The committee took great pains to provide an able scientific discussion, upon the subject of "Croupous Pneumonia," opened with ten minute addresses by Drs. W. C. Goodno, Clarence Bartlett, Oliver S. Haines, E. M. Howard, Edward R. Snader and William W. Van Baun, followed by general discussion; the sub-division or outline as follows: a, Nervous phenomena. b, General symptoms of ordinary frank variety, and illustrative typical cases. c, Diagnosis of physical condition of patient at time of attack and relationship to prognosis. d, The object of treatment in pneumonia. e, The Homoeopathic treatment. f, Dietetics, Hydropathy and Oxygen in

treatment.

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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 Stamford is easily reached and is within one hour of Greater

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The Chicago Society.-Resolved, That the Homopathic Medical Society of Chicago, view with satisfaction and patriotic approval the fact that five members of this association are at the present time occupying positions in recognized official capacity as surgeons of the United States Volunteers, to wit:

Dr. J. W. Streeter, Surgeon First Illinois Brigade; Dr. Charles Adams, Acting Surgeon First Illinois Brigade; Dr. W. G. Willard, Surgeon First Illinois Regiment National Guards, and Drs. T. E Roberts and C. Bruce Wall, Assistant Surgeons First Illinois Regi

ment National Guards.

Resolved, That we also view with satisfaction the fact that the Surgeon-General of the State of Indiana, Dr. O. S. Runnels, and the Surgeon-General of the State of New York, Dr. M. 0. Terry, are members of the profession represented by this society, as doubtless are many other duly recognized surgeons in the army and navy at the present time.

Resolved, That the journals be requested to give wide publicity to these and similar facts as they become known, in refutation of the oft-repeated assertion by other professions that homoeopathic physicians are not recognized in the army and navy of the United

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WILLIAM S. PEARSALL, M.D.

Readers of the JOURNAL are cordially requested to send personals, removals, deaths and all items of general news to Dr. William S. Pearsall, 128 West 78th Street, New York City.

Secretaries of societies and institutions are invited to contribute reports of their proceedings, and as it is intended to make this department crisp and newsy reports should be complete but concise.

The Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of New York held its regular monthly meeting in the Chapter Room of the Carnegie Hall, on Thursday evening, May 12, 1898.

The president, Dr. Jno. B. Garrison, occupied the chair. The following were nominated for membership: Dr. James E. Harris, 229 East 124th street; Dr. Frederick Newton Whitehorne, 64 West 126th street; Dr. H. P. Deady, 171 East 78th street.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The Committee on Clinical Medicine, Dr. Walter Sands Mills, chairman, presented a paper by Dr. Geo. F. Laidlaw, entitled “The Treatment of Pneumonia."

Discussion-Dr. George G. Shelton: I agree with the author of the paper as to rest, diet, nursing and the condemnation of morphine; in short, as perfect hygiene as you can get. The kneading process I am not familiar with, as I pummel my patients as little as possible. It does some violence, however, to my ideas of treatment of a delicate structure inflamed. As to treatment, I have not seen many of these conditions described. Most of them do not arise if you follow closely the indicated remedy for the symptoms. How can you follow them if you intersperse cathartics, diuretics, iodine painting, etc.? In doing this you surely mark the indications for the remedy.

I never gave one of my pneumonia patients a cathartic in the world (case cited). As to whisky, I never club a tired horse. I have used strychnia, but when doing so always felt that I may have neglected something earlier. Alcohol in immoderate doses imperils the heart ten times as much as its own effort. Lachesis, kalmia, digitalis, carbo, secale, and the like, have carried me by and I haven't had dicrotism and they haven't had whisky. It is the first seven days that make the last ten days successful. Toxemia seems to lead to the idea of ridding the body of it. Is there any more profound toxemia in pneumonia than in any other disease? If we are to treat toxemia we might just as well abandon the homoeopathic remedyif it cannot so prepare the system as to resist the toxine. Take one hundred treated symptomatically and another hundred receiving mixed treatment, and I'll take my chances with the first hundred.

Dr. Walter Sands Mills: I agree with Dr. Laidlaw on the use of a woolen undershirt as local protection for the changing poultices, jackets, etc.; death often comes from exposure. As to necessity of cathartics, it is not necessary, as the symptomatic prescription will keep the bowels all right and if confined for several days, what of it? Have never used iodine locally. The manipulation-Osteopathy" so-called properly-manipulation of tissue over a bone where a disease exists. I agree with Dr. Shelton as to alcohol. Have seen little benefit except in sudden failure, but as a routine remedy it is out of place. The indicated remedy will do all desired in these cases. Ferrum phos. will abort in certain indicated cases if used early.

Dr. M. Deschere: Cannot say I listened with pleasure to the paper. We of course esteem Dr. Laidlaw just the same although he does give us such terrible teaching. Very sorry if I was taught such treatment in a homoeopathic college. Treat pneumonia as any other disease. Not look to bowels, kidneys, or brain for treatment, but to the patient. The totality of the symptoms will suggest the remedy. Warn anybody against opium as prescribed by the old school. But the toxine of pneumonia paralyzes the brain centres -so does opium, hence it is a valuable remedy homoeopathically, for great cerebral depression. Heart weakness will not occur if remedies are carefully selected. No strych., digital., or stimulants are needed if your treatment is homoeopathic during the first week. If weakness does occur it may easily be met by remedy indicated. Rarely use alcohol. Cases stimulated too early often develop heart weakness as a result. The homoeopathic school can well be proud of its record in pneumonia. Dr. Laidlaw has shown us how not to do it rather than how to do it. On other points I agree with the writer, but on the treatment I thoroughly disagree.

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Dr. Arschagouni: Paper was good, but did not realize just where As Dr. Deschere says, homoeopathy made its record in pneumonia and it can do it better than strychnia and cathartics. I believe in scientific teaching, examination and diagnosis. I make a pathological diagnosis and then by signs and symptoms prescribe. I never lost a case of pneumonia. Veratrum vir. I have never used. but ferrum phos., iodine, and phos. Instead of strapping and manipulation of the chest I give bryonia for the pain and it's gone in twenty-four hours; sulphur and stibium in hepatized cases; ant.sulph.-aur. when much cough; in children cham.30 is valuable in indicated cases.

Dr. Geo. F. Laidlaw: I have not the slightest feeling of black and blue from the discussion. In the search for truth no man has any business to have feelings. In that spirit I presented the paper and hear it criticised. I did not, however, expect to hear a **professor" (Shelton) compare a coat of iodine with demar varnish. Iodine is soluble in water and does not in the least inhibit excretion of the skin. I bore stress upon the value of experience against theory. These are things I have proved. Dr. Mills accuses me of using “osteopathy" unknowingly. I have used manipulation for

years and learned it from a man who had used it twenty-eight years. My method is not "osteopathy." Dr. Mills misunderstood me. I do not object to opium because it obscures symptoms, because I do not care how many symptoms I obscure if I help my patients. I only warned against narcotic doses. I have used antim.-sulph.aur. with much success, especially for the cough. We will not finally settle these questions. How far should we as homoeopathists use adjuvant treatment? We should use it because it is successful practice, whether it is good theoretically or not. I claim it is the duty of a physician to know all there is. There are mechanical, physiological and chemical laws which, when violated, cause death. Some of these adjuvant measures overcome this violation. It is the body that cures, not you or I.

The Committee on Obstetrics, Sophia Morgenthaler, M.D., chairman, presented an interesting paper by Dr. Edwin De Baun, of Passaic, N. J., entitled, "Shall Midwives be Licensed, and If So, What Laws Should Govern Their Practice?"

Discussion-Dr. Geo. F. Laidlaw: Laws will doubtless soon be enacted on this subject. I recognize that the tendency of the times is to demand that the brand of goods must be what it represents to be. It is the function of the State that an M.D., D.D.S., LL.D., etc., should be stamped with a State brand. It should also insist that midwives receive the same endorsement of ability. The majority of midwives we know are ignorant. The State should insure to women the best care education can furnish. One objection is that midwives licensed, would draw from the business of the physicians. A prohibitive law would increase the physicians' business, but not his income, as these poor cases would be driven to dispensaries and lying-in hospitals-so much the better for the poor, but public opinion would not tolerate such a law, hence licensing law is

the best.

Dr. W. H. Vandenberg: It seems to me that the women of our community among the poor deserve some protection and that some law should be formulated to insure at least skillful midwives for the women of the poorer classes who employ them.

Dr. Jno. Arschagouni: It is said that one confinement and two miscarriages make a midwife proficient. They should know obstetrics, materia medica and receive a license.

Dr. F. K. Hollister: The midwives are the only ones who get money out of these poor cases. The worst cases we had to manage in Broome street were the results of midwives' ignorant attention. These cases can pay something, and many young men would be glad to get them for the small fee and the experience.

Dr. M. Deschere: A law should exist. Midwives are an old established fact. The law is strict in Germany. She is educated up to her duties. She can only assist, but can use no instrument, medicine, etc., and must call in physician in case of complications. They are a great help to the poorer classes but should be governed.

Dr. H. Zeckhauser: There are two classes of midwives on the

East Side. The educated class who are mostly Russians. In Russia there is a strict law of two years under observation and hospital work. The ignorant class are Poles, and densely ignorant. I had twenty-two cases in Broome street because I spoke the language (Russian). In the short time I am on the East Side I have had fortyfour cases, and in almost all the midwife sent for me. A law should be passed to regulate their practice. These cases pay little as they would go to a lying-in hospital.

Dr. Walter G. Crump: A most crying need is the licensing of midwives. Our most common call for the ambulance is in the septic cases after the ignorant management of midwives. Most of those on the East side are women who have only seen a few cases and then put out their own shingle. Abortion is also lamentably common among them.

The Committee on Diseases of the Throat and Chest, Dr. Wm. S. Pearsall, chairman, presented a paper by Dr. A. Worrall Palmer entitled "Lymphoid Tissue of the Throat." It was discussed by Drs. Shelton, Townsend and Palmer.

Meeting adjourned, 11 P. M.

H. WORTHINGTON PAIGE, M.D., Secretary.

Kentucky Homoeopathic Medical Society.-The thirteenth annual meeting of the Kentucky Homoeopathic Medicai Society was held at Frankfort, May 25-26. Profs. E. H. Pratt, C. Gurnee Fellows, and J. Kahlke, of Chicago; C. E. Walton, S. J. B. Meade, and R. G. Reed, of Cincinnati, and Wm. B. Clarke, of Indianapolis, were present and a rousing meeting was had. The following are the officers for 1898: President, Wm. F. Reilly, M.D., Covington, Ky.; vicepresident, E. H. Griffith, M.D., Henderson, Ky.; Treasurer, J. W. Krischbaum, M.D., Danville, Ky.; secretary, F. W. Fischback, M.D., Newport, Ky.

Machaon Club. Dr. C. E. Putnam, of Jersey City, entertained the Machaon Club at dinner on the 6th ult. Upon invitation from the host, Dr. A. W. Palmer, of New York City, delivered an address upon the "Diseases of the Nasal Sinuses." The attendance was large.

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True Americanism.-Physicians and pharmacists, like the of the people, have tired of the arrogation of superiority implied by the announcements of foreign manufacture, and are revolting against them. This spirit is especially commendable at the present time, when a vast wave of patriotism is rolling over the land, making the North and the South, the East and the West, as one band of brothers by its magic influence. The Antikamnia Chemical pany, of St. Louis, in all of its advertising matter, whether through the journals or by circular, takes particular pains to impress upon physicians and pharmacists that its goods are made in America, by Americans, and for American use. This enterprising company izes that the words "made in Germany," or "made in France" no

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