Evening star., 1909-05-11
SCIENCE AGAINST DOGMAS
Brain No Regulator of Bodily Func-
tions, He Asserts.
ALL ARE CORRELATED ORGANS
Presidents Address to American
Physicians Regarded as Attack
on Emmanuel Movement.

Vaughan of Ann Arbor, Mich, president
of the organization, in his annual address
made assertions whicn are regarded as an
attack on the Emmanuel movement.
4 distinguished body of physicians from
all parts of the country, which included
DR.. William Osler, formerly of Johns Hop
kins University of Baltimore, and now
regus professor Of medicine at oxford
University, England, were in attendance.
In the course of his remarks DIR.
Vaughan said there is nothing in the
dualist1c doctrine involving the existence
of mind apart from and superior to mat
ter. There is nothing on the doctrine, he
continued, to justify the founding of any
new cult.
DR.. Vaughan took for his subject The
Physical Basis of Life" He had not
advanced far into his discourse before
he took up the teachings Of the EN-
manuel movement.
Science Against Dogmas.
we have heard much of late" he said,
concerning the influence Of the mind
upon the body. Many who speak upon
this subject seem to assume that there
is some entity, called mind, that controls
the body. to which 1T is superior, and
apart from which 1T may exist.
This dualistic doctrine is as old as
the philosophy of Plato. 1t always has
DeeH ana TeIHdlHS lOudy n QOSLid Will
out scientific support, and as hypoth-
esis 1t has led to the discovery OF
no scientific fact. Every attempt to ap-
ply 1t to the treatment of disease has
led to the development of conscious or
unconscious charlatanism and has re-
suited in more or less marked atayism
''The term functional disease Is now be-
ing used by those who know but little
concerning the functions of the body In
either normal or abnormal states. 1t
ha y,,fn rn6
using this expression that q mysterious
power has been given to some to set the
mechanism of the disordered body Alright.
although those supposed to be possessed
of this gift have no knowledge or but
imperfect and superficial acquaintance
with the functions Of the various organs
and their interrelations.
In truth we have no evidence OF the
existence of functional disease as thus
understood. In health the several or
and we know Of no disease in which this
in disease there is lack of perfect har-
mony, condition does not exist.
I'VE may not always be able to find
where the basic fault lies. But shall We
for this reason stop looking for it, shut
our eyes, give over our search and ask
some individuals. quite ignorant Of the
body and its functions, to undertake the
task of inducing harmonious activities?
All Correlated Organs.
'Of mind apart from the body we know
nothing. or the brain as one Of the cor
related organs, we know something, and
by continued and patient research we
hope to learn much more. We do know
that the cell molecules of the brain are
the most complex. the most highly liable,
and the most susceptible to external IN
f1uences of any of the structures that con-
stitute that community of organs which
make up the individual"
In closing DR.. Vaughan said:
Medical observation and study have
shown that healthy cerebral function is to
be found only when the activity of the
brain is properly Influenced by normal
function OF all the correlated organs. We
know equally well of the influence of the
brain on the other organs of the body.
1--WE are fully aware of the fact that
impulses may be started in the brain
through any of the five senses that may
favorably or unfavorably influence the
activities of the correlated organs. And
for centuries the medical profession has
employed this physiological principle in
the treatment of disease
Reading of Papers.
The reading of various papers followed
DIR. Vaughan's speech.
The program was as follows:
''Three Unique Cases of Amaurotic
Idiocy, With an Anatomical Study of
One Drs Harlow Brooks and Henry
Wandless, New York; Clinical Expert
ments with Homologous Vacc.nes." DR..
w. Gilman Thompson, New York; "A
Study of Achylia Gastrca." DR.. Charles
G. Stockton, Buffalo: Chronic Cholecysti-
tbs as a Cause of Myorcardial Incompe-
ert H. Babcock. Chicago: 'Locomotor
Ataxia and Paralysis Agitans in the
Same Patient DR.. Augustus A. Echner,
Further Observations on
the Third Heart Sound. Dr. w. 5: Thay-
er, Baltimore; Experimental Acute Pull
mOnary Oedema," DR.. Joseph l.. Miller,
Normal Auscultatory Differ
ences Between the Sides of the Chest. ta)
At the Bases Behind: lb) In the Lateral
Recumbent Position Dr. Richard {. Ca
bot, Boston; "Orthodiagraphy in the
Study of the Heart and Great Vessels
Drs. Thomas a. Claytor and Walter I'll.
Merritt, Washington; "Visceral Anglo
Neuroses," DR.. S. Soils Cohen, Phila-
delphia.
At the close of DIR. Cohen's paper, DR..
Osler led the discussion.
The session closed shortly before l
o'clock The afternoon session began at
. o'clock
Afternoon Program.
The program consists of the reading OF
various papers as follows:
"A Clinical Study of the Therapeutic
Value of the Calcium Salts. in Gastric
Tetany, with an Anatomical Report on
the Parathyroid Bodies DR.. Fran
els p. Kinnitcutt. New York; "A
Case of Stenosis and Insufficiency at
the Pulmonary Orifice of the Heart. with
Exhibition of Specimen DR.. Joseph
Sailer, Philadelphia: "A Case of Brain
Tumor, Presenting Very Unusual Cllnl-
cal Course" Dr. r. D. Rudolf. Toronto;
An Experimental Study Of the Changes
in Metabolism Produced by the Total En-
clusicn of the Pancreatic Juice from the
Intestines," Drs Joseph H. Pratt, p. d.
Lamson and II. *. Marks, Boston;
Types of Tubercle Bacilli Found in
Human tuberculosis" DIR. William II.
Park. New York; 'Tuberculin and Colon
Bacillus Vaccine in Genito-Trinary Their
apeutics:', Dr.. Frank Billings. Chi
cago: observations on the Cutaneous
Reaction" Drs George Deck
and Randolph Lyons. New Orleans: ''The
Cutaneous Test for tuberculosis DIR.
Lawrason Brown, Saranac Lake: "Sensi-
tiZation in tuberculosis, V. c. Vaughan,
jr., Detroit: The Effect of the Inges
ton of Dead Tubercle Baclli," Drs. NJ. j.
ington.
Symmetrical Adenolopomators," DR..
Irving P. Lyon, Buffalo, n. Y.
A dinner and smoker will be held at
the New Willard this evening at 7:15
o'clock. An after dinner session will be
held. The papers to be read are as fol- |
lows.
"A Study of the Development of the |
Bones in Childhood, by the Roentgen |
With a View of Establishing a
Index for the Grading of
and the Protection of Early Life DIR.
Thomas NJ. Rotch: Boston: "Exophthal-
mos in Chronic Nepthritis.' Drs. +. L. |
Barker and Hanes. Baltimore: THE Cen |
eral Movement of Typhoid Fever and Tu- |
DR.. George NJ. kober, Wash |