This Society was established in 1857. It now numbers some forty members, who meet every other week. Each member is a permanent committee upon some medical topic; and these committees report in regular rotation at each meeting of the Society. ST. LOUIS HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. J. T. Temple, M.D., Delegate. J. T. Temple, M.D., St. Louis, President. The Society numbers fourteen members. Its meetings have been unusually interesting, and are fully attended and harmonious. 3.- HOSPITALS, INFIRMARIES, ETC. CONSUMPTIVES' HOME, BOSTON. Charles Cullis, M.D., Delegate. Charles Cullis, M.D., Boston, Founder. The operations of the Home have steadily increased in extent and beneficence. During the second year, ending Sept. 30, 1867, eighty-one persons enjoyed the benefits of the Home; twenty-three were discharged by being provided for by friends, or from other causes; fifteen, as able to labor; one, cured; twenty-nine died, and thirteen remained at the close of the year. The whole number of inmates had then been one hundred seventy-nine. The houses are Nos. 11, 13, and 18 Willard Street; the latter having been established within the year as a home for the children of the inmates; and of these, such as are left orphans will be provided for until maturity. HOUSE OF THE ANGEL GUARDIAN, BOSTON. H. P. Shattuck, M.D., Delegate. Rev. G. F. Haskins, Superintendent. H. P. Shattuck, M.D., Boston, Physician. There have been between three hundred and three hundred and fifty boys in this institution all the time during the past year. In that time they have been remarkably healthy. There has been no epidemic of any kind, and but few of the complaints common to children of their ages. The "new-school" treatment continues to give the utmost satisfaction to the managers of the institution. The accompanying table shows the number of cases treated, with the results thereof. One remarkable case is that of a boy who came to this institution under the supposition that he could live but a short time from tubercular phthisis. At the present time he is, to all appearances, well, and remarkable for his excessive muscular power. One case has died this year, of heart disease of rheumatic origin. On making an autopsy, considerable hypertrophy was found; the pericardium was adherent throughout its entire surface, and all the valves were covered with ossific nodules. There was also dropsy of the abdomen and thorax. FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, NEW YORK. B. F. Joslin, M.D., Delegate. Rev. S. B. Halliday, Superintendent. B. F. Joslin, M.D., Attending Physician. Henry C. Houghton, M.D., Resident Physician. The total number of inmates for the year was 1,289; 224 remaining at the close. The following is a tabular statement of diseases and deaths for the year ending March 1, 1868. consumption, one of hip disease, one of Bright's disease, one of acute hydrocephalus, one of general debility, one of typhoid pneumonia. The first six were of a scrofulous character. Scarlet fever twice started in the House, but on each occasion Belladonna was given as a preventive, not only to the children more directly exposed in the hospital-room, but to all the children in the institution. The result was most satisfactory, as, in all, only eight cases of this dreaded discase occurred: these were treated successfully. One case of gangrene of the mouth was cured; in a former year, two cases were reported cured by homoeopathic remedies, - a pleasant success with a disease so generally fatal. The present hospital-room, though admirable in some respects, is quite insufficient to properly accommodate all the demands made upon us by the sick children. The very serious evil of having to treat all diseases, contagious or otherwise, in one room, is too apparent to require comment. Scrofulous ophthalmia will always be found among this class of children, and is readily communicated from one to another. Typhus, scarlet fever and measles occasionally visit them. Apart from the contagious character of these diseases, another very important reason for separation in different wards is found in the very different kind of care required. Ophthalmia and typhus require a constant supply of pure air of a moderate temperature; the poisonous emanations are thus rendered harmless by being diluted with plenty of air. Scarlet fever and measles, though of course requiring good ventilation, cannot with impunity be exposed to the strong draughts of air found useful with the other diseases named. It is to be hoped that, at some time not too far in the future several fine wards may be provided, with the much-needed con. veniences of baths, and cooking apparatus for hospital purposes. NEW YORK HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL. H. M. Smith, M.D., Delegate. The Hospital was chartered April, 1867. It is to be, like other similar institutions, under the superintendence of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Corrections of the City, but all the patients are to "be under the care of surgeons and physicians belonging to the homoeopathic school of medicine." The last Legislature removed some obstacles to putting the institution into working order, and that consummation is, we trust, not far off. NEW YORK OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. T. F. Allen, M.D., Delegate. C. F. Liebold, M.D., J. M. Wetmore, M.D., Attending T. F. Allen, M.D., C. A. Bacon, M.D., Surgeons. The Trustees of this institution, in the middle of its sixteenth year, voted, on the evening of June 10, 1867, to replace the allopathic staff with a homoeopathic one. This change was very suddenly brought about by the mutual discovery, among the Trustees, that fifteen out of seventeen of them were homoeopaths. Suitable surgeons were quietly looked up, and the change was made without the knowledge of most of the homoeopathic physicians, and without any influence exerted by them on the Trustees. The two allopathic Trustees resigned, and homœopaths were chosen in their places. The change is attracting a new class of patients, who are dissatisfied with the harsh treatment of allopathy. During the remainder of the year 1867, after the change of treatment, the number of patients was 702; in the former part of the year there had been 504,-making a total of 1,226. The operations of the latter part of the year were thirty-nine, |