The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-05
A KICKER SAYS
OWENS BILL
Would Make Allopathy the
National School of Medi-
cal Practice, put Under
Ban all Others.
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Chicago, March 5.--The doctors
trust" which unmasked during the
eighth annual conference here on
Medical Legislation, education and
health" of the American Medical
Association, has redoublod It's efforts
to push Senator owens bill through
this session Congress to make allo-
pathy the national school of
medical practice. Homeopathy. oste-
opathy and all other schools OF medi-
cal practice and Christian Science are
TO be put under the government ban
If the American Medical Association
can compass IT, much as the religion
of the Pilgrims and others obnoxious
10 the dominant powers were put un-
der ban a few hundred years ago.
The conference announced that
three bureaus OF the government
should be consolidated into one cen-
tral national board under commits
sioner Of health, the public health
and marine hospitals now under the
treasury department vital statistics
now in the census department. bu-
reau Of chemistry (headed by Or.
Wiiey) now in the agricultural de-
partment The 800 allopaths from
various parts of the country again
took a pledge Of active support Of the
owen bill arid returned TO their
homes to work Enthusiastically
hopeful that they could put it over.
Several items beside the owen bill
are on the program which the COn-
ference prepared for Congress- as fol-
lows:
Formation OF a national council on
public health under auspices of the
American Medical Association The
aim Is to bring together annually or
oftencr all federal, state and munich
pal health officials for discussion of
health and legislative subjects,
Through such an organization, 1t Is
contended. health officials will be
able to standardize and systematic
their work and wage a united cam
paign for allopathic legislation in ma
ton, state and city.
Congress Is TO be asked for 1nan-
cial support for the international con-
gress OF hygiene and demography at
Washington in September. The coun-
ell on health and public instruction
Is asked to draft a model medical
practice act as soon as possible
A committee to Investigate the
status Of vaccination and smallpox
statistics and to prepare a model bill
on vaccination for introduction in leg
islatures of all state viii be formed.
A committee to consider changes
and modification of the preseu model
law on registration Of vital statistics
viii be formed.
President John b. Murphy OF the
Medical Association blandly assert
cd: "A federal bureau Of health
with supervision over all health sub
jects, offers the only logical control
OF American medical practice." He,
of course Is a regular" I. c., an al
lopath
Regarding this prediction the Chi
cago Daily News caustically COM
mented; "Allopathic doctors who
undertake to use Congress to put
down homeopathy and all other
schools Of medicine except their own
are going far in the direction Of
medievallsm against which the gov
ernment Of the United States itself
stands as a monumental protest It
IS not TO be supposed that advocates
of the allopathic school of medicine
generally approve Of this amazing
business. For no right thinking
American can believe I'm a state sys-
tenn OF medical practice any more
than he believes In state church"