The treatment due from the medical profession, to physicians who become homoeopathic practitioners : being a report read before the Conn. Medical Society, May 13, 1852 / by Worthington Hooker.

  • Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867.
Date:
1852
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Credit: The treatment due from the medical profession, to physicians who become homoeopathic practitioners : being a report read before the Conn. Medical Society, May 13, 1852 / by Worthington Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Society simply as indicating that the individual does not prize the privilege of belonging to it sufficiently to make it proper that he continue to be a member. Offenses and misdemeanors are treated of in the 4th Ar- ticle of the same Section. The process to be gone through with in the treatment of offenders is fully detailed; and the result is, that the offender, under conviction, may be punished by admonition, by suspension from the privile- ges of the Society for a period not exceeding two years, or by expulsion from the Society. The cases reported by the Fairfield County delegation clearly come under this head; and the proper course for the County Society to pursue was, to inflict some one of the forms of punishment named in that Article, instead of .simply dismissing the offenders, and to report their action, if expulsion were decided upon, to the State Society for its ratification. The subject of the treatment due from our Society to Physicians who become Homoeopathic practitioners is of very great importance, and merits from your Committee some consideration in view of the cases which have been referred to us. The object contemplated by the Legislature in grant- ing a Charter to the State Medical Society, was to secure to the people of Connecticut the services of a well-edu- cated body of Physicians. It was presumed that all med- ical opinions, and statements, and alleged discoveries, would be thoroughly examined and canvassed by the pro- fession. The idea was not indulged for a moment, that there would not be perfect freedom of opinion among the medical men embraced in the State Society. And therefore no provision or measure was contemplated which