The Osteopathic Physician August 1903 Vol. 4, No. 3 Reproduced with a gift from the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association (AAOA Special Projects Fund) and Michigan Auxiliary to the Macomb County Osteopathic Association May not be reproduced in any format without the permission of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine SM (formerly Still National Osteopathic Museum) © Still National Osteopathic Museum The A. O. A. .Number THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION. Entered January 20th, 1903, Chicago, III., As Second Class MaUer, Under the Act of Congress March 3rd, 1879 Volume 4. CHICAGO. AUGUST, 1903. Number 3 in-law of the patient, was the M. D. in charge CARRY IT TO THE of the casE!, and only relinquished his authority "BETTER ETHICS!" after. Dr. Barnes, the Osteopath, was sum­ SUPREME COURT! moned from Chattanooga. The patient's own THE SLOGAN. brother, also an M. D., recommended calling in That Is What the A. O. A. Proposes as the Osteopath, it seems, and she did, and is American Osteopathic Association Form­ getting well. Yet the other physician and rela­ ulates Its First Gode. the Next Move. tive took it upon himself to have Mrs. Barnes arrested. Here may be a case where the pa­ LOOKING FOR A PROPER TEST CASE. tient as plaintiff can furnish all the fireworks we ANOTHER MiLE-STONE OF PROGRESS. need to establish a precedent. Dr. Clarence Barnes wrote us the following lly Uniting State }.oc:elies with the National July 22: Dele~ate8 a.t Cleveland l:'ractically AJ;'ree to ARsociation, Irorming a Po,verful t,;entralized In reply to your letter of the 20th,. received DrOl) "I.... esion Discussion" a.u<l Raise the Organization, It Will Be Easy to Win in regard to the Alabama situation, I will say Cry '·Better Ethics" and "Osteo- a Test Case in the Highest Uourt. that we went to Fort Payne, .Ala., the 20th pa.thy Unadulterated." inst., and appeared before the probate judge of DeKalb county and waived to the grand jury. Complete Dmalgamation between the Amer­ "Hail, ethics!" 1 find upon investigation that it is going to ican Osteopathic Association and the thirty or "Yale, disputations about the physic& and met­ be almost an impossibility to get our bill be­ aphysics of lesions!" more State Osteopathic Societies is the good fore the September legislature, and if we do, it work outlined by the Trustees for accomplish­ will be hard to get anything done in the .mat­ "And stick to good old-fashioned Osteopathy ment the coming year. Think what a rattling tel'. -the kind that Father Andrew gave!" good fighting machine that will give us. "'Vhile it is a fact that Alabama has no law Such, in brief, were the keynotes of the Asso­ And before that is accomplished-which, in against the practice of Osteopathy, they have ciation meeting symphony held at Cleveland in the nature of things can only come about mid-July. There was full and free debate. Cour­ slowly, requiring possibly a couple of years to tesy prevailed. Every man had his say. Lots complete-the Officials, Trustees and Legisla­ of delegates disagreed with lots of others; but tive Committee propose to put a test case in the end a general agreement seemed to pre­ through the United States i:::lupreme Court, which vail; and the reigning sentiment is well summed shall settle for all time the petty attacks upon up in those three utterances quoted. Indeed, Osteopaths now witnessed in many states of such statements were heard again and again on tillS union. the convention floor and in the hotel lobby. Kominations are in order by all those who know of good cases of malicious interference They were heard so often that the,r adovtion with Osteopaths in discharge of their profes­ was practically by unanimous verdict. sional duties. The Legislative Committee will All in all, it was a most harmonious and lov­ be glad to know of all late persecutions, ar­ able meeting. There was none of the acrimony rests, tines and imprisonments. The idea is to of the olu days when the profession was imma­ pick out just the right case for making the ap­ ture and when disputes were apt to be ran­ peal on. 1£ you know where there has been corous and sometimes indecorous. \Ve, as a tt'ouble, report it. ,profession, arc making history rapidly. ]n nO All cases of arrest and interference will not way or time is this pleasing fact more in evi­ do. There is one particular kind of a case dence than in the dignity, fairness, courtesy and wanted, and the battle royal will not begin good temper of the last and greatest of onr na­ until that case is found. It needs to be a tional gatherings. One visiting Milwaukee a case where some sick person, desiring Osteo­ year ago an.d Cleveland this year would say that pathic attention, and in danger of .dying, if Osteopathy had grown ten years in the strength ncglected, is prevented from receiving the pro­ and character of its national society. fessional services of an Osteopath by his ar­ This growth, too, is cOl1)oreal as well as spir­ rest or intimidation by civil authorities. itual. The American Osteopathic Association f'iuch a case will be "meat" to take into has gained about 300 per cent. in membership the Supreme Court and win out on. It within a year. \Ve assembled at MIlwaukee inl'olves a constitutional right - that of en­ , about 175 strong, I believe, a year ago. The en­ joying life, liberty and the pursuit of hap­ . rollment went to 200 before adjournment. \Ve pilless. The Supreme Court will entertain such agreed to come to Cleveland with 500 on the a case, whereas it would not a case of a doctor rolls-an audacious undertaking some of the appealing his fine, which is merely a police af­ members perhaps fancied. We left Cleveland fair, and does not interest the Supreme Court. with about 600 in the harness! And we have 7)r. Charle.s Hazzard. 'Pre.sident of the Amer­ Dr. Ellen Barrett Ligon, the heNine of the sworn to go to St. Louis next year with 1,200 ican O-steopathic AJ-sociation. Alabama fight last winter, made an impas­ on the roster-and we will do it! Mark the sioned appeal to the association at Cleveland prophecy, and get to work. for a united effort to test one good case in the a lot of county boards and a state board to This convention was characterized by brilliant highest tribunal. It was she who pointed out prevent Osteopaths from getting licenses. social functions as well. At the opening night the only kind of case which would be consid­ "\Ve have retained Ex-Congressman Howard reception, when President Teall presented his ered in the Supreme Court. The Trustees de­ and Attorneys Davis & Harlanson as our law­ excellent paper on "Therapeutic Fallacies." the cided, in view of circumstances, that .Alabama yers, on our own responsihility. Colonel How­ hall was packed to the corridors with Cleveland's would not be the right state to make an ap­ ard says that we can beat the case before all best people;· and a more brilliant formal recep­ peal from-that is, so long as only fines were the courts. Howard's reputation is that of a tion, with handsomer toilets and eclat and the thing to make a contest over. winner in everything he undertakes. greater dignity is seldom seen anywhere. Tom But a good case, presenting different fea­ "Dr. Nicholson, of Valley Head, swore out Johnson was not there, being too much of a tures, is reported by Dr. Clarence Barnes, of the warrant, and Mrs. Barnes was nrrested on politician, perhaps, to fill his appoIntment Chattanooga, which involves arrest in Alabama, her way to the train. She still goes to Valley with a new pathy, but he was not missed. Mark and it may prove to be the very case the As­ Head twice a week to treat the patient, and will Hanna and John D. Rockefeller were both out sociation is looking for. Mrs. Barnes was do so until the patient is able to corne to Chat­ of town. But everybody else was there, and the called to Valley Head, Ala., July 10, to at­ tanooga for tl·eatment. sight would have made your heart leap with tend a very ~ick woman. The M. D.'s had pleasure if you could have looked in on the gath­ failed to give relief. Dr. Jicholson, a brother- (Continued to Page 13.) ering. The OJteopath~s. EthicJ Are Good © Still National Osteopathic Museum The A. O. A. GraWJ! 2 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN The concluding banquet on the fourth night Section 4.-Frequent visits to the sick, are which he resides. The organization of local and was a superb array of manly men and bcautiful often requisite, since they enable the physician state societies, where they do not c:Gst, should 'women, The banquet hall of the Hollenden ho­ to arrive at a more perfect knowledge of the be effected, as far as practicable. Such local so­ tel had covers lai.d for 400, with more tables in disease, and to' meet promptly every change cieties constituting as they do the chief element the adjoining chambers for the overflow. It was that may occur. Unnecessary visits are to be of strength 'n the organization of the profes­ the crescendo of Osteopathic social events since avoided, as they give undue anxiety to the pa­ sion, should have the active support of their the profession was founded.