messenger stole into the room of William Harvey-great man of the world-and closed his eyes forever. Apoplexy had come upon him suddenly in the morning, and at night the struggle was over. His body was brought to London where it remained until June twentysixth, when, amidst a great concourse of sorrowing friends, it was borne away to Hempstead, in Essex-about fifty miles from old London and laid away forever in the Harvey chapel, which his brother, Eliah, had erected two years previously.

INVOCATION TO HIPPOCRATES.

BY J. S. SPRAGUE, M.D.

Our father in medicine, O Divine Hippocrates! thou of the Æsclepiadae, who, before all others in our literature, doth stand alone in excellency. Thy name is in all nations equally venerated as by us. May thy name be ever thus sanctified, and may thy rulings, even thy medical kingdom which thou foresaw, and now seest in Coelo, be that of those times, on earth. May such rulings come, and the dicisions of thy exalted spirit come, and thy will even be done; for we, leaderless lambs, are at the mercy-the unrelenting mercy of the patent medicine man. We pray thee to lead us no longer into grievous and thoughtless temptations, and if ever, even now deliver us from evil-the same evils. Eth-pharmacal, or made-for-the-doctor-at-the-front-door and at the back-door-forthe-dear-people, preparations. Food, ordinary bread-pabulum diurnalis-give to us. Such is quenet, est suf, for we know (hence these tears) that the Eth-pharm Co. is getting all the cakecream-and wine. In temptationem nos ne inducas-patre medicinal. Do not drag us further into the serbonian bog, whither professors (non-pardonable) and country doctors (now and then fully pardonable), not knowing ethics and foolish enough to believe the professors' stories in journals, have led us. Do now deliver us, deliver us from such evils and the Hydra-if ever, now. For not only are such so-called companies debasing medical literature; the fair name of medicine; but robbing us of our hard-earned shekels. Yes, even at this imprecation are revisions being made in national pharmacopogas, in which such companies, in several instances, are urging, through the revisers, a fixed insertion of their patent compounds. Are we, who are thy disciples, faithful, and inter homines eruditissimi, adoring thee, thou venerable shade of the glory of Athens. Thou of Co.'s-are we to abandon the B.P. and the U.S.P. for the price lists of the Pharm Co. and the patent medicine almanac? If so, so direct-then we abandon Mat., Med., and Pharm. The price list and its compounds need not have the stamp of

the public analyst either. We thrice imprecate thee, thou harbinger of health to the once plague-stricken city, Athens, watered by the murmuring waters of Ilissus and Cephissus, to purify with equal celerity the temples of medicine-libera nos e malis in nostris. temporibus, for the odd and even named Proprietary Compound manufacturers are shaking the pillars of thy temples and making slaves of us, thy disciples-not least, free medical journalism-from non-official preparations and the marks of the fakir-so that thy name and our own names be not too unredeemably disgraced among men. The people deceived and we, too, impoverished and the glory to thee we give.

BANQUET 'TO DR. CHARLES O'REILLY.

Dr. Charles O'Reilly, former Superintendent of the Toronto General Hospital, was made the recipient of a testimonial, June 10th, when a hundred or more of his professional companions, and other friends, tendered him a banquet at the Albany Club. Dr. Adam Wright presided, and beside him were seated the guest of the evening and the Hon. J. J. Foy, Attorney-General of the Province. Others present were Dr. L. H. Barker, successor to Dr. Wm. Osler in the Chair of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Dr. Thomas Cullen, Professor of Obstetrics in the same University-both graduates of the University of Toronto; Drs. W. H. B. Aikins, Duncan Anderson, H. B. Anderson, Allen Baines, William Barnhardt, Mr. S. T. Bastedo, Drs. N. H. Beemer (Mimico), G. A. Bingham, C. Bird (Gananoque), E. J. Barrick, Wm. Britton, G. G. Boyd, H. A. Bruce, G. H. Burnham, W. P. Caven, Graham Chambers, G. S. Clelland, E. K. Cullen, J. M. Cotton, W. G. Collison (Lindsay), Mr. C. Cockshutt, Drs. J. L. Davison, C. R. Dickson, P. E. Doolittle, G. Elliott, J. E. Elliott, F. Fenton, J. Ferguson, G. H. Field (Cobourg), J. T. Fotheringham, J. S. A. Graham, F. L. M. Grasett, J. B. Gullen, H. J. Hamilton, A. J. Harrington, A. O. Hastings, C. J. O. Hastings, W. B. Hendry, Mr. J. H. Horsey, Drs. R. M. Hillary (Aurora), H. S. Hutchison, C. Hodgetts, Samuel Johnston, A. J. Johnson, John S. King, Mr. Cecil King, Drs. A. A. Macdonald, T. B. Macdonald, G. R. McDonagh, H. A. McCullough, W. J. McCollum, D. N. Maclennan, D. McGillivray, Murray McFarlane, K. C. McIlwraith, Mr. John Massey, Drs. C. F. Murray, T. H. Middleborough (Owen Sound), R. T. Noble, Brefney O'Reilly, Gerald O'Reilly, H. C. Parsons, W. T. Parke (Woodstock), S. G. Peaker, W. H. Pepler, A. Primrose, R. A. Reeve, J. F. W. Ross, B. L. Riordan, J. W. Rountree, R. L.

Stewart, S. Singer, E. W. Sprague, R. W. Bruce Smith, G. Silverthorn, G. B. Smith, J. A. Temple, Chas. Trow, T. S. Webster, T. Wylie, D. J. G. Wishart and Messrs. D. R. Wilkie and W. A. Wilson,

After the toast of the King, the Chairman proposed the toast of Dr. O'Reilly's only son, Dr. Brefney O'Reilly, who, in replying, expressed himself as being deeply sensitive of the kindness and good-feeling shown to his father. Dr. J. F. W. Ross, in proposing

the health of Dr. Gerald O'Reilly, brother of Dr. Charles, said no man had done more to promote good feeling among the members of the profession than their guest.

Speaking to the guest of the evening, Dr. John S. King said:

"I am indeed happy at this eventful period in the life of Dr. Chas. O'Reilly, to be permitted to give expression to a few of the many thoughts evolving regarding him; and to call up some of the reminiscences of him who has been my earliest preceptor-my Esculapius-my friend.

"The birth of this fair Dominion on the 1st day of July, 1867, was marked by much rejoicing, and the inauguration of Dr. O'Reilly as Medical Superintendent of the Hamilton Hospital. At the time I entered the Hospital, a couple of years later, the Medical Superintendent organized a clinical class, and a junior medical and surgical house staff. Both class and staff were composed that summer of myself. Dr. O'Reilly at once became my preceptor, and few, indeed, there be among preceptors as painstaking in imparting practical knowledge, not only in his clinical work, but in the detailed instruction as to the wound dressing, bandaging, making fracture splints, compounding medicines, and everything connected with hospital work. He was himself a genius at making new and original devices for all manner of purposes.

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His exemplification of treatment of obstinate cases was most original and effective, as may be illustrated by one case, if I may be permitted by the Doctor to speak of it. It was a case of persistent hysteria, which had for nearly two years baffled the skill of the older physicians. The woman remained constantly in bed, and vowed she was unable to use her limbs. One day he was seen running into her ward with a pail of water, crying, 'Fire! fire!' and, stripping down the sheets, told the woman the place was on fire and to escape for her life, at the same moment emptying the water over her prostrate form. The application was sudden; so was her exit from the bed, and she made good speed into the corridor. She was cured.

"Another circumstance, which was somewhat exceptional even at that early period of the Doctor's experience. I may mention as characteristic of the man, was that of the amputation of the foot and lower third of the leg without the use of an anesthetic. The patient was himself a doctor, who objected to chloroform for personal reasons. This long antedated the Oslerized chloroform age limit. Preparations for the operation were effected by first filling a box with stone, to the lid of which box the limb was securely strapped. The patient, meanwhile, was seated in a chair adjacent to the box, and braced his courage with a goblet of what was known in those days as ' Old 40 Rod,' and smoked a pipe of tobacco. The O'Reilly bandage-now called Esmarch's bandage

was employed to empty the limb of blood. The bandage was previously saturated with oxide of hydrogen. It will thus appear that the antiseptic treatment was unique, and besides being cheap, was always on tap. Result, a bloodless amputation, satisfactory and complete. The amputated portion was preserved in a cool place until the recovery of the patient, when, with the help of my preceptor, the doctor dissected his own foot to decide what were the remote and proximate causes of the trouble.

Another matter that differed then from now was the absence

of fear from contagion. It was the custom of the preceptor and his pupil to go the rounds daily of the medical, surgical and smallpox wards, the latter patients occupying the old frame building on the grounds at the rear of the brick building. One diagnostic feature of the smallpox cases, as pointed out by my preceptor in his clinic to me, and which was verified in repeated cases, and which permanently impressed me with its value, was that this most disgusting contagious disease gave rise to a most fragrant and agreeable odor when the nose was brought near the pustules, which odor most nearly resembled that of the contents of a freshlybroken bumblebees' honey-comb in the meadow in the summer time.

"Hours might easily be occupied in outlining interesting events of our friend's career, but time forbids, though I cannot refrain from citing one which might have prevented the possibility of this social gathering. Be it remembered that at the times alluded to our friend was a blushing bachelor; and, being the disciple of this Esculapius, and as such his friend, I occasionally accompanied him in his voyage to the northern shore of the most beautiful bay called Burlington, where resided a worthy lady destined to become, as she since became and continues, a partner in his joys and sorrows. On the particular occasion to which I refer, his call was prolonged well into the evening-and so was mine at the Beach-which evening proved to be one of the darkest I ever remember. After my long wait I saw my preceptor's near approach, and found him equally anxious with myself, owing to the rapid approach of a threatening storm. By the aid of the electric flashlights we started our row-boat in the direction of the hospital on the opposite shore of the bay. Esculapius sat at the helm and his disciple plied the oars. When well on our way the storm broke into violence and fury. Heaven's artillery roared and electric pyrotechnics at swift following intervals enabled the helmsman to guide the tiny boat over the vast billows, which were rolling higher and higher every minute. We two mortals felt our time had come, and expected every moment to sink to a watery grave. Had it not been for his good judgment and discernment and correct work at the helm I would not have been able to tell you anything of the Doctor's early career; and if I had not made