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throughout the entire State their just rights and their chartered privileges, and presented it to the Legislature. The following is a copy of the bill as passed in the Senate by a vote of twenty

to seven:

"To the people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

"SECTION 1. Section eight, title seven, chapter four hundred and forty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled 'An act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the State relating to the care and custody of the insane; the management of the asylums for their treatment and safe-keeping; and the duties of the State Commission in Lunacy,' is hereby amended to read as follows:

"§ 8. The charges to be made by the trustees of the Middletown State Homœopathic Hospital for the care and treatment of pauper and indigent patients shall be uniform with the rates for board and maintenance in the other State hospitals. County judges and superintendents of the poor in any of the counties of this State, and all county and State officers having authority to commit insane persons to any of the State hospitals for the insane, may, at the request of relatives, friends or guardians of any such insane persons, either public or private, for whom homœopathic treatment may be desired, commit, without further legal requirements, such recently insane persons to the said Middletown State Homœopathic Hospital; and the trustees of the said Middletown State Homœopathic Hospital shall have the right to receive into said hospital private insane patients from any of the counties of the State for whom homoeopathic treatment may be desired by their relatives, friends, or guardians, upon such rates as shall be fixed by said trustees in each case.

"§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately."

The foregoing bill also passed the Assembly without a dissenting vote, but with the addition of the following amendment: "But nothing in this act shall be construed to release the Middletown State Homoeopathic Hospital from the obligation to receive the pauper and indigent insane of the Middletown State Hospital district, as provided by chapter 126 of the Laws of 1890."

By reason of the dead-lock in the Senate, this bill, as amended, was not concurred in; and, therefore, it failed to reach the Governor for his approval.

The aforenamed bill provided simply for a renewal, by statute, of those rights which homoeopathists throughout the State had enjoyed under the law, without question or molestation for seventeen years.

The necessity for the act, presented to the Legislature, is apparent when considering the restrictions embodied in the law of 1890; for by its provisions all the insane residing in fifty-three counties of the State, and preferring homœopathic treatment, may be debarred from entering the State Homœopathic Hospital at Middletown by one member of an opposing school in medicine.

We respectfully petition the incoming Legislature to re-enact the act passed by the last Legislature in behalf of the homoopathists of the State of New York; or to provide some suitable and acceptable substitute for the same a substitute that shall insure unrestricted freedom of choice in medical matters to all the citizens of the State of New York who may beecome afflicted with insanity.

The bill referred to, as formulated by the board of trustees, was indorsed and supported by the homœopathic medical profession of the State, and by a large number of unbiassed citizens of all classes without regard to medical beliefs or prejudices. It was generally regarded by right-thinking people as an act of justice, of equity, of fair play, and of good faith on the part of the State toward a large and influential body of her citizens."

Our New York confrères are proverbially as far-sighted as they are energetic and able in the management of affairs. It is to be hoped that this plea for simple justice will be echoed by all friends of homoeopathy whose voices can make themselves heard in the legislative halls.

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SOME FUNNY FADS for which homoeopathy is held responsible by the outside world, now and then force themselves on the afflicted attention of those who would fain see homœopathy an honest and honored science among sciences,

and not a cloak to cover the motley wear of the race whose badge is cap and bells. One of these fads- fortunately harmless, so far as injury to humanity is concerned ! — is the gravely ordered administration of water-Croton or Cochituate, as the case may be in small and infrequent doses, to folk who are or imagine themselves to be the treatment in the latter case often achieving surprising results - the victims of diseased conditions. There is usually placed in the bottom of the vial to be rinsed out, for a greater or less number of hours according to the taste and fancy of the players of this entertaining game, with gallons of the water afore-mentioned, a pellet or two prepared from some innocuous drug-substance, or less innocuous and much more unpleasant disease-product, oftenest of a nature unmentionable in polite society. The pellet having been duly washed out of existence - though lost to sight, to memory dear, the water continues to run into the vial until the rites and incantations are complete; and then

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And then the usefulness of this remarkable proceeding, which had been obscure indeed to the uninitiated onlooker, becomes, in a moment, gloriously apparent. For the Croton water, whose value per gallon was incalculably small when first the tap was turned and it began its downward dribble, when the tap is turned off is salable, to a small and select fraternity, at the very handsome figure of $16 per ounce!! Great is the magic of the fad, and wise and fortunate he who floats upon its current into a haven whose sands are all of gold.

In most sermons the text comes first. comes last. Here it is:

"TO HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS.

In this sermon it

During the many years I have been making high potencies I have given them away, or sold them much below the actual cost. I did this in order to induce physicians to use them, knowing that in so doing they could make more speedy and permanent cures, and thus they would be better able to appreciate Homœopathy. I have never allowed anyone to assist me in their preparation, and as the demand for the highest potencies is increasing, and taxing my time and strength, in order that I may receive partial compensation for my work in the future, I have decided to raise my prices. Hereafter the price of grafts of any potency will be $1.00. But if more are ordered at the same time the price will be 25 cents for each, except the first.

The price of No. 1548 vials in pellets will be $2.00 for the first, and for all others in the same order $1.00 each.

For pellets in half-ounce vials $4.00 for the first, and $2.00 each for all others in the same order.

For Potentizing disease products $5.00, and the 6 potencies in dilution will be returned.

Dilutions double rates.

No order will be filled unless accompanied by the money.

The potencies I have in stock are the 1M, 50M, CM, MM, CMM, DMM. Having selected the material and made the potencies myself, I can vouch for their purity and reliability, and I have yet to hear anything but praise for their effective action.

New York, Jan. 12, 1892.

Respectfully, SAM'L SWAN."

A FAMOUS FESTIVITY for that it is certain to be in the annals of Massachusetts homoeopathy - is planned for the 16th of the current month. On that day the new Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary, the new wing of the Boston University School of Medicine, and the new additions to the Massachusetts Homopathic Hospital, will simultaneously be thrown open to the public; and those noble new houses "warmed" in the homely, pleasant old phrase - by the presence of thousands of the friends of the cause for which they stand. Especial courtesies will be shown to the representatives of the state, the city, and the university, to which, respectively, the Hospital, the Dispensary and the College owe so much of this recent splendid onward step in their growth and prosperity. A few addresses are expected in the course of the day and evening, and the atmosphere will be bright with congratulation and with hope. The homœopathic physicans of New England should have weighty representation there. To every such physician the farreaching and beneficent work done by our college, our hospital and our dispensary should be matter of personal and affectionate pride; and he cannot bring himself into realizing touch with that work by surer or pleasanter means than by taking part in the triple festivities of the 16th.

OSSIFYING MYOSITIS. - Macdonald (British Medical Journal, Aug. 29, 1891) reports the case of a girl, four years old, in whom at two years of age hard nodules developed in numerous muscles of the head neck, upper extremities, and trunk, occasioning rigidity and interfering with the movements of the affected parts. No hereditary factors could be elicited. Treatment was of no avail. Portions of the indurated parts removed were constituted of bone, having fibrous attachments of origin and insertion. Med. News.

COMMUNICATIONS.

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SOME SYMPTOMS PERTAINING TO THE SKIN, GLEANED FROM THE ENCLYCOPÆDIA OF DRUG PATHOGENESY; WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS THEREON.

BY JOHN L. COFFIN, M.D., BOSTON, MASS.

ACIDUM BENZOICUM.

Prover No. 2. Dose, 37 grains. — During night perspired strongly, probably due to the acid, as, in general, he was with great difficulty made to perspire. Perspiration did not recur on repeating the dose. Next morning urine very acid, and yielded a considerable amount of hippuric acid. Uric acid and urea normal.

Prover No. 4. 80 grains of 2nd trit. - Slight general perspiration. On moving on second day some sweat, especially on face, with heat.

ACIDUM CARBOLICUM.

Prover No. 2. 5 drops 6th cent. A vesicle, ending in a pustule, on center of nose. Prover states that an acne from which he had suffered three years disappeared during the proving.

Prover No. 4. 3 gtts. 6th cent. In two days slight vesicular eruption all over the body.

Prover No. 5. 5 gtts. 6th. Face flushed and burning, itching in various places in evening. (Dose taken at 8.30 P. M.) On third day a vesicular eruption appeared on hands and all over the body, itching excessively. Rubbing relieves itching, but leaves burning pain. This resisted medication, and did not disappear for twenty-one days.

Prover No. 9. 4-5 gtts. 1st. Next day there was a slight pustular eruption on right side of face, great heat and physical exhaustion.

Poisonings. No. 1.- When pure acid spread on the skin the epidermis wrinkles, a white coating spreads over the part touched and gradually disappears, being succeeded by a congestion, which lasts twenty days. This presents all the characters of inflammation, but on tearing the epidermis no serosity flows out. The epidermis gradually exfoliates, leaving a brown stain for a long time.

No. 2. by the drug.

Local anesthesia not confined to the tissue killed

No. 13. Sol. inj. into rectum in probably syphilitic subject. — After the third day patient gradually convalescent, but a pemphigoid eruption appeared on the hands, face and ears.

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