J. H. Austin, M.D., Bristol, W. E. Bulkley, M.D., Danbury, C. Vishno, M.D., Windsor Locks, Censors. C. C. Foote, M.D., New Haven, C. H. Skiff, M.D., New Haven, THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The seventeenth annual meeting was held at Albany, Feb. 11, 12, and 13, 1868. It was well attended, and many able papers, some from honorary members, were presented. Twenty county societies were represented, and reports were presented from several others. The Society being in debt, it was decided to increase the annual assessment to the amount of three dollars. In consequence of an unauthorized publication in the Transactions of last year, which was alleged to contain statements unsupported by facts, provision was made against the repetition of such an occurrence. Attempts are being made to prevent further admission to the practice of medicine in the State, except after examination by a State Board of Censors, a majority of whom shall be taken from neither of the recognized schools. A Homœopathic Retreat for the Insane has been established at Margarettville, Delaware Co., by H. Doty, M.D., and several successful cases of treatment there have been reported. Considerable effort has been made to secure homœopathic treatment in a State institution for the insane, to be located in one of the southern tier of counties. The annual address, by the President, B. F. Cornell, M.D., was occupied with some of the causes of modern degeneracy: the improper use of alcohol, opium, and tobacco, and improprieties in ventilation, food, dress, and intercourse. The officers are:— W. H. Watson, M.D., Utica, President. T. F. Allen, M.D., New York, 1st Vice-President. John Sarle, M.D., North Granville, L. M. Pratt, M.D., Albany, R. D. Bloss, M.D., Troy, A. S. Ball, M.D., New York, T. D. Stow, M.D., Fulton, L. M. Kenyon, M.D., Buffalo, C. Ormes, M.D., Jamestown, G. W. Lewis, M.D., Buffalo, >Censors. THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. J. J. Youlin, M.D., Delegate. This Society was organized in 1850. Notwithstanding the efforts of the old school to prevent it from gaining a legal status, it obtained, in 1854, the enactment of a law placing ho mœopathic and allopathic practitioners on equal footing. The Society was re-organized in 1868, and hopes soon to obtain an act of incorporation. It is now in good working trim, with twenty-three members. There are very many homoeopathic practitioners in the State who are not yet members. The next annual meeting is to be at Newark, April 15, 1869. The officers are: J. J. Youlin, M.D., Jersey City, President. Alex. Kirkpatrick, M.D., Burlington, 1st Vice-President. S. B. Tompkins, M.D., Newark, Recording Secretary. J. D. Annin, M.D., Newark, D. Reed, M.D., L. D. Dennis, M.D., Alex. Kirkpatrick, M.D., Burlington, G. W. Bailey, M.D., Elizabeth, Censors. THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYL VANIA. M. Côtè, M.D., Pittsburg, J. C. Burgher, M.D., Pittsburg, J. C. Morgan, M.D., Philadelphia, R. C. Smedley, M.D., West Chester, J. E. James, M.D., Philadelphia, Delegates. The Society held its second annual meeting at Harrisburg, May 12 and 13, 1868. The next will be at Wilkesbarre, May 18, 1869. The cause, as well as the Society, is in a flourishing condition; there being about four hundred practitioners in the State, of whom one hundred and twenty-five reside in Philadelphia, and about twenty in and near Pittsburg. There are ninety-seven active members of the Society, and the meetings are of constantly increasing interest. In the State, there are, in the service of homoeopathy, two colleges, two hospitals, five dispensaries, eight county societies, two medical journals, and three pharmacies. The Little Wanderers' Home, in Philadelphia, employs homœopathic treatment. All are prosperous. The Society requests the Institute to give its attention to the subject of the nomenclature of our materia medica, and also to the proper standard for the preparation of the homoeopathic remedies. The officers are:— Coates Preston, M.D., Chester, President. H. H. Hofmann, M.D., Pittsburg, 1st Vice-President. J. J. Detwiler, M.D., Easton, 2d Vice-President. B. W. James, M.D., Philadelphia, Recording Secretary. R. J. McClatchey, M.D., Philadelphia, Corresponding Secretary. W. M. Williamson, M.D., Philadelphia, Treasurer. J. H. Marsden, M.D., York Sulphur Springs, Richard Koch, M.D., Philadelphia, O. B. Gause, M.D., Philadelphia, Censors. THE OHIO HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. E. B. Thomas, M.D., Delegate. This Society was organized in 1864, and has held regular annual meetings since. Present number of members, one hundred and twenty-five, a few of whom are not graduates. meetings are spirited, harmonious, and interesting. The The homœopathic organizations in the State are in a prosperous condition. There are several local or county societies; and, besides the institutions at Cleveland, there are dispensaries in successful operation at Cincinnati and Dayton, the last showing a vigorous infancy. The officers of the Society are :— W. Webster, M.D., Dayton, President. F. L. Flowers, M.D., New Lexington, Vice-Presidents. A. Shephard, M.D., Glendale, T. P. Wilson, M.D., Cleveland, Secretary. C. C. White, M.D., Columbus, Treasurer. E. C. Beckwith, M.D., Zanesville, G. H. Blair, M.D., Cleveland, J. Q. A. Coffeen, M.D., Dayton, N. Schneider, M.D., Cleveland, Censors. The eighth annual meeting of this Society was held at Grand Rapids, May 19 and 20, 1868. The whole number of active members has been eighty-seven; the present number is sixtyseven. Three have died, and seventeen removed. Eleven new members were added this year. The following is from the report of the Secretary, upon the subject of HOMOEOPATHY IN THE MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. One of the first acts of the Institute after organizing in 1860 was to appoint a Committee of three to memorialize the Legisla ture relative to a homoeopathic professorship in the State University at Ann Arbor; and this Committee, with additions to its number, has been continued from year to year. The action of the Institute in appointing this Committee was prompted by the fact that in 1855, through the exertions of a few homœopathic physicians, a proviso had been added to the law enacted for the government of the University, as follows: "There shall be at least one professor of homoeopathy in the medical department of the University at Ann Arbor," and the proviso never had been carried into effect by the Board of Regents. As the Chair of Homœopathy still remained unfilled in 1866, it was decided at the regular meeting of the Institute of that year to petition the Supreme Court of the State for a mandamus to compel the Regents to comply with the law, and counsel was accordingly employed. The funds necessary to meet the expenses for this were raised by assessment on the members: but it was found that a mandamus could not, by law, be granted, unless the complaint was made by the Attorney-General, and this (for reasons best known to himself) he refused to do. Failing in this, the only resort was to apply to the Legis lature to refuse any aid to the University until the law had been obeyed; and at its next session, which was held during the winter of 1866-7, the following proviso to a bill granting aid to the University was passed, through the exertions of the Committee on the University and a few tried friends in the Legislature: “Provided that the Regents of the University shall carry into effect the law which provides that there shall always be at least one § VI.-9 |