The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-30

pathic Association.
and Charles s. Winters, of Bingham
ton: DIR. f. w. Adriance, of Elmira;
DR.. Mark 5. Purdy, of Corning; DR.. +.
NJ. Santee and DR.. +. Il. Nash, of Cort-
land: DR.. w. H. Champlin, of Towan-
da; DR.. F. Nj. Bishop. of Newark Val
ley, n. Y; DR.. De VIII G. Wilcox, of
Buffalo: Dr. a. d. Getman, of Oneon-
ta; DR.. Gendall, of Plymouth: DR..
Hassler, of Philadelphia; DIR. Thomp-
son, of Carbondale DIR. j. T.. Henshall.
of Philadelphia; DIR. Simmons, of Sus-
quehanna.
The routine busines Of the associa-
ton was first transacted, and then the
time of both sessions was taken up
with the reading of papers and the
discussion of them. DR.. Coolidge read
Sis annual address which summar-
lied is as follows:
DIR. C0OLIDGES ADDRESS.
take great pleasure In giving you
cordial welcome to our city. While We
meet as a distinctive body of physicians.
l am sure that the people of this city are
broad enough in their ideas ana SO inter.
ligent and advanced in their knowledge OF
matters pertaining to medicine ana sani-
tary science, as to accord to us any de-
served merit and respect which belongs
to us as members of the healing art.
We are gathered here today, not for
purposes OF contention or controversy.
but for concerted action by union OF
strength and numbers in advancing the
general welfare and interests of the cause
We represent, in which we believe, ana 10
which We are in duty bound to devote our
best efforts. Inasmuch as our profession
al work in a certain sense. and the work
of this society in particular, is largely hu-
manitarian. | take 1t that 1t Is we'll TO
define our position on points which con-
Ito, .iv,in I oh
son to point to a good prescriber of well
proven homeopathic remedies whose rep
utation as a healer is not firmly estab-
lished in the community where he resides:
Ii may be altogether old fashioned and
out of date to refer to the memory of
Samuel Hahnemann In this progressive
age when the eyes of all mankind are
looking into the future. But you know
it often falls to the lot Of men so great
and standing upon thought levels so far
above the plane of mankind during their
day that their age refuses to acknowledge
their greatness because 1t cannot under
Milton's paradise Lost was sold for {,
few shillngs in the streets OF London
The musical genius Of Mozart, as much as
1t daZzled his contemporaries, had 10 wait
hundred years for true appreciation
And 1t is ever so in the realms of science.
THEY ARE SPECIALISTS.
] wish to emphasize again the fact tha,
We. as a school, are specialists In tn,
use of remedies. That Is our fad: belier'
ers in the power of medicine to cure dis
ease Need ] say there are medical meT
who do not so believe. Now with dis
ease on the one hand and the remed!
which abounds in field, forest and tn,
mineral and animal kingdoms ON tn,
other Is 1t not a reection upon Divine in
teligence to say there Is no law or GER
tain rule by which it can be use?
In closing allow me to refer TO the sta tue
md 9th of pe4ll Ia.
to the two schools. The legal require
ments of medical education are the same
for each. and both are subject to the sam,
police regulation as final qualification
of practice after graduation in medicine
The relationship to the public in the tive
schools Is about on an even footing. W,
have as respectable clientele and may
modestly claim to be as successful in
practice.
DO you really believe that the public
is unaware of the fact that an old schoo
physician, when so inclined cannot con.
sent with a physician of another sclool
except at the risk of incurring the dis
pleasure of his medical associates. and II
his medical friends do not exercise leni.
ency toward him, he is disbarred from
membership with his fellow practitioners.
lives and the lives of their little chill.
doren are at stake. in such dire extremity
when medicine may seem unavailing
when you know. perhaps, that no human
relief can save. yet the human heart
clings to hope, when. that parent has a
right to ask counsel or look for helr
from any source whatsoever. do you
think your patrons and the people of the
community fully realize that there arc
medical men whose code will not permit
them to help save a human being excep,
il be in strict accordance with that pr;n.
ciple which allows the individual ro
choice in the selection Of his medical ad-
wiser?
CALL IT UNAMERICAN
AS American citizens, aside from any
professional relation we have to the pub
lie veal, Is Ii not your duty and mine
to arouse public sentiment and agitate the
matter until this un-American and tyran.
you will all agree that the day has
forever gone by when We as practitioners
of medicine are in any sense dependen,
for self-help upon consultations with our
old school friends. or that We desire such
except upon that broad principle that We
vine right to liberty Of opinion and it Is
abhorrent to our minds to know that the
ethics of q great school of medicine do no,
give each member the right to do as his
conscience oftentimes might dictate.
We protest against 1t as barring the door
much new knowledge might enter, and
finally. as being wholly Incompatible with
those broad principles by which men shall
be bound only by the laws of the land
and by conscience.
The first paper read was by DR.
Champlin, of Towanda, and was OF
Treatment of Typhoid Fever" He
said that good nursing Is the most es.
sential point next to the work of the
physician in the cure of the patient
Drs. Lange, Of this city, and Hill. oi