to those of their own sex, including, among other attentions, an eighteen mile drive about the city.

A rather disproportionate amount of time was given at the opening of the session to welcoming the members, but as the welcome was partly musical and wholly such as to excite an attentive responsiveness, it was greatly appreciated. The president's address was exceptionally comprehensive, and was an excellent review of the practice of medicine.

The result of the second election held for the choosing of officers for the ensuing year was as follows; President, Joseph P. Cobb, M. D., formerly of Chicago, Ill., now of Lincoln, Neb.; first vice-president, H. F. Biggar, M. D., Cleveland, Ohio; second vice-president, M. Belle Brown, M. D., Dean of the New York College for Women; general secretary, Ch Gatchell, M. D., Chicago, Ill.; recording secretary, J. Ritchie Horner, M. D., Cleveland, Ohio; treasurer, T. Franklin Smith, M. D., New York City, N. Y.; registrar, H. C. Aldrich, M. D., Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Millie J. Chapman of Pittsburgh, Pa., was re-elected to the board of

censors.

Special mention should be made of the completion of the by-laws, and their adoption by the Institute. The revision adapts them to existing conditions, bringing the different societies of specialists-originally offshoots of the Institute into closer touch with its work as a whole.

When the subject of the meeting place for the session of 1903 came up, Dr. A. B. Norton of New York at once pre sented invitations from different parts of his state. Dr. J. Herbert Moore of Brookline, Mass., extended an invitation to the Institute to meet in Boston, and his remarks were supplemented by Dr. J. P. Sutherland of Boston, who assured the members of a warm welcome. Dr. O. S. Runnells moved that this invitation be accepted, and the vote in favor of the session of 1903 being held in Boston or its vicinity was unanimous, about two hundred members being present.

At the session at Richfield Springs last year the Materia Medica Section intrusted to the Intercollegiate Committee,

for consideration and action, this memorial: "That there should be uniformity of teaching in all the colleges by the professors of materia medica and therapeutics, etc." At the meeting just concluded the Intercollegiate Committee recommended the adoption of the following resolutions, which were acted upon favorably :

Resolved, That the teaching of the principles of homœopathy, as enunciated in the Organon, homoeopathic pharmaceutics and homoeopathic materia medica, be continued throughout the entire four years' course, the Organon and homœopathic pharmaceutics at least one year, and homoeopathic materia medica at least three years.

Resolved, That the clinical teaching in our schools should be brought into the greatest attainable harmony with the teaching of materia medica.

Resolved, That we disapprove of and discountenance all teaching which gives approval of what is known as the purely 'empiric uses of medicine,' or the use of proprietary medicines and combination tablets; believing that such teaching is productive of confusion in the mind of students, is subversive of the principles of homoeopathy, and tends to retard true progress in the establishment of a scientific materia medica and therapeutics."

It is to be regretted that space does not permit of a more extended report of this most interesting session of the institute, especially as all the papers announced to be read were given, the writers, in nearly every instance, being present. These contributions and the discussions which followed were, as a rule, of a high order of merit. For the data used in the above report the editors of the Gazette are indebted to the courtesy of Dr. John P. Sutherland, of Boston.

NOTES ON THE PATHOLOGICAL EXHIBIT AT THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

It was the writer's good fortune to be present at the fiftythird annual meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June 10 to 13.

A few weeks ago the Alumni Association of Boston University School of Medicine received a letter from the Association Committee on Pathological Exhibits, inviting the school to contribute specimens of work in this department of medicine. The matter was referred to Dr. W. H. Watters, pathologist at the school, who decided to accept the invitation, and to make an exhibit in accordance with the request, and as he was detained in Boston, it was my privilege to attend at Saratoga in charge of the exhibit from our pathological laboratories.

It has been suggested that some little account of this part of the convention might be of interest to the friends of the B. U. S. M, who might thus form some idea of the standing of our school, as compared with that of the more numerous allopathic schools in the country. That the result of this comparison was very favorable would have been evident to any one present at the exhibition.

Schools were requested to confine their exhibits to special lines of work. The display from ours took the form of showing a method of preparing pathological and anatomical specimens for class demonstration, with the natural colors preserved and the whole mounted in glass with gelatine as a medium, making clean and attractive specimens for handling.

This work is the result of much thought and labor on the part of Dr. Watters, and has been in progress for nearly a year. The assignment of space for our exhibit at the hall at Saratoga was most desirable, being near the entrance, and therefore compelling the notice of all visitors. Our exhibit, though a small one, attracted immediate attention, even be fore entirely set up, and other exhibitors were most generous in their praise and desirous of learning our methods.

Throughout the three days of the exhibition the work of the B. U. S. M. received many gratifying compliments. It should be remembered, also, that the men who thus showed their appreciation were from the foremost ranks of the physicians of the country, including Dr. Wyeth and Dr. Jacobi of New York, whom the writer met personally and who were extremely generous in their compliments. Dr. Kelly of Johns Hopkins, and the men in the various chairs in all the large schools of Philadelphia, New York and Chicago were equally kind in their appreciation. The discovery to these men, also, of the homoeopathic tenets of the school did not apparently lessen their appreciation of work which, to them, was new and apparently very desirable.

In justice to Dr. Robertson of the Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia, it should be said that for the past few months he had been working on similar lines with considerable success, and it is to be regretted that he did not exhibit his work at the convention. He was most kind and generous in his praise, and it is to be hoped that in the future a comparison of work may be had.

As regards the exhibits from other schools these were very fine, consisting mainly of gross specimens, which their wide range of clinical facilities made very rare and instructive. Cornell, and Bellevue, and the Polyclinic Schools of New York had noteworthy displays in their line. The X-ray demonstrations by the workers in Cornell and the Medico Chirurgical School and Hospital of Philadelphia were of great excellence. Dr. Schamberg, of Philadelphia and Cornell Medical School, had some beautiful specimens of smallpox lesions, in series, mounted in Kaiserling. Another interesting display was that of the Marine Hospital, showing colonies of human, bovine, and avian of the bacilli of tuberculosis on various media. The collection of appendices by Dr Robert Abbey of New York, and Dr. H. C. Emerson of Springfield, attracted much notice, and the special work on the bacteriology of skin lesions, as displayed by the Pediatrics Laboratory of New York, was most praiseworthy.

Other schools had equally fine exhibits in various lines of work. The display of dissecting room anatomical work of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago was very commendable.

On the whole it may be said, from conversing with men in other schools as to methods, etc., that no one needs to be ashamed of the B. U. S. M. The advantages of access to large general hospitals are undoubtedly very great, and substantial endorsement of various chairs in these schools makes the range and scope of their work much wider. But that this school has done original work and made itself felt even in a moderate way among the institutions of the dominant school of medicine, cannot but be gratifying to alumni, students and friends alike. The attitude of the pathological committee was that of courtesy and kindness throughout, and the thanks to the alumni for their effort was manifestly cordial and sincere.

O. R. CHADWELL, B. U. S. M., '03.

MAINE HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Maine Homœopathic Medical Society was held at Biddeford, Maine, June 10th, 1902. The meeting was opened with prayer by Samuel Worcester, M. D., of Portland, Maine, a brother of Dr. John Worcester of Dorchester, Mass.

After the calling of the roll, the retiring president, Dr. L. A. Stewart, now of Clinton, Mass., gave an eloquent and scholarly address, which was listened to with the closest attention. The presentation of many interesting and instructive papers by members of the society was followed by an adjournment for dinner, after which a trip by buckboard was taken to the Trull Memorial Hospital. Here Dr. Nathaniel W. Emerson of Boston showed the modern technique of appendectomy, to the great satisfaction of his professional audience.