thing for a man of renown who has access to the best college halls in the land it cannot be such a mortal sin if a younger and less important per -. sonage does the same thing.

The doctor is not a merchant; his services cannot be weighed or measured and the purchaser cannot tell at the moment of transaction what the service is really worth; it must be left to the professional honesty and judgment of the physician what shall be done and what shall be charged therefor. His services cannot be retailed at so much per and sold over the counter and for this reason any advertising that he may do should not be so as to make the services appear as such. His work is of necessity a personal transaction, yet he should make his calling known and let people know where to find him, being withal modest and inasmuch as none can guarantee human life, so none can guarantee a cure and it is the worst of form for any one to attempt todo this; but to announce the kind of work that you can do and declare that in which you have the best success or the most pleasure in handling is no crime, nay it is the proper thing.

The active wide awake physician has his card in his pocket, he has his sign on his office, and he has a neat card announcing his office hours and his address in a good medical journal; we believe that if he desires he should put it in the public press, though custom is against it, and in the present light it redounds not to his glory or good name.

There be three things that make a good doctor, yea four, that maketh a successful physician: an honest heart, a skillful hand, a cheerful manner and a tact that will enable him to manage his patient.

There are three things that breed disease, yea four, that encourage an epidemic: the body that remains unwashed, the dwelling that has no sunlight, the food that is unwholesome, and the drink that burns the body and damns the soul.

There be three things that trouble the physician, yea four, that he cannot bear: the neighbor that is always meddling, the attendant that is unfaithful, the druggist who practices substitution, and patient who insists that he is the best judge of his own case and needs.

There are three times when a physician wants not companionship, yes four, when he had rather be alone: when he has broken his suspender, when he has pounded his finger with a hammer, when he has missed his train, and when he sees a rival attending his best patient.

There are three things that maketh the doctor glad, yes four, that causeth him to rejoice greatly: the payment of a goodly bill, the appointment to a State position, the full success of his cherished scheme and the plaudits of his fellow men.

The Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri opened on schedule time and with a bright class, all ready for a good season's work and with the will to do and the ability to accomplish that which they have undertaken to do.

The feature of the evening was an address to the students and Faculty by Dr. O. S. Runnels of Indianapolis; the Doctor's address was a good one and teemed with good advice, good axioms and was withal a most excellent and able effort but he fell into the error that is so common, and so tempered his talk that it might just as fitly have been before the Senate of Seniors as before a class of students about to begin their labor in the study of medicine; there was not enough of homeopathy in it.

The dissertation on the fitness of a man, his qualities and attainments in the literary field, his moral and social standing, all needful matters, but points that had of necessity been settled long ago, or at least before the student had been granted admission to the classes, should not have claimed so much attention to the expense of the more weighty matters; a good reason for choosing the homeopathic school of practice. And wherein is the need of reiterating the rights and duties of the physician to the public, the state and society at large and discussing the remuneration to be gained in the field of medicine in so general a way when the chief business in hand at the present time is to gain an education and become grounded in the principles of therapeutics, so that in later years it will be both pleasure and profit to build thereon a good and substantial practice?

It were better if this address had shown some of the benefits to be derived from close application to business and the fallacy of looking to medicine as an easy road to riches; to be gained from delving after truth rather than that to be derived from the proper exercise of professional dignity and toward how to make yourself an indispensable, rather than a discussion of the size of the fee to be charged.

We hope that we may be thought not self important, neither presumptious in thus voicing the sentiments we have, but the thing we need is a more thorough expounding of the good of the system we follow and of the principles we preach, the precepts we teach. We have long known the Doctor, have known the position he occupies and the honor that he has in his own country as well as elsewhere, and had hoped that he would tell us something of the spirit that had upheld him when the way was not easy, of the good that he has gained and the good that he has done, since he practiced homeopathy and perhaps given us an exposition of the fact that remedies do accomplish a good work in the potentiations, and we had hoped -yes we did feel sure that he would-from his rich store of ripe experience give us some facts that would help to make plain "the way of the path" we are following and the beauty of homeopathy, and give to the beginner an illustration or two.

But in spite of all, we are glad to have you come among us to show your good will and kindly feeling toward us. To have a shake of your

hand is good; it makes us feel better and while we may point out a few ideas that we think it would be a help to have you expound and elucidate, it is done with the best intent and with the hope that you will come again and tell us of these, the things that we all feel we need, that we think our students would like to know and that we know would be of vast benefit to us all.

We thank you, doctor, for the address and the courtesy you have shown us; while you live and especially while you practice homeopathy may your vigor never fail and your shadow never grow less.

Of but little less interest were the words of the Dean in a short but fitting address he declared the course open, outlined the work of the session, and at the close of this little well made speech introduced Prof. James A. Campbell, so long and favorably known to both the students and practitioners of this city and who also, as Doctor Runnels, is well known all over the country.

Dr. Campbell is withal a most modest man and while the college is one of the things that is dear to his heart he found that the press of business and other duties has become so great that he must needs retire from the lecture field for a time at least, he is always willing to speak a word in behalf of the school which has known him for the past thirty-five years and never loses an opportunity to make known his kindly feeling for the College and its work; as he himself said a college opening would not to him feel right if he were not with us and he did not voice his good will toward us.

It is a regret that we do not have him on the rostrum as he has been for years; it will be some time ere we get used to the change, though his successor is a man wèll qualified for the position and will do good work.

Few indeed there be who like Campbell have followed their Alma Mater's interests so many years, always faithful, always true and always willing to bear a share of the work and detail that is so necessary for the successful maintenance of any institution; we need more like him and it is hoped that some of those, who to-day listen to instruction, will in future take up the spirit and vim of this worker and bring to themselves honor, and to the College that gave them instruction, a good name.

Dr. Max Aszmann, of Chester, Ill., is but recently recovered from a severe infection received in the line of duty. He is spending some time

in St. Louis doing the convalescent and the World's Fair.

Just as we go to press news reaches us of the death of Dr. J. Murray Wilcox. Also of Mrs. J. H. McCaughan, wife of Prof. J. H. McCaughan. Due notice will appear in our November issue.

If your patient is anaemic and "nervous" try a bottle of Bovinine.

Colasaya is an ideal tonic and one that is fast gaining favor with the profession.

One of the interesting things to be seen at the World's Fair is the manufacture of the Antikamnia pin and ash trays. Frank Ruf is always thinking of some new and interesting souvenir for the patrons of the "pain-killer."

The Lambert Pharmacal Company, known the world over as the makers of Listerine, have made a new departure and are now manufacturing a new product, known as Listerine Dermatic Soap; they have been good enough to send us a sample and it is putting the matter mildly to say that it is a good article and one that will give satisfaction to the user.

Major L. L. Seaman, a specialist in military surgery, who has seen much of the Japanese hospitals and who has been with the Chumchuses, or Chinese bandits, near Mukden, says that the Japanese are giving proof of the benefits to be derived from the non-interference with wounds on the field, where they content themselves with the application of first-aid bandages and antiseptics, leaving the more serious work to be done in the hospitals at home. This course is followed except where there is danger of the wounded men bleeding to death, or where his condition is very precarious.

The result of this practice has been that many men suffering from bullet wounds at the front are nearly well when they reach Japan. On one hospital ship returning to Japan from the front there were 2,200 wounded men, and there was not a single death on board during the trip.

Says Gowers, treating of "Historic Drugs": "We disinfect our rooms with burning sulphur; and so men did before the time of Homer, We purge sometimes with rhubarb, especially when some subsequently astringent influence is desirable, and so did the old Arabians for the same reason. The value of castor oil in its chief use was familiar, probably for ages, to the natives of the East and of the West Indies before it was made known in Europe by a physician from Antigua 150 years ago. Aloes was employed in the same way long before the time of Dioscorides and Pliny. The knowledge of the influence of ergot in parturition we owe to the peasants of Germany, and the use of male fern for tape-worm goes back to the old Greeks and Romans. The employment of mercury in syphilis by inunction and fumigation, which our nineteenth century therapeutics regard with such satisfaction, seems to go back to the time of the Crusades, and it is said that its use can be traced in Malabar, as far back as the ninth century. Podophyllum as a purgative we owe to the North American Indians.”—Medical Times.

CULTIVATE

Good manners, good morals, good habits.

Punctuality in all things; it is the homage of kings.

Liberality in thought; there may be much truth in things you do not now understand and the humblest peasant may teach you something.

The association of good men and women; not necessarily the rich but those that speak the truth and whose actions are above reproach.

Accuracy in all work you undertake; enough mistakes will creep in to mar perfection and it is essential that none should result from wantonness.

Dignity, courage and an humble spirit; the public judges a man by the value he puts on himself and in addition will soon discover if he is over-rated.

A deep and profound knowledge of materia medica; of your own therapeutics you should be master and of your rival school you should know something.

A thorough knowledge of the human body in health and disease; to be a good physiologist, enables one to be a good diagnostician.

A determination as to your course of action; think, decide, act. There is nothing that discourages more than a doctor who pursues an uncertain vacillating course of treatment.

Promptness in your dealings with all men; if you would exact from others exact more from yourself, and expect others to be more exact still.

Truthfulness; never promise what you cannot in reason expect to perform and having made a promise be willing to abide by its conditions or bear a suitable forfeit for not so doing.

A brotherly feeling for your neighbor; if he succeeds some of his success may be reflected and you may in turn profit by it.

The influences to be had from associations of the good, the pure, the upright. The physician, of all men, should be above reproach.

The art, for it is indeed an art not easily mastered, of making the tongue a servant, and not your master.

LOOK AT THIS.

The Journal of the American Medical Association is for the most part looked upon as the acme of all that is good in medical journalism, at least so far as the old school is concerned, and the advertising columns are sought by the patent medicine man for the reason that an advertisement appearing in its pages is looked upon as approved by the trustees of the