comes in, there be substituted the following words: "the changes it produces in the tissues."

DR. MCMURRAY: I accept the amendment.

DR. N. F. COOKE: I would like to have the word "homeopathic "stricken out from the resolution, and let it stand "physician." DR. MCMURRAY: I do not propose to speak for the allopathic profession, Mr. President. I am not a member of it.

DR. COOKE: The point is, whether that word does by implication admit the ridiculous assertion that we have ignored, or ever can ignore, pathology.

DR. MCMURRAY: I only wish to say that the remark of Dr. Cooke is just as much a truism as my resolution: consequently I do not think there is any need of his amendment being accepted.

DR. P. P. WELLS: Whatever were the grounds of the assertion that Hahnemann and his early followers were ignorant of pathological anatomy, we are to-day bound to be able to say that no such charge shall be brought against us. As a mere branch of knowledge, we must master it. But there is great danger of our misusing that knowledge to our own peril, and perhaps to that of our patients. The results of necropsy must never control our prescribing.

DR. MCMURRAY (interrupting): I think it was assistance, not control, of which I spoke.

DR. WELLS: I accept the change. Pathological anatomy cannot aid us in prescribing. Our law requires a comparison,between what? Between the phenomena of disease and the effects of the remedy, but not between the lesions which disease makes and any agency that would produce similar ones; for we are to prescribe before the disease shall have wrought any change that anatomy could find. But, if otherwise, as certainty is our duty, the prover must carry the use of the drug to the extent of organic lesion, and then submit himself to dissection; and one immolation for each drug would not be enough. And then, for comparison, the prescriber must dissect his patients; and one

victim for each general form of disease would be too few. So our comparison cannot be between drugs and organic lesions. But, if the Institute desire, I would prefer to write out my argument more fully for the Transactions.

The Institute requested Dr. Wells to prepare the paper, and transmit it to the Committee on Publication. (Section III.,

Art. 6.)

DR. THAYER: I wish to ask whether or not Prof. Wells would abolish from our colleges the professorship of pathological anatomy?

DR. WELLS: Most assuredly, if that professorship is to impose a falsity upon the mind of the student; if its teaching is to be made the basis of his prescriptions.

DR. THAYER: One question more.

Would he also abolish with it, under similar circumstances, the professorship of anatomy?

DR. WELLS: No, certainly not.

DR. PHELAN moved to strike out the word "indispensable." Pathology is necessary to the physician, and aids him in combating the allopath. Pathology is abnormal physiology, and physiology was in a crude state till the symptomatology of Hahnemann threw light upon it.

DR. VERDI: I propose that we do away with physiology, pathology, and therapeutics, and that the practice of medicine hereafter consist in the Repertory and in the Symptomatology.

DR. MCMURRAY: The resolutions having served their full purpose, that of eliciting discussion upon the important subject of pathology, I will now withdraw them.

BUREAU OF SURGERY.

WILLIAM T. HELMUTH, M.D., Chairman of the Bureau, reported as follows:

Gentlemen of the Institute,

It gives me great pleasure to announce to you to-day a full

report of the Bureau of Surgery. When we look back over the past few years, and examine the transactions of the different homœopathic societies of the United States, we find that surgery has made as great strides as any one of the collateral branches of homoeopathic medicine. It gratifies me to present to you cases and reports from all sections of this country,articles which, I certainly know, would do credit to any society in any country.

Before, however, proceeding to the report, I would like to make a few explanatory remarks with reference to the report made by myself at New York last year. I then reported a case of traumatic stricture of the urethra; and, in conversing with my friend, Dr. Beebe, upon the report, in which I had mentioned his name, he supposed (and when I look at it myself, I think so too) that it read as if the case came directly from Dr. Beebe to me, and that, perhaps, I had accomplished what Dr. Beebe had not; which I certainly did, for the patient lived under his care two years, and under mine twelve days. The following papers were then presented:

Strangulated Hernia; by J. Beakley, M.D. (Section V., Art. 9.)

Ligature of the External Iliac Artery; by J. Beakley, M.D. (Section V., Art. 10.)

Acupressure and other Cases; by G. D. Beebe, M.D. (Section V., Art. 11 )

Imperforate Anus; by E. C. Franklin, M.D. (Section V., Art. 12.)

Cases from Practice; by J. C. Morgan, M.D. (Section V., Art. 13.)

Pittsburg Hospital Cases; by L. H. Willard, M.D. (Section V., Art. 14.)

Surgical Experiences; by T. G. Comstock, M.D. (Section V., Art. 15.)

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Caries of the Ankle-joint; by J. H. McClelland, M.D. (Section V., Art. 16.)

Rupture of the Thoracic Artery in a New-born Infant; by H. H. Hofmann, M.D. (Section IV., Art. 7.)

Dr. Franklin exhibited a patient from whom a large portion of the lower jaw had been successfully removed for osteosarcoma. The disease, which was extensively developed, had not returned since the operation.

Dr. Helmuth presented a photograph, and narrated the treatment of a boy who had his foot dislocated, and had been treated six months by allopathic physicians for caries of the bones of the foot. He reduced the dislocation, and sent him home well. The report of the Bureau was accepted, and referred to the Committee on Publication.

IMPORTANT SURGICAL OPERATION.

DR. HELMUTH exhibited a case of aneurism of the carotid artery, with venous anastomosis. He proposed to treat it by acupressure, or passing a needle behind the vessel. He said, if this should be successful, and if the circulation through the carotid can be arrested without any incision, it would certainly be one of the greatest advantages which would be derived from the introduction of acupressure, which was considered only as a means of arresting surgical hemorrhage. The patient was then put in position, and an acupressure needle was passed behind the vessel. This was the first operation of the kind which he had performed, and he hoped it would be successful.

The Institute then took a recess of fifteen minutes.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Institute reassembled at quarter before 2, P.M.

BUREAU OF OBSTETRICS.

R. LUDLAM, M.D., of Chicago, presented a report, on Spasm

and Rigidity of the Os Uteri. which was referred to the Publication Committee. (Section IV., Art. 6.)

BUREAU OF ANATOMY.

T. F. ALLEN, M.D., of New York, Chairman of the Bureau, presented a report, which was received and referred. (Sect. VII., Art. 1.)

BUREAU OF PHYSIOLOGY.

A report on the general subject of Physiology, by J. H. P. FROST, M. D., of Philadelphia, was received and referred to the Publication Committee. (Sect. VII, Art. 2.)

CASE OF DISCOLORATION BY NITRATE OF SILVER.

DR. H. S. CHASE, of St. Louis, exhibited to the Institute a person residing in St. Louis, whose color had been entirely changed by the use of nitrate of silver, administered in the treatment of epilepsy. After the patient had taken a grain and a half, three times a day for three months, the change in color commenced, and continued until the whole skin became of a deep-blue or leaden color.

THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION.

The Secretary read the report of B. W. James, M.D., Delegate to the International Convention, held at Paris, Aug. 9, 1867. It was referred to the Publication Committee. (Section VI., Art. 7.)

CODE OF MEDICAL ETHICS.

The report of the Committee, as printed in the Transactions of 1867, Section I., Art. 3, was, on motion of Dr. H. B.