The age-herald., 1898-11-10
THE HOMEOPATHS
 IN ANNUAL SESSION
A Day of Constant and Interest
 ing Work by the Doctors.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
The Session Will Close Today-Some Women Doctors of Energy and Spirit-The Chief Ma
 tive of Alabama.

The formal session of the Southern Homeopathic Association began in the
 parlors of the Morris at 10:9e o'clock yes terday morning. President Lizzie Gray
 Guthrez, of St. Louis, in the chair, and
 Corresponding Secretary pr. Frances Me
 Milan, of Nashville, at the secretary's | table,
 | Dr. w. w. Clapp delivered the address
 of welcome in behalf of the local members l of the association.
 Dr. C. E. Walton of Cincinnati, respond l ed.
 President Guthrez appointed the creden- tial committee as follows: ". W. Clapp,
 S. s. Stearns and V. H.~lHallman.
 Dr. Duffield, of Huntsville, presented the
 treasurers report. showing the membership of the organization to be seventy-two, a
 gain of sixteen in the last three years. The
 balance on hand is very satisfactory, and the association is not in debt, and pros- poets are excellent for the future | Drs. Whitman, Ballard and Henry were appointed as committee to audit the counts of the treasurer
 sccretary's Report
 Dr. Frances McMillan presented her re-
 port as secretary of the association, show
 ing that she has written 1si personal letters
 during her term, sent out 2oe circular letters
 and 24o programmes. She reported having
 secured six new members
 Public Ins titutions
 This was followed by reports on public institutions. Reference was made to good
 work in Cincinnati, and Dr. Stearns stated that the hospital in Washington City was well filled, and homeopathy was receiving attention there. President Guthrez spoke of the various institutions in St. Louis and
 of the insane asylum at Fulton, Mo, where homeopathy was being given a proper trial Dr. Ballard told of institutions in Birming- ham where homeopathy was being prac- | ticed Dr. Duffield told of differences be- tween the homeopathists of Huntsville and | those in the old school there.
 Presidents Address
 Dr. Guthrez, the president, who, by the way, was born and reared at Florence, Ala; where she is connected by ties of
 blood with the best people, delivered her | annual address. pr. Guthrez said: "'Why Are We Here, is the title of the address which now offer you. In follow ing up this short caption I trust shall not be prolix. I doubt I shall be profound, and most heartily do I hope that I shall not prove prOsy. "It is my first duty, as well as my pleas- ure, to thank you for the distinguished honor you conferred upon me by electing me your president When in the American
 
 ago, Dr. Carroll Durham moved, amid a clamor of protests. and Reuben Lud1am put the question that admitted women to membership into that noble body, the broad-mnded and liberal men of our na- tional convention placed the homeopathic medical women upon pedestal hitherto, and until now ,unoccupied by other women in the medical profession. Hence. again, in the name of the women of our school, thank you for this evidence of your re- gard and feel assured that you appreciate my earnest endeavor to serve you of the dear old Southern with fidelity and zeal.
 But to return to my heading, Why are we here?' Each thing has its beginning, and the sequences which follow may be infinite in results, for veal for woe When more than a century ago our grand master, Samuel Hahnemann, turned the searchlight of his wonderful mind upon the world and promulgated his then new system of cure, he was scoffed at, and his infinitesmal doses and single drugs ridi- cued with scorn. And yet the results which follow the penetrative power of his masterly intellect is the first greatest and grandest of the many reasons why we are here. As the years have rolled by thousands and thousands of intellectual,
 thinking people have enlisted under the banner of sima, ,smilibus curantur, and in their belief bow allegiance to man. As a second reason for our presence here, in December 1881, pr. R. H. Stout, whom we have known long and most favorably made the first public suggestion that an opportune time for the Homoeopaths of the south to get together for consultation and organization had arrived. Fortunately for our beloved southland, Dr. Stouts col- leagues were one with him in this opinion So now again, after the lapse of years, at the cordial invitation of our worthy CO., workers, Drs. Ballard & Clapp. with the hearty cooperation of the hospitable citi. of the beautiful city of Birmingham here we rest-in Alabama, the state of beauty, chivalry, progress and prosperity, and, with your pardon, the state which holds the warmest spot in my heart of many grand states over which wave the glorious stars and stripes. And we are here with purpose, an earnest purpose, coordinate with the school of medicine we represent. With all good fellowship and deference to the brothers of the domi- nant school (among whom many of us have warm personal friends) we call our selves Homoepaths and we claim to be regular; we, too, spell it with capital R, as we graduate from regularly chartered medical colleges and we practice the heal- ing art in accordance with the laws of the country in which we reside. We are here, for mutual encouragement, for comrade- ship and intellectual improvement to ad- vance the all-important cause of Homoe- pathy in the south, and to impress upon the members of the Southern association that this association occupies place in the medical world untouched by any other Homoepathis organization, that they must be true to themselves, that they must give of their time, their energy and their money to uphold the superstructure which they have been patiently and laboriously build ing for the last fifteen years. We are here to tell the people and their legislative rep resentatives that the same spirit which shook the colonies to their foundations that taxation without representation is
 wrong-is rife today; that we believe in equal rights for American citizens and that no man or body of men should domi- nate this free country religiously. politi- cally or medically"