The San Francisco call., 1899-06-22
HOMEOPATH|STS
ASK RECOGNITION
Their Work in the Army
Is Ignored.
SEEK APPOINTMENTS IN NAVY
INTERESTING TOPICS BEFORE
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
One Resolution Charges the Army
Medical Department With In
efficiency to Meet Neces-
sites of War.
SEEK APPOINTMENTS IN NAVY
INTERESTING TOPICS BEFORE
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j.. June 21.-At
to-day's session of the American Institute
of Homeopathy the nominating commit
tee reported the following names for Of
ticers to be elected for the ensuing year:
President, Charles e. Walton, Cincinnati;
first vice president, Joseph r. Cobb,
Chicago; second vice president, Nancy
Williams, Augusta, Me; general secre-
tary, c. II. Torter, New York; recording
secretary, Wilson A. Smith, Chicago;
treasurer, T. Franklin Smith, New York;
the board of censors to fill vacancy, NJ.
D. Youngman, Atlantic City; registrar,
II. G. Aldrich, Minneapolis. The election
will take place tomorrow.
The Board of Censors reported faverably the
names of 10 applicants for membership, and
they were all unanimously elected.
DIR. J. G. b. Custig of Washington presented
a resolution, the adoption of which was urged
by the Homeopathic Medical Society of that
city. The resolution charged the medical de-
partment of the army with ''ineffciency TO
meet the hygienic sanitary and medical neces-
stiles that are incident to war, and with
ignoring the personal service and hospital con-
ditions under homeopathic control 1t was urged
that steps be taken to secure recognition Tor
graduates of the school of homeopathy in the
enactment of any laws and that all appoint
ments to the medical corps of the army and
navy and marine hospital service be after com
petitive examinations
ernment of bureau to investigate the treat
was approved.
DR. j. G Wood of Cleveland delivered
special address on Homeopathy as Allied 10
Therapeutics" Among other things he said
that early 1881 Hahnemann recognized
what had been done as a strictly modern inno-
walton in pathology, namely. the .ascrlblng or
disease to the presence of germs. IL that year
he wrote that cholera was caused by organ
isms which were conveyed by the air, and he
advised the administration of material doses
in order to destroy these pestiferous microbes.
He gave as a chief characteristic of modern
he of on o a
Of promises, thus being again in line with mod
ern thought Professor Wood notes as a chief
feature distinguishing the homeopathic from
the allo3athic school the fact that the former
deals with manifestations of disease rather
than its absence.
The section in sanitary science was presided
over by ]. W. Leisure of Batavia, n. Y The
most important address was made by General
NJ O. Terry Of Utica, y. Y, ex-surgeoTt gen.
eral of the National Guard Of New York. He
quoted a letter written by Colonel }. d. En-
NETT surgeon general OF the Fifth Brigade,
National Guard of New York, In which he
suggests the permanent appointment OF a medi-
cal representative in the present Cabinet. and
General Terry ndorsed his suggestion He said
the experience of England in Egypt and the
lesson taught in Cuban campaign enforced
with a strong argument of facts the absolute
necessity Of a new portfolio in the executive
Cabinet in our Government. that Of Medical
Director General. with powers clearly defined
as in other Cabinet positions. The position
like all the others in the Cabinet, he said
should be filled by appointment by the Presi-
dent subject TO confirmation by the Senate
special voice In the selection, leaving it to the
President select the man from whichever
school of medicine he wished.
General Terry then took up the subject Of