performed upon twenty-seven patients; all were followed by good results. The smallness of the number of operations was due to care in the selection of cases, and the postponement of operations to cooler weather. Two of the surgeons attend daily; on alternate days, all are present. An Ophthalmic School is connected with the Hospital, with two evening lectures a week. There is a clinic four days in the week.

PROTESTANT HALF ORPHAN ASYLUM, NEW YORK.

B. F. Bowers, M.D., Delegate.

B. F. Bowers, M.D., New York, Physician.

This institution, now in its thirty-third year, was placed under homœopathic care, under very trying circumstances and as an experiment merely, in 1842, a quarter-century since. The experiment has been carried far enough to determine the result, comparing the eight years of allopathy with the twenty. five years of homoeopathy.

The average annual results, together with a statement of the fatal cases, under homoeopathic treatment, appear in the following table:

Thus the average mortality in this Asylum under allopathic treatment seven years was two per cent; under homoeopathic treatment, - twenty-five years, a little over six-tenths of one per cent. Such a record not only indicates the superiority of homoeopathy, but also the steady improvement and more satisfactory results in each succeeding decade. It effectually silences the complaints made in some quarters that the practice of homoeopathy is retrograding.

ORPHAN ASYLUM, NEWARK, N.J.

S. B. Tompkins, M.D., Delegate.

S. B. Tompkins, M.D., Physician.

THE LITTLE WANDERERS' HOME, PHILADELPHIA.

H. N. Martin, M.D., Delegate.

H. N. Martin, M.D., Attending Physician.

This institution is located at the corner of Tenth and Shippen Streets. During the past year, there have been several cases of scarlet fever, measles, and whooping-cough, a great number of cases of ophthalmia, and of various skin diseases. Only one death from scarlet fever has occurred during the year.

HOSPITAL OF THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENN

SYLVANIA.

H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Delegate.

An attempt is being made to raise from half a million to a million dollars for this object. The Trustees have issued circulars, and have received many encouraging replies. A hospital of from two hundred to four hundred beds is proposed; it would be a great advantage to the students, as well as a boon to the sick poor.

Walter Ure, M.D.,

D. Cowley, M.D., Obstetrician.

H. H. Hofmann, M.D., Consulting Physician.

This institution is now placed on a firm financial basis. property is estimated at about $45,000.

Its

The receipts for the

last year were $30,140.64. The building is in complete repair, and will accommodate thirty-eight patients, with their attendants. It has an earnest and efficient Medical Board. The Ladies' Homœopathic Charitable Association, connected with it, now numbers about two hundred members, and has, in the last two years, applied more than ten thousand dollars to the maintenance of poor patients; this sum, with that received from other patients, almost covers the expenses. The number of patients treated in the twenty months of its existence has been 256, with a mortality of 17,- a little less than seven per cent. The number of patients in 1867 was 162.

It

The Dispensary is the oldest in this part of the State. has done much to advance homœopathy. The number of prescriptions in the last year was 1,724; in the whole time, 2,504.

CLEVELAND HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL.

T. P. Wilson, M.D., Delegate.

A few enterprising individuals have purchased a large, beautiful, well-located building for thirty-five thousand dollars, and given the use of it to the Homœopathic Hospital Association for ten years, with liberty to purchase. It is hoped that the institu

tion will commence its career of mercy in the course of July, The Cleveland Homoeopathic College shares in the use

1868.

of the building.

4.

- DISPENSARIES.

CONSUMPTIVES' HOME DISPENSARY, BOSTON.

G. M. Pease, M.D., Delegate.

G. M. Pease, M.D., Attending Physician.

This was opened at the Consumptives' Home, No. 13 Willard

Street, Boston, March 27, 1868.

In two months about sixty

A large proportion was of

different cases have been treated. pulmonary affections, there being a prevailing idea that the Dispensary is especially designed for consumptives. The institution is without endowment, and dependent on voluntary contributions. The conveniences of the room are limited, and it is open from one to two, P.M., only; but it is hoped that its usefulness and facilities will increase as the work advances.

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY, BOSTON.

George Russell, M.D., Delegate.

S. Whitney, M.D., Attending Physician.

A. F. Squier, M.D., Visiting Physicians.

A. Boothby, M.D.,

The plan of the Dispensary has not been changed since the last report, with the exception of the appointment of Visiting Physicians. By this means a large number of patients are cared for who are not able to come to the rooms.

The number of prescriptions has been greater than in any preceding year, and the results have been still more satisfactory. The funds of the Dispensary have increased in amount, and it is hoped they will eventnally form the nucleus for a hospital.

BOND-STREET HOMEOPATHIC DISPENSARY, NEW YORK..

Otto Füllgraff, M.D., Delegate.

C. E. Campbell, M.D., Resident Surgeon.

J. P. Ermentraut, M.D., Attendant at Eastern Branch.

This institution has been in operation at No. 59 Bond Street for thirteen years. It has now a branch office at 197 East Seventh Street. The clinic for the eye is under the care of Dr. C. T. Liebold, a pupil of the celebrated Baron von Graefe, of Berlin. Special attention is given to nasal catarrh and diseases of the throat, acute and chronic. The success has been positive, and, in many cases, even remarkable. Physicians are invited to examine the modes of operating and the instruments used. The steady growth in the number of patients is seen from the following table: