be a surgeon of our militia must be a member of some chartered State medical organization. With regard to the Board of Health, we have two homoeopathists on that Board, one of whom is a member of our society and a delegate to this Institute. DR. G. H. WILSON, of Connecticut, a delegate from the Connecticut Homœopathic Medical Society: I am a delegate from this society, Mr. President, and assume the honor of reporting without special instructions. The number of practitioners in our State that belong to our school is about one hundred; the number of members in good and regular standing in our society, of good moral character, those that pay their dues, is about fifty. They are all active and most attentive. We pursue a quiet, regular investigation upon particular subjects. The meetings have been very profitable to all the members in attendance. New blood is coming on and the older sloughs have fallen off in a measure. Some of us are beginning to feel that we are getting old and a little feeble, although our affections still cling to the love of our youth. The society is thirty years old, having been born thirty years ago this June. It begun to grow old, as you see, in the matter of legislation. The State of Connecticut has several times attempted to regulate that matter, and this year they passed a law which seems to have no effect, except to encourage tramps to gain a residence in the State, because they are obliged to pay a large license unless they reside within its limits. Like most of the medical legislation, according to our opinion, it seems to be very weak and impractical. The society is thrifty and sends its congratulations to you. DR. FISHER, of Montreal, Canada: I have the honor to represent the Homœopathic Association of the Province of Quebec. I don't really know that I have a great deal to say on the subject. The subject certainly is a wonderful one to make a speech upon, and one which most of men who had anything to say would be likely to avail themselves of. But I think that I shall not inflict a speech on you at this time, but shall confine myself simply to stating facts. Homœopathy in the Dominion of Canada, I am sorry to say, is not in the state of progress that it is on this side of the line. We are in fact rather of a one-horse affair, a slow coach. However, such as we are, we have been working for some forty years or so since homoeopathy began in Canada, and we have in Montreal at present, including myself, six homoeopathic practitioners; we have three in Quebec, and one or two in other parts of the Province, and that about closes up the Quebec affair. With regard to the western part of the country, I am not prepared at present to say much; perhaps at some future period we will have men from that part of the country to report. I think, as far as I know, I am the only man from the Dominion of Canada to tell the tale. The progess then is pretty much as I have stated, and having said that, I think I shall now sit down. DR. C. H. FARNSWORTH, delegate from the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society, also the Homoeopathic Academy of Medicine: The Homoeopathic Academy of Medicine has been in existence about twenty-five years, with varying success. At the present time it is in a very flourishing state of activity, with about one hundred members. Meetings are held once a month, at which time papers are read and discussions are held which are profitable to its members. DR. J. E. JONES, representing the Homœopathic Medical Society of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pa.: We represent in Pennsylvania, in these two counties, about forty homoeopathic physicians; having in our society, which is very active, meeting four times a year, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight of that number. I would report great and continued progress in these counties. Homoeopathy is gaining every year and meeting with great favor. The progress of the sentiment of the people is quite favorable to homœopathy. DR. M. PRESTON, representing the Germantown Homoeopathic Club: I wish to represent the Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., Homœopathic Club. As one of the members I find it very profitable, and I thought it so profitable as to represent it here. DR. PHILLIPS, Boston, representing the Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society: This society was organized about five years since, for the purpose of promoting the study of these specialties. At the present time its membership is between fifty and sixty. Papers are read on these special subjects, and are presented at each meeting and pretty generally discussed. Its proceedings -those which are considered worthy of publication-are generally published in the Homœopathic Journal of Obstetrics. Our members receive great profit from these meetings. DR. O. B. GAUSE: I move the reports of the delegates be received and referred to the Committee of Publication. Seconded and carried. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CENSORS. DR. F. R. MCMANUS, chairman of the Board of Censors, made a supplementary report, recommending that the applicants named be elected to membership. On motion, the report was accepted and the candidates elected. (See complete report of the Board of Censors.) THE PRESIDENT: The next business in order will be the report of the COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL LITERATURE. PEMBERTON DUDLEY, M.D., of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee, submitted the following report: The literature of medicine has certainly made some very gratifying advances during the last twelve months, and particularly is this true of the literature of our own school of practice. Whether in the number, or the size, or the intrinsic quality of the volumes issued, or in the energy, the sound judgment or the material support exhibited by our periodicals, we shall find abundant cause for congratulation. At any allusion to our literary work of the past year, the first thought which suggests itself has reference to the successful completion of the "Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica," by Dr. T. F. Allen, and the substantial and hand. some form in which the publishers, Messrs. Boericke & Tafel, have presented it. That such a work should meet with some unfavorable comment was to be expected; but the harshest of its critics will admit that in the fulfillment of his gigantic task Dr. Allen has reflected a glory upon our entire profession, and has opened up the way for more rapid improvements in our knowledge of the Materia Medica, and its more successful application in the treatment of disease. But the portrayal of our progress in the literature of Materia Medica for the past year requires the mention of other important works of a practical sort, prominent among them being the issue of the first volume of Dudgeon's re-translation of Hahnemann's "Materia Medica Pura," the first volume of Dr. Arndt's revision of Hempel's "Materia Medica," and the "Physiological Materia Medica," just issued from the pen of Dr. Burt. All these add largely to our resources and pave the way for future therapeutic triumphs. In other departments-clinical therapeutics, surgical therapeutics, and in some of the specialties, we also find important additions to our literature. There are also evidences of a healthy tendency on the part of our writers to invade the more fundamental, yet none the less important departments of medical literature-a domain hitherto held almost exclusively by allopathy. The last year's progress furnishes a notable evidence of this tendency, in the issue of Prof. J. Edwards Smith's work on the microscope--a book destined to find a warm welcome in all our colleges, where it is so greatly needed. The time ought not to be far distant when our students will be no longer under the necessity of patronizing their implacable enemies in order to procure a single text-book. The four volumes of the Institute Transactions, issued during the year, make up a prominent feature of the year's work. And here it may be proper to state that the plan, adopted last year, of paging the Transactions continuously, instead of in sections as heretofore, seems to have met with very general favor, The neat cloth binding, also, in which the volume for 1880 was issued, enhances its appearance and will doubtless exert some influence in attracting new members to the Institute. Turning our attention briefly to the other side of the Atlantic, we learn, through the pages of the Homeopathic World for April, 1881, that in England, "for the first time in the history of homoeopathy, homoeopathic works are included in the 'Reference Catalogue of Current Literature for 1880.'" This catalogue, says the editor, is published yearly, and through it any bookseller can take orders for homeopathic works. He "regards it as a most important acquisition, because homeopathic literature will thus gradually free itself from the tyranny of rival chemists, some of whom, unfortunately for the development of homœopathy, narrow the sale of our literature to their own publications.'" Dr. Burnett urges upon all homoeopathic authors and journalists the desirability of having their books and periodicals duly catalogued every year in the booksellers' "Reference Catalogue of Current Literature" as a preliminary step to more general recognition. When our journals and our books are once launched, they are practically insuppressible and indestructible, and are thus bound to tell in the cause of truth, sooner or later. Our periodical literature has undergone some changes. First, we may mention that the American Journal of Electrology and Neurology discontinued publication just previous to the last meeting of the Institute, and its editor, Dr. John Butler, of New York, has established in its place the Medico-Chirurgical Quarterly. This new journal is devoted to general medical and surgical science, but special attention is shown to good articles on the subjects of electrology and neurology. In this way, it is to be hoped, these two subjects may be kept properly before the profession, as was originally intended, if the journal secures the support it deserves. Secondly, the Anglo-American Organon has suspended for want of sufficient support. Thirdly, the Homœopathic News, of St. Louis, has also been discontinued. Fourthly, we note the publication of three new homœopathic journals in addition to the one just mentioned. The Medical Call, a quarterly edited by Drs. W. D. Foster and O. H. Crandall, of Quincy, Ill.; the Homeopathic Physician, a monthly, edited by Dr. E. J. Lee, of Philadelphia, and the Medical Herald, a monthly, edited by Drs. C. H. Goodman and C. W. Taylor, of St. Louis. The Homeopathic Times has changed its title, and is now known as the New York Medical Times. It has in no respect changed its policy, nor is its energy, enterprise or natural force abated. Our other journals exhibit no special changes except in the steadily improving character of the majority of their issues. Following we give a list of the works by homœopathic physicians, published in the English language since our last session. It is not unlikely, however, that some two or three smaller works have escaped our notice, and also the Transactions of some of our State societies. We give also a list of our English journals, American and foreign. A General Symptom Register of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica. By T. F. Allen, M.D. Boericke & Tafel. 1880. 8vo., pp. 1321. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Arranged upon a Physiological and Pathological Basis. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. and H. R. Arndt, M.D. Vol. I, 8vo., pp. 780. Materia Medica Pura. By S. Hahnemann. Translated by R. E. Dudgeon, M.D. With Annotations. Hahnemann Publishing Society, Liverpool. 1880. 8vo., pp. 718. A Manual of Pharmaco-Dynamics. 4th Edition. By Richard Hughes, M.D. London Leath & Ross. 8vo., pp. 945. An Index of Comparative Therapeutics. By Samuel O. L. Potter, M.D. Chicago: Duncan Bros. 1880. 12mo., pp. 280. Clinical Therapeutics. By T. S. Hoyne, M.D. Vol. II., parts 9 and 10. Chicago: Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co. 1880. 8vo., pp. 243. Therapeutic Key; or, Practical Guide for the Homœopathic Treatment of Diseases in General. By I. D. Johnson, M.D. 10th Edition. and New York: Boericke & Tafel. 1881. 16mo., pp. 350. Diphtheria: Its Cause, Nature and Treatment. By R. R. Gregg, M.D. Buffalo Matthews & Brothers & Bryant. 1880. 12mo., pp. 134. Catarrhal Diseases of the Nasal and Respiratory Organs. By G. N. Brigham, M.D. New York: A. L. Chatterton Publishing Co. 1881. Philadelphia Diseases of the Nervous System. By Chas. Porter Hart, M.D. New York and Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1881. The Homœopathic Domestic Physician. By J. Laurie, M.D. 25th Edition. Edited by R. S. Gutteridge, M.D. London: Leath & Ross. 1880. 8vo., pp. 1082. An Epitome of Domestic Medicine. pp. 687. By J. Laurie, M.D. 30th Edition. London: Leath & Ross. 1880. 8vo., The Medicinal Treatment of Diseases of the Veins. By J. C. Burnett, M.D. London Leath & Ross. 1881. A Guide to the Clinical Examination of Patients, and the Diagnosis of Diseases. can Brothers. 1880. 12mo., pp. 208. |