Transactions of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York, for the year 1867 : transmitted to the legislature January 17, 1868.

  • Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York.
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1868
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Credit: Transactions of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York, for the year 1867 : transmitted to the legislature January 17, 1868. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARTICLE XII. Report of the Committee on Eclectic Medical Literature, to the New York State Eclectic Medical Society, held at Albany, January 15th and lGth, 1868. By M. M. Fenner, M. D., and Prof. Chas. T. Hart, M. D. To the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York: Your committee, appointed at the annual meeting of the society, held at Saratoga Springs, in June last, to report at the present meeting on Eclectic Medical Literature, respectfully offer the fol- lowing: They have examined the subject referred to them with some care and research, and feel called upon to state, at the outset, that they have found embarrassment in drawing the demarkation line between the various reform medical publications existing prior to the formal announcement of Eclecticism as a medical school, so as to preserve a strict fidelity to the cause, and award justice to all interested parties. Whilst at a period near half a century remote, there existed in the United States and Canadas medical sects dis- satisfied with the results yielded by the prevailing allopathic prac- tice of bleeding, purging and saturating the diseased system with mineral poisons, and offering opposition to it to the extent their degree of organization, development and means would permit, guided, at an earty period, in the east by Dr. Samuel Thompson, the middle States by Dr. Wooster Beach, and in the west by Dr. T. Y. Morrow and others, each issuing its periodical literature and other publications, it was not till the year 1845, or little more than a score of years since, that Eclecticism was established and formally announced to the public in Cincinnati, Ohio. Here was adopted and promulgated a broad platform of liberal and pro- gressive medical principles, embodying the truths then attained or to be achieved by reform medicine, and constituting then, as now, the distinctive characteristics of the Eclectic medical school. Here was established the Eclectic Medical Institute, a chartered medical college, which rapidly rose to great popularity and a commanding influence, which has ever since far surpassed and still surpasses any other medical institution west of the Alleghanies in the number of its matriculants, the ability, vigor and thorough- ness of its teachings, and the success of the practicing physicians it sends abroad. And here was issued the Eclectic Medical