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ourselves? My countrymen, open your eyes, come forward with your help for the amelioration of the great human suffering all around us! Let me here convey my sense of gratefulness to the representatives and honorary staff who are very greatly interested in my humble undertakings. In other centres where I have established charitable dispensaries, the residents of the villages are very kindly disposed to my work, and take particular interest in the permanancy of the institutions, and I am deeply grateful to their kindness thus shown. In all these institutions (still in their infancy) more than one hundred patients are now daily supplied with medicine, diet, and small pecuniary help.

In connection with our library, I beg to say that it now stands with a smiling prospect. Drs. Jolly, Hale, Shipman, and Oscar Hansen are the principal patrons of this one amongst my other humble undertakings; and I therefore appeal to all my colleagues, authors, publishers, publishing companies, etc., to présent the library with their valuable publications through the representatives in their countries. It is superfluous for me to request our representatives to move their countrymen for help, and I can assure them that I shall then be in a position to extend its usefulness in other directions.

About the proving of drugs, I beg to inform all lovers of the healing arts that Ficus Indica has been found one of the best remedies for urinary disease with cerebral and cutaneous symptoms. I wish it were reproved by any of the provers unions and clubs. For want of new provers I cannot report further good results, but the results of the old provers are true and accurate, and I expect to add further provings by new provers next year.

Let me request all my colleagues and lovers of healing arts, in this and in foreign countries, to help me, that I may be in a position to establish a hospital in the name of our master, Samuel Hahnemann, and several other free dispensaries in the heart of poor villages. I repeat that good fellowship and united efforts are greatly needed, and with malice towards none, and charity for all, we should seek the triumph of our cause, and then surely we shall get a glorious victory for our science.

Now I beg that all members, the honorary staff and representatives, will accept my best 'thanks and my wishes for their peace and health.

A SUFFERER from a severe cough says that his complaint has one of the modern improvements - -a pneumatic tire.-Lowell Courier.

A SAMPLE of tradesman's challenge: “Any person who can show me that my cocoa is injurious to health will receive ten boxes gratis." -- Fliegende Blatter.

SOCIETIES.

10:1

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY.

To the Members of the American Institute of Homœopathy.
The General Secretary deems it proper to make the following

announcement:

At the recent session of the Institute it was announced that the United States Government had authorized the holding of a series of Congresses in Chicago, on subjects of a scientific and social character, during the continuance of the Columbian Exhi bition in 1893. Among these there will be included a World's Congress of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons. The Art Building now in course of erection is for the free use of these Congresses, and for their sectional meetings, committees, etc. The department of the exhibition known as the World's Congress Auxiliary, has appointed a committee, consisting of a number of homœopathic physicians of Chicago, with Dr. J. S. Mitchell as its chairman, to prepare and arrange for the Congress of Homoopathy.

Acting on this announcement and on motion of Dr. Mitchell, the Institute appointed a committee to consider what action should be taken in reference to it. This committee afterwards presented the following recommendations which the Institute adopted unanimously.

1. That the meetings of the Congress and of the Institute be held in conjunction after the plans of the previous Congresses. 2. That the officers-elect, of the Institute, hold. offices for two years.

3. That the business meetings of the Institute be held daily during the continuance of the Congress and that it adjourn to meet with the Congress.

4. That the Sectional Meetings of the Institute Bureaus appointed at this session, and other scientific proceedings of the Institute, be deferred until the session of 1894.

The Institute has thus ordered that for next year, its own sessions be limited to the transaction of its general business, and that all its scientific energies shall be devoted to the interest and success of the World's Congress.

At the Congress at Atlantic City, in 1891, there was an attendance of 1,024 homoeopathic physicians and visitors. At the Institute meeting in Washington, in 1892, there were 881 members and visitors. There are good reasons to believe that the Chicago Congress will more than double the larger of these numbers. The indications of a large attendance from abroad are far more encouraging than in 1891.

During the past two years the Institute has added more than four hundred names to its roll of membership, notwithstanding the fact that the meetings were held within little more than one hundred miles of each other. The General Secretary considers it perfectly feasible to secure at least four hundred more during the Chicago Congress, and expects to labor earnestly and persistently to that end. He suggests that all societies, State and local, appoint committees to canvass their membership to secure larger representation in the National Society. This work should begin now. Blanks will be forwarded on application. College faculties should endeavor to secure members from among their alumni, and thus enhance their collegiate influence in Institute Councils.

The Institute has adopted a resolution requesting investigations on the subject of "Comparative Mortality Statistics" in all our larger cities. One of our largest cities is already taking measures to this end through its county society.

All reports secured should be communicated to Dr. T. F. Smith, 264 Lenox Avenue, New York City.

PEMBERTON DUDLEY, M. D., General Secretary.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY-BUREAU OF
MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.

The following circular has been issued by this Bureau. Any practitioner having definite views upon this vital topic is requested to join in the symposium and correspond with the secretary.

Dear Doctor:-In organizing the work of this Bureau for the year 1894, the session of 1893 will be omitted because of the Congress during the World's Fair-we think that at least half of the whole day's session of this Bureau should be given over to a thorough discussion of the best methods of studying and teaching materia medica. In order to elevate and dignify this important topic, and place it where it belongs in the very forefront of homœopathy, we respectfully solicit answers from you, as we do from all teachers of our materia medica the world over, to all the following questions:

1. What advice do you give concerning materia medica to a student beginning medicine by a year's preliminary study?

2. Which is the best method of teaching materia medica: (a) For the preceptor to his student; (b) for the teacher to his classes in the college; (c) give an outline of your method of studying or teaching a drug in the class-room?

3. Which is the best place for teaching therapeutics: (1)

hospital, (2) dispensary, (3) clinic, (4) class-room, or (5) bedside, and how should it be done?

4. Do you teach the potency of the remedy studied? If not, why not? If you do, how do you explain the potency you advocate?

5. When should the Organon be taught, and how?

This does not involve a long essay, unless you desire to contribute such to the Bureau over and above these answers. Please give this your prompt attention, in order that a complete résumé of how our therapeutics are taught may be carefully prepared. Yours fraternally,

WM. E. LEONARD, M. D., Secretary.

608 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.

MASSACHUSETTS HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The semi-annual meeting of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society was held at the College building, East Concord street, Boston, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 11 and 12, 1892. The preliminary meeting was called to order Tuesday evening at half-past seven o'clock, by the President, L. D. Packard, M.D. The records of the last meeting having been read and approved, the following candidates were elected to membership: J. Francis Bothfield, M.D., Westborough; Ellen L. Keith, M.D., Westborough; Will Wallace Nutting, M.D., Lowell; Frank W. Patch, M.D., South Framingham; George Alson Suffa, M.D., Boston; Frank C. Walker, M.D., Taunton; Henrik G. Peterson, M.D., Boston; James R. Cocke, M.D., Boston; F. E. Constane, M.D., Brockton.

Dr. Charles L. Nichols, of Worcester, then delivered an eloquent and interesting oration having for its subject, "The Higher Education and Medicine," for which he received the thanks of the society.

An enjoyable feature of the evening was a social lunch, served at the new Dispensary immediately after adjournment.

Wednesday morning, at nine o'clock, the members were received at the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital by the resident physician, Dr. Thomas M. Strong, and the chairman of the Medical Board, Dr. I. T. Talbot, presented briefly some interesting facts in regard to the hospital and its work.

At 9.30, Dr. Horace Packard demonstrated successfully the use of his apparatus for administering ether by etherated air. Dr. Alonzo Boothby, the attending surgeon for the quarter, then performed a laparotomy, making explanatory remarks as he proceeded.

At ten o'clock the society assembled in the general lecture

room of the college, and the meeting was opened by the following Report of the Committee on Gynaecology, Martha E. Mann, M.D., Chairman.

I. "Notes on a Case of Double Uterus. Ectopic Gestation : Report of Six Cases," by Horace Packard, M.D.

2. "Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer of the Uterus," by Geo. R. Southwick, M.D.

3. "Dispensary Practice Compared with Private Practice," by Adaline B. Church, M.D.

4. "An Inquiry," by Lucy C. Hill, M.D.

DISCUSSION.

Dr. L. A. Phillips said that Dr. Packard's paper had raised some question in his mind. He doubted that in ectopic gestation impregnation always occurs within the tube. If so, why is the placenta sometimes found attached outside the tube?

He also doubted that hæmatocele is invariably due to rupture of the sac resulting from ectopic gestation. Thought it might be due to other causes. The statement that septicemia occurred in extra-uterine pregnancy was contrary to the idea that the external air is necessary to this process.

Dr. J. Heber Smith quoted a case of hæmatocele apparently due to a fall. Of course he could not say positively that there was not ectopic pregnancy previous to the fall.

After some further discussion the Bureau closed, and brief remarks were made by Dr. J. C. Gannett, Secretary of the Maine Homœopathic Medical Society, Dr. W. S. Thompson, of Augusta, Me., and Dr. Thurber, of Providence, R. I.

Other visitors present were Dr. William E. Fellows, President of the Maine Homœopathic Medical Society, Dr. H. C. Bradford, of Lewiston, Me., Dr. H. H. Darling, of Keene, N. H.

Report of the Committee on Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhin ology, and Laryngology, Howard P. Bellows, M.D., Chairman. I. "Deafness as a Sequel of Mumps," by Howard P. Bellows, M.D.

2. "Location of Pain in Headaches; an Important Factor in Determining the Nature of the Ametropia," by John H. Payne, M.D.

3. "The Importance of Correcting Slight Degrees of Astigmatism, with Illustrative Cases," by L., Houghton Kimball, M.D. 4. "Diseases of the Larynx," by D. G. Woodvine, M.D.

5. "Reflex Tinnitus and Otalgia," by August A. Klein, M.D. These papers, although of unusual interest, were not discussed.

After a light lunch at noon, the meeting was called to order again at 12.30, and Dr. J. M. Barton, Chairman, presented.

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