New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-12
ASKS JUSTICE FOR osTEoPArEy
DR.. Hazard Says Profession Has Been Pr.
sistently Misrepresented.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The bill for the registry OF osteoDarsn ~.
troducsd in the Senate by Senator Human, b. !.
its object the regulation OF the practice OF o.sons
thy by law, In order that the public may NOT \.
imposed upon by unqualified persons pretending ~
tho practice OF this science. Il places the control
OF this profession with the Board OF Regsnts a,
the State University, providing that applicants 70
practise osteopathy must possess the sams Qualr.
cations In preliminary education as ara required
OF applicants TO practise medicine Dentistry
and requiring also equivalent degree OF profess
sionaI education to that required OF medical prac-
titioners 1t provides that the osteoparh must pas
the same professional examinations as must n.
medical man in all subjects common IN all schools
namely. IN anatomy, physiology, hygiens. obstss-
RIGS. chemistry and pathology. while he Is to -
examined IN those subjects peculiar osteopashy
by board OF osteopathic examiners. Just medi-
cal men are examined IN such subjects by boards
OF examiners representing their respective medical
schools homeopathic allopathic eclectic, ths
case may be.
This bill empowers the Board OF Regents OF Tia
State University to establish standard OF ostsO-
pathic education There can be no doubt that ths
Regents will make this standard sufficiently high
to insure TO the public the services OF ostsopsths
having both general and professional educational
qualifications equivalent TO those required Of met
cal practitioners. The recognized osteopatho
schools Of to-day are teaching professional course
which exceeds by some months me mllunlm
course OF recognized medical schools, which comes
within one month Of equallins the average number
of months taught in the recognized medical schools
and which IN number Of hours taught FULLY equals
such average medical course The average and
minimum courses here referred to are those taught
In more than one hundred and fifty medical schools
of the country, shown BY the report OF the Va.
ttOnal Federation OF State Medical Licensing and
Examining Boards. This number includes al ina
large medical schools in the United States.
This letter IL written TO you with the respeetrul
request that you publish II for the Information
OF the public and IN justice TO the cause OF ostsp
thy, which has in certain quarters been most per-
sistently misrepreserted and maligned. Ths o.
teopaths Of this State are an Intelligent and vel
educated body Of men and women, who are dong
much good TO suffering mankind They naturally
desire proper legal regulation OF their profession
which IL fully important to the public at largo
as IL Is TO them. They are willing TO meet al
reasonable requirements. and are IN this bill ask
ing the State 10 set up high standard. to which
their profession shall be required 70 coma Tney
feel that when the public knows the truth con,
corning their science and practice this public VII
demand that all the unjust opposition now wageo
against them by the medical men snaIi cease, -
New-Yorlz. Feb s. 1906