New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-14
MEDICAL BILL SIGNED.
Continued from first page.

1907; three members TO serve two years from 1ha
August J. 1907 and three members 10 serve for the
full term of three years from August l. 1907 mere
after the Regents shall annually appoint three mem
hers to fill vacancies caused by eXprations or Term
from office. No person shall he appointed a mem
eligible 10 receive license to practice from me
Regents in accordance with the provisions ,o6 81
and acts amendatory thereof and who has not
Reen nridr re- date of appo4tmen The Regents
may remove any member of the board or eXaihn r
for misconduct incapacity or neglect OF duty me
Regents shall appoint secretary to the board r Of
examiners, who shall not be member OF me o9at b
Regents, and who shall receive an annual compem S
This act. The secretary shall he duly licensed
physician
VOICES OPPOSITION
When DR. Wilson was at his office. No
GIG Madison avenue yesterday. he had this to
say.
When appeared before the Governor on behalf
of the New York Homeopathic State SocletX 10
a bin to crush out official recognition of any but
the regular school Of medicine | objected also on
the ground that it takes away all the power over
examinations vested in the medical practitiQn5
5od e; 'i vests j, in the Board Of Regents.
The present system of granting licenses py means
Of three boards Of medical examiners IN three S-V
lions cannot logically be changed unless II mas
Does it fail in justice to all applicants? no suCn
charge has ever been urged against u ana Siitce
al on me- IN +anf m is s is not impHened
Are its examinations too easy or too hard? me
questions all reviewed by the Board OF re
ff@nitGd states and are accepted everywhere. as
standards of good Judgment and good scholarship
nous proportion of the more Intelligent part of the
Gonmo{ are and that thew do not know
whether they getting tror not oSteopatiH =
analogons to hydrotherapy It claims to apply but
one cure All sch
remedy is selected II is a scientific formulas in
Ohn's law-but its application is the most difficult
problem within the whole range OF applied science
MIeh law ' few ms Successful verided expernets
should outweigh any number of failures in the APP
It is fair to Judge a system which has stood the
We claim the right 10 our separate eXstence; cer
tanly until the majority acknowedge the ruin 9 OF
right as tie oculiss to maintain our Organizations
The time has not arrived to give the protection
standing secured by our State Medical examiners
FAvORs THREE BOARDS.
Walter C. Crump, professor of gynecology of
the New York Homeopathic Medical College, in
giving his views on tho bill said:
am in favor Of a three-board bill, requiring all
candidates for license to pracSe medGIne TO pass
the special therapeutics of their respective schools
Dr. Charles H Duncan. chief house surgeon
OF St Gregorys Hospital, said:
There is nothing in the history OF modern times
that so hagrantly demonstrates class legislation as
she act takes away from the homeopathic ply
stefan the right and privilege to practise medicine
he enjoys to-day. W. have rights given us by the
state. This measure takes away these rights IN
that 1t gives us no assurance that our rights Will
he preserved.
DR.. J.. L. Danforth. professor of obstetrics OF
the New York Homeopathic Hospital said:
This is the revival of an Old contest between the
dominant school and the homeopathic and eclectic
schools. which supposed to have been settled
permanently many ago In the interests OF Ell
concerned The enactment of the bill will result IN
the end in the actual ACKNOWLEDGMENT of our school
and the disruption of our colleges and hospitals
We as a school. reason why the exist
ing law should be repealed. II has worked distinct
" 10 the advantage of the practitioners who nave
qualified under II. 1t has given to each candidate
for license practise the privilege of selecting the
examining board in sympathy with his own theTa-
peutic tenets This is fundamental principle, ana
contended for with great tenacity by the lead
ers of the homeopathic school during the eight
years from 1888 1880 when the subject was being
fought out by predecessors.