Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-22
GIVES KEY TO THE DOCTORS
Mayor Moores Turns the City Over to the
Eclectic Healers.
ARE FOLLOWERS OF A NOBLE PROFESSION
President Frrnum In His Opening
Address recommend Efforts
to secure Uniform
State Laws.

began It's twenty-eighth annual convention
in Creighton hall yesterday morning by lis
tening to an address OF welcome from Mayor
Moores, Immediately after the president.
Or. Edward J. Farnum Of Chicago, had
called 1t to order and Rev. John McQuoid
Of the First Methodist church of this city
had offered prayer. There we're a great
many young female doctors present and the
rear part Of the hall Ia filed with exhibits
Of the latest inventions in the line Of
surgical apparatus. In his speech of well
come, and while turning over the keys
OF the city," a huge pair Of gilded ones,
suitably inscribed, Mayor Moores COM
plimented the medical profession generally
as follows:
1t gives me great pleasure as mayor of
Omaha to extend you a cordial welcome to
our city. Omaha is a hospitable city, the
metropolis Of a hospitable state. The west
should by the very nature Of things be the
country Of good fellowship and friendship;
charity ard hospitality should pass current
here. The mutual trials and privations, Joys
and successes incident to the early history
OF the transmississippi states are too fresh
in the minds of men to have allowed the
milk Of human kindness to dry up.
No class Of men have so truly earned the
gratitude and recognition of their fellow
men as have our faithful, self sacrificing
physicians. The physician is truly a poll
tician In the better sense of the word, be-
cause he Is ever willing to sacrifice his time
and energies for the public good. The physi-
clan OF today is always n leading factor in
the educational affairs of his city or town.
inc day Is past when any ignoramus can
have IN. D." attached to his name.
Physicians, too, as a rule are exceedingly
loyal citizens. In the revolutionary conflict
hardly had the echoes Of Lexington and
Concord died away when the illustrious DR.,
Joseph Warren left his large practice In
Boston to give his services to his country.
Less than a month later he poured out his
life blood at Bunker Hill, just as his heroic
comrades retired from the rodoubts, vic
torious even in their defeat. His death was
the saddest loss experienced by the colonies
during the first year of the revolution.
How similar has been the history of our
present war with Spain. Hardly had war
broken out when DR.. ]. b. Gibbs, a young
physician of ability and standing in New
York City, gave up his bright prospects to
respond TO his country's call. On June IL,
less than a month later. he fell at
Guantanamo with five others. the first
Americans to shed their blood on Cuban
soil in the cause of Cuban liberty. The
patriotism of the physicians of the country
can be relied upon in every emergency.
Commitments the West.
The response to this was made by DR.. r..
L. Thomas of Cincinnati. He referred to the
VI oiliilh uhu III
transmississippi region during the last TWEEN
ty-fve years, said there was no longer any
east or west, and that recent developments
OF the war had shown that there Is no longer
any north and south. I'VE stand today"
said he, 'the marvel of the world-sO, 900, 900
people united against a foe.'' Therefore the
National Eclectic Medical association felt
also something Of a proprietary interest in
the Transmississippi Exposition, as it is an
exposition of an entire nation in which Sec
tionalism has now no place whatever.
President Farnum appointed the following
committees:
Credentials-Drs. J.. X. Scudder of Gin
%cinnati, w. G. Latta of Lincoln, Neb. 4;
Thomas Garth of Clarion. Ia; w. l.. Makes
of Michigan and T.. NJ. Hoover Of Austin,
Kan.
Finance and Claims-Drs. e. Younkin of
st. Louis, T. w. Miles of Denver and A. w.
Smith of Chicago.
Necrology-Drs. L.. e. STANDBY of st.
Louis, George Covert of Linton, Wis, and
J. G. Mccain of Monticello, Ind.
Medical Colleges, Confederation-Drs. j. X.
New York, w. T. Gemmill of Forest, o.:
e. J. Farnum OF Chicago and e. Younkin of
st. Louis.
To Inquire Into the Rates and Accom-
modations to the Worlds Fair at Paris in
1870, With a View to Holding a Session that
Year Enroute to that Exposition-Drs. r. L.
Thomas and j. K. Scudder of Cincinnati and
G. w. Boskowitz of New York.
Grievance-Drs David Williams of
Columbus, o.; w. Il. Curryer of Indianapolis,
Susan X. Whitford of Chicago, e. Brunson
of Ganges, o., and j. l.. Matthews of Cal
laway, Neb.
To Procure Evidence Against Members
Guilty of Unprofessional Conductors w
E.. Boyer of Cincinnati, G.. w. Boskowitz of
New York and w. A. Graves OF Chicago.
Locations for Eclectic Physicians-Drs.
Finley E~llingwood of Chicago. j.. X. Scud-
der of Cincinnati, and DR.. Maclean of San
Francisco.
Presidents Address.
In his annual address which followed,
President Farnum advised the production of
an eclectic volume on materia medica by @
confederated effort. criticised the tendency
to extend the college courses and recon
mended a step toward bringing a uniform
medical law into existence. He said:
The eclectic school of medicine has made
a substantial growth in the United States
during the last three-quarters of a century
and today 1t Is an established and potent
factor in our scientific and social world. Its
BTOWlu Is dtlcsttu ny llS COLLEGES, us llleFd-
ture, its organizations in nearly every state
in the union, and by over 10000 practicing
physicians.
The American eclectic system of medicine
seeks to harmonize all truths, and its prin
ciples embody n liberality Of thought and
action In the practice of the healing art
Recognizing these rights and fostering 6
high degree Of education, the eclectic schoo
has established a distinctive medical prac'
tice.
For many years the points Of excellence
in the eclectic school of medicine has beer
confined chiefly to superior means OF treat
ment at our command, through the develop
ment of the eclectic materia medica. Ii
promoting its growth the National Eclectic
Medical association has occupied a promi
nent position in the minds OF the medica
profession throughout the world. Durini
the past few years, however, the casua
observer has been impressed that in tn
eclectic ranks there is a growing diversit,
of ~orinlch with regard to the use of man
of the eclectic remedies. Ii is singula
that two of our physicians may be prac
ticing side by side and each treating tn
same diseased conditions with remedies tina
have so wide a difference in physiologics
action. The great variance in practic
would seem to demand that more attentio
be paid to the development Of the indigenou
remedies and to the production of li;eratur
on the subject of materia medica. Suhicien