Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-09-10
PHYSICIANS IN
annual Session

The fifth annual meeting OF the Sew
enteenth Censorial district of the State
Medical society took place in this city
Friday. Two interesting sessions
were held.
The meeting was called to order in
the court house shortly after II o'olock
by DR.. p o. Newbaker. the censor Of
Montour county. DR.. Newbaker was
chosen chairman of the meeting. DR..
L. B. Kline, censor of Columbia coun-
! ty, was elected secretary.
DIR. NEBINGER'S ADDRESS.
The address of welcome was deliv-
cred by DR.. Reid Nebinger, president
of the Montour county medical So
ciety. 1t was very appropriate effort,
progressive in tone, not only express
ing cordial welcome to the physici-
ans from the neighboring counties, but
urging upon the medical fraternity
the Importance of recognizing as an
entity the mental factor in medic
ine."
DR.. Nebinger reverted to the fact
that the latter branch Of medical sci
ence is not often touched upon outside
a meeting OF alienists, but he held that
the sooner physicians in general rec
ognize it the greater will be their
ability to cope successfully with
''those disgrunteled and unsatisfactory
cases that are finally cured by quack-
cry, much to the regular physicians S
detriment and chagrim." Continuing
DR.. Nebinger said:
I'm our anxiety to find specifics for
the ills Of our patients we too often
completely ignore this powerful ther-
apentic agency. The mere suggestion
that the attitude of patients mind
can have anything to do with the ply
sical condition meets with vigorous
protest from majority of our profess
sion.
Far be it from my intention to de-
tract from the practice of scientific
medicine, but the fact remains that
the fakir with his bottle of very sim
pie medicine wrapped in hundreds OF
testimonials. many of which are made
in good faith, cures our most trouble
some cases. The remark so often made
by people that they felt better the in
stant DR.. Blank entered the room is
only another instance of the authority
of one mind over another.
1.-The more the range of influence of
the mind on the body in health and
disease is ignored or narrowed the
more charlatanism fourishes and cred
it's itself with cures really due to the
mental factor for which we plead.
GENERAL DISCUSSION.
Following the address of welcome
there was general discussion on var
ious subjects relating to disease.
DR.. Cameron Shultz explained that
his attention had been called to
magazine article that had undertaken
to prove that Jews are immune from
oancer-that number of leading prac-
titioners had been called upon and
not one could recall ever treating a
cancer patient who was Jew. The
writer of the article was trying to de-
velop the theory that the Jews immu-
nityfrom cancer was due to his alb
stemiousness espec tally as it relates to
eating pork.
DR.. Shultz did not agree with the
article, as he declared that he himself
! had treated case of cancer in which
! the patient was Jew, one, too, in
whom abstemiousness was a real virtue
He asked for an expression of opin-
ion from other doctors present.
! In the general discussion that fol-
! lowed tine theory of the magazine
writer was knocked.sky high, as there
was scarcely a doctor present who had
not treated cases of cancer in which
the patients were Jews.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon was adevoted to the
| reading of papers and the discussion
of the same DR.. j. W Bruner of
/ Bloomsbury, who was on the program
for paper, was unable to be at the
meeting. Dr. J. b. Lark of Trevorton,
also on the program, was likewise un
able to attend.
DR.. S. E. Schoch of Shamokin, read
an instructive paper on Opthalmia
Neonatorum. 2"
DIR. H B. Meredith, superintendent
of the State hospital for the insane,
read very valuable paper on DE
mentia Praecox" containing the his
tory of very interesting case. in
which an operation was performed
with the hope of perfecting cure.
The final result is not yet determined
DR.. +. e. Ward of Berwick read a
paper on Lumbar Puncture.
The following physicians were pres
ent at the meeting:
Montour County-Dr. P. @. New
baker, DR.. E. A. Curry, DR.. G. E.
Stock. DR.. Cameron SEultz, DR.. r. S.
Patten, DR.. James Oglesby, of Dan.
Vile; DR.. H. B. Meredith, DR.. Ried
Nebinger and DR.. Krickbaum Of the
State hospital for the insane.
Columbia County--Dr. L. B. Kline
and DR.. Shoemaker, of Catawissa DR..
O. +. Steck, +. E. Ward and DR.. E.
L. Davis, of Berwick: Dr. McHenry
Of Benton DR.. James Montgomery
DR.. B. f. Gardner, DR.. Miller and DR..
H. e. Bierman, of Bloomsbury.
Northumberland County-Dr. J. B.
Cressinger, DR.. II. NJ. Becker. DR., w