The morning news., 1899-12-21
DON'T WANT 1T RECOGNIZED.
SAVANNAH MEDICAL SOCIETY Is
DOWN ON OsTEOPATHY.

Governor Was Wired Last Night in
the Effort to Induce Him TO Veto
the BiII-Savannah Physicians DO
Not Think Wen of the Alleged
Sctence-Its Practitioners, They
Believe, should Not BE Admitted
Into the state PrOfessiOnnIIy-One
Was in Savannah Last Summer.
Local Physicians Called Him TO
Time for Being Unlicensed.
Savannah physicians love exponents of
osteopathy about as much as they do IA
kris who vend medicines on the streets.
They have no faith in the alleged sci
ence and do not recognize it as among
the legitimate practices of their profess
sion. It was this that induced action last
night that may have some effect on Gov.
Gambler when he comes to give the oste-
opaehy bill consideration.
A meeting of the Savannah Medical So
Getty was held at the office of Dr. NJ. X.
Corbin. During the day there had been
talk among the various physicians in the
city about the matter, and the meeting
Of the society was the result. DR.. st.
Joseph B. Graham was among the leaders
in the oppositSn that developed to the
Governor giving the bill his sanction and
making it a law.
No great time was required in the meet
ing to formulate telegram TO
the Governor to induce him to veto the
bill. 1t was sent him after the meeting,
and no doubt the executive will consider
I n fr<
The opinion of the physicians comprising
the society should carry weight
The measure that is now awaiting the
Governors signature, the houses of the
Legislature having passed it, provides for
the recognition of the osteopethists in the
state. 1t is alleged that they should be
allowed state license TO practice their
profession just as the state recognizes
allopathic and homeopathic physicians II
Is desired by those who advocated the bill
to admit exponents of osteopathy to prac-
tice upon the payment of the usual state
license just as that privilege is extended
other practitioners.
1t is this very thing that the doctors
want to avoid. DIR. Graham said yester-
day that reputable physicians do not rec
ognize the science of osteopathy They
regard il as one of the fakes that are de
| vised for the gullible public and would
prefer that it be kept out of Georgia. He
and the Savannah physicians interested
with him in the fight against the osteo-
pathists were determined to do anything
they could 10 bring this about
Last summer there was one of the os-
| teopathic creed at the De Soto, and ID was
| his purpose to let Savannah people reap
! the benefit of his skill and
learning The established disciples
of Esculapius, however. were in no
| better frame of mind to receive him then
| than thew have Sinoa 5ova1orad
The Savannah doctors, DIR. Gra-
| ham said, did not recognize the
osteopathist as entitled to ply his vo-
cation. 1t was not long before it came to
their notice that he was doing bus
mess, and their Eext move was 20 fix him
so he could not keep it up. That was easy,
and they soon forced him to shut up shop
by reminding him that there was a law ia
Georgia tnat did not recognize his profess
! sion, and a license for professional men
that had 10 be paid before one was enti-
tied to practice. Both of these facts prov
! ed tco much. In TIE face Of
them the osteopathst had to give in
| lie was the first Of the faith TO come
| Since his departure there have been no
| others. The believers evidently know that
/ 1t would be useless to attempt to do any
| work here. If the Governor sees fit to
sign the BILL however, year will scarcely
have passed before the public will have
that form of treatment to consider when
| there is a choice to be made as to lust
| what will be tried in the search of a cure
"Osteopathy," literally, is. bone treat
ment. From the name it would be in
| ferred that the exponents of the science
seek TO correct ills by going to what might
| be thought to be their true seat The
! treatment is on the massage order as a
| rule, it is understood, though there is a
variety about it. Medicines are tabooed,
reliance being placed in the use of
| hands rather than the influence of drugs.
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