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Principles of Homœopathy in Present-Day Practice, The.

George F. Laidlaw, M.D.

Professional Life, The. By George R. Southwick, M.D.
Pus in the Kidneys. By De Witt G. Wilcox, M.D.
Rand, John Prentice, M.D. The Prevention of Tuberculosis,
from the Medical, Economic, and Social Standpoints

Records of the Massachusetts State Hospitals, 1909. By Arthur

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Relationship Between Arterio-Sclerosis and Nervous Diseases, The.

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Relation of Diagnosis to Therapeutics, The. By Plumb Brown,
M.D.

By Frank C. Richardson, M.D.

Report of Cases. By Nelson M. Wood, M.D.

Report of Two Unusual Obstetrical Cases. By Frederick V.

Wooldridge, M.D.

Rice, George B., M.D. What Are We Going To Do About It?
Richardson, Frank C., M.D. Nervousness As a Habit.
Richardson, Frank C., M.D. Notes on Anterior Poliomyelitis
Richardson, Frank C., M.D. The Electrical Treatment of Infantile
Paralysis

Rockwell, J. Arnold, Jr., M.D. The Diet of Children as Influ-
enced by Fecal Examination

Ross, E. V., M.D. Some Pathogenetic Effects of Crotalin

Salpingitis. By J. Emmons Briggs, M.D.

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Some Pathogenic Effects of Crotalin. By E. V. Ross, M.D.
Some Types of Colds Recently Seen. By Charles H. Colgate, Jr., M.D.
Southwick, George R., M.D.

The Professional Life

Spencer, George Warren, M.D. Moral Prophylaxis from an Edu-
cational Standpoint

Streptococcic Infections Treated with Vaccines. By Josephine M.
Danforth, M.D.

Strong, T. M., M.D. A Few Remarks on Nose and Throat Troubles
Suffa, George Alson, M.D. Qcular Manifestations of Arterio-
Sclerosis

Sutherland, John P., M.D. Address at the Opening of the Thirty-

Ninth Annual Session of Boston University School of Medicine

Sutherland, John P., M.D. Arterio-Sclerosis: What Can We Do

About It? ..

Symptomatic Vertigo. By E. P. Colby, M.D.

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Syphilis Its Diagnosis and Treatment. By Orren B. Sanders, M.D.

Teeth in Relation to Medicine. By Carrie I. Bence, D.D.S.
Tonsil Question, The. By William H. Phillips, M.D.
Treatment of Anterior Poliomyelitis, The. By Alonzo G. Howard,
M.D.

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Turner, Maurice Worcester, M.D. Some Contagious and Erup-

tive Diseases

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Uterine Flexions as a Cause for Sterility. By H. A. Whitmarsh,
M.D.

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Laidlaw, M.D.

Wilcox, DeWitt, G., M.D.

What Is Homœopathy Today? By G. Forrest Martin, M.D.
What Shall We Do for Arterio-Sclerosis?

Whitmarsh, H. A., M.D. Uterine Flexions as a Cause for Sterility
Cranial Injuries and Their Surgical

Treatment

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Dietetics in Our Medical School

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Wooldridge, Frederick V., M.D. Report of Two Unusual Obstetrical Cases

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CLINICAL DEPARTMENT.

Clinical Department 630, 682, 728, 774, 828, 873, 925, 986, 1033. 1103, 1152, 1234
Mental Complex and Its Practical Significance. By Charles Sher-
wood Ricker, A.M. ..

Ricker, Charles Sherwood, A.M. The Mental Complex and Its
Practical Significance

Ring, A. H., M.D. What Do We Need to Know Clinically About
the Mind?

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Medical Women's Association for Aiding Women in Medical Work

in Foreign Countries, The

National Confederation of State Medical Examining and Licensing
Boards

Pennsylvania Notes

Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association

Books Reviews

Correspondence

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Miscellaneous

Notes and Comments

BOOK REVIEWS.

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WHAT ARE we goinG TO DO ABOUT IT ?*

BY GEORGE B. RICE, M.D., BOSTON.

No. 1

It seems like bringing coals to Newcastle for me to bring observations on the materia medica to you, members of the Hughes Club, which will be either new, interesting, or stimulating. You will remember, however, that somewhere Emerson says: "No man is so poor in wisdom that he cannot teach me something," and so I am encouraged to present some ideas which have long been waiting for proper expression before an indulgent audience.

On January the sixth, 1898, as retiring president of the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society, I was privileged to deliver an address in which was reviewed the work of the Society, and in which also attention was called to the fact that very few of the papers which had been presented during the year had expressed any particular interest in the subject of Homoeopathy, or in the treatment of disease according to homeopathic law. To prove this statement a brief review was given of the work done. In my zeal certain questions were asked, such as:-"How can we better understand a few of the already well-proven drugs? By what means can our materia medica be made more concise, and within the comprehension of the average intellect? Do local applications interfere with the action of the indicated internal remedy? To what extent are we justified in using such adjuvants? Are there certain pathological conditions in the purely medical field, which cannot be reached at all by the homœopathically prescribed remedy, as at present understood?" I went on to say, "Are not these questions worth the while answering? If we are worshipping false gods, is it not time that we found it out? But if, as I believe, as we believe, the homoeopathic method of curing disease surpasses every other, and can be so demonstrated, then will not our position become an enviable one, and will not the struggle be rewarded by official recognition, by control of governmental, State, and city institutions, with which

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we now have little or nothing to do? Is this not a work we must do if we wish to retain our self respect, the respect of the public, and of our fellow-workers in the cause of medical science?"

Certain well-known faults in the materia medica were touched upon, a plea was made for the specialist, that in the increased knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of special organs there also be shown and demonstrated increased knowledge of homoeopathic drug action upon the special part. The paper ended with an appeal, and then by stating the belief that a new day would soon dawn for Homœopathy, and that our light would shine with such brilliancy that it would envelop the whole medical world, and bring to it a knowledge of the truth we possess. My paper was received with what seemed to me considerable enthusiasm, and I felt much elated, and for a few moments I really believed that I had said something worth while, but in this case the natural law of reaction took place early. When I went down stairs Dr. Frank C. Richardson said. "I enjoyed your paper exceedingly, but what are you going to do about it? What is your plan of reform?"

The writer of this paper was not the only one at about this time to agitate materia medica reform. In March, '99, this same Dr. Richardson read a paper before this club on the "Need of a Therapeutic Laboratory" to study the materia medica and place it on a more scientific basis.

In April, '99, Dr. Coffin and Dr. Colby brought forward a plan for reproving drugs according to Dr. Richardson's plan. Three weeks later Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft, as the guest of the club, read a paper on the different methods of drug proving, and commended the plan of studying the pathology of drugs. November 17, 99, Dr. Coffin read a paper on a general review of drug provings. In March, 1900, Dr. Colby read a paper on "Drug Provings," and papers along this line were continued for many sessions, notable work being done by all the members of the club. In June, 1900, Dr. Bellows delivered an address before the O. O. and L. Society, of which he was that year president, in which he outlined a plan for a great medical reform, viz."The Reproving of the Homeopathic Materia Medica." This paper and the subsequent action of the society resulted in an active reproving movement all over the United States of one drug, "Belladonna," and Dr. Bellows, as you all know, devoted months of arduous toil in recording the results of the proving in book form. Soon after this the American Institute of Drug Proving was formed to carry out the work on a large scale, as soon as sufficient funds could be obtained. From this review I do not mean to imply that the universal activity in drug proving all over the country was stimulated entirely by the members of the Hughes Club. A reading of the transactions of our various societies and the American Institute would disprove this, but it would seem as though the greatest impetus came from the agita

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