The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-05
Lengthy Hearing at Mont.
pelier Yesterday After
noon and Evening
REGULAR PHYSICIANS
OPPOSED TO MEASURE


ing Should be Required to Take
Same Sort of Training They Have to
Take-Cloud of Witnesses on Hand.
MONTPELIER, Feb 5.-Three big hear
ings occupied most of the legislature S
time yesterday afternoon and evening. One
was before the senate committee on priv
ileges and elections in the reception room,
good of Peru and O'Dowd of Brunswick
in action The other was before the COM
mittee on public health in the two houses
held in representatives hall, at which
the chiropraetic bill was advocated by
DIR. A. B. Hender of Davenport, Ia, the
fountain head of chiropractic, and OPP
posed by the committee and counsel of the
state medical board.
| At the latter, the testimony ran from
explanations of what chiropractic really is
to the benefit derived therefrom in the
case of sore toe DR.. Hender talked
Of solicitations, slipped articulations, YER
tebrae out of opposition and examinations
| by palpation. A great cloud of wit
nesses testified
Mr. Alexander of ST. Adams, father of
the bill, engineered the hearing and City
| Judge Edwin L. Scott of Barre examined
the witnesses. Dr. W. T. Slayton, mem
| Ger of the board of health, representative
rom Morrisville, and chairman of the
committee, examined DR. Hender as to
| what he would do in case of acute NOR
phine poisoning, what the difference was
between diabetes and Brights disease, be-
tween appendicitis and peritonitis, etc,
nd finally what he would do in case of
body lice
''Pd unlouse the patient said DR. Hen
der
Mr.. Alexander read letters from huge
portfolio of testimonials and 10 witnesses
testified to the miraculous cures by ehiro-
oraetic One Of the most striking was
from Mrs. d. w SENEGAL, 81 Edgerton
street, Rutland, who said that but fol
'h'r2praetie she would not be here today
Deputy Sheriff Henry Todd of Burling
on also testified to great benefit derived
rom the adjustments, as also did Dep
uty Sheriff Fl. J. Slayton of Barre Mrs
7. F. Robbins of Barre introduced her lit
tie girl, who, She said, was helpless from
infantile paralysis until the Cages of Barre
'ured her, The child, who, she testified
could not take a step, before being treat
ID, ran around the hall almost like
normal child
Others who testified were Frank Parker
Of Montpelier, Mrs. Gilman of Granville
| 9rrin Atwood Of Watervile, J w. At
wood of Randolph, Clarence Stewart, wht
/. lives in Berlin New Hampshire TIL,
| thiropractics took about three hours tim,
: and the hearing was adjourned at $50 ui
. til the evening
The opposition to II. Is, regulating tn,
e practice of chiropractic, had the floor las
evening and made the most, of it. Thu
galleries were filled again while there wer
. I large number of visitors including man,
aides in the seats of the representatives
and most of them remained until it wa
all over
In the smoking room adjoining, the com
, mittee on agriculture was going at full
/ speed with hearing on H. 70, the tuber
i culosis bill, relating to the importation
testing and examination of cattle, horse
l nd mules Among those who spoke be
| fore the committee on this bill were II
c.. Coombs of East Berkshire, w A. Rick
or of st. Johnsbury, DR.. Stephens o
White River junction, w. n. Cady o
Middlebury, DR. f. H. Bancroft of Barre
Dir. Fossett, inspector in charge of tuber
I culoss, and Representatives White o
Woodstock, Blood of West Windsor an
Knight of Shrewsbury.
The medical men of the state had thei
inning on the chiropraetic bill and thing
were lively Those who spoke in oppc
1 sition to the bill were Dean Tinkham Q
the University of Vermont, DR. w. n
4 Bryant of Ludlow, DIR. F. f. Steele c
Montpelier, Dr. Guy Louden of Burline
ton and Dr. w. G. Kicker of st. Johns
! bury. All of these men were closely ques
+ toned by Mr. Alexander, the sponsor q
/ the bill
Il DR. Tinkham outlined briefly what til
medical world is doing today toward tn
1 prevention of disease and made it elea
1 that he was not there to oppose the pra'
/ tice of chiropractic, but rather to adyis
/ that man who treated disease should b
I fully qualified for that task.
What we need is educated men, con
petent men and carefully trained men t
apply any system of treatment said ID
I Tinkham.
HI The speaker went on to enumerate til
work which was required of a student
medicine before he can practice in tt
state of Vermont, and said that he di
not feel that man was any too we
I fitted if be had, taken all, the acquire
: work, especially in anatomy. -~
DIR. Bryant stated that, if the CHR
4 practor assumed the same burden of pre-
Z aration that other practitioners assume
& the medical men of Vermont had no o
+ lection to the admittance of the CHR
I praetor on the same grounds He mai
tanned that the practice of chiropract
is nothing new, as SO many have elaine
but that it has been praeticed ever sin
the beginning of time.
eve read in the Bible. said DR. Br
ant, "of the LAYING on Of hands, and chin
praetie is nothing more than adjustme
with the hands"