sider the proper rules to follow or methods to pursue to get rid of un-trustworthy material, which confessedly, vitiates our records.

This revival of Homœopathy is witnessed not alone in this Institute where it is not especially the result of the materia medica conference, but, as reported by many persons all over the land. A reaction is taking place from the use of the anti-pyretics and analgesics, from the use of expedients of various sorts which have proved a delusion and a snare, so far as curing people is concerned, and from all empiricism to the firm foundation of the law of similars. The question of high dilutions is not a question any longer for discussion, it is left to individual preferences and when the "internationals' return to the fold they will find a warm shelter but a roof of varying height whose proportions may be admired but not villified nor called in question. HOMEOPATHIA REDIVIVA.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

T. F. ALLEN.

International Homœopathic Congress.-The Fifth Quin quennial Gathering of the International Homœopathic Congress will take place in London, August 3d to 8th, 1896-the previous meetings having been held in Philadelphia U. S. A., 1876; in London, England, 1878; in Basle, Switzerland, 1886; and in Atlantic City, U. S. A., 1891. No papers will be read at the public meetings. The accepted essays are being printed and will be supplied to all who desire to take part in the debates on their subject matter. They will be presented at the meetings singly or in groups according to their contents-a brief analysis of each being given from the chair and the points on which they treat will then be thrown open for discussion after appointed openers have been heard. Among American physicians who will present papers at the Congress we note Drs. J. C. Wood, Bradford, Walter, Schley, Mills, Arnulphy, Gilchrist and Horace Packard. The programme as finally presented promises to be an interesting one and we hope that the American profession may be well represented at the Congress.

The Counselor.-The sessions of the Institute were brightened each day by the appearance of "The Daily Medical Counselor published and edited by the homoeopathic physicians of Detroit. Not satisfied with this, however, they issued "The Souvenir Medical Counselor," in honor of the Centennial of Homoeopathy and the fifty-second session of the Institute in Detroit. Every cent of profits made went into the treasury of the Hahnemann Monument Fund. These two bright special editions of the Counselor were appreciated by the Institute and well illustrate the the enterprise of Detroit physicians.

The Homœopathic School of Calcutta. The report of this School for 1895-96 shows it to be in a flourishing condition, there having been one hundred and thirty new admissions to the School during the year. The influence and reputation of the School are rapidly spreading, students not only coming from the Punjab and Bombay but from Assam and the Scinde. The curriculum has been strengthened and post-graduate lectures are now given to those able and wishing to avail themselves of them. Popular lectures are also given on scientific subjects for the benefit of students. Dr. Bose and his collegues deserve much praise for their labors in elevating the standard of medical education in India and the School should receive the hearty support of all homoeopathists.

The District of Columbia Board. The following have been appointed as members of the Homœopathic Board of Examiners for the District of Columbia under the new law. For three years: J. B. Gregg Custis, M.D., and T. L. MacDonald M. D.; For two years: W. R. King, M.D., and S. S. Stearns, M.D.; For one year: I. B. Babbitt, M.D.

Buffalo in '97.-The Institute will meet in Buffalo, N. Y., for its fifty-third annual session. The invitation to assemble in that city was an earnest one and was accepted by a decided majority. There is no reason why the Buffalo meeting should not be a record breaker. Two hundred new members should be gathered in from New York alone and can easily be if every member of the Institute in the State will make an effort. It is certain that Buffalo will give us a royal reception in '97.

Cholera and Yellow Fever.-The latest reports indicate that cholera is steadily gaining ground in Cairo and Alexandria. The efforts of the authorities to stay its spread are feeble and impotent and the physicians have to contend against strong popular prejudice and ignorance. The disease has appeared also in other places, the latest being among the Turkish troops on the shores of Lake Van in Turkey in Asia.

In Cuba, the Spanish army is suffering terribly from yellow fever and small-pox. The rainy season has begun and while the most of it is to come the reports of deaths among the soldiers are appalling. Before the summer shall be over the pestilence will have killed more soldiers of Spain than rebel bullets ever did. In China, the plague is assuming alarming proportions and spreading rapidly. None of these diseases, however, need be feared in the United States during the present season.

The Binghamton Celebration. The centennial banquet given by the homœopathic profession of Binghamton and adjacent counties was a signal success. The toast-master was the accomplished Dr. J. T. Greenleaf, of Owego, N. Y., and the speakers and toasts were as follows: "Our Society," Pres. Chas. T. Haines, M. D., Binghamton, N. Y.; "Something About Doctors," Ex-Lieut.-Gov. E. F. Jones, Binghamton, N. Y.; "New York State Homœopathy,' Ed. H. Wolcott, M. D., Pres. State Society, Rochester, N. Y.;

"Doctors and Ministers," Rev. Dr. G. Parsons Nichols, Binghamton, N. Y.; Philanthropic Homœopathy," St. Clair Smith, M. D., New York City; "Twentieth Century Medicine," F. Park Lewis, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.; "Journalism," Chas. M. Dickinson, Binghamton, N. Y.; "The Center of the Universe," Mayor Geo. E. Green, Binghamton, N. Y. Such occasions as these, wisely planned and energetically and successfully carried out, benefit both the profession and the laity. The Tri-State Society has set a shining example for other organizations to follow.

Pennsylvania Retaliates.-The State Medical Council of Pennsylvania has rescinded its rule accepting the licenses of the New York State Board of Medical Examiners. Physicians and surgeons who go into Pennsylvania from New York to practice will hereafter be required to pass an examination before the State Board the same as physicians from other States. It will be remembered that the Board of Regents of New York refused to accept the licenses issued by the Pennsylvania Council on the ground that the examinations of that State were not up to the standard. Without entering into the merits of the question at issue the best sentiment in the profession will hold that it is clearly the duty of the Regents of New York and the Medical Council of Pennsylvania to so adjust matters that a license issued by one State should be received by the other without an examination. It is a disgrace to the controlling educational bodies of each State, and an outrage upon the medical profession that the present condition of affairs exists. Examinations for medical licenses should be made uniform in all States and a license to practice in one should be received without examination in every other.

Women Doctors in England. The path of the woman physician does not seem to be as straight and pleasant as it often is in America. The London Pathological Society last month by a large majority voted to exclude them from membership. And the students of the Irish College of Surgeons have threatened a "boycott" since the appointment of a woman as examiner in gynæcology. We view this situation with concern, and hope that the advocates of bloomers and women's rights in this famed land may be induced to send some apostles of reform to show our British brother the error of his ways.

Longevity of Physicians. The Evening Sun contributes. its mite towards the edification of the medical profession. It says that the average longevity of physicians is an interesting subject. A French Statistician has made an inquiry in the subject which is very encouraging to the doctors. He finds that in the sixteenth century the average duration of a doctor's life was only thirty-six and one-half years. In the seventeenth it reached forty-five and two-thirds years, in the eighteenth forty-nine and two-thirds years, and at the present time he finds it is fifty-six years. This interesting man of science proposes to find out whether the averaged longevity of the patients has increased in the same proportion.

THE CHRONIC DISEASES, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homœopathic Cure, by Dr Samuel Hahnemann, Philadelphia, Boericke and Tafel. 1896 Pp. 1600.

This massive volume is translated from the second enlarged German edition of 1835, by Prof. Louis H. Tafel. Dr. Richard Hughes has exercised editorial supervision over the materia medica portion of the work while the entire work has had the benefit of the experience and care of the editor, Dr. Pemberton Dudley. The first 100 pages are occupied with Hahnemann's account of the nature of chronic diseases and the remainder of the book is given up to a consideration of remedies. The spirit in which the translation has been done is well shown by the closing paragraph of the editor's preface. "No attempt has been made to render this work or any portion of it a model of concise perspicuity. On the contrary the aim has been to retain rather than to eliminate the characteristic style of the original text, in order that every point in the discussion and every shade of meaning should, if possible, be rendered exactly as the author has expressed it " The translator, annotator and editor are all to be congratulated on the very successful completion of the huge task. The work is too well-known to need to be commended to the profession and will in its new and improved form find favor with many.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS,WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CHEMICAL APPLICATION OF DRUGS. By John V. Shoemaker M. D., LL. D. Third edition, Thoroughly Revised. Philadel phia. The F. A. Davis Company, 1896, Pp. 1108.

This one volume edition is a great improvement. The work in two volumes was not as convenient and was more costly. Opportunity has been taken to bring the work up to date by a more thorough revision. The subject of treatment by means of animal extracts, secretions or juices, and immunized serum or antitoxines has been rewritten and the endeavor made to give a fair presentation of the present state of knowledge concerning the value of these agencies in combating disease. The natural forces and physiological agencies discussed in this volume are of immense importance in Therapeutics and are often of more avail in the treatment of diseases than medical substance and drugs. It is one of the very best of allopathic materia medicas.

ANNUAL OF THE UNIVERSAL MEDICAL SCIENCES. Edited by Charles E. Sajous, M.D. and Seventy Associate Editors. Illustrated with chromolithographs, engravings and maps. In Five Volumes. The F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, 1895. Of the value of the Annual in the estimation of the profession there can be no doubt. The appreciation of its worth has been constantly increasing and the Annual never enjoyed a greater popularity than now. In these five volumes the physician finds collected and carefully classified and arranged all that has been deemed worthy of record in the medical world for the past year. Special papers by brilliant specialists embodying the newest methods are presented-it is a yearly encyclopedia of medicine. In these volumes a few articles may be particularly mentioned: "Diseases of the Lungs and Pleura" by Professor Wilson, "Diseases of the Brain" by Professor Landon C. Gray, and "Diseases of the Spinal Cord" by Professor Obersteiner. Another article needing special mention is that of Professor Rubun on "Diseases of the Stomach, Liver and Pancreas." The article on "General Therapeutics" by Dr. Dujardin-Beaumetz is also excellent. The publishers have done their work well and the five volumes are an addition to any library.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

THE ERA PUBLISHING COMPANY, CHICAGO, takes great satisfaction in announcing that it will have the enviable privilege of presenting to the profession a complete "Manual of Surgery," the work of the joint authorship of PROF. CHAS. ADAMS, M. D., and of PROF. H. R. CHISLET, M. D.

Dr. CHAS. ADAMS, Surgeon, needs no introduction to the profession of the United States. As Attending Surgeon to Cook County Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in the Chicago Homœopathic Medical College, he has made a record both in the lecture-room, and in the Clinical amphitheatre that has given him a position among the leading Surgeons of Chicago, without regard to "school."

Dr. H. R. CHISLET, Surgeon, Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, who shares equally with his collaborator the work of authorship, has an enviable reputation in his specialty.

The design of the authors, in their joint labors, is to give to the profession not a huge, unwieldy volume, but a work that shall be eminently practical. Not only can the student use it throughout his college course, but the practitioner can rely upon it in all his surgical work. It will be especially devoted to the diagnosis and the treatment of surgical conditions and surgical diseases

The book will contain some five or six hundred pages; it will be fully illustrated, finely printed and handsomely bound, and in every respect made to sustain the reputation of the ERA PUBLISHING COMPANY for issuing works which are choice specimens of the printer's art. The price will be about $5.00―possibly less.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY.
REPORTED BY W. A. DEWEY, M.D.

The 52nd annual session was called to order by President Dudley at 3 P.M. Wednesday, June 17.

The usual invocation, greeting by the chairman of the local committee, address of welcome, and response by the president, followed.

Various reports were presented, that of the Treasurer being the most important, showing the liabilities of the Institute to be temporarily in excess of its assets. He advocated retrenchment and Drs. T Y. Kinne, J. S. Mitchell and D. A. MacLachlan were appointed a committee to formulate a plan of retrenchment.

The evening was devoted to the Section of Clinical Medicine and a lecture was given on the Roentgen X Rays by Dr. W. H. King, of New York, which was well attended and appreciated.

The president's able address and the three addresses commemorating the Centennial of Homœopathy were noteworthy features of the meeting. Only one objection could be urged respecting these, and that was their length, which unfortunately caused the speakers to encroach on the time set for sectional work.

The alloting of time has become an important and difficult matter in the making up of the program, and the Secretary deserves much credit for doing so well after the rule passed at Newport, giving each section one whole session in the main auditorium.

Encroachment on time seemed to be the rule. The St. Clair Flat excursion, though anything but flat to the members, completely wrecked one or two sections.