THE OEIO-IH 
Homoeopathy, 
AND 
Reasons for Prcfcrrinfl it to the Common 
System of Rlrdir* it (Tuiituicnt; 
WITH! 111. / 
RY-LAWS OF THE WORCESTER COUNTY 
HOMEOPATHIC MEDIC AH SOT LETT. 
DR. W. E. RICHARDS, 
OFFICE, 
24 FRONT STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. 
Kkiiitak Office Hocks — from 2 to 4 inxl 7 to !* 1*. M. 
ON SCNDA.YH — from 12W12 P. M. 
Chronic and Xrrnm* bi*ra»r* t'hfotrtl hy Klutrirlty. 
Worcester Hoin<ro]mthic Pharmacy: 
JOS. A. HOWLAND, 
178 MAIN STREET,...WORCESTER, MASS. 
OOI>D<KI> & >11, r». ANSWER TO THlMZUE/StttJN, 
Where «1I<1 Honueopatliy Originate ? 
I>r. Sami kl Hahmkmaxm, the founder of Homoeopathy, wu 
lHirn in Meissen on the lOtli of April, 17.VS; in 1775 no entered 
the Unlvernity of Iadpzig. He reinaintil here two years, sup- 
|»<>rtinji himself bv translating IVoni English into German. At 
the end of tide time lie went to Vienna; here the friendship of 
Quarlii, physician to the Emperor, gave him unusual facilities 
for studying disease; then for two years he was librarian and 
physician to the Governor of Transylvania. Alter this lie went 
to Erlangen, where he obtained his degree. In 1779 he com- 
menced the practice of medicine, lie wrote many original 
articles on medicine and the collateral sciences (jinrticuYarly 
chemistry and mineralogy), and translated a number of Eng- 
lish scientific works into German, etc. 
At this stage of Ids life his knowledge of Arabic, Hebrew, 
Greek, I .a tin, English, French and Italian had made for him 
many friends among classical scholars, and his thorough medi- 
cal knowledge had done the same for him among medical men, 
of whom lie counted Dr. Hufeland as Ids friend In 1790, while 
translating Cullen’s Materia Medica, he being dissatisfied with 
the explanation of the action of Cinchona, Is-gan to experiment 
on himself with the drug, and caught the first glim [tee of tliat 
law of cure which he allerward gave his life to iierfect. 
Ho was six years examining it before he published it as the 
law of cure; fourteen years after this, or twenty after the 
discovery, he published his Organon: at the end of the next 
eleven years he published ids Materia Medica Pura. 
The immensity of his lalsirs may lie imagined from the follow- 
ing statistics: he translated 10 works from the English, 8 from 
tlie French, 1 from the Italian, 1 from the Latin; Ids original 
works In Latin nuinlier 10 octavo volumes, in German 23 is tavo 
volumes, liesith-s 41 essays and treatises on scientific sulyects. 
lie died in Paris, July 2d, 1843, in the 88tli year of his age. 
Honueopathy, since its discovery by Hahnemann, lias grown 
with wonderful rapidity; in 1826 it was Introduced into this 
country by Dr. Gram of New York. For a long time no progress 
wits made beyond ids immediate circle, but at length the success 
of the new mode of healing became known, and in seventeen 
years, or in 1843, the number of Homreopathic physicians in the 
country was 000; at the present time there are about 4000. 2 
There are now five homoeopathic colleges in this country, 
in successful operation, witli an attendance of 350 students; 
we have besides this annual accession to our ranks, many 
intelligent converts from allopathy. 
Let us glance briefly at the success of the new school com- 
pared with the old. At the Hospital of Gyongos, in Hungary, 
during five years of allopathic treatment, the mortality was 
from 15 to 16 per cent.; during 11 years of homoeopathic treat- 
ment, from 9 to 10 per cent. In London, the St. George’s 
Hospital (allopathic) shows a mortality of 18 per cent.; at the 
homoeopathic hospital in the same city, mortality 4 to 5 per cent. 
At the Hospital of St. Marguerite, in Paris, the allopathic wards 
show a mortality of 10 to 12 per ct., the homoeopathic wards 8 to 9 
per cent. In the St. Louis (Mo.) Hospital, under allopathic 
care, the mortality was over 12 per cent. At the cavalry bureau 
hospital, in St. Louis, under homoeopathic care, the mortality 
was 6-10 of one per cent. Dr. MaeLouglilin, one of the medical 
inspectors of the board of health, handed to the British House 
of Commons a report favorable to homoeopathy, which is now 
on file in their reports, in which he says that if he was taken 
with cholera, from what he had seen, he should prefer homoe- 
opathic treatment. It. is well to observe that Dr. MacLoughlin 
is an eminent allopathic authority. 
Homoeopathic Physicians in Worcester County. 
Office. Office Hours. 
Dr. L. B. Nichols, a. m. p. m. 
102 Main St., Worcester, 2 to 4 & 7 to 8 
Dr. W. B. Chamberlain, 
9 Elm St., Worcester, 7 to 8 2to4&7 
Dr. David Hunt, 
110 Main Street, Worcester, 8 to 10 2 to 4 & 7 to 9 
Dr. W. E. Richards, 
24 Front St., Worcester, 2 to 6 & 7 to 9 
Dr. C. A. Brooks, Main St., Clinton, 1 to 3 
Dr. D. B. Whittier, 
Summer St., Fitclilmrg, 7 to 9 lto3 
Dr. J. C. Freeland, 
79 Main Street, Fitchburg, to 9 1 to 3 
Dr. F. H. Underwood, Millbury, 7 to 9 12 to 1 
Dr. C. C. Slocomb, Rutland, 7 to 9 7 to 9 
Dr. G. F. Forbes, West Brookfield, 7 to 9 12 to 2 
Dr. F. R. Sibley, Warren, 7 to 9 12 to 1 
Dr. C. B. Herbert, Milford, 7 to 9 
Dr. G. H. Taft, Charlton, 7 to 9 
Dr. Geo. S. Albf.e, Milford, 1 to 3 7 to 8 
Dr. Wm. Knight, Marlboro’, 7 to 9 REASONS 
FOB 
Preferring Homoeopathy to the Common System 
of Medical Treatment. 
“ It i» lamentable that while many of the medical gintriliitnn of life arc 
waeting time on Irrelevant trifles, and darkening counsel with words, 
thousands, yea, tens of thousands, are perishing that might be saved!” 
Professor Hesdekso*. 
Having had nearly twenty yearn’ exjmrience of the bless- 
ings of the now system in my own fitmily, and being thankful 
for itn benign effects in canon of nieknenn occurring during that 
period, amt having also witnensod itn beneficial intluence in 
many familicn known to me, I am anxioun that Vdhers, with 
whom I may have no direct intluence or means of pernonal 
recommendation, should share the laments of its health-restor- 
ing (siwers, Seeing and hearing much of human suffering, 
and isdng neither blind nor Indifferent, the writer cannot help 
deploring many deaths, which might, bv the use of proper 
means, la) averted, as well as an incalculable amount of pain, 
misery, and shattered health, caused by the well-meant, but 
deplorably cruel, unnecessary, and destructive appliances of 
the old system of treating disease. 
The following are some of my reasons for preferring liomieop- 
athy, and being thankful for it: 
1.—Because Honuropnthy is attended with less mortality 
than the old system. 
The evidence In proof of this would till a volume. Tho 
following is a mere specimen: Inflammation of the Lunys, a 
very acute and dangerous disease, has lieen careftillv inves- 
tigated by Professor Henderson of Edinburgh, and the mor- 
tality attending it under every mode of treatment deduced by 
him with the utmost fairness, and the results, so fhr as tho two 
systems are concerned, are as follows: The average number of 
deaths out of every 10*1 cases treated allopathically is 21; 
whilst under hoimeopatliy the deaths are only 8 out of every lot). 4 
Pleurisy is another acute and dangerous disease; but under 
homeopathic treatment, only about 1 in 100 die, while the 
mortality under the ordinary treatment is from eight to sixteen 
times greater. The saving of life by the adoption of home- 
opathic treatment in inflammation of the bowels, is about as 
great as pleurisy. It may be to some more satisfactory, per- 
haps, to hear what “ the other side” say. The next witness 
therefore, shall he one whose testimony cannot be called in 
(|uestion, inasmuch as he is a writer against homoeopathy, and 
his testimony confirms the statement that “whenever statistics 
are honestly quoted, even by its opponents, they tell in favor of 
homoeopathy.” 
Admitted. 
Died. 
Mortality. 
Allopathic Hospital, Vienna, 
Homoeopathic “ 44 
11.34 
200 
** S8 ' 
538 
28 
5 
PLEURISY. 
Allopathic Hospitals, 
Honncopathic 44 
1017 
134 
13 
380 
12 
3 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. 
Allopathic Hospitals, 
0* 
84 
18 
Iloinceoputhio 44 
184 
8 
4 
DYSENTERY. 
Allopathic Hospitals, 
Homoeopathic “ 
102 
37 
22 
175 
(i 
3 
INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 
Dr. Routit, “Fallacies of Homoeopathy.” 
It is evident therefore, that the relative chances of recovery 
are greater under homoeopathic treatment than under allo- 
pathic, by 41 to 1 in inflammation of the lungs; by 4 to 1 in 
pleurisy ; by 3 to 1 in inflammation of the bowels; and by 7 to 1 
in dysentery. 
The following statistics of the treatment of epidemic cholera, 
in the year 1854, have been extracted from documents printed 
by order of the House of Commons. From these documents it 
appears that the mortality was as follows: in cholera cases 
generally, with or without collapse— 
Per cent. 
Allopathic treatment, deaths, 4.5 
Homoeopathic “ “ 17 
In collapse cases: 
Allopathic treatment, deaths, 09 
Honia'f iputhic “ “ 30 
Dr. Macloughlin, one of the medical inspectors of the Board 
of Health, who visited the London Homoeopathic Hospital, and 
saw the cases there treated, lias stated publicly, that he saw 
“several cases that did well under homoeopathic treatment, 
which he had no hesitation in saying would have sunk under 
any other.” 5 
11.— Decaute Ifomaopathy ( I RES MOBE QUICKLY than the 
old tyttrm. 
The opponent already quoted admits the fact that, in homce- 
opatbic hospitals, with the same number of beds appropriated 
to pneumonia, nearly twice the number of patients are admitted 
as In allopathic hospitals. He also states that in p/eurity, “ the 
uiiinlier of cases admitted are at /rant double the number 
admitted to allopathic institutions.” 
Dr. Henderson has also shown that, in the allopathic hospi- 
tals, the average duration of disease is .K) days, whilst it is only' 
10 days In similar diseases in the honueopathic hospitals. 
It would be dlfticult to overrate the importance of this 
ail vantage. "To a working man, whoso bread is earned bv the 
•sweat of his brow,’ time is of the utmost importance; ami it is 
a notorious fact that much distress has resulted from protracted 
illness of the father of a family, which has lieen occasioned by 
the maltreatment of old physic.” 
One of the advantages which would accrue to public hospitals 
by the adoption of the honueopathic treatment would lie, that 
at least til-ice the number at patients might lie admitted with- 
out increasing the nundier of lieds, or any increase of expense, 
tint most likely w ith even a diminution of the latter. 
II.— Hn-aunr MOMiKOPATHY IK PLEASANTER than old phytic. 
No one denies this. Contrast the sick room of hh allopathic 
patient with that of a homieopathist. In the former, there are 
the bleeding husin, the repulsive lets'll, the blister, and its 
accompanying satellites—sores, salves and dressings; the emetic 
and its disgusting sequence, purgatives and their disagreeable 
(not to sav injurious) consequences. Think of these, torment- 
ing life's last and most sacred hours, and often intlictcd on 
|smr helpless infancy and terrified children, and you have a 
real “ chamber of horrors,” cruel and revolting enough for a 
society of savages; add to tlds also that these torments are not 
only useless, but pernicious beyond calculation, often indeed 
destroying, by such coarse and rude appliances, the very life 
they wish to save. 
Look now at tin* chamber of the homeopathic patient: lie is 
very ill, but the life’s blissl is spared ; no bleeding-basins here, 
no discarded blisters, no leeches nor bloody clothes; the linen 
Is clean, and the air is sweet; for there have lieen no emetics or 
purgatives.no salivation, nor its consequent stench; the only 
article in the risnn to remind one of sickness is, (lerhaps, 
a Isittle or tumbler, containing, to all appearance, pure water; 
and. If the patient dies, his last hours are not tormented with 
well-meant cruelties, and his sufferings can generally lie 
alleviated to the verv last. 6 
The following is the confession of a physician: “My con- 
science, without being struck down, was troubled at the means 
I employed, and which, though justified by necundem artem, 
were both barbarous and questionable, added fresh stings to 
disease, took away nature’s chance, accelerated decay, and 
perturbed the last hours of this mortal life; there was also in 
them such a horrid war with the sad dignity proper to death- 
beds, with the repose of sick men, with the sweet pity of 
relatives, and the commiseration of attendants, with all soft 
dealing, with every principle of cleanliness and sweetness, that 
I could not but feel like a disturber and a violent man in 
recommending and superintending them on many a well 
remembered occasion.—Dr. James J. G. Wilkinson. 
This feature of homoeopathy is particularly important in the 
case of infants. It is a mercy to relieve these little sufferers 
from any extra trial that can be avoided; but, besides this, the 
difficulty of administering nauseous medicines is so serious as 
to produce physical and mental disturbance, highly dangerous 
to the patient; whilst our doses excite no dread nor disgust, 
and provoke no resistance, and notwithstanding the opponents 
of homoeopathy blindly persist in attributing its cures to imag- 
ination, the infant occupants of the nursery are often the 
subjects of its greatest triumphs. 
IV.—Homoeopathy does not weaken the patient by the 
depleting measures resorted to by the old school. 
This is an immense boon ; for, when the disease is cured by 
homoeopathic treatment, so is the patient; but, trite as this may 
sound, it is seldom so with allopathic patients in acute diseases. 
'4’ho means resorted to to cure the disease nearly kill the 
patient, so that he has to get back the strength of which he has 
been robbed, as best he can. 
I)r. Sharp has well said. “ The avoiding of blood-letting and 
the weakness caused by such loss of the vital fluid, is of itself a 
sufficient triumph for the new system; but when it is remem- 
bered that every painful and debilitating process, along with 
every disagreeable dose, is forever abandoned, how great is the 
emancipation, how substantial the triumph!” 
This being the case, it follows that the period of convalescence 
is greatly shortened, or even superseded— the system soon 
recovers its equilibrium; whereas, after an acute illness, treated 
nccundem artem, the system receives a shook from which it is 
long in recovering, and in some cases never does recover 
entirely. 
V.—Because Homoeopathy is able to cuke new diseases with 
nearly as much certainty as ol<l ones. 
The following is a striking illustration of this: “ In the year 
1831 the cholera in vailed Germany from the East; and, on its 7 
approach, Hahnemann, who hail received descriptions of its 
iMi uliar symptoms, guided by the unerring therapeutic rule ho 
liail discovered, at once tixed upon the remedies which should 
prove speeilles for it, and caused directions to he printed and 
distributed over the country by thousands, so that, on its 
actual invasion, tlie honuropathists, ami those who had received 
lluhnemann’s directions, were prepared for its treatment and 
prophylaxis (prevention), and thus there is no doubt many 
lives were saved and muny victims rescued from the )>cstilence. 
On all sides statements were published, testifying to the im- 
mense comparative success that had attended the employment 
of I lie means recommended by Hahnemann before he had xeen 
or directly treated a tingle cane." Here we see that “Hahne- 
mann. tVom merely reading a description of one of the most 
appallingly rapid and fatal diseases, could confidently and 
dogmatically say that such and such a medicine will do jpssl in 
tills stage of the disease, such and such other medicines in that, 
and that the united ox}ierience of hundreds of practitioners in 
all ]>arts of Europe and America should licur practical testi- 
mony t.i the ace \ of Hahnemann's conclusions.”—Dr. 
Drooaox. 
This tact is one of NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. If it be true, 
and in honneopathy it certainly m, that a new disease—epidem- 
ic, for Instance—can lie prescribed for with as much certainty 
of success as one more familiar to us, hy virtue of an unerring 
laic of nature, surely it is of not less national importance than 
the sanitary measures which have for their olject the checking 
of such epidemics. 
VI.—lircauie llonueopathy will often cure diseased 
STATES WHICH AUK CONSIDERED INCURABLE 
by ordinary practice. 
In numormm chronic diteatet thin is the case. In constipa- 
tion of the hrncelt, for inatsnee, allopathy cannot cure; It can 
only give aiierients or purgative*, which, inHtcail of curing the 
evil increases it in the clnl; while, by a little care in Delecting 
the right remedy, and patient perseverance, hommopatliy 
generally cure* it. 
Again, although it in true, in a certain sense, that liomnsipa- 
tli.v neither sii|>ai'sedeH nor interferes with surgery, yet it is 
often one of its happy triumphs to dispense with the ojierattotis 
of amputation and excision, by the radical cure of diseased 
parts, which allopathy would have consigned to the knife. 
Aconite lias tx'en called “the honneopnthist's lancet,” because 
It enables him entirely to do away with bleeding, and, to a 
certain extent, the saw and the kiiife have their rivals in ouf 
t lie ram* utics. 8 
Xll.—Homipopathy can be applied in some cases WHERE 
THE OLD SYSTEM CANNOT. 
In lock-jaw, for instance, it is impossible to administer large 
doses of medicine, but the homooopathist can insert his drops 
or globules within the lips, and the medicine will act, as has 
been often experienced. Again, “incases of acute inflamma- 
tion in delicate persons, where the local disease seems to call 
for depletion and a lowering treatment, and the constitution 
at the same time urgently requires to be strengthened, the 
practitioner of the old plan is placed between Scylla and 
Cliarybdis—his efforts to relieve the inflammation, in' propor- 
tion to their activity, increase the general weakness; whilst 
the homoDopathist meets with nothing to perplex him, and can 
do good without doing harm.”—Dr. Sharp. 
Besides these important instances of lock-jaw and acute 
inflammation, there are cases of gastric derangement, where 
the stomach is so irritable as to reject instantly the smallest 
quantity of fluid, even a teaspoonful. Here again the difficulty 
is met by the simple expedient of globules, or by a droi> of 
tincture applied to the tongue. In no case whatever, while 
there is life, is the homoeopath compelled to echo the old lament, 
“ I know what would do good, if it could be administered, or if 
the patient could bear it.” 
In connection with this, it may also be remarked that— 
Till.—Homoeopathy will alleviate suffering where a 
CURE IS OUT OF the question, and that without 
resortiny to narcotics. 
In some organic diseases, for instance, where a cure cannot 
be expected, relief is often easily and certainly obtainable. In 
consumption, so frequent and so fatal, the patient’s sufferings 
can be alleviated to the very end. 
IX.—1 prefer Homoeopathy, lastly, because, in ascertaining the 
properties of medicines, it experiments on health v 
PERSONS, AND NOT ON THE SICK. 
The object of these experimental “provings” is to ascertain 
the pure effects of each medicine on the human frame. If 
given to an invalid, its effects are of course complicated with 
his existing symptoms, and a pure result is impossible. To 
administer one medicine at a time, and that to a person free 
from previous symptoms, seems to commend itself clearly, as 
the on/// possible way to secure an answer to the question, 
“ How does this medicine act, per set” 
The practice of trying the effects of drugs on persons suffer- 
ing from disease is cruel, dangerous, and unsatisfactory; cruet. 9 
because it torments the patient already smitten down by 
disease; danaenm«, because it often accelerates <Ieiilli or 
undermines the constitution, and almost always interposes 
harriers in the wav of tlint tendency to recovery which Infinite 
(hsslnesa lias universally interwoven with lii*e; and inisti/in- 
ybctory, because it lias, during tlie centuries it lias lieen 
practise!, achieved little nr nothing for therapeutics. An 
eminent physician (Sir John Forliex) says: “Therapeutics 
(i. r., tlie cure of diseases) are to a laiuentalde extent palpably 
and egregiouxly wrong.” and tliat tliis department of medical 
science is “ as yet in its veriest inlhncy.” Common sense, 
therefore, infers that they liave been all along on the wrong 
track. Dr. Paris, the late President of the College of Physi- 
cians, has also freely admitted, as regards the substances of 
the materia mcdica. “tlie uncertain and precarious reputation 
of all ” of them. SVouldt his "precarious reputation” liave 
existed after so many centuries, during which tliev have lieen 
cx|s'rimciiting, if they had Ih-cii on tlie rigid track? And it is 
not to lie wondered at, that investigations into the effects of 
drugs in ditto* should lie so fruitless, when we consider the 
ditticultiesand uncertainty necessarily encountered in attempt- 
ing to make pure observations under such circumstances: for 
how can tlie observer possibly separate the pure results of the 
drugs from the symptoms of the disease, and how is confusion 
worse confounded by the common practice of mistily and 
combining different drugs together 
Such are tome of my reasons for preferring homoeopathic 
treatment to that so long in vogue. They could easily liave 
lieen limitiplied and extended, out “a word to tlie wise is 
sufficient." 
The writer does not claim to he in (sissession of medical 
knowledge, hut feels safe so long as he keeps to the ground he 
lias done — that of common sense. Though not a medical 
man, lie is glad to avail himself of a test furnished by one, 
for tlie very purtsise of Judging of any new system of treat- 
ment. It is furnished by an eminent physician,* one who lias 
v>Tit ten a work auaintt honneopathy, ami gained a prize of five 
hundred dollars for it, so that there can be no possible reason 
for sux|>ceting that they have been so constructed as to favor 
lionufopathy. We will apply them, therefore, in weighing its 
merits to the title of good or bad practice. 
"Oissl practice,” he says, “differs from its op]>osite tints— 
I.—It lias a less number of fatal cases, in proportion to the 
whole number that come under treatment.” 
This we have shown to bo the case with homoeopathy. (See 
lteason 1.) 
• Dr. Hooker 10 
II. —It “ has a less number of l>a<l cases, because it avoids 
converting light cases into grave ones, and succeeds in arresting 
disease in many cases in its very commencement.” 
This is exactly what homoeopathy does; indeed our opponents 
sometimes cry out that our eases are not so “grave” as theirs, 
forgetting or ignoring the fact that this is one result of the 
superiority of our treatment, the cases under homoeopathic 
treatment being taken indiscriminately from the same popula- 
tion. (See Reasons I., II., and IV.) 
III. —The “ patients have commonly a shorter sickness.” 
This has been already shown to be the case with those under 
homoeopathic treatment. (See Reason II.) 
IV. —“ They are in a better condition after they have recov- 
ered, less apt to have bad results left behind, and less liable to 
disease in future.” 
This exactly characterizes the experience of homoeopathic 
patients. (See Reason IV.) 
V. —“He,” that is, the physician, who follows the practice 
which may be properly designated “ good,” “ has a less number 
of patients, and a smaller amount of sickness in the same 
number of families.” 
This is notoriously true of homoeopathic physicians, who are 
able to keep more than twice as many families in health as 
they could under the old system. (See Reasons II. and IV.) 
Thus we see that any one of the tests, or all of them, applied 
to homoeopathy, show it to be “good practice,” and the same 
rules applied to allopathy show it to be bad practice. 
From all these considerations, I am justified in 
MY PREFERENCE OF THE NEW SYSTEM TO THE OLD ONE; 
AND MY LIFE AND HEALTH, AND THOSE DEPENDENT ON 
ME, ARE SAFER UNDER HOMOEOPATHIC THAN UNDER ALLO- 
PATHIC TREATMENT. 
Truthful statistics show that in general diseases and cholera, 
there is about three times the mortality under allopathic as 
under the homoeopathic treatment: in typhus fever nearly tour 
times; in yellow fever eight times; in pneumonia nearly six 
times; making the general average mortality nearly live times 
in a given number of cases treated. This general average gives 
about eight deaths to homoeopathy in every hundred treated, 
and more than thirty-four to allopathy, in like number of cases; 
that in every hundred deaths under the latter treatment, 
nearly seventy-seven would have been saved by the former 
method; that is, while allopathy loses one hundred, homoeopa- 
thy loses only about twenty-three. BY-LAWS 
OF THE 
Worcester County Homoeopathic Medical Society 
ARTICLE I. 
Society. 
Section 1. This society shall consist of hucIi pemms as shall 
sign its Bv-Lawn at its iirst formal meeting, and such other 
IsTsonn as may l>e elected in accordance with them. 
ARTICLE II. 
Officer* iif the Society. 
SEC. 1.—The eocietv, at its annual meeting, shall elect by 
ballot a President, Vice-President, Corresponding Secretary, 
Recording Secretary and Treasurer, and three Censors, who 
together shall constitute an Executive Committee, to whom 
shall Is) Intrusted the general business of the society when not 
in session. 
SEC. 2.—The officers shall continue In office until the adjourn- 
ment of the annual meeting next alter their election, at which 
time the duties of the newly elected officers shall commence. 
ARTICLE III. 
lhitir* <\f Officer*. 
Sec. 1.—The President shall preside at all meetings of the 
society and of the executive committee. 
If the President Is absent, his duties shall devolve upon the 
Vice-President, if present; otherwise on such person as the 
meeting may appoint. 
Sec. 2.—The Corresponding Secretary shall have charge of 
all communications addressed to the society, ami he shall pre- 
l»ire and transmit whatever communications the society or 
executive committee may direct. 
Sec. 3.—The Recording Secretary shall give notice and keep 
a record of all the meetings of the society and of the executive 
committee, and shall transmit, at least two weeks before the 
annual meeting, to the Treasurer all the names of those who 
have become members during the year. 12 
Sec. Treasurer sliall solicit, and receive all moneys 
due the society, and shall pay all hills after approval by the 
President. He shall annually make a statement of expenses 
and amount of funds in his hands, to the society. 
Sec. 5.—The Censors shall examine the qualifications of per- 
sons wishing membership, and report the result of their exam- 
ination to the society. 
ARTICLE IV. 
Membership. 
Sec. 1.—Any person in good standing as a physician, who 
practices medicine in accordance with the law “Similia Simili- 
bus Ourantur,” may become a member of the society after 
approval by the Censors. 
He shall be elected by ballot, and after his election shall sign 
the by-laws before he shall be deemed a member. 
Sec. 2.—Every member shall receive a certificate of member- 
ship signed by the President and Secretary. 
Sec. 3.—Every member of the society shall be assessed annu- 
ally two dollars, and such other assessments as a majority of 
the members may vote. 
ARTICLE V. 
Delegates. 
Sec. 1.—The executive committee may appoint delegates to 
other societies or associations whenever they deem it advisable, 
and such delegates shall receive certificates of such appoint- 
ment from the Recording Secretary. 
ARTICLE VI. 
Meetings of the Society. 
Sec. 1.—The meetings of the society shall be held quarterly. 
The annual meeting shall be held on the second Wednesday in 
November, and the semi-annual meetingon the second Wednes- 
day in May, at 10 o’clock A. M.; and the intermediate meetings 
on the second Wednesday of February and August, at two 
o’clock P. M. 
Sec. 2.—The President, by the advice of the executive com- 
mittee, may cause the Secretary to issue a call for a meeting 
whenever he deems the interests of the society demand. 
ARTICLE VII. 
Election of Officers. 
Sec. 1.—The election of all officers of this society shall be by 
plurality of votes. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
Alterations and Amendments. 
Sec. 1.—These by-laws may be altered or amended by a 
two-thirds vote of the society. Homoeopathy Thrives, 
Ami like everything based on true principles, is aggressive. 
The Director of the New York Opthalmic Hospital last year 
gave notice to the board of allopathic physicians that their 
services were no longer needed. The directors, in their 
report for this year, express the fullest contidence in the 
superiority of homoeopathic practice in all Diseases of the 
Eye, etc., and their high gratification with the results of 
treatment under the new system. 
The rapid spread of homoeopathy among the people, has 
furnished the means of lessening the death-rate in the 
communities in which it is practiced; and lias induced the 
most acute of business men to establish life insurance 
companies, basing their operations on the fact that they 
can with safety insure lives of practical hommopatliists 
for, a lower rate than those under allopathic treatment, 
because lioimeopathic treatment saves so many more 
patients in proportion to the number treated. Some years 
ago the London Life Assurance Company, after a careful 
investigation of facts, commenced to insure lives of persons 
who employed our treatment, for ten per cent, less than 
those who were treated by the common system of drugging. 
We have already fh the' Northern States two strong, suc- 
cessful companies, and the third is now (1868) being 
established, located in the metropolis of America. Each of 
these companies insures the lives of practical homceopa- 
thists at a much lower rate than of those who employ 
allopathic physicians. All other companies must eventually 
follow their example, because they will learn that the 
increased longevity of homoeopatliists is so great as to 
safely permit it. 
Thirty years ago there was but one homoeopathic physi- 
cian in New England. In 1857 there were one hundred 
and twenty in Massachusetts alone, while at the present 
time (1867) there are 251, showing an increase of one hun- 
dred per cent, in ten years. Our practice follows directly 
upon the footsteps of education and general intellectual 
progress. Ohio has 352 homoeopathic physicians, while 
Kentucky, lying by its side, has only 44. Maryland has but 
34, and Arkansas has less than 6; Michigan has 215, and 
Mississippi 16; Wisconsin has 200, and Missouri has 68. 
No one can mistake the import of these “statistics.” 
They show that homoeopathy thrives in proportion to the 
general intelligence of communities, and are a sufficient 
answer to the oft repeated assertion of our opponents, that 
its doctrines are absurd and its practitioners are fools, or 
something worse. That our patrons are principally people 
of wealth and refinement, has always been a mattor of 
i pride to our school, and a very humiliating circumstance 
to our allopathic brethren.