874 T Bureau of Anatomy and Physiology. H. B. VAN NORMAN, M.D...... CLEVELAND. A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M.D. NEBRASKA CITY, NEB. LEWIS BARNES, M.D.........DELAWARE, O. A. S. HOLDEN, M.D..WARD'S ISLAND, N. Y. H. H. BARTLETT, M.D....... ASHTABULA, O. Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics. HENRY M. SMITH, M.D.........NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. E. M. KELLOGG, M.D..............NEW YORK. Bureau of General Sanitary Science, Climatology and Hygiene. D. H. BECKWITH, M.D......CLEVELAND, O. ....PHILADELPHIA. T. S. VERDI, M.D.........WASHINGTON, D. C. .MEMPHIS, TENN. ...........NEW YORK. T. S. VERDI, M.D......... WASHINGTON, D. C. T. S. VERDI, M.D. Committee on Legislation. WASHINGTON. E. C. BECK WITH, M.D. ........ COLUMBUS, O. Committee on a Homœopathic Dispensatory. T. F. ALLEN, M.D............... NEW YORK. C. HERING, M.D. .............PHILADELPHIA, LIV. PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTIETH SESSION OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY. HELD AT LAKE CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., JUNE 26, 27, 28, 29, 1877. FIRST DAY. MORNING SESSION. THE Institute was called to order at 9 o'clock A.M., in the hall of the Kent House, Lake View, Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., by the President, E. C. FRANKLIN, M.D., of St. Louis, Mo., who, after prayer by REV. THEODORE FLOOD, of Jamestown, N. Y., announced that the business of the thirtieth session of the Institute would now be transacted in accordance with the Order of Business prepared by the Committee of Arrangements. THE PRESIDENT then delivered the Annual Address, as follows: PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Fellow-members of the American Institute of Homoeopathy: At the memorable session of this Institute, held at Philadelphia last year in conjunction with the World's Homœopathic Con 1.-58 vention, by your generous suffrages I was elected to the dignified and responsible position of President, the highest honor in the gift of the homoeopathic profession in this country. Permit me, then, at the very threshold of our annual assemblage, to tender you my deep sense of gratitude for the distinction conferred upon me, with the request that you will continue the same spirit of goodwill and fraternity to the end of my official term. Strengthened by your guidance and co-operation in all that pertains to the dignity and harmony of the present session, I trust its deliberations and discussions will redound to the honor of our Institute and the glory of our profession. When I survey this highly cultured audience, composed of the representative men of our profession, I feel the deep responsibility that attaches to your presiding officer in selecting an appropriate topic, one that shall be commendatory and instructive, for an inaugural address. I might, perhaps, mount my "vexed Pegasus," and soar into the realms of poesy, attune my harp in measured numbers to the soft whisperings of fancy, the deep diapason of nature from hill, dale and streamlet, the perfumed breeze and the waving forest, chase the light and shadow of the passing cloud, build gossamer castles in circumambient air, or while away the hour in reveries of mental beatitude, and there rest my labor. This might please the imagination and gratify the fancy, but inexorable duty admonishes me that I have an important trust to fulfil, a responsible mission to perform in behalf of my profession, one that deals with the prose of life, not its imagery. We live in a utilitarian age of the world's history, where science from her lofty eminence beckons us onward to do our share of work for man's advancement. Everywhere we look we see the progress of human society in science, religion and the arts. There seems to be a general awakening of the intellect to burst the bonds and fetters of the old regime. Never before in the world's history have the real brainworkers been more earnest and thorough in developing new truths and controverting old theories. Progress reigns throughout the length and breadth of civilization. Accumulative evidences of the steady march of mind, |