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medicine willing to be civil and co

operative, in the great battle against disease and death, I shall most cheerfully reciprocate such spirit. The truth of the matter is, the study and practice of medicine and surgery the world over, in all the schools is practically a unit, except in the matter of therapeutics. The time is past when any body of scientific men may sit in judgement and proclaim itself the repository of all truth, and that its neighbors and others, equally sincere and able, are but fools or frauds. This admission and declaration may not be taken that I propose to yield one jot or title in behalf of Hahnemann's wise and wonderful rule governing the selection of the suitable single remedy, in its minimum dose in the treatment of disease.

T. GRISWOLD COMSTOCK, M. D. Ph. D.

SINCE

INCE the death of the beloved, lamented Walker, Dr. Comstock is, from every consideration of age, professional work and social and professional character, the nestor of homœopathy in the west and south. He came to St. Louis in early manhood, and has ever and always proven faithful to the home and city of his adoption. His professional carreer has embraced all the elements of a conspicuous success in income, amount of business and professional standing. He began and prosecuted his studies to the point of graduation in the St. Louis Medical College; afterwards graduated in Old Hahnemann; and then supplemented the whole by protracted and repeated studies in the best educational estab. lishments in Austria and Germany. He has accumulated one of the largest private libraries in the city; is still a close hard student; and every now and then slips away from professional work for a rest and attendance upon a post-graduate course. At the late Denver convention he lacked a half vote of election as annual president, with little or no effort of his own, and very little systematic work of his friends; so great was their confidence in his popularity and his eminent fitness for the place. He has ably represented us in a world's congress of physicians; is oft ex-president of our local society; ex-president of the Missouri Institute of Homœopathy; emeritus professor of obstetrics in the Homœopathic Medical College of Missouri; consulting physician to the St. Louis Childrens free hospital; a member of Tuscan Lodge of Masons; a member of the St. Louis Club; a communicant of Dr. Schuyler's Epis

copal church; a pronounced prohibitionest; votes the Republican ticket every time; and is a prompt attendant and active worker in all our society meetings, whether local or general. Altogother Dr. Comstock is a substantial citizen of which St. Louis people may well be proud.

YES!

DAKE.

ES! simply Dake, without affix, prefix or suffix, his own royal noble life being his patent of nobility in all the relations of life, personal social, professional. The past, present or future will know but one Dake, in his full orbed, well rounded life of uprightness and usefulness, rounded out most appropriately at the conclusion of mature years.

Dr. Dake's death is to me a matter of personal bereavement and deep sorrow. I loved him well for his uniform geatleness and kindliness to me. Doubtless thousands upon thousands have had the same experience as myself. In spirit he was as sweet and gentle as a pure woman. In the great drama of life's work he was every inch, nature's nobleman, with few peers and fewer superiors. His strong intellectual powers, his broad varied culture, and long life gave him a range of usefulness and activity, enjoyed by the few favored ones in human experience and activity. He has been to homœopathy in America, what Richard Hughes has been for our loved profession in England, and between whom there has long existed a community of work and an unfaltering friendship. Indeed the cap-sheaf of his great and noble work will be found in their joint effort, for the

UR Local Medical Society is in prosperous condition, due largely to the tact and energy of its

equipped and every way reliable. One of them, the oldest in the field, has probably done more to disseminate and spread homœopathic views and practices than any other factor in the south and west. It had the good fortune to be first in the field, now a long while ago, and for a long period no competition. Right well did it avail its opportunity in the accumulation of a goody revenue as a direct aim, and incidentally in the promulgation of homoeopathic doctrines. It did not take very long time for the sharp eyes of observation and competition to spring into the field and enter the commercial arena. These other three are each doing well and are quite as reliable as the "Old reliable."

A few days ago an agent from St. Paul dropped in and forthwith began a display of his wares (homoeopathic). When I intimated something about the "government mules" assurance,

who was his own successor at the last semi-annual election by acclamation. The papers have been good with instructive discussions following. The president has been ably seconded by his secretary and treasurer, Dr. Canfield. These papers and discussions will be freely drawn upon in the make up of the JOURNAL each month. Dr. Kershaw has very wisely adopted the plan of notifying members from one to three months ahead, that they will be expected to furnish a paper at a particular date of meeting. In this way ample time is given for preparation with no reasonable ground of excuse for either a partial or complete failure. The meetings are held in the Library building at the corner of 9th and Locust sts, on the first and third Saturdays of each month at 8 P. M. Visiting physicians will always be most cordially received and allowed to take part in any discussion.