DOCTORS IN COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 300, 12 September 1908, Page 6

DOCTORS IN COUNCIL

A BISHOP ON MEDICINE AND RELIGION. The 67th annual meeting of tho British Medical Association opened on July 28 at Sheffield, and between 800 and 900 members of tho profession were in the city. Not only was tho United Kingdom well represented, but there were medical scientists present from the United States and many foreign cities, including Paris, Genoa, Brussels, Vienna, Nice, Christiania, Berne, Milan, and Buda Posth. Dr. Henry Davy, physician of tho Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, at Exeter, was president; and Professor Simeon Snell, of Sheffield, president elect. Tho doctors attended a special service at the Parish Church. The Bishop of Sheffield was the preacher; and made a reference to Christian Science. He regretted that the admission of the clergyman into the sick room was so often regarded as a signal of.the grave nature of tho case, that the prayers of the Church wero looked upon almost as the sentenco of death instead of being for comfort and relief as intended. But there seemed a danger now, not of the oxclusion of the clergyman from the sick room, but of the medical man. Christian Science, faith healing, and the unction of the sick,_ were strongly in evidence. He agreed with Sir Oliver Lodge that wo coiild believe as little in the efficacy of prayer without drugs as in drugs without prayer. We needed a combination of faith and works. He acknowledged the gratitude the world owed to doctors for their teaching on such questions as sanitation, adulteration of foods, temperance, purity, and tho sanctity of marriage. Professor Snell was inducted in tho afternoon, and in the evening, at the University, delivered his presidential address. Farreaching questions of great importanco were agitating tho association, he said, and lie hoped they would not depart from the high traditions they had sot before them. Tho president then went on to review some of the changes which had occurred in medicino surgery, and ophthalmology sinco tho association last mot at Sheffield in 1876. Sheffield ho described as the cradle of the study of industrial diseases.

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