brated November 12, all colleges of the city taking part, and their representatives presenting a fine appearance as they almost filled Association Hall. College songs were the order of the evening, the old familiar "Good-night, Ladies," meeting with a vociferous and rather musical reception. A quartette of Case School students enlivened the occasion with some beautiful songs.

The orator of the evening was Rev. Chas. A. Eaton of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, who meets the students on their own ground and appeals to their better natures in a manly, straightforward, right-from-the-shoulder way. President Thwing of Western Reserve was there, as were Professor Baker of the Ohio Wesleyan, Professor Whitslar of the Dental, and Professor Horner of the Homeopathic.

The College Night celebration is an outgrowth from the Inter-Collegiate Association, which has been formed between the Western Reserve Medical, Law and Dental, Adelbert, Case School of Applied Science, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College.

Globules.

-Wonder what has become of Johnson-that erstwhile soliloquizing philosopher? We miss his five o'clock tea profundities very much.

-Dr. Frances McMillan, formerly of Nashville, Tenn., has removed to Mexico City, Hapkins House, San Juan de Latran 13. We cheerfully commend this doctor to our Mexican friends, and to all Americans residing or doing business in Old Mexico.

-Dr. Thomas M. Stewart of Cincinnati, President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, has issued a letter containing the bureaus and their chairmen for the information of the membership, and in order to give to each member the opportunity of selecting which bureau he would prefer to be associated with. This is a very happy idea.

-The Homeopathic Medical Society of Eastern Ohio met in Cleveland as the guest of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Society. The meeting was held on October 16 in the banquet room of the Hollenden Hotel. It was the fifty-seventh semiannual meeting of this sturdy little society, and the meeting was well attended. Dr. Geo. B. Haggart, the President, gave an eloquent address. The local profession attended the two meetings with fair regularity.

-The Northwestern Ohio Homeopathic Medical Society will meet in Toledo, Tuesday, December 10. Even at this early day its pro

gressive and energetic secretary, Dr. Wm. A. Humphrey, is out with a warm-blooded circular soliciting attention, clinics, papers, and attendance. Remember the date.

-Dr. Edward R. Snader has removed to 1919 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa., where he will be pleased to see all his friends and patrons.

-Wonder if that three-million-dollar deficit. of the Pan-American Exposition would still have ensued and accrued, had the American Institute of Homeopathy gone to Niagara Falls this summer, instead of Richfield Springs?

-Drs. Boericke and Ward of 'Frisco were seen on the streets of Philadelphia recently after they had had a good time with Anshutz of the B. & T. firm. Dr. Hinsdale was also in that bailiwick, perhaps not looking for archæological specimens.

-Our good friend, Dr. Geo. B. Peck, has been having a good time in some military matters in Providence. He gave an oration at the Centennial of the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery, while arrayed in the military uniform worn by him in 1869-71, and as such orator the local papers speak of him with much enthusiasm and praise.

-The special courses of the Ann Arbor Homeopathic Department, University of Michigan, were announced to begin November 4, 1901, but owing to the occurrence in the hospital of a case of smallpox, in October, it became necessary to change the dates to January. The hospital has been thoroughly disinfected and no danger from this case, which came from Sheboygan, need be apprehended. The quarantine of sixteen days is raised, and patients will be welcomed again.

For the year ending June 30, 1901, there

were:

Clinical cases in hospital, 1612; number of patients from Michigan, 1525; number of patients from other States, 87; number of counties represented in Michigan, 77; number of other States represented, 12.

These sixteen hundred cases represented all phases of acute and chronic diseases, both medical and surgical, admissible to a general hospital. The students from the Senior Class act as assistants and, under the direction of chiefs of staff, have charge of the after-treatments. All patients in the hospital "go before the class" for examination, treatment, or operation. The new hospital and its equipments are thoroughly modern and not equaled in all the West.

-Drs. L. A. Martin and McGraw of Binghamton, N. Y., have returned from a ten-weeks' journey from New York to Naples, Pompeii, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Lucerne, Vi

enna, Munich, Heidelberg, Cologne, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, London, Liverpool, Philadelphia. From a private letter received from Dr. Martin we learn that these two doctors had a first-class good time and have returned to America in good trim for professional duties. We hope presently to print some of the detail of this itinerary.

-A wealthy young Englishman was cured of blindness on his wedding day, and the fact was thought to be of sufficient interest to warrant its being cabled across the water. Such cures are being effected every day in this country and nothing being said about it.

-A Chinaman was recently murdered in Cleveland. The morning Plaindealer said he was found "With his head completely severed from his body, save for the vertebræ of the spinal column." But even this did not save him, for he was dead.

-Mr. Frank A. Ruf, of Antikamnia fame, is Vice President of the Fourth National Bank of St. Louis. Remembering how well this bank was regarded during our nineteen years of living in St. Louis, we feel that Mr. Ruf's connection with the old-established Fourth National requires congratulations from us both ways: namely, that the bank has an honorable, upright, capable business man for its second officer, and Mr. Ruf for finding his way to so prominent a place in so prominent a bank.

-We are in receipt of the Physicians' Visiting List for 1902 from the old and well-established house of P. Blakiston's Son & Co. of Philadelphia. This is the fifty-first year of its publication, showing conclusively that it was built upon merit and has continued a meritorious publication. It is in the pocketbook form.

-It is the custom in those States in which the American Institute of Homeopathy meets to adjourn their meeting for that year. This is done that attendance at the American Institute may be better than if the interests were divided.

"In view of the foregoing, the officers of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio have decided to postpone the next meeting from May, 1902, to May, 1903. The officers will remain the same, under Article V. of our Constitution."

The New Albany Ledger says that "Frank A. Kraft returned last night from a business trip to Indianapolis and Columbus, O. While at Columbus he purchased a fine rubber-tired hack for his undertaking business." We were accused at Richfield Springs of having had three professions: law, preaching, and medicine and had failed in each. But those gentlemanly electioneerers forgot this "undertaking" line. Reminds us to say that someone has been selling

our august name as Frank D. Kraft to one of these advertising firms, so that for the past five or six weeks we have been receiving all kinds of advertising matter, from Malted Milk to Trommer's Malt Extract, as Frank D. It seems to us that firms of the eminence of the two quoted might be above buying names at so much per hundred. It ought to pay them to find out from some proper source how the doctors spell their names and get the addresses straight. There is no compliment in a misspelled name.

-The Santa Fé road-which is short for A., T., & S. F.-is offering some splendid inducements for reaching the Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico, for those in need of this famous altitude, and the dry equable atmosphere.

-We erred in our American Institute report when we said that Boericke and Tafel were the publishers of the American edition of Dr. John H. Clarke's Dictionary of Materia Medica. By the bye, the second volume is now on the professional table.

-The Medical Magazine, the new venture in the homeopathic line, in its second number, lies before us. Our friend, Dr. Harvey B. Dale, is Editor in Chief, with Dr. Filip A. Forsbeck, Associate Editor. The magazine is in sections, each whereof is assigned to different medical men, all of whom are well known and who will without doubt make this a prime favorite on the homeopathic physician's table. It is a pretty and clean little journal, and if it is able to keep its many succeeding numbers as well filled with the true "stuff" as is this second number, we shall feel that we have received valuable aid in the school from the far Northwest. Its home is in Milwaukee, and its price is two dollars per year. Dr. Dale has always been a clever writer-a man with an idea-as we have several times said in these pages, and it was but meet that he should have a journal of his own and cease playing second fiddle to others. His writings are always of the very finest order, and will be read because things and the admirable way in which the recof their good, saving sense of the fitness of ord of those things will be given his many readIt is quite certain, if Brer. Dale is given the free hand, that his little magazine will be a bright and newsy one; that it will be independent of the patent medicine octopus, as well as the blighting touch of college, hospital, and dispensary. We wish him and his collaborators most abundant success.

ers.

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.

EDWARD G. TUTTLE, M. D., New York.

Closing Reflections.

The close of the calendar year 1901, with its many things accomplished, with its sadness and its gladness, suggests the writing of a few paragraphs having special relation to the profession of homeopathic medicine.

It is but too painfully evident that there is lacking a great deal to make the profession of homeopathy a unit. It is not alone the struggle between the avowed specialist and the oldrun of family physician; but it is as bitter between the specialists, as it is between the family physicians.

It may not be denied that so long as our school was in the category of persecution, when it was worth a man's social and financial standing to be accredited to homeopathy, that ho

meopathy was better and more honestly adhered to and fought for. While now, since the laws of the land have gradually established the homeopath, and surrounded him with the equal protection of the law, the former fighting qualities, having no longer any outlet as upon the former enemies, must, and does, turn itself upon the members of our own household. It is not the first instance in history where the access of success and luxury has destroyed a people.

To ascend from generals to particulars: We all know that in some of our cities there is a continued biting of thumbs between the homeopathic schools, based not so much upon the alleged unworthiness of the one or the other, as it is upon the personal animosities engendered between the members of the contending schools.

In other instances the schools, though situated at different distances from each other, have not hesitated to attack the bona fides of each other, especially if the one has a fairer record of age and endowment than the other, while the latter may be struggling to establish a principle and so doing is expending freely of its blood and treasure.

There are four or more such schools within a few hundred miles of our desk which neglect no opportunity of injuring each other on every available occasion. Competition is always to be encouraged, according to Adam Smith and other of the political economists; but bread-andbutter hatred, which is at the basis of the rivalry referred to, is not the proper spirit with which to engage in the doctor-making business. If there be too many homeopathic schools,-which many of the profession believe, then, in the name of decency and fair play for the profession at large, who are hurt by the unseemly quarrels, let us shut up a few of them!

In the cities having homeopathic schools there are sure to be "insiders" and "outsiders." The "insiders" are those happy and fortunate few who are able to pose as professors, with letterhead and other stationery, and thus safely avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of medical advertising ethics. The "outsiders" thereupon array themselves against the limited few, and the

war goes merrily on. For this there seems to be no curative combination tablet,-no antitoxin without tetanus,-unless it could be made mandatory to change the college roster each year, giving to each resident physician a twelvemonth of wearing of the puppet crown of professor and the toga virilis.

But even with this eminent danger always in view, there are many ways in which the insiders" could make the lot of the "outsiders" more agreeable, and so assuage the disappointments of vaulting ambition and loss of consultation fees and text-book notoriety. There seems to be no need for the "insiders" to “rub in " their good fortune upon every public medical occasion. As, for instance, when these "insiders" take charge of local societies, the American Institute, the State Society, and others, and profess, and with large and noisy acclaim, claim to represent the other eighty-three per cent. of the local profession.

Again, in some cities the ancient, hoaryheaded, bearded practitioners, who came to that city when it was yet a village with one Main street, a central town pump, and a blacksmith shop, and by dint of desperately hanging on, because everything else, by reason of poverty and sometimes most lamentable ignorance, was shut against them, they grew rich, and necessarily influential,-these ancient, hoary-headed, and bearded folks continue still, in the light of the vast improvements in every direction, medically as well as otherwise, to assume dictatorship in the policies of the professions and businesses. The enviable habit of the Englishman upon reaching a certain figure in age and revenue, and thereafter retiring from the fighting line, seems not to be of the virtues of the hustling, tobaccochewing, feet-on-the-mantle American. If he cannot in one way, he will in another, obstruct and discredit the younger man who has everything to do and make to save himself and a new and tender wife from going over the hills to the poorhouse.

It would be wise, as it is of course charitable, if some people, instead of constantly stirring up strife, should apply of their exuberant energy to the unifying of the profession, and in the upbuilding of our special school of medicine.

In Cleveland we have the instance of a few of these ancients who are still " voting for Jackson"; who will not remove from their memories the deeds of an earlier time, when both they and the object of offense were younger and given to telling the plain truth of each other, and working hard each for his own greatness and success. All men err; to which may be added, that it is divine to forgive.

What, for instance, is the need for stirring up the stinky trail of the Cleveland College muddle

in the college journal under the pretended guise of a history of the college? Is not this of that class of writing which had better be left unwritten, in the hope that by silence it might in time be wholly forgotten?

There are many instances in the history of Cleveland homeopathy of the past thirty years that will be best served by not being served up for ridiculing those who participated therein, or for the delectation of the newer generation who are not able by any stretch of imagination to place themselves in the stead of these ancient stalwarts and conceive of the difficulties confronting them nor of the labors to be performed in those earlier times.

Of if the parading of such turbulent events must needs be made the pièce de résistance of the college journal, why not select for such exercise someone who was not of the active and interested participants in all those battles, mimic and capital; one who did not take a hand in both sides of the quarrel at different times? History is notoriously the Mother of Lies. And much that goes for history-from that docklaborer-historian in the far East, who dared to profane the reputation of an honorable admiral of the navy, away back and down to the lame and impotent tale uttered by Parton of the cherry tree and the hatchet, is the veriest tissue of lies, and more lies. A history in which the editor or collator gives himself free hand to state his private opinion upon the various phases of matter passing under his descriptive pen, is more often anything else but a history: the opportunity has been prostituted into a narration of personal grievances under a semblance of frankness and truth.

Finally, and still having reference to Cleveland: Only a few weeks since since the fracas at Richfield Springs-some ladies, while in attendance upon the minus-three-million dollar Exposition and Midway, were informed that a certain eminent surgeon and gynecologist living at Cleveland was-everything that is forbidden in the laws of the land. This delectable informatoin was given by a brother surgeon, and with no other conceivable purpose than that of doing personal injury to a man who had done him no harm.

In this instance there could be plead in extenuation no personal encounter, no harm done while in the college, no possible estranging of cases, for several hundred miles lay between the two, and always had, and always will. The conduct was contemptible, and of a piece with that upheld by certain of those of the ancient, hoaryheaded, and bearded ones, who, like the Bourbons, learn nothing new and as well forget nothing. Fortunately the man attacked has no occasion for fear. His record is rapidly issuing

from the vicious legends of local strife, and many there are, of the local profession, who are beginning to see that there was another side to this internecine war; and that the eagles of right and justice were not always, nor even in the majority of cases, resting upon the other's banners.

The younger men of the profession in Cleveland and otherwhere, who have grown up since these graybeards used to pluck each other by the beard and spit upon each other's Sunday gaberdines, are beginning to see that much, if not all, this former strife rose upon no more noble a foundation than personal, professional, business jealousy. Two men, both of them giants in business partnership, failed of agreeing upon some minor point-a very common result of partnerships: from this sprang a lawsuit, which proved the opening wedge of trouble, a trouble that has overshadowed the whole Cleveland profession. The principals in time mended their quarrel. But the ancient and hoary headedmany thereof still nurse their former wrath to keep it warm. Talk about the Tennessee mountain feuds! And the profession of a later day, who knew neither the party of Montague nor of Capulet, is still expected, and, indeed, asked to espouse the former quarrel-to embody it as a part of the ritualistic prayer each night-calling down heaven's curses upon the original malefactors! Is it not about time for this puerility to cease?

This man who has been most assailed by this indiscriminate abuse, a senior of the Institute, a chairman of one of its sections,-Dr. Biggar,who has asked no defense at our hands, since he needs none, could tell a different tale concerning the treatment accorded him in hospital and school and society and profession of Cleveland. But he is happy and contented, and blithely gay, with his present peace.

There is to-day in Cleveland, thanks to the better feeling and saner policies in the ranks. of the college people, a tendency toward unity and peace, in order that the Institute, when it pitches its tent in our preserves next summer, may not need to be cautioned where it may genuflect with enthusiasm, and where it may only give evasive, doubtful, cold-blooded recognition. If, therefore, the outside people—some of whom are in Buffalo-will kindly leave Cleveland matters alone, there is hope that peace may perch upon our banners, and the profession, with its college, become again as it was once upon a time, the chief homeopathic city, with one of the best, as it is one of the oldest, of homeopathic colleges in the world.

Materia Medica Miscellany.

Conducted by J. WILFORD ALLEN, M. D., 110 West 12th Street, New York.

References in this department are made by number, as follows: Critique,'; Chironian,2; Clinique,3; Hahn. Adv.,4; Hahn. Mo.,; Envoy,; Jour. of Obs.,; Am. Med. Mo., Recorder,; Med. Student, 10; Clin. Reporter,11

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Arena, i? Minn. Hom. Mag., 13; Century, 14; Counsellor, 15; Era,16 Visitor,; N. E. Med. Gaz.,18; Times, 19; N. Am. Jour., 20 ,20; Pacific Coast Jour.,; Eye, Ear, and Throat Jour., 29; Hom. News, ; Jour. of O., O., and L.,4; Argus, 25; Revue Homéo.,26; Arch. für Hom.,2; Allgem. Hom. Zeit.,28 Zeitschrift für Hom., 29; El Prog. Homeo.,30; L'Art Méd.,31; L'Homéo.,32; Hom. Maed.,38; Hom. World, 34; Hom. Review,35; Jour. Br. Hom. So.,36; Indian Hom. Review,37

Foreign Journals, not Hom.,; Am. Journals, not Hom., Therapeutic Use of Oxygen.

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Dr. E. Aron,38 from clinical observation, concludes that in chlorosis the results are absolutely negative. In some instances of cardiac or pulmonary dyspnoea they have been slightly favorable, but often the improvement ceased so soon as the inhalations were suspended; possibly, suggestion was partly responsible. In syncope, as in morphine-poisoning, oxygen is not to be compared with artificial respiration. It is only in poisoning by carbon monoxide that oxygen inhalations are really indicated. Inhalations are also useful in aniline poisoning, and to counteract the disturbances produced by rarefied air. Manometer experiments show that oxygen renders the respiration more frequent and more superficial.

Glonoin.

Dr. H. Edwin Lewis 39 finds that in all conditions of spasmodic contraction of muscular tissue. glonoin is of marked service. In angina pectoris it is equaled by no other drug; for prompt relief the dose should be one twenty-fifth of a grain followed by one two-hundred-and-fiftieth of a grain every hour or two. It is useful to relieve the symptoms which accompany arterial sclerosis, delays the progress of senile gangrene and Raynaud's disease, and, used early, occasionally prevents their onset. In sciatica one-fiftieth of a grain combined with morphine will frequently give relief when the latter, used alone, is unsuccessful. Its continued use is recommended for relieving the high tension and pains of tabes dorsalis. In uræmic convulsions, combined with pilocarpine, it is of marked value. After citing various indications for its use, the author remarks that children seem to have a special tolerance for the drug, and several instances are on record where children have eaten a dozen or more of one-hundredth grain tablets without any poisonous effects whatever. In cholera infantum, with