his confrères gathered in his house, and organized the Westchester County Medical Society, and during the remainder of his life he reserved to himself a founder's privilege, and entertained the Society at its annual meeting, at his hospitable home. It may be said, therefore, that this younger son, Robert Newton, was born a homeopath, consecrated to the cause, christened in the faith, suckled at the bosom of her beneficent influences, and nestled in her gentle arms. He grew up with the thought kept ever prominently before him, that he was to wear his father's mantle. His childhood was marked with the same gentleness and sweetness that marked his manhood.

OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION.-Dr. Bainbridge writes: I used Chionia, a teaspoonful three times a day and at bedtime in a case of long standing obstinate constipation. The first three nights I directed a hot water enema to be given every night. This treatment brought about regular and spontaneous evacuations and resulted in a complete cure.

THE EASTON SANITARIUM, located at Easton, Pa., is one of the most successful institutions of its kind in the country. The institution is devoted to the treatment of mental and nervous diseases, chronic invalids and to those addicted to drug habit. Recoveries have been over 85 per cent. for the past year. The showing speaks for itself. Dr. James Pursell, the physician in charge, is to be congratulated upon such brilliant results.

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.-This company will pay a reward of $100 on being furnished evidence sufficient to prove the fact of an authorized dispenser of medicines filling a prescription with other than Phillips' preparation, when Phillips' is specified. THE CHAS. H. PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CO.,

77 Pine Street, New York.

J. H. GOETHE,M.D., Varnville, S. C., says: Celerina was given to a patient suffering from nervous prostration, the result of habitual alcoholic excess. Under its administration his system was not only completely renovated, but he was enabled to overcome the habit of indulging in strong drink, and is now enjoying good health. I regard Celerina of great value to the profession.

ANOTHER COTTAGE has been added at Dr. Given's Sanitarium for Nervous and Mental Diseases at Stamford, Conn., and the new year opens with increased accommodations for patients desiring special care. Stamford is easily reached and is within one hour of Greater New York.

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New York Homoeopathic Materia Medica Society. The regular meeting of the New York Homœopathic Materia Medica Society was held on Wednesday evening, December 15, 1897, at 9:30 o'clock, at 334 West 58th street, seventeen members being present.

Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Dr. Martin Deschere; Vice-President, Dr. John Arschagouni; Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. Charles Ver Nooy, and Collaborator, Dr. E. S. Munson.

Drs. C. T. Mitchell and W. H. Van Denburg were elected members of the Society.

The resignation of Dr. C. C. Boule was presented to the Society, and on motion it was accepted.

Dr. Walter Sands Mills presented a very instructive paper upon "Some Notes on the Use of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica and the Art of Prescribing," which elicited free discussion as follows:

Discussion-Dr. G. F. Laidlaw: Agrees with the writer. Believes that we should group drugs with a botanical relation, as they usually have a therapeutic relation. Does not consider the method of Burt (which is to group remedies according to part of body affected) to be a good one. Thinks that Boeninghausen is a good. book for suggesting remedies, but not useful to prescribe upon by a majority vote.

Dr. H. D. Schenck: Believes that Dr. Hughes in his Pharmacodynamics gives the symptoms as they occurred in the provers.

Dr. B. G. Carleton: Hopes that Dr. Mills will tell in what potency he uses the remedy when he makes his composite picture. Thinks that we should individualize remedies, should have a record kept of remedies producing symptoms in the tincture, third, thirtieth, etc., and prescribe them in similar potencies for similar condiditions.

Dr. John Arschagouni: Thinks the paper excellent, sticks to the totality of the symptoms. We should study the susceptibility of the patient to determine the potency. Prescribes from the 6th to the 200th, but does not use the tincture, and thinks that probably we repeat the remedy too often.

Dr. Milton Powel: Says that Dr. Lippe's method was to take a

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remedy, read it over a number of times, and when you have gained its salient points, compare it with another remedy similarly studied, then a third remedy, etc. Believes that we will never have our Materia Medica shortened. Cannot always depend upon using the remedy in the same potency, which produced the symptom in the proving. Any potency will cure from the tincture upward.

Dr. H. M. Dearborn: Has not much confidence in the author's method of grouping drugs, as we cannot limit the action of drugs as far as organs or regions affected are concerned. Anatornical basis, supported by symptoms, is one of the best methods of grouping remedies, thinks that the potency is important, should give just enough of the remedy to cause a moderate aggravation, according to Hahnemann. My favorite potency is the 6th decimal, and go from there down or up as the case may be.

The selection of the remedy is difficult owing to the present state of our Materia Medica, and thinks that we will continue to dig and delve as hard in the future as we have in the past.

Lippe's method leads to empiricism.

Dr. J. T. Simonson: Asks if we should give up the selection of remedies by keynotes? as the keynote leads him to study the remedy. Dr. J. P. Seward: Finds prescribing by the Boenninghausen method very unsatisfactory.

Dr. Milton Powel: Says that characteristic symptoms would lead one to study the drug and if it was the remedy indicated prescribe it, otherwise not.

Dr. Martin Deschere: Depends upon whether we want to study the Materia Medica or prescribe for a patient, cannot expect to master the art of prescribing at first, it requires special genius and ability. We cannot all be accurate prescribers.

The keynote system requires considerable knowledge of the Materia Medica to be successful.

We should classify remedies according to the tissues, particularly living tissues, possible according to chemical, botanical or animal relations, the same as does Farrington.

With the Boenninghausen method we must take the patient's symptoms very accurately, and if we do so will find the book exceedingly valuable.

Dr. W. S. Mills, in closing: I did not intend to imply any short cut for prescribing. My objection to the keynote system is that one never looks further for a remedy. The potency question is a hard one to touch upon. I have my favorite potencies.

Annual reports of the President, and Secretary and Treasurer were read and accepted.

Dr. H. S. Neilson, 46 West 48th street, was nominated for membership.

Meeting adjourned at 11:07 o'clock.

CHARLES VER Nooy, M.D., Secretary.

Western New York Homoeopathic Medical Society.-The fourteenth annual meeting of the Western New York Homoeopathic Medical Society was held at the Hotel Iroquois, in Buffalo, on April 8th, being called to order by President Wm. H. Hodge at 2:30 P. M. There were seventy-two members present. After reading of the minutes, the following physicians were elected to membership:

Dr. Carl A. Blackly, Lockport; Dr. T. J. Peer, Ontario; Dr. W. H. Doane, Pittsford; Dr. S. W. Darrow, East Hamlin; Dr. S. C. Sweeting, Pavilion; Dr. F. A. Walters, Lockport.

The report of the Secretary showed the Society was in a prosperous condition; and that it had taken in twenty-nine new members in good standing during the past year.

The Treasurer's report showed the society free from any debt and with a surplus in the treasury.

A resolution was passed expressing the appreciation of the Society for the excellent work done by the Hon. Mr. O'Grady of the State Legislature, in aiding the labors of our Committee on Legislation, and three cheers were given for Mr. O'Grady and three more for the other members of that body.

In answer to a call for applicants for membership the following were presented:

Dr. Mark S. Purdy, Corning; Dr. C. F. Hitchcock, Sodus; Dr. A. H. Babcock, Randolph; Dr. W. W. Seabury, Du Bois, Pa.; Dr. D. H. Arthur, Gowanda; Dr. A. D. Young, Panama; Dr. E. M. Rodenberger, Walworth; Dr. E. G. Bodenberder, Buffalo.

The election of new officers followed, resulting in:

President, Dr. P. Wykoff Neefus, Rochester; First Vice-President, Dr. Burt J. Maycock, Buffalo; Second Vice-President, Dr. H. S. Hutchins, Batavia; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Wm. D. Young, Buffalo; Censors: Dr. A. W. Dods, Fredonia; Dr. G. R. Stearns, Buffalo; Dr. G. M. Haywood, Rochester; Dr. A. B. Gifford, Attica; Dr. S. W. Skinner, Le Roy.

The first paper was read by Dr. Chas. Gatchell, of Chicago, Ill., the guest of the Society, on "Homoeopathy's Place Among the Sciences." He reviewed the general progress and advancement of the human race from past times, and especially of its progress in the arts and sciences, foremost among which is surgery, and beside it pathology and diagnosis, but that with one exception the science of therapeutics had lagged far behind, its progress being only seen by the less violent methods used to-day than in the past. In that gap in the wall of medical science stands Homoeopathy, the only system which teaches the true action of drugs on the healthy and their application to the sick.

He spoke in opposition to the repeated requests of the Old School that we drop our name as homoeopaths and appear only as physicians, pure and simple, but the Doctor said that we were already physicians more pure than they, and far less simple than they thought us.

On motion of Dr. Lee, Dr. Gatchell was made an honorary member of the Society.

The next paper was "Proving and Clinical Confirmations-Limited," by Dr. Asa Stone Couch, of Fredonia. He spoke of the value of the clinical confirmations of the provings, and gave a long and valuable list of the symptoms he has verified in his practice.

The motion was passed that this paper be printed.

Dr. F. Park Lewis, of Buffalo, then described the new Mule method of providing an artificial vitreous (for a destroyed eye), composed of a glass ball, and showed two cases, one before use of artificial eye-cap and one after its use, which latter showed the perfect movement of the artificial eye in unison with the other.

Dr. E. H. Walcott, of Rochester, then read a paper on "The Curette and Intra-Uterine Douche," advocating the use of the former, and the sharp and not the dull instrument. He said the douche was often used when the curette would do better work, and gave some cases as illustrations.

The next paper was "Vaccination a Fallacy-Its Compulsion a Crime," by Dr. W. C. Cross, Niagara Falls, in which the essayist gave many historical and modern proofs and statistics to uphold his proposition.

Dr. Stearns, of Buffalo, was instructed to write a paper for the next meeting on the opposite side of the question.

Dr. A. Wilson Dods, of Fredonia, read a valuable paper on **The Trephine, or the Dental Engine," giving the points of weakness in the usefulness of the trephine, and the points when the dental en gine overcame these weaknesses. He advised the use of small burrs, driven at high speed, naming the dentate fissure burr and the wheel burr as convenient forms.

Dr. J. T. Greenleaf, of Owego, followed with a paper on "A Casual Glance at Osteopathy." He showed how this medical sect had changed from the original idea of all diseases emanating from bone dislocation to the theory that they also are caused by spastic contractions of muscles, or parts of muscles, and of the movements which constitute their means of cure.

Dr. F. Park Lewis, of Buffalo, described the men and methods as seen by him at the Osteopathic College at Kirksville, Mo.

The next paper was one by Dr. S. W. Hurd, of Lockport, on “A Case of Pneumonia Complicating Pregnancy." It was the report of a severe case of pneumonia in a pregnant woman. On the ninth day of the disease she lost fetal movements and none were felt at all till the twenty-second day, when they reappeared. Was delivered later of a 7-pound girl, which after some difficulty was made to breathe and eventually progressed normally.

The last paper was the account of four cases of Puerpera Hæmorrhagica, by Dr. A. B. Gifford, of Attica. One cured by phos. 6, another by phos. 30, and a third by phos. 200; the disease each time seemed to call for phos. and that remedy relieved at once.

The evening programme consisted of a very informal smoker, at