Show ii I i wf w i i iw SENATOR BAMBERGER DESERTS HIS osteopathic BILL the salt lake herald bays senator simon bambarger Bam borger repudiated osteopathy and hia own osteopathic practice measure before tho state senate yesterday afternoon and publicly declared declai ed that osteopaths should be guarded against and restricted in operations rather alian licensed to practice in the community ho declared lie deeper ho probed into the subject the more disgusted he became tho osteopaths and the more thoroughly that their system does not deserve epenial consideration at the hands of the lawmakers in the course of bis remarks tho en abor declared that dr A P president of the utah as so dation had applied to the state medical board for examination but had failed to take the examination dr wa in the room and informed abo senator lie had done nothing of the kind the boards clerk went to look up the matter and admitted ho had nothing but ha own memory ti whereupon senator bamburg go upon er retracted bis dr 11 W fisher of the state aboard K 4 S attended the session of the senate and proposed to dr that the dateo patha answer ten question ug to anatomy dr hibbs accepted the challenge on condition that the questions be prepared by a party and the medical practitioners lio required to answer thara as well BO the ani wera could bo compared alio result inay bo a competition between the two schools as 0 o their respective proficiency in knowledge of aae human frame later jr obtained affidavits from nil the members of the dateo association that none had applied to the board for cx amina tion at any time i originally I 1 introduced the bill at the request of ray friend mr kuhn who was dying and who sinco haft died eaid senator bamburg er on the hoor at first I 1 waa favorably inclined to the proposition but every argument and reason that ha A been presented to no sinco from cither bide lias tended to reverse that opinion ahe deeper I 1 have gone into 11 aho atway from my original good of osteopathy 1 I aia convinced wa will subject the fj S i sa public 0 o less injury if guard the aiom the osteopaths than jf wo license them they do not seem willing to take the regular medical examination with medica left out but I 1 am convinced they should not bo allowed to practice unless they do take that examination aich I 1 ani now convinced is conducted in the most fair and impartial manner knowing alie medical profession as I 1 do I 1 was somewhat prejudiced in favor of osteopathy and was inclined to tho view that the medical board would not treat them fairly the medical profession is a jealous profession since then I 1 have thoroughly investigated tho method of giving examinations and find that lucre s no possibility of unfairness or discrimination the new bill which has been reported S B in place of the measure I 1 have introduced requires no examination all that is required is tho filing of an diploma with a county clerk |