INTERNATIONAL HAHNEMANNIAN ASSOCIATION. The International Hahnemannian Association will meet June 21, 22 and 23, at the Hotel Brunswick, Asbury Park, N. J. All physicians practicing and interested in the Homeopathy of Hahnemann, Benninghausen, Hering, Lippe, Dunham, Farrington, are invited and urged to attend and help make this, the thirty-second annual meeting, the most successful in the history of the association. While the homeopathic law is as true today as when first promulgated by Hahnemann, and its employment attended by as good resultsbetter than under any other treatment-yet the erroneous opinion prevails that the law is difficult of application. Hence there is recourse to unhomœopathic methods, attractive because of ease in selection of treatment, which is based, in almost every instance, on the disease name. It is expected that this most important matter will be dealt with at the meeting, and illustrations given of simplified, easily understandable ways in which the simillimum may be readily found. The chairmen of the various bureaus report the promise of interesting and valuable papers; that much enthusiasm is manifest. A good attendance and a profitable meeting is thus assured. are: The bureau chairmen, to whom communications may be addressed, Mass. Homœopathic Philosophy-Dr. Frank Wallace Patch, Framingham, Materia Medica-Dr. Margaret Burgess-Webster, 1703 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Clinical Medicine-Dr. Richard Blackmore, Bellevue, Pa. Homœopathic Treatment in Obstetrics-Dr. William H. Freeman, 263 Arlington avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Homœopathic Treatment in Surgery-Dr. Henry L. Houghton, 419 Boylston street, Boston, Mass. The hotel rates are as follows: One person, single room, without bath, $3 per day; with bath, $4 per day. Two persons, double room, without bath, $6 per day; with bath, $7 per day. MAURICE WORCESTER TURNER, President. OBITUARY. Dr. E. E. Whitaker, for thirty years in active practice in Newport, Vermont, died in Montreal General Hospital on March 25, of pneumonia, following operation for cancer of the tongue. Dr. Whitaker was born in Lawrence, Mass., in 1848, and received his medical education at Long Island Medical College, New York, and at Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. He was a prominent and useful citizen and an able and successful physician. He was deeply interested in the civic and educational welfare of the community and was for many years health officer of the town of Newport, serving also on the school board and as village trustee. He will be greatly missed as a wise physician and friend. Dr. Roland A. Davis (class of 1893, B. U. S. M.) died suddenly on April 19, at his home in Somerville, Mass., aged 65 years. TO LET. PERSONAL AND GENERAL ITEMS. For a part or all of the month of June a six-room cottage on an excellent bathing beach and within about one hundred yards of yacht club at Point Independence, and sewer connection. 80 East Concord St., Boston. Rent cheap. Buzzards Bay; running water One of our number, Dr. Mary R. Lakeman of Salem, Mass., has for the past five years been conducting at Holderness, New Hampshire, a summer camp for girls. Associated with her in the work is Elizabeth Mitchell Fessenden, an experienced physical director. The life of this camp is entirely out of doors. At night the walls of the tents are rolled up so that the campers are practically sleeping in the open. The girls eat outdoors. They work and play outdoors. They read and write outdoors. They live outdoors. Only rain drives them to the open fire of the cottage. The food is simple and wholesome. Pie tins and doughnut kettle are banished from the kitchen, and emphasis is laid on eggs, milk, cream, fruit and fresh vegetables. The sports are swimming, diving, rowing, tramping, mountain climbing, active games, etc., and the greatest possible care is taken that no girl, however frail, shall overdo. Experience has abundantly justified the wisdom of these methods. The frail have learned what it is to be strong and well, and the strong have grown stronger. In spite of the active exercise the thin have grown fat, and sometimes the fat have had the satisfaction of growing thinner. Such camp life as this is we believe the best means of counteracting the evils which result from the high tension at which our young girls are living through the winter season. A number of the medical brethren and sisters have expressed their approval of this mode of living by sending girl patients into the wilderness for the nine weeks of the camp season, and their enthusiasm over results has been as warm as that of the delighted parents. Dr. Alonzo G. Howard has removed his offices, gymnasium and workship from 520 Commonwealth Avenue to a much larger and better location in The Belvoir, 636 Beacon St., corner of Raleigh St., Boston. Dr. P. J. Haigis, of Foxboro, Mass., was married recently to Miss Ruth Hodges. During Dr. Haigis' temporary absence from home his practice was taken by Dr. Denny W. Livermore. The June meeting of the Maine Homeopathic Medical Society is planned to be of unusual interest. Dr. John T. Palmer, the president, has been travelling throughout the State arousing enthusiasm. It is planned to have the session extended over two days instead of one as in the past. The first day will be devoted to a business meeting, and later to a sail down the harbor of Portland and a dinner at the Peak's Island Hotel. The second day there will be a clinical meeting at the Trull Hospital, in which Dr. N. W. Emerson, of Boston, and Dr. W. V. Hanscom, of Rockland, Me., will participate. Dr. Arthur H. Ring, of the Arlington Health Resort, has opened an office at Warren Chambers, 419 Boylston street, Boston. Hours: 11 to 1, daily, except Thursdays and Sundays. Practice limited to nervous and mental diseases. Dr. Elizabeth E. Shaw, of Brookline, was married on April 10 to Waldemar H. Ritter, a nephew of Dean William F. Warren, former president of Boston University, and son of the president of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Shaw is a graduate (magna cum laude) of Boston University School of Medicine of the class of 1905, and of Smith College. Dr. Robert Weller French (B. U. S. M., 1907) of Malden, was married at Wellfleet, Mass., on April 18, to Miss Grace Freeman. Dr. Carl Crisand, for twenty-three years in practice in Worcester, Mass., has retired and removed to Brookfield, Mass. On the evening of April 8 the homeopathic physicians of Worcester met at the home of Dr. J. P. Rand to say good-bye to Dr. Crisand and to welcome his successor, Dr. John E. Willis (B. U. S. M., 1898) who left Somersworth, New Hampshire, to take up Dr. Crisand's practice. In token of the friendship of his colleagues, Dr. Crisand was presented with a handsome sterling silver pitcher, suitably engraved. Dr. Crisand has built up a large and successful practice in Worcester and will be greatly missed from the city. The office and practice left vacant by the death of the late Dr. Osmon Royal, of Portland, Oregon, have been taken by Dr. Chas. Billington, B. U. S. M., 1903. The Gregory Society of B. U. School of Medicine in carrying cut the work inaugurated last year, has given a number of lectures to women on subjects of general hygiene. Dr. Mary E. Mosher and Dr. Grace G. Savage have given lectures to Mothers' Clubs at the South Bay Union, and Dr. Susan M. Coffin to a Girls' Club at Shawmut Congregational Church. Other lectures have been given at mothers' meetings in the public kindergartens by members of the student body. In addition to this work warm clothing has been provided for needy babies, and in cases of financial inability prescriptions have been filled. Dr. Denny W. Livermore, B. U. S. M., 1908, has removed to Walpole, Mass. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine who has had considerable experience in laboratory and in hospital work is desirous of obtaining summer work in general practice or in pathology during the months of June, July, August and September. Any physician desiring a substitute for a longer or shorter period of time may obtain further information by addressing Dr. W. H. Watters, 80 E. Concord street, Boston. The sum of $250,000 has recently been donated by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Osborne to the Bellevue Training School for Nurses for the purpose of erecting a club home and registry for nurses of that institution. It is reported that in accordance with the recent ruling of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, all members of the medical and surgical staff will be required to give up private practice and to devote their attention exclusively to hospital work. The Children's Hospital of Boston is beneficiary to the extent of $25,000 by the will of the late Mrs. George Worthington of New York and Pittsfield. The Gazette is in receipt of a little folder entitled "Retrospect and Forelook," emanating from Woodside Cottages at Framingham, Mass. Dr. Patch has within the last ten years certainly made a very attractive colony here, the buildings have increased from the original one in 1900 to six at the present date. Dr. Patch also announces that further enlargement and improvement is contemplated for the near future. We wish for him and his work all possible success. On March 18 the German Hospital of Philadelphia celebrated with appropriate ceremony the laying of the corner stone of the new addition to that institution, made possible by the recent gift of $100,000. This addition will include a maternity hospital and a nurses' home. The Hahnemann Hospital of Philadelphia receives the sum of $5,000 under the will of the late Anton W. von Etassy. FOR SALE. A $5000 cash homeopathic practice for sale within easy access of Boston, in the best town in Massachusetts. Population, including tributary towns, over 20,000. First class roads; nolong drives. No homeopathic opposition. The present occupant is giving up practice because of failing health. An excellent opportunity for an energetic man. Terms for practice and first class new garage, $1000. Will accept half cash and balance secured, with six per cent. interest on deferred payment. Thorough introduction given to successor. Address "G. X. M.", care New England Medical Gazette, 422 Columbia Road, Boston, Mass. THE TRIALS OF THE COUNTRY DOCTOR.-In the September number of Northwest Medicine, Appleby gives an article upon the above topic, particularly in relation to the specialist. As this approaches the subject in a somewhat different way from the accustomed ones, it is of decided interest. Among other things he says: "Have you referred patients to the specialist? Surely you have, and may I ask, with what result? Let us suppose that you are a plain country doctor, attend all the family ills from lancing the baby's gums to confining the mother. Finally Willie visits the city cousin, snores during the night and perhaps wets the bed; he is taken to the specialist, his adenoids and tonsils removed, is deprived of his prepuce, the rectum dilated and lastly his eyes fitted with glasses; he returns home minus much of his anatomy and some cash, but proud that he can show the home doctor something that he doesn't know. In time other ills appear. The family doctor is called, watches by his bedside and nurses him back to health. However, his prestige is gone, and when Willie's appendix gives trouble, after a mess of green apples, he is rushed off to the city and the family doctor forgotten. You have no doubt referred patients, after making a correct diagnosis, to the great surgeon who has spent months on the top seat of Mayo's, Senn's or Kelley's surgical clinic and viewed their work through a field glass, or possibly crossed the pond and spent many weary hours in the Latin quarter of Paris, took a jaunting trip through Ireland, seen London by lamplight, and lastly Berlin and Vienna, where the language and customs of the people are so familiar to him. There is a lack of good feeling and much professional jealousy existing between the country and city physician, mostly on the part of the country man, due often to the treatment received from the city brother. Why this jealousy? We graduate from the same schools, study the same text-books and treat the same class of cases. . Some years ago I called to my assistance from the city an elderly, capable physician and gentleman, who carefully looked over my patient and said to the family during my absence: 'Your physician is handling this case in a satisfactory manner, his treatment is excellent, and I cannot suggest anything more. Follow his directions and you will no doubt recover.' At another consultation (different stripe of physician). after agreeing with another local physician and myself, the consultant secretly informed the patient that we were in error, and advised him to come to him in the city for treatment." BY GEORGE F. LAIDLAW, M.D., New York, Professor of Medicine in the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital. Ladies and Gentlemen:-I am neither a preacher nor a prophet, as suggested by your president. I am a Diogenes come over from New York with my lantern to look for homœopathic principles in the present-day practice of Boston. Now, presentday practice is a broad term. I do not know how it is in Boston, but in New York present-day practice includes the wicked allopath, the good homeopath, the osteopath and the Christian Scientist. In which of these divisions of practice I am to look for homeopathic principles, the president did not say. I am sure that he does not expect me to look for homoeopathic principles among the homoeopathic physicians of Boston. As for the osteopath, he is like Lord Dundreary's bird of a feather. Having only one feather, he had to flock by himself. It is useless to look for homopathic principles among the osteopaths and the Christian Scientists because the osteopath has only one principle and the Christian Scientist has no principles at all. At least, that is what I understood a distinguished ex-Senator to declare yesterday before the learned judges of Boston. If I am not to look for homeopathic principles among the homœopaths nor the osteopaths nor the Christian Scientists, it must be that I am to look for them among the wicked allopaths, who constitute nine-tenths of the physicians of this country today. If you had invited me twenty years ago to look for homoeopathic principles in allopathic practice, I would have replied that there was plenty of homoeopathic practice among the allopaths but very little principle. What homoeopathic practice there was among them was very unprincipled. It was petty larceny. There was plenty of copying of homoeopathic cures into allopathic text books without the slightest credit for their origin. If I borrow an automobile tire from my neighbor's car because Address at the Joint Meeting of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society and the New England Hahnemannian Association, April 12, 1911. |