The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-30
MEDICAL SOCIETY J DISAPP ROVES IF CH|ROP PRACT| |C BILL.
Report of Special Body Is Formally Indorsed at Regu- lar Meeting Monday
 Night

The Jefferson County Medical so- ciety Monday night went on record formally in opposition to the bill now before the Alabama legislature under the sponsorship of the practi- tioners of chiropractic- The society's action was in the form of indorse- ment of a report submitted by a special committee from the. member ship composed Of Dr. Scale Harris pr. E. P. Hogan, Dr. D. F. Talley, pr. w.. c. Gewin and pr. B. l.. Wyman.
 It was recommended by the com mittee that the members of the med ical society fake such steps as necessary to inform the members of the legislature regarding the pro- visions of the bill. the report adding, If they know the truth, the com mittee IS confident that they will not vote for the bill" In it's reports the committee set out the following:
 First. The committee met with the senator and representatives from Jefferson county tG discuss with them the chfropractic bill. This meet ing was very satisfactory although it was not definitely determined what position the delegation would as-
 
 bill.
 Second. Members of the commit tee and Dr. J. S. McLester, pr Lloyd Nolan and Dr. Scale Harris went to Montgomery last Wednesday, the twenty fourth. to be present at a hearing with reference to the bill before the committee of the house and senate to which the bill had been referred.
 The advocates of the bill were ably represented byDHon. Fleetwood Rice of Tuscaloosa and others" the report continues. They had a large number of letters of indorsement from citizens of different parts of the state, some of the said indorse- ments being from officials. Three prominent members of the bench in our own county spoke in advocacy of the bill or wrote letters of in dorsemcnt. A former lieutenant gov ernor Spoke before the committee in advocacy Of the bill, relating the great benefit that he. himself. had received from the chiropractic treatment after doctors had failed to do him any good. The advocates of this bill had large number of citizens present from different parts Of the state and there was every in- dication that they are determined ia their efforts to secure the passage of the bill
 ''Dr. Welch, the state health off cer, opposed the bill in a very able manner. The profession and the peo- pie at large are to be congratulated on having Dr. Welch in Montgomery to represent them as state health ef- ficer and on occasions when the in terests- of the people with reference to medical science and the public health and the general good of the public are at stake.
 Dr. Welch was ably assisted in remarks before the committee by Dr. Scale Harris, Dr. McLester, Dr. Lloyd Noland and Dr. Murphy Of Gadsden.
 Following the hearing the com m1ttee of the senate reversed the Dill but the committee of the house re- ported the bill favorably. We are informed that this bill will be voted on in the house on Thursday.
 What Bill Mean
 If this bill passes, the ideals. ethics and scientific standards of the medical profession will be parallel led in our state by a system of prac- tfce by men who are designated as doctors and regarded by the public at large as being men who not only have all of the proficiency of a well grounded, pre-medical education and also all that can ge learned and known by the most thorough instruc- tion in the four-year medical course. followed by extensive hospital train- ing. They are regarded by the people at large as being doctors and sur geons who have supertraining and mysterious method which knows no failure in the treatment of disease They do not regard germs as caus- ing disease. All of the great scien- tific truths on which medical science public health and prophylaxis are based, are either denied or ignored by them.
 "If this bill is passed the chiro- practors will have the same rights and privileges as the doctors of me dicine now have. With the methods nf aI <fzs- ,s,l,