etc., the law would have been equally effective and would have received the governor's approval. Had he approved the bill as it passed the Legislature, it would have caused many contests in the courts, as it was not clear from the wording of the bill just what ism followers were allowed to vaunt their faiths. After so many of the physicians of Colorado made the statement in the daily papers that no one except followers of the three schools were included in the bill, had litigation been started subsequently, it would have placed the medical profession in a bad light before the public.' "But it appears to have been on no such consideration for the public welfare as Dr. Eskridge expresses that Governor Thomas founded his veto. Had he done so, or had he even vetoed the bill without giving his reasons, the medical profession of the state, although disappointed, would not have felt outraged, as it certainly does at present. We have seen only extracts from the governor's veto message, but they are enough to show that he took the occasion either to exploit certain crude and whimsical notions of his own orand this seems the more likely-to bid for the political support of 'every mountebank in Colorado,' 'every worn-out prostitute posing as a magnetic healer,' and 'all the bigoted old Pharisees of "Christian Science,' as the DENVER MEDICAL TIMES puts it. In short, the governor of Colorado has abused and insulted the medical profession, and quite needlessly even from his own point of view. It is hardly necessary to say to those who attended the Denver meeting of the American Medical Association a year ago that Colorado has changed governors. It was most gratifying to listen to Governor Adams' just and appreciative words; it is humiliating to reflect that he has so soon been succeeded by a demagogue, who, as the Colorado Medical Journal phrases it, rates the medical profession as 'beneath the quacks, blacksmiths, Christian Scientists, pugilists and gamblers.'"-Editorial, New York Medical Journal, June 3, 1899. Echoes from the State Medical Society. The attendance was about up to the average. Less interest was manifested than at many former meetings, which may have only been the reaction from last year's extraordinary efforts. Moreover it is a very dry summer. The addresses of Drs. Roberts and Babcock were fully up to the most sanguine anticipations of their admirers. Dr. P. D. Rothwell's paper, in which he advocated the establishment of a daily paper by the Colorado State Medical Society, elicited much approval as a literary effort, but the scheme itself was generally considered to be impracticable. Dr. Carroll E. Edson's report of a case of streptococcus infection, treated with normal salt solution, was one of the best papers of the kind ever presented to a medical society. The symposium idea is a good one and ought to be further developed. It is in the discussions chiefly that the personal element prevails and original observations of practical value are brought out. The election of Dr. J. N. Hall to the presidency was a well deserved recognition of an enthusiastic medical worker, of one who is above all else fraternal and ethical. The exhibition room was only fairly well filled. W. H. Lauth had his customary attractive display of latest surgical instruments and apparatus. Glycothymoline was exhibited to good advantage, as was also Milkine. Keasbey and Mattson were well represented by J. F. Coe, who discussed the effervescent preparations secundum artem. Finally everybody drank Schlitz's malt extract iced. Officers-State The following are the officers of the Medical Society. State Medical Society for the ensu ing year. Some are new, some not: President J. N. Hall, Denver. Vice-Presidents-P. J. McHugh, Fort Collins; L. O. Moffett, Colorado Springs; Millard Harrison, Boulder. Corresponding Secretary-H. B. Whitney, Denver. Recording Secretary-Minnie C. T. Love, Denver. Assistant Recording Secretary -W. T. Little, Canon City. Committees State The following Standing CommitMedical Society. tees have been appointed by the President of the Colorado State Medical Society for the year 1899-1900: Executive-S. D. Hopkins, W. W. Grant, W. P. Munn, E. P. Hershey, L. Freeman, C. K. Fleming, I. B. Perkins. Publication-H. B. Whitney, E. R. Axtell, S. G. Bonney, Minnie C. T. Love, Edward Delehanty, H. W. Rover, Laura L. Liebhart. Finance-W. H. Davis, F. N. Cochems, W. E. Shotwell, J. W. Purcell, W. A. Kickland, Alfred Mann, E. Stuver. Medical Ethics-Sol G. Kahn, J. M. Blaine, Geo. B. Packard, R. W. Corwin, F. H. McNaught, C. B. Van Zant, Thos. Maghee. Sanitation and Preventive Medicine-H. C. Call, John F. Elliott, T. J. Carlin, H. W. McLauthlin, G. E. Tyler, W. H. Bergtold, C. F. Gardiner. Medical Societies-W. N. Beggs, E. J. A. Rogers, C. G. Hickey, J. W. Hawk, A. J. Robinson, J. W. Higgins, R. K. Hutchings. Necrology-A. Stedman, T. A. Hughes, S. E. Solly, H. Sewall, W. C. Bane, B. L. Jefferson, J. C. Chipman. By-Laws Frank Finney, W. A. Jayne, H. R. Bull, H. T. Pershing, C. B. Lyman, O. J. Pfeiffer, P. F. Gildea. Legislative - J. R. Robinson, Melville Black, J. Nicholl Vroom, J. T. Eskridge, J. M. Foster, J. P. Kelly, J. L. Clark. Revision of Pharmacopoeia-J. Tracy Melvin, W. E. Wilson, E. C. Hill. Place of Meeting-H. G. Wetherill, H. Work, W. A. Campbell. Pathological Laboratory-C. A. Powers, W. B. Fenn, L. Freeman. Delegates to the American Medical AssociationJ. Hawes, W. W. Grant, E. C. Rivers, J. W. Graham, S. E. Solly, Clayton Parkhill, T. H. Hawkins, S. G. Bonney, John Elsner, Edw. Jackson, R. F. Graham, J. A. Hart, A. M. Holmes, A. T. King, R. F. LeMond, L. E. Lemen, R. Levy, W. P. Munn, John Law, C. E. Edson. Alternates-M. Kleiner, P. D. Rothwell, Hugh Taylor, G. H. Stover, M. H. Dean, D. H. Coover, C. P. Conroy, J. N. Thomas, J. G. Keith, A. J. McDonald, S. D. Van Meter, A. K. Worthington, L. MacLean, E. A. Lee, P. V. Carlin, John Boice, G. W. Miel, S. T. McDermith, C. O. Rice, C. F. Shollenberger. Union and All things attest that in union there is Strength. strength. Organization is what distin guishes an army from a mob. It is an alliance of states that makes a great nation. Labor and capital both teach the profession of medicine the need and effectiveness of co-operation. If the medical profession were as united a body as the hodcarriers, it could exercise ten times the public power it now possesses a ten-fold benefit alike to physicians and laymen. With a well organized, well educated profession, standing shoulder to shoulder for the right and against the wrong, quackery would soon die of marasmus and long-legged political vermin would scamper for their holes. The one thing to do is to come together, to affiliate, to organize unitedly. Every medical society-city, county, state, national or sectional (such as the Rocky Mountain Interstate Medical Association)—can and does help to secure that ultimate ideal, when doctors of medicine, instead of jarring and warring, will be a unit for their own rights and the public welfare. Firm as the mountains' iron band, Strong as the sea that rocks the shore. “Eddyism" Exposed. "The above caption appears at the top of the title-page of the Arena for May, and, while that publication is more or less discredited and partially defunct, still it is significant that the believers in 'faith-healing' have fallen out and begun to prove each other liars and cheats. It seems clearly proved by these papers that Mrs. Eddy (or, to employ the names of the four successive and deceased husbands of this lady, Mrs. Mary MasonBaker-Glover-Patterson-Eddy) appropriated her entire cult, as expounded in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' from one Phineas Parkurst Quimby of mystic fame, with whom she was early in her life closely associated. In the first of these articles we are told that Christian Science is 'one of the most amazing delusions of which history has record' and even though the writer of the article appears to believe in mental healing he adduces numerous proofs from the writings of Mrs. Eddy and others to show that her statements are absolutely false,' 'equally false,' 'utterly baseless,' and that she 'entirely misrepresents,' etc. 'Never have a religious leader's followers been so deceived '-a truly scathing arraignment. If half were told that could be told, the exposure would produce an unparalleled sensation.' The time has come-for the overthrow of this gigantic delusion.' We are informed that Mrs. Eddy has not been in Massachusetts on a week-day for ten years because she is liable to arrest for being the head of an institution which illegally conferred degrees. 'Demonophobia is the better name for the Christian Science disease.' It is openly stated that Mrs. Eddy has done all manner of dishonest and disgraceful things purely for the financial returns therefrom. 'What she has founded is a commercial system monumental in its proportions, but already tottering to its fall.' Every physician wishing to be posted on this delusion should have a copy of this 'expose.' There is no need for the profession to bother itself greatly about the matter. The public alone suffers the consequences of this |