ana
Importance of the Homeopathic
school of Medicine.

The annual meeting of ths Missouri Valley
Homeopathic Medical association was held
in Kansas City during the past week. In
point of numbers the meeting was the larg-
est in the history of the association, 200 ply
sicians being present from Missouri, Arkan-
sas, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. The open
ing address, delivered by DR.. d. A. Foote of
Omaha, president of the association, is spoken
of in fattering terms by the press of Kansas
City.
The doctor spoke in part as follows:
I'VE are assembled today for the consider
alton of problem which Is transcendent in
all worldly comparisons, viz, the healing OF
the sick. Life is a fundamental question
and our work, like the coral, is to make pos
sible the flower and fruit Of human hopes.
1.-The dignity of our calling lifts our pro-
fessions above all the unseemly strifes and
ambitions of men. We are the stewards OF
the temple of the soul-a temple whose eX-
qusite architecture and infinite beauty ana
symmetry fill us with wonder and admra-
tion. II true stewards, there comes into our
own souls, through long contemplation OF
this divinely wrought structure and through
patient continuance in arduous details,
quality that blesses the souls as well as the
bodies of mankind.
"The ripened years that crown the brows
of our worthless are resplendent with the
radiance of human love and divine glory.
There is no JOY that measures the conscious
ness of usefulness. There is no coin that ex-
presses its value. 1T is more blessed to give
than to receive.
"The Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medi-
cal association, born in Omaha, the Gate City
of the west and the central figure in the con-
stellation of cities that beauties this valley
the exponent of western enterprise and
American grit-the prophecy OF that wonder
full future when the fretting Missouri shall
be a fettered canal bearing upon It's bosom
oh 70 enrich the cities that
adorn its banks. 1t is we'll that Omaha was
the birthplace Of such precocious child.
"The paramount object of this association
is the conservation and organization OF all
the forces of our school along the Missouri
valley. Let us have here a body OF physi-
clans known as the department Of the Mis-
souri,. IL you will that shall be to our medi-
cal fraternity what Sherman's corps was to
our country-progressiye' aggressive VIC
torious We have battles yet to fight in the
name of modern medicine. Our opposition Is
always strong and often malicious. But We
have forces to conquer peace.
"Who is not proud Of the Missouri in
stitute? Who has not heard Of the strength
| OF the Hahnemann society OF Iowa? Is there
| not a bright star attracting universal ad-
miration In our silver state? Has not the en-
thusasm OF Nebraska borne good cheer to
our friends in Minnesota and the Dakotas?
We are rich In resources, but we are now
segregated, weakened by divisions. We do
not mass our forces in columns that go
after something and get 1t. In other words
we are not comprising the victories worthy
of our cause as champions Of twentieth cen
| tury medicine.
TWENTIETH CENTURY MEDICINE.
twentieth century medicine. that is the
| idea which has been incubating for the past
| century. One hundred years ago a scientist
| of the strctest sect, a Pharlsee in zeal, the
apccalyptic prophet OF medicine, discovered
| and expressed old law of nature. In the
| light Of this new discovery many absurdities
of traditional medicine have reluctantly dis
! appeared.
! Bleeding purgation, salvation, which
| held universal sway over a long-suffering