New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-06-30
DR.. BUSH called
ON TO testify
NeV Britain Practitioner u
Eclectic Case

Eclectic Case
New Haven. June 30 w - The
question Of whether or not the
STATE board Of health had before it
the time 1t revoked the licenses Of
\ number Of eclectic doctors at the
request Of the state eclectic exam
lining board, the nomination Of Z
DR.. Christian for = place on the
board, was finally settled today to
tho satisfaction Of counsel for the
eclectics.
The question Of DR.. Christians
nomination had cropped up from
time to time throughout the hear
tns Of the appeals Of ~ OF the &C.
lectics in superior court here before
Judge Ernest c. Simpson. and yes
terday DR.. Stanley H. Osborn. state
health commissioner. was asked 10
produce the correspondence on NE
on the subject.
This correspondence and the
minutes Of a health board meeting
in January, 1924. convinced the APP
pellants' counsel that there was, IN
fact, 4 vacancy IN the board at the
time and that the health board
had had before 1t the request OF
all the membership Of the eclectic
board. as requested by law and not
of only four or five members.
DR.. James w. Bush OF New Brit
ain. recalled to the stand at the
opening Of today's session, under
went cross examination at the
hands of Special Attorney General
James W. Carpenter
Called to the stand on his own
behalf, DR.. Roy Long went over
again his academic record and tes-
tifled that at the time he matricu-
lated at the Kansas City Dental
college in 1910 he was president OF
the alumni association OF a high
school in what Is now Kansas City,
Kas.
He denied all knowledge Of the
"high school equivalent" IN MS
name which William P. Sachs testl-
fed last week was one Of those he
had sold DR.. Adcox for $40 each.
He said he had never seen nor
known either Sachs or Adcox un1li
thew testified at the hearings here
on the appeals.
While a student at Kansas City
university from 1920 to 1872, ne
said. he taught anaesthesia and was
professor of that subject for part
of the time. He had taken a course
in anaesthetics at post graduate
school previously. he said, ana re-
ceived a certificate.
Attorney Carpenter was unable TO
shake his story that he attended
Kansas City college from 1915 10
1918 although his name was not
listed among the students in the
wear 1918. While there. he said,
there were about ESQ students IN
each of the classes from II to ID
professors part time. and no course
in which he studied had student IN
structors. In his first application Tor
examination In this state the Kan
sas City college course was not
mentioned. In his application tins
date Of his attendance at Kansas
City university was given as 1913
1920. which he testified was an err
ror In dates.
He testified that he did not know
that the Kansas City college which
he said he attended first in 1916.
was only incorporated In January
Of that year.
The Dutton Medical school in Chi
cago, from which he had testified to
graduating in 1901. DR.. Bush said.
WIS a real medical school and not
eclectic, with a mot very large
plant, occupying seven rooms In an
office building. and offering resident
instruction. Three men were grad
uated In his class, he said, with exer-
cises appropriate to the occasion.
He said he did not know that the
putton school was not recognized by
the Illinois board. Several entries
on the application he presented in
1920 to take the Connecticut eclectic
examination were in hand writing
that "looks like DR.. Alexander's," he
testified. DR.. Alexander and DR.. ].
w. Cotner, the latter one OF those
whose licenses have been revoked.
signed DR.. Bush's certificate for
moral character. DR.. Bush testified
to coming to Connecticut to take the
examinations here on the same train
but not on the same sleeper as Dr.
Alexander. head OF the Kansas City
College of Medicine and Surgery.
and about dozen OF his pupils and
proteges. This was not, he testifed.
by prearrangement with DR.. Alexan-
der
Questions Diploma
The diploma issued to DR.. Bush by
the button school occasioned some
little difficulty when Attorney Car
penter first took 1t from the frame
and then asked permission to take
from its back piece Of brown
paper pasted through it.
He informed the court that he was
certain II the paper were removed
and the certificate held against the
light It would appear that there had
heen erasures on it. DR.. Bush de-
MED any knowledge OF the diploma
having been issued to anybody else
before him.
Reading to the witness the state
ment on the back of the application
10 the eclectic board that mo one
graduating from an eclectic school
requiring less than two years IN
eclectic medicine shall be permitted
10 come before this board for ex-
animation" Attorney Carpenter