Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-26
FEW CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE
Homeopaths Devote the Morning Session
Largely to Society Business,
CONTESTS FOR ONLY TWO OF THE PLACES
After Nominations lind been Made
the Convention starts In 20
Discuss Mcdital
To-irs.

method OF submitting names was by means
OF small slips Of paper handed to the gem
eral secretary, while the other business was
going on. Only two candidates were pre-
scented for the presidency, one of them being
n Nebraska man, DR.. Benjamin +. Bailey Of
Lincoln. and the other being DIR. Charles T..
Walton OF Cincinnati. o. Likewise there
were tNo candidates proposed for the record
ing sccretaryship. DR.. Frank Kraft OF Cleve-
land, o., the present incumbent, ind DR..
Wilson A. Smith OF South Haven, Mich.
These are the only two Offices over which
there are contests. For the office of first vice
president, DR.. \. d. Norton, the chairman
OF the Interstate committee, was nominated,
and for second vice president, DIR. Sarah j.
Millsop Of Rowling Green, Ky. Like Record
ing Secretary Kraft. General Secretary Flu
gene II. Porter Of New York and Treasurer
E. NJ. Kellogg and Assistant Treasurer T.
Franklin Smith, both of New York. were
all named for reelection.
These were all the nominations made. As
none was offered for the Office of register,
Or. Henry VI. Aldrich Of Minneapolis will
hold over.
All the names we're at once submitted to
! Il committee on elections chosen Just pre-
viously by the president and composed of
Drs. A. p. Williamson of Minneapolis, Will
no ~ H'NtI VI III hIDOE, NlEH, ana I'll
dredge C. Price of Baltimore.
President Wright also selected the fol-
lowing as the committee on next place of
meeting: Drs. J. b, G. Custis of Washing
ton, ID. e.; o. s. Runnels of Indianapolis,
William w. Van Baum Of Philadelphia, Sam
uel 5. Smythe of Denver and Claudius b.
Kinyon of Rock Island, III.
Election Occurs Monday.
TIp ,,nII,n., F-r A.. .I..
takes place Monday forenoon in accordance
with the by laws.
The committee on the materia medics
CT Nference was not ready to report. Pre-
linn AIRY reports were submitted by Chair
man .IcClelland of the H%ahnemann monu-
ment committee and Chairman Norton OF
the interstate committee.
On the favorable action of the Board Of
Censors eighty new members were admitted
to the association, several new ones also
being posted.
The convention then resolved into sections
to discuss technical subjects. In the
amphitheater the section on materia medica
and therapeutics was resumed, and in
OF" Of the class rooms below that
on clinical medicine. The subject of
anti-toxins in the prevention and cure of
disease was discussed by the latter, DR..
i"ii 'tl'itll u 'DlCdSO, editor oil the
Medical Era, submitting the paper.
This section had by far the larger attend
ance, though in a sense, the point at issue
was kindred 10 the questions being debated
upstairs-the two latter of the four pathies,
'isopathy and homeopathy"
Ihe adVtsability of using anti-toXines
was discussed pro and con by Drs. ]. S.
Allen, Joseph p. Cobb, C. b.. Kenyon,
Reuben Laidlaw, II. C. Allen, c.. e. Fisher
of Chicago, I. l.. Hazard of Iowa City. w.
a. Humphrey OF Nebraska, Charles T.. Wal
ton of Cincinnati, C. b. Kenyon of Ann Ar
Dor, James II. McClelland of Pittsburg. J.
c.. Wood of Cleveland and a number of
others.
Follows HahnemRnn's Idea.
In his paper DR.. Gatchell argued as fol-
lows:
Hahnemann was quick to recognize the
relation OF serurn-therapy to the thera-
peutiC method which he did so much IN
establish and it has always been to me a
matter of wonder that our school has not. as
one OF its tenants, accepted and promulgated
the doctrine thus early announced by Hah-
nemann that the prophylactic action of vac
cine virus in variola Is but an eXemplin-
cation of similia.
Owing to the present activity of the older
school in the development of a system of
serum therapy involving the prevention and
cure of disease by the action of the a%ntitox-
ms we, as a school, as Il school are not
brought face to face with this problem.
The therapeutic action of the antitoNins
is an excmplitication of the homeopathic law
of cure; 1t is an instance OF the applications.
of n medical substance to the cure of dis
ease according to the indications of similia.
Immense Importance attaches to this
newly discovered substance. 1t is known to
be the agent which primarily exerts an iniu-
ence of the system that enables it to re-
sist the disease producing effects
of the toxin. Antitoxin possess this
power whether generated within the sys-
TEN of the patient or introduced from with
out.
Therefore. antitoXin Is a curative agent,
and as such does not differ essentially from
other therapeutic agents or internal medi-
cines which are introduced into the system
for their curative effect.
The consensus of opinion now Is that the
direct effect of antitoXino Is upon the nuclei
of the cells, stimulating them to the in
creased production of nuclein, or of nuclein
of a more healthy and resistant tone.
l would make application of this eXplaua-
ton of the action of the antitoxins to the
action of all homeopathic medicines in ex-
erting their therapeutic effects in the cure
of disease.
On these lines | would make like %applica-
tion touching the action of rhus in rheu-
matism. of arsenicum in cholera, Of calcarea
in so-called "scrofulosis," of iodine in affec-
lions of the glands, and so throughout the
entire list of homeopathic medicines.
In their specific therapeutic action all
homeopathic medicines are. so to speak,
antitoXins; or. to use the preferable term,
all are stimulus"
But | would not have the fact over
looked that medicines are thus specific and
curative in their action-after the manner
of the antitoXins-only when applied ac-
cording to the indications of similia.
What has already been said regarding
the action of antitoxin. may also be applied
to its prophylactic action. In this respect
IL may be likened to belladonna as n
prophylatic in searletina. or to vaccine in
smallpox.
The analogy between the action of anti
toxin and other homeopathic therapeutic
agents is further illustrated in the matter
of rapidity OF action.
II is a familiar fact to us that many OF
our medicines, such as veratrum album
colocyth, belladonna and others. sometimes
act almost simultaneously; that is, as soon
as they can be absorbed and diTused
through the circulation, In many instances
with many medicines il is noted that the
Improvement began after the first dose"
In conclusion ! would say that antitoxin
as n therapeutic agent, applied to the cure
OF disease according to the indications of
simllla, in its mode OF action differs In no re-
spect from that of other medical substances
anI IL a.