PITTSBURG, Pa., has a Grand Army of Veteran Eclectics. Look at this array of names and ages. Drs. A. B. Sturgen, 80; Jno. W. Taylor, 62; J. S. Dodge, 68; R. E. Warner, 60; J. B. Greenwalt, 60; S. K. Lake' 59; J. A. Jacoby, 45; S. S. Warner, 45; E. J. Lake, 35; M. S. Aisbitt, 50; P. S. Stouffler, 64; and J. B. Oldshere, 50. What an average! Who can muster as many of the old men?

DR. J. T. COONEY, of Round Head, Hardin county, Ohio, will gladly locate an eclectic in a very profitable field. Few such openings exist. Write him!

DIED, at Wellfleet, Mass., April 7th last, Dr. J. G. Johnson. The doctor's demise leaves an opening for an eclectic. Write to his widow, Mrs. Sally R. Johnson.

DR. JOHN C. ENTZ, of the last class at the E. M. I., was joined in holy wedlock to Miss Caroline H. Schneider, July 12th, 1896, at Hillsboro, Kan. Every one of his classmates will join the GLEANER in showering rice and oldest of shoes at the happy couple, and in wishing them. prosperity.

Dr. C. HEUSER, of Oldenburg, Ind., would be glad to introduce a young eclectic who can speak German, into an excellent business. The place must be taken quickly. Write Dr. Heuser.

THE following is one of Prof. Locke's favorite prescriptions in general dropsy. We have tried it and will warrant with him its efficiency. R. Powdered elaterium, gr. 1, powdered digitalis, gr. 30, powdered squills, gr. 30, extract hydrastis to make pill mass. Make twenty pills. One pill every two to four hours. Be sure the ingredients are active, and the work will be well done.

DR. R. O. LOGGAN, E. M. I. 1886, the popular and successful eclectic of Philomath, was lately elected to the Oregon House of Representatives. The GLEANER and all good eclectics congratulate him.

LET us do your printing! 100 fine bristol cards, or envelopes, elegantly printed, only 40 cents, postpaid. Address, FREE PRESS, Sandoval, Ill.

FROM a copy of The Journal sent us by our good brother, Henry Wohlgemuth, M. D., of Springfield, Ill., we see that the Masonic Fraternity of his city, June 21, dedicated by due and appropriate impressive ceremonies a monument in Oak Ridge cemetery. We give them the greeting of fellowship, and especially Dr. Wohlgemuth.

DR. PRATT'S annual class for instruction in orificial surgery will be held at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College during the week beginning September 7th. For particulars address E. H. Pratt, M. D., 100 State St., Chicago.

AN eclectic physician is wanted badly at Caruth, Mo., "an E. M. I. graduate preferred"; a good country practice. Address Mrs. M. E. Douglass, Caruth, Mo.

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MARRIED at 270 Mt. Vernon Ave., June 24, 1896, at 7 P. M., W. H. Hinklin, of LaRue, Ohio, to Miss Olive Washburn. The happy couple will be "at home" at LaRue, after July 15th. The GLEANER congratulates the genial Doctor and his "Frau" and wishes for them a continuity of the unbroken success of the past.

IN "Texas Items" we see that another of the fathers of eclecticism. has been called to other fields. Dr. J. R. Johnson, E. M. I., 1853, who for some years has been at Cotton Gin, Texas. We bow to the inevitable-Do we all learn the lessons from these lives that we may

lead?

FOR a stamp we can put an energetic eclectic who can do minor surgery and some eye and ear work in communication with one who intends to leave a $2500, business in a good school town in Ohio. "No practice to sell." Address, THE MEDICAL GLEANER, 1526 Elm Street, Cincinnati, O.

WE are pained to record the death of another eclectic stalwart. Dr. W. J. Nicolay, E. M. I., 1866, of 409 N. Prairie St., Bloomington, Ill. The Doctor had made all arrangements to attend the National even to the purchas of his ticket, when death suddenly intervened.

DR. W. S. ROWLEY, E. M. I., 1890, Cor. Sec. of the World's Congress of Climatology, is at present at 520 Hennen Building, New Orleans, La., where he has been investigating the therapeutical value of the water of Stafford Mineral Spring, near Vossburg, Miss.

TO THE GLEANER: If you know a young doctor who has lived on a farm before he studied medicine, who wants a village location on a R. R., with a splendid farming country around it, and no other doctor to bother him, send him to Sharpsburg, Ill. A live young man can do a $3,000 business there. Fraternally, S. L. Reefy, M. D., Edinburgh, Ills. Doctor, do you want the place? Go for it.

THE GLEANER thanks Dr. M. M. Harvill, of 714 South Spruce St., Nashville, Tenn., for favors. Success to him.

THE E. M. I. "boys" 1893, will doubly congratulate their fellow, Dr. Carl G. Winter, of 40 E. Ohio St., Indianapolis, Ind. He has been married lately, and he has been re-elected Cor. Sec. of his state society, and is doing a very nice business. The GLEANER heaves great hunks of congratulations over the State line labeled, Dr. C. G. Winter.

TEXAS ITEMS.-Dr. J. R. Johnson, of Cotton Gin, Texas, died June 26th. Dr. Johnson was one of the oldest eclectics of the state and one of the charter members of our state society, and was always to be found at our annual meetings and was an enthusiastic worker for our cause. We sincerely regret the loss of one of our honored and best men. A more extended account of the doctor's late illness and death will appear in our next issue.

Fred J. Burkey, M. D. C., of this place, and a man of brains and energy, has taken a course in bacteriology in the medical college of Texas, and has fitted up a suit of elegant rooms and is devoting the most of his time to that branch of medicine. The doctor is liberal in his views.

The State Homeopathic Medical Association met in Waco last month. They passed a resolution condemning the action taken by the allopaths in their recent convention, and unanimously declared themselves opposed to any co-operation, with the old school of the state. This is just what the allopaths deserve, but the wisdom of the move I question. As it is, what little semblance of law we have in this state for the control of medicine, is wholly in favor of the old school, and a movement in concert upon the part of the cooler heads of all the schools, cannot but work for our benefit. And no one who has thoroughly investigated the matter, can doubt for a moment, that Texas needs a more efficient medical law. We as a school, feel just as the homeopaths feel, but it is to be hoped that we will restrain all retaliatory measures at our coming meeting, and endeavor to have a law passed that will do us all good. Principle is above revenge, and to get equitable laws for all schools, will be our most potent retaliation.

G. W. Johnson, M. D., has again sacrificed self interests for the eclectic cause. When duty calls he never fails to go. But for him, Texas would have been unrepresented at the national. For the second time he has been selected as vice-president of that association. We can see no good reason why he should not have moved onto first place. The doctor is an able and worthy man, and should have been elected president of the National for the ensuing year. The South needs more representation at the National. If we expect to get anything from our National Association, we must go after it as others do.

The next meeting of the National at Lake Minnetonka, Minn., is not in accordance with my views. I am not in sympathy with this "excursion" idea of the National. It will do very well once in a while, but to make a business of meeting at some remote "resort," will tend rather to damage than benefit our cause. The excursion to Portland and the western meeting was all good and grand for those who could go, and will redound to the glory of our school, but to the rank and file of our school it was of no special benefit. I am not finding fault with the instigators of this move. Although I was opposed to it at first, I soon saw how it could be made a success, as it was in every sense of the word, but to do it over again would meet with disaster. I tell you the wise and only proper course of the National is to meet where all eclectics can attend, at some central point.

No less than a dozen of Texas eclectics would have attended the National this year if it had been within reasonable distance, but the time and expense of the trip to Portland deterred them. I do not write this in a spirit of antagonism to the good sense of our American association, but to simply express my sentiments upon this most important subject, and to induce others to the same, in order that we may arrive at a proper knowledge of the wishes of the majority of the eclectics of this country.-L. S. Downs, M. D., Galveston.

BOOK NOTICES.

A Book of Poems.-In "Some Home-made Poems," we have a volume of real poetry. The author has not misconstrued himsef at the reader's expense. His dialect work has in it the genuine rinktum, reminding you of Riley at his best, but the dialect itself is faulty. If the author shall ever revise his book, I hope he will look to this. James Whitcombe Riley is the great master in this field, and he should be conscientiously studied by all who attempt Hoosier dialect.

For the rest, it is past criticism, It is innocent of epicoid lunges and sonnetic plunges, and all such arid bluff. No melanges of nebulous and bewildering drivel; no tremendous thought-bursts, or tragic mindslides-only a limpid flow of imaginative beauty and rythmic sweetness. No assaults on your credulity, no intrinsic opportunities for your charity, no profanities, no risquy hints or glints-just a melifluous tinkle of genius poetically dissolved. It is all as pure as astral space, and as gentle and tender as "love's young dream." The GLEANER drops its prettiest curtsy, and throws its sweetest kiss to Nixon WaterBoston and Chicago: The Greenleaf Company. C.

man.

The Three Ethical Codes. That of the American Medical Association; its constitution, by-laws, amendments, etc. That of the American Institute of Homeopathy and that of the National Eclectic Medical Society. Limp cloth, round corners, 55 pages, postpaid 50 cents. The Illustrated Medical Journal Co., publishers, Detroit, Mich.

By comparing the Code of the Homeopathic Society with that of the American Medical Association, it will be found that several sections. of the former are similar to the latter's code. The Eclectic Code is worthy of mention for its brevity. Although it contains but two sentences it is all-involving, and takes cognizance of every man's rights. and privileges. You will want the old school code to file away. later years it will be a curio.

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The Multum in Parvo Reference and Dose Book. By C. Henri Leonard, M. A., M. D., Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women, Detroit College of Medicine. Flexible leather, 143 pages, price 75 cents. Detroit, 1896: The Illustrated Medical Journal Co., Publishers.

This is a recent ediiion of the Dose Book, of which the title page informs us some forty thousand copies have been issued. The present edition is printed on very thin paper, and is bound in red leather, round corners, so as to make it specially light and handy for the pocket; the weight is not two and a half ounces. Besides the doses of some 3.500 preparations being given, it has numerous tables, such as the solubility

of chemicals, pronunciation of medical proper names, poisons and their antidotes, incompatibles, tests for urinary deposits, abbreviations, table of fees, etc. It will be found a handy pocket companion. We cheerfully recommend it to GLEANER readers.

Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association, of the United States of America for the year 1895-6, including the proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting, held at Waukesha, in the state of Wisconsin, June, 1895, together with the Reports, Papers, and Essays, furnished before the several sections in their sittings, edited by W. E. Kinnett, M. D., secretary.

We believe that this edition is the equal in worth of its predecessors. In mechanical make-up, we are sure that it surpasses some of them. There is room for improvement in many papers presented to the society. We congratulate the editor on his work in this edition, and upon the fact that as he had so little financial backing, he has done so well. We hope the Society will encourage him in his editing process in future volumes. The Sullivan Printing Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, left the imprint of the artistic and professional printers which they are, upon every page of this edition. We are pleased with the book, and are glad that we have it to review.

MESS. MAX. WOCHER & SON, of 23 W. 6th St., Cincinnati, Ohio, have just issued the second edition of their handsome catalogue of surgical instruments, orthopedic apparatus, trusses, elastic hosiery, electrical batteries, microscopes, hospital and laboratory supplies, office furniture, rubber sundries, etc., etc. It is a very complete affair, containing nearly 600 pages, and will enable the doctor to select his goods from this old and reliable house without coming to the city. They have on hand at all times a complete stock, and are always ready to fill your order. Send them fifteen cents to pay the postage, mention the GLEANER and get the catalogue. You'll not regret it.

WHITTAKERS' Anatomical Models: A Pictorial Representation of the Human Frame and its Organs; also, The Anatomy of the Human Head and Neck, geographically illustrated by means of superimposed plates, both with descriptive text by Dr. Schmidt. English edition by William S. Furneaux, New York, Thomas Whittaker, publisher second and third Bible House.

In these useful little books an admirable attempt is made at giving a pictorial representation of the human body and its organs, and at the same time supply a simple description of its structure and functions. They will be admired and used with benefit by both graduate and student.