consisted in copying the names off the printed programme.

It was suggested that more enthusiastic attendance could be collected at the State capital if some form of banquet could be had; that instead of giving stereopticon views of the insides of dead people, something might be provided for the insides of living people. There is no wish to inflict the expense and detail of a banquet upon the local physicians; but doubtless the membership would bring with them an extra dollar for the privilege of stretching its enamel shoes under the mahogany in banquet form. In view of the fact that the headquarters of the Society was at this first-class hotel, it would seem that some arrangement could be entered into with the managers for a late dinner for the Society, instead of the usual supper. There is something very attractive about a banquet, with a speech or two from distinguished guests. Will the Columbus physicians kindly consider this and so help make the Society meetings a little less perfunctory?

The necrologist, Dr. D. H. Beckwith, announced that but one member of the Society had died, and this was the ever genial Dr. G. C. McDermott, whom we all remember and love. Many tributes of affection were voiced in behalf of the deceased member. Only four or five new members were elected. An effort was made to change the constitution so as to admit a practicing physician who had the L. P. degree from the State board; some opposition was manifested; the Committee to whom the matter was referred failed to report. The same action was taken on the Arsenization-matter sent to the Society from the Minnesota State Homeopathic Institute; no report from the committee. The minutes of the Society were corrected so that the Society meets in Columbus but four years more, in order to test the value of this central location for future meetings.

Taken as a whole, the meeting at Columbus was in striking contrast to that held at Sandusky; There was a better feeling among members and visitors. There seemed to be nothing on hairtrigger. The Cleveland and Cincinnati cohorts were there and behaved themselves. The colleges were not in evidence. There was gentlemanly conduct from beginning to end of the meeting. The B. & T. man from Pittsburg had a lay-out of books and things at the door; but there were no noisy demonstrations, there or elsewhere, to interfere with the dignity and quiet of the sessions. The Cleveland Homeopathic Recorder, issued by the Cleveland College, was generously circulated by its editor-and being a double number, containing pictures of ex-Professors Drs. J. C. Sanders and J. D. Buck, interwoven into the Cleveland College history, the giving away of the number to to Ohio physicians was

in a manner appropriate. The rotund and rubicund representative of Halsey Bros. and Medical Visitor showed up for a few moments on one day. The Medical Century, through its able editor, Dr. Dewey, was present and made its usual friends.

Some of the membership expressed the hope that the next session would be more extensively advertised and earlier action taken to arouse interest in Ohio towards new acquisitions in the way of new members.

May we all meet again next year in Columbus —not one missing!

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.

The Executive Committee desire to state as a final announcement that the programme submitted by the chairmen of the various committees indicates an exceptionally valuable series of papers and discussions for the forthcoming meeting.

The citizens of Richfield Springs have subscribed $2,000 to entertain the Institute. The social features of this year's session will in consequence be of unusual attractiveness.

The entertainments, which have all been arranged so as not to conflict with the work of the Institute, will make the week a particularly pleas

ant one.

At all the hotels every effort is to be made to make each member of the Institute a friend of

Richfield. They look upon a convention of physicians as an opportuity to advertise the merits of their health resort rather than, as we are usually looked upon, the legitimate prey of the landlord.

The railroads have made the customary fareand-one-third rate for the round trip, and in addition have made special arrangements so that everyone desiring to attend the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo may do so without forfeiting the special reduced rate. Through cars to Richfield will be put on, and special connections made by the Lackawanna Railroad, so that Richfield will prove easy to reach from all points.

Every Homeopathic physician, be he a member of the Institute or not, is invited to be present at this meeting. Our visitors will be as warmly welcomed as our members, and we promise to one and all a most profitable and enjoyable meeting. A. B. NORTON, M. D., President.

-Dr. Dean T. Smith, of Jackson, has accepted the position of Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan.

-Dr. J. Perry Seward announces his removal to No. 200 West Seventieth street, New York.

TWO ESSENTIAL ITEMS.

First: That the way to reach Richfield Springs (N. Y.) from the West, and East, is by the Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western Railway. This road is first-class in every particular; its rates are reasonable, and its service up-to-date.

Second: That the Earlington at Richfield Springs is the hotel to which you should make application immediately for your rooms, in order to be with your friends and intimates. This is the hotel where the official headquarters of the Institute will be had; and where the chief work of our great national body will be done. The Earlington has its reputation for excellence of room and table established beyond a question. It is the chief hotel, and the membership should honor it with its presence. Apply immediately. From the West take the Nickel-Plate Railway to Buffalo.

PIL 50

After Surgery has

Done Its Best.

A lad, æt. fourteen, an athlete, injured his right shoulder while a competitor at a pitching contest [says Dr. H. F. Biggar in North American Journal of Homeopathy]. This injury was followed by suppurative arthritis of this joint, suppurative synovitis of right knee, necrosis of right humerus and right tibia complicated with purulent effusion of right pleura, and with septic parotiditis of right gland. During a period of two months the patient had in all sixteen operations, under an anesthetic, for osteotomy of humerus, tibia, and fibula and drainage of knee, besides having seventy-three abscesses opened. The right lung and pleura were involved, necessitating thoracic paracentesis. His illness extended over a period of several months. The patient was freely stimulated with whisky punch, large doses of quinine and strychnia, the sustaining treatment of the old school, also arsenicum and other remedies as were thought to be indicated. When the parotiditis was at its height the consultant, a very able oldschool surgeon, gave a very unfavorable prognosis, stating that "he never knew a case of septic parotiditis to recover,' and sustained his decision by naming some of the leading surgeons in this country and England as authority for his opinion. He fully agreed with the treatment, and remarked that "that was all that could be done." In addition to this treatment lachesis 30x was given. For weeks the case was very desperate, but finally recovered. I think there can be no doubt that lachesis was the saving remedy. This patient lived in the neighboring town of Wellington, where for weeks I visited him almost every evening. Every morning I received a report by telegram of his condition.

At our club lunch the doctors had a round table especially for their service; at this coterie I was the only "irregular.' The consultant was one at "our mess and was interested in the daily reports, as well as the other doctors of "our set.' The symptoms, pathology, and treatment were freely discussed, with the usual ending that "your patient will die, for none ever recover with septic parotiditis." When convalescence followed they were amazed; they knew that the patient had been treated according to their sustaining methods which

had heretofore been unsuccessful, and were surprised at the recovery of the patient. I then told them that, in addition to their approved treatment, lachesis had been added. Many were the witty sallies, pleasantries, gentle sarcasms and remarks, slightly tinged with ridicule, as to the efficacy of the "only two drops of lachesis ever secured" for all the future preparations of this remedy. Nevertheless the result proved the value of the remedy.

Here is another instance of a homeopathic cure after surgery had had its fullest innings, and cured by that derided and tabooed remedy of the homeopath, lachesis! It is splendid in showing one other thing, which might escape the attention of the desultory reader, namely, that this cure of lachesis was procured-not by an avowed materia medica man-but by a surgeon of the surgeons! For Dr. Biggar has been in surgery so long that there are very few of Cleveland's oldest and best citizens who can give the time when he did not stand first in that class. Now if this case had been cured with aconite or belladonna or nux vomica-some of these well-proven remedies that have some medicine in them-there would be something left to talk about. But to produce this marvelous cure with lachesis, the discredited, the outcast-that required a good deal of courage on the part of a homeopathic surgeon. It may also be noticed that Dr. Biggar did not try any surgery in the case, although his colleagues had considered it surgical from the first. No, Dr. Biggar had the honesty and courage to put his specialty behind him and work wholly in the realms of materia medica—and behold the result!

How many more such results could be recorded for homeopathy's fame if our practitioners and surgeons were not so bent upon surgery as the 'first aid" in all cases? this triumph may well be placed by the side of the T. F. and H. C. Allen trophies.

Globules.

-Over 500 friends of the Boston University Medical School and members of the Hahnemannian Association attended an Esculapian festival at Copley Hall on a recent afternoon and evening, given for the benefit of the $1,000,000 fund which is to be raised for the extension of the work of the school. Owing to the tact and executive ability of Mrs. John P. Sutherland, wife of the Dean of the School, and her coworkers, the occasion proves a great success.

-Dr. A. B. Norton announces that he will be in his office until June 15 and on June 24 and 25; after that he will be in Europe until September 25. Dr. Munson, who has been associated with Dr. Norton for the last five years, will be in his office daily during his absence.

-Remember the Nickel Plate railway for reaching Buffalo, either as a stopping place to take in and admire the great Pan-American Exposition, or as a station for changing to go to Richfield Springs, N. Y., in attendance upon the American Institute of Homeopathy. We have traveled by this excellent road each year when it would take us to the Institute, and we have never yet regretted our selection. The rates are less than by other parallel roads; the accommodations are equal to the best; and the train personnel of the very best in the railway business. Try the Nickel Plate this year and see if we speak not truely.

-The sessions of the International Hahnemannian Association will be held at 66 The Dufferin," on the Canadian shore of Niagara Falls, June 25: 26, and 27, 1901. The Association is no twenty-one years old. The officers-Drs. Erastus E. Case, President, and J. B. S. King, Secretary desire to show the world that the infant of 1880 has developed into vigorous manhood, pure in practice, stalwart and brave in upholding his principles against all opposition; that in order to secure this result, and to make the report of the proceedings a valuable volume, every member is requested to contribute something either an essay upon our philosophy, provings, or verifications of remedies; a report of some interesting cases cured, or, what is more essential, his presence at the sessions and readiness to discuss the papers presented. The hotel rates will be $1.50 for lodging and breakfast, at the "Lafayette" and 50 cents each for other meals, at "The Dufferin," unless served on the balcony overlooking the Falls, at a small additional fee. The Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, will be in progress, thus making accommodations in great demand through all that neighborhood, and therefore points the necessity of securing rooms at once, which can be done through Vice President Dr. D. C. McLaren, 133 Maria Street, Ottawa, Canada, who has charge

of the entertainment.

-The annual (1901) meeting of the Homeopathic Medical Society, State of Colorado, will be held at Canon City, Col., June 6, 7, and 8.

-The latest from the Antikamnia Co. is a postal card, picturing a convivialist (male, of course) the morning after, rag about his burning brow, examining a bottle of cooling stuff with the directions to take it twice daily on an empty stomach. Not being able to understand these peculiar directions, he substitutes Antikamnia tablets which, irom former experience, he knows prove effective on any old kind of a stomach.

-If our Kansas City correspondent correctly reported Dr. C. E. Fisher's address, the latter was

almost guilty of plagiarism when he divided life into four principal sections-birth, marriage, death, and entrance upon the homeopathic profession. For it was on this line that the genial Walton built his acceptance-of-the-presidency speech at Atlantic City. Walton, however, had left out his marriage, and his attention was called thereto from the floor, when he gracefully and wittily accepted the amendment and embodied it in his original speech of acceptance.

-After death the patient's linen and bed clothing-such as sheets, pillow-slips, night-dresses, towels, etc.-should be placed in a tub and over them poured a pint (one-half a bottle) of Platt's chlorides and afterward sufficient boiling water to cover completely the contents. The tub should then be closely covered for two hours, when the clothes may be removed, rinsed, and washed in the usual way.

-Dr. Givens' Sanitarium, at Stamford, Conn., is pleasantly situated on a hill overlooking the City of Stamford and Long Island Sound, and is easy of access from New York and all New England States.

It is a well-known fact that certain climatic conditions are beneficial in certain nervous and mental disorders, and the invigorating (coast) air of this locality, charged with ozone, is a sedative in itself.

During the past year another cottage has been added and the recreation hall has been enlarged, thus improving upon the already excellent accommodations offered for patients desiring special treatment.

All modern means are employed for the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. A separate department is devoted to the treatment of drug habits.

-One of the most serviceable preparations before the medical profession to-day is Armour's of the highest nutritive value. It is rich in marExtract of Red Bone Marrow, a food product row cells, nucleins, hemoglobin, and other blood-forming substances, and, if given welldiluted with cold still or carbonated waters, milk, or beer, is easily retained and readily assimilated. Such an article is, of course, indicated in all anæmic conditions. After surgical operations remedy. Nothing more appropriate could be and loss of blood, from any cause, it is the prescribed for children with marasmus, rachitis, and for those that grow too rapidly.

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.

THE FRENCH TRANSACTIONS.

The appearance on our review table of the Transactions of the recently adjourned sessions of the International Homeopathic Congress at Paris recalls a time of exceeding heat, much noise, and great difficulties for all American patticipants in those congresses. For the Americans and those others of the attendants who were unfamiliar with the French, it was decidedly hard. And for the people of France and those other countries who did understand the language, the drum corps next door from the House Upside Down, and the brass band on the other side, made hearing a feat almost of legerdemain. When it was attempted to close the windows to deaden, in part, the noises from the musical adnexa, and the other noises of the Exposition,-for our readers may not remember that the Medical Congresses were held on the Fair grounds proper,— then the intense heat became burdensome. And there you are or were. The room in which the meetings of the Congress were held was a large hall, with higs ceilings, and very difficult to fill with the human voice. Still, if all the benches had been filled, perhaps the voice of a strenuous speaker might have reached from midway to the platform, where sat the officials of the Congress. Dr. Jousset, Sr., presided (Jousset is the author of an incomparable work on Practice; his portrait, through courtesy of Dr. Arschagouni, we present in this issue), while Dr. Richard Hughes and Dr. Léon Simon, and other of the minor officials, had place at the same long desk extending across one end of the room on a raised platform. A first view of the arrangement reminded an American of a tribunal of justice or a court room. We still think, however, if this hall could have been placed somewhere in the city proper, away from the noises and distractions of the Exposition, the meetings would have been more successful and better attended; this is, however, merely a reflection at this late day and can serve no good purpose, unless to call renewed attention to the recent escape of the American Institute of Homeopathy from an almost similar arrange

ment; for, to our mind, a meeting at Niagara Falls, during the holding of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, would, in great part, have been a duplicate of the Paris Congress, so far as regards keeping the membership in attendance.

One of the peculiar things of this book which we have essayed to review in a general, running, conversational editorial, is the absence from its pages, except in the baldest and barest reference, of that man who, of all others, had been the prime mover in the making of a success of the French Congress namely, Dr. François Cartier of Paris. This gentleman and brother has practically effaced himself. And yet everyone knows, who knows anything concerning the French Homeopathic Congress, that, but for the labors of Dr. François Cartier, there would have been a very sorry affair at Paris. Having once agreed that the Congress should be held in the Exposition grounds, it was no longer in Dr. Cartier's power to make changes which he doubtlessly saw were needed, in order to enhance the value to all members of the papers and discussions of that Congress. But long before the meeting actually materialized-months, nay, several years before the Congress had taken any form-it was Dr. Cartier's fine work which was shaping it into an actuality, from which the assembled nations would derive hope and advantage for their own future usefulness and in their own countries. Dr. Cartier (without seeking to depreciate the labors of any other gentleman in France or in conjunction with the Congress) was really the prime mover and marshal of the occasion. He began his labors, in reality, before he left London in 1896, when he was associated with the Hahnemann Tomb Commission. From that time on his work in that behalf was continuous and manifold; it was to his unremitting care and study and enterprise that the scattered relatives of the departed Hahnemann were won over to the opening of that shamefully neglected grave in Montmartre and the resepulchering of the body in a new and more honored grave in the most famous cemetery of the world was made possible. And this, too, was brought about by the indefatigable Cartier this securing of an advantageous site