Therefore, the question to be answered is, which is the least painful and most certain method of effecting this; and, by the way, a number of different plans have been recommended. Some use acids, chloride of zine, caustic of arsenic, gold, bromide, antimony, Sanguinaria Canadensis, Vienna caustic, etc., while others use the knife, the galvanic eraseur, ligature electrolesis, the actual and thermal cautery, the Michel process, and the Mattaie treatment. As internal remedies: Codliver oil, mercury in various forms, iodine, iodide of potassium, bark, soda, potash, sarsaparilla, opium, morphia, nitrate of silver, belladonna, camphor, guacho, chian turpentine, etc. You have also heard the various lectures delivered by Prof. L. D. Rogers, about his trips through Europe and the various methods used abroad for the treatment of cancer. You will observe that an entirely different method of treating cancer is employed today, compared with what was used some twenty-five years ago. You will notice that operations are not so frequent; in fact the majority of the leading surgeons not only in America but in European countries have discarded the knife. The proofs have been shown you right here by the patients brought under your notice from time to time. Now a word about the condition of our alleys. All alleys should be provided with receivers for ashes, tin cans, bottles, garbage, etc. These receivers should have closed lids, one opening in the alley and one opening inside the enclosure, thus keeping all smells of decayed matter, also flying of ashes, inside of these receivers, thus preventing dogs and cats from spreading disease, as dogs are most susceptible to cancer. It would be wise to have these receivers emptied at night, thus preventing all offensive odors from being brought through the streets during the day. All persons having the least suspicion of cancer should consult a competent physician, have the growth examined and treated, thereby escaping perhaps a great amount of suffering. 45 Editorial Department LESTER E. SIEMON, M. D., JESSE L. SADDLER, A. M., M. D., GEORGE W. SPENCER, M. D., A. E. BIDDINGER, M. D., 710 Huron Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Published at Cleveland Homeopathic College, Cleveland, O. Editorial Editor. Managing Editor. Associate Editor. Associate Editor. Business Manager. Price $.100 per year Entered as second-class matter at the Post-ofloe at Cleveland, O., under the Aot of Congress March 3d 1897. The copy of the January issue of the REPORTER was sent to the printer nearly six weeks ago. We waited patiently for the proof, but it did not come. Finally we investigated and found that the copy had been lost. This will necessarily bring our January and February issues very near together, and one or two departments of the February issue will be omited entirely. We have tried to make up for this by adding other departments and ask you to be lenient with us for something not altogether our fault. We are glad to announce the speedy resurrection of our esteemed contemporary, the Critique. Whatever the causes that led to the discouraging decision to stop its publication with the last volume, they are evidently removed, for No. 1 of the new volume comes with a smile and promising garb. We congratulate the profession of Colorado and wish the Critique a continued successful career. A NEW PERIODICAL. We have received the first number of The Homœopathician, a Journal for Pure Homœopathy, published, by the Homoeopathician Publishing Company, of Harrisburg, Penn. It is under the joint editorship of Dr. James Tyler Kent, A. M., M. D., of Chicago, Illinois, and Julia C. Loos, M. D., H. M., of Harrisburg, Pa. It is to be a journal for the exposition of the principles and demonstration of the practice of pure Homœopathy, etc. As such we welcome it to our table. Anything that will advance the cause of pure Homœopathy is especially desirable at this time. The first issue is a handsome one and has much interesting matter. We believe that its object would be accomplished in a more solid way if all mention of cases treated or cured by any other measures than pure homeopathic methods were omitted, and especially if all potencies were of the true Hahnemannian scale. Finckeism, Swanism, Jennerism and Skinerism in the enumeration of potencies should be banished. These are barnacles of Homœopathy, and if we wish to demonstrate its practice we can do so quite as well by using the 30th and 200th or 1,000th potencies of Hahnemann as we can by any C. M. M.'s or D. M. M.'s of any bottle washing process invented by any one. It has been proved times without number that many of these so-called and so-labeled higher potencies, even way up in the thousandths, do not reach even the 10th centesimal Hahnemannian potency. "But they act," we are told. Of course they act. Why should not the 10th, 30th or 200th potencies act? It is very doubtful whether Swan or Fincke ever made a potency higher than the 20th centesimål Hahnemannian potency. So why not come to a common ground? If Homoeopathy is true, it can be proved by the Hahnemannian dosage. Notes and Comments The New York State Civil Service Commission announces an examination to be held on February 24th, 1912, for the position of Junior Physician (Homeopathic or Regular), in the New York State Hospitals for the insane, at a salary of $900 and maintenance, increasing $100 each year to a maximum of $1,200 and maintenance, beyond which point advancement is made upon promotion examinations. As the Commission has experienced difficulty in securing a sufficient number of eligibles from among residents of New York State, it has been decided to admit residents of other states, and in order to secure added competition, the Commission is endeavoring to make arrangements for holding this examination in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and St. Paul. The New York State Hospital service comprises fifteen State Hospitals, the Psychiatric Institute, and two hospitals for the criminal insane under the Superintendent of Prisons. Over 30,000 patients are treated annually, and the service presents the best available opportunity for the study of insanity. The institutions are organized along hospital lines, with training schools for nurses, and hospital equipment including laboratories, examination and treatment rooms and surgical operating rooms. There are nearly 200 salaried medical positions in the State Hospital service, and comfortable quarters, board and laundry are provided for all appointees and for the families of superintendents and first assistant physicians, in addition to the stated salaries. To those who take up the work as a career and apply themselves earnestly, promotion is certain and as rapid as is consistent with the period required for good training and maturity of judg ment. The salaries of the higher positions are as follows: Assistant Physician, $1,200 to $1,500; Second Assistant, $1,500 to $2,000; First Assistant, $2,000 to $2,500; Superintendent, $3,500 to $4,500. Anyone interested in this examination should write at once to the "New York State Civil Service Commission," Albany, N. Y., for application blank and full information. N. B.-The New York State Civil Service Commission desires to give the above notice as wide publicity as possible and requests that it be posted in medical colleges, etc., and especially that newspapers will publish the notice as an item of news. JOHN C. BIRDSEYE, Secretary. Albany, N. Y., January 25, 1912. The National Confederation of State Medical Examining and Licensing Boards will hold its 22nd annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday, Feb. 29th, at the Congress Hotel. The subjects to be considered at this meeting will be: The good a federation of medical boards can do; What should be the qualifications for membership in a federation of medical boards; Methods of conducting state licensing examinations; Medical school equipment and state board license examination; The organization of a federation of state medical boards. The topics to be presented are practical to all those interested in medical education and a federation formed upon lines to be suggested will necessarily prove fruitful. An earnest and cordial invitation to this meeting is extended to all members of state medical examining and licensing boards, medical teachers, delegates to the Council on Medical Education of the A. M. A., and all those interested. The officers of the Confederation are President Charles A. Tuttle, M. D.,. 196 York St., New Haven, Conn.; Secretary-Treasurer Geo. H. Matson, M. D., State House, Columbus, Ohio. Our readers will note in this issue for the first time the artistic advertisement of Palpebrine. The safe and reliable remedial agent in all external inflammation of the eyes. This Product is manufactured by the Dios Chem. Co., who have, during the last quarter of a century, manufactured exclusively for physicians, Dioviburnia, Neurosine and Germiletum, the reliability of which is generally recognized. No new and untried drugs enter into the composition of these specialties and their formulae have always been communicated to the Profession. Palpebrine will fill a long felt want of the general practitioners, who can themselves treat with this Product, safely and successfully, external inflammation of the eyes. The Dios Chem. Co. of St. Louis, will mail free, trial bottle of Palpebrine on application. HOMEOPATHY'S LARGEST HOSPITAL. The Metropolitan Hospital, on Blackwell's Island, New York, now enjoys the one advantage it has hitherto lacked to make its service of the greatest value. A Reception Hospital with a motor ambulance, which in six months answered 1908 calls, brings every variety of acute and surgical case to the wards. No hospital can now offer a more attractive service for internes. Its eighteen months' course is divided so that each man serves in each division in rotation. Last year the 11,138 patients were divided as follows: Surgical, 1802. Medical, 2803. Genito-urinary, 604. Mental and nervous, 291. Children, 376. Eye and ear, 196. Nose and throat, 57. Obstetrical, 218. Tubercular, 4687. 1020 surgical operations were performed. A hint of the pathological treasures that abound is given by the number of autopsies, 194, performed in the year. This hospital, maintained by the Department of Charities of New York, has recently opened several new buildings. The new staff house resembles a well appointed club. The pathological building is perfect in arrangement for the utilization of the vast supply of morbid material. The two new pavilions for |