Clarke, unanimously adopted as the Code of Ethics of the American Institute of Homœopathy.

J. J. YOULIN, M.D., of Jersey City, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That the hearty thanks of the Institute are due, and are hereby extended, to Carroll Dunham, M.D., with his associates on the committee, for the able and acceptable manner in which they have performed their duty in preparing a national code of ethics.

DR. KELLOGG: I arise to ask whether this report will now be published in full in the forthcoming Proceedings. It seems advisable in order that new members may have it.

DR. TALBOT: This code of ethics might be reprinted in pamphlet form, together with the constitution, by-laws, and list of members, at very little expense, instead of inserting it a second time in the annual proceedings. It would make a cheap and convenient pamphlet for general circulation throughout the country.

DR. CLARKE: I move that the Secretary be instructed to have published the Constitution, By-Laws, and Code of Medical Ethics, and names of the members, as proposed.

Motion carried.

ANNUAL ADDRESSES.

DR. LUDLAM, of Chicago, offered the following:

Whereas, in the opinion of this Institute, the necessity for public addresses in favor of homeopathy in our large cities and communities has passed away,

Resolved, That in future the annual addresses to this body shall be upon some scientific or professional subject, and not upon popular medicine.

He added: I have no reflections upon my friend Clarke, who delivered so excellent an address last evening, but I think we have outgrown, in these large communities, any necessity for popular addresses upon medicine. We would all of us, I think, prefer one of a scientific nature.

DR. CLARKE: I hope the Institute will not pass the resolu tion, although I agree entirely with the explanation made. We may arrive at the same result by allowing the matter to take care of itself. There may be times and places where a popular address may be a very efficient and useful thing. I know that in Pittsburg, two years ago, an address given there by Dr. Helmuth was the means of forwarding the homoeopathic practice in that town to a very considerable degree, and of elevating its character. I hope that this will be left to the discretion of the speaker and the Committee of Arangements from year to year. When I was invited to speak here, I was told that there would be a public meeting, and I prepared my address solely for a meeting of laymen; and, of course, I was a little embarrassed last night to find I had an audience of doctors and their families. I hope this resolution will not become the formal action of this body, because I think it is too grave a treatment of a matter of such little importance, and I think there will sometimes be a real benefit derived from the speaker giving a public address; and, when it is deemed expedient, we can easily have a professional address.

DR. MORGAN: I really do think homoeopathy cannot be too much advertised through the medium of the Institute. Were we to withdraw ourselves entirely from the public, they would lose the lecture, and we should lose just what we gained in Pittsburg on the occasion of Dr. Helmuth's oration.

DR. WELLS: Homœopathy has outgrown the need of any such sort of advertising, in my judgment. If you wish to advertise the system in a community, there is but one way left for you and me and all this body; and that is by increasing our practice, and by the certainty and speed of our cures. The time has gone by for standing up before public bodies, and. telling them we think this and that. It is likely to have no effect in adding to our dignity and influence in the community. The time given to this question of public advertising can be § I.-19*

much more usefully employed in the discussion of some science which belongs properly to the profession.

DR. KELLOGG: It does seem to me somewhat beneath the dignity of this association to take this method of what they please to term advertising. Here we have a central organization embracing the whole country; many of us come from distant parts of the country and listen to an address, not intended for us, but for the inhabitants of that particular city in which we happen to meet. We do not come here for that purpose. come here for our own individual good; and I, for one, am in favor of elevating these addresses into something which we physicians can listen to with pleasure and profit. I hope the resolution will be adopted.

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DR. MORGAN: I do not mean to use the word "advertisement in any sense that will derogate from the dignity of the Institute, or of any member of it. There is nothing more pleasing to me than to see the spirit of independence among our menbers. Homœopathy stands forth conscious of strength. Dr. Clarke has very properly called attention to the Pittsburg address, productive of so much good. The whole world is not in the happy condition of New York, or even of Chicago; and we may be called to meet in cities in which such defence of homoeopathy would be of great value to our cause; and certain localities, are selected for meetings of the Institute for the very purpose, more than any other, of making the people better acquainted with homœopathy.

DR. CLARKE: I would not speak against the spirit which moved this resolution. Our larger places have outgrown the necessity of these popular addresses. Yet in many smaller places, - my own, for example, where attention has not been much called to homœopathy, such an address would be received with great interest, and would have a good effect. I should, of course, repudiate the idea of advertising; but there are communities which hardly know the meaning of the word "homoeo

pathy." If we go into such a place, we may benefit that com munity by an exposition of it.

DR. MORGAN (interrupting): That is advertising.

DR. CLARKE: Not in the sense of a business proceeding. Informing a person of something of benefit to him is quite another thing. I think myself that a popular address-my own particularly ought not to be published in the Transactions of a scientific association. If it be worth publishing for circulation for the purpose of informing the people, I would prefer to see it published separately.

DR. TALBOT: I, for one, can testify to the modesty of Dr. Clarke. At the meeting of the Massachusetts Society, he gave one of the best scientific addresses ever delivered before that body. And I, as Secretary, had to labor very earnestly with him to get that address for publication. The remark he has just made arouses my fears in regard to the excellent address to which we listened last evening, and which, however much I might be opposed to making the annual address a popular affair, 1 should certainly wish to see published in the Transactions. I accede entirely to the spirit of this resolution that the time has gone by when we need to repeat the history of homœopathy. In these addresses, I think we need something to benefit the members, rather than to educate the people. And just as homoeopathy is improved, just as this American Institute is elevated and its members educated, just in that proportion will homœopathy stand higher with the public.

I think that what this resolution designed to accomplish has already been gained. As there is nothing in the by-laws in relation to it, the Committee of Arrangements may regard the ideas here thrown out as an expression of the opinion of the Institute that it has attained to that weight of scientific character which will exempt it from resorting, as a general thing, to popular addresses as an expedient to make itself known.

Dr. LUDLAM: My chief object in offering it has been accomplished. I therefore withdraw the resolution.

On motion, the Institute adjourned to Friday, at nine, A.M.

EXCURSION FESTIVAL.

At four o'clock, P.M., the delegates, with ladies and invited guests, went on board the steamer Belle of Alton, for a trip up the river. About three hundred persons were in the company, and the Committee of Arrangements spared neither pains nor expense for the gratification of their guests, and were entirely successful. The trip extended to Alton, and the most cordial sociability was indulged during the entire excursion. Soon after leaving Alton to return, a banquet was spread in the saloon, at which his Honor Mayor Thomas presided. Speeches and music enlivened the occasion; and the excursion, as well as the sojourn in St. Louis, will long be remembered with pleasure by the members of the Institute.

THIRD DAY.

MORNING SESSION.

The Institute met on Friday, June 5, at nine o'clock, A.M., the President in the chair.

BUREAU OF HYGIENE.

The following papers were presented, and referred to the Publication Committee:

The Province and Medical Application of Hygiene; by Carroll Dunham, M.D. (Section VII. Art. 3).

Atmosphere and Water; by N. D. Tirrell, M.D. (Section VII., Art. 4).

Alcohol as a Hygienic Agent; by C. W. Boyce, M.D. (Section VII., Art. 5).