The San Francisco call., 1896-05-14
Just One Hundred Years Since
Hahnemann Founded This
School.
UNUSUAL INTEREST AROUSED
Attendance and New Members in
Excess of Former Years-Women
Well Represented.

Inc OallIOrnld state homeopathic MeQl-
cal Society began its twentieth annual ses-
sion yesterday forenoon in the Maple
Room of the Palace Hotel.
Over sixty doctors, about a fourth of
them women, were present as representa-
tives of various parts of the State.
The morning session was occupied prin-
cipaliy by routine business, including re-
ports of officers and committees.
Fourteen new members were elected, q
decided increase over records of previous
years. The membership of the society at
present is 112 the largest it has eyer been.
Following are the physicians who were
voted in:
DR.. ]. F. Tapley of Marysville, DR.. w.
n. Lamb of San Francisco, DR.. J. S.
Hodge OF Pasadena. DR.. II. P. Stipp of
Winters, DR.. Ida B. Stsnbach OF Santa
Barbara, DR.. R. L. Hill Jr. of Oakland, DR..
G. L. Long of Fresno, DR.. a. L. Cunning
ham of Oakland, DR.. n. II. Chamberlain
of Oakland, DR.. Cara B. Scofield OF Oak
land, DR.. Eva L. Harris of Oakland, DR..
Mary Ellen Hoffman of San Francisco,
DR.. J. Kastendick of San Francisco, and
DR.. Q. B. Hastings of Selma.
The presidents annual address was de-
hvered by DR.. c. B. Currier of this City,
whose term of Office expires to-day.
Speaking OF the purpose of the assem-
bIage he said: ut becomes us as pro-
fessional men and women to come together
annually, and if we find in our therapeutic
capital any deteriorated or damaged stock
to weigh carefully that which is still in
the experimental stage and to set the seal
of our approval upon that which has been
tried and not found wanting. These meet
ings are our summer schools of good fell
lowship.''
He spoke of the great value of the
Roetgen ray TO medical science and sur
gerry and commented upon the possibili-
ties yet undeveloped in its usefulness. He
sounded a note of warning against too
general use OF coal tar preparations as q
hypodermic treatment for the opium
habit, and in the same connection he as
serted that the Kelley institutes are
closing their doors and giving way to hyr-
motto influences as q substitute for the jag
syringe in the cure of the liquor habit.
The enormous gathering of Moham-
medans as a result of their great annual
sacred pilgrimage to Mecca, he declared,
is the cause of cholera that nearly every
year comes from The overcrowding of un-
clean hordes, whose representatives subse-
quently scatter the germs of the disease
into China and Japan, where it becomes a
continual menace to America and par
ticularly to California. In Southern Cali
fornia DR.. Currier asserted, the death rate
from consumption is, in proportion to
population, much smaller than it was in
1880, and has been steadily decreasing
since that time, although consumptives
even in the hopeless stages of the disease,
continue to seek relief in the equitable
climate of the southern coast.
In the afternoon the report of the scien-
titic committee was taken up, the follow
ing papers being read and so eagerly and
freely discussed that many others on the
programme had to be put off until to-day.
This may necessitate four instead of thrse
days for the whole session, as only one
sixth of all the papers have yet been read.
The papers were clinical Medicine and
Electricity" DR.. Herbert NJ. Bishop of Los
Angeles; 1.-TWO Peculiar Cases of Throat
Troubles" DR.. A. C. Peterson of San Fran
cisco; Clinical Cases." DR.. W. A. Ledy ard
of San Francisco. On the subject of OBJ
stetrics; "Post-partum Hemorrhage and
Retained Placenta." DR.. James T. Martin
of Woodland; Abortion" DIR. Susan j.
IT.
Bertha Wagner Stark of San Francisco;
"Ante-natal Influence" DR.. Carolin L.
Guild of san Francisco, DR.. ]. NJ Selfridge
of Oakland, and DR.. Pratt of San Jose.
The fact that DR.. Hahnemann founded
the principles of homeopathy just 100
years ago was fttingly celebrated last
night at Native Sons Hall. Friends of
the school and of its chief exponents in
this City filled the large auditorium and
the galleries, which were still gay with
the elaborate decorations and yellow bunt-
ing that formed so pleasing setting for
the great Woman's Congress that had
held forth there during the previous week.
Included in the programme were: In
troductory remarks, by George H. Martin,
NJ. D.; an original poem. "Hahnemann,"
by Hayes Z. French, NJ. D.; vocal solo,
by Mrs. Eva Tenney; an oration by H r.
Arndt, NJ. D, and a violin solo, by Noah
Brandt.