The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-21
REPUDIATES
0STEOPATHY
Senator Bamberger Deserts His
Bill Licencing Practice.
SHOULD TAKE EXAMINATIONS
BoNE-SETTERS ACCEPT CHAL-
LENGE FOR COMPETITION.

Senator Simon Bamberger repudiated
osteopathy and his own osteopathic
practice measure before the state SEN
ate yesterday afternoon and publicly
declared that Osteopaths should be
guarded against and restricted in their
operations rather than licensed to prac-
tice in the community. He declared
the deeper he probed into the subject
the more Disguised he became with the
osteopaths and the more thoroughly
convinced that their system does not
deserve special consideration at the
hands of the lawmakers.
In the course OF his remarks the SEN
ator declared that DR.. A. P. Hibos'
president of the Utah Osteopathic- as
ISOLATION, had applied to the state med
ical board for examination, but had
failed to take the examination. Dr.
Hibbs was in the room and informed
the senator he had done nothing OF
the kind. The boards clerk went 10
look up the matter and admitted ne
had nothing but his own memory 10
go upon. whereupon Senator Bamber-
ger retracted mis- statement
Dr. r. w. Fisher of the state DOard
attended the session of the senate ana
proposed to DIR. Hibos that the osteo-
paths answer ten questions as to anat-
Omy DR.. Hibbs accepted the challenge
on condition that the questions be pre-
pared by third party and the medical
practitioners be required 10 answer
them as well. so the answers could -
compared. The result may be conN-
petition between the two schools as 70
their respective proficiency in knowl-
edge of the human frame.
Later DIR. Hibbs obtained athdaVits
al Of OSfAO-
pathic association that none had ap-
piled to the state board for examina-
ton at any time.
Should Guard Community.
Originally 1 introduced the osteo-
pathic bill at the request of my friend,
Mr.. Kuhn, who was dying, and who
since has died" said Senator Bamb er-
ger on the senate floor. AT first was
favorably inclined to the proposition,
but every argument and reason that
has been presented to me since from
either side has tended to reverse that
opinion. The deeper 1 have gone into il
.he further l got away from my orig
inal good impression of Osteopa thy.
Il am convinced we win subject the
public to less injury if we guard the
community from the osteopaths than
If we license them. They do not seem
willing to take the regular medical eX-
out, but am convinced they should not
be allowed TO practice unless they do
take that examination. which, 1 am
now convinced. is conducted in the
most fair and impartial manner.
Reveals Examination Records.
knowing the medical profession as
] do. l was somewhat Drejudiced in
favor of osteopathy and was inclined
to the view that the medical board
would not treat them fairly. The med
icai profession is a jealous profession,
Since then / have thoroughly investi-
gated the method of giving examina-
tions, and find that there is no posi-
biIity of unfairness or discrimination.
II hold in my hand the records Of the
examination of an osteopath DIR.
Arthur Nj. King. His average on the
first examination was only % per cent:
on the second, AZ per cent, and on the
third nothing at all. for he quit the
examination before it was over. I am
informed DR.. King is not a member Of
the Osteopathic society, whose mem
bers say they do not know him, but it is
no credit to Osteopathy that the one
osteopath who actually took the eXams
ination should have made such fail
ure.
THE new bill which has beer re-
ported IS. B. 1910 in place of the meas
ure / have introduced requires no eX-
animation. All that is required is the
filing Of an osteOpathic diploma with
county clerk