The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-01
MONOGRAPHS AT
 ATLANTIC CITY
ORGANIZATION OPENS ITS AN NUAL CONVENTION FOLLOW
 ING MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Prominent Speaker States That Alec hoI is Not a Medicine and Urges Prohibition of It's Use.

Atlantic City, N. J., June 29.-The American Institute of Homeopathy to. day met for it's annual convention here, where the American Medical Association held it's meetings last week. The president, Dr. Dewitt G. dress renewed the proposition that the American Medical Association should join with the American Insti- ute of Homeopathy in proving "the truth or error" of the homeopathic theory and practice
 As Hehnemann besought his medi- cal conferees to investigate the re suits of his researches and give them fair trial, so today" he said, the American Institute formally asks the American Medical Association the same thing. We have presented to them a dignified but carefully thought out proposition to appoint a commission to cooperate with the American Institute to make a scien- tific and searching investigation into all our claims and deductions. That proposition is now in the hands of the secretary of the American Medi- cal Association awaiting answer"
 Dr. Wilcox declared in favor of
 mlnJant homeopathy if the asso- citation refused the proposition, and militant homeopathy" he said, means return to the oldtime war fare where lines shall be drawn hard and fast
 He asserted that the homeopathic school had gained ground in the west and quoted reports of it's growth in England, Russia, Germany and South America.
 Two features of his address were the stress he laid upon the assertion | that alcohol is not a medicine, and upon the commercial tendency of the medical profession. The subject of his whole address was Putting Away Childish Things and he included al- cohol in the category. It had been definitely settled, he declared, that alcohol had no place in medicine. | Whether food or poison, it's consump- ton was productive of physical and mental degeneracy. "Uertarnly," he said, its oldtime habitat as a 'stimulant' has been cleaned out; ut | terly routed. Instead of being a pre- ventive of any disease, it is the best | of a1I hp- cause it lowers the opsonic index and 1 the body resistance. That it hastens fatal termination of all brain, pull monary, kidney, liver and circulatory diseases is equally proven. Where, then, has it a place in medicine, ex- cept to occupy the nurse in rubbing it on the outside of the body?"
 He spoke of the damaging effects of even small quantities of alcohol. As guardians of the public health there is but one attitude for the medical profession to take upon this subject of alcohol, that is it's prohib- itive use No compromise will effect the desired end"
 Such "insidious and maleyolent l tendencies of the profession as fee | splitting or commission paying, the speaker attacked with otrce. "l'he
 instinct which prompts a surgeon to
 offer a fee, or to bribe the family physician for referring patients to him, is purely commercial, and it is most deadening to professional ideal ism. It is an instinct to build up by the power of the almiphty dollar, and not by high merit A profession standing for high ideals and purport-
 ing to be humanitarian in character cannot long maintain it's position be fore the public when such methods | tonounn kncyVn %