What experience has taught me ; an autobiography of Thomas William Burton .. . ughout the State of Ohio, and have come to-gether in one combined force for the bettermentof their work, morally, socially, and intellec-tually. While it is a fact that the enactmentof the State laws and the establishment of theState Board of Health and the Board of Med-ical Registration and Examination tends to in-duce higher medical education generally, yet itis necessary for the Negro doctor to organize,meet often, and learn to control himself in thisdirection. Some may tell you that an organization ofcolored men
What experience has taught me ; an autobiography of Thomas William Burton .. . ughout the State of Ohio, and have come to-gether in one combined force for the bettermentof their work, morally, socially, and intellec-tually. While it is a fact that the enactmentof the State laws and the establishment of theState Board of Health and the Board of Med-ical Registration and Examination tends to in-duce higher medical education generally, yet itis necessary for the Negro doctor to organize,meet often, and learn to control himself in thisdirection. Some may tell you that an organization ofcolored men in Ohio is not the proper thing, thatthe different medical societies in the counties andthe State Medical Society will admit coloredgentlemen of good standing in medicine, andthat we are drawing the line on ourselves; butI fail to see it in that light, and will say to youthat that is one of the reasons why the Negrois so far behind to-day, and because he is toodependent and not enough independent. Inasmuch as other medical societies of Ohio » 2£ 5 3 2 3 2 oO 3 0 - *0 1 3. First Negro Medical Society in Ohio 69 will admit gentlemen of the profession in goodstanding among them, so will we; and there willbe no line drawn unless an individual draws iton himself, and that we can not help. Negro physicians have organized State Med-ical Associations in six States of the South, asfollows: the two Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee,Texas, and Florida. What have we Northernbrethren done along this line? It might havebeen bigotry and prejudice that kept the schoolsapart until now; but I venture to say, in behalfof the gentlemen present, that there is neitherbigotry nor prejudice among them, and that theyhave come together for one common cause, andthat is, to exchange their ideas in the advance-ment in science. The question arises, Will it ever be that med-icine will be one? So long as medicine exists,physicians will differ; but while that is true, itis not impossible for medicine to be one.
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