as happens to be our good fortune, and who also know his comrades and brethren who are with him every day of the year, and know him and his work well, this belief in the swansomeness of his geese is not carried out. He is a successful physician and is truthful in the highest degree in the record of his cases. Hence his books, made up of cases cured, are trustworthy and may be accepted in the spirit in which they are written." Enlarged Tonsils Cured by Medicines, however, ought not to cause the ordinary homeopath, modern or remote, any great trouble. There are many of us remaining in the school who believe in the efficacy of the homeopathic remedy in such conditions and who have never yet resorted to the tonsillotome. Dr. Burnett has one flagrant fault, and the next time we sit with our feet under the

same mahogany with him, and the other jolly crew, we will tell him so to his face: and that is, that he uses so many remedies with which we on this side of the pond are not familiar. We would suggest that when he writes for an American readership that he append little stars and footnotes to these odd and singular remedies and help us over the trouble of guessing at the component parts of the drug. The cases reported in this his latest book are graphically depicted and will help many of us busy workers out of a bad hole. Boericke & Tafel have done the usual good bit of mechanical work on this book and are to be con

gratulated upon adding another good homeopathic work to the year's list.

A Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica. By Calvin B. Knerr, M. D., Philadelphia. Published by F. A. Davis & Co., for the Estate of Constantine Hering. This is not, of course, a new book, nor a new edition of an old book. It happened that by some mistake our table was not honored with this book upon its appearance, although we did receive each of the preceding numbers of the Guiding Symptoms. We understand that the publishing company is about to issue a second edition of this notable work; and we hope that the Hering volumes may meet with a better reception than the first edition seem to have evoked. The work itself is beyond valuation in dollars and cents. It is a library all in itself. It is one of the finest evidences of faithful work in a given field that we have seen for many a year. Hering came the nearest to Hahnemann in thought, word, and deed of any man with whom homeopathic history is familiar. Other names,-even that of the sweet Melanchthon, Dunham,-may pass out of the memory of the coming homeopath (or so much of him as is permitted to remain after he is graduated from some of our modern homeopathic colleges), but these two names, Hahnemann and

Hering, will be indissolubly associated for time. and eternity.

-The American Review of Reviews is giving some of its best editorials on current events and in its customary masterly style. Its review of the Queen's death, of Edward's accession, of Mrs. Nation's insanity, are all worthy of this great monthly. The leading (general) editorials have been and continue to be of great interest in that they present the subject from so calm and business-like a standpoint. As Americans we do not take much stock in William T. Stead's description of Edward's sudden change of heart -from the familiar, tactful Prince of Wales to the dignified King of England. And we go farther to say that we do not believe that Mr. Stead himself was over-enthusiastic in his paper. It reads doubtingly. It is full of argument and appeals. He seems to realize that he is painting a stagy, if not an impossible picture. The Prince of Wales has been too familiar a personage during all these long years of waiting to need any good-Lord introduction to the Review readers. But this isn't saying that we have any objection to King Edward. Our plaint is with Stead and his transparently unreal article; and usually we like his papers on men and matters. The Review of Reviews is filled from cover to cover with the latest reviews of all the good journals of both continents. Those who do not subscribe

regularly to the many, many journals, but buy one occasionally as they learn of some interesting paper contained, or because given over to some special item of interest, will always do well to look up the issue in the current Review of Reviews and note what is said concerning the magazine papers of the month.

-The Century Magazine continues its "Helmet of Navarre" with unflagging interest. It is still filled with rapid and bloody scenes, as they fall from the pen of the gifted Bertha Runkel. In a bit of editorial notice from the editor of the Century Magazine we note his explanation of this author's personality, and why no pictures of her can be given. Evidently, therefore, someone else besides ourself has had his suspicion of the identity of Bertha Runkel. Once before in the modern history of literature a noted writer tried to foist an historical novel upon his readers under a nom-de-plume; and we have become suspicious. The Century is to be complimented on the breaking of that alleged rule that none but famous names can gain admission to the pages of well-established magazines; for certainly no one ever before heard of Bertha Runkel, though her writing betrays a master hand. The other features of the magazine are well kept up and presented in fine form. This is a very popular magazine.

A very pretty hospital building stands near the west end of the Mall. An antiquated illusion is sought to be conveyed by the outside appearance of this building; this is, however, at once dispelled by a visit to the interior.

Modern arrangements that are both convenient and sanitary mark every feature. Approved medical and surgical appliances have been carefully selected in regard especially for their adaptability to emergency work and the exigencies that are likely to arise.

The first floor front contains in the extreme western wing two males wards with seven cots each, a bathroom, physicians' office, a morgue, and a linen chest. The eastern wing contains a woman's ward, large enough to hold a dozen cots, with direct communication to the woman's bathroom. This wing also contains an office for the superintendent of nurses, private physician's office, a linen closet, and other conveniences. The upper story is intended for the use of the resident physician and the necessary attendants.

In the matter of equipment and appliances, everything is of the newest and best. A new litter attracts considerable attention; it is carefully balanced and so arranged that one attendant can operate it easily and noiselessly, as it runs on two wheels about twenty inches in diameter, which are fitted with large inflated rubber tires. Sterilizing apparatus, with an apartment for instruments and another for towels and linen, is another necessary arrange

ment.

Roswell Park, M. D., is the Director, Vertner Kenerson, M. D., Deputy Director, and Dr. Alexander Allen is the resident physician.

In regard to the importance of this adjunct to the Exposition, it may be said that up to the first of March five hundred and four cases have been treated on the grounds, only one of which proved fatal. These include all forms of sickness

and accidents to workmen employed upon the construction work. In this connection it is well to note that the number of cases treated at the Omaha Exposition was about three thousand, while the history of the hospital at the World's Fair in Chicago gives a total of 11,602 medical and surgical cases treated, resulting in sixty-nine deaths.

It is hoped to have less use than this for the hospital at the Pan-American, though in the immense crowds who will attend, no doubt many individual will have occasion to appreciate the provision that has been made in this direction.

Globules.

-Alumni of the New York Homeopathic Medical College please notice that the date of the annual banquet is May 9 this year. The place of meeting is Delmonico's, and Dr. G. W. Roberts will act as Toastmaster. All graduates are requested to join. Send application to Dr. E. S. Munson, Cor. Secy., 16 W. Forty-fifth Street, New York.

-The Hahnemann Hospital College of San Francisco issues a handsome Announcement for its 1901 session, which, in California, as all may not know, is held during the summer months from May 16 to November 23-with a recess somewhere midway. A reading of this announcement cannot fail of convincing the reader that this is a homeopathic college. It numbers in its faculty a number of sterling homeopaths, such as Boericke, Arndt, Tisdale, the Wards, Palmer, Crawford, Bryant, and others. Its departmental divisions open with materia medica and homeopathy, and this is found in every other medical or surgical department. The books recommended are first and foremost homeopathic! In the purely scientific departments

other than homeopathic names are found. This school is built on the homeopathic ideas, and its teachers are determined to make first-class homeopathic physicians and surgeons of its students. We recommend this excellent college to the profession.

-A training school for nurses has been established by the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital. This fills a long-felt want. All applications should be sent to Dr. F. K. Hollister, Secretary of the Medical Board, 59 East Fifty-second Street, New York City.

-The American Medical Monthly, in reviewing Dr. Dewey's latest book on Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics, gives him and it the "glad" hand, as it could not well avoid doing. But it closes its complimentary notice with this line, "We thank Dr. Dewey for this and for his book, and for his loyalty to the standard on which is emblazoned, 'Simila similibus curenter.'" Now we have looked that latest book over, rather hurriedly, to be sure; and we have failed to find any such spelling of the disputed Latin line. And we really do not believe that Dewey said or wrote it that way.

-Dr. C. E. Fisher, having an opportunity to dispose of his Havana newspaper holdings and at an advantageous figure, did so, and has returned to the United States. When last heard from he was at San Antonio, Tex., with his daughter, who was not very well. Here he purposed stopping for a few weeks, the while looking after important property interests at that point.

Later. We hear that, since his arrival in San Antonio, Dr. Fisher's aged mother died suddenly at Topeka, Kan., and that the doctor had gone thither. We extend to him our heartfelt sympathy in this his deep and lasting affliction. -We learn with regret of the resignation from the Registrarship of Hahnemann College of Chicago of Dr. J. P. Cobb. Dr. Cobb's name has been so long associated with the duties and responsibilities of this office that his absence. from that desk will prove a serious hindering. Dr. Cobb is a popular gentleman, as well as a thoroughly well-equipped homeopath and practitioner. His resignation was occasioned by the multitudes of other duties which naturally grow upon a successful practitioner, which necessitated the unloading of a few. May good luck attend him and good health!

-The General Secretary of the Missouri Institute of Homeopathy, Dr. Willis Young of St. Louis, is inaugurating a new departure in the way of disposing of papers presented to that Institute. He asks that each author write

plainly upon his essay, "Send this paper to for publication." This will do away with the scrapping at the Secretary's desk by the two or three near-by-living editors for the possession of every good paper that is presented. By making this indorsement, even absent journals may have a standing before this Institute, and be given an opportunity to help boom the progress and work of this Western body. If the Southern Homeopathic Medical Association had had this done, there would have been no misunderstanding between Eldridge Price and Editor Pierson. A very wise provision, and one to be copied by other non-Transaction-printing bodies. We suggest that some of our friends supply the blank in the suggested indorsement with the name of this journal.

"The Contagiousness of Personality," by E. P. Murdock, M. D., of Chicago, is given in the current number of the Journal of Orificial Surgery in lieu of the usual editorial. It is a master-bit of prose writing and deserving of wide circulation. No, it isn't cast in homeopathic lines; it is on an entirely different subject,. but a good one and very excellently presented. It takes the broad ground that good health and cheerfulness are as catching as smallpox or disease in general. Read it.

-It is no more than a deserved tribute to merit when we allude, in a few lines, to the title pamphlet on "The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Typhoid Fever, with Special Reference to the Various Stages of the Disease and Their Complications. By William H. Dieffenbach, M. D.," being a reprint from the Chironian. This was an alumni prize-essay of the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and is especially deserving because of the clearness of description of this protean monster, and the excellence of homeopathic materia medica advised, It is happily put in the form of a small booklet that may be easily carried in the coat pocket, and thus be made readily accessible for perusing on a street car, or while driving from patient to patient. It is really a splendid paper, and we congratulate Dr. Dieffenbach upon his study and research.

-A clever "dodge" is being perpetrated upon the unthinking reader by the proprietors of a patented article, or, at any rate, a medical article the exact ingredients of which are not known, in that a physician of St. Louis issues a 64-page book, in paper covers, under the attractive title of "Local Application in Medical Practice," which has a rubber-stamp impress on its outer cover page, "Compliments of the Author." The pamphlet is well written, but, with only a few exceptions, every outward application described has somewhere in its lines a

recommendation to use the proprietary article -the owners of which have doubtlessly paid the doctor for his writing and his recommendations. It is very much after the pattern of that Prepared Liquid Food which had a large and well-advertised place in medical practice eight or ten years ago when it suddenly disappeared from the scene because of some awfully nasty discoveries in its making and dispensing. This Liquid Food Company gave gratuitously to each physician a booklet, each leaf whereof was devoted to a diet list for the various diseases commonly met in practice. The recommendation of the publishers was to tear out the appropriate leaf from its perforated margin and hand to the patient, in order that he might know what to eat during the treatment by his physician. But on each page, at least once, there appeared a bold, bad advertisement, advising the patient to purchase a bottle of this Liquid Food and use, in addition to the medical man's directions. We are not quarreling with the St. Louis firm for vaunting its preparations (for it bears a clean. and good reputation), but we do object to a medical man lending his name and brains to so transparent a scheme. The book, as a book, is a fraud; it travels under the pretense of being gotten up by a learned physician to aid his brethren in a particular branch; when, in reality, it is naught but an advertisement for a proprietary article. A friendly word, at parting, with this company is to the effect that they will injure their business far more than they will profit it by such an affront to the profession. This book, prepared in an honest way, and then presented by the company with an illustrated cover carrying the advertisement and other recommendations of its wares, will find more purchasers and make more friends among the profession than this "hold-up-your-hands" way of breaking into a physician's privacy and confidence. In passing, we would like to point out to the profession that a fine book on this subject of Local Applications, under the title of "A Digest of External Therapeutics," is on the book-market, fathered by Dr. Rankin of New York.

-A writer in Modern Medical Science recommends for distressing nausea the placing of broken ice, caught in the folds of a towel, against the nape of the neck. Or in its absence relief may be had by placing the back of the neck under a running stream of water for a little while until the brain is cooled off.

-Has anyone besides ourself noticed the singular resemblance between the pictures of our great men and the great men of other professions and lands? There, for instance, is Lord Kitchener, who resembles our own Dr. J. Kent

Sanders of Cleveland; Dr. H. F. Biggar is easily mistaken for Mark Hanna. Edward Caskoden, author of "When Knighthood was in Flower," would make a very good understudy of our handsome and good-natured friend in England, Dr. John H. Clarke, editor of the Homeopathic World, and author of numerous charming and interesting booklets. Again, H. C. Allen to Garcia, to whom a message was carried. But the comic one of the lot of resemblances is one presented by the Antikamnia Chemical Company in its current Skull Calendar. Will some of our curious readers turn up the last leaf of that pictorial calendar and try to think for a few moments who that disgusted professor looks. like? Don't see it yet, sir? Well, put a white mustache on him and imagine that hand to cover a straggly white beard, then aid your imagination a little by remembering that he lives in Philadelphia, and is a State Medical Examiner and you have him. But for goodness' sake don't we told you so!

-In going to Richfield Springs, you of the Faithful who live west of Buffalo cannot do better to reach the latter point than to take the Nickel Plate Railway. The rates are less, and the services the equal of any line running into Buffalo. We have traveled a number of times to and from the Institute over this line, and have never had occasion for complaint.

-The Medical Council takes up the question of charging for advice by telephone. It says that if the call is simply to ask for more clearness concerning directions, or to renew some medicine that would not last till his return, no charge can be made. If, however, a patient can not come to the office, but wants advice and prescription, and yet does not want the doctor to call, it is evidently fair and proper that some charge should be made.

-Dr. C. B. Hall of Chicago answers in the Evening Post an editorial which had appeared in that paper, under the title of " Physicians Go too Far," which latter was a complaint against medical men who were insisting upon Christian Scientists being restrained of their liberty to injure the people by reason of their alleged ministrations. Dr. Hall's answer is well written and very conclusive that the physicians are in the right in asking for protection against the faddists.

The American Homeopathist. ISSUED TWICE A MONTH. This journal is published for its subscribers only, and has no free list. Sample copies are never sent. Subscriptions are not discontinued until so ordered. A. L. CHATTERTON & CO., Publishers.

OUR PORTRAITS.

F. M. GUSTIN, M. D., Union City, Ind.

AND ESPECIALLY HOMEOPATHIC THERA

PEUTICS.

This is a line in the advertisement of the Hahnemann Medical College of Phildelphia, and bodies forth the intention of that first of homeopathic schools of the United States. In adding this line it does not intend to say, nor does it say, that it neglects any of the other modern branches of science which have been pushed into the medical school as and for med

ical necessities. For this school is noted for its good work, square work, just such work as we are authorized to receive. There are some giants in that faculty, all hard workers and homeopaths. Sometimes this caption is added to college advertisements to lend a little local color to its homeopathic pretensions, or in order to discredit the modern trend of medical teaching. But not so here. Look over the roster of its faculty and think back a little, and you will notice that the names are familiar ones and followed after other historical ones. This is a fine homeopathic medical college, and every one of its children is proud of its mother.

THE MENACE OF MEDICAL LEGISLATION.

A recent editorial in the New England Medical Gazette, under the caption of "The Hahnemann Association" speaks of the present and prospective troubles of the Boston University School of Medicine. These may be summed up into one pregnant paragraph, namely, that the raising of the standard for matriculation and for graduation will soon so decimate the number of students, and, because thereof, the fees upon which this school depends, that the noble institution is like to see some very bad times, or, as a last resort, a closing of its portals.

This danger menaces every commercially conducted medical school of the United States. For if the Boston University School of Medicinethe favorite school of Talbot and Heber Smith of the sainted ones, and of Sutherland and the Wesselhoefts and other eminent men of the living this school which has always stood for the best and highest in medical teaching; not alone in its own immediate bailiwick, but the homeoopathic world over; whose graduates, wherever profession-if this noble institution, with its met, are well-trained and well-qualified for the wealth of homeopathic history and of eminent teachers, fears the submerging tide, and is like to go, under the exceeding rigor of present medical meddlesomeness, what will become of the