The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-05
THREE IN ONE.
The Three Leading Medical
Societies of the State
Come Together in a Joint As
semblage.
ALL ENTITIES BURIED
In a Desire to Help Suffering
Humanity.
Welcomed by DIR. Warner and
Mayor Fellows.
ALL ENTITIES BURIED

An unprecedented event occurred in
Topeka last night.
Men who for years who have scorned
to meet each other professionally, and
have even allowed their preju-
diees to interfere with their social re-
Iationships, gathered together at Rep
Tesentative hall and listened to express
sions on the brotherly love that exists
between them They are members of
the three state medical societies and
representatives of the three schools of
medicine.
The discovery that such a thing as
brotherly love really exists between
these medical gentlemen of different
schools is not of ancient time. 1t was
made less than year ago, and had its
inception in the fact that the Kansas
railroads refused to haul small bodies
Of men at reduced rates. 1t blossomed
perceptibIy in the knowledge by the
three societies meeting jointly individ-
ual members would have the privilege
of travelling TO and from the convention
city at less individual expense It
reached its proof in the perfection of
arrangements and the preparation Of
Joint program.
And so for the first time in the history
of the state, as well as in the history
OF the United States, the allopaths and
the hOmeOpaths and the electics suOth-
cred their aninOsiIies and laid aside
their prejudices and met together as
physicians on an equal footing. The
meeting was a success. and the ulti
mate result may the Punishment of ma
1moS1t1eS and prejudiceS from among
the medical profession of Kansas
Governor Leedy was to have well
coined the doctors in the name of the
state, but Governor Leedy was busy
last night providing blankets for the
shivering volunteers at Camp Leedy
and when the medical men heard of it
they voted that the governor was much
been talking to them. Instead of Gov
ernor Leedy, the societies listened to
Dr. H A Warner Of this city as a rep
resentative Of the state
Mayor c. A Fellows followed Dr.
Warner with an address of welcome on
the part of the city, and told the doc
tors that the town was in their posses
sion during their stay. The response
on the part of the physicians was made
by RI H NJ Ochiltree of Haddam- He
said:
The great state Of Kansas, already.
famous for its advances in social and
political government, will today mark an
epoch IN her history which will set the
pace for states and for continents and
viii mark the tide height of modern lib
eral thought of which honor to the
Great Physician is an exponent
For the first time in the history of
this country the disciples of Hippo
NAe1NGS nave met EOS6LneT common
What difference does it make whether
you have been sprinkled poured on or
immersed, or whether you are singing
the tenor, alto or bass? As long as the
salvation Of the physical world is our
Hre work can We not join in a song
which will be all the more musical for
its different parts.
May we not ferventIy hone that the
discordant notes which especially lar
upon the ears of the invalid world will
this day be SO harmOnized that a tune
full chord can be sounded which will re-
Verberate throughout the earth. and
that prejudice and bigotry may be
thwarted in any attempt to prevent
this inception from being the endoplast
around which shall gother the unpreju-
diced opinion of the medical world I'M
I'll IL shall fill the planet which we in
habit
We may safely conclude that the
walls of the old codes are crumbling
away, and no longer serve to corral the
progressive physician. The Goddess
Hygela will certainly look down upon
this assemblage with benignant smile
and will extend her hands in a bless
ing upon a meeting so prepitious and
old US gOdSpeed in our efforts to har-
monte the medical factions.
And old father AescuIapfJ1s will re-
5Oice to see the jealousy and animosftv
of his sons and daughters melting
away, and that there is prospect in
the near future of a great family re-
union to which all of his living descend
ents will be invited The physician and
surgeon have but one common object.
and that is to repair the defects in the
human body.
Tt is not our different methods which
clog the wheels of progress. but our
egotistica1 defense of pet systems
With all Of the physicians of the
state OF Kansas acting in HARMONY We
would be invincible, and before US the
Philistines OF charIatanry would flee in
terror. But into this union power can
not enter unless the bigOt ceases to he
a DfROr TODAY and ia
with unprejudiced eyes. either the dis
covery of the scientist Behring or the
theories of such noted physicians as
Hahnemann and King
W. shington was first in peace and
hrst in war, but Kansas is first in seek
ing to free the enslaved. whether to an
uQuity, to rum. or to bigOtry
Let our motto be: The world for a41r
field, all physicians our brothers."
DIT E b Packer of Usage Cfty acted
as chairman of the meeting, and Dr. A
M Hutchinson of Hutchinson, secreta
~ After Dr. Haddam's response a
programme of papers was carried o4l+
and the first paper read was by DR. n
w: Ro6y OF this city on Hygiene of
The human race has been progress
Ing Tor uncounted ages From print
i've and nomadic conditions we have
Slowly emerged into clearer lights and
better surroundings One after an0+b
er the vagrant ages have droppad into
our hands and distributed along the
better living
From caves and fig leaves, we have
come TO palaces and rustling silks ONT
OF individual self defense bv fists 49,
clubs against wild beasts and Wilder
men, we have arrived at national de-
Ienses and individual liberty and YT71J
tp!ytng the downward range of human
vision, the microscope opens the door
way 10 the microcosm and puts man in
relation with million destinfes never
6eIore dreamed of in the realm of in
6nitude.
/. The ancient sorcerer, has come to be
the modern surgeon; and from the