Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30
.HOMEOPATHS SCORE
/. UNITED PHYSICIANS
President Says American Med
ical Association Is a "Polit-
ioal Machine
Especial to the Evening star.l


ATLANTIC CITY. June 3o.-The
opening session of the American In
stitution of Homeopathy last night
was marked by a declaration TO war
on allopaths, DR.. De Witt G. Wilcox
announced that he has resigned his
membership in the American Medical
Association and advised all other
homeopaths to do likewise.
He said that the association was
dominated by the allopaths. and was
rapidly drifting into a political ma
chine" which had for its object the
control of the medical departments OF
the army and navy and of all hos
pitfalls, colleges and even universities
He said they also were grasping 10
cantrol all medical examining ana
Licensing boards throughout the
United States
"As Hahnemann besought his medl-
cal conferees to investigate the re-
suits of his researches and give them
a fair trial so today he said, the
American Institute formally asks the
American Medical Association the
same thing. We have presented to
them dignified, but carefully
thought out proposition to appoint a
commission to cooperate with the
American institute to make scien-
tiic 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.
Favors militant Homeopathy"
DR.. Wilcox declared in favor #
militant homeopathy" if the asso-
citation refused the proposition, and
militant homeopathy" he said.
means a return to the old-time 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 its 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
alcohol in the category 1t had been
definitely settled, he declared, that
alcohol had no place in medicine.
Whether food or poison, its con-
SUMPTION WIS = vi lltlN olAeit
and mental degeneracy. Certainly"
he said, cts old-time habitat as a
'stimulant' has been cleaned out; ut
terly routed, Instead of being pre-
ventive of any disease it is the best
possible pursuader of all diseases, be-
cause it lowers the body resistance.
That it hastens a fatal termination
of all brain. pulmonary, kidney liver
and circuatory diseases is equally
proven Where then has it place in
medicine. except to occupy the nurse
in rubbing it on the outside of the
body?"
Alcohors Damaging Effects
He smoke 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 its pro-
hibitive use. No compromise will
affect the desired end"
Such "insduous and malevolent
tendencies of the profession" as fee
splitting or commission paying, the
speaker attacked with force. The
instinct which prompts a surgeon TO
offer fee. or to bride the family
physician for referring patients to
him is purely commercial, and it is
most deadening to professional ideal
ism 1t is an instinct to build up by
the power of the almighty dollar,
and not by high merit. a profession
standing for high ideals and purport-
ing to be humanitarian in character
cannot long maintain its position be-
fore the public when such methods
becomes known