The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-14
row MEDICAL
BOARD ST|RS IRE
OF GOV. MARSHALL
State Executive Expected to
Haul Members Of Board Of
Medical Examination Up on
the Green Carpet.
"REGULARS" IN FIGHT
AGAINST 0STE0PATHS
a
TangIe in State Department
May Result in Wholesale
designations Board Has
Caused Trouble Before.
palladium Specially


indianapolis, July 1.-THE members
OF the state board Of medical examina-
tion and registration are about to be
called up on the green carpet by Gov
ernor Marshall, and the air about the
governors once today is charged with
. dynamic expectancy that might
break loose at any moment. II ap-
pears that the governors troubles
with his state medical board, which
he thought he had fixed so that II
would stay fixed. continue to rise up
again to harass him and keep him IN
hot water as long a. II Is made up as
Il Is now. Recently the governor re.
appointed two of the old members OF
the board. at the request Of the school
ments were made under circumstances
which caused him to think they would
be pacihcatory.
But In the very first meeting the
board held after the reappointments.
which was since the semi-annual ex.
aminations. held this week, the old
night against the osteopaths broke out
afresh. and II IL not at all unlikely
that the board will be called before
the governor and given an oflicial cur
Yying that will cause them to wish
they had allowed the osteopaths to 60
their way unmolested. Charges and
countercharges are being made until
the governor has wearied Of the entire
affair and would give good deal to
have the entire board on his hands.
Object 20 ostsopaths.
The trouble began this week when
II members OF the class applying for
license to practice medicine in this
state signed petition asking that
they be examined In all subjects by
some one other than DR.. John F.
Spaunhurst representative on the
board OF the osteopaths. setting forth
as their reason that the state board of
Michigan was on the point OF break
Ing the relationship whereby q certif.
icate granted in Indiana entities the
holder to practice medicine In Michi.
gan without another examination. be-
cause Spaunhurst was a member of
the board. and that other states were
preparing to take similar steps. The
members of the board opposed to the
osteopathic school outvoted Spaun.
hurst. and his one friend on the board
and granted the petition. thereby de.
livering a well directed slap at the
osteopathic school as we'll as depriv-
ing Spaunhurst of something like $3.50
of the revenue derived from the prep.
aration of questions and the grading Of
manuscripts.
The action Of the board almost
stunned the governor. Before acting
on the petition the state board had
shown II to the governor and had ask
ed him what II should do about II.
The governor declined ofiicially to In
terfere, but sent word that personally
he did not think the petition well
grounded. He thought II was frame
up against the school Of osteopathy,
which the law gives representation on
the board. and that evidently the sign
era ahd been induced to sign II by
some influence that was opposed 20
the osteopaths. and that II they were
not 30 induced they were not war
ranted In arriving at the conclusion
which they had reached concerning
epaunhurst. This, the governor
thought. would be sufhcient to cause
the board to halt In any steps con
templated to carry the petition into
effect. but there was no halting
When presented In a business meet