ADDRESS 
DELIVERED BY 
THE PRESIDENT 
OF THE 
fttbmtl jSurata, 
HUGH PITCAIRN, M.D., 
AT THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL SESSION, 
HELD IN PHILADELPHIA. 
September 18th, 1888. ADDRESS. 
Members of the Homceopathic Medical Society of the 
State of Pennsylvania: 
Another year, with its successes and failures, its privileges 
availed of and its opportunities neglected, has passed into the 
account which we must all meet when our life’s work has been 
accomplished, and we stand before “ The Great Physician ” who 
knows neither school of medicine or sect in the art of healing, 
but who, by his own example, commands us to go comfort and 
heal by every means within our command. 
Hahnemann, in his inimitable Organon, says: “The phy- 
sician’s highest and only calling is to restore health to the sick.” 
“ The highest aim of healing is the speedy, gentle, and perma- 
nent restoration of health, or alleviation of disease in its entire 
extent, in the shortest, most reliable, and safest manner.” 
Whatever we may credit further of his writings, more than 
the law of similars which he gave us, we can all stand firmly 
and unitedly on these bases. How well we have this year thus 
performed our different duty we may only know here in part, 
but cannot know fully ; so it behooves us not to be too hasty 
in our conclusions, or too quick in our condemnations; neither 
should we say complacently, “ Are not Abana and Pharpar 
better than all the waters of Israel ?” We must familiarize our- 
selves with, and investigate all things pertaining to therapeutic 
science, holding fast only that which is good. 
During the year, some who have shared with us these respon- 
sible privileges, and according to their opportunities, in their 
day, have served humanity well, have been called to their re- 
ward, while we are brought together again to utter our experi- 4 
ences, compare notes, and thus be prepared for better results in 
the year opening upon us. Notably among those who have 
passed away are: 
William M. Zern, M.D., of Philadelphia, September 2ist, 1887. 
John K. Lee, M.D., of Philadelphia, November 10th, 1887. 
Percy O. B. Gause, M.D., Aiken, South Carolina, November 
1 oth, 1887. 
Adolph Lippe, of Philadelphia, January 23d, 1888. 
I was peculiarly and forcibly impressed with these interroga- 
tive sentences of the address of Professor A. R. Thomas, last 
year, at our Pittsburgh meeting: 
“ Does homoeopathy constitute the whole of therapeutic 
science ? ” “ Is the physician best prepared to cope with disease 
in its varied forms whose knowledge and use of drugs is always, 
and only, confined to their homoeopathic use ? ” “ Has the phy- 
sician discharged his full duty to his patients, in all cases, when 
he has made the most careful selections of the symptoms in the 
case?” “ May the medical school, in view of its responsibility 
in the education of physicians, confine its therapeutic teachings 
to the homoeopathic medication alone ? ” And, without wishing 
to antagonize the peculiar views of any member of our State 
Society, I am constrained to affirm negatively to every proposi- 
tion. 
One of the elements that contributed to the phenomenal suc- 
cess of homoeopathic practitioners of medicine in the past, has 
been the fact that, while believing firmly in the fundamental 
theories enunciated by Hahnemann, yet they were broad- 
minded investigators of truth from every source, and learned 
in all the wisdom of the schools. They were thus twice 
armed, having a knowledge of what might have been done in 
each case by practitioners who preceded them; enabled thus 
to counteract evil from drugging, etc., and, at the same time, 
having a knowledge of what could be accomplished with better 
means; while “our friends the enemy” (determined at least in 
their own minds to be considered such) utterly refused to inves- 
tigate the bulwark of strength we possess in our “ Law of Cure.” 
Indeed, the one thing, in my intercourse with educated allopathic 
practitioners of medicine in our day, that has most amazed me, 5 
has been the utter want of even a slight knowledge of homoeo- 
pathic laws and theories—or, indeed, any therapeutic practice 
outside of their sect; for surely, if there be a sect in medicine, 
it is the so-called “ Regular ” sect. 
I come before you to-day, therefore, to plead for greater lati- 
tude in our own professional intercourse with each other, in all 
matters doubtful or bearing the semblance of doubt, believing 
as I do, that the greatest evil in therapeutic medicine in the 
past has been the adoption of creeds and codes, with ostracism 
of those who thought for themselves. 
What might the “ Allopathic sect ” not have accomplished in 
the past hundred years, had they patiently, without prejudice, 
investigated Hahnemann’s discoveries, availing themselves of 
the truth first formulated by him and his coadjutors. Yea, what 
suffering and misery might humanity have escaped? Surely, 
“ There are none so blind as they who will not see.” I say again, 
the great evil in the past in medicine, no less than in theology, 
has been in the adoption of “ creeds.” 
There is something of art and science in medicine, but as in 
chemistry, botany, astronomy, and all the arts and sciences, 
there is an ever-widening, expanding, increasing range of dis- 
covery and improvement. What would be thought of a creed 
in astronomy with fixed codes ? There are laws in medicine, 
“ natural laws,” too, which we recognize, as, for instance, the 
benign law of similars, with others allied thereto, but these are 
not all there is of law. Rules and principles we recognize, but 
they are open to change and improvement, as more facts are 
gathered and generalized. Is there anything absolutely fixed ? 
We may to-day be impressed by a law of nature, supreme in 
its own sphere, but can we say that there are no other laws in 
other spheres of the science and art of healing? 
We must not, therefore, dogmatize or form creeds, thus sub- 
jecting ourselves to the ridicule of an intelligent public, but we 
should hold that all that has preceded in our theories and prac- 
tices may be altered or amended in accordance with increasing 
light and the evolutions of general science; fortunately these 
have thus far only served to make more luminous and effulgent 
the fundamental principles of homoeopathy. 6 
It is not to be wondered at that the allopathic school chafe 
under the effect of the name given us in reproach, on thrusting 
us out from their sect; it is a good name, a synonym for the 
words progress and liberality, and we are reminded by “ the 
word ” that a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. 
The name certainly has brought us patients, and patience 
brings riches and contentment if we grow not weary in well- 
doing. 
The bigotry formerly so commonly manifested toward homoeo- 
pathy is happily passing away and must do so completely, if we 
but enlighten the public as to the advantages of its therapeutic 
results. 
Let us hereafter try to sink some of our selfishness for the 
public good and though we are all busy men, devote at least a 
small portion of our time to the public enlightenment. 
In Pennsylvania, homoeopathic practitioners of medicine 
minister to fully one-fourth of the entire population of the State, 
who desire to be under our care or desire homoeopathic treat- 
ment for themselves and their dear ones. This vast number of 
citizens are without any representation in the charities of the 
State, which is indeed a gross outrage upon us and upon our 
constituency—and the fact that a sect in medicine has controlled 
the millions of money appropriated from year to year forms an 
establishment more galling than the church establishment of 
Great Britain or any other country. 
It is for you to discuss how we may enlighten the public and 
our lawmakers, as to the beneficent laws of our school and 
attainments of our practitioners as well as to successful thera- 
peutic results, and thus compel proper recognition of our rights. 
Our motto should be “ Equal Taxation, Equal Representa- 
tion.” 
For years we have been calmly resolving that there should be 
an effort made to have one or more of Pennsylvania’s State 
asylums for the insane, placed under homoeopathic therapeutic 
charge, but we never seem to realize the fact that to accomplish 
this desideratum, we must show the general public the justice oi 
our claim to recognition. The present accommodations for the 
insane of the State, we learn from the Board of Public Charities, 7 
are inadequate, and we believe that the State Executive, as well 
as many other of our public officials, would favor the placing of 
a new asylum under the charge of our school, but why should 
we be compelled to wait such indefinite consummation when 
our claim is one so manifestly urgent and just? 
To this end I have prepared comparative tables showing the 
results of the treatment in the different insane asylums and 
institutions of the States of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New 
York, Michigan, etc.,—under allopathic and homoeopathic con- 
trol—as well as other statistical information bearing on the same 
general subject. 
The laws of our Commonwealth, recognizing no establishment 
in church or sect, should shake off this last remnant of class 
legislation bequeathed to us by the old world, and compel all 
those who practice the art of healing to investigate and apply 
all truth available wherever found, especially should it be an 
effort in our own colleges not to confine our therapeutic teach- 
ings to our own school methods only, but avail ourselves of 
everything known; first, for the cure where possible, and sec- 
ondly, for the relief, when only this can be obtained for suffering 
humanity. It is because of the recognition of this divine prin- 
ciple of helpfulness by all means, that we have been enabled to 
accomplish such wonderful results in private practice and in 
public institutions. 
I herewith present a summary of statistics for the five years 
ending September 30th, 1887, of the following asylums. 
Harrisburg, Pa. (Old School). 
Year. 
Number 
Died. 
Percentage 
Number 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
Treated. 
of Deaths. 
Discharged. 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
576 
39 
6.77 
139 
24 
4.16 
1884 
526 
36 
6.84 
65 
23 
4-37 
1885 
564 
45 
7-97 
89 
27 
4.78 
1886 
575 
50 
8.69 
64 
20 
3-47 
1887 
611 
44 
7-20 
70 
31 
5-07 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
. , 
749 
a u 
recoveries “ 
. 
4-37 8 
Norristown, Pa. (Old School). 
Year. 
Number 
Treated. 
Died. 
Percentage 
of Deaths. 
Number 
Discharged. 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
1371 
123 
8.97 
238 
IOI 
7.36 
1884 
1366 
96 
7- 
156 
92 
6.73 
1885 
1730 
125 
7.22 
185 
98 
5.66 
1886 
1847 
127 
6.87 
224 
105 
5.68 
1887 
1964 
155 
7.89 
136 
76 
3-86 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
“ “ recoveries “ 
• 
7-59 
5.85 
Danville, Pa. (Old School). 
Year. 
Number 
Treated. 
Died. 
Percentage 
of Deaths. 
Number 
Discharged. 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
395 
16 
4- 
52 
19 
4.81 
1884 
528 
29 
5-49 
87 
37 
7- 
1885 
859 
41 
4-77 
72 
41 
4-77 
1886 
996 
49 
4.91 
IOX 
40 
4. 
1887 
1054 
52 
4-93 
208 
45 
4.26 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
. 
4.82 
‘ 
“ 
recoveries “ 
. 
4.96 
Year. 
Number 
Treated. 
Died. 
Percentage 
of Deaths. 
Number 
Discharged. 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
66l 
53 
8. 
Il6 
33 
4-99 
1884 
687 
69 
10. 
102 
28 
4- 
1885 
719 
59 
8.20 
123 
66 
9.17 
1886 
742 
43 
5-79 
112 
53 
7.14 
1887 
795 
77 
9.68 
Il8 
35 
4.40 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
“ “ recoveries “ 
• 
8-33 
5-94 
Dixmont, Pa. (Old School). 
Warren, Pa. (Old School). 
Year. 
Number 
Treated. 
Died. 
Percentage 
of Deaths. 
Number 
Discharged. 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
540 
34 
6.29 
83 
34 
6.29 
1884 
626 
46 
7-34 
97 
36 
5-75 
1885 
782 
58 
7.41 
101 
,29 
3-7o 
1886 
842 
65 
7.71 
119 
44 
5.22 
1887 
880 
67 
7.61 
155 
5i 
5-79 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, s 
“ “ recoveries “ 
• 
7.27 
5-35 9 
Summary of Statistics for Five Years ending September 30til, 
1887, for Harrisburg, Danville, Dixmont, Norristown, and 
Warren (Old School). 
Year. 
Number 
Died. 
Percentage 
Number 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
Treated. 
of Deaths. 
Discharged. 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
3543 
265 
7-47 
622 
211 
5-95 
1884 
3733 
276 
7-39 
507 
221 
5-92 
1885 
4654 
328 
7- 
576 
26l 
5.60 
1886 
5002 
334 
6.67 
620 
262 
5-23 
1887 
5304 
395 
7-44 
687 
238 
4.48 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
# , 
7.19 
( (( 
recoveries “ 
. 
. 
5-43 
Utica, Buffalo,. and Rochester, New York (Old School). 
Year. 
Number 
Treated. 
Died. 
Percentage 
of Deaths. 
Number 
Discharged. 
Recovered. 
P ercentage 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
2017 
131 
6.49 
776 
240 
II.89 
1884 
2187 
148 
6.76 
872 
242 
II.06 
1885 
2251 
117 
5-i9 
922 
247 
IO.97 
1886 
2364 
122 
5-i6 
964 
217 
9.17 
1887 
2367 
152 
6.42 
IOI4 
283 
xi.91 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
“ “ recoveries “ 
• 
6.00 
11.00 
Worcester and Northampton, Mass., Hospitals, and of Taunton 
and Danvers, Mass., Asylums (Old School). 
Year. 
Number 
Died. 
Percentage 
Number 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
Treated. 
of Deaths. 
Discharged. 
ot Recoveries. 
1883 
3551 
240 
6.75 
1056 
231 
6.50 
1884 
3706 
248 
6.69 
II98 
259 
6.98 
1885 
3764 
247 
6.56 
II42 
265 
7- 
1886 
3945 
228 
5-77 
1395 
261 
6.6l 
1887 
3804 
230 
6.04 
1318 
224 
5-88 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
6.36 
i 
recoveries “ 
. 
. 
6.59 10 
Middletown, New York (Homoeopathic). 
Year. 
Number 
Treated. 
Died. 
Percentage 
of Deaths. 
Number 
Discharged. 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
of Recoveries. 
1883 
4IO 
18 
4-39 
150 
69 
16.82 
1884 
423 
21 
4.96 
I4I 
68 
16.07 
1885 
486 
27 
5-55 
I3I 
66 
I3-58 
1886 
568 
17 
2.99 
157 
80 
14.08 
1887 
642 
22 
3-42 
187 
96 
14-95 
Average percentage of deaths for five years, . 
“ “ recoveries “ 
• 
4.26 
15.10 
Westborongh, Mass. (Homoeopathic). 
Year. 
Number 
Treated. 
Died. 
Percentage 
of Deaths. 
Number 
Discharged. 
Recovered. 
Percentage 
of Recoveries. 
1887 
430 
19 
44 
123 
55 
12.79 
Average percentage of deaths, 4.4 
“ “ recoveries, ...... 12.79 
I append also the following extract from the report of the 
Massachusetts State Board of Charities for the year 1887, the 
percentage of recoveries and the word homoeopathic, after West- 
borough Hospital, being added by me : 
[From Report of State Board of Charities for 1887.] 
“Among the 530 patients who have been admitted at West- 
borough in the past thirteen months nearly half have been 
transferred from the older hospitals, and more than two-thirds 
were chronic cases Notwithstanding this fact the 
recoveries have been considerable, and the current cost no 
greater than it was natural to estimate for a new hospital man- 
aged by persons who had not before directed such an estab- 
lishment. 
“ The Westborough Hospital has met with many difficulties in 
its first year, arising in part from the defective work done in 
fitting up the basement of the old school buildings, which have 
been made over into a very serviceable hospital, and partly from 
the inexperience of the managers, natural to a new establish- 11 
ment. The accidental introduction of diphtheria and its propa- 
gation (in some way not yet fully understood) increased those 
difficulties; but an examination of its results at the end of the 
present calendar year will probably show that it has been as 
successful as new hospitals usually are; and in some respects its 
record is very gratifying. The death-rate among its patients has 
been considerably less than that of most hospitals in the State, 
and even less than the death-rate at the Bridgewater Asylum, 
the patients for which were generally selected because of their 
good state of health, while the Westborough patients, in part, 
had been newly committed, and, therefore, were more likely to 
die in their first year than those removed from other hospitals. 
The figures of the death-rate, brought to the same standard of 
comparison, are approximately as follows, arranged in order 
downward from the highest to the lowest: 
Hospitals. 
Whole No. 
Deaths. 
Death 
rate. 
Percentage 
of Recoveries. 
Worcester Asylum 
444 
38 
8-5. 
Tewksbury Asylum 
442 
33 
7-4 
Boston Hospital 
33° 
22 
6.7 
Danvers Hospital 
1188 
79 
6.6 
5-4 
Taunton Hospital 
934 
39 
6-3 
6-3 
Worcester Hospital 
1057 
61 
5-8 
7- 
Bridgewater Asylum 
155 
8 
5-i 
Northampton Hospital 
633 
3i 
4.9 
4-2 
Westborough Hospital (Homoeopathic) 
517 
25* 
4-8^ 
12.79 
“ The Westborough figures are the actual numbers for fifty- 
two weeks, instead of the forty-two weeks between December 
7th and October 1st. The new hospital is lowest on the list, 
and has a death-rate but little more than three-fourths as great 
as that of the eight institutions above mentioned, when taken 
together, with their whole number of patients reduced to the 
actual aggregate of different persons therein residing during the 
year. This is a favorable showing, and it is to be hoped, though 
hardly expected, that the same low death-rate will be maintained 
in subsequent years.”* 
* Let it be remembered that the above facts are part of the report of the Massa- 
chusetts State Board, and not my words. 12 
The following is a summary of the statistics for twenty-one 
months, from September 30th, 1886, to June 30th, 1888 (the 
Legislature having changed the end of the fiscal year from Sep- 
tember 30th to June 30th) of the Asylum at Ionia, Michigan 
(Homoeopathic). 
Number of patients remaining September 30th, 1886, . • 95 , 
Number of patients admitted during period to June 30th, 1888, 47 
Total number treated, ....... 142 
Number of recoveries during period, . . . . . 17 
Per cent, of recoveries during period on whole number, . .12 
Per cent, of deaths for 12 months ending Sept. 30th, 1887, . 2| 
Per cent, of deaths for 9 months ending June 30th, 1888, . 3^ 
Most of these patients were chronics, hence the seeming low 
per cent, of cures, but the per cent, of cures of patients ad- 
mitted during the period was 36 per cent. 
Deductions. 
The percentage of deaths under old-school treatment in Penn- 
sylvania as compared with old-school treatment in New York is 
one-seventh higher, while the percentage of recoveries in the 
five years is only one-half. Why so great a difference, if not 
because of the stimulating influence of the one homoeopathic 
asylum at Middletown ? and why, in the name of humanity, should 
this large number of unfortunates be allowed to sujfer on worse 
than death indefinitely, if even old-school treatment in New York 
could give the required help ? 
But when we come to compare homoeopathic supervision 
elsewhere with Pennsylvania institutions the contrast is simply 
amazing: 
The percentage of deaths under allopathic treatment in Penn- 
sylvania, 7.19 
Middletown, New York (Homoeopathic), .... 4.26 
Westborough, Mass. (Homoeopathic), ..... 4.8* 
Ionia, Michigan (Homoeopathic), 2§t0 3f 
The percentage of recoveries under allopathic treatment in 
Pennsylvania shows the outrageously low average of almost nil. 
* Actually 4.4. 13 
(about five per cent.), while we have the wonderful record under 
homoeopathic treatment at— 
Middletown, New York, 15.10 per cent. 
Westborough, Mass., ...... 12.79 “ 
Ionia, Michigan, 12.00 “ 
“ “ Patients admitted during year, . 36.00 “ 
With such results, which school of medicine should be taunted 
with “ vis medicatrix natures ?” How many did kindly nature 
cure?—five per cent.? Surely our enlightened and humane 
lawmakers can no longer close their eyes to such figures—the 
naked statistics furnished by those who have in the past been 
in no way desirous of helping the cause of homoeopathy. 
The State Board of Charities of Massachusetts admit (see 
part of their report above): 
First. That our treatment could not show its best results be- 
cause of an epidemic of diphtheria, defective plumbing, etc., and 
the large number of chronic cases shoved on the institution. 
The question naturally arises, what would have been the de- 
crease in the death-rate, as well as increase in percentage of re- 
coveries, had the treatment been untrammelled. 
With regard to the Middletown Homoeopathic Insane Asylum 
the same fact obtains—incurable chronic cases, not only from 
the other institutions of the State, their worst cases, but as well 
from Pennsylvania (for where is there a prominent homoeo- 
pathic physician in this State who has not sent a patient to 
Middletown for homoeopathic treatment, being unable to secure 
such in our own State). 
Allowance should, therefore, be made for these facts, which 
demonstrate that the homoeopathic practice will, under favor- 
able circumstances, cure four to one as compared with the treat- 
ment at present received in the old-school “ Insane hospitals” of 
Pennsylvania. But these are not “ Insane hospitals; ” rather 
should they be christened “ Houses of restraint,” where the 
inmates are herded together awaiting only death or “ vis medi- 
catrix naturesThink of it! Only five out of every hundred 
insane persons may hope for cure. Is there any science in old 
school medicine in Pennsylvania ? 14 
There is also an economic side to this question of the treat- 
ment of the State’s insane. In the treatment of other diseases 
there is the same or greater proportion of cases. Take the well- 
established test treatment of pneumonia. According to the 
records, the mortality was : 
Under allopathic treatment, ..... 20.5 per cent. 
“ non-interference treatment, .... 7.4 “ 
“ homoeopathic “ .... 6 “ 
But this is not all. The duration of the disease was : 
Under allopathic treatment, 31 days 
“ non-interference treatment, 28 “ 
“ homoeopathic “ 12 “ 
What would be the saving to the State of Pennsylvania for 
labor, hospital, and other expenses in public institutions with a 
change of management? 
The following summary of statistics is from the Michigan 
State Prison. This prison has been changed several times from 
one school to the other. I give first three years under allo- 
pathic care, then three years under homoeopathic care. The 
prison passed back into allopathic hands, and I give two years 
under allopathic care, followed by two years under homoeo- 
pathic care: 
Average No. of Con- 
victs per annum. 
Total No. 
of deaths. 
Total No. days 
labor lost. 
Total cost of 
Hospital stores. 
Allopathic care, 3 years. 
Homoeopathic care, 3 
435 
39 
23,000 
$1678.00 
years 
545 
20 
10,000 
500.00 
Allopathic, 2 years . . 
Not known. 
Not known 
24,000 
I SOO.OO 
Homoeopathic 2 years . 
Not known. 
Not known 
11,000 
900.00 
I regret that I cannot give other figures I have seen in print, 
which, I think, would fully demonstrate the fact that half the 
total number of days’ labor lost in State institutions, due to sick- 
ness, might be saved, at a reduced expense to one-third the 
present outlay for hospital stores, care, etc. 
In the five years represented by the figures above given, the 
population of the insane hospitals of Pennsylvania has increased 15 
from thirty-five hundred to fifty-three hundred, a total increase 
of eighteen hundred, or one-third. At the same ratio of increase 
what will be done with these poor, unfortunate creatures five 
years hence ? The almshouses of the different counties are already 
overcrowded with them, and these latter without even the shadow 
of medical supervision supposed to be given in so-called “ Insane 
asylums.” 
It seems to me that, if each member of our State Society 
would properly present even these meagre statistics, with others 
at their command, to their constituencies and members of the 
Legislature, arousing indignation at the outrageous ostracism 
by “ the powers that be ” of so respectable a portion of taxpayers, 
it would not be many months until insane asylums, and appro- 
priations for hospitals in general, would be more equitably ad- 
ministered. 
I would suggest the appointment of a bureau for the collec- 
tion, collation, and promulgation of statistics from every source 
available, showing comparison of treatment, and that, if pos- 
sible, a fund be secured to this end. We need not fear com- 
parison. The old school have no figures with which they can 
meet those already in our possession. 
It is a satisfaction to be able to report a general advance of 
our school throughout the State, and yet there is room. The 
field, already overcrowded by old-school practitioners, is only 
partly occupied by us. Not only in our own State, but every- 
where, our cause is moving steadily forward in the improvement 
and establishing of hospitals, and the occupation of outlying 
districts by thoroughly educated and efficient Physicians, not 
Sectarians, who crowd out the old-school methods and practi- 
tioners with their antiquated procedures, causing an increase of 
the longevity of the race. How much of the marked increase 
in longevity of the present generation maybe traced principally 
to the teachings and practice of homoeopathy is an intensely 
interesting question ? 
It is also gratifying to be able to state that all homoeopathic 
colleges east of the Ohio river require a three-years’ course of 
college study before graduation is permitted, and that the Ameri- 
can Institute of Homoeopathy at its last meeting adopted a 16 
resolution requiring all the homoeopathic colleges in the United 
States to adopt the three-years’ course not later than 1891. 
Very few of the allopathic colleges do more than recommend 
a three-years’ course of college study. 
Papers and Discussions. 
Many papers of our State Society, prepared by our members 
at great expenditure of time and strength, in my estimation, do 
not accomplish the good justified by the outlay because of delay 
and method of publication. I would urge upon you the desira- 
bility of some action similar to that lately taken by the Ameri- 
can Institute of Homoeopathy, to allow of their publication 
whenever desirable in the current literature of homoeopathy, 
under certain restrictions. This society owes it to its general 
excellence, it being acknowledged as one of the best of our 
State societies, and should, therefore, take the lead of other so- 
cieties in this direction for the general good. 
I would require: 
First. That all papers to be published outside of the Trans- 
actions shall be furnished in duplicate, and only secured through 
the Secretary of the State Society. 
Secondly. Restriction of number of papers furnished to any 
one periodical to be two or less. 
Thirdly. We might stipulate with each journal that publishes 
our papers that they shall carry an advertisement of one page, 
announcing the Table of Contents of our Society Transac- 
tions, etc. 
I would urge upon you the desirability of the discussion of 
each subject brought before our meeting, and for the sake of 
accuracy, etc., where remedies are mentioned, the potency used 
be always specified. 
Time and Place of Meeting. 
It has been suggested that probably a change of the time of 
the meeting of this society to spring instead of fall, so as to take 
advantage of the time of meeting of the alumni associations and 17 
commencement exercises of colleges might prove advantageous 
in securing a larger attendance. I would advise a thorough 
consideration of this matter. 
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me again to express to you my 
sincere thanks for the honor you conferred in electing me, so 
young a member of this Society, to preside at this time. I can 
only crave your indulgence if I should unintentionally err in 
fulfilling the duties of the office, and wish for each of you a very 
pleasant sojourn in Philadelphia, and a profitable session of the 
Society. 18 
APPENDIX. 
HOMCEOPATHS AND ALLOPATHS AT THE BAR OF STATUTES. 
“ Twenty-six Years of the New Therapeutics at the Five Points.” 
Treatment of typhus fever at Five Points Homoeopathic 
Mission Hospital, New York, during epidemics, 1861 to 1871, 
285 cases, with only 2 deaths. This record is most remarkable 
when it is considered that Murcheson’s statistics for 23 years 
at the London Fever Hospital shows a mortality of 18.92 per 
cent. 
Forty-five cases of gangrene of the mouth ; 2 deaths. 75 per 
cent, is given as a low mortality rate under old-school treat- 
ment. (See J. Solis Cohen, in Pepper’s “ System of Medicine.”) 
Pure homoeopathic treatment of the diarrhoeal diseases has 
been very effectual at the House of Industry, notwithstanding 
its situation in the heart of a region so overcrowded and filthy 
that for many years it has borne the name of the most unsani- 
tary part of New York city, and where even now the little 
victims of “ summer complaint ” die by hundreds during the 
heated term of every year. During the cholera epidemic of 
1866, by the most scrupulous cleanliness and careful attention 
to diet, and by treatment of all cases of diarrhoea at their incep- 
tion, the institution was enabled to report but one death among 
its 200 inmates, though it had an unpaved street in front, filled 
with garbage, and was surrounded by tumble-down tenements, 
inhabited by the most degraded and filthy beings in the city, 
among whom cholera claimed its victims by the score. The 
records show 33 cases of enteritis, 91 of dysentery, 25 of cholera 
morbus, 6 of cholera infantum, and 1164 of diarrhoea—1319 
cases in all, with 4 deaths: 3 from cholera infantum, and 1 from 
dysentery. 
The old familiar remedies first used by Samuel Hahnemann 
for croup have proved their power over that destroyer of child- 19 
hood, at the Five Points, as they have wherever they have been 
given a trial. The experience of the institution tends to corrob- 
orate the belief which is held by many members of this society, 
that many cases which would otherwise develop into true 
croup may, in the majority of instances, be arrested by homoe- 
opathic treatment in the primary stage of acute catarrhal laryn- 
gitis before the croupous exudation takes place. Beginning, 
laryngitis has been treated wholesale in the dormitories with 
good effect, and only the more serious case have been entered 
into the records. Ninety-nine cases of croup, spasmodic and 
membranous, have been treated during the 26 years, and 8 
have proved fatal. 
During these 26 years Belladonna has been given as a pro- 
phylactic to all the children in the House at every outbreak of 
scarlet fever, with an effect in limiting contagion, even from cases 
of the most malignant type, which has seemed very evident to 
the physician in charge. Some 150 children from the tenements 
in Baxter, Mott, and Mulberry streets, which are the bete noir 
of the New York Health Board, mix daily in the school with 
the House children, bringing with them every variety of disease 
that can be communicated from one child to another, so that our 
records of 88 cases of scarlatina for this period shows a remark- 
able immunity, in view of the readiness with which the scarla- 
tinal germ, especially, is conveyed in the clothing, etc., of 
brothers, sisters, or neighbors, and the length of time through 
which its activity is often retained. Three of these 88 cases 
died. 
Smallpox has not appeared in the House since March, 1864, 
with the exception of one case in 1881. 
Only 3 of the 84 cases of typhoid fever proved fatal, and 28 
cases of relapsing fever, 8 cases of varioloid, 3 cases of malignant 
pustule, 114 cases of erysipelas, and 171 cases of whooping 
cough have been treated without a death. 
Other extracts from these statistics which seem worthy of 
notice are, 74 cases of diphtheria, with 10 deaths; 601 cases of 
measles, with 10 deaths; 179 cases of croupous pneumonia, 
with 4 deaths ; 7 cases of typhoid pneumonia, with 1 death ; 36 
cases of catarrhal pneumonia, with 2 deaths; 19 cases of capil- 20 
lary bronchitis, with 5 deaths; 33 cases of Bright’s disease, with 
6 deaths; and 11 cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis, with 3 
deaths. 
Opium, Chloral, Morphia, and the Bromides, with the various 
emetics, purgatives and tonics, whose use is characteristic of old- 
school practice, have not since 1861 been given to the children 
at the House of Industry. These children are largely of the 
most unfavorable class, full of scrofula, syphilis, and all manner 
of inherited predisposition to disease, andthey live in a part of 
New York city probably the least desirable from a sanitary point 
of view. They have been treated in accordance with the law of 
similars—by that therapeutic method which is called the homoe- 
opathic. The results shown by this table, from which I have 
quoted, will bear comparison with those obtained in any institu- 
tion or hospital for children, wherever located, and they would 
hardly be considered discreditable to any mode of treatment by 
physicians of any school. 
In the history of this institution from January 14th, 1861 to 
October ist, 1887, under homoeopathic medication, there was a 
total of 25,55*2 patients of all classes of diseases, the subjects 
being of the lowest strata of the population of New York city, 
and yet there were but 158 deaths—less than 1 per cent.—North 
American Journal of Homoeopathy, June, 1888. 
EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF THE WARD’S ISLAND HOSPITAL, 
HOMOEOPATHIC, 1SS7. 
This hospital is now in its thirteenth year, and has, since its 
opening in 1875, a daily average of 531 patients, with a mor- 
tality of 5.6 per cent. 
Summary for Nine Months, Jan. ist to Sept. 30TH, 1887. 
Bellevue (Allopathic), 7337 cases, with 700 deaths, or 9.0 per cent, mortality. 
Charity, “ 5330 “ 411 “ 7.7 “ “ 
Homoeopathic, 3068 “ 202 “ 6.5 “ “ 21 
Referring to the report of 1882, we find that Belevue treated 
9709 patients, with a mortality of 1235, or 12.72 per cent. In 
the table of the causes of death we find the following percent- 
ages : Phthisis, 21.45; pneumonia, 11 ; nephritis, 7.6; alcohol- 
typhoid fever, 2.26; erysipelas, 2; injuries, 12.22. 
The daily per capita cost was 49 cents. The daily cost for 
drugs and liquors was 6.54 cents. 
Charity Hospital treated 8200 patients, with a death-rate of 
546, or a mortality of 6.6 per cent. The percentages were : 
Maternity, 3.4; phthisis, 41.75; erysipelas, 1.28; Bright’s dis- 
ease, 15.5; pneumonia, 2.42. 
Per capita, 34.7 cents ; drugs and liquors, 3.94 cents. 
Homoeopathic Hospital treated 5369 patients, with 273 deaths, 
or a mortality of 5 per cent.: Phthisis caused 50 per cent, of 
the deaths; pneumonia, 5.12 per cent.; nephritis, 3.6 per cent.; 
erysipelas, 2.2 per cent. 
The daily per capita was 31.67 cents; drugs and liquors, .77 
cents. 
Leaving these figures for what they are worth, we desire to 
give a few from our report of 1886. During that year we treated 
3733 patients, with a mortality of 7.5 per cent.; the highest, I 
think, in the history of the hospital. The previous year, 1885, 
we treated 3756 patients, with a death-rate of 6.9 per cent. There 
are no reasons which can be assigned for the higher mortality 
than the fact that a large number of patients carried through the 
months of the previous winter, died in the earlier months of the 
following year. 
The 3733 cases were distributed as follows: Medical, 2104; 
surgical, 1239; venereal, 136; erysipelas, 119; ophthalmic, 70, 
and gynaecological, 65. Of this number, 1487 were discharged 
cured; 1399 improved; 176 unimproved; 279 died, leaving in 
the hospital on January 1st, 1887, 392. Phthisis caused 45 per 
cent, of the deaths; pneumonia, 7.8 per cent.; cardiac, 10 per 
cent.; nephritis, 2 per cent.; erysipelas, 84 per cent. 
Our per capita was 29.38 cents ; drugs and liquors, .97 cents. 
From September, 1875, to January, 1887, we have treated 
1136 cases of erysipelas, with 31 deaths, or a mortality of 2.7 
per cent. In connection with these figures, it should be stated 22 
that the large majority of our patients are the victims of intem- 
perance ; that of those who died, 6 were over fifty years of age; 
I, five months; that io were only in the hospital four days, of 
which number 3 died within twenty-four hours after admission; 
that 1 was associated with typhoid fever ; 11 with acute alco- 
holic delirium; 5 with chronic phthisis; 2 with acute pneu- 
monia, and several with severe trauma.—North American Jour- 
nal of Homoeopathy, April, 1888. 
The two city hospitals of Albany, New York, for the year 
ending September, 30, 1883 (see Report of Board of State 
Charities), reported: Homoeopathic mortality, 5.33 percent.; 
allopathic mortality, 7.26 per cent. In the Brooklyn hospitals, 
same year: Homoeopathic mortality, 8 per cent.; allopathic 
mortality, 9.48 per cent. In the Buffalo hospitals, same year : 
Homoeopathic mortality, 5 percent.; allopathic mortality, 14.73 
per cent. 
In the Denver, Colorado, hospitals, 1880, under allopathic 
treatment, 11.97 per cent; 1881, under homoeopathic treatment, 
mortality, 7.34 per cent.; 1882, under allopathic treatment, mor- 
tality, 8.90 per cent.; 1883, under homoeopathic treatment, mor- 
tality, 6.03 per cent. 
The Figures from Private Practice. 
About fourteen years ago, a well-known life insurance com- 
pany of New York city conducted a series of examinations of 
the records in the health offices of several of our largest cities, 
with a view to ascertain the comparative number of deaths oc- 
curring in the practice of physicians of the two rival schools. 
These investigations embraced the records of Boston for two 
years, 1870 and 1871; of New York, for 1870, 1871, and 1872; 
of Philadelphia, for 1872; of Newark, New Jersey, for 1872, 
1873 ; and of Brooklyn, for 1872 and 1873. These ten tables of 
statistics yield the following results, showing the average num- 
ber of patients lost by each homoeopathic and each allopathic 
physician in each of those cities: 23 
Allopathic 
losses. 
Homoeopathic 
losses. 
Boston, 
1870, .... 
. 1776 
IO.05 
1871, .... 
. 14.76 
8.25 
1872, .... 
. 19.63 
8.26 
New York, 
1870, .... 
• 15-75 
9.00 
1871, .... 
. 15.78 
7-97 
Philadelphia, 
1872, .... 
. 19.03 
12.87 
Newark, N. J., 
1872, .... 
• 27.54 
12.92 
00 
• 15-39 
9.56 
Brooklyn, 
1872, .... 
. 24.08 
11.62 
00 
. 21.56 
9-95 
General average, 
. 17.88 
10.02 
1872 was the year of the terrific epidemic of smallpox in 
Philadelphia. 
Thus we obtain the average losses by 4071 allopathic and 
810 homoeopathic physicians, reporting an aggregate of 80,918 
deaths. The investigations have been so extensive, and the 
figures involved are so large, that no candid mind can refuse to 
accept their results as strikingly indicative of the vast superiority 
of homoeopathic over allopathic methods of treatment. 
Results in Yellow Fever. 
We have drawn these statistics from far-off Germany, and from 
our Northern States and cities. The last table that we shall 
cite is obtained right here in your own Crescent City, after the 
terrible yellow-fever scourge had visited the lower Mississippi 
valley in 1878. A commission to investigate the subject and to 
report to Congress was appointed by the American Institute of 
Homoeopathy. This Commission was composed of your own 
distinguished Dr. William H. Holcombe, as chairman, with the 
no less eminent Drs. F. H. Orme, of Atlanta; L. H. Falligant, 
of Savannah; J. P. Dake, of Nashville; L. D. Morse, of Mem- 24 
phis; T. J. Harper, of Vicksburg; W. J. Murrell, of Mobile; E. 
H. Price, of Chattanooga; W. L. Breyfogle, of Louisville; T. S. 
Verdi, of Washington ; and B. W. James, of Philadelphia. A 
body of more conscientious, upright, reliable, and skilful yel- 
low-fever experts could not be got together in this or any other 
country, and their testimony no man dares to impeach. This 
Commission devoted a vast amount of labor to the examination 
of health-office records, and the collection of information from 
all possible sources, and they found that while homoeopathic 
physicians had lost in the various localities from 4 to 8 per cent, 
and upwards, the allopathic loss was 13 to 18 per cent. In 
Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the disease raged with peculiar 
malignancy, the homoeopathic loss reached the startling figure 
of 36.4 per cent.; the allopathic mortality was 45 per cent. 
Where are the Allopathic Figures? 
And now what need have we of further testimony of this 
sort? If we could add table after table of statistics to those 
already presented, it might, in some degree, corroborate this tes- 
timony, but it could not add either to their significance or to their 
force.—“ Tests at the Bedside,” by Pemberton Dudley, M.D. 
Homoeopathic experiments at Zulezya, in Padolia, conducted 
by Dr. Herrman, by order of his majesty, the Emperor of Rus- 
sia. The experiments lasted one hundred days in the year 1829 : 
Received, 165; cured, 141 ; died, 6; remaining, 18. Mortality, 
3.64 percent. The 18 remaining suffered from incurable organic 
defects, and had been treated without success in other hospitals 
also. 
At the Infantry Hospital at St. Petersburg, there were treated 
by Dr. Herrman, in 1829-30, by order of the Emperor, 409; 
cured, 370; relieved, 7; not cured, 4; died, 16; remained, 12. 
Mortality, 3.92 per cent. 
During the cholera in 1846, there were 242 patients treated 
at the so-called Homoeopathic Cholera Hospital, at Munich, of 
whom only 6 died. After the cessation of the cholera, it was 
determined to continue this as a homoeopathic hospital, for 
which the Chambers voted 4000 florins per annum. Consent 25 
was refused to the Chambers, but hardly in consequence of the 
following ratio of mortality. The summary of cases treated 
from December 13, 1836, to the end of December, 1837, in this 
institution, in Munich, is as follows: Patients, 242 ; cured, 223 ; 
relieved, 13; died, 6. Mortality, 2.48 percent. 
Of 738 patients treated from 1833 to 1841, in the Homoeo- 
pathic Hospital at Giinz, 666 were cured; 10 relieved; 5 not 
cured; 29 died; received moribund, 17; remaining, 11. Mor- 
tality, 3.92. 
In the Homoeopathic Hospital at Gyougyos, from 1838 to 
1841, there were treated 271; cured, 219; relieved, 14; not 
cured, 7; died, 11; received moribund, 15; remaining, 5. 
Mortality, 4.06 per cent. 
In the Homoeopathic Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy at 
Vienna, from 1832 to 1841, there were treated 5161; cured, 
4710; not cured, 89; died, 267; brought in moribund, 34; 
remaining, 61. Mortality, 5.02 per cent. 
Summary of cases treated in Leipsic from 1833 to 1841 : 
Cases, 4665 ; cured, 3984; relieved, 297; not cured, 127; died, 
157; received moribund, 31; remaining, 69. Mortality, 3.57 
per cent. 
According to the above, the mortality of these homoeopathic 
hospitals has an average of 4.22 per cent. 
Summary of Cases in Various Allopathic Hospitals. 
Mary’s Hospital in St. Petersburg in the year 1837: Patients, 
3356; cured, 2261 ; died, 773; remained, 322. Mortality, 23.03 
per cent. All Saints’ Hospital in Breslau in the year 1833: 
Patients, 2443; cured, 1701; died, 409; relieved, 105; not 
cured, 60; remained, 168. Mortality, 16.74 per cent. 26 
New York: Duration of Treatment Five Years (.According to Dr. 
James B7ick?ier). 
Diseases. 
Homoeopathic. 
Allopathic. 
Treated. 
Died. 
Treated. 
Died. 
Erysipelas 
349 
3 
325 
75 
Diarrhoea 
310 
3 
316 
68 
Fever without Typhus 
3,273 
4i 
1,994 
107 
Pleuritis 
371 
5 
5i 
8 
Small Pox and Vaiioloid 
211 
6 
Accounts 
Accounts 
Scarlatina 
102 
3 
Insufficient. 
Insufficient. 
Inflammation of Bowels 
211 
13 
46 
19 
Fever of all kinds 
5,399 
334 
4,367 
487 
Pneumonia 
710 
45 
309 
9i 
Dysentery 
98 
7 
447 
120 
Typhus 
2,126 
293 
2,373 
380 
Organic Diseases of Heart 
109 
17 
56 
29 
Apoplexy 
21 
6 
35 
17 
Phthisis Pulmonalis 
502 
194 
247 
120 
Totals 
13,792 
970 
10,566 
i,52i 
Consequently the mortality here figures up in the homoeo- 
pathic hospitals, 7.03, in the allopathic, 14.36 per cent. 
Dr. Peters (John C. ! ) exclaims at this report: Who, with such 
data befot e him, could be so great a fool as to subject himself to the 
heroic treatment of the old school? 
Charite Hospital, Berlin. 
Year. 
Patients. 
Cured. 
Died. 
Mortality per cent. 
1832 
6,298 
4,565 
843 
13.54 
1^33 
6,749 
4,966 
909 
13.46 
1834 
6,39° 
4.017 
894 
*3-99 
1835 
6,323 
4.499 
715 
11.31 
1836 
7,322 
5,3io 
886 
12.10 
1837 
8,214 
6,010 
1,039 
12 61 
1838 
9,097 
6,955 
893 
9.82 
1839 
10,616 
8,277 
1,052 
9.91 
St. James’ Hospital in Leipsic in 1839: Patients, 1132; cured, 
700; died, 117. Mortality, 10.33 Per cent. In the wards of the 
general hospital in Vienna in the year 1838 there were: Patients, 27 
20,545; died, 2678. Mortality, 13.03 per cent. In the year 
1841: Patients, 24,258; cured, 19,363; died, 3068. Mortality, 
12.73 Per cent. 
The average mortality of these hospitals is 12.08 per cent. 
Thus, under homoeopathic treatment, one patient in every 
twenty-three died, while under allopathic, one in every eight. 
As regards the results of the treatment of Cholera, I will also 
give only the sums total from Dr. Rosenberg’s work, where 
the details can be more fully seen. The summary of cholera 
cases treated homoeopathic ally in different countries by different 
physicians, 14,014 patients; 12,748 cured; 1266 died. A mor- 
tality of 9 per cent. 
Under allopathic treatment in various countries, 457,536 
patients; 184,044 cured, and 222,342 died. A mortality of 
48.39 per cent. 
As regards the expenses, Dr. Rosenberg makes the following 
statement: In the year 1840 the cost for the daily support of a 
patient in the homoeopathic stationary clinic at Leipsic was 
groschen [11 cts.]. During the same year the administration 
of general charity in Berlin set down the daily cost of one 
patient at groschen cts.]; thus in the Charite, the 
daily cost of a patient was about 3! groschen [11% cts.] more 
than in the homoeopathic institutions. 
Since, according to report, in the Charite about 10,000 patients 
are sustained, their support costs, if we assume as an average, 
that each patient remains twenty days in the hospitals, 62,500 
thalers A like number of patients, remaining 
the same time under treatment in a homoeopathic hospital, would 
cost per annum, 30,555 thalers, groschen [$20,370]. Hence 
the Charite, under homoeopathic treatment, would save 31,945 
thalers [$11,296] annually. We find the same proportions also 
in Knolz's Darstellungder Humanitals andHeilenstallen in Vienna 
for the year 1848, according to which a patient cost in these in- 
stitutions about 17% kreuzers more a day than in homoeopathic 
hospitals, and that the government would have saved in these 
Vienna institutions alone 143,248 florins, 53 kreuzers, C. M. 
(Conventions Munze), had they been under homoeopathic treat- 
ment. We now come to more recent dates. 28 
Dr. Zessier was established in the St. Margaret’s Hospital in 
Paris, and the opponents of homoeopathy sought to expel either 
him or homoeopathy. But they received from the administra- 
tion of hospitals at Paris the following reply: “ Before, as well 
as since the time of Hippocrates, physicians have always been 
of different opinions, and always will be. But we as managers 
of the hospitals must stand aloof from their schools, and we 
take no part at all in their contentions, which are more or less 
of a scientific character. We content ourselves merely with 
establishing the results, which each physician obtained in his 
service, as we do at present. In St. Margaret’s Hospital we 
find two sections, one with ioo beds under Dr. Zessier, who 
treats his patients homceopathically; the other with 99 beds 
under Dr. Valleix, and after his resignation under Dr. Marotte, 
who treated their patients allopathically. The new-comers were 
put into the first vacant bed, whether it happened to be in one 
section or the other. Hence the test of two therapeutic methods 
occurred as much as possible under the same circumstances. 
The mortality now was as follows: In the years 1849, and 
1851, there were treated in the allopathic section 3724 patients 
with 411 deaths, thus a mortality of 11 per cent. 
“In the homoeopathic section, 4663 patients were treated, with 
339 deaths—a mortality of 8 per cent. 
“ Under such results we are far from meddling with the liberty 
of medical art, or from wishing to put any hindrance in the way 
of Dr. Zessier’s treating his patients homoeopathically; on the 
contrary, we would encourage him to persevere in his efforts 
which can only benefit humanity!' 
In the same hospital, at the same time, the average duration 
of disease was twenty-three days in the homoeopathic section; 
in the allopathic twenty-nine days, which thus, thanks to 
homoeopathy, permitted, in a hospital of 100 beds, aid to be 
administered tojoo more patients than under allopathic treatment, 
or, in this manner, a hospital of 100 beds would be equal to an 
allopathic hospital of 120 beds. The cost of drugs under allo- 
pathic treatment, amounted to 23,522; in the homoeopathic to 
two or three hundred, thus about the one-hundreth part. 
Something similar happened at Thoissey, Department Aisne, 29 
where Dr. Gastier managed the hospital of the place from 1832 
to 1848. An allopathic physician at Mason, probably vexed 
thereat, declared in a political paper of the city, that the Board 
of Administration of this hospital had forbidden Dr. Gastier to 
practice homoeopathy in this institution. Immediately there- 
after the administation sent to the editor the following letter for 
publication: 
“We cannot be silent under a perfectly groundless statement, 
which would presuppose us to mistake entirely the sphere of our 
duty and meddle with affairs entirely foreign thereto. The ad- 
ministration of the hospitals has been established for the purpose 
of controlling the possessions and revenues of our institutions, 
and to watch over their well being, as well as to see that each 
officer conscientiously discharges his duties, but by no means to 
prescribe rules to the physician in the practice of his art, for this 
field does not belong to our studies, and we are strangers to it. 
It would, hence, have seemed ridiculous, if we had indulged our- 
selves in forbidding the physician of one hospital the use of any 
remedy which seems good to him. Medicine is a free art, and 
the manner of its exhibition must be perfectly free. Never, and 
this best proves the consideration which medicine enjoys, never, 
at any time, in any land, have even absolute governments undertaken 
to prescribe or forbid this or that curative method to the physician. 
“ We contradict the announcement of Dr. C. in every respect, 
since he has fallen into an error which is, to us, quite incompre- 
hensible, but we also declare that, in case we had really the right 
which he ascribes to us, we should not be at all inclined to make 
use of it. Our register shows that, since the accession of Dr. 
Gastier, the number of deaths, in proportion to the number of cases, 
has been much less than ever before ; that the cost of medicine has 
been almost nil, and that the service has been sensibly relieved by 
simplicity and regularity." 
Board of Administration.—Magot, Burgomaster, President; 
Challond, Adjunct; Lorin, Member of the General Council; 
Ducrest, Chaplain; Billand, Senior Director. Grauvogl.