The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04
HUMANITY'S PLEA
Kansas Doctors Raise Their
Voices i'm Protest.
Political Methods of Conducting
State Institutions Denounced.
DIV ORCE MEDICINE.
Only Hope For Improvement of
Our State Institutions.
Gov. Stanley losses Bouquets
to the Medical Profession.
The Three Schools Have a
Union Meeting.
DIVORCE MEDICINE.

found in Representative hall last night.
The conglomerate mass represented the
second annual joint meeting of the
three medical societies of Kansas, and
in its makeup it was impossible to
discover signs of the contraries. the
similars or the principles Of medical
Vegetarianism.
1t was meant that there should be no
discovery of distinctive signs. Last
night the men and women in Represen-
tative hall were just plain doctors, re-
gardless of school, and the regular, the
homeopath and the eclectic forgot the
quarrels of years ago and chatted to-
gether on lines on which there could
be no friction. That was before the
meeting was called to order. for after
that they turned their attention to the
extemporaneous addresses and medical
papers that formed the programme of
the evening, and proved themselves
generous in bestOwing applause.
DR.. E. B. Packer of Usage City acted
as chairman of the meeting, and in the
absence of DR.. A. NJ. Hutchinson of
Hutchinson, DR.. W. E. McVey of this
city was called upon to act as secretary.
Prayer was offered by DR.. j. ID. Coun-
termine of the First Presbyterian
church, and after this opening cere-
monial, Governor w. E. Stanley was
introduced and delivered a short ad-
dress of welcome.
Il guess it's safe to address you as
fellow citizens" he started, but, break
ing off suddenly, he said: Before L
go any further 1 want to talk to you
about a. little matter of business L
have had a great deal of trouble-in Sc
Iecting a state board of health, and be-
fore the three medical societies adjourn
1 wish the officers of each would leave
with me six names from which l can
select members of that board. The
school and length of practice should be
stated, and you might also mention pol
itics, as I will be forced to take this
into consideration also"
With this Governor Stanley again
took up his welcoming address, and
continuing said:
Il am delighted to meet you this
evening [ have a delightful recOllec-
ton of a physician whom 1 once knew
and who had much to do with my early
training. If there was any man loved
it was he, and I have always felt
kindly to doctors as a result. don
know any class of men who are made
the butt of so many jests as the doc
tors. The old primitive doctor was a
man who was large in the community
and largely in demand. He knew every
thing or at least the community
thought he did. He regularly bled the
patient to let out the bad blood. He
would scrape up the bark of a tree for
an emetic and scrape it down for
physic.
like the doctors of divinity; they were
always Quarreling over the different
doctrines. The allopath was always
abusing the hOmeOpaIn ana DOCn were
abusing the eclectic. Oh. what a change
and what progreSsi All meet together
now and reach out the hand of friend
ship to all reputable members OF the
profession, regardless of school The
minister gets pretty close to the fam
lily, but he doesn't get to that close
position which exists between the fam
lily and the family physician. You have
in your hands, brothers and sisters, the
most holy and sacred trust in the world.
Oh, 1 would that in Kansas the physi-
clans of Kansas would rise up to this
great responsibility and that we would
have a profession as pure as the Kan
sas winds and as unsullied as our Kan
sas skiesl In this great mission Of
yours, God help you and God bless
you
In seconding the address of welcome,
DR.. ]. E. Minney of this city said:
IT am happy that I am permitted to
be second to one of the best governors
of one OF the best states in the world.
I also feel happy because of the union
of feeling that is manifested by the
meeting here tonight There is still
some little prejudice, but thank fortune
we are growing more liberal and more
progressive, and why should we not?
We are all disciples of the same great
teacher, HippOcrates, He said that
some diseases could be better treated
by contrarieS and some by similars.
Hence we find that he was the founder
of both the allopathic and homeopathic
schools.
Il am pleased and happy to meet you
because 1 have lived the lives you are
living. I have had the experiences you
are having. The Kansas doctor can't
be downed very easily. In fact. he can
do anything that can be done. 1t seems
that there is something in the Kansas
soil that affects the doctor as it does
all the people. But we don't confine
our doctors to our own state, for over
in Manila there are Kansas doctors
also. They couldn't get along in the
Philippines without the Twentieth
Kansas and HOlton has furnished the
doctor of the Twentieth and the Kan
sas Medical college one of the assistant
surgeons That's the secret of success
over there. They don't die in the Twen-
tieth Kansas because they have Kansas
doctors"
The response to the address of well
come was delivered on behalf of the
visiting medical men by DR.. G. F. Men
ringer of Topeka. 1t proved to be able
plea for the introduction of a civil ser
vice policy in the state charitable in
situations. DR.. Menninger said:
In the name, and by the honor of
Kansas, 1 thank you for the generous
invitation and words of welcome, and
accept your courteous, prOffered hoSpi-
tality While within the gates of your
city it shall be our great pleasure to
render unto you and yours our best
service, and as earnest of our inten-
tions-time being brief and opportuni-
ties f1eeting-permit me to call your at
tention to the greatest need of the
state, as seen by our profession.
Therefore, we address ourselves to
his exce1lency, the governor, and in do
ing so invite his most earnest and ser
iouS attention. The duties of your office
are various and arduous You have one
never ending round of duties to per-
form, the trials and difficulties of which