The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-05

the subjects were calculated to super induce in the cranium of the lay list ener Dr Frances of Washington dealt with psychic therapeutics and suggested a calcful study of this method by intelligent and skilled phy- sicians, which Is now employed by the charlatan and quack. The import ance of the suggestion is enhanced when applied to the negro patient who is so readily responsive to psychic control l. was inter esting to note the tendency toward specializing among negro physicians. Besides physicians. dentists, pharmacists and surgeons, there were eye and ear spe- cialists, several of the members be- long to the homeopathic school and one veterinary surgeon was in at tendance. The number of hospitals under negro direction and control was also an interesting disclosure In all most every large city such an institu- tion exists, ranging from the Freed mans hospital at Washington, with a half-million- plant and equip ment, to little house with few beds in the smaller towns and cities. There were several woman doctors in attendance, and the trained nurse was allowed to explain her ministry to the sick.
 The general spirit of the associa- tion was to stimulate and quicken the members to keep abreast of the tipes read the latest journals and improve ments in medical facilities, so as not to deprive the humblest patient of the best treatment that medical science can afford.
 The average mind would be inclined to say that these men were merely formal physicians who have simply absorbed the established modes of procedure, without inquiring power or spirit, But several of the members are highly capable specialists who are pressing upon the outer verge of med teal skill and knowledge and even dare interrogate the unknown region beyond Among these might be men toned Dr. Daniel s. Wilkins of Chica- go, who was the first physician In the world to perform certain operation on the heart, and whose achievement in this regard has been proclaimed in medical journals throughout the world. Dr. J. J. France of Portsmouth, Va, is a native African and gradu- ate of the University of Pennsylvania. He is making a careful study of the local peculiarlties of disease in parts of that state. His initial paper re- gently published in the New York Medical Journal on Some Peculiar Manifestations of Malaria" has been widely commented upon as disclosing keen, observent, analytic mind.
 Dr. J. A, Wheatland of Newport, R. T., is a specialist in physical therapeu- tics and his office is said to have the best electrical equipment to be found anywhere in New England. He holds the highest rank as an X-ray expert. It will be recalled that several sum mers ago, when the daughter of the millionaire, Thomas Walsh of Wash ington, met with a serious accident, Dr. Wheatland was selected as the most capable expert to accord the de- sired treatment.
 These men came from all parts of the country, and feel keenly the op- pressive weight of burdensome condi- tions affecting the general status of the race; and yet with singular sim gleness of purpose, and detachment of mind, they shut out from their pro- cedure everything that did not have a professional or scientific bearing. The president, Dr, F. N Morrill,, in his opening address, urged the members to keep out all extraneous matter that would tend to disrupt or divert the association from it's legitimate course as a scientific body, The admoni- ton was religiously followed. The only slight deviation came from a delegate from South Carolina, who in giving the report of the Palmetto as sociation, said: Senator Tilman represents one phase of the race problem, our association represents another" The propaganda of Till man will pass away but the work of the Palmetto association will abide :" Dr. w. H. Wright of Baltimore was elected president for the coming year, and Dr, Kenney, local physician of Tuskegee institute, was chosen sec- retary The next meeting will be held in New York city next August