The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-21
NEW ENGLAND OSTEOPATHS WILL EXEMPLIFY BL00DLESS SURGERY
 AT BRIDGEPORT CONVENTION

With many of the most prominent osteopaths in the country in attend ance. the annual convention of the New England Osteopathic association opens at the StratfieId hotel tonor- row afternoon. the first time in its his- tory having held a convention in this state. The convention will bring to this city osteopaths from all sections of the country, many of them leaders in their profession who will deliver ad- dresses and give demonstrations of blood1ess surgery. The convention will continue during the evening and Saturday morning and afternoon Demonstrations of cures without the use of drugs or surgical instru- xments will take place under tue di- rection of some of the most captab1e osteopaths in the country. And at the clinic to be held Saturday. per- sons from all parts of the New Eng land. states will be present to obtain relief from diseases that have been given up as incurable.
 The new cure for catarrhal deafness recently discovered by Dr James D. Edwards of St. Louis, will be demon straTed for the first time in this sec ton of the country by pr. D. Webb Cranberry of Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Cranberry. has but recently returned from St. Louis, where he received personal instruction from Dr. Ed wards into the technique of the new cure.
 A number of persons suffering from chronic deafness have been obtained to undergo the operation. While it is not claimed by the osteopaths that they can effect cures in all cases, the cure has proven successful in the ma jority, while in the remainder there has been a notable Improvement. The cure is one of the most wond erfu1 of the b1ood1ess operations that have aroused the interest of scientists in the past few years.
 At 2:3O the Rev. John MacLaren Richardson. pastor of the First Pres byterian church, will open the conven- followed by Mayor Clifford Wilson, who will welcome the osteopatI1s to Bridgeport in the name Of the city.
 Dr. Harriett L. yanDeusen of this city, will then read an interesting pa per on "Osteopathy for Women fol- be held by Dr. S. v Crawford of Dan bury, pr. CIV. Reid of Worcester, Mass, and Dr. M. Catron of aWter-s bury. During this discussion the doc tors will show the wonderful results that have been secured in curing Wo- men'9 ills through b1oodless surgery.
 There will then be demonstration y in which Drs. D. S. Sahmbugh of Nor walk and E. F. Brand of Springfield. Mass, will show in detail the manner in which fractures and dislocations are treated with ostecpathy.
 What is the Value of Medical Training to an Osteopath.' z will be the subject of paper to be read by Dr. Louise A Griffin of Hartford. pr. D. Webb Cranberry will then demon srate the Edwards cure for catarrh- hal deafness. A number of patients will be treated durin- the afternoon by pr Cranberry. A discussion will then take place in which the merits of the cure will be taken up by the assembled osteopaths, and suggestions for it's improvement made.
 The convention will reopen in the evening with an address by pr. Fran cis Cave of Boston, one of the most prominent osteopaths in the country, on s.Evo1ution of the Physician.' Tn this address. the speaker will endeav- or to show how at the present day the physicians are inclining toward the theory of bloodless surgery. At