as that already adopted by the Homeopathic School, and as that school has among its adherents those best qualified, by reason of experience, to conduct drug provings, the work should be vested in a board selected from the membership of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Surely, it would not be reasonable to entrust such important work to those who are seeking for specifics as remedial agents, or who base their hope upon either the physiological effects or chemical affinity of the drugs investigated.

"When we remember that our School has used the same remedies with the same indications in the treatment of the same disease, ever since the first records were published by Hahnemann, with results indisputably better, as far as death rates, length of life secured and general results are concerned, our claim to be the ones entrusted with the work is established. Our obligations to do it result from the fact that we are the possessors of this knowledge. Its possession makes it obligatory that we formulate what we have, and, when possible, present it in such a manner that no one who is entitled to recognition as a scientist can question the results.

"How to bring about these results has been the subject of much inquiry and discussion. First, a considerable sum of money must be secured. Such funds when secured must be segregated from all other educational funds. It should be a trust fund placed in the hands of a board of trustees, representing the various interests combined in the American Institute of Homeopathy. The board of trustees should have power to fill vacancies, should select the drugs to be proven, or select those who are to conduct the investigations; should pass upon the equipment of laboratories whose use is offered, and they should have power to aid by appropriation or to meet the whole expense of such investigation when necessary.

"Many facts showing the absolute disregard of the important study of remedies for the treatment of disease afflicting man have come to light. $17,915,075 were donated in 1902-'03 by private individuals, entirely exclusive of Government and State aid, for educational institutions of the country. Of this amount the schools of medicine not connected with universities, and including the schools of dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine received $39,336. There is no record showing that any part of this amount was devoted to the original investigation of the effects of drugs."

After some discussion, with hearty unanimity, promising well for the success of the project, the American Institute appointed a Board of Trustees, consisting of Drs. Custis, Bailey, Dewey, Royal, Sutherland, Wolcott and Mohr. The Trustees were empowered to appoint

their own officers, to collect funds, to make such rules as may be required, and to become the custodians of such provings as may, from time to time, be made by societies, colleges or individuals.

At the first meeting of the Trustees of the Institute of Drug Proving, Dr. J. B. Gregg Custis was elected Chairman and Dr. Charles Mohr, Secretary and Treasurer. After this action was reported to the American Institute of Homeopathy, an appeal was made for funds and the following subscriptions for the first year were promptly made, viz.:

Dr. R. A. Adams, $75; Drs. Jos. Cook and James H. McClelland, each $50; Drs. A. E. Austin, Wm. Boericke, J. P. Sutherland, C. Mohr, E. H. Wolcott, W. A. Dewey, J. B. Gregg Custis, Benj. F. Bailey, James C. Wood, David A. Strickler, Howard P. Bellows, Walter Wesselhoeft, Jos. B. Cobb, J. B. Garrison, H. E. Beebe, R. S. Copeland, D. J. Roberts, H. D. Schenck, W. O. Forbes, N. G. Burnham, Anna W. Spencer, Thos. H. Carmichael, each $40; Drs. J. Herbert Moore, Mary Hanks, F. W. Wood, Clara E. Gary, David P. Wells, each $25; Dr. H. E. Spalding, $10. The total subscriptions amount to $1,190.00, but much more than this amount will be required to carry out successfully the objects of the Institute, and every Homeopathist should consider it a pleasure as well as a duty to contribute to the extent of his or her ability. The Treasurer has opened an account in the Commercial Trust Company of Philadelphia, where all moneys received will be deposited, to be disbursed as shall be directed by the Trustees.

At the meeting of the Trustees the Secretary was authorized to prepare and issue a circular to State and County Societies and Colleges, as well as to individuals, soliciting subscriptions to aid in the work of Drug Proving, and also to urge the various Societies and Colleges to make provings, according to matured plans to be submitted, and to send the records of these provings to the Trustees of the Institute of Drug Proving for preservation and publication.

Address all communications to Charles Mohr, M. D., Secretary and Treasurer, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

*** The meeting of the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Medical Society at Easton, September 20-23, was an unqualified success. At the opening session about one hundred members were present and throughout the week members arrived so that the attendance at the opening session was nearly doubled before the meeting closed. The Lehigh Valley Homeopathic Medical Society were the hosts of the week.

The president, Dr. E. D. Doolittle, of Easton, delivered an eloquent address of welcome and was followed by the president of Lafay

ette College [which is situated in Easton], E. D. Warfield, LL. D., who declared the city "wide open" for the benefit of the visitors. Dr. Theodore Sureth, of Scranton, made a response, acknowledging the courtesy of the Lehigh Valley men, with emphasis thanking them for their hearty welcome. The annual address of the president, Dr. D. C. Kline, of Reading, was then presented. We have been favored with a copy of this address and think so much of it that we are presenting it to our readers in this number of the REPORTER, even though we know that it is to be published in the October number of another journal which will be issued before this one reaches our readers. We commend it to the careful consideration of all.

During the meeting the remarkably large number of sixty-seven applications for membership were favorably considered. This is a remarkable number and shows great energy and perseverance on the part of some in the work of gathering up new members. During the year seven members of the Society died. These were eulogized by the necrologist, Dr. Chandler Weaver, of Philadelphia.

The program was a long one and covered all phases of the practice of medicine, the papers showing by their titles how much interest was had by the members of the Society in the progress of medical science. It would take pages of the REPORTER to give even a list of these papers and this is impossible. Some of them will appear in our columns.

One important action taken by the Society was the petitioning of the Pennsylvania legislature for the enactment of a law which should provide for the thorough and complete registration of vital statistics throughout Pennsylvania. Another one was that the powers and operations of the State Board of Health should be extended" to include a careful supervision of municipal water supplies and enable them to institute such measures as may be necessary to limit and abate the ravages of preventable diseases, and that a liberal appropriation be created for this purpose.'

The officers elected were as follows: President, Dr. W. A. Seibert, Easton; First Vice-President, Dr. C. P. Seip, Pittsburg; Second VicePresident, Dr. W. G. Dietz, Hazleton; Recording Secretary, G. B. Moreland, Pittsburg; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. E. M. Gramm, Philadelphia; Treasurer, Dr. Ella D. Goff, Allegheny; Necrologist, Dr. Chandler Weaver, Philadelphia; Censors, Dr. Anna C. Clark, Seranton; Dr. G. W. Smith, Philadelphia; Dr. H. F. Schantz, Reading; Trustees, Drs. D. C. Kline, Reading, H. B. Ware, Scranton, I. B. Gilbert, O. S. Haines, W. H. Keim and Clarence Bartlett, Philadelphia, D. P. Maddux, Chester; J. A. Bullard, Wilkes-Barre, W. A. Seibert,

Easton. Altoona was unanimously chosen as the place for holding the next meeting.

There was a very fine list of exhibits. Hahnemann College, of Philadelphia was in evidence with a collection of pathological specimens, which were shown along with a fine lot of specimens from the biological department of Lafayette College.

The social features included a reception by Dr. J. J. Detwiler, of Easton. Dr. Detwiler's father, the late Henry Detwiler, was a pioneer of Homeopathy in Pennsylvania, having been connected with the first medical college established-a predecessor of Hahnemann of Philadelphia. The Easton ladies gave a very fine reception at the Country Club at Easton. Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Maxwell gave a card party for ladies, which was attended by some sixty-five. The great-grandson of Dr. Henry Detwiler-Mr. John Eyerman, was another of those who contributed to the pleasure of the visitors. The Lehigh Valley Homeopathic Medical Society entertained the State Society at a performance at the opera house.

They issued a very fine souvenir program beautifully gotten up on tinted paper, giving a history of Easton, with a fine half-tone drawing of the city at the forks of the Delaware. Another half-tone shows Pardee Hall, Lafayette College, which is situated on an eminence above the city and can be seen for miles. The College property comprises more than forty acres and is valued at nearly three-fourths of a million of dollars. A picture of Dr. Henry Detwiler is also contained in the program, his biography being given. He was one of the men who held a personal acquaintance with Hahnemann, having been his guest on two different occasions. Hahnemann's picture occupies: another page, still another being taken with a half-tone of the new Homeopathic State Hospital for the Insane, which is being erected at East Allentown, Pa. More than two hundred acres are included in the grounds of the Hospital, and before it is finished it will cost several millions of dollars. Pennsylvania's hospitals, dispensaries and medical societies are described in the program, as is also Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. Easton Sanitarium, which is one of the finest homeopathic sanitariums in the State, is represented by a beautiful half-tone, which shows what a picturesque situation it has. Dr. C. Spencer Kinney, who is at the head of the institution, has developed it until it now occupies a foremost place among institutions of its kind. Dr. Kinney was for more than twenty years with Dr. Selden H. Talcott at the Middletown (New York) State Homeopathic Hospital, having had a most remarkable experience in the care and treatment of mental conditions.

The meeting as a whole was certainly a very successful one and the effect of strengthening the hold of homeopaths upon the citizens of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania cannot be estimated. Congratulations are due all concerned in the making of this meeting such a great success.

SANMETTO IN CYSTITIS, URETHRITIS AND IN INFLAMMATION OF BLADDER NECK, ALSO IN IMPOTENCY.

My experience with Sanmetto has been most satisfactory, from the fact that I have been enabled to get favorable results with my patients. I have used it in a variety of cases during the last ten years, as cystitis, urethritis and inflammation of neck of bladder. As a remedy in impotency I know of nothing of superior efficacy. I do not keep a clinical record of my cases, so am unable to give reports in full detail. I can, however, heartily recommend Sanmetto to the medical profession as a remedy that has no superior where indicated, if faithfully used by the afflicted. F. M. ABBOTT, M. D.

Indianapolis, Ind.

SHALL BUSINESS COMBINATIONS CONTROL THE PRICES OF
PHYSICIANS' AND SURGEONS' SUPPLIES.

The following from the Journal of Advanced Therapeutics, July, 1904, should be read by every reader of the REPORTER. It touches upon a matter of vital interest to the medical profession and seems to offer a solution of a problem which is or may become a very serious one.

"In the language of a member of the American surgical Trade Association, "This is the time for unionism and combination, and it is our duty to swim with the stream, and not against it.'

"While it is the disposition of those who raise the prices of physicians' supplies to always contend that it is in behalf of the physicians only, in order that the quality may be superior; those who have an opportunity to look into the real motives of this combination find in it, as in all combinations of this age of 'unionism and combinations,' a disposition to cut out competition and place the medical man at a disadvantage. He alone is made the victim of this trust movement, and must carry the burden of making other people's business prosperous. The physician, who is doing more charity in the world to-day for humanity than all other charities combined, must now be made to feel the hard hand of trusts and combinations. If the medical profession permits itself to be the victim of such a combination, we believe it will be