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to take the place of the ordinary articles of diet to which the human race has been accustomed.

He deprecated absolute conformity to the abstract principles of physiology on the ground that personal idiocyncrasies must be taken into consideration in providing a diet which suits that individual. He classified diseases of the stomach as those which are due to the ingesta, those independent of the ingesta, and those in which the ingesta are only a part of the cause. He noted the fact that the mortality among children from improper feeding is enormous, principally because of non-adaptability to the child's age.

He discussed in interesting detail gastritis-acute and chronic, the gastric neuroses and gastric irritation. He made the statement. that the small intestine is the most essential part of the digestive tract, physiologically speaking, hence it is entitled to a deferential respect when dietetic problems are being considered. He discussed also the nature of foods and the manner of their entry into the stomach, giving a warning against the predominant method of packing the stomach full of food much the same as one would pack one's trunk. He also called attention to the Christmas and Thanksgiving stomach, an overstretched organ which sooner or later is liable to develop an inflammation which will cause trouble. Taken altogether the paper was an interesting one, as are all the papers which emanate from Dr. Hinsdale's pen.

Dr. Jones in discussing the paper called attention to the fact that a person can assimilate a larger amount of food at a certain time during the twenty-four hours than at another, suggesting that for the active man a light meal in the middle of the day is best. When he is quiet, when business is off his mind, then he can take a full meal and digest it to the best advantage. He gave it as his opinion that as a rule people eat too much; that they can abstain from food for a longer period than is generally believed.

Dr. R. H. Stevens following the same line of thought, urged moderation in eating, claiming that the individual as a rule pushes nutrition too much.

This closed the scientific part of the day's work and the session was adjourned to meet at 7:30 at the St. Charles Hotel, where the Toledo physicians entertained the visiting members of the profession and their wives at dinner. Of this function nothing too good can be said. More than one hundred guests sat at dinner, enjoying the viands and the social intercourse to the full. Following this President Humphrey spoke briefly of the pleasure it gave the Toledo physi

cians to be hosts upon occasions of this character, extending to all an earnest invitation to come again.

Dr. Copeland, in his usual bright and witty manner, discussed "The Specialist," making as a principal point the assertion that Homeopathy is the only therapeutic specialty in medicine.

Dr. M. H. Parmelee responded for "The Physician and the Laity." Dr. DeWitt G. Wilcox, in his own inimitable way, toasted "The Physician's Wife," and as she was there in a goodly number, he embraced the opportunity to say of her many good things, all of which were deserved. Following this Dr. G. J. Jones began his address, but the lateness of the hour and approach of train time prevented him from saying all that he might have said.

What took place after this we do not know, as this same train aforementioned was the one destined to carry us homeward. The day was a great one, the attendance was good, and the men and women who were interested in Homeopathy in general could not fail to have been benefited. Those present were as follows:

Drs. Sara Davies, W. A. Humphrey, Carl Watson, H. M. Flower, C. Zbinden, A. T. Barnum, C. H. Strong, Emma Butman, W. S. Walker, A. Pulford, M. H. Parmelee, Z. W. Shepherd, L. K. Maxwell, J. W. Barnhill, Emma Boice-Hays, Mary Munson, John H. McVay, and J. H. Harvey, of Toledo; H. F. Staples, H. F. Biggar, H. D. Bishop, H. H. Baxter, G. J. Jones, Wm. T. Miller, J. R. Horner, of Cleveland; E. G. Kendall and R. H. Stevens, of Detroit; A. A. Taylor and John B. Egts, of Delphos; John A. Lenfesty, Mt. Clemens, Mich.; E. E. K. Chapman, Defiance; J. H. Johnson, Wauseon; Luther T. Gill, Gibsonburg; Dr. Daw, Monroe; C. E. Sawyer, Marion; W. A. Dewey, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Mabel G. Dixey, Fremont; De Witt G. Wilcox, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. R. Parcher, Defiance; J. C. Price, Toledo; C. B. Kinyon, Ann Arbor; A. C. Roll, Toledo; R. S. Copeland, Ann Arbor; W. A. Frost, Tecumseh, Mich.; W. B. Hinsdale, Ann Arbor, and Wm. C. Watts, Toledo.

To remove foreign bodies in the ear, dip the end of a camel's hair brush in glue and leave it in position against the body. When dry after a few hours, pulling upon the brush will remove the whole thing.

All breaches of the laws of health are physical sins. When this is generally seen, then and not till then will the physical education of the young receive the attention it deserves.

Cleveland Medical and Surgical Reporter.

A Journal Devoted to the Science of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery. Published Monthly by the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, 226 Huron Street, Cleveland, O.

JAMES RICHEY HORNER, A. M., M. D., Editor.
HUDSON D. BISHOP, M. D., Managing Editor.

WILLIAM H. PHILLIPS, M, D., Associate Editor.

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Editorial

THE NEW OF THE NEW YEAR.

Ideal living should be the aim of all. With every new day and week and month and year should come a hope that its close may see us nearer the goal-nearer that which while we know it to be the unattainable should still be our goal-THE PERFECT LIFE. In this rapid age a day or a week or a month is short. And as the years go by each one seems, alas, to be shorter than its predecessor. Most of us, however, make the closing hours of the old year a time for "swearing off," and the opening hours of the new year a time for the beginning of the new things which we hope may be better things.

Each year the REPORTER has endeavored to be better than ever.Each year something has been done by its management looking toward the betterment of its work, and really, we feel that we are warranted in the belief that the REPORTER is better now than it was three years ago or two years ago or even one year ago. The new of 1905 is going to make it still better. And the New is an Associate Editor.

From now on, Dr. W. H. Phillips is pledged to lend his best efforts to the end that the REPORTER shall be better, and the REPORTER extends to him a most hearty welcome, hoping that two heads may

indeed be better than one, and that consultation may develop many points of benefit to the REPORTER. Dr. Phillips brings to his duties as Medical Editor a knowledge the result of an extensive general practice involving much study and reading in the field of medicine and surgery; this followed by the post graduate work involved in preparation for his duties in the special field to which he is devoting himself, and this in turn by extensive travel abroad in search of new methods and technique. Such a preparation must necesarily result in a cultured, broad, learned man whom as we have said we are glad to welcome to association in an editorial capacity.

With the opening of the new year came the end of things warlike in Chicago. Way back in '76, the opening of a new century of our independence as a nation was signalized by the "Declaration of Independence" made by some of Hahnemann's Faculty and the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College was born. It proved a lusty infant and grew to years of maturity guarded and guided by strong hands. But it is no more. It is a victim of benevolent assimilation like unto that which our friends of the old school are offering us. All that remains is "A. C. Cowperthwaite, M. D., LL. D., member of the Board of Directors," and a few others. Wonder if this end was not foreseen a couple of years ago when some of the faculty of the "now swallowed" flitted to the "swallower"? Looks like some one or more consulted a barometer, as it were, and came in out of the wet.

However that may be, the two are one and a big one, too. They or IT as you may desire, should do a power of good for Homeopathy in that rapid, windy city on the lake. And it looks as if the good would really come. With such a fine faculty, such a fine hospital, such a fine building and two equipments things should go with a hum, only don't let the hum lose its musical tone, don't let the hum become that discordant noise which means friction and trouble and heat and fire and explosion. "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity," and sisters, too.

There is a new President of the American Institute of Homeopathy. George Royal is his name, and from what we hear there is something in a name. There is going to be a meeting January 7th in Chicago. The Institute Executive Committee is going to meet, and things are going to be done. When next we wield the editorial pen we'll tell you what we did. One thing should be done sure, and that is meet Brother Copeland and his O. O. & L. Society more than halfway in the

efforts being made to get into the Institute band-wagon. Really, when you think of it, doesn't it seem strange that a couple of fellows could year after year swing the voters and votes so as to perpetuate the monthly report of the O. O. & L. transactions? Perhaps, now that a financial transaction has taken place and monthly publication is no longer under aforetime control the necessity for the swing may not be in evidence. Outside of this publication reason, we fail to see why the union has not taken place. It should have occurred coincident with the birth of the O. O. & L. Society.

And we want to emphasize our desire that every alumnus of the college should interest himself personally and continuously and heartily in the REPORTER. We would like to consider every one of the children of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College-and this means the children of those colleges of which it is the legitimate successor, a co-laborer in the work. Send us news notes and reports of cases and original articles; all will be welcomed. It is our hope that the REPORTER may bind us closer together, and thus the college be made the more fully to serve its great purpose. To our good friends outside of the ranks of the Alumni Association we send greeting, thanking them for past favors and aşking a continuance of their good-will. To one and all we extend the compliments of the season, wishing you success and prosperity during the coming year.

Books of the Month

THE LIGHT OF CHINA. A New and Accurate Metrical Translation of the Great Semi-Poetical Original, THE TAO TEH KING. With Preface Illustrating the Chinese Language, Analytical Index of all the 81 Chapters, and Chinese Radical Vocabulary of Words and Phrases, Prologue and Epilogue, Explaining the Life and Teachings of the Immortal Author. By I. W. Heysinger, M. A., M. D., Author of "Solar Energy, Its Source and Mode Through the Universe," etc. Blue cloth, Illuminated cover; 165 Pages, Crown Octavo; Heavy Vellum Paper. $1.25 List. Philadelphia, Pa., Published by the Author.

This is really the most unique volume we have ever read. The book goes to show that the Chinese in their writing have always been in advance of the balance of the world. When we think that this people constitute possibly one-fourth of the human race, and that this work has controlled and illuminated their destinies for many cen

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