CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE WORLD CONGRESS OF HOMOEOPATHS



1-Call to order made by the President;

11-Reading about the previous Congress for a few minutes;

111-Reading about the Organizing Commissions;

IV-Report of the International Direction;

V-Official communications;

VI-Suggestions made by the President;

VII-Special Commissions;

VIII-A few words about the World Congress;

IX-General call-over of the members and delegates;

X-Unfinished work;

XI-Special work of the session;

XII-Report on the influence of the new Congress on medicine and world civilization;

XIII-Discussions of scientific work;

XIV-Rendering homage to the Honorary Presidents;

XV-Report of the Commissions;

XVI-New work with considerations and resolutions submitted by the delegates in their reports;

XVII-Report of the Special Commissions;

XVIII-Election of new members;

XIX-Communications of the future plans of the World Congress by the elected new President.

CHAPTER IX.

This Constitution and these By-Law can be modified by 2/3 of the votes of the delegates present who have a right to vote while the congresses are held.

CHAPTER X.

Exceptionally, the next meeting of the WORLD CONGRESS OF HOMOEOPATHS shall take place in Paris (France) in 1955 jointly with that the International League for commemorating the second centenary of Hahnemanns birth. The Third Convention shall be held in the United States in 1957 jointly with that of the “P.A.M.C.,” if no inconveniences are found in this.

CHAPTER XI.

As this meeting is the first of the WORLD CONGRESS OF HOMOEOPATHS recognized by the Brazilian government, all resolutions and proposal shall be transmitted from government to government through the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Brazil, if these By-Laws are approved, so that the WORLD CONGRESS OF HOMOEOPATHS may be recognized in the entire world, and its future meeting may also be recognized by the government of the country where they will be held.

Allan D. Sutherland
Dr. Sutherland graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and was editor of the Homeopathic Recorder and the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
Allan D. Sutherland was born in Northfield, Vermont in 1897, delivered by the local homeopathic physician. The son of a Canadian Episcopalian minister, his father had arrived there to lead the local parish five years earlier and met his mother, who was the daughter of the president of the University of Norwich. Four years after Allan’s birth, ministerial work lead the family first to North Carolina and then to Connecticut a few years afterward.
Starting in 1920, Sutherland began his premedical studies and a year later, he began his medical education at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia.
Sutherland graduated in 1925 and went on to intern at both Children’s Homeopathic Hospital and St. Luke’s Homeopathic Hospital. He then was appointed the chief resident at Children’s. With the conclusion of his residency and 2 years of clinical experience under his belt, Sutherland opened his own practice in Philadelphia while retaining a position at Children’s in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
In 1928, Sutherland decided to set up practice in Brattleboro.