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College, expressly fitted up with all the instruments and appliances necessary to the successful working of this department. It has been established but a few weeks, and now treats daily some six or eight cases; the number is steadily increasing.

THE HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE DISPENSARY, PHILADELPHIA. John C. Morgan, M.D., Delegate.

W. J. Earhardt, M.D., Chief Dispensing Physician.

This Dispensary is in a flourishing condition. Medicines have been dispensed during the past year to nearly 9,000 patients. Connected with the Dispensary is an obstetrical department, patients of which are attended free of charge.

This institution affords abundant material for clinical experience obstetrical, surgical, and medical to the students of the Hahnemann Medical College.

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WASHINGTON (D.C.) HOMEOPATHIC DISPENSARY.

T. S. Verdi, M.D., Delegate.

T. S. Verdi, M.D., Director.

The Dispensary was established in 1866, to supply the urgent necessity of those sufferers who could not apply to physicians or buy medicines, for want of means; and it has proved very successful. In the course of one year, eight hundred people have applied for and received relief.

The Dispensary has been kept open three hours a day; the patients have also been visited at their homes. This charity was at first sustained by voluntary contributions; but, this year, Congress, recognizing its importance, has voted five hundred dollars in aid of it. It has set a good example to the physicians of the old school, who, not wishing to be outdone, have opened dispensaries of their own. A register is kept of the patients, diseases, and prescriptions; it is open to any person desiring to inspect it. Gentlemen of the highest respectability have shown their confidence in this institution by becoming guardians to the Dispensary.

HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE DISPENSARY, CHICAGO.

R. Ludlam, M.D., Delegate.

J. W. Streeter, M.D., Attending Physician.

This charity was organized in 1858. Its rooms are in the College Building. It is supported by the College, and by private donations. It is open daily to out-patients at 11.30, A.M. Every variety of disease receives treatment; and the material thus afforded is the basis for the College clinics, of which three are held weekly during the lecture season:

On Surgery, by Prof. Beebe;

On Practice, by Prof. Cooke;

On Diseases of Women and Children, by Prof. Ludlam.

WEST DIVISION HOMOEOPATHIC DISPENSARY OF CHICAGO.

T. C. Duncan, M.D., Delegate.

L. H. Holbrook, M.D., Attending Physician.

This charity was organized Jan. 4, 1868, and was opened for patients at No. 240 West Madison Street, Jan. 20, 1868. The association is composed of the originators, and others annually contributing five dollars or more to its treasury. Ten dollars constitutes a life-member.

The total number of cases already treated is 139; the number of out-patients, 35. The whole number of prescriptions, 230. There has been but one death.

The Dispensary has not been in operation a sufficient length of time to acquire much clinical experience of value. Sufficient facts, however, have been obtained to show the superiority of the great" law of cure" over empiricism.

The greatest number of cases treated have been diseases incident to the changeable weather of our spring months, and mostly of a mild type. The cases of bronchitis number some thirty. The remedies mostly indicated have been Acon., Ars., Bry., Hepar

sulph., ranging from 3d to 30th cent. attenuation. Results in these cases were highly satisfactory.

The highest number of prescriptions in any one case was nine; one or two prescriptions being sufficient in most cases.

SAINT LOUIS HOMEOPATHIC DISPENSARY.

E. C. Franklin, M.D., Delegate.

This Dispensary is located in the College Building, No. 1,009 Locust Street. It furnishes medical and surgical advice and attendance from the best homoeopathic physicians and surgeons in the city, and provides medicine, free of charge, for the poor; while those unable to attend in person are treated at their residences.

The Dispensary is well sustained by the charitable people of St. Louis. Daily clinics are held, and earnest efforts are made to further the interests of homoeopathy.

HOMEOPATHIC FREE DISPENSARY OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.

Martin Mayer, M.D., Delegate.

Martin Mayer, M.D., Resident Physician.

This institution was organized January 26, 1866, and at once commenced operations. It is supported by subscriptions and voluntary contributions, and has been very successful.

Two hundred and fifty-eight patients were treated, and seven hundred and eighty-four prescriptions made, during 1867. Nine out-patients and six obstetric cases also came under the care of the Dispensary.

5.- COLLEGES.

NEW YORK HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE.

J. Beakley, M.D., Delegate.

J. Beakley, M.D., New York, Dean.

This College, during its eighth session, 1867-68, had eighty

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six matriculants, forty-two of whom graduated in March of the present year. The public hospitals to which the students have access are very extensive; and, as three of the professors of the College are connected with the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, every facility is afforded for observation and instruction in diseases of the eye and ear. The next session will begin with a preliminary course in October.

Faculty.

J. Beakley, M.D., Surgery.

D. D. Smith, M.D.,

E. M. Kellogg, M.D., Obstetrics.

S. B. Barlow, M. D.,

Carroll Dunham, M.D.,

P. P. Wells, M.D.,

Materia Medica.

A. R. Morgan, M.D., Practice

F. W. Hunt, M.D., Jurisprudence.
H. M. Smith, M.D., Physiology.

T. F. Allen, M.D., Anatomy.

J. J. Mitchell, M.D., Chemistry.

HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA.

J. C. Morgan, M.D., Delegate.

Constantine Hering, M.D., Philadelphia, Dean.

Richard Koch, M.D., Philadelphia, Registrar.

The endeavor to give more complete instruction in the arts and sciences collateral to medicine has met with a cordial response from the profession. The place occupied last year was found too small for the unexpectedly large class, and a fine building on Tenth Street, above Market, has been obtained. The collection of dried preparations in the museum is as large as that of any school in Philadelphia. The library contains more than six hundred volumes. The number of matriculants the last term was sixty-one; of graduates, twenty-six.

Faculty.

Constantine Hering, M.D., Institutes and Materia Medica.

C. G. Raue, M.D., Practice.

J. C. Morgan, M.D., Surgery.

Richard Koch, M.D., Physiology.

A. R. Thomas, M.D., Anatomy.
Lemuel Stephens, M.D., Chemistry.

O. B. Gause, M.D., Midwifery.

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

R. A. Phelan, M.D., Delegate.

H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Philadelphia, Dean.

The twentieth annual Commencement was held Feb. 20, 1868. The degree of Doctor of Medicine and the special degree of Doctor of Homœopathic Medicine were conferred on thirty graduates. The list of matriculants of the last session embraces sixty-five names. The College takes rank with any medical school in the country; being perfectly appointed, with a thoroughly organized faculty, and very good facilities for practical clinical instruction.

Faculty.

T. Dwight Stow, M.D., Practice.
Adolph Lippe, M.D., Materia Medica.
H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Obstetrics.
Malcom Macfarlan, M.D., Surgery.
R. J. McClatchey, M.D., Anatomy.
Wm. L. Arrowsmith, M.D., Physiology.
Pemberton Dudley, M.D., Chemistry.

HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHICAGO.

A. E. Small, M.D., Delegate.

A. E. Small, M.D., Chicago, Dean.

R. Ludlam, M.D., Chicago, Registrar.

The two-term system of this school is abolished, but a preliminary course of two weeks precedes the regular course. The clinical advantages of Chicago exceed those of any other American city, except New York. Within ten minutes' walk of the College is the City Hospital, which annually receives two thousand patients. Through the year, there are delivered two weekly clinical lectures on Surgery; two on Practice of Medicine, and

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