Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dr. Wagner in the Pediatrics Clinic Emergency Room Hospital Kitchen - ' ■•

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Dr. Smith lecturing to the nurses Dental Hygiene as part of our clinic service Otolaryngology and Rhinology, other clinic facilities

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DR. ANDREW TAYLOR STILL STILL ONWARD I OSTEOPATHIC. Homeopathic. Allopathic. Xaturopathic. Do these mean anything to you.- They should represent the various schools of medical thought. Perhaps a great many people Mill be surprised by that statement. Cen- turies of conformity have left little desire to lend credence to new thoughts. It took many years for medicine to become organized as it is todav. Of course, in the beginning, the trials and tribulations of what we today call the doctor were man}-. How cruelly the men were treated who had the audacity to prescribe certain ingredients as drugs, who were bold enough to use sunlight and fresh air to treat their patients, who were so sacrilegious as to dissect bodies so that they might learn I Hypo- critical, narrow-minded, and thoughtless, we say. Yes, we judge the ancients because we are so far remoA ' ed. Yet, we have but to read our modern medical histor;.- to see that independent thinkers and men with well-founded claims were not even given the right to be heard. A ' hen Hahnemann and his associates asked for recognition, they were laughed at, ridiculed, and called quacks and fakers. By the layman? Xo. They had no technical knowl- edge. The ridicule was delivered by the men of the now fairly well-organized medical profession, among whom the predominant principles were allopathic. As time passed and Hahnemann and Homeopa- thy greM stronger. Allopathic medicine grew SYNAPSIS » 1038 28