TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
World's Homoeopathic Convention, 
HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, 
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY, 
AT ITS TWENTY-NINTH SESSION, 
June 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, July 1st, 1876. 
VOL. II. 
HISTORY OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
PHILADELPHIA : 
SHERMAN & CO., PRINTERS. 
188 0. PREFACE. 
Herewith is presented the Historical volume of the World's 
Homoeopathic Convention, held in Philadelphia, 1876, under 
the auspices of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
When the editor assumed his task, he supposed the manuscript 
was nearly all in hand, and that he would merely have to revise 
it for press. But large and important portions had not been 
written at all, while most of the material at hand was chaotic and 
full of errors. Scarcely a report was complete or fit for printing. 
The history of nearly every State, society, hospital, dispensary, 
pharmacy, etc., required to be worked up anew. Letters had 
to be written to all parts of the country for essential information, 
many of which are yet unnoticed. Under these circumstances, 
twelve to eighteen months of unremitting labor would have been 
necessary to measurably attain the perfection aimed at by our 
lamented colleague, Dr. Carroll Dunham, who " had all the 
papers, minutes, memoranda, etc., and in whose mind were stored 
away all the connective tissues, all the missing links, all the 
material necessary to make a completed whole of the disjointed 
fragments. Had he lived, order would have come out of the 
chaos, and such order as would have been delightful to us all; 
but to expect another man, without the knowledge he had of all 
these things, and without his great ability, to do as he would 
have done, is expecting entirely too much. Nothing short of 
the rod of the enchanter could work such a miracle." However, 
keeping in view the " instructions" from the American Institute 
at its meeting last June, " to issue the Transactions of the World's 
Homoeopathic Convention with as little delay as possible,"* the 
editor has done his best. The result is not satisfactory to him,but 
* Amer. Inst. Trans., 1880, page 74. 4 
PREFACE. 
the responsibility for omissions and for the indifference of those 
who might have supplied them, does not lie upon him. From 
what was furnished he has striven to keep out mistake; if he 
shall be found to have not wholly succeeded, let those who detect 
an error remember the immense difficulties of his task of cor- 
rection, aggravated unpardonably by grossly illegible manu- 
scripts-even names, places, and dates defying deciphering. 
This volume may accomplish a great good by acting as a basis 
for, and incentive to, a complete history of homoeopathy in 
America. Let every State society at once appoint historical 
committees, who shall faithfully work up the histories in their 
several States. And, to promote this end, let any one no- 
ticing errors of omission or commission report such to the 
appropriate historical committee. This volume, be it remem- 
bered, purports to end its history in 1876. 
To save time, the editor was compelled to depart somewhat 
from the plan as given on page 434. Section III is devoted to 
legislation, Section IV to publications, while Section V, " the past 
and present means of homoeopathic medical education," has been 
omitted, as nothing whatever had been written on the subject. 
This omission is of comparatively small moment, however, as the 
section could have contained a mere statement of what is known 
to every one at all familiar with the rapid strides of medical edu- 
cation in this country-the extension of time to three years' 
course, the increased corps of professors in every college, the 
larger number of colleges (in 1835 there was but one, that at 
Allentown ; now there are eleven), and the more ample means 
of imparting instruction. 
The valuable tabulated list of homoeopathic societies, hospitals, 
dispensaries, journals, colleges, etc., in the United States, pre- 
pared by I. T. Talbot, M.D., printed as an appendix, presents a 
summary to date. 
In closing, the editor desires to return his hearty thanks to 
the many physicians who so kindly lent their aid in furnishing 
material, and especially to E. M. Kellogg, M.D., for his uni- 
form kindness in promptly replying to all requests for advice 
and information, for assistance in procuring many missing links, PREFACE. 
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etc.; to Drs. D. H. Beckwith, A. E. Small, and I. T. Talbot 
for the history of the institutions of Ohio, Illinois, and Mas- 
sachusetts, respectively; to Henry M. Smith, M.D., for very 
much of the New York history, and for the history of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, with an invaluable Table 
of References, which he prepared, unasked, with great care (see 
page 919); for revising and making many important additions 
to the literature of our school, Section IV; to R. C. Moffat, 
M.D., for the institutions of Brooklyn. Also, in Philadelphia, 
to A. R. Thomas, M.D., for assistance in proof-reading the 
Pennsylvania history, and in his researches for, and contributions 
of, many historic data; and to Charles Mohr, M.D., for pre- 
paring the satisfactory index, which will be found at the close of 
the volume. 
Joseph C. Guernsey, M.D., 
Philadelphia, December, 1880. 
Editor. HISTORY 
OF 
HOMEOPATHY IN GERMANY 
DURING THE YEARS FROM 1794-1875, 
WITH 
FIVE STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENTS AND ONE CRITICAL 
RETROSPECT OF GERMAN MEDICAL LEGISLATION. 
BY 
GUSTAV PUHLMANN, M.D., 
ASSISTANT OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC INSTITUTE IN LEIPZIG. 
BY ORDER OF THE CENTRAL SOCIETY OF HOMCEOPATHIC 
PHYSICIANS OF GERMANY. INTRODUCTION. 
Since special reports of German-Austria and Switzer- 
land have been made by others, these historical and 
statistical reports are confined within the limits of the 
present German Empire. 
The Author. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN GERMANY. 
Gustav Puhlman, M.D. 
The history of homoeopathy in Germany may be divided into 
two distinct periods. The first comprises the time prior to about 
1835, when homoeopathy was almost exclusively under the influ- 
ence of its founder, whose precepts were received without ques- 
tion by his followers. The other period comprises the time from 
the adoption of Paul Wolf's theses and the beginning of Rade- 
macher's and the physiological school to the present time. The 
latter period has been occupied in the elaboration and scientific 
establishment of Hahnemann's doctrines. 
Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, was born 
April 10th, 1755, and died July 2d, 1845. It is easy to show 
that when he advanced his new doctrine he not only made oppo- 
sition to the spirit of medicine of that time, but that he necessa- 
rily paid his tribute to the latter by planting the roots of the 
new system into the old soil. We know from his biography 
that he withdrew in disgust from the old shallow mode of prac- 
tice, and devoted himself for some time to the more fruitful study 
of chemistry. 
The first conception of his future doctrine came to him while 
translating into German Cullen's Materia Medica. He was im- 
pressed with the contradictory views of the action of Cinchona, 
and resolved to prove it on himself. He was now strong and 
healthy, and the symptoms which this drug produced in him 
were similar to those of intermittent fever, which he had had eight 
years previously. He distinctly remarks, however, that the drug 
did not produce in him any chills. It has been frequently urged 
against homoeopathy that Cinchona does not produce symptoms 
of intermittent fever in everybody, and as homoeopathy dates its 10 
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origin to this experiment, it has been declared deceptive and fal- 
lacious. 
The only possible excuse for this objection is the want of 
knowledge of homoeopathic literature and of Hahnemann's own 
reports of the effects of Cinchona, in which he does not at all 
assert that it produces a typical intermittent fever, but that it 
produced in him symptoms of intermittent fever without chills. 
Besides, Hahnemann did not propose to make this single experi- 
ment the foundation for his new system; for a considerable time 
elapsed from the year 1790, when he made this experiment, be- 
fore he dared announce to the world his ideas of reform, which 
were based on further investigation and literary proofs. As late 
as 1796 he published, in Hufeland's Journal for Medical Art, 
" An Essay on a New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative 
Powers and Action of Drugs," in which, starting from the effects 
of Cinchona and other remedies, he demands the proving of medi- 
cines on the healthy human organism before they are permitted to 
be prescribed for the sick. He says : " Every efficacious remedy 
produces in the human body a peculiar species of disease; and 
the more powerful the remedy the more peculiarly distinguished 
and severe is the disease produced." To this he adds the advice 
to imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic disease by 
another new disease, and to choose in a given disease that remedy 
which is able to produce another similar artificial disease. He 
says: "By the action of the similar remedy the disease is over- 
powered and will disappear." As proof of this, he cites a number 
of medicines which, according to their effects on healthy persons, 
have been used with success in similar diseased conditions; and 
thus was made the first practical application of the maxim 
similia similibus, which, after many years of searching for practi- 
cal proof, he explained synthetically. This explanation he pub- 
lished in Hufeland's Journal. The following articles are of 
special interest in this regard, viz.: "Are the Impediments to 
Certainty and Simplicity in Practical Medicine insurmounta- 
ble?" (Hufeland's Journal, 1797, vol. iii, p. 4); "A Case of 
Colicodynia quickly cured" (the same, p. 1); "Antidotes for THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN GERMANY. 
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some Heroic Medicinal Substances" (Hufeland's Journal, 1798, 
vol. v, p. 3); 11 SomeKinds of Continuous and Remittent Fevers " 
(the same, p. 19); "Several Periodical and Hebdomadal Dis- 
eases " (the same, p. 45); " Observations on the Three Current 
Modes of Treatment" (Hufeland's Journal, 1801, vol. xi, p. 4). 
The opposition with which Hahnemann was met by his con- 
temporaries was very great, but it did not check him in his search 
for truth. In his practical application of the law of cure which he 
had discovered, he had acted upon the principle that an experi- 
ment to be reliable must be conducted from beginning to end by 
the experimenter, and when he had selected a remedy he pre- 
pared and administered it with his own hands; consequently he 
very soon collided with the pharmaceutists, who still have special 
privileges in Germany, and was often forced by them to leave 
the place in which he lived, when a clientage was being estab- 
lished. These continuous chicanes, by which, during fifteen years, 
he was actually chased and hunted, were no small means of 
strengthening his character; they might have compelled one less 
energetic to forsake his chosen path. 
In 1805, after the attention of the medical world had been 
drawn to bis new method by his journalistic publications, he 
came forward more decidedly. He published in Leipzig a work 
of two volumes: Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum positivis 
sive in sano corpore observatis, and a pamphlet, JEsculapius in 
the Balance, and finally, in Hufeland's Journal, vol. xxii, p. 3, 
" The Medicine of Experience." The last-named work, which 
appeared some years later in a separate edition by Wittig, in Ber- 
lin, was the excellent precursor of the Organon, containing the 
clear and impressive part of Hahnemann's doctrine, of course 
conformably with its development at that time. In it we find 
the first intimation of the name from which, in future years, his 
followers were to derive a distinctive appellation; for prior to 
1808 he had only spoken of the use of specific remedies, later 
he called them homoeopathic specifics, and not till after several 
years did he use exclusively the term Homoeopathy. 
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the body side by side, but that the stronger must destroy and 
extinguish the weaker, he came to the conclusion that it was only 
necessary to oppose the unnatural irritation, the disease, by 
setting up another morbid process similar to that manifested by 
the disease. Starting from this deduction he concluded that in 
order to discover agents capable of opposing disease, it was nec- 
essary to prove drugs on the healthy organism; and he verified 
this conclusion at the bedside. Upon this inductive verified 
conclusion is based Hahnemann's logic. Other inferences which 
he drew, and which corresponded with the spirit of the time in 
which he lived, must at present be denominated as partly erro- 
neous; for example, he presumed that the similar remedy inocu- 
lated the patient with a similar, an opposing disease, which 
would take the place of the original one, and which the organ- 
ism would then easily conquer. This theory, we repeat, suited 
exactly the spirit of the past century, with its neuro-pathological 
views; but, of course, it had to be abandoned as physiology, 
freed from empiricism, and pathological anatomy, etc., took their 
places. In later years Hahnemann modified this original and 
too arbitrary explanation. In the fifth edition of his Organon 
(§ 29) he speaks of the vital energy as being exalted by the 
simile. The fact has been elaborated by von Grauvogl and Wis- 
licenius, who have given a real basis to the law of similars, and 
to whom we shall return later. 
We mentioned in the beginning that Hahnemann placed the 
roots of his doctrine partly in the soil which he found. This is 
particularly true with his doctrine of specifics, for he talks of op- 
posing specific remedies to the so-called specific diseases, as gout, 
scrofulosis, etc.; as is still the practice in the gross empiricism of 
the modern mode of treatment of the old school, in spite of its 
pathological knowledge. Hahnemann's doctrine of specifics dif- 
fered from that of the old school in that the former insisted upon 
something special corresponding to the individuality of the pa- 
tient, while the latter made the application general. 
By thus placing himself in opposition to the doctrine of the 
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specific remedies were to be used in diminished and refined 
doses, to avoid a severe primary action (medicinal aggravation), 
a controversy with his colleagues was at once established. In 
their attacks upon him they did not confine themselves to the 
journals devoted to the advancement of science, but they defamed 
him in the daily literature, principally in the AUgemeiner An- 
zeiger der Deutschen. 
Hahnemann defended himself, and at the same time enlight- 
ened the public, in popular pithy articles concerning his doc- 
trine. The following articles, published in the above-mentioned 
paper, are especially interesting in this respect, viz.: "On the 
Value of the Speculative Systems of Medicine, etc." (1808, p. 
263); " Extract from a letter to a physician of high standing on 
the great necessity of a regeneration of Medicine" (1808, p. 
343); "To a Student of Medicine" (1809, p. 227); "Signs of 
the times in the ordinary system of Medicine" (1809, p. 326). 
At the same time a sensation was created by his cures, which, in 
the opinion of his adversaries, were effected by non-medication. 
These newspaper skirmishes, etc., lasted about four years, 
during which time Hahnemann observed, aside from their inten- 
tional misunderstanding, his opponent's honest, total ignorance 
of the principles laid down in his Medicine of Experience. In 
1810 he published an elaborate treatise entitled Organon of the 
Rational Art of Heeding, which reappeared in 1818, 1824,1829 
and 1833, in new, revised and enlarged editions. 
In the Organon he explains each and every dogma, and comes 
forward more boldly with his so much attacked doctrine of po- 
tentization. In this work, § 242, he speaks of the division 
and diminution of the drug by mixing it with an indifferent 
vehicle (alcohol, sugar of milk, water), in order to bring the 
well-selected and adapted agent to such a strength that it will 
abolish the natural disease without enfeebling the system in the 
least. Although in this edition of his work, generally called the 
Bible of Homoeopathy, he only spoke of the diminution of the 
power of a medicine by diminishing the dose, yet it is evident, 
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he knew, at least twenty years ago, of the increased effect of 
medicine by the separation of its molecules through its subdi- 
vision in an indifferent substance. 
In the year 1811, Hahnemann moved to Leipzig, in order to 
found there an institution where young physicians might be in- 
structed, both theoretically and practically, in his method of 
treatment. He found, however, no support, but in order to 
achieve at least something, he established himself as a teacher in 
the university. 
On the 26th of June, 1812, he defended the dissertation, written 
for this purpose, De Helleborisme Veterum, his son, Frederick 
Hahnemann, at that time Bacc. Med., serving as respondent. 
Of course he had but few hearers, as the professors had warned 
the students against the new heterodoxy; but a few had become 
interested in him, and these he formed into "a society of drug 
provers." It consisted of the following persons, who afterwards 
distinguished themselves in homoeopathy, and to whom we revert 
further on : Frederick Hahnemann, Ernest Stapf, G. William 
Gross, C. Hornburg, G. Franz, C. Wislicenius, who were after- 
ward joined by Teuthorn, C. T. Herrmann, Fred. Rueckert, Lang- 
ham mer, Sal. Gustmann, A. Haynel, Bethmann. 
Hahnemann himself prepared the remedies for the pro vers, 
according to certain rules, and the symptoms produced were col- 
lected and accurately registered by him; so that after having 
published, in 1811, his first volume of Heine Arzneimittellehre, 
containing the following remedies proved by himself: Bella- 
donna, Dulcamara, Cina, Cannabis, Cocculus, Nux vomica, Opium, 
Moschus, Oleander, Mercurius, Aconitum and Arnica, he was 
able, in 1816, to issue the second volume. The latter contains 
the provings of the following: Causticum, Arsenicum, Ferrum, 
Ignatia, Magnet, Pulsatilla, Rheum, Rhus tox., and Bryonia. 
In 1817, the third volume followed, with Chamomilla, China, 
Helleborus niger, Asarum, Ipecacuanha, Squilla, Stramonium, 
and Veratrum album; in 1818 the fourth, with Hyoscyamus, 
Digitalis, Aurum, Guaiacum, Camphora, Ledum, Ruta, Sarsa- 
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the fifth, with Euphrasia, Menyanthes trifoliata, Cyclamen Euro- 
pseum, Sambucus, Calcarea acetica, Muriatis acidum, Thuja, Tar- 
axacum, Phosphori acidum, Spigelia and Staphysagria; in 1821 
the sixth, with Angustura, Manganum aceticum, Capsicum, Ver- 
bascum, Colocynthis, Spongia, Euphrasia, Bismuthum, Cicuta 
virosa and Stannum; making in all sixty-one remedies proved by 
Hahnemann himself, and under his directions. Each volume 
was furnished with an extremely valuable preface, in which he 
tried to explain some obscure points in his doctrine, and to com- 
bat the materia medica and the empiricism of his adversaries. 
A new edition of this work appeared between the years 1822 
and 1827, in which the different remedies were arranged more 
correctly according to the symptoms produced, and the sympto- 
matology was more complete. 
Hahnemann's relations to his contemporaries are well charac- 
terized in his preface to the first volume of the second edition, 
as follows: " From this preface I shall, in the second edition, 
retract nothing, nor am I able to change anything in it. The 
ordinary practitioners hereafter may continue to send their com- 
pound prescriptions to the pharmacy as long as they know no 
better, and to do this they need to know nothing of the extent 
of the effects and the complete value of each single ingredient, 
because the mixing of several of them abolishes all discernment 
of the effects in the mixture, even if the action of each ingre- 
dient, when given alone, were distinctly known. This proceed- 
ing they call 'curing,' and they may stick to it until a spirit of 
reform awakens in them, urging them to begin to cure in reality, 
which is only possible with single remedies." 
Between the years 1830 and 1833 a third edition of only the 
first and second volumes was issued. Hahnemann had to suffer 
many vexations from his adversaries while in Leipzig, and was 
especially annoyed by the druggists because he dispensed his own 
medicines. 
The attacks against his doctrine he either disposed of himself 
in the most spirited and striking manner, or left them to his 
pupils; e. g., his son Frederick distinguished himself by an ex- 
quisite refutation of A. P. Hecker's aggressions against the 16 
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Organon, in the Annals of Medicine (1810, vol. ii, pp. 71-75, 
and pp. 191-256). 
In the year 1821 the old man (now in his 66th year, and long- 
ing for rest in order to perfect his doctrine with leisure) ac- 
cepted an appointment as physician in ordinary to the Grand 
Duke of Coethen. 
With Hahnemann's removal from Leipzig begins a new era in 
the history of the development of homoeopathy. Prior to this 
homoeopathy and its literature were concentrated in the person of 
Hahnemann, who exercised an unlimited dictatorship over all his 
followers; but now his pupils, meanwhile having become doctors 
of medicine, step to the front; Hahnemann of course assisting 
them from Coethen with his advice, etc. 
They must now defend themselves and their method, and keep 
the steadily increasing adherents informed of the latest experi- 
ences and occurrences in their department ; therefore, in 1821, 
two of the above-mentioned provers, Dr. G. W. Gross and Dr. 
E. Stapf, established the Archive of the Homoeopathic Method of 
Curing, which appeared yearly until 1843, in three large volumes, 
and prior to about 1830 was the only German homoeopathic 
journal. 
The real originator of this enterprise, though not mentioned 
as editor, was Dr. Moritz Mueller (born August 11th, 1784, 
died September 24th, 1849), a practitioner in Leipzig, who had 
gradually attached himself to Hahnemann, and had occupied the 
homoeopathic chair in the university left vacant by the latter. 
Mueller was a sober, quiet, honestly progressing physician, and 
particularly hated dogmatism in medicine, and respected the 
opinions and convictions of others. Hahnemann had probably 
recognized this long before, and suspecting danger for his doc- 
trine or his dictatorship, instead of supporting the journal, waged 
war upon it. It had introduced itself quite in the spirit of the 
master by a contribution of Mueller entitled " On the Critical 
Examination of Homoeopathy." The editors, however, were 
not embarrassed, and continued to publish their journal, making 
it the organ of the best homoeopathic physicians of that time, 
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named, Dr. Gottlieb Caspari, Dr. E. G. C. Hartlaub, Dr. Ben- 
jamin Schweikert, Dr. F. Rummel, Dr. Ad. Schubert, Dr. 
Frantz Hartmann, Dr. Carl Haubold, Dr. Fred. Rueckert, and 
Dr. Constantine Hering. The last named left Germany soon 
after the journal was established, and continues in his profes- 
sional career in Philadelphia. He has always kept up an inter- 
course with the German journals, and has himself published 
several German works, which will be spoken of further on. 
Hahnemann's new publications, the revised editions of his 
Organon and Materia Medica, were received with pleasure by 
his pupils, although his new views of " potentization " were to 
be the bone of contention for the whole school. While Hahne- 
mann, in the first edition of his Organon, only spoke of a dimi- 
nution of the medicinal power by mixing the substance with an 
indifferent body, in the later editions he gradually advanced the 
doctrine that there was no question of such diminution, and also 
that there was a change produced, heretofore unknown and un- 
thought of, by unfolding and developing the dynamic power of 
the substance thus prepared. He even warned his readers not 
to go too far with potencies, and not to increase the medicinal 
power too much by shaking and rubbing. As an example he 
says, " One drop of the 30th potency of Drosera with twenty 
concussions of the arm at each dilution, would endanger the life 
of a child sick with hooping-cough; while one pellet of the size 
of a poppy-seed of the same potency, prepared with two concus- 
sions at each dilution, would easily cure the case." 
The contradiction in which Hahnemann here entangled him- 
self is evident; for granting that most medicinal substances can 
be divided to the utmost extent in an indifferent vehicle, and 
that this finely-divided medicine is more easily absorbed by the 
organism, it would only be necessary, in order to avoid the pri- 
mary effect, not to use too large doses, for more than the division 
of a substance into its molecules is impossible by this manipula- 
tion. 
Hahnemann probably realized that he had involved himself 
in a conflict with natural philosophy and chemistry by placing 
the chief value of " potentization " upon the shaking of the sub- 18 
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stance, for later he says, "ten concussions are sufficient," but 
concedes that one would probably make fifty or more; and 
modern homoeopathy recognizes in this part of homoeopathic 
pharmacodynamics only the intention to give to the medicinal 
substance a greater range of action. 
While the master in Coethen was working for the development 
of his method, his pupils were not idle. The first who attempted 
to facilitate the tiresome consulting of the Materia Medica was 
K. G. Ch. Hartlaub. He published, in 1825-1828, a Systematic 
Exposition of the Effects of Medicine, for the Use of Practical Physi- 
cians, which was followed by a Materia Medica Pura, the latter 
being prepared in connection with Dr. C. T. G. Trinks. In 1824, 
Dr. Gross published a Dietetic Manual with special reference, to 
Homoeopathy; Dr. Caspari, Experiences in Homoeopathy, a Diet- 
etics and a Dietetic Catechism; Dr. Ran, a pamphlet On the 
Value of the Homoeopathic Mode of Treatment; Dr. Bergmann, 
the first homoeopathic monograph on any disease, a Manual of the 
Syphilitic Diseases, and Dr. Gross, On the Homoeopathic Principle 
of Curing. In the year 1825 appeared the important attack of 
Dr. Heinroth, Anti-Organon, or the Errors of Hahnemann's Doc- 
trine in the Organon of the Art of Healing, which for some time 
kept busy the pens of the homoeopathic physicians, and incited 
Dr. Gross to answer it in an excellent and striking contribution 
of 280 pages to the Archive of the Homoeopathic Art of Healing. 
The homoeopathic literature of 1826 and 1827 was very rich. 
The most prominent work of this time is G. A. B. Schweikert's 
treatise on Materia Medica, entitled Materials for a Comparative 
Materia Medica. At this time appeared the first precursor of 
homoeopathic domestic literature (which has now accumulated to 
such a great extent), Homoeopathic Domestic and Travelling Phy- 
sician, by Dr. Caspari; and Dr. Rummel published a Criticism of 
Homoeopathy, tvith its Lights and Shadows. 
At length to the Archive was added a new periodical, entitled 
Practical Communications of the Corresponding Society of Homoe- 
opathic Physicians, which continued only three years (from 
1826-1828). In 1828, Hahnemann issued the first three parts 
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Nature and Homoeopathic Cure. Hahnemann by his activity in 
Leipzig had become renowned as a physician, and a great many 
patients went to see him at Coethen. As he was not always suc- 
cessful in his treatment of chronic diseases with the remedies se- 
lected according to the law of similars, he tried to find the reason 
why. He supposed that the failures in most cases were due to 
a former attack of scabies. The parasitic nature of this disease, 
formerly so very frequent in Germany, was at that time unknown, 
and his own observations as well as those of many other physi- 
cians, led him to believe that many chronic and deepseated dis- 
eases were developed after the suppression of the eruption of 
scabies by external treatment. He therefore concluded that this 
species of itch, which he called psora, was the cause of such diseases. 
He mentions other similar "chronic miasms," but differently 
constituted and therefore requiring different remedies, e. g., syphi- 
lis and sycosis; but psora, in his opinion, was the cause of seven- 
eighths of all chronic diseases. This doctrine he endeavored to 
develop, and it was at first accepted unconditionally by his pupils, 
but rejected by his adversaries, and afterwards, when the acarus 
scabiei was proven to exist in true scabies, after the destruction 
of which the itch eruption disappeared, this doctrine had to have 
another basis. P. Wolf and C. Ran were the first to declare the 
entire psora theory hypothetical, and later (in 1849) Dr. Griesselich 
gave it an explanation. He remarks that Hahnemann only 
made the mistake of admitting the mutability of skin diseases, 
and that he intended to embrace under the head of psora every- 
thing that others denominate acridity, dyscrasia, cachexia, etc.; 
that he intended to recognize and repair some errors in his doc- 
trine otherwise only hyperdynamic; and that the complex of 
symptoms was not, and ought not to be, the only indication. 
The psora theory, however, gradually lost its adherents, and only 
within the last decade has it received a positive basis in Dr. von 
Grauvogl's doctrine of the three constitutions. We shall return 
to this subject later, and only here remark that modern homoe- 
opathy does not include parasitic skin diseases under the head of 
psora. 
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(the last named had translated the Organon into French), pub- 
lished a Latin edition of the Materia Medica Pura, hoping in this 
way to facilitate the introduction of the new system among the 
members of the medical profession, who at that time used the 
Latin language more than at present. There was also a want of 
a new edition of the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia which had been 
published some years before by Dr. Caspari. Dr. Francis Hart- 
mann published a monograph upon Nux vomica, entitled New 
Investigations in the Dominion of Homoeopathy. 
In the year 1829, a still more gratifying activity was shown 
in the department of homoeopathic literature. During this year 
there appeared about twenty homoeopathic works, large and small, 
besides the two journals. The chief were, Homoeopathy in re- 
gard to the Police Laws of the State, by Dr. C. A. Tittermann, a 
shrewd lawyer, who defended the right of homoeopathic physi- 
cians to dispense their own medicines, which has been denied 
them up to our own day, and Dr. K. G. Ch. Hartlaub's Tables for 
Practical Medicine according to Homoeopathic Principles. Dr. 
Hartmann also published the third edition of Caspari's Pharma- 
copoeia. 
On the 10th of August, 1829, the celebration of the fiftieth 
anniversary of Samuel Hahnemann's doctorship took place in 
Coethen. On this occasion numerous adherents gathered around 
the master and organized the " German Central Society." They 
also formed the plan for the establishment of a homoeopathic 
hospital. 
The year 1830 also brought a gratifying increase of homoeo- 
pathic literature, and with this year we enter upon the third era 
of the first period of homoeopathy. From this time up to 1836 
contests were gradually developed between Hahnemann and his 
followers, which led to a division between the old Hahnemannians 
anol the so-called specifickers, the latter favoring more progress. 
Next was felt the need of a second journal of clinical observa- 
tions, which was met by Drs. Hartlaub and Trinks, who pub- 
lished the Annals of Homoeopathic Clinics, which appeared 
yearly until 1833, in 2-4 numbers. Dr. F. Hartmann pub- 
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duty to Hahnemann by saving from oblivion all of his Lesser 
Medical Writings, which he published in two volumes. Then ap- 
peared the precursor of the present numerous and popular jour- 
nals of Homoeopathy: Schweikert's Journal for the Science of Cure 
according to Natural Laws, which was published regularly till 
1835. The appearance of cholera in Germany gave rise to a 
considerable cholera literature. In addition to Hartlaub's Treat- 
ise on Materia Medica, Dr. G. A. Weber published a Systematic 
Representation of Antipsoric Remedies in their Pure Action, and 
Dr. E. T. Rueckert, A Systematic Representation of all known 
Homoeopathic Remedies, including the Antipsorics, in their Action 
on the Healthy Human Organism. The latter was the best treat- 
ise on Materia Medica at that time, and occupied the first place 
until the appearance of Jahr's works. Dr. F. Hartmann finally 
published, under protest of his contemporaries, the first volume of 
a general and special therapeutics, entitled Therapeutics of Acute 
Diseases according to Homoeopathic Principles. 
On the 10th of August, 1830, the first meeting of the Central 
Homoeopathic Society was held in Leipzig, under the presidency 
of Dr. Moritz Mueller. A committee of four was also appointed 
to aid the President in deciding doubtful questions. In the same 
year Dr. Roth, following the example of Moritz Mueller in Leip- 
zig, established himself as a teacher of homoeopathy in the uni- 
versity at Munich. In the Universal Hospital at Munich, Drs. 
Ringers and Attomyr made some experiments with homoeopathic 
remedies, which were only partially successful because the ex- 
perimenters were obliged to leave the preparing and dispensing 
of the remedies to an allopathic druggist who was employed in 
the hospital, and who was a decided enemy of homoeopathy. 
In 1831 and 1832, Dr. E. T. Rueckert published a short re- 
view of the action of homoeopathic remedies on the healthy hu- 
man organism, which was republished some years later. Further 
on Dr. C. von Boenninghausen issued his much-appreciated Rep- 
ertory, and Dr. von Bakody (the father of the present Professor 
of Homoeopathy in the University of Pesth), published his Ex- 
perience in the Homoeopathic Treatment of Cholera, which after- 
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We now meet for the first time an author, Dr. Krueger-Hausen, 
who, though not a homoeopathist at the time, aided the new 
system somewhat by assaulting the allopathic mode of treatment 
in strong popular terms. His Allopathic Representation of Cures, 
with several additions, and his Allopathy and Homoeopathy in 
the Balance, in which he accepts the latter, were republished to 
an immense extent, and created the greatest rage among the an- 
tagonists of homceopathy. Among the latter, Dr. Simon, Jr., a 
Hamburgh physician, especially distinguished himself by pub- 
lishing a great number of pamphlets filled with the grossest 
assaults, not so much against the cause as against the person of 
Hahnemann; he even published for several years an Anti-homoeo- 
pathic Archive. In 1832, the first number of the Allgemeine 
Homosopathische Zeitung was issued by Drs. Gross, Hartmann, 
and Rummel. 
The Central Society, in 1831, Dr. E. Stapf, President, met in 
Naumburg, and in 1832 in Leipzig, Dr. Schweikert, President. 
At the latter meeting a resolution was adopted to establish a hos- 
pital in Leipzig. On the 13th of June, 1832, the Saxon and 
Silesian physicians organized a provincial society, the "Lausitz- 
Silesian Society of Homoeopathypresident Dr. Thorer, of Goer- 
litz. This society, from 1834 to 1840, published a journal 
called Practical Contributions in the Province of Homoeopathy. 
The society still exists under the name " Lausitz Society " (the 
Silesian physicians having organized a separate society), and has 
a membership of ten. Meetings are held semi-annually in Zittau 
and in Goerlitz. In the latter place they have a pretty complete 
library. 
In 1831 homoeopathy received a severe blow in Prussia, where 
it was gradually spreading, by the government prohibiting ho- 
moeopathic physicians from dispensing their own medicines, and 
not until twelve years after was this right conceded. The years 
1832-3 were of great importance in the development of homoe- 
opathy. The plan laid by the Central Society in 1832 was put 
into execution, and by degrees 3500 thalers were collected for this 
purpose, and Dr. Schweikert offered to accept the directorship 
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The Central Society, from which Samuel Hahnemann had 
withdrawn some years before, was reorganized on a broad and 
democratic basis, and it was decided to admit into membership 
any physician who showed some interest in the cause, even if he 
did not practice homoeopathy exclusively. Hahnemann ex- 
pressed his disapproval of this movement to some friends, and 
when the society elected as director Moritz Mueller instead of 
Schweikert, the progressive tendencies of the former having pre- 
viously excited his displeasure, he feared that his method would 
not be strictly carried out according to his intentions. Without 
it being anticipated by any of the Leipzig physicians, he pub- 
lished, November 3d, 1332, a Summons to the Half-homoeopathists 
of Leipzig, in which he boldly execrated them, called them bas- 
tard homoeopathists, and solemnly protested against the appoint- 
ment of such either as teacher or to treat patients. He said : 
"No man of this kind ought to occupy any of the sacred offices 
of our divine art in this hospital; for, if false doctrines be taught 
under the venerable name of Homceopathy, or if patients be not 
treated strictly homoeopathically, you may depend upon it I shall 
raise my honest and influential voice and warn the world, already 
tired of deception, in all the public papers, of such falsification 
and degeneration, and which deserves to be shunned. My fa- 
therly exhortation for the present, in this paper, shall be limited 
to Leipzig, hoping that you will reform." This declaration 
caused a rupture, and put all the homoeopathists of Leipzig on 
the war-path against Hahnemann. The Leipzig local society 
declared that "they did not recognize an unlimited authority 
in science, and that however highly the members of the society 
esteemed Homoeopathy, this maxim with them was incontestable, 
that every scientifically educated physician was to follow his own 
convictions in practicing medicine; and that science as a prod- 
uct of unchecked reasoning, could not and must not be fixed by 
personal anathemas." 
Moritz Mueller, not to increase the scandal, declined the posi- 
tion of director, and the new election resulted in favor of 
Schweikert. He also declined, and, as nobody was willing to 
serve, Moritz Mueller was finally obliged to accept it; Dr. F. 24 
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Hartmann was assistant; E. Seidel the surgeon. The hospital had 
twenty-four beds, and during the first year received only poor 
people gratuitously. After the first year those in better circum- 
stances paid for board, treatment and medicine, from 12 groschen 
to 2-3 thalers per week. The number of patients admitted the 
first year was 118; the second, 114; the third, 84; and the 
fourth, 110; total, 426; and besides, 1833 dispensary patients 
were treated. 
The protest of Hahnemann had fallen into fertile soil with 
many of his followers, and although they could not find any 
fault with the management of Mueller, which was strictly ac- 
cording to the rules of homoeopathy, they suspected Hartmann, 
who had written, as already stated, a Homoeopathic Therapeutics, 
and by means of which he had incurred Hahnemann's disappro- 
bation. They desired that Hornburg, one of Hahnemann's old- 
est pupils, who had not yet graduated, should be appointed in the 
place of Hartmann. This Mueller refused to do, as Hartmann 
was an approved assistant. The result was that Hahnemann de- 
clared repeatedly, in the Leipzig paper, that he took no interest 
in the institution under such impure management; and there- 
fore two parties formed, one supporting Mueller, the other 
Hahnemann. It were vain to try to appease the latter, and when 
Mueller, as director of the Central Society, called the next meet- 
ing at Leipzig, Hahnemann convened one at Coethen. Hahne- 
mann intended to break up the Central Society and stop the work 
it had begun. In order to put an end to the quarrel, Mueller re- 
signed, November 1st, 1833, in favor of Schweikert. In 1833 
the meeting was again called in two places, in Leipzig and in 
Coethen; but when those who met in Leipzig found that the 
adherents of the master had not appeared, they sent a delegation 
to Coethen, "where a reconciliation took place, and they agreed 
that the next meeting should be held in Coethen. In order to 
preserve the purity of his doctrine Hahnemann made those 
present sign the following: 1. Strict and unconditional observ- 
ance of the principle similia similibus. 2. The avoidance of all 
antipathic treatment where it is possible to attain the object by 
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which weaken by their after effects, e.g., bloodletting, purging, 
vomiting, rubefacients, blisters, all pain-producing agents, cauter- 
izing, puncturing, etc. 4. Avoidance of all remedies chosen 
with the object of stimulating, the after effects of which are only 
weakening. 
In 1834 Hahnemann came to Leipzig to inspect the hospital, 
now under Schweikert's management, and was perfectly satisfied 
with it. He now believed that the opposition against certain 
dogmas of his method of healing, at Leipzig was suppressed; 
but soon a new skeptic and heretic appeared, Dr. L. Griesselich, 
of Baden. 
Dr. Griesselich was born March 9th, 1804 and died August 
31st, 1848. He lived at Carlsruhe in Baden. He had expressed 
his interest in homoeopathy in 1832, in a small pamphlet, Sketches 
from the Portfolio of a Travelling Homceopathist. He was des- 
tined to uphold the right of free opinion and investigation in 
homoeopathy in opposition to the dogmas of Hahnemann, and 
thus became a strong supporter of the " Young Homoeopathic 
School " at Leipzig. He only recognized the spirit of homoe- 
opathy in the law of similars and in the advancement of physio- 
logical experiments with medicines, while the dynamism, psora 
theory and potentization he declared to be secondary, and one 
might either accept or reject them without being an anti-homoe- 
opathist. He recognized as the chief source of humbug in 
homoeopathic practice the want of sober unprejudiced observa- 
tion and the credulity of many homoeopathic experimenters. 
These he claimed were sufficient reasons why homoeopathy must 
appear to most people as a caricature instead of a plain convinc- 
ing truth, and that its progress would be comparatively slow. 
Therefore in his Hygea, a journal of medical science which first 
appeared in 1834 and was continued until 1848, he fought the 
one-sided dogmas with exasperation, and exposed the miserable 
unworthiness of the literary productions of his enemies and of 
some advocates of true homoeopathy. He not only warded off 
officious characters and combated prejudice and falsehood, but 
was also a good observer and understood how to put facts in the 
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With all this he was not an eclectic as the old Hahnemannians 
tried to make him out, nor did he grope in the dark without plan 
or principle. The word " homoion " was not a mere plaything 
for him, but he always proved himself to be a thinking and saga- 
cious physician, as is evident from his original treatises in the 
Hygea. This important journal will be referred to further on. 
In 1833 he established the " Baden Homoeopathic Society," 
which in a short time had a membership of 36 practitioners, by 
whose united efforts the privilege of preparing and administering 
their own medicines was soon obtained from the government of 
Baden, which was denied to homoeopath ists in other countries. 
The next year one single government, the Duke of Meiningen, 
by order of cabinet, October 21st, 1834, followed the example 
of Baden. 
In the literature of these two years we find, besides other 
works of the above-mentioned authors, Dr. von Boenninghau- 
sen's Essay upon the Homoeopathic Therapeutics of Intermittent 
Fever and a second edition of his Contributions to the Knowledge 
of the Peculiarities of Homoeopathic Remedies; Dr. E. F. Rueck- 
ert's Homoeopathic Treatment of Skin Diseases; and Dr. K. G. 
Ch. Hartlaub's Homoeopathic Children's Physician. In 1833 
societies were organized in Thuringen by Dr. Goullon, Sr., in 
the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, in Dresden, and in other 
places. 
The year 1834 showed most distinctly the consequences of the 
division among homoeopathists. According to the agreement of 
the previous year the meeting of the Central Society was held 
in Coethen, under the presidency of Hahnemann, and, contrary 
to expectation, was poorly attended. Only Hahnemann's per- 
sonal friends were present, and therefore Lehmann, Hahne- 
mann's assistant, moved the dissolution of the Central Society 
and the formation of a Saxon provincial society. At the same 
time they intrigued against the Leipzig Hospital, which they still 
supposed was not conducted on a pure homoeopathic basis. Its 
director, Dr. Schweikert, had been imprudent enough, without 
the knowledge of his friends in Leipzig, to apply secretly to 
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and the latter had accordingly issued a solicitation. The conse- 
quence was that the money was all sent to him (Hahnemann), 
which he used according to his own judgment. 
He arbitrarily raised Dr. Schweikert's salary from 400 to 800 
thalers per annum. The latter usurped the entire management, 
and spent all the money that was received without giving any 
account of it. Those most interested in the matter found fault 
with the directors of the Central Society who, by Hahnemann's 
presumption, had been declared out of office. He had also pro- 
nounced Lehmann, his assistant, virtual "director of homoe- 
opathy," and consequently Schweikert and his assistant, Seidel, 
immediately resigned. As none of the Leipzig physicians were 
willing to become director, the management of the hospital was 
literally afloat. Fortunately quite a number of the opponents 
of the transactions at Coethen assembled in Brunswick, without 
special invitation, August 10th, 1835, Dr. Muehlenbein in the 
chair, and reorganized the Central Society. They elected Dr. 
Rummel, of Magdeburg, president, and also organized the North 
German Homoeopathic Society. At this meeting the society as- 
sumed its lawful rights to own and dispose of the funds of the 
Leipzig Hospital. The inspectors at Leipzig proposed as director 
a recent convert to homoeopathy, Dr. Fickel, who was approved 
by Dr. Rummel. He managed the hospital for one year and 
was then unmasked as an impostor. This gave the institution a 
severe blow and all confidence was lost. Dr. Frantz Hartmann 
tried hard to re-establish it and the Saxon government appro- 
priated to it annually 300 thalers; yet its pecuniary receipts were 
insufficient, and it dragged out a feeble existence until 1842, 
when it was converted into a dispensary, and the change was 
confirmed by the Central Society in 1843. Under the direction 
of Dr. Frantz Hartmann and his successors this institution, 
which in 1842-3 treated only 428 patients, has become one of 
the most frequented dispensaries in Germany, and during 1874-5 
treated 2813 patients. It has been under the direction of Dr. 
Clotar Mueller for many years. We shall speak of Hartmann 
and Rummel further on, and therefore will give here only short 
biographical sketches. 28 
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Dr. Frantz Hartmann was born May 18th, 1796, and died 
October 10th, 1853. He belonged to the society of pro vers 
mentioned in the beginning, and supported the Archive of Medi- 
cal Science by many contributions, until 1832, when he and Dr. 
Gross founded the Universal Homoeopathic Journal, and he par- 
ticipated in its editorship with scarcely any interruption until 
his death. Of great importance in homoeopathic literature is his 
Special Therapeutics of Acute and Chronic Diseases according to 
Homoeopathic Principles, which served as a basis for Dr. B. Baehr's 
Therapeutics (to be mentioned further on), and which has been 
translated into English, French, and Spanish. In this work the 
author occupies the Hahnemannian ground, and takes almost a 
one-sided view. He rejects pathological anatomy almost en- 
tirely, only recognizing auscultation and percussion, and these 
as subordinate to symptomatology. This extreme one-sidedness 
was the cause of his otherwise excellent work becoming obsolete. 
Dr. Frederic Jacob Rummel was born April 26th, 1793, and 
died October 10th, 1854. In 1826, after seven years of allo- 
pathic practice, he adopted homoeopathy and joined the provers' 
society. In 1833, while co-editor of the Universal Homoeopathic 
Journal, he moved to Magdeburg, and there worked unceasingly 
for the recognition of homoeopathy by the government. He was 
particularly assisted in 1842 and 1843 by the fact that the 
Prussian physicians were under milder legal restrictions and 
were allowed to dispense homoeopathic medicines. By his efforts 
Hahnemann's monument was erected in Leipzig, in 1851, and he 
was also the originator of the " Hahnemann Fund," which is 
controlled by the Central Society, and out of which prizes are 
awarded foi' the best essays on certain subjects prepared by mem- 
bers of the society. 
Samuel Hahnemann, though in his 80th year, married the 
second time in 1835, and in the same year changed his residence 
to Paris. Many of his followers, who opposed him on many 
points, felt greatly relieved, for his dictatorship was no longer 
to be feared. Even those whom he considered his most faithful 
adherents and who freely confessed themselves to be such, e. g., 
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opathy is no longer the same as first established by Hahnemann, 
nor as given by him later, but it is changed in some points. 
The time has passed when every one who takes an interest in it 
must accept it as infallible and take Hahnemann's word as the 
gospel; and while formerly the reports of the accomplishments 
of homoeopathists, for reasons before stated were only supple- 
ments of Hahnemann's dictates, those of a later date are not un- 
frequently in direct opposition to the teachings of the Organon. 
Parties have formed; the one still adheres firmly to Hahnemann's 
dogmas, the other raises its voice against the most of them and 
threatens their downfall." 
Although Griesselich and Schroen, together with the Leipzig 
school headed by Mueller, deserve the credit of instigating these 
reforms, yet for the definite direction which they took more is 
due to Dr. Paul Wolf* (born February 24th, 1795, died January 
2d, 1857), who prepared eighteen theses, which were accepted by 
the Central Society and for many years were considered valid. 
These theses were published, with a preface by Dr. Rummel, in 
the Archive of Homoeopathic Medical Art, 1837, vol. 13. The 
following is a r6sum6: 
1. Strict acknowledgment of the law similia similibus cu- 
rantur. 
2. In order to employ this law of cure correctly it is necessary 
to study carefully for years the homoeopathic Materia Medica. 
3. The homoeopathic method does not consist in the mere com- 
parison of symptoms, nor does it favor empiricism and lack of 
general medical education ; but on the other hand it accepts those 
parts of the old school which are known to be useful. 
4. Under the totality of symptoms the scientifically educated 
homoeopathist comprehends the pathological condition. 
5. The homoeopathic law of cure not only demands that there 
be a similarity of the symptoms but also a similarity of the dis- 
ease, and the comparison of the former is only an expedient by 
which to recognize the latter. The homoeopathic physician, there- 
* Not to be mistaken for Dr. 0. M. Wolf, author of Homeopathic Expe- 
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fore, makes sure whether the existing similarity be simply be- 
tween the symptoms, or also between the natural and the medici- 
nal disease, as regards character, nature and seat. 
6. The homoeopathic physician must know the meaning, the 
importance and the cause of the several symptoms, in order to 
judge which he may safely ignore and which he must consider 
to be the peculiar feature of the disease. 
7. Homoeopathy gratefully acknowledges the facts of patho- 
logical anatomy, etc., that the old school has discovered in many 
forms of disease, but it considers the dynamic features of a dis- 
ease process to be more important than the material, in that it is 
more susceptible to treatment. By the nature of the disease, 
which according to Hahnemann the physician could not or need 
not know, is especially understood the pure dynamic or vital 
part of the causal action, and not the material, the organic sub- 
stratum of the complex of symptoms. 
8. It is not the business of the homoeopathist to remove simply 
the present complex of symptoms, but to abolish permanently the 
totality of both the subjective and the objective symptoms of the 
disease. 
9. If the material substratum of a complex of symptoms is rec- 
ognizable, it influences the choice of a remedy but does not serve 
as the only indication. 
10. Homoeopathy always considers the totality of symptoms 
and not merely single, annoying and secondary ones. Therefore 
it is not simply a symptomatic treatment in the base sense of the 
word. 
11. The homoeopathic practitioner, just as much as those of 
the opposite school, requires all of the auxiliary sciences of medi- 
cine; none of them are unnecessary for him. 
12. The psora-theory of Hahnemann is only of conditional 
importance in practice, as he put forth a great many antipsoric 
remedies and not a single one only. 
13. The homoeopathic Materia Medica, though offering much 
assistance in making practical and reliable prescriptions, is not 
perfect, but needs to be developed; and reliable reprovings of the 
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14. Any remedy is homoeopathic as soon as it occupies its 
relation to a certain disease according to the main principle of 
homoeopathy, be it used in the thirtieth potency or not at all 
diluted, in grain, scruple, or even larger doses. If Hahnemann 
later considered the diluting of remedies as absolutely augment- 
ing their action, and unconditionally believed that when thus 
diluted they are capable of affecting the healthy organism as 
well as the diseased, we must protest against it, and the more 
definitely on account of the attempt which has been made to 
draw practical conclusions from this theory which must be con- 
sidered entirely objectionable, e. g., that the thirtieth potency is 
in all cases a sufficient and the most suitable dose. 
15. The principle to allow a remedy to act as long as improve- 
ment is perceptible is reasonable and practicable. The duration 
of the effect of a remedy, however, cannot be predicted; for the 
action of a remedy does not mean a steady and permanent effect 
of it, but a persisting of the vitality, from the impulse given it 
by the remedy, for the restoration of health. 
16. We consider palliatives, as employed in the old school, 
allowable when the dangerous effects of a disease must be in- 
stantly removed. 
17. We oppose the views of Hahnemann that diseases can only 
be cured by the assistance of art and not by the vis medicatrix 
natures. 
18. The writings of Hahnemann can no longer be considered 
as expressing the standpoint of homoeopathy of the present day, 
either theoretically or practically; for however great may be our 
veneration for his genius and for his discovery of the fundamen- 
tal law of cure, we are not willing to subordinate our convic- 
tions to his authority or to humble ourselves for the derision 
and doubts of our opponents. Being convinced of the truth of the 
fundamental principle of homoeopathy, similia similibus curantur, 
we shall ardently endeavor to develop it, together with its genuine 
scientific elements, viz., to use one remedy ata time; to enrich 
the knowledge of medicinal agents by provings on the healthy 
human organism; to give the system a rational basis; to add 
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and to test everything that has been added for the demonstration 
of certain theories and suppositions which have no connection 
whatever with the principles of homoeopathy. 
The most zealous representatives of these views were Griesse- 
lich and Schroen, while Rummel, Hartmann and Moritz Mueller 
indulged in a more moderate progress; others predicted the de- 
cline of homoeopathy on account of deserting Hahnemann's prin- 
ciples. 
The fourteenth of these theses, regarding doses, created a "dose 
controversy," which was continued until a few years ago, but is 
quiet at present. 
Griesselich, in favor of low potencies, claimed that the theory 
of " potentization " was not a necessary part of homoeopathy and 
that it retarded the progress of the latter. For others again the 
30th potency was not high enough. Gross potentized several 
remedies to the 1500th, and claimed to have produced aggrava- 
tions of considerable intensity. It was reported in Germany 
that Hahnemann, in Paris, used the 200th potency. Later, a 
ducal master of the horse, Jenichen* (born 1787, died 1849), car- 
ried potencies up to the 16,000th, his mode of doing it never being 
fully explained. Drs. Seguin and Mayerhofer, from 1833-40, 
endeavored to give the process of potentization a tangible basis. 
They examined the triturations of different metals with the mi- 
croscope, and stated that with some of them the divisibility was 
perceptible up to the 7-12th attenuation. In the further course 
of this controversy the following persons publicly declared them- 
selves to be on the one side or the other: Rummel, Doppler, 
Rau, Schroen, Kretschmar, Trinks, Weber, P. Wolf, Fielitz, 
FEgidi, Gross, Keempfer, Hartmann, J. E. Veith, Griesselich, 
Goullon, von Grauvogl, Kafka, Hering, and others. Finally, 
the following position was taken by most German physicians, 
and to which they now hold : 
* Jenichen left in his will a considerable legacy to homoeopathy. He di- 
rected that the interest of 10,000 thalers should be paid as salary to a ho- 
moeopathic physician for the poor in Wismar; and in case the city did not 
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1. That a certain class of remedies are more efficacious when 
given in a low than in a too high attenuation. 
2. That another class of remedies shows no effect whatever 
when given in a crude state, and that an unloosing and separa- 
tion of the molecules are necessary to furnish to the organism, by 
means of their subdivision, a great number of points of contact. 
In neither class has the limit of attenuation been entirely settled ; 
for the susceptibility of the organism to the most delicate stimu- 
lant not only differs in different diseases but also in different in- 
dividuals. Therefore every physician may use the entire scale 
of potencies according to his own discretion. 
The years from 1834 to 1840 were tolerably rich in literary 
productions. From 1834 to 1839, besides those already exist- 
ing, a Journal of Homoeopathic Materia Medica was published 
by several homoeopathic physicians, and from 1835 to 1837 a 
Corresponding Journal for Homoeopathic Physicians was pub- 
lished by the North American Academy of Homoeopathy at Al- 
lentown, Penna., U. S. A. The latter was intended as a means 
of communication between the German and American physicians, 
and was conducted by Constantine Hering. From 1834 to 1839 
Dr. Vehsemeyer, of Berlin, issued a Popular Journal of Homoeo- 
pathic Treatment, by Wahrhold, and in 1838 to 1841, the Annals 
of Homoeopathy. 
The journal literature of that time shows prominently the 
controversy between the Progressives and the old Hahneman- 
nians. This spirited contest was caused not only by the ques- 
tion of dose but also by the question of Isopathy, which was 
raised in 1833, but fortunately has been exterminated, with the 
exception that Vaccininum is still used by some physicians. 
The theory of isopathy was advanced by Wilhelm Lux (born 
April 6th, 1796, died January 29th, 1849), a veterinary surgeon 
in Leipzig. He had employed homoeopathy in veterinary prac- 
tice since 1820, but having expected too much with the deficient 
provings he was dissatisfied with his results. He presupposed 
that every contagious disease carried in its contagium the means 
of its cure; and therefore as a remedy against anthrax he di- 
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mal afflicted with the same disease. He very soon proceeded in like 
manner with a series of pathological products, as the contents of 
pustules from sheep, of cow-pox, itch, the pus of syphilitic ulcers, 
pus running from the ears; in short with about all the secretions 
and excretions of the human body. To these preparations he 
gave high-sounding names, as Otorrhinum, Variolinum, An- 
thraxinum, etc., and recommended them for the cure of the same 
diseases from which the crude substances had been taken; his 
motto being JEqualia cequalibus instead of Similia similibus. 
In 1833 he published a pamphlet, Isopathy of Contagia, and 
in 1837 a small book, Zooiasis, or Homoeopathy in its Application 
to the Diseases of Animals. Dr. Gross, one of Hahnemann's most 
faithful followers, advocated this new system for some time, and 
Dr. Stapf also believed that homoeopathy would attain a higher 
degree of perfection by the introduction of this new heterodoxy. 
Hahnemann himself warned his followers, in 1833, against 
such eccentricities, and Dr. Bau pronounced the whole method 
to be mystic and disgusting, yet the number of adherents who 
at least proposed to test it gradually increased. L. Gentzke also 
fought against it. His views of contagious diseases coincide with 
those held by many at the present time, viz., that contagia are 
living organisms which can be developed only under certain con- 
ditions, and that these organisms would be entirely destroyed by 
the process of attenuation. This view gradually became preva- 
lent and isopathy was buried. 
Dr. Griesselich charged Dr. Constantine Hering (born January 
1st, 1800), of Philadelphia, with resurrecting isopathy. The latter, 
however, afterwards, in the Universal Homoeopathic Journal, em- 
phatically protested against the charge and proved that his pur- 
pose had been misunderstood. Dr. Hering joined the class of 
drug provers some time after 1810, and although he emigrated 
soon after, he continued his provings and sent them quite regu- 
larly to the Archiv of Medical Science. According to him, the 
disease-producing contagia have a medicinal effect, and therefore 
he made physiological provings of snake poison, the poison of 
hydrophobia, and of several other products of disease, not using 
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same agents or those ailments from which they had derived their 
origin. 
In 1848 isopathy was again brought up, but in a somewhat 
altered form, by Dr. Hermann, a country physician, who wrote 
a book entitled The Real Isopathy, in which he claimed that prep- 
arations of animal substances possessed curative properties in 
diseases of corresponding organs. He especially recommended 
in diseases of the liver a tincture made from the liver of the 
fox (Hepatin), and also similar preparations from the spleen and 
the lungs. Gentzke opposed this new form of isopathy even 
more strongly than he did the original, and Dr. Hering proved 
the entire theory of isopathy to be erroneous and protested 
against this falsifying of history. One decade later v. Grauvogl 
claimed to have cured a desperate case of asthma with the first 
centesimal trituration of the fox's liver, and recommended that 
it be thoroughly proved on the healthy organism (see his Manual, 
I, §§ 92, 93); otherwise he does full justice to the Simile. We 
shall hereafter return to the literature of the years from 1830 to 
1840. 
Paul Wolf having shown in his theses the insufficiency of 
the former provings of medicines, the perfecting of the symp- 
tomatology of Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura by reprov- 
ings wras zealously undertaken. The first move in this direction 
was made by the specific school headed by Griesselich. Koch 
furnished in the Hygea concise provings of Calcarea caustica 
and Calcarea carbonica; Ruoff, of Silicea. The latter, in 1838, 
published a Repertory for Homoeopathic Practice nosologically 
Arranged. T. W. Arnold and others made reprovings of seve- 
ral remedies, and societies of provers were formed by the Central 
and the North German societies. The work of reproving was 
most successfully prosecuted during the few years following 
1840 by the " Vienna Society of Homoeopathic Physicians," 
which, beside making many corrections, furnished the most 
valuable additions to the homoeopathic Materia Medica. It is 
to be regretted that these provings were not made in institutions 
where they could be carried on in an exact manner, as thus all 
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and also that the pathologico-anatomical confirmations of the 
provings had to be sought from the opponents of homoeopathy, 
but which, however, very often verified both the subjective and 
the objective observations made by provers. 
In 1835 we meet with Dr. George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr 
(born January 30th, 1800, died July 11th, 1875), whose name 
has become very familiar, and who, among others, has enriched 
the homoeopathic literature with voluminous contributions which 
have been translated into different languages. His first work 
was the Manual of the Chief Indications for the Use of all known 
Homoeopathic Remedies in their General and Special Effects, ac- 
cording to Clinical Experience, with a Systematic and Alphabetic 
Repertory. On account of its completeness it soon superseded 
other similar works and was republished in four editions, and, 
being much used by the German homoeopathists a revised 
edition is now needed. In 1849 he published a Complete Symp- 
tomen Codex of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, and he has also 
published several smaller works for daily use, Clinical Advice, 
Clinical Guide, etc., which have been frequently republished. 
Jahr deviated very reluctantly from Hahnemann's dogmas; he 
tried to revive those which modern science and the progressive 
homoeopathists had long ago abandoned, and endeavored to make 
them correspond with the newer views, or even ignored the latter. 
He contributed largely to a certain homoeopathic conservatism 
in Germany, which might not mislead a practical homoeopathist 
but may frequently hinder one who is unacquainted with homoe- 
opathy. 
Dr. Carl von Boenninghausen (born 1777, died 1862) was a 
contemporary of Jahr. He published, as early as 1832, a Reper- 
tory of Antipsoric Remedies, and later Homoeopathic Therapeutics 
of Intermittent Fevers, Homoeopathy, a Manual for the Public, and 
other works. His most important work (long out of print) is 
the Pocket-book for Homoeopathic Physicians, for Clinical Use and 
for the Study of the Materia Medica Pura. He established, in 
1846, the Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of Rhineland and 
Westphalia. In 1860, at the age of 83, he issued his Aphorisms 
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he adhered to all of Hahnemann's dogmas, and especially to the 
theory of " potentization." He prescribed almost exclusively 
the 200th potency. 
In 1836 the previously mentioned Domestic Physician by Cas- 
pari was followed by a small work by Constantine Hering, which 
was republished many times and very often plagiarized. The 
first homoeopathic veterinary work, entitled Dr. F. A. Guenther's 
Homoeopathic Veterinary Physician, was published in the same 
year. In 1838 the Central Society, realizing the insufficiency of 
the Pharmacopoeias by Caspari and Boelling (the latter called 
"Dirt Pharmacopoeia" in the Hygea because it included the 
isopathic remedies), adopted a resolution by virtue of which a 
committee with power was appointed to revise the Pharmacopoeia 
and publish it as revised. The committee failed to perform that 
work, and no further attempt was made until 1840, when Gruner, 
a pharmaceutist in Dresden, assisted by Trinks, Vehsemeyer, 
Kurtz, and Guenther, were appointed for that purpose and en- 
tered upon their duties. Before the completion of Gruner's work, 
Professor Joseph Buchner of Munich (who had proved and written 
of many remedies) issued a Pharmacopoeia, which many physi- 
cians accepted as superior and more in accordance with Hahne- 
mann ; and in 1843 the government of Bavaria authorized its 
use, thereby inciting a controversy in the pharmaceutical depart- 
ment. At the same time that Buchner's Pharmacopoeia was 
introduced the Bavarian homoeopathic physicians were deprived 
of the right of dispensing their own medicines, which had been 
granted them by order of cabinet, November 30th, 1834, and a 
number of regulations were adopted which were intended to ex- 
terminate homoeopathy in that country. The homoeopathic hospi- 
tal established in Munich, November 13th, 1836, under the man- 
agement of Drs. Raubel, Weidemann, and Roth, after a short 
existence, like the one in Leipzig in 1842 was converted into a 
dispensary and continued as such until 1856, when the Munich 
physicians, by united efforts, reconverted it into a small hospital 
which, under the direction of Professors Buchner and Quaglio, 
is in successful operation. 
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25th, 1818. After having completed his studies he adopted 
homoeopathy under the guidance of his father, and since 1842 has 
been actively and faithfully engaged in its practice. 
As successor to Dr. Noack, who in his pamphlets " Olla podrida" 
(Dresden, 1836) had exposed the imposter Fickel, and who with 
Dr. C. F. G. Trinks, had published the first volume of a Manual 
of Homoeopathic Materia Medica (Leipzig, 1843), he became the 
assistant of Trinks at the dispensary in Leipzig, and with him 
wrote the second volume of the above-named work (1570 printed 
pages), begun by Noack and Trinks. The third volume of this 
work, containing the repertory, was written by Mueller alone, and 
was published in 1848. In addition to the above work he en- 
riched homoeopathic literature up to 1850 with many valuable 
contributions of both a clinical and a theoretical nature. After 
the death of Griesselich he published the Homoeopathic Quarterly, 
designing it to take the place of the Hygea published by the 
latter. Thus begins the second era of the second period in the 
history of homoeopathy in Germany, which comprises the time 
from 1850 to 1860. 
The ill-fortunes of the homoeopathic hospitals in Saxony and 
Bavaria gave a severe blow to homoeopathy in these countries; 
and in 1843 the first established journal, Archiv of Homoeopathic 
Medical Art, was in danger of ceasing, and only maintained its 
existence for a few years as the New Archiv. After this, the 
adherents of homoeopathy in Austria and Prussia tried to elevate 
it to an honorable position. In Austria its prosperity was con- 
siderable. The hospitals in Vienna, Linz, etc., were established, 
and continue to maintain the best reputation of any in Germany, 
and the Vienna Society, by resuming the physiological provings 
of drugs, virtually took the lead in homoeopathy in Germany. 
In Berlin, the Elizabeth Hospital placed 40 beds at the dis- 
posal of Dr. Vehsemeyer for the purpose of homoeopathic treat- 
ment, and at the same time the homoeopathic physicians of 
Berlin asked the Prussian government for a special homoeopathic 
hospital. This the latter offered to furnish with 12 beds, but 
on condition that it should be controlled by a committee of al- 
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the attending physicians were to submit to the regulations then 
existing in Prussia and leave the dispensing of the medicine to 
the allopathic apothecaries. Of course this proposition was re- 
jected and an attempt was made to have the regulations altered. 
The government, however, insisted upon its proposition, and only 
made the matter worse by stipulating that the appropriation 
should be limited to 2085 thalers per annum for three years. 
The question was agitated until 1846 and was then given up, as 
under the circumstances no benefit to homoeopathy could be ex- 
pected. The Prussian physicians, by order of the royal cabinet, 
July 3d, 1843, obtained permission to dispense their own medi- 
cines after having passed a satisfactory examination. 
In Hanover homoeopathy had to struggle against many diffi- 
culties. The physicians there, under the presidency of Dr. El wert, 
moved for the establishment of a homoeopathic chair in the Uni- 
versity of Goettingen, and also asked for the privilege of dispens- 
ing their medicines. In consequence of this the university offered 
a prize for the best proof of the11 Nullity of Homoeopathy," which 
was received by Dr. W. Harnisch for a pamphlet entitled On the 
Admissibility of the Homoeopathic Method of Healing. Both re- 
quests were rejected, and the government, like that of Brunswick, 
directed that homoeopathic pharmacies be established to satisfy 
the wants of homoeopathic physicians. In the middle German 
duchies (Weimar, Saxe-Meiningen), however, and in the king- 
dom of Wurtemburg, the dispensing of medicines by physicians 
was admitted. 
The death of Samuel Hahnemann occurred in Paris, July 2d, 
1843, and was greatly lamented by all German homoeopathists. 
Dr. Rummel proposed to erect a monument to him, and zeal- 
ously undertook the collections for it. The pedestal was laid 
May 23d, 1851, and the monument was unveiled with solemn 
ceremonies on the 10th of August of the same year. 
The German homoeopathic literature of the years from 1843 to 
1848 is comparatively poor in prominent productions, for besides 
the work of Noack, Trinks and Mueller, the Manual of Homoe- 
opathic Materia Medica, which created a sensation, there were only 
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and Chronic Diseases by Dr. Frantz Hartmann, the previously 
mentioned "Pocket-book" by C. von Boenninghausen, and the 
pamphlet literature, which did not advance homoeopathy very 
much. The German homoeopathists, however, worked on inde- 
fatigably, either in the conflict with their opponents or in revising 
the Materia Medica. 
Prof. J. Buchner, the present occupant of the chair of Physio- 
logical Materia Medica (only another name for homoeopathy) in 
Munich, published in 1843 and 1844 the Annals of Pharmacody- 
namics, and in 1848 and 1849, in conjunction with Dr. Nusser, a 
Universal Journal of Homoeopathy. The other journals which 
appeared at the same time also contained valuable pharmacody- 
namic contributions, viz., the Universal Homoeopathic Journal, 
the New Archiv and the Hygea. 
The political confusion of the years 1848 and 1849 produced a 
stasis, and at the same time, after Griesselich's death, the Hygea 
disappeared after having been published for twenty-three years. 
The testament of Griesselich is his work, Manual of the Knowl- 
edge of the Homoeopathic and Specific Art of Healing. 
In this work, with a precision of expression and representa- 
tion not yet equalled by any homoeopathic writer, and from the 
proper standpoint, he gives the necessary explanations and in- 
structions for the criticism, the study, and the trial of homoe- 
opathy, and also a very concise and perfect history of its develop- 
ment. The spirit of this work is quite similar to that of Paul 
Wolf's theses, and it gave to homoeopathy the direction which 
it has kept until the present, excepting a few variations brought 
about by the progress of science. 
Among Griesselich's successors, though also his contemporaries, 
the most prominent are Dr. Clotar Mueller and Dr. Bernard 
Hirschel. In order to fill the gap made by the cessation of the 
Hygea, in 1850 Clotar Mueller published the Homoeopathic 
Quarterly, which was edited by him and Dr. V. Meyer until 
1853, when the latter accepted the editorship of the Universal 
Homoeopathic Journal and the former continued alone until 
1864. He was then joined in its editorship by some of Gries- 
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Arnold, Reil, and Trinks, and also by some of the younger mem- 
bers of the profession. His journal of fifteen volumes contains 
many inciting articles written by him, and among the most 
prominent are his treatises on " Croup," " Pneumonia," " The 
Changes of the Urine in Disease and the Practical Use to be 
made of such Knowledge in Homoeopathic Treatment." In his 
criticism he always worked for the interest of the cause whether 
it touched friend or foe, but, unlike Griesselich, never indulged 
in personal acrimony. During his editorship he was interested 
in drug provings and especially superintended the proving of 
Coca. Mueller's fatiguing editorial work, together with an ex- 
tensive medical practice, prevented him from preparing any large 
works (likewise the case with Dr. V. Meyer, for many years 
editor of the Universal Homoeopathic Journal, who died in 1872), 
and therefore his publications during this period of editorship 
were confined to the two large and the two small contributions to 
his journal, his Homoeopathic Domestic and Family Physician, 
republished eight times, and a pamphlet on Reformation of the 
Art of Healing. After the Quarterly ceased to appear he was 
not idle, but in 1872 began the editorship of the monthly Inter- 
national Homoeopathic Press. It should be mentioned that in 
the Quarterly appeared the provings of Carduus Marianns, 
Mezereum, JEsculus hippocastanum, Lithium carb., Spiraea ul- 
maria, etc. 
Dr. Bernhard Hirschel, sanitary counsellor' (born January 
15th, 1815, died- January 15th, 1875), pursued a course similar 
to Clotar Mueller's. In 1843, after a practice of eight years, he 
was converted to homoeopathy through the influence of Griesse- 
lich's writings, and of Dr. Trinks, who lived in Dresden, and be- 
came a thorough and zealous homceopathist. His chief works, 
with an aim similar to that of the previously mentioned manual 
of Griesselich, are : Homoeopathy, 1851; Ichnography of Homoe- 
opathy, 1854; Compendium of Homoeopathy, 1864, and, finally, the 
Arzneischatz at the Bedside, republished nine times. He was not 
satisfied with Mueller's mild criticisms of the productions of 
those who differed from him or who were in the wrong, and there- 
fore, in 1851, he founded a journal of his own called the New 42 
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Journal of Homoeopathic Clinics, which he edited uninterruptedly 
until his death. In it he dealt severely with those whose efforts 
he believed were antagonistic to his own to give to homoeopathy 
a scientific basis. The strength of his attack or defence always 
consisted in his strong, intrinsic, impersonal reasoning. His 
sudden death, from incarcerated hernia, occurred in the midst of 
his greatest activity, and was greatly deplored by all friends of 
homoeopathy. 
The unveiling of the monument in 1851 was an occasion for 
homoeopathy to show its strength. It was also an opportunity 
for the adherents of the physiological school to make an open 
attack upon homoeopathy, against which they had remained neg- 
ative or skeptical for nearly a decade. They seemed to think 
that in their knowledge of pathological anatomy, auscultation 
and percussion, they were in possession of the " philosopher's 
stone." They began by taking up an enunciation by Clotar 
Mueller before the Central Society at the unveiling of the monu- 
ment, that " the physiological school is a personified impotency 
in the highest degree." Mueller meant by this that the physio- 
logical school in spite of its progress had not found a therapeia, 
but the opponents construed it differently. There was consid- 
erable skirmishing until 1853, when an open war was begun by 
Prof. Richter, of Dresden, who was soon joined by Prof. C. E. 
Bock, of Leipzig. The battle was fought coram publico in the 
daily press and in the conventional literature, and not in the 
scientific journals. Prof, Bock asserted that "no objective me- 
dicinal diseases could be produced on a healthy person," in answer 
to which the homoeopathic physicians of Leipzig invited him to 
subject himself to an experiment. At first he consented, but 
when he found that they were in earnest, and learned the requi- 
sites in making a homoeopathic proving, and that he was to take 
poisonous remedies (without killing him), he receded from his 
former position and insisted that they should produce in him in- 
termittent fever and predict the time of the attack, as Hahne- 
mann had done in himself. The committee of homoeopathists 
took legal grounds and referred the professor to his former asser- 
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had ever thought of asserting that an intermittent fever could 
be produced by medicine, and consequently the experiment was 
not made. Bock claimed, however, that the homceopathists had 
retreated, and assaulted them in a pamphlet entitled Homoeopa- 
thy a Structure of Lies and Deceptions, etc., and also in the conven- 
tional journal, the Garten-laube, which had a very large circula- 
tion, and in which he continuously calumniated Hahnemann's 
doctrines and the most celebrated homoeopathic physicians, espe- 
cially Clotar Mueller. The older homoeopathic literature afforded 
him plenty of material, as he either entirely ignored that of more 
recent date or only noticed its less dignified extravagancies. He 
especially tried to disgust the public with homoeopathy by en- 
larging upon those dogmas of Hahnemann which thirty years 
before were abandoned by scientific homoeopathic physicians. 
He also dwelt at length upon the sanitary counsellor, a former 
post secretary, Dr. Lutze, who died at Coethen, April 11th, 1870. 
The latter was a lay practitioner who from 1830 to 1840 became 
acquainted with homoeopathy through Dr. Kath (deceased), of 
Nordhausen, and who advertised by publishing his cures in pop- 
ular editions, by means of which he gained a large patronage 
from all parts of Germany and greatly assisted in spreading 
homoeopathy. Subsequently he combined with his treatment 
animal magnetism, and prepared remedies claimed to be endowed 
with vital magnetic power and carried on a large trade with 
them. This species of charlatanism he conducted under the as- 
sumed garb of a homoeopathic physician and author. This man 
and his career Prof. Bock held up as proof of the lack of sci- 
entific education among the representatives of homoeopathy, and 
insisted that Lutze's homoeopathy was identical with homoeopathy 
as a science, in spite of the protests of the homoeopathic physi- 
cians. He became more moderate in his aggressions a few years 
previous to his death in 1872.. 
The anti-Bock literature consisted chiefly of many articles in 
the homoeopathic journals, and of independent pamphlets princi- 
pally by Altschul, Fielitz, Baumann, Hering, Wislicenius, etc. 
A still more mortifying assault was made by Prof. Wunder- 
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tory of Medicine, which was reviewed and answered by Clotar 
Mueller in an ingenious and dignified manner in his Quarterly. 
Of the subsequent attacks, all of which have been less fierce 
and have created less excitement, may be mentioned the contro- 
versy between Prof. Karsh and Dr. Bolle, in which the former 
occupied a similar standpoint to that of Prof. Bock, whom he 
faithfully imitated in his strong expressions. Prof. Rudolph 
Virchow, in the Prussian Assembly, declared homoeopathy to be 
a superstition similar to the astrology of the middle ages. He 
was vanquished by Kafka. 
Among the larger homoeopathic works that appeared between 
1850 and 1860 are the following : Rational Specific or Idiopathic 
Mode of Treatment, by Dr. Arnold (the previously mentioned co- 
worker in the Hygea and Quarterly and a profound and origi- 
nal thinker); Manual of Pure Pharmacodynamics, by Dr. H. G. 
Schneider (which comprises only a small number of remedies 
with the symptoms arranged upon a physiological basis); Com- 
pendium of Physiological Pharmacodynamics, by Dr. Altschul, 
who some years later published a Systematic Compendium of Theo- 
retical and Practical Homoeopathy (a compilation); Characteristics 
of Homoeopathic Remedies, by A. Possart (the pathognomonic 
symptoms are more prominent than in Jahr's works); Represen- 
tation of Homoeopathy in a Practical and Natural-Philosophical 
Light, by Dr. H. Goullon, Sr., (this was his first large work, 
but in 1827 he had enriched the homoeopathic journal literature 
with excellent contributions); American Provings and Prepara- 
tory Works for the Pharmacology as a Science of Nature, by Dr. 
Constantine Hering; Clinical Experience in Homoeopathy, com- 
menced by Th. J. Rueckert, and continued up to recent times 
by Dr. Oehme, Staten Island, New York, U. S. A. (a complete 
collection of all cures and practical remarks laid down in the 
German homoeopathic literature or translated into German); De- 
velopment of a Truly Physiological Method of Curing, by Dr. O. 
Wislicenius; Homoeopathic Experiences, by Dr. C. M. Wolf, etc. 
In 1855 the first number of a Popular Homoeopathic Journal 
was issued by Dr. M. Bolle, which he continued until 1871, and 
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It should be mentioned that the above-named author, Dr. H. 
Goullon, Sr., is one of the few who have not been removed from 
government service on account of becoming homoeopathists. 
Since 1834 he has been Physicus (district physician), and since 
1866 has been President of the Medical Commission in the 
Grand Duchy of Weimar, and in these positions has had plenty 
of opportunity to assist the supporters of homoeopathy. In 
1833, October 1st, he founded the "Homoeopathic Society" in 
Thueringen. 
In the year 1860 appear in the foreground v. Grauvogl, Baehr, 
and Kafka, who with Mueller may be considered the present 
leaders of homoeopathy in Germany. 
As Rademacher's doctrines have been a medium through 
which many physicians have become converts to homoeopathy, 
it seems proper to give a brief outline of them. Johann Gott- 
fried Rademacher (born August 4th, 1772, died February 7th, 
1849) was formerly a practitioner in the small city of Goch on 
the Rhine, and was scarcely known to the scientific world. He 
disbelieved Hahnemann's doctrines, and, in fact, none of the 
scanty literature to which he had access harmonized with his 
views, and therefore he adopted the doctrines of Paracelsus, 
making clinical experiments in search of specifics. About 1840 
he published his Vindication by Experience of the Ancient Chymi- 
cal Physician's Art of Healing, misapprehended by the Learned, 
with Truthful Results of Clinical Tests made during a Practice of 
twenty-five Years. The following is a summary of his doctrines: 
(1.) There are three primordial diseases of the whole organism 
and which may be cured by three universal remedies, viz., Na- 
trum nitricum, Cuprum and Ferrum. (2.) There are primor- 
dial diseases of single organs which may be cured by organic 
remedies, and he designates certain remedies for each respective 
organ, e. g., pulmonary remedies, stomach remedies, kidney reme- 
dies, etc. If the consensual diseases of organs last a long time 
they become changed into primordial diseases and require the 
specific organic remedies. A universal and a disease of a single 
organ may exist at the same time, in which case the cure must 
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A disease may pass from one organ to another, in which case 
consecutive remedies are necessary. With the exception of com- 
bining a universal and an organic remedy the specific must be 
given singly and unmixed. 
He prepared many of his remedies according to the plan of 
the ancient chymical physicians, and in this way enriched the 
Pharmacopoeia with a number of new remedies, e. g., aqu. Nux 
vom., aqu. Solidag. virg., aqu. Glaudium, etc. He named the 
disease after the remedy placed against it, e. g., St. Mary's thistle- 
seed disease (morbus cardui Mariani), etc. 
He disregarded pathology entirely, but opposed his specifics to 
a certain complex of symptoms by a sort of instinctive sagacity, 
theorizing as little as possible. It was therefore very difficult 
for any one to utilize his maxims. 
His theory of epidemic remedies was of great importance to 
homoeopathy. He discovered with his specifics, independently 
of Hahnemann's identical discovery mentioned in his works, 
that an epidemic disease, though manifesting itself differently 
in different persons, is nevertheless quickly cured in each case 
by the same remedy. He extended his observations in this di- 
rection with excellent results, making a distinction between the 
stationary and the intercurrent epidemic diseases, formerly over- 
looked by the homoeopathists, and which, according to Prof. 
Rapp, is very important in the selection of a remedy. Those 
homoeopathists, therefore, who came from the school of Rade- 
macher, Drs. Rapp, Fischer, Bruckner, Schaedler and others, for 
several years have earnestly plead for conjoined observations of 
the Genus Epidemicus in order to establish fixed principles for 
the selection of remedies, and they have now found a powerful 
supporter in the person of von Grauvogl. 
Dr. E. von Grauvogl, Royal Bavarian General Surgeon A.D., 
was born in Munich. He adopted homoeopathy in 1850, in doing 
which he was influenced to some extent by the doctrines of Rade- 
macher ; and by his great literary activity he has endeavored to 
amalgamate the two, to give a firm basis to the former and to 
convert to it the adherents of the latter. 
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in a small work entitled Therapeutical Gems and Leaves of my 
Diary of the Year 1850 (Anspach, 1851). During the following 
decade he published several articles in journals upon different 
subjects. In 1860 he issued his Fundamental Laws of Physi- 
ology, Pathology and Homoeopathic Therapeutics, which was fol- 
lowed, six years later, by his Textbook of Homoeopathy (Nuern- 
berg, 1866), and which created a great sensation. In his preface 
to the last-named work he calls it " The Organon of Hahne- 
mann in its partly empirical assertions confirmed and verified 
by the present practical and theoretical progress in natural 
science." In this work he solves the problem which he had 
given to himself in the most brilliant manner. The work con- 
tains many ingenious hypotheses which to some extent need 
practical verification, as, for example, his three constitutions, the 
hydrogenoid, formed by an excess of hydrogen, the oxygenoid, 
by an excess of oxygen, and the carbo-nitrogenous, caused by a 
lack of oxygen, for each of which he advises a certain class of 
remedies. These three constitutions are considered by his sup- 
porters as a basis for the ready choice of epidemic remedies and 
as decisive in the choice of remedies in constitutional diseases. 
He believes health to consist in the normal mixture of the 
organic elements of the body with their normal fluctuations 
according to the law of oscillation; and disease, in the abnormal 
fluctuation of one of the principal elements. 
In connection with this doctrine von Grauvogl endeavors to 
preserve and to give a firm foundation to Hahnemann's theory 
of the three chronic diseases (psora, syphilis and sycosis), and 
also to do justice to Rademacher's theory of the three primordial 
diseases (Ferrum, Nitrum and Cuprum diseases). Furthermore, 
he lays down certain laws which enable the homoeopathist, as 
well as the followers of Rademacher, to generalize up to a cer- 
tain point, thus greatly facilitating the choice of a remedy in both 
constitutional and epidemic diseases. 
Von Grauvogl has more recently enriched the homoeopathic 
literature by a number of excellent works, of which should be 
especially mentioned his Principles of Dietetics and his Epistle 
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homoeopathy. It is said that at present von Grauvogl is at work 
upon a new edition of his Text-book of Homoeopathy, in which he 
expects to treat of the facts contained in Prof. Frantz Hauss- 
mann's eminent work On the Causes and Conditions of Diseases 
(Leipzig, 1867). 
About the year 1830, under the presidency of Dr. Schoenlein, 
of Berlin, the tendencies gradually became very strong in Ger- 
many to explain all disease-symptoms from a material basis, 
pathological anatomy. Physiological diagnoses based upon phys- 
iologico-anatomical knowledge by degrees were developed, and 
at the same time the progress in chemistry and natural philoso- 
phy urged medicine to advance, and thus the physiological school 
was born. Its chief representatives from 1840 to 1850 were the 
two Vienna professors, Rokitansky and Skoda. These were very 
soon joined by nearly all of the university teachers of medicine 
in Germany, so that for many years this school was dominant. 
Its principle concerning drugs was not to give any. 
Homoeopathy accepted all the good things which it offered, its 
improved mode of making diagnoses, etc., but it actively resisted 
its one-sided views of disease, viz., that it consists only in the 
objective recognizable phenomena, and that the subjective symp- 
toms are never morbid. Homoeopathy likewise opposed its gen- 
eral negative treatment. 
At the same time the supporters of the physiological school 
eagerly cultivated their Materia Medica, and searched for agents 
which by their pathologico-anatomical effects would furnish real 
opposition to the complex of symptoms. In this way they hoped 
to satisfy their adversaries. 
The works of Kafka (in a less degree those of Baehr) may be 
considered the consequences of the direction taken by this school. 
The efforts of these two writers have been to develop homoeopathy 
in a different direction from that sought by von Grauvogl. 
Dr. Jac. Kafka, of Prag (born December 27th, 1809), by his 
writings endeavored to attract the new medical workers to ho- 
moeopathy. In the years from 1863 to 1868 he issued his work, 
in two volumes, Homoeopathic Therapeutics on the Basis of the 
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the physiological school, then in its prime of development. He 
makes the greatest possible concessions to them regarding their 
views of disease, and the orthodoxy of homoeopathy is entirely 
left out. To enable the possessor of this work to practice by 
means of its use together with the repertories, the author has 
treated of the most of the remedies recommended by him and 
opposed to pathological processes, in such a manner as to insure 
almost without exception a reliable therapeutic use of them. 
That his efforts have not been altogether in vain, is evident from 
the entire sale of the first' edition in spite of the many objections 
to it by the homoeopathists. 
In 1871, after the death of Dr. V. Meyer, Dr. Kafka accepted 
the editorship of the Universal Homoeopathic Journal, which he 
has continued ever since. 
Dr. Bernhard Baehr, royal medical counsellor and private 
physician to the late king of Hanover, was born April 17th, 
1828. He speedily gained a reputation by his thorough and sci- 
entific Treatise on Digitalis purpurea in its Physiological and The- 
rapeutical Actions (Leipzig, 1859), and for which he obtained an 
honorary prize awarded by the homoeopathic physicians. He 
was commissioned by the publisher of Hartmann's Therapeutics 
to revise this work, which had already been several times repub- 
lished. He totally remodelled it to suit the demands of progres- 
sive scientific knowledge, and it was published in 1862 to 1865 
under the title, Therapeutics according to Homoeopathic Princi- 
ples. The therapeutic hints in this excellent work are as brief as 
possible, that no one may suppose that a homoeopathic thera- 
peutics could take the place of the Materia Medica and Repertory. 
He makes physiological criticisms upon those remedies which 
Hartmann recommended for certain classes of disease. These 
criticisms are such that they can only be advantageous in the per- 
fection of homoeopathy. It is evident, therefore, that his object 
was not so much to reach those unfamiliar with homoeopathy as 
to aid the homoeopathic practitioner in gaining a critical knowl- 
edge of his own method. 
Among the publications of the last fifteen years, besides those 
already spoken of, should be especially mentioned Morbus Brightii, 50 
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by Prof. J. Bachner; Manual of Homoeopathy, by Dr. A. von 
Gerhardt; Diabetes Mellitus and its Successful Treatment, with 
Special Consideration of its Homoeopathic Treatment; What does 
Graphite promise and what does it accomplish in Homoeopathic 
Practice, and The Scrofulous Diseases, by Dr. H. Goullon, Jr.; 
Monograph on Aconite, by Dr. Beil; Phosphorus a Great Remedy, 
by Dr. W. Sorge, and several others. 
Before speaking of some important events of recent years it is 
well to take a short general retrospective view. It was men- 
tioned in the beginning that Hahnemann as early as 1805 to 1810 
and later, awakened among the laity a high degree of interest in 
homoeopathy, which they soon began to investigate. Dr. Caspari 
first and Dr. Hartmann later offered the necessary assistance by 
publishing popularly written il Domestic Physicians." We are in- 
debted to several laymen of that time for valuable additions to 
our literature; e. g., Jahr prepared his Manual of Chief Indica- 
tions while he was a teacher, before he studied medicine, and it 
was the same with von Boenninghausen. The number of popular 
works on homoeopathy gradually increased, being aided by the 
participation of prominent authors like Clotar Mueller and Hir- 
schel, until at present there are about thirty different " Domestic 
Physicians" in the hands of the public, besides from seventy to 
eighty monographs on croup, odontalgia, cholera, etc. 
Homoeopathy was likewise aided by its adoption into veteri- 
nary practice. The veterinary literature went hand in hand with 
that intended for the treatment of the human subject, and the 
advantages of the new over the old method of treatment soon 
became evident to the inhabitants of the rural districts. The 
pioneer of this branch of homoeopathic literature was the Ho- 
moeopathic Veterinary Physician, many times republished, by 
F. A. Guenther, who was formerly a teacher and afterwards be- 
came a homoeopathic physician. This work was soon followed 
by the writings of Boehm, Schsefer, Schwabe, Fraeger, Lackner, 
and others. This branch of homoeopathy has not yet reached 
that degree of development that a modern scientifically educated 
veterinary surgeon would be entitled to expect. Most of the 
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however, in his more recent work, Illustrated Homoeopathic Veter- 
inary Physician, has accepted at least a few new ideas. 
Previous to 1855 the laymen who worked with homoeopathy 
were mere amateurs; subsequently, however, this work became 
quite important. From about this time (1855) Arthur Lutze 
gradually became celebrated as a homoeopathic magic-physician. 
His most bitter opponents must admit that his writings, which 
had an extensive circulation, had an effect upon the public in 
favor of homoeopathy. His statements of miraculous cures stimu- 
lated in many the desire to effect just such cures, and consequently 
his trade in medicines soon became very extended. He also 
wrote books in which he taught the practice of homoeopathy after 
his own method with alternate and double remedies. 
At about the same period a homoeopathic writer, Dr. Meinolph 
Bolle, of Aachen, began to publish a Popular Homoeopathic Pa- 
per, which on account of its pithy style soon gained a consid- 
erable circulation. The editor w.as exceedingly ingenious in 
securing his readers' interest in homoeopathy. He urged them 
to form societies where there was no homoeopathic physician ac- 
cessible, for mutual advice and assistance, and to collect money 
to be expended in favor of homoeopathy in addressing petitions 
and the like to the authorities and representatives of the people, 
etc. 
In this way the homoeopathic lay practice gradually spread, es- 
pecially among the teachers and ministers, and since the political 
changes in 1869, with the consequent changes in legislation 
which removed all restrictions concerning medical practice, it 
has spread very rapidly. Since that time (June 21st, 1869) the 
practice of medicine in Germany has been permitted without 
conditions, and also the laws to prevent quackery have been 
abolished. Nobody is any longer obliged to be treated by an 
approved physician. The reason for the abolition of these laws 
was a certain clause in several German penal codes which com- 
pelled approved physicians under considerable penalty to serve 
the public even in cases where no remuneration was to be ex- 
pected; on the other hand it forbade quackery and referred the 
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to many chicanes against physicians, these united to have it abol- 
ished. After this had been accomplished the desire for homoe- 
opathic treatment was soon everywhere manifested. The apothe- 
caries who had formerly opposed it so vigorously now took a 
lively interest in it, and while a few years previous only a few 
central places existed in Germany where homoeopathic medicines 
were sold, almost immediately, throughout the whole of Ger- 
many, homoeopathic pharmacies were established in connection 
with the already existing allopathic pharmacies, and at present 
they are to be found in almost every city. In Berlin nearly 
every pharmacy has a homoeopathic department. To illustrate 
the growth and the extent of the trade with homoeopathic reme- 
dies, it may be mentioned that Dr. Schwabe's central pharmacy 
in Leipzig, established in 1866, is now the most extensive busi- 
ness of the kind in Germany, and has business connections with 
more than 15,000 adherents of homoeopathy. 
The numerous societies* formed by the friends of homoeopathy 
in the large and the small cities, and the state societies, composed 
of the local, in Saxony, Bavaria, Pomerania, Baden, etc., are 
gratifying evidences of the progress of homoeopathy. 
In conclusion may be mentioned some of the recent important 
events in the history of homoeopathy in Germany. In 1869, the 
Central Society appointed Dr. Carl Heinigke, a convert from 
Rademacher's school, as teacher of homoeopathy at the dispensary 
in Leipzig. At first he had three pupils, but later he was una- 
ble to get any. It was impossible to effect his instalment as 
private instructor of homoeopathy in the university, and having 
some discord with one of the dispensary physicians, now de- 
ceased, he resigned. The position has been vacant ever since. 
The introduction of new remedies and new modes of prepara- 
tion caused Dr. William Schwabe, of Leipzig, assisted by Drs. 
Noack and Suess-Hahnemann, to publish, in 1872, a new 
Pharmacopoeia, in German, French, and English. In this work 
it is claimed that each remedy must be prepared exactly the same 
as it was for the proving, and that a change in its mode of prepa- 
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ration would necessitate a reproving of it. These views were 
accepted by a great many German physicians. The Central So- 
ciety, August 10th, 1872, recommended this work to the German 
governments for introduction as a legal, standard pharmacopoeia. 
Subsequently, in consequence of this, a controversy arose which 
became both personal and odious. 
The Central Society, at its regular meeting, August 10th, 1873, 
resolved to again resume the provings, and a committee was ap- 
pointed to take the matter in hand, but as yet very little has 
been heard of the action of this committee, excepting some com- 
munications from Prof. Haussmann concerning the provings of 
Cuprum. 
Supplement A. 
Homoeopathic Literature of Germany. 
The most prominent works of the German homoeopathic lit- 
erature have already been enumerated in the foregoing, and 
therefore only a few statistics will be necessary in this place. 
The years from 1833 to 1845 and from 1857 to 1875 were 
most fruitful in literary productions. The total number of ho- 
moeopathic works in the German language, large and small, 
journals excepted, is 853 volumes. 
During the last five years the journal literature has shown a 
considerable increase in comparison with that of former years. 
The following journals are published at the present time : 
A. Scientific Journals. 
(1.) Universal Homoeopathic Journal; editor, Dr. J. Kafka, 
in Prag; weekly; 1 sheet 4to.; 26 numbers form a volume; 90 
volumes have been published; printed by the publisher, Baum- 
gaertner, Leipzig. 
(2.) Hirschel's Journal for Homoeopathic Clinics, editor, Dr. 
Edmund Levi; semi-monthly ; 1 sheet 4to.; 24 numbers form a 
volume; 24 volumes have been published; T. O. Weigel's pub- 
lishing house, Leipzig. 
(3.) International Homoeopathic Press; chief editor, Dr. Clotar 54 
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Mueller; special editors: Pathology and Therapeutics, Drs. Baehr, 
Welsch, and Stens; Materia Medica, Drs. Gerstel and Clotar 
Mueller; Physiological Medicine, Dr. C. Heinigke; Ophthal- 
mology and Otology, Dr. Payr; Differential Comparison of 
Remedies, Dr. H. Goullon, Jr.; Epidemiology and Hygiene, 
Drs. Fischer and Rapp; Surgery, Dr. Maylaender; Obstetrics, 
Dr. Loescher; Medical Logic, Dr. Hoppe; Etiology, Dr. Schnei- 
der; monthly, 5 sheets, 8vo.; 6 numbers in a volume; 6 volumes 
have been published; publisher, Dr. W. Schwabe, Leipzig. 
B. Popular Homoeopathic Journals. 
(1.) Popular Journal of Homoeopathy, publisher, Dr. W. 
Schwabe; monthly; 1^-2 sheets, 4to., with numerous illustra- 
tions; 12 numbers form a volume; 6 volumes have been pub- 
lished. 
(2.) Homoeopathic Monthly Sheet. The organ of the Homoe- 
opathic Society in Bavaria. Editors, Drs. Lindner and Schlege- 
mann; monthly, 8vo.; 12 numbers form a volume; 1 volume 
has been published. 
(3.) Communications of the Homoeopathic Society of Stetten ; 
editor, C. Marquardt; monthly, 8vo.; 12 numbers make a vol- 
ume ; 1 volume has been published. 
(4.) Flying Leaves on Homoeopathy for the City and the 
Country; editor, F. Wilh. Franz; semi-monthly, 8vo.; 24 
numbers form a volume; 18 volumes have been published. 
(5.) Popular Medical Paper; editor, Dr. Wermer; monthly, 
4to.; 12 numbers form a volume; 1 volume has been pub- 
lished. 
(6.) Communications to the Members of the Hahnemannia. 
Organ of the Homoeopathic Society in Wuertemberg. Editor, 
A. Zoeppritz. It appears irregularly, and is distributed gratui- 
tously among the members of the Wuertemberg Society. 
(7.) The Medical Housefriend. Organ of hygiene, natural 
and medical science. Editors, Heinrich Koch and Dr. A. Mosch- 
kau; semi-monthly, 4to.; 24 numbers form a volume; 2 vol- 
umes have been published. (It is now issued monthly; editor, 
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The Central Society issues several times each year Communi- 
cations to the Members of the Homoeopathic Central Society of 
Germany, including the shorthand minutes of the meetings. 
During the years from 1820 to 1830 there were published 
simultaneously 2 journals; from 1830 to 1840, 7; from 1840 to 
1850, 4; from 1850 to 1860, 6 ; at present there are 9. 
Supplement B. 
Homoeopathic Physicians in Germany. 
The number of avowed homoeopathic physicians in Germany, 
exclusive of Switzerland and Austria, in the year 1834 was 88; 
in 1844, 147 ; in 1860, 264; and at present (December, 1875) 
there are 298 : of these 298, 276 are doctors of medicine rite 
promoti, and are also surgeons and accoucheurs. Of the 264 of 
the year 1860,141 are still in active homoeopathic practice ; of the 
remainder (125) some have died, some have emigrated, and some 
have retired on account of age. The total accession during the 
last fifteen years is 157. Of these 15 are sons of homoeopathic 
rphysicians either yet in practice or deceased, and 14 adopted 
homoeopathy immediately after having finished their studies. 
In 1860 the number of homoeopathic veterinary physicians in 
Germany was 35, and as near as can be ascertained there are at 
present 64. 
Only one homoeopathic physician occupies a professorship in a 
university, Dr. Joseph Buchner, who is professor of homoeopathy 
in the university at Munich. 
Supplement C. 
Homoeopathic Hospitals and Dispensaries. 
1. Berlin, (a.) Homoeopathic and Surgical Sanitary Institu- 
tion of Sanitary Counsellor Dr. Adolph Maylaender, No. 2 
Trebbiner Street; opened May 15th, 1873; receives patients 
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latter. It contains 18 beds in 7 rooms; besides these there are 
16 rooms of different sizes, excepting the balcony-rooms, in- 
tended for barracks which can be arranged for patients. There 
are 6 beds for poor patients. During the year 1873, 62 patients 
were received and treated. The report of 1874 has not yet ap- 
peared. Managing physician, Sanitary Counsellor Dr. May- 
laender; prescribing physicians, Sanitary Counsellor Dr. Zwin- 
genberg and Dr. Windelband. . 
(6.) Homoeopathic Eye Infirmary of Dr. Rudolph Weil, No. 
127 Linden Street; opened in October, 1875. It furnishes ac- 
commodations to patients desiring board. 
2. Coethen. (a.) Homoeopathic institution of Dr. Ernest 
Arthur Lutze, established by his father, Sanitary Counsellor Dr. 
Arthur Lutze, in 1851, and conducted by him till his death in 
1874, when it was taken in charge by the former. It formerly 
received only chronic patients, and was sustained principally by 
an extensive practice by correspondence. The latter proprietor 
has made surgery a specialty, and has combined with the institu- 
tion a balneo-therapeutic establishment. Physician, Dr. E. A. 
Lutze. Reports are wanting. 
(6.) Homoeopathic institution of Dr. I. F. Katsch, No. 29* 
Wall Street; established in 1873; receives patients with any 
kind of disease except those requiring extensive surgical opera- 
tions. It has 7 rooms for patients, a parlor, a bath-room, and a 
park. Chief physician, Dr. I. F. Katsch. 
3. Dresden. Koch's Sanitary Institution for Natural Science, 
Rheinhardt Street. It generally employs one or two homoeopa- 
thists to treat those patients who desire to be treated not alone 
by the Preissnitz-Schroth method. At present it employs Dr. 
Nuessler (M.D.) and Dr. Moschkau (Ph.D.). Chief physician, 
Heinrich Koch. 
4. Gotha. Insane Asylum of Dr. Wahrhold Ortleb; estab- 
lished after the Ducal Gothic State Insane Asylum was broken 
up, of which Dr. Ortleb was director. In 1872 he reconstructed 
and reorganized it upon entirely new principles. It receives 
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marks per annum. On an average 30 patients have been re- 
ceived and treated yearly; there is room, however, for 60. 
Managing physician, Dr. Ortleb. 
5. Hildesheim. Nursery, " Little Bethlehem." Chief physi- 
cian, Sanitary Counsellor Dr. Metz. 
6. Hursum (near Hildesheim). Hospital for the poor; founded 
in 1855 by the communities of Hursum and Hydder. It has 8 
beds and receives patients with diseases of any kind excepting 
cases of syphilis, insanity and scabies. Managing physician, Dr. 
Metz, of Hildesheim. 
7. Lauban in Silesia. " Convent Hospital." It has been in 
existence several centuries and for several years has used homoe- 
opathic treatment. It has 22 beds. From 300-400 patients 
are treated yearly. Managing physician, Sanitary Counsellor 
Dr. Ledar. 
8. Munich. Homoeopathic Hospital; opened about 1835; 
subsequently converted into and used for some time as a dis- 
pensary. In 1856 it was reconverted into a hospital. The 
table on page 58 shows a summary of the work of each year. 
The death-rate of the total number of patients treated is 4.2 
per cent., and of 1042 hospital patients it is 4.8 per cent. The 
average time of treatment in the latter case is 22| days. 
This was the only hospital in Germany that furnished gratui- 
tous board and treatment to soldiers wounded in the war of 
1870-72; it was enabled to do this by private charity. There 
were treated in the hospital 130 soldiers, and as out-patients 62, 
total 192; mortality 4 per cent. Each soldier on his discharge 
from the hospital received the necessary clothing and equipment 
and from 2 to 4 thalers for travelling expenses. The hospital 
grounds (No. 6 Wiesen Street) are owned by the hospital board, 
and were valued, October, 1875, over and above the mortgages, 
at 11,066 florins. Chief physician, Prof. Joseph Buchner, M.D.; 
prescribing physician, Dr. Max Quaglio. 
9. Magdeburg. "Bethesda" Homoeopathic Hospital and Nur- 
sery for Children ; built and endowed by Miss Bethge. Attend- 
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Year. 
Number of 
patients received. 
Days of treatment. 
Cured. 
Improved. 
Remained under 
treatment, or not 
cured. 
Number of deaths. 
1856 
Hospital and Dispensary, . . 
277 
11 
1857 
IC CC 
422 
362 
24 
21 
15 
1858 
CC CC 
280 
246 
17 
7 
12 
1859 
Hospital, •. . . 
46 
1196 
27 
9 
9 
1 
ll 
Dispensary, 
190 
1860 
Hospital, 
52 
2040 
29 
15 
6 
2 
1861 
ll 
78 
1677 
48 
24 
4 
2 
Cl 
Dispensary, 
108 
102 
6 
1862 
Hospital, 
67 
1450 
42 
15 
7 
3 
ll 
Dispensary, 
82 
77 
5 
1863 
Hospital, 
75 
1637 
57 
6 
9 
3 
ll 
Dispensary, 
72 
70 
2 
1864 
Hospital, . 
71 
1645 
50 
8 
5 
8 
ll 
Dispensary, 
75 
1 
1865 
Hospital, 
92 
1200 
84 
3 
2 
3 
ll 
Dispensary, 
62 
3 
1866 
Hospital, 
57 
959 
41 
7 
7 
2 
ll 
Dispensary, 
35 
25 
9 
1 
1867 
Hospital, 
65 
1258 
48 
4 
9 
4 
ll 
Dispensary, 
30 
2 
1868 
Hospital, 
71 
1370 
54 
6 
4 
7 
1869 
ll 
59 
866 
35 
7 
13 
4 
1870 
" (including 113 1 
wounded soldiers), J 
134 
2981 
110 
5 
11 
8 
1871 
ll 
63 
2057 
44 
16 
2 
1 
1872 
ll 
69 
1589 
52 
10 
2 
5 
1873 
ll 
56 
49 
3 
4 
1874 
ll 
43 
1263 
33 
6 
1 
3 
Total, .... 
2731 
23188 
114 
10. Plauen in the Saxon Voigtland. City Hospital, with 
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patients, at a charge of from 1 to 3 marks per day. Managing 
physician, Dr. Boehler. 
Dispensaries are combined with the greater number of the 
above-named institutions, and besides several dispensaries are 
kept by individual physicians on a larger or a smaller scale. 
The Central Society of German Physicians has a dispensary 
in Leipzig (Newmarkt, No. 27). Chief physician, Dr. Clotar 
Mueller; Attending physician, Dr. Arno Lorbacher. Hours, 
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 4 to 5 P. M.; and 
Tuesday and Saturday from 11 to 12 A. M. 
Dr. Schwabe, in Leipzig, has a dispensary in connection with 
his pharmacy. Managing physician, Dr. Carl Heinigke. Hours 
from 9 to 10 a. m. 
Supplement D. 
Homoeopathic Societies and Clubs. 
(1.) The Homoeopathic Central Society of Germany, with per- 
manent secretaryship anol register at Leipzig. It was founded 
August 10th, 1829, at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary 
of Samuel Hahnemann's doctorate, and reorganized August 10th, 
1843, as the "Central Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of 
Germany," and in 1872 legally incorporated at Leipzig under 
the old name and new statutes. Presiding officers for the 
present year: Dr. Herrmann A. Fischer, of Berlin; Prof. Franz 
Haussmann, of Pesth; and Dr. Clotar Mueller, of Leipzig. 
The Society meets August 9th and 10th of each year, in one of 
the cities of Germany decided upon at the meeting of the pre- 
vious year. It has held the following meetings: 
1830, in Leipzig, .... President, Dr. Moritz Mueller. 
1831, in Naumburg o. s., . . " " E. Stapf. 
1832, in Leipzig, .... " " Schweikert. 
1833, in Leipzig, .... " " Moritz Mueller. 
1833, in Coethen, ... " " Hahnemann. 
1834, in Coethen, ... " " Hahnemann. 
1835, in Brunswick, ... " " Muehlenbein. 
1836, in Magdeburg, ... " " Pummel. 
1837, in Frankfurt o. m., . . " " Rau. 60 
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1838, in Dresden, .... President, Dr. Helbig. 
1839, in Leipzig, .... " " Haubold. 
1840, in Berlin, .... " " Reissig. 
1841, in Dessau, .... " <( Kurtz. 
1842, in Leipzig, .... " " Moritz Mueller. 
1843, in Dresden, .... " " Trinks. 
1844, in Magdeburg, ... " " Rummel. 
1845, in Brunswick, ... " " Pielitz. 
1846, in Leipzig, .... " " Hartmann. 
1847, in Berlin, .... " " Melicher. 
1849, in Leipzig, .... " " Lobethal. 
1850, in Liegnitz, ... " 11 Schneider. 
1851, in Leipzig, .... " " Melicher. 
1852, in Frankfurt o. m., . . " " Kallenbag. 
1853, in Magdeburg, . . " " H. G. Schneider. 
1854, in Weimar, ... " " H. Goullon. 
1855, in Vienna, .... " " Watzke. 
1856, in Dresden,.... " " Paul Wolf. 
1857, in Munich, .... " "J. Buchner. 
1858, in Bonn, .... " " Stens. 
1859, in Prag, .... " " Altschul. 
1860, in Hanover, ... " " Weber. 
1861, in Leipzig, ... " " Clotar Mueller. 
1862, in Nurenberg, . .. " " von Grauvogl. 
1863, in Mainz, .... " " Kirsch. 
1864, in Brunswick, ... " " Fielitz. 
1865, in Weimar, ... " " H. Goullon. 
1867, in Leipzig, .... " " C. Mueller. 
1868, in Eisenach, ... 11 " Wislicenius. 
1869, in Dresden, ... " " Hirschel. 
1871, in Magdeburg, ... " " H. G. Schneider. 
1872, in Stuttgart, ... " " F. Fischer. 
1873, in Vienna, .... " " Gerstel. 
1874, in Leipzig, .... " " C. Mueller. 
1875, in Berlin, .... " "A. Fischer. 
In the years 1848, 1866 and 1870, no meetings were held 
on account of the political disorders. In all 43 meetings have 
been held. 
The meetings have served to animate and unite the members 
of the Society, and have in a general way advanced the cause of 
homoeopathy. 
The prize essays of the Society have enriched homoeopathic 
literature with quite a number of works. Generally two prizes THE HISTORY OF HOMCEOPATHY IN GERMANY. 
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are awarded each year. One is paid out of the funds of the So- 
ciety for the best description of a given disease with its complete 
homoeopathic therapeutics, and the other is paid out of the 
Hahnemann fund, managed by the Society, for the best treatise 
on a remedy already proved and used, thus completing the 
knowledge of its action and insuring its successful use. Each 
prize consists of 300 marks, and is only given by the unanimous 
vote of three prize judges. The work that has taken the prize 
remains the property of its author. The prizes have been 
awarded as follows: Dr. B. Baehr, Digitalis purpurea in its 
Physiological and Therapeutical Actions; W. Reil, Monograph 
on Aconite; B. Hirschel, Gastrodynia and Cramps in the Stom- 
ach; W. Sorge, Phosphorus, a great Remedy ; H. Goullon, What 
Graphite Promises and what it Accomplishes in Homoeopathic 
Practice; Diabetes Mellitus ; and Thuja; G. Puhlman, Morbus 
Brightii. 
The Central Society has repeatedly formed societies of provers, 
and the results of their work have been published in the homoeo- 
pathic journals. By the aid of a state subsidy of 900 marks 
per annum, this Society supports a dispensary in Leipzig, the 
expenses of which during the year 1874 were 2629 marks. 
The president of the Central Society in 1872, Dr. Frantz 
Fischer, established a fund for the support of the widows of 
homoeopathic physicians who are unprovided for. This fund is 
managed by a board appointed by the Society, consisting of Drs. 
Mueller, Lorbachei' and Schwabe, all of Leipzig. It has thus 
far distributed 718 marks, and at present has 1682 marks bear- 
ing interest. 
The property of the Society, August 1st, 1876, amounted to 
31,828 marks, and that of the Hahnemann Fund at the same 
time was 2467 marks. 
The Society library in Leipzig consists of 1802 works, and 
1850 volumes, including pamphlets. Its membership, August 
1st, 1875, was 232, 218 of whom are physicians or pharma- 
ceutists. Each member pays 6 marks initiation fee and annual 
dues of 6 marks. 
(2.) The "Free Society of Homoeopathy" in Leipzig. It was 62 
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established as early as 1828, and is composed of homoeopathic 
physicians residing in Leipzig and vicinity. They meet about 
once a month for discussions, and hold an annual meeting on the 
10th of April for the celebration of Hahnemann's birthday, in 
which they are generally joined by physicians of other cities. 
(3.) Lusatian Society of Homoeopathic Physicians; established 
June 13th, 1832, by Dr. Thorer (died in Goerlitz). President- 
emeritus, Dr. Th. Rueckert of Herrnhut. It meets twice a year 
in Goerlitz and twice in Zittau. Between the years 1834 and 
1840 it published Practical Contributions in the Department of 
Homoeopathy (4 volumes). The Society library is in Goerlitz. 
(4.) Society of Silesian Homoeopathic Physicians, a branch 
(1866) of the Lusatian Society. Its permanent seat is Breslau. 
President, Dr. Johannes Schweikert, of Breslau. The members 
meet only in winter, and then semi-monthly. (This may be con- 
sidered as a reorganization of the Homoeopathic Society of Bres- 
lau, established August 10th, 1838, and afterwards broken up.) 
(5.) The Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of Rhineland and 
Westphalia was founded in 1846 by Dr. C. von Boenninghausen. 
Its meetings are held in Dortmund at the end of July of each 
year and are largely attended. President, Dr. Stens, Sr. 
(6.) The Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of Stuttgart, 
called "Society for Medical Science," was established January 
10th, 1874. Its meetings are held regularly. President, Med- 
ical Counsellor Dr. Paul Sick. 
(7.) The Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of Berlin was 
established October 28th, 1874. It meets on the first and third 
Wednesdays of each month; President, Dr. Herrmann Alex- 
ander Fischer. This Society petitioned the Prussian ministry of 
educational and medical affairs for the protection of the privilege 
of self-dispensing of medicines. 
The societies organized in 1833 in Baden, Hesse Darmstadt 
and Thueringen, and the North German Society, organized May 
2d, 1836, were all broken up. Several societies were also 
broken up during the years from 1840 to 1860, the Rhinish 
Society and others. 
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which, however, many physicians belong, is very great. Only 
the most important will be mentioned. 
(8.) The Society " Hahnemannia" in the kingdom of Wurtem- 
berg; established February 24th, 1868, with 70 members ; pres- 
ent membership 913. Meetings are held monthly in different 
places, and on the 24th of February the annual meeting takes 
place in Stuttgart. Many of the members are surgeons. The 
Society library has about 100 volumes. It has published a 
journal since 1873 (editor, A. Zoeppritz), which is sent gratui- 
tously to its members and to the delegates of the Wurtemberg 
Assembly. This Society has three times petitioned the Wur- 
temberg Assembly for the establishment of a chair of homoeop- 
athy in the university at Tuebingen, and the assembly accord- 
ingly asked it of the government; but the matter, being voted 
upon, was laid on the table. Another petition of the Society 
was addressed to the German imperial diet (Reichstag), with ref- 
erence to section 3673 of the German penal law. 
(9.) The State Society for Homoeopathy in the kingdom of 
Saxony was established August 4th, 1873. It is composed of 
22 Saxon local societies, and has 1650 members. Annual meet- 
ings are held in the different towns in Saxony, the place being 
selected at each meeting for the following year. In 1873 it met 
in Doebeln ; in 1874, Chemnitz; in 1875, Annaberg; and for 
1876, Dresden was designated. Delegate meetings are also held 
by the presidents and trustees of the different societies. Presi- 
dents, Dr. Puhlmann, of Leipzig; W. A. Haupt, of Chemnitz; 
G. Ebeling, of Leipzig; and Zschiesche of Annaberg, and E. 
Kuenzel. 
(10.) The Society of Annaberg, belonging to the Saxon State 
Society, during the last few years has repeatedly petitioned the 
Saxon government for the establishment of a chair of homoeop- 
athy at the university at Leipzig. The same was done in 1873 
by the State Society, which also in 1874 sent to the German im- 
perial diet a petition containing 4000 names, asking for an 
amendment of section 3673 of the German penal law in favor of 
homoeopathy. The petitions accomplished nothing. The organ of 
the Society is Dr. W. Schwabe's Popular Journal of Homoeopathy. 64 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
(11.) The Homoeopathic Society of Bavaria was established in 
1875, and at present has a membership of 109. Presidents, Drs. 
Lindner and Scheglmann. Meetings are held quarterly. The 
Society addressed a petition to the Bavarian House of Delegates 
asking for the Bavarian homoeopathic physicians the privilege of 
dispensing their medicines. It was rejected by the Committee 
on Petitions, and therefore did not come before the general as- 
sembly for discussion. Organ of the Society: the Homoeopathic 
Monthly Papers, edited by the presiding officers. 
(12.) State Society for Homoeopathy in the Grand Duchy of 
Baden; established October 13th, 1874. Membership 290. Gen- 
eral meeting annually, district meetings quarterly. Presidents, 
Dr. Wermer, of Randegg and Mayor Schmidt, of Boehringen. 
It has a library of 162 works. Organ : Popular Medical Jour- 
nal, edited by Dr. Wermer. 
(13.) The Homoeopathic Society in Stettin, with the Pome- 
ranian branches in Grabon, Swinemuende and Stargard, was es- 
tablished February 14th, 1874. Membership, 250; library, 200 
volumes. Meetings are held every three or four weeks, to which 
the public are admitted. Presidents, C. Marquardt, L. Gericke 
and Priam. It has a board of five trustees, the chairman of 
which is Finance-Counsellor (Rechun ngsrath) Buehler. Organ 
of the Society: Communications of the Homoeopathic Society of 
Stettin', editor, C. Marquardt. 
(14.) The Homoeopathic Society of Dannenberg, in the prov- 
ince of Hannover, was established May 31st, 1873. Membership, 
1290. Presidents, Commissioner of Agriculture Gruether, owner 
of printing establishment Esuearch, and Finance-Counsellor Her- 
ring. It has no library. In different parts of the district of Dan- 
nenberg it has society pharmacies for the use of its members. 
Society physician, Dr. Czerny, imperial military surgeon, a. d. 
The Society petitioned the Prussian diet in 1874 for the estab- 
lishment of chairs of homoeopathy in the Prussian universities. 
The petition was laid on the table. It has also asked for equal 
rights for homoeopathy with allopathy. 
(15.) The Homoeopathic Society in Bromberg, in the province 
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President, Finance-Counsellor Reiser. Society physician, Dr. 
Mossa. Library, 60 volumes. Meetings monthly. Its pharmacy 
furnishes medicines gratuitously to its members. Societies simi- 
lar to that in Bromberg exist in many of the cities of Germany, 
in Trier, Querfurt, Nordhausen, Dresden, etc. 
Supplement E. 
Homoeopathic Pharmacies. 
It has already been mentioned that the majority of allopathic 
pharmacies in Germany, for the last few years, have prepared 
and dispensed homoeopathic medicines. To enumerate all of 
these would occupy too much space, and therefore we shall only 
mention the licensed special homoeopathic pharmacies and those 
allopathic pharmacies which have established a homoeopathic 
department in a separate room, and therefore are doing justice to 
homoeopathy. 
A. Special Homoeopathic Pharmacies. 
(1.) Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy to Samuel Hahnemann, 
by Dr. Willmar Schwabe, Leipzig, corner of the Barfussberg. 
It was established January 1st, 1866, and since January 1st, 
1871 has been a licensed pharmacy with privilege of preparing 
prescriptions. It comprises the following departments: Phar- 
macy, with prescription department, preparing of chests and 
cases of homoeopathic medicines for the use of physicians, drug- 
gists, veterinary physicians, families, travellers, etc.; preparing of 
homoeopathic tinctures, etc.; importing of foreign tinctures; gen- 
eral depot of the American medical preparations of Boericke & 
Tafel, Philadelphia and New York; publishing house, which 
has published about 60 volumes, and also publishes a popular 
scientific monthly; a Homoeopathic Clinical Institute. 
The preparations of this pharmacy were without competition 
at the World's Exposition in Paris; they received prizes at the 
industrial exposition in Chemnitz and Horondenka, and received 
a diploma at the great World's Exposition in Vienna. It employs 
4 qualified apothecaries, 19 pharmaceutical assistants, 5 clerks, 1 
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(2.) Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy of Taeschner & Co., 
Leipzig; established in 1830 by the proprietors of the allopathic 
pharmacies in Leipzig, and called " Homoeopathic Dispensatory." 
Since 1867 it has been known by the former name (H. C. P. of 
T. & Co.) Its proprietors are the owners of the Lion, Solomonis, 
Angel and Eagle pharmacies in Leipzig. Independent manager 
since 1866, Paul Beyer. Business departments : pharmacy with 
prescription license; laboratory of homoeopathic preparations; 
depot of homoeopathic medicines, medicine chests, etc.; importing 
of foreign extracts, etc.; and since November 1st, 1873, homoeo- 
pathic publishing house. 
(3.) Licensed Homoeopathic Pharmacy of A. Marggraf, Leip- 
zig; established in 1863. Sale, export, and import of homoeo- 
pathic preparations, without prescriptions. Proprietor, A. Marg- 
graf, homoeopathic pharmaceutist; employs 3 assistants. 
(4.) Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy in Dessau; established 
in 1836 by F. Petters; transferred to the present proprietor, F. 
Schubert, November 1st, 1866. It sells homoeopathic prepara- 
tions and has prescription license. It employs a qualified apoth- 
ecary and 2 assistants. 
(5.) Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy in Munich; established 
in 1852 by the allopathic druggists, and closed by them in 1861; 
re-established in the same place by governmental concession, by 
Ludwig Landgraf. Its sells homoeopathic preparations, has pre- 
scription license, and employs, besides the proprietor, 2 qualified 
apothecaries. 
(6.) Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy in Nuernberg; estab- 
lished in 1844 by the allopathic druggists of the place; trans- 
ferred in 1866 to the present proprietor, Fred. Hess, and by him 
reconstructed. It has prescription license, and has also an ex- 
port business in homoeopathic preparations. 
(7.) Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy in Canstatt, in Wur- 
temberg; established in 1858 by the present proprietor, G. 
Zeunegg. It employs 2 pharmaceutists and 2 assistants, and 
exports homoeopathic preparations. 
(8.) Gruner's Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Dresden ; establish- 
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Liebe. It has no prescription license; employs 1 apothecary, 5 
assistants, and 1 clerk. It is engaged in the sale of homoeopathic 
preparations, etc. 
(9.) Dr. F. A. Guenther's Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Lan- 
gensalza; established in 1835 and taken in charge by the son of 
the former proprietor (Dr. F. A. G.) in 1865. It employs 1 
apothecary and 8 assistants; sells homoeopathic preparations and 
domestic medicine chests, and is connected with a publishing 
house which has published 23 works. 
(10.) G. Doerre's Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Greussen. 
(11.) Th. Lappe's in Neudietendorf. 
B. Homoeopathic Pharmacies connected with Allopathic, though in 
separate rooms. 
(1.) Lion Pharmacy, by O. Schneider, in Dresden; established 
in 1833, with, since 1852, complete separation of the two depart- 
ments. The homoeopathic department is called the Homoeopathic 
Central Office of the Lion Pharmacy. It has prescription license, 
and employs 1 apothecary and 1 assistant. 
(2.) Simon's Plomoeopathic Pharmacy in Berlin. Particulars 
are wanting. 
(3.) W. G. Guenther's Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy (to 
the Golden Lion) in Berlin. 
(4.) Flotoo's Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy in Brunswick. 
(5.) Carl Otte's Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Hamburg; estab- 
lished in 1830. 
(6.) G. Matheide's Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Hamburg. 
(7.) Dr. Fr. Mauch's Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Goeppingen, 
Wurtemberg; established in 1868. It employs 3 persons. 
(8.) Homoeopathic Central Pharmacy of Zahn & Seeger, in 
Stuttgart; opened September 27th, 1875. Manager, Edwin 
Hahn. 
Review of German Legislation. 
The homoeopathic and the allopathic practice in Germany are 
regulated by the same laws, the former requiring no special ex- 
amination. Whoever wishes to practice medicine must pass a 68 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
State-examination on those branches considered as the tests of 
medical qualification before a committee appointed by the State, 
at the various universities, after which he is free to adopt homoe- 
opathy or not, it being taught only in the university at Munich 
from the "Chair of Physiological Materia Medica." 
The following are the prerequisites to the candidacy for the 
State examination: The candidate must have pursued the study 
of medicine, surgery and obstetrics at a German university (no 
one is admitted to these studies who cannot show a certificate 
of graduation from a German gymnasium [college]), and must 
have studied at least eight semesters; he must have satisfacto- 
rily passed the "Tentamen physicum " (which consists of an ex- 
amination in Anatomy, Physiology, Natural History and Chem- 
istry, and takes place at the end of the fourth, or, at the latest, 
the seventh semester), after which he must have practiced at least 
two semesters in a university clinic, and attended at least four 
confinement cases in an obstetrical clinic. A fulfilment of all the 
above requirements is necessary. 
The State-examination consists in the following: 
(1.) Anatomy.-An osteological and a splanchnological problem 
chosen by lot, and a nerve preparation, are to be demonstrated, 
extempore. 
(2.) Physiology.-A histological and a physiological problem 
must be discussed orally, extempore. 
(3.) Pathological Anatomy.-A post-mortem must be made 
and its results dictated to be put into the minutes, and also an 
anatomico-pathological preparation must be demonstrated by the 
aid of the microscope. 
(4.) Surgery.-The candidate has two surgical cases to treat 
for eight days; he must examine them, make his diagnosis, prog- 
nosis, plan of treatment, in the presence of the examiners, and 
submit the results of his investigations in a written report. He 
must also show his surgical skill by operations on the cadaver, 
by applying bandages on the manikin, and by an extemporane- 
ous discourse upon a subject in the department of Surgery. 
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of eye disease for examination and observation, of which he must 
prepare a history. 
(6.) Clinical Medicine.-He must examine two patients in the 
presence of the board of examiners, give diagnosis, prognosis, 
and treatment, which must be written by the candidate in seclu- 
sion, and must treat them eight days, describing the course of the 
disease. In connection with this is the examination on doses 
and the art of prescribing. 
(7.) Gynaecology and Obstetrics.-He must, in the presence of 
the examiners, examine a woman in labor, give position of foetus, 
the prognosis and treatment to be pursued, carry the case along 
seven days, and write a history of it, with suggestions as to the 
ordinary subsequent diseases of mother and child. He is also ex- 
amined as to his skill in the examination of pregnant, parturient, 
and post-parturient women, and, with the manikin, on the use of 
forceps, version, etc. 
After the candidate has passed all this " well,"* he is finally 
examined orally as to his general medical knowledge. If the 
final examination be satisfactory, the average of the whole exam- 
ination is fixed according to the results in the different branches, 
and if in any department he has been marked " moderate " or 
" bad " he has the choice to either go over those branches at 
once, or to wait for an examination in them at the end of three 
or six months. 
The successful candidates receive the following certificate: 
" Mr from having passed the medical exam- 
ination before the examining commission, is hereby awarded a 
license as a physician, in accordance with § 29 of the Gewerbe- 
ordnung of the German empire." 
The degree of doctor of medicine is no longer required, since 
the imperial statute only recognizes the satisfactory State-exam- 
ination. Most physicians, however, take the degree after the 
State-examination. 
* The following judgments are passed : " Extremely good, very good, 
good, moderate, bad." The last (bad) sends the student back for six months 
and the " moderate " for three months, when he must be examined again. If 
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world's homceopathic convention. 
The dispensing and the sale of remedies of any kind in Ger- 
many is by law permitted only to apothecaries licensed by the 
government; § 367 of the German penal code makes the penalty 
for the violation of this law a fine not exceeding 50 thalers or 
imprisonment. In consequence of this, every physician must 
order his medicines from the pharmacy. In the following coun- 
tries, however, exceptions are made in favor of homoeopathists: 
A. In the kingdom of Prussia, in 1843, King Frederic Wil- 
liam III, by order of cabinet, directed the ministry to issue reg- 
ulations with a distinct statement of the principles according to 
which approved physicians might be permitted to dispense 
homoeopathic medicines. These regulations appeared June 20th, 
1843, and contain essentially the following: 
(1.) That a committee be appointed to examine physicians 
applying for the privilege of dispensing homoeopathic remedies, 
in chemistry, botany and pharmacology, whether they are com- 
petent to prepare their own remedies; (2.) that a homoeopathic 
physician be a member of the committee to examine whether 
they are familiar with the homoeopathic mode of treatment; and 
(3.) that any who have dispensed homoeopathic remedies previous 
to such examination shall forever lose the privilege to be exam- 
ined. 
The application is to be addressed to the ministry of medical 
affairs at Berlin, which body appoints three examiners, the first 
of whom examines on the botanical and zoological part of phar- 
macology, the second on chemical preparation, and the third 
on the application and dispensing of medicines according to the 
principles of homoeopathy. The candidate is shown 63 medici- 
nal substances from the animal, the vegetable and the mineral 
kingdom, which he must recognize. The examination fee is 54 
marks. The verdict is either "sufficient" or "not sufficient." 
After a satisfactory examination the following " certificate of 
qualification" is granted: 
" This is to certify, that the practicing physician .... of 
.... has passed the examination ordered by the regulation of 
June 20th, 1843, for the privilege of dispensing medicines pre- 
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" Mr. . . . must present this certificate to the royal govern- 
ment. 
" Berlin, dated .... Signed by the minister of instruction, 
and of religious and medical affairs." 
The physician thus licensed is only permitted to give his med- 
icines to patients whom he himself treats, and not to carry on a 
trade with them or receive pay for them from his patients. Any 
violation of the above involves a forfeiture of the privilege of 
dispensing medicines. Each physician with this privilege is re- 
quired to have a stock of 52 of the principal remedies, in the 
first dilution or trituration. The medicine chest must be kept 
in an appropriate locality, and is at any time liable to official 
inspection. The remedies prescribed must be recorded, with the 
particulars of quality and dose, the name of the patient, and date 
of the prescription. Those homoeopathic physicians who have 
distinguished themselves by their writings are exempt from this 
examination. 
It is evident that the above regulations in Prussia make 
extremely difficult the conversion of allopathic physicians to 
homoeopathy; for no opportunity for becoming familiar with it 
is given in the Prussian universities, and if the physician in his 
practice makes experiments with it he is forever debarred from 
the examination for the right of dispensing. Furthermore, no 
Prussian apothecary is obliged to prepare or keep homoeopathic 
medicines, and if he does prepare and keep them, he is not con- 
strained by any rules as to the mode of preparation, place of 
storing, etc., and therefore he can either directly or indirectly 
bar the way against the physician who is trying to investigate it. 
Each apothecary, however, has a homoeopathic price-list. 
This whole movement in Prussia, therefore, must be consid- 
ered as only a seeming concession, while in reality it is a great 
impediment to the progress of homoeopathy. 
B. In the kingdom of Saxony homoeopathists are not per- 
mitted to dispense their medicines, the only exception being in 
favor of the homoeopathic dispensary in Leipzig. 
C. The dispensing of medicines is also prohibited in the 72 
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Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg, in the Duchy of Brunswick, 
and in the free State of Hamburg. 
D. In the Duchy of Anhalt the privilege of dispensing med- 
icines was unlimited prior to March 14th, 1860, when, by order 
of the minister of state, this liberty was made conditional, and 
was to be withdrawn when a homoeopathic pharmacy, licensed 
by the ducal government, should be established in the physician's 
place of residence or within a circuit of about three-quarters of 
an hour's walk. 
E. In the Grand Duchy of Weimar the regulations are simi- 
lar to those of Anhalt, according to decree of September 11th, 
1846. 
F. In the Duchy Meiningen, after passing a satisfactory ex- 
amination the homoeopathic physician is forever permitted to 
dispense his own medicines. 
G. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse it is the same as in Mein- 
ingen. 
H. In the Grand Duchy of Baden the dispensing of medicines 
was made free through the efforts of the homoeopathic society of 
that country, but by a decree of the minister, June 16th, 1840, 
this freedom was revoked, and the apothecaries were bound to 
prepare and keep always on hand all homoeopathic remedies that 
the physicians of their respective places should prescribe, and to 
prepare them in a suitable locality under the physician's super- 
intendence. 
I. In the kingdom of Wurtemberg, by decree, March 19th, 
1859, the apothecaries only were permitted to prepare homoeo- 
pathic remedies and to sell them only on prescription from a 
physician. Since February 16th, 1872, however, by order of 
the royal cabinet, it has been permitted to sell them in the 7th 
decimal attenuation and upwards without a prescription. By 
order of June 1st, 1866, the privilege of dispensing medicines 
was given to physicians who resided in places where there were 
no licensed homoeopathic pharmacies. Gruner's Pharmacopoeia 
was made the lawful standard. 
K. In the kingdom of Bavaria the dispensing of homoeopathic 
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January 27th, 1842, were directed to prepare homoeopathic 
remedies according to Caspari's Homoeopathic Dispensatory, 
and this work was superseded, November 17th, 1843, by the 
Homoeopathic Mode of Preparing Medicines, by Prof. Joseph 
Buchner, M.D. In consequence of the many complaints of the 
homoeopathic physicians an order was given in detail, March 
15th, 1866, regulating the homoeopathic pharmacies in connec- 
tion with drug stores. 
In no other part of Germany has homoeopathy been so much 
persecuted as in Bavaria. Information on this point may be 
obtained from a pamphlet published a few years ago, The Mod- 
ern Laokoon, or Homoeopathy in Bavaria. 
The above statistics show very diverse legislation concerning 
homoeopathy in Germany, and it may be summed up as follows : 
(1.) No laws have ever been made in favor of homoeopathy. 
On the other hand, the laws have always been adapted as much 
as possible to the protection of the privileged class of allopathic 
druggists. 
(2.) Homoeopathy has always been systematically kept away 
from the German universities, and homoeopathic physicians have 
even been prohibited from establishing themselves as private 
teachers in the universities, though friends of homoeopathy 
offered to furnish the means for their support. 
(3.) No hospital supported by the State has ever been opened 
to homoeopathy in which the education of its practitioners could 
be facilitated. 
In spite of all these obstacles homoeopathy is growing steadily. 
The number of homoeopathic physicians increases yearly. The 
system is gradually being elevated, and is steadily gaining confi- 
dence with the public. We hope, therefore, that the time is fast 
approaching when our opponents will take a more objective posi- 
tion in regard to homoeopathy, and deem it worth while to be- 
come familiar with a method of curing as yet entirely unknown 
to them, or, if known, only in its less noble outgrowths and 
considered as antediluvian, but which, under a test of 65 years, 
in spite of all persecutions, has proved itself worthy of the des- 
ignation it claims-" The medicine of the future." 74 
world's HOMCEOPATHIC CONVENTION. 
THE LEIPSIC HOMCEOPATHIC DISPENSARY. A 
HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL SKETCH. 
Dr. Clotar Mueller. 
The homoeopathic dispensary in Leipsic is the oldest institu- 
tion of its kind devoted to the interests of homoeopathy. Hav- 
ing been in existence for forty-two years, its establishment and 
the various phases of its existence afford abundant and not unin- 
teresting material for the history of the development of homoeop- 
athy itself. 
It was originally a subordinate department of the Leipsic 
Homoeopathic Hospital, which was the object of so much discus- 
sion and hostility, and after the closure of the latter became its 
inheritor and successor, its task being to counteract the apparent 
non-success of this first creation of the German Homoeopathic 
Central Society. It is well known that this hospital, which was 
called into being with great enthusiasm and hopeful expectation, 
was the cause of disagreeable altercations among the advocates of 
homoeopathy, dividing them for years into two hostile parties. 
Thus a succession of unexpected troubles and obstacles were en- 
countered, and the hospital failed to exert the expected influence 
upon the diffusion and development of homoeopathy in Germany. 
As is usual in cases of failure, the institution was judged more 
severely and unjustly than it deserved, and those who had been 
prominent in their devotion to it received little credit, but were 
the victims of hostile demonstrations from many quarters. 
As this is a historical and statistical sketch of the dispensary 
alone, I do not propose to go into the history of the origin and 
ten years' existence of the hospital, except in so far as is neces- 
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It was at the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the medical 
graduation of Samuel Hahnemann, on the 10th of August, 1829, 
at Coethen, that the idea of establishing a homoeopathic hospital 
originated among the numerous physicians and friends there as- 
sembled. It was resolved to put out at interest the sum of 950 
thalers, that being the amount left over from the voluntary con- 
tributions made to celebrate the day. All those present engaged 
to make further collections, the amounts to be delivered to Hrs. 
Muehlenbein and Rummel, who were elected directors. The 
names of the contributors were to be published from time to time 
in the Arehiv fur Hom. Heilkunst, or in separate lists, together 
with a published account of the management of the capital. 
At the same time there was formed a society of homoeopathic 
physicians, which was to meet annually at some locality in Ger- 
many. For the year 1830, Leipsic was selected as the place of 
meeting, and Dr. Moritz Mueller was elected President, and Dr. 
Juris Albrecht, of Dresden, Secretary. This was the origin and 
beginning of the Central Society of the Homoeopathic Physicians 
of Germany, which still exists and has had such beneficial in- 
fluence upon the progress of homoeopathy. (See Hom. Arehiv, 
vol. 8, No. 2, page 101.) 
At the third meeting of the Society, at Naumburg, on August 
3d, 1831, the amount of the fund was 2730 thalers, drawing 
114 thalers and 22| groschen interest annually. Dr. Rummel, 
with the sanction of the Society, now issued a public 11 appeal to 
all friends and patrons of a worthy cause," asking further con- 
tributions for the establishment of a homoeopathic hospital by 
private means. (See Hom. Arehiv, vol. ii, p. 90.) 
At the fourth meeting of the Society, on the motion of Dr. 
Schweikert, of Grimma, it was resolved to begin at once with the 
erection of a homoeopathic hospital in Leipsic, the fund now 
amounting to nearly 4000 thalers. 
It was calculated that this capital would suffice to support th'e 
institution for three years, and it was expected that the govern- 
ment would take charge of it before that time had elapsed. Be- 
sides, in the meantime an opportunity would be given to demon- 
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by homoeopathic treatment, a fact denied by our opponents. It 
was thought, therefore, that even a short existence of such an 
institution would be of great benefit to homoeopathy. (See 
Archiv, vol. ii, p. 64.) 
Dr. Moritz Mueller, President of the Society at this time, be- 
gan at once, with the greatest energy, to carry out its plans. In 
four weeks he had obtained from the Saxon government permis- 
sion to establish a homoeopathic hospital, a success expected by 
few, not even by Hahnemann.* He quickly removed all the ob- 
jections of the magistracy and medical inspectors of Leipsic; an 
appropriate house was soon found and furnished ; and in seventy- 
eight days from August 10th, the day the resolution was passed, 
there appeared to be no obstacle to the opening of the hospital 
in January, 1833. 
In the midst of this time of joyful anticipation there suddenly 
appeared, in the Leipsic Tageblatt, Nov. 3d, 1832, a violent ar- 
ticle by Hahnemann against certain homoeopathists of Leipsic, 
designating them as mongrels and protesting against their hav- 
ing* any connection with the new hospital. Thus Hahnemann 
began the well-known juridical warfare which, for the sake of 
the hospital, he should have begun earlier or postponed to a 
later period. His attack was intended for individuals, but only 
injured the institution and destroyed its vitality. 
The Society was divided into two hostile sections, unanimous 
only on one point, that the hospital should be opened and sus- 
tained. But now it strangely happened that Dr. Schweikert, the 
legally appointed physician, and all those on his side, in order 
not to commit themselves, refused to take charge of the hospital. 
Dr. Moritz Mueller and his allies, Drs. Haubold and Hartmann, 
* To show the general condition of affairs at this time, and the oppressed 
condition of homoeopathy, we cite the following passage from a letter of 
Hahnemann's to Dr. Moritz Mueller, dated September 28tb, 1832: "And 
still more wonderful that you should have the courage to ask the Saxon gov- 
ernment for sanction and assistance, knowing their subservience to the 
medical authorities of Dresden. It was a great gift from the other side (I 
am astounded at it) that they did not forbid it; but I never dreamed that 
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were thus obliged to continue to be personally responsible for the 
institution. 
Thus it happened that these three physicians accused of impure 
homoeopathy were forced to officiate in the new hospital, at the 
same time preserving their independence and freedom of opinion 
regarding the perfection or insufficiency of the homoeopathic 
methods of cure, in opposition to the purists. It may justly be 
said that the contest which ensued did more to injure the hos- 
pital and bring it into discredit than it did harm to the individ- 
uals attacked, while, after many years of hostility, the conclusion 
arrived at, after all, was, that in matters of science there is no 
infallible authority, and that, especially in homoeopathy, various 
opinions about the dose, sufficiency of the system, exclusion of 
all other methods, etc., may exist peaceably side by side, without 
disturbing or destroying the existence of homoeopathy. 
As a matter of honor it is necessary to assert, without hesita- 
tion, that Hahnemann's accusation against the physicians of 
Leipsic, of practicing a mongrel homoeopathy from an ignoble 
greed of gain, is entirely unjust and without foundation. In 
their reply, which has never been contradicted by Hahnemann 
or his strict adherents, they could well say: "There is no homoe- 
opathic physician here who ever allowed his patient to choose 
whether he would be treated according to the homoeopathic or 
allopathic system. The inventor of this fable must be looked 
upon as a slanderer until he can give public proof of at least one 
case of this sort. The healing art makes use of the natural sci- 
ences so far as they are of use. Man may, one day, have a 
perfect art of healing, when our knowledge of nature is com- 
plete, and natural laws are better understood than at present. 
Until then the science and the art of healing must be imperfect. 
Not one of the various medical systems of the day is the only 
true one; even the homoeopathic system, which we regard as 
relatively the best, fails to be entirely sufficient in individual 
cases. In such cases we have the right to choose such treatment 
as may, with good reason, be considered reliable. Science, being 
free, cannot be strengthened by personal anathema." 
Time has shown the entire justice of these propositions. 78 
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Among the most ardent admirers of Hahnemann there would 
scarcely be found one who would oppose them. Even at the 
present time it would scarcely seem as if any other form of opin- 
ion could ever have obtained; at least opposition will not take 
the form of intolerance or persecution. Opinionum commenta 
delet dies. 
At the appointed time, and in spite of these interruptions, on 
the 21st of January, 1833, the homoeopathic hospital was opened 
in a house in the Friedrichstrasse (Frederick Street), bought 
and arranged for the purpose. The attendance of homoeopathic 
physicians was small, a large number of them having, since the 
opposition of Hahnemann, withdrawn their interest from the 
institution. Under the circumstances it might have appeared 
judicious to delay the opening of the hospital or to give it up 
entirely; but then the whole of the fund would have been lost, 
as house and furniture cost more than the amount of capital. 
Besides, homoeopathy would have been sorely disgraced, as the 
time of opening had been publicly announced, and was looked 
forward to with great eagerness by friends and foes, although, of 
course, with very different motives. The men upon whom cir- 
cumstances forced the control of the hospital against their will, 
had reason to know that they would have to encounter almost 
insuperable obstacles, but they did not falter, and devoted their 
labors to the cause. They showed that they were in the habit 
of thinking and dealing honorably, and deserve appreciation and 
thanks, not hostility and abuse. 
In spite of these unlucky auspices the institution held its own, 
and soon showed signs of wonderful vitality. There was no 
dearth of patients or medical visitors at the hours for prescrib- 
ing and at the lectures. Neither were the results of treatment 
unfavorable, although, of course, they did not answer the expec- 
tation of visionary enthusiasts. They were in no way inferior 
to the results in the best conditioned allopathic hospitals, and 
demonstrated positively that the homoeopathic system was able 
to cure diseases, a fact which it was at that time still necessary 
to prove. It must be considered that in a private institution of 
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patients must needs be imperfect. Besides, on account of internal 
dissensions, there were frequent changes of the physician in 
charge, and sometimes an unfortunate choice was made (as in the 
case of Fickel). Under these conditions it cannot be denied that 
the institution yielded absolutely good therapeutic results, better 
than could have been expected under the circumstances. 
That the appearance of a large crowd of patients and physi- 
cians during the first opening was not the result of curiosity or 
a matter of fashion, is shown by the fact that after the first 
term the hospital was most crowded during the last two years 
of its existence. In fact, at this time the institution, being 
under the control of Dr. Noack, was visibly becoming very pop- 
ular again, and it is much to be regretted that it was necessary 
to close it just then on account of pecuniary difficulties. 
The following table of the results of treatment will confirm 
the truth of our statements. 
From January 24th, 1833, until June 30th, 1842, the number 
of patients admitted was 970, in the following order: 
1833 
1834 
1835 
1836 
1837 
1838 
1839 
1840 
1841 
1842 
970 
118 
114 
84 
110 
96 
90 
80 
119 
122 
37 
Entered. 
593 
tOXX^O^Oi^^^l 
Citred. 
157 
20 
26 
22 
25 
22 
10 
11 
5 
8 
8 
Relieved. 
CO 
|_1 H-x >-1 tO 
Ci Qi H-A to O to CD 
Not cured. 
00 
X 
-7 to -7 o O CO Cn S Ut 14- 
Died. 
to 
H-'I-'OCOOOOC>O 
Brought in 
dying. 
to 
-7 -I o o o o o o 
Transferred 
to Dispensary. 
Ox 
tOtCtOH-iOOCOOO 
* 
Discharged. 
* Discharged at close of hospital. 80 
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Cured, 61^ per cent.; relieved, 16£f per cent.; died, 9/7 
per cent. 
Moreover 4224 patients were treated at the dispensary, lo- 
cated in the same building and open for certain hours each day. 
COCOQOCOCOGOGOGOCOCO 
^J^^OOCOOOCOOOCOCO 
LO - O O GO -I O O< 4^ CO 
4224 
1086 . 
336 
192 
205 
303 
222 
174 
629 
394 
381 
Entered. 
1730 
159 
145 
40 
70 
144 
99 
84 
375 
190 
208 
Cured. 
996 
420 
145 
90 
109 
71 
65 
7 
16 
33 
10 
Improved. 
397 
183 
77 
25 
21 
21 
25 
6 
2 
7 
3 
Not cured. 
on 
17 
7 
9 
5 
10 
10 
1 
20 
18 
13 
Died. 
CO 
r-i O 
Brought in 
dying. 
tO 
• • to 
Deaths from 
Congenital 
Diseases. 
- 
... 
4 
18 
18 
7 
Transferred 
to Hospital. 
886 
108 
102 
36 
29 
56 
42 
47 
129 
161 
104 
Remained 
absent. 
Cured, 40fy per cent.; improved, 224per cent.; died, 
2§|| per cent. 
The favorable results of treatment would be still more evident 
if it were possible to describe more thoroughly the nature of the 
various diseases, their duration and accompanying circumstances, 
in fact all those conditions which should always be regarded in 
comparing the results of treatment in different hospitals and their 
statistical comparison. As it is, I can only refer to the book of 
Dr. W. Seidel, formerly assistant physician at the hospital, as 
giving all the necessary details. [History of the Homoeopathic 
Hospital in Leipsic and of all the Cases there Treated, with a 
Statement of the Remedies given and the Residts. Grimma, 
1840.] 
Not less encouraging, in fact quite astonishing, has been the 
favorable condition of the financial management of the hospital. 
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the hospital was supported for a longer period than was originally 
intended or could be hoped for. At the beginning it was calcu- 
lated that the capital would be sufficient to maintain the hospital 
for three years; but although the hostile attitude of Hahnemann 
and his personal adherents caused a great shrinkage and some- 
times a complete cessation of contributions, even before the open- 
ing of the institution, still it maintained itself not only for 
three but for nearly ten years; and one-third of its capital was 
still left at the time of its closure, or rather when it was trans- 
formed into the dispensary. Thus the establishment of the 
hospital and its maintenance for nearly ten years only consumed 
two-thirds of the capital, about 2700 thalers. Beginning in the 
year 1837, the Saxon Government granted annually the sum of 
300 thalers. This was the only assistance the institution received 
from a public source, although it had to suffer much from the 
hostile attacks of medical societies and faculties and all enemies 
of homoeopathy. 
The preparation and furnishing of the hospital, the cost of its 
maintenance, of the care and nourishment of the patients, the 
pay of the nurses and officials, in fact all expenses of every kind 
were met by the sum of 16,856 thalers, 27 groschen. This 
amount was obtained partly from the original capital, partly 
from voluntary contributions, from sums received from paying 
patients, and from the 300 thalers allowed by the Government 
from 1837. After the closure of the hospital and the sale of its 
effects, there remained in possession of the Central Society the 
sum of 2519 thalers, 1 groschen, 9 kreuzer. The average cost 
per day of a patient was 4 groschen 5.7 kreuzer, and for house 
physician and attendants 5 groschen 7.17 kreuzer. The average 
number of patients during the last year, when the period of 
closure was close at hand, was 10.5. The largest number of pa- 
tients at that period was 17, the smallest number 4. 
From all this it appears that the Leipsic Homoeopathic Hos- 
pital, in spite of its unfavorable financial position, maintained 
itself for ten years; that is, for seven years longer than was in- 
tended, and this, too, without consuming more than two-thirds 
of its capital. It demonstrated that disease could be treated sue- 82 
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cessfully according to the homoeopathic system, and its results 
compare favorably with those of any other method of treatment 
or of any other hospital, even though it was more favorably cir- 
cumstanced. And thus it has well accomplished the purpose for 
which it was intended. Of its value as an institution for the 
instruction of physicians in homoeopathy we will speak below. 
It cannot be denied that the sanguine expectation of the 
friends of homoeopathy, in that period of its youth, were disap- 
pointed by various disturbing incidents, especially by mistakes 
made in the selection of directors of the hospital. Still, even at 
its worst it was able to compare favorably with any institution 
of its kind. Those were disappointed who expected more than 
successful cures and satisfactory instruction; who looked for a 
celebrity and brilliancy that would at once obscure all other 
institutions. But if we take the testimony of the sick poor of 
Leipsic and its suburbs, and of the homoeopathic physicians who 
there got instruction, we shall find that the hospital deserved the 
highest praise. 
At the present time homoeopathy enjoys equal rights with 
other schools, and in nearly all parts of the world it is practiced 
by successful and honored physicians, its periodical literature is 
extensive, and it is represented by many prosperous and well- 
endowed institutions. Under these conditions it is difficult to 
appreciate the troubles and embarrassments of homoeopathy in 
its early days; the isolation and persecution to which its repre- 
sentatives were exposed, not to speak of hostilities in their own 
camp. But these points must be understood in order to fully 
appreciate the merits of the Leipsic hospital, which, in its 
courageous struggle with overpowering obstacles, and its final, 
surely not dishonorable, fall, contributed directly and indirectly 
to the present favorable condition of homoeopathy. Time, that 
always impartial judge of all human actions, has long since im- 
posed silence upon those who only lavished invective and abuse 
upon the founders and directors of the institution. Those alone 
should be blamed who, from want of courage and perseverance, 
did not insist upon its continuance for the furtherance of the 
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At the thirteenth meeting of the Central Society, at Dessau, 
in 1841, at the instance of the members from Leipsic, it was 
resolved to discontinue the hospital the following year on ac- 
count of want of funds, but to continue to support the dispensary. 
This resolution was carried out on the 30th of June, 1842, the 
State government and city authorities permitting its prospective 
reopening "under favorable circumstances." The government 
also transferred to the dispensary the annual donation of 300 
thalers which had been granted to the hospital. 
As Dr. Noack, the director of the hospital at that time, was 
about to leave Leipsic to settle in Lyons, Dr. Hartmann took 
charge of the dispensary, on July 1st, 1842, and selected me as 
his assistant. From that time until the present, a period of 
thirty-three years, I have been continuously in active duty at 
this institution; until 1847 as Hartmann's assistant; then, on 
account of his illness and subsequent death, as chief physician, 
assisted by his son, Dr. Al. Hartmann, Jr. In 1850 Dr. V. 
Meyer was associated with me in the direction, and after his 
death, in 1872, Dr. Lorbacher took his place. During this long 
period my existence and that of the dispensary have been so 
intimately connected, that to give an account of its activity is 
like turning over the pages of the history of my own life. It 
is not without emotion and grief that I look back upon this long 
series of years, for first of all comes the remembrance of those 
two dear associates who gave me their advice and assistance in 
professional matters, and always stood by my side as true friends 
through ill and good fortune. 
But it is also with pride and satisfaction that I survey this long 
period of my activity, when my memory recalls the numbers who 
visited the institution and there laid the foundation of their 
homoeopathic studies; who expanded the boundaries of their 
knowledge, and attained firm faith in the doctrine of Hahne- 
mann. Such names as Buxton, Gruber, Lorbacher, Anstensen, 
Sybel, Franke, Harms, Reichenbach, Kallenbach, von der Hey- 
den, Petersen, Norens, Scherzer,Wilcox, Pearce, Hammerschmidt, 
Kammerer, Schubiger, van Royen, Nothlichs, Ankers, O'Fla- 
herty, etc., give me the right to say that as long as I may live 84 
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I shall be proud that my labors have helped to win for our school 
such worthy and capable representatives. 
As before mentioned, Dr. Hartmann, on July 1st, 1842, opened 
the Homoeopathic Dispensary, the hospital having been closed 
the day before; or rather he initiated the continuation of the 
dispensary which had been a part of the hospital. For the next 
two months it was continued in the former hospital building, 
being open every week-day afternoon at 4. 69 patients were 
transferred from the old dispensary, but of that number only 
25 continued treatment. In fact, the number of patients re- 
mained very small for a time, and was restricted mostly to in- 
habitants of the immediate neighborhood. The closing of the 
hospital led to many unfavorable reports about our system, and 
it became a matter of general belief that homoeopathic treatment 
of the poor had come to an end. 
Thus the institution had to begin its career anew. By means 
of public notices, and the spreading fame of successful cures, 
new cases soon began to come in from the other suburbs, the city 
proper, as well as from neighboring villages. During the thir- 
teen months from July 1st, 1842, to August 1st, 1843, 428 pa- 
tients had been received-all but 57 of these belonging in Leipsic. 
At the end of September, 1843, the dispensary was transferred 
to the city proper, in University Street. Again, in 1858, on 
account of street improvements, it was removed to No. 27 New 
Market, where it has remained to the present day. The number 
of patients now continues to increase slowly but steadily, so that 
at the end of twenty-six years the number of admissions has 
increased eightfold. This progress has continued to the present 
time, and the number of cases admitted is as numerous as the 
resources of the institution will allow. During the last twenty 
years the Leipsic Allopathic University has established a number 
of dispensaries, general as well as for specialties, such as diseases 
of women and children, diseases of the skin, eyes, ears and 
throat, but this rivalry has not injured our institution in the least. 
This increasing popularity of the dispensary shows that it has 
gained the confidence of the population of Leipsic and its suburbs. 
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that it was not the charm of novelty or temporary caprice that 
attracted patients, but that the general public had become imbued 
with a firm confidence in the homoeopathic method of treatment. 
Its reputation for successful cures has spread rapidly among the 
villages that surround Leipsic, and, without any solicitation on 
our part, the railroads having their termini in Leipsic have for 
years granted free passes to those of the poor who could show 
their cards of admission to our dispensary. 
The yearly increase in the number of admissions will be most 
easily understood by a perusal of the following table: 
Received. 
From 
the city. 
From 
the suburbs. 
Received. 
From 
the city. 
From 
the suburbs. 
1842 
418 
371 
57 
1859 
1874 
953 
921 
1843 
568 
422 
146 
1860 
1745 
648 
1097 
1844 
660 
473 
187 
1861 
2092 
917 
1175 
1845 
669 
476 
193 
1862 
2486 
1068 
1418 
1846 
671 
477 
194 
1863 
2478 
1060 
1418 
1847 
719 
483 
236 
1864 
2387 
1015 
1372 
1848 
892 
530 
362 
1865 
2597 
871 
1726 
1849 
996 
563 
433 
1866 
2740 
1287 
1453 
1850 
1091 
555 
541 
1867 
2979 
1444 
1535 
1851 
1184 
666 
518 
1868 
3471 
1257 
2214 
1852 
1614 
844 
770 
1869 
3396 
1292 
2104 
1853 
1702 
937 
765 
1870 
3253 
1230 
2023 
1854 
1869 
1077 
792 
1871 
3207 
1457 
1750 
1855 
2167 
1097 
1070 
1872 
3105 
1351 
1754 
1856 
2445 
1204 
1241 
1873 
3012 
1053 
1959 
1857 
1932 
1000 
932 
1874 
2813 
1254 
1559 
1858 
1864 
941 
923 
The whole number of patients treated during the thirty-three 
years' existence of the dispensary, from July 1st, 1842, to De- 
cember 31st, 1874, was 65,106. Adding to this the number of 
those previously received at the hospital, 970, and those treated 
at the original dispensary, 4224, then the total amounts to 
70,300. Of the 65,106 admitted at the dispensary, 30,223 were 86 
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inhabitants of Leipsic, and 34,873 came from the suburbs. The 
percentage of the latter class was 13/^ in 1842, and 55||ff 
in 1874, showing a decided increase. 
It will be remarked that there was a great decrease in the num- 
ber of admissions from 1857 to 1860, from 2445 in 1856 to 1745 
in 1860. This circumstance can only be attributed to the cru- 
sade against homoeopathy begun by Prof. Bock, of Leipsic, at 
this time. It is well known that, in the spring of 1855, he pub- 
lished in public non-medical newspapers a challenge, addressed 
personally to me, proposing to demonstrate the entire nullity ofall 
homoeopathic provings of medicines, and offered his own person 
as the subject of the reprovings to be instituted. It is well 
known that this challenge was promptly accepted by our side, 
and then indirectly withdrawn by Prof. Bock when he learned 
that he was mistaken in the idea that all homoeopathic provings 
were made with globules of the 30th potency. This little skir- 
mish had no evil effect upon the progress of homoeopathy in Leip- 
sic, or upon the success of the dispensary. In fact at this very 
time there was an increase in the number of admissions from 
1869 in the year 1854, to 2445 in 1856, an increase of about a 
third. 
But Prof. Bock, exasperated at the failure of his first attack, 
which was to annihilate homoeopathy, commenced the publication 
of a long series of abusive articles against our system in a popu- 
lar periodical journal called Die Gartenlaube (The Arbor). 
This is by far the most popular journal in Germany, having a 
circulation of 200,000, and is the especial favorite of the middle 
and working classes, the same who are the principal patrons of 
the dispensary. The editors of the G-artenlaube refused to admit 
any reply to the sometimes personal and libellous attacks of 
Bock, on the ground that their journal was not the proper one 
for the discussion of medical quarrels. It is no wonder, there- 
fore, that the popular style of this writer and the wide distribu- 
tion of the journal had a temporary effect upon the opinions of 
the masses towards homoeopathy, and especially towards the dis- 
pensary. But that this was only temporary is shown by the 
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the number of 2092, and in 1862 to 2486, and that after this 
the increase was gradual and steady. 
This episode has merely been mentioned as a matter of his- 
tory. I have no desire to indulge in personal invective against 
Prof. Bock. The passionate and persistent attacks of this the 
most violent of the enemies of homoeopathy have long since been 
forgotten, and the only result of the personalities directed against 
me has been a feeling of regret that a man, otherwise honorable 
and open-hearted, and once a personal friend, should allow him- 
self to be so led astray by misapprehension and passion. It is 
well known that disputes among men of science are always the 
most bitter and unrelenting, but that the Gavtenlaube should 
persist for years in its persecution of homoeopathy in general 
and myself in particular without permitting any reply, is most 
amazing. In America, especially, the land of the free press, 
this action must appear very strange. 
The following data are submitted as to the sex and age of the 
65,106 patients: 
Males, 32.289 
Females, .... 32,817 
Men, 25,143 
Boys, under 15, . . 7,146 
Women, .... 22,455 
Girls, under 15, . . 10,362 
Adults, 47,598 
Children, .... 17,508 
Percentage, 
Men, 38-^5 
Women,. . . . 34|fm 
Boys, 10fi|^ 
Girls, 15j|fof 
Males, .... 49 
Females,. . . . 
Adults, .... 
Children, . . . 26f9622 
As is usual in all dispensaries, the number of chronic cases far 
exceeds that of the acute,-the number of the latter being 22,363, 
or 341 IM® per cent., while that of the chronic cases was 42,743, 
or 65||f5| per cent. 
This excess of chronic diseases naturally influenced the results 
of the treatment. It is found by experience that the cure of 
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the reason that they usually depend upon organic defects and 
degenerations. Even in the most favorable of such cases, the 
best we can often do is to obtain only a relatively favorable re- 
sult. Troublesome symptoms may be removed for a time, but 
the organic lesion remains and there is a tendency to relapses. 
Such cases cannot be claimed as cures, but must be classified 
under the head of "Improved," although it is in just such cases 
that homoeopathic treatment often gains great credit for the 
amount of relief given. 
In another class of chronic diseases a temporary alleviation 
is all that is possible; the nature of the diseases leads inevi- 
tably to a fatal termination, and the cases are classed under the 
head of "Deaths," unless they prefer to seek health elsewhere, 
and then they appear under the head of "Remained Absent" or 
" Went under other Treatment." 
The greater the number of chronic cases the more unfavor- 
able will the percentage of cures appear. Although the relative 
number of deaths may be small, occurring, after all, mostly 
among the acute cases, the number of those "Improved," or 
"Remained Absent," will increase. In fact, this latter class is a 
great source of error in the statistics of all dispensaries, at least 
one-half not returning after the first visit. Undoubtedly a large 
number of these were cured or improved, but it is impossible to 
establish the fact. Sometimes such patients subsequently re- 
visit the dispensary for some other disease, and then report the 
favorable result of the previous prescription. But it is then too 
late to make any correction, as the annual report has been already 
made up and published. Thus the unpardonable carelessness 
and ingratitude of patients makes the result of treatment appear 
more unfavorable than it should be. The result of the experi- 
ence of many years leads to the conclusion that at least one-half 
of those remaining absent should be classified among those cured 
or at least relieved. 
In spite of these unfortunate circumstances, the results of our 
treatment will not appear unfavorable. 
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The percentage of cures is therefore 40$ 2353 ; of improvements, 
IM353 i of both together, 52|||||. 
Of the other 31,028, 29,489 absented themselves (the result 
being unknown); 988 left the city or went under other treat- 
ment; 271 died, and 280 remained under treatment on Decem- 
ber 31st, 1874. 
The percentage of those remaining absent is 45g92656553 ; of those 
leaving town, and of the deaths, O|fgf^, that is, less 
than one-half per cent. 
The deaths occurred mostly in cases of acute disease, and es- 
pecially among infants with catarrh of the stomach and bowels 
caused by improper nourishment and artificial feeding. The 
other causes of death among children were pneumonia, bron- 
chitis and croup; and among adults, typhoid, cholera, organic 
disease of the heart and lungs, carcinoma and tuberculosis. 
It is a rule of the dispensary only to receive and treat such 
patients as are able to appear in person. But often domiciliary 
visits had to be made on patients who had been received and 
subsequently confined to their beds by an aggravation or by 
some new disease, and who desired a continuance of our treat- 
ment. Among this class of patients 4000 visits were made, 
mostly in the city, but in part in the neighboring villages. 
The number of prescriptions made daily can only be given 
approximatively. The 30 per cent, of the patients who appeared 
but once, received, of course, but one prescription each. But the 
other 70 percent, who continued under treatment, returned every 
two, four, seven, fourteen, or twenty-eight days, according to the 
nature of the case, until their discharge. 
The number of daily visitors is therefore very irregular, vary- 
ing from 25 or 30 up to 80 or 90 daily. Allowing an average 
of 40 to 50 patients each day, and excluding Sundays and holi- 
days, the number of prescriptions made during the year would 
amount to 12,000 to 15,000. 
This report has, so far, given a thorough history of the thera- 
peutic results of the dispensary. It remains to show whether, 
as an institution for the instruction of homoeopathic physicians, it 
has served its purpose. When the hospital was opened, its first 90 
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duty was to demonstrate the fact that homoeopathic treatment 
could cure disease tuto, cito, et jucunde. On this point every 
doubt was soon removed for all who were willing to see and 
were susceptible to conviction. As an institution for instruction 
in therapeutics, a regular hospital is, no doubt, the most satis- 
factory, and in this respect our hospital, during its existence 
from 1833 to 1842, was successful in spite of many obstacles. 
Clinical instruction and lectures were given, not by professional 
lecturers with whom the business of this life was teaching, but 
by practitioners who were compelled to steal the time from their 
regular duties. The number of those attending lectures from 
1833 to 1842 was over 460. A large proportion were attracted 
by curiosity, or were hostile to our system but desired to take 
one look at our operations. Still many enthusiastic students at- 
tended regularly, received thorough instruction, and left the in- 
stitution capable representatives of our system. Among those 
attending this early course were Sommer, Merz, Zbllner, Hein- 
richsen, Dorner, Hofrichter, Feyersbend, Drysdale, Russell, 
Zopyi, Longhi, Porro, etc., all of recognized ability and success. 
After the closure of the hospital, it was intended that instruc- 
tion to those interested in homoeopathy should be continued in the 
dispensary. A great obstacle to clinical teaching in such an insti- 
tution is the changeable and unreliable character of its patients. 
A thorough examination of patients is made at their first visit and 
the proper remedy is carefully selected. But all this trouble is 
often for nothing, because very often the patients never present 
themselves again. Butin spite of these obstacles, the physicians 
of the dispensary have done their best to make the most of the ma- 
terial presented, its quantity making amends for its uncertainty. 
In fact, the dispensary was visited by quite a considerable num- 
ber of incipient homoeopathists, who made use of their oppor- 
tunities to undertake a more or less thorough study of our sys- 
tem. During thirty-three years, the number of regular visitors, 
exclusive of those who only came occasionally, was 109, many 
of them making regular daily visits during one or more terms. 
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the law of similars, and also to follow the course of the disease 
and the final result of treatment. Special efforts were made to 
influence those whose faith in homoeopathy was still faltering, 
by showing cases where the choice of the proper remedy and its 
prompt curative effect could not be doubted. A number of lec- 
tures were also given by Dr. Meyer and myself upon special 
diseases and the characteristics of certain remedies. In 1846, a 
very enthusiastic student was at his own request submitted to 
a thorough examination of his attainments in the presence of 
the other homoeopathic physicians of Leipsic, and was granted a 
private certificate of his success. 
A detailed report of the dispensary was also published annually 
by Dr. Hartmann, Dr. Meyer, or myself, giving the number of 
patients and their treatment in tabular form. To this there 
were added treatises on certain diseases and their treatment, such 
as intermittent fevers, hooping-cough, cutaneous diseases, diseases 
of the eye, venereal diseases, etc. 
Thus the existing material was utilized as much as possible to 
supply the want of an institution for instruction in homoeopathy 
for Leipsic and Northern Germany. If the dispensary has not 
thoroughly fulfilled its mission, those will gladly make allow- 
ances for its shortcomings who are aware of the many obstacles 
to its success. Still it cannot be denied that it is an important 
link in the chain that the progress and development of homoe- 
opathy has wound about mankind, and it need not fear compari- 
son with similar institutions. 
At the present time the signs for the future of homoeopathy 
are more auspicious, and its power of future development is 
much greater. But this is no reason for looking down upon our 
first humble school and the first united efforts of the earliest 
advocates of our system. As for myself, I can never look back 
without pleasure and pride to those times when it was permitted 
me to instil affection and faith into the disciples of homoeopathy, 
and to make them more familiar with its blessings. I can only 
look back with satisfaction to the many years I have spent in 
connection with the institution, and believe that the Leipsic Ho- 
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has done more for homoeopathy than seemed possible to me and 
to others in our days of doubt and discouragement. 
At the present time homoeopathy has become more extensively 
adopted and developed in all parts of the world. In America, 
especially, large and well-founded institutions are devoted to it. 
Still, I am convinced that the Liepsic dispensary will always be 
admitted to have taken an important part in the history of the 
development of homoeopathy. In all storms it has truly and 
faithfully remained at its post and carried on high the banner 
of our system. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL 
REPORT 
OF 
HOMCEOPATHY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND 
IRELAND. 
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE BRITISH 
HOMCEOPATHIC SOCIETY. CONTENTS. 
Part I. The History and Statistics of the Introduction, 
Growth, and Representation of Homoeopathy 
in Great Britain and Ireland, . . . . C. B. Kerr, M.D. 
Part II. The Descriptive History of British and Irish 
Homoeopathic Societies, including Hospitals, 
Dispensaries, Schools, etc., Herbert Nankivell, M.D. 
Part III. History of Homoeopathic Literature in Great 
Britain, Richard Hughes, M.D. 
Part IV. Report on the History and Details of British Leg- 
islation affecting Practitioners of Homoeopa- 
thy, whether by the Government or by Cor- 
porations, Alfred C. Pope, M.D. 
Part V. A Statement of Existing Means, in Great Britain 
and Ireland, for the Education of Young Physi- 
cians in the Science and Practice of Homoeopa- 
thy William Bayes, M.D. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT OF HO- 
MOEOPATHY IN GREAT BRITAIN 
AND IRELAND. 
PART I. 
History and Statistics of the Introduction, Growth 
and Representation of Homoeopathy in 
Great Britain and Ireland. 
C. B. Kerr, Esq., M.D., Cheltenham. 
Though Hahnemann published his Organon of Medicine so 
far back as 1810, it was not till 1826 that any professional 
notice was taken of homoeopathy in this country. In that year, 
at a meeting of the Medical Society of London, the subject was 
introduced, and two of the members urged that it was one which 
should be inquired into. A large majority of the Society, how- 
ever, voted otherwise, and so the question dropped. Attempts 
have been made more than once to induce the Society to allow 
their minutes to be examined for the purpose of ascertaining the 
particulars of this first discussion of the merits of homoeopathy, 
but unsuccessfully. 
In the following year, 1827, there came to London, in the 
suite of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, as his physician, Dr. 
Quin. He had studied homoeopathy in Germany and had prac- 
ticed it in Naples, and had become convinced of its superiority 
to the lawless and empirical medicine of the time. He it was 
who introduced the practice of homoeopathy into England. To 
him is due the distinction of having made us here in these 
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of the doctrine of similars. It has been said that Dr. Belluomini 
was the first to practice homoeopathy in this country. It has 
also been claimed for Dr. Romani and Dr. Taglianini, two phy- 
sicians introduced into London by the late Earl of Shrewsbury, 
that they were the first to do so. But an examination of dates 
shows that those three physicians were not in England so early 
as 1827. Whatever credit, therefore, is due to them for having 
so early practiced the new system, they must not deprive Dr. 
Quin of the honor of being the first of the pioneers of homoe- 
opathy. 
Till 1833 no public notice was taken of Dr. Quin or his prac- 
tice, but then his success was so great as to attract the attention 
of the College of Physicians. In the mistaken belief that their 
power was equal to the occasion, they addressed a note to him 
couched in the following terms: " We, the Censors of the Royal 
College of Physicians, London, having received information that 
you are practicing physic within the City of London and seven 
miles of the same, do hereby admonish you to desist from so 
doing, until you have been duly examined and licensed thereto, 
under the common seal of the said College, otherwise it will be 
the duty of the said College to proceed against you for the recov- 
ery of the penalties thereby incurred. The Board for examining 
persons who have the requisite qualification, is holden at the Col- 
lege on the first Friday in every month." 
This note, of date January 4th, 1833, was signed by the Cen- 
sors. No reply being vouchsafed to it by Dr. Quin, a second 
was dispatched to him on February 1st, and to this effect: " Sir: 
I am desired by the Censors of the Royal College of Physicians 
to express their surprise that they have received no answer to 
their letter of January 4th, admonishing you to desist from prac- 
ticing physic until you have been duly examined. The Censors' 
Board meets for the purpose of examinations on the first Friday 
of every month. I am, Sir, your obedient servant," etc. 
To this second note Dr. Quin sent the following reply : " Feb- 
ruary 3d, 1833. Sir: Your letter of the 1st current was only 
delivered to me yesterday, and I hasten to beg that you will lay 
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out of no disrespect to them that I did not answer their com- 
munication of January 4th. ultimo, but because I did not con- 
ceive that a document of the nature sent to me required an an- 
swer. I have now the honor to acknowledge its receipt, as well 
as that of your letter containing a repetition of the information 
conveyed to me in your communication. I have the honor to 
be, etc., Frederic F. Quin." 
This letter was not replied to by the College of Physicians. 
Dr. Quin was proceeded against for no penalties, and received 
no more admonishments. One of the Censors advised the Col- 
lege to let Dr. Quin alone, as the term of homoeopathy's existence 
could not be prolonged beyond two years. So ended the first 
attack on homoeopathy. It proved the first of a series. From 
that day to this, with little intermission, the battle has raged 
between the two schools, a battle which, considering the ine- 
quality of the forces, must have long ago terminated in favor of 
the larger army had it not been that Truth and Fact allied them- 
selves to the smaller one and fought as only truth and fact can 
do. It must be granted, also, that our adversaries were heavily 
handicapped. They had no faith to fight for and had no con- 
fidence in their own cause. Their leaders had often condemned 
the prevailing therapeutics in strong language, and yet it was an 
attempt to improve therapeutics that roused all their combative- 
ness. 
A history of the introduction and growth of homoeopathy in 
these islands would be incomplete without something more than 
a passing notice of the opposition it has met with. That oppo- 
sition has come from individuals, from the press, from societies, 
from colleges, and from coroners' courts. 
The second attack made against homoeopathy was in Edin- 
burgh, and a fierce one it proved to be. It led to a contest 
which lasted many years, excited partly by the success in private 
and dispensary practice of Dr. Black and Dr. Bussell, but chiefly 
by the conversion to the new faith of Dr. Henderson, the Pro- 
fessor of Pathology in the University. This conversion took 
place in 1844 and roused to the uttermost the amazement and 
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An attempt was immediately made to deprive him of his Chair; 
an attempt which happily failed. Another attempt was but too 
successful and that was to deprive him of his hospital appoint- 
ment and clinical professorship. The attempt to deprive him of 
his Chair took the form of a petition from one of his colleagues, 
the well-known surgeon, Syme, to the Patrons of the University, 
the Edinburgh Town Council. Homoeopathy, Syme said, is op- 
posed to and inconsistent with the principles which the medical 
faculty have been appointed to teach; attendance, therefore, on 
Dr. Henderson's lectures is a serious obstacle to medical gradua- 
tion, and a homoeopathic professor causes distrust of the medical 
teaching of the University. The prayer of this petition was re- 
fused, and chiefly because no complaint was made against Hen- 
derson's discharge of his professional duties. Syme, about the 
same time, at a meeting of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of 
Edinburgh, moved the following resolution: "that the public 
profession of homoeopathy shall be held to disqualify for being 
admitted or remaining a member." The resolution was carried, 
and Henderson expelled from the Society. The Council of the 
London College of Surgeons acted with more discretion. Their 
resolve was to the effect " that it is not expedient for the College 
to interfere in the matter" of homoeopathy. The Edinburgh 
University Faculty of Medicine passed resolutions about the 
same time which were of the same character as the memorial sent 
to the University Patrons by Professor Syme. The Edinburgh 
College of Physicians refused its Fellowship to Dr. Black simply 
on the ground of his practice being homoeopathic. Much was 
done and much was written in the same spirit, a fuller report of 
which than can be given here will be found in the chapter on 
the history of British homoeopathic literature. 
The next event in the controversy between the two schools 
was the publication, in January, 1846, of Sir John Forbes's cele- 
brated article in the British and Foreign Medical Review. It fell 
like a bombshell upon the medical body. It startled and hu- 
miliated them. It for the first time opened their eyes to the fact 
that there was something to be said for the new medical heresy 
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was so bad that it could scarcely be worse. How was this article 
received ? By a roar of indignation which was echoed and re- 
echoed through England, Scotland and Ireland. It is said, and 
probably with truth, that before the issue of the next number of 
the Review, fourteen hundred subscribers withdrew their names 
from the list of purchasers. And yet Sir John Forbes had con- 
demned homoeopathy in strong language. What, then, was the 
meaning of this indignation? It was simply this,-that the doc- 
trine of similars was treated as one which deserved and demanded 
examination; that its advocates were treated as brethren, though 
mistaken ones, and their statistics considered genuine; and, chiefly, 
that they were asked to believe, first,-" that in a large proportion 
of the cases treated by allopathic physicians, the disease is cured 
by nature, and not by them: secondly, that in a lesser, but still 
not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature, in spite of 
them ; in other words, their interference opposing, instead of as- 
sisting the cure: thirdly, that, consequently, in a considerable 
proportion of diseases, it would fare as well, or better, with pa- 
tients, in the actual condition of the medical art, as more gen- 
erally practiced, if all remedies, at least all active remedies, espe- 
cially drugs, were abandoned." Sir John Forbes suffered much 
for his honesty, and felt himself obliged to resign the editorship 
of the quarterly journal he had so long and ably conducted. 
A still more decided measure was taken to check the advance 
of homoeopathy shortly afterwards by the Edinburgh Univer- 
sity. Mr. Pope who was known to have been studying the new 
medical doctrine presented himself for examination to the Board 
of Examiners. On the termination of this examination, which 
was allowed to be satisfactory except on one subject, he was asked 
whether he intended to practice homoeopathically. On replying 
that it was his intention to study homoeopathy, the question was 
put to him,-Will you burn or return your diploma if you be- 
come convinced of its truth ? The reply being in the negative 
Syme said that he could not see how a man could call himself a 
graduate of a university which repudiated him. On the next day 
an extraordinary meeting of the Faculty took place to consider 
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municated to him by Professor Miller. He was told that he 
would be examined again a few months later if they knew how 
he intended prescribing Nux vomica, in two-grain doses or in the 
decillionth of a grain. You know quite well, he was told, 
that we grant degrees here licensing to practice that system of 
medicine which is at present established, and therefore we must 
know whether you intend to do so before you can graduate; thus 
ignoring the fact that a diploma is a certificate of knowledge 
merely, notone showing that certain articles have been subscribed 
to as a confession of faith. So far from this conduct on the part 
of the Edinburgh University receiving the condemnation it de- 
served in the medical world, it was approved and applauded. 
The Universities of St. Andrews and Aberdeen resolved on fol- 
lowing the example shown them, and, not long afterward, refused 
the diploma to students who had passed their examinations on the 
score of their being homoeopathists. Mr. Pope refusing to bind 
himself not to examine and not to practice homoeopathy, was 
obliged to leave Edinburgh without his degree. In the following 
year, however, at the request of the " Association for the Protec- 
tion of Homoeopathic Students and Practitioners," an association 
which had been called into existence chiefly by the treatment he 
had been subjected to, Mr. Pope received without examination the 
diploma of the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania, an act 
of kindness and liberality on the part of that college which was 
deeply felt and acknowledged in England, not only by the 
then small body of homoeopathists but by all sticklers for and 
maintainers of freedom of opinion, especially on questions of 
science. 
But the chief approvers of the short-sighted tyranny of the 
Edinburgh University werq the members of a representative 
medical body in England, the " Provincial Medical and Surgical 
Association." Its meeting at Brighton in August, 1851, proved 
to be an era in the history of the conflict between the two bodies. 
They did that in cold blood and after due deliberation which at 
Edinburgh was done on the spur of the moment, though one 
of the greatest of modern philosophers, Sir William Hamilton, 
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(< I see that the Medical Examiners have been publicly accused of 
rejecting a candidate, not for incompetence, but on the confessed 
ground that he was supposed favorable to a medical theory, rising 
dangerously in opinion, and notin unison with the medical theory 
of his examiners. On such a step, such an injustice, such an ab- 
surdity, the old sectional examiners would not have ventured. If 
the charge be well founded, an Edinburgh medical graduate may 
now be an ignorant, unable to spell his mother-tongue, but must 
not be a proficient, professing to think for himself. So certain 
also are now the opinions of a majority, touching the very prac- 
tice and in the very body where heretofore medical skepticism 
was always in proportion to medical wisdom 1 Our Gregorys and 
Thomsons-what would they now say to this ?" Though such 
an indignant protest had come from such a man, the Association 
moved a vote of thanks to the Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St. 
Andrews Universities for their "determined stand against homoe- 
opathic delusions and impostures?' But, not contented with ap- 
proving of steps taken to put down the said delusions, it passed 
some original resolutions having the same object in view, and to 
the following effect: 1st. "That it is the opinion of this Asso- 
ciation that homoeopathy, as propounded by Hahnemann and 
practiced by his followers, is so utterly opposed to science and 
common sense, as well as so completely at variance with the ex- 
perience of the medical profession, that it ought to be in no way 
or degree practiced or countenanced by any regularly-educated 
medical practitioner?' 2d and 3d. " That as homoeopathists have 
spoken contemptuously of medicine as regularly practiced, it is 
derogatory, to the honor of members of this Association to hold 
any kind of professional intercourse with them." 4th. " That 
real homoeopathic practitioners, those who practice homoeopathy 
in combination with other systems of treatment, and those who 
hold professional intercourse with homoeopathists ought not to 
be members of this Association." 
Not a word in these resolutions, it will be observed, to show 
that the practice of homoeopathy is inefficacious, not a word to 
show that those passing them had tested and found it want- 
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science. And yet they were passed unanimously by a body of 
three hundred medical men, and, still more, have influenced the 
conduct ever since of the great majority of the profession in this 
country.* It is not a little strange that one of the reasons given 
for excluding homoeopathists from the Society should be that they 
had spoken contemptuously of medicine as usually practiced. Was 
this a wilful ignoring or ignorance of the fact that such men of 
their own body as Sir John Forbes, Sir Astley Cooper, and Dr. 
Baillie had spoken more disparagingly and in more condemna- 
tory language of their practice than homoeopathists had done? 
Soon after Mr. Pope's rejection by the Edinburgh University 
a petition was presented to the Patrons, signed by 3337 advocates 
of homoeopathy, praying that they would interfere to prevent 
the establishment of a test-act by which medical students would 
be refused or granted a diploma according as their views were 
or were not in harmony with those of their examiners. The pe- 
tition showed "that the art of medicine, inasmuch as it is pro- 
gressive, and dependent to a great extent upon the advancement 
of the related sciences, is continually liable to change, so that 
the wisdom of one generation is the folly of the next, and that 
the endeavor to prevent its free growth in any direction is un- 
wise, and cannot but be injurious." The result was that the 
Patrons, feeling that they could not interfere in the matter, passed 
on the petition to the College Committee. The Committee refused 
also to interfere, and directed that it be "transmitted to the Prin- 
cipal of the University for the information of the Senatus Aca- 
demicus." No official utterance proceeded from that learned body, 
but the Patrons felt themselves authorized to declare to the pe- 
titioners that their prayer was granted, that that which caused 
their complaint had been done somewhat inadvertently, and that 
no student would henceforth find a barrier in the way of his ob- 
taining his degree whatever his notions regarding homoeopathy 
might be. In this rather undignified way did the medical faculty 
* It is right to be mentioned here that Dr. Conolly, the well-known Han- 
well physician, protested strongly against the action of the Provincial 
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of the University of Edinburgh get out of this difficulty. An 
apology was, perhaps, too much to expect from them, but it was 
due to themselves and to the University they represented to 
acknowledge that a false step had been taken and that it would 
not be taken again. But a gift horse must not be looked in the 
mouth. The petitioners gained their end. From that time no 
student has been treated as Mr. Pope was, and the Universities 
of Aberdeen and St. Andrews have followed the example of 
Edinburgh. 
Besides the incidents I have mentioned of the battle between 
the two schools, many others might be recorded illustrative of 
the bitter, persecuting spirit of the stronger party and the in- 
domitable courage of the smaller and weaker. A passing allu- 
sion to some of them may be made. In 1843 Mr. Newman was 
dismissed by the Poor Law Board from his post of surgeon to 
the Wells' Union because he treated the poor in his district 
homoeopathically, and this notwithstanding the approbation of 
the Guardians of his conduct and practice and their re-election 
of him to the office of their surgeon, and a petition of the poor 
under his care to the Pool' Law Commissioners for his continu- 
ance as their medical officer. This was the first time the govern- 
ment came into collision with homoeopathy. In 1855 a memo- 
rial was addressed to the War Office, very numerously signed by 
members of both Houses of Parliament, praying that a hospital 
be established near the Crimea, where war was then raging, so that 
such invalids as wished it might have the advantage of homoeo- 
pathic treatment. Lord Panmure, the War Minister, refused to 
grant the prayer of this memorial on the ground that the great 
principles of medical science must be proved to be erroneous and 
abandoned before government would consider itself justified in 
ceasing to be directed by its professors and teachers. In the 
same year occurred the rejection by the Board of Health, at the 
instigation of the College of Physicians, of the cholera returns 
of the London Homoeopathic Hospital. The Board had re- 
quested that all the hospitals in London should send in to them 
a report of the cholera cases admitted, of the treatment, and of 
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report of thirty-three cases treated within its walls, seven of 
which proved fatal. On the Board of Health's report being 
laid before Parliament it was discovered that the returns sent in 
by the Homoeopathic Hospital had been omitted, and, on an 
explanation being demanded of this omission, the reply was to 
the effect that the College of Physicians, to whom all the returns 
had been submitted, had resolved " that by introducing the 
returns of homoeopathic practitioners, they would not only 
compromise the value and utility of their averages of cure, as 
deduced from the operation of known remedies, but they would 
give an unjustifiable sanction to an empirical practice alike op- 
posed to the maintenance of truth, and to the progress of science." 
And this reply was considered satisfactory by the Board of 
Health, Parliament, and the country, and that notwithstanding 
the fact that Dr. Maclaughlin, one of the Board of Health's 
Inspectors, had testified to the genuiness of the cholera cases ad- 
mitted into the Homoeopathic Hospital. In the recorded acts of 
public bodies it would be difficult to find one more grossly un- 
just. It should be stated here that the rejected Report was, after 
all, laid upon the table of the House of Commons, but not as 
part of the Reports sent in by the College of Physicians. 
In 1862 the College of Surgeons of Ireland passed resolutions 
which must be noticed here for the purpose of introducing 
Whately, Archbishop of Dublin's remarks upon them. They 
were,-"that no Fellow or Licentiate of the Royal College shall 
pretend or profess to cure disease by the deception called homoe- 
opathy, or the practice called mesmerism, or by any other form 
of quackery. It is also hereby ordained that no Fellow or Licen- 
tiate of the College shall consult with, meet, advise, direct, or as- 
sist any person engaged in such deceptions or practices, or in any 
system or practice considered derogatory or dishonorable by phy- 
sicians or surgeons." The Archbishop on being asked by a Lon- 
don physician what he thought of these ordinances, replied : " I 
was well aware of the detestable act of tyranny you refer to. . . . 
I have always protested against such conduct in all departments 
of life The present is one of the Trades' Unions. A 
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such conditions, as he himself chooses to prescribe, but he has no 
right to compel others to concur with him. If there is any mode of 
medical treatment he disapproves of, or any system of education 
which he thinks objectionable, he will be likely to keep clear of 
it of his own accord, without any need of compulsion or pledges. 
Those again who may think differently ought not to be coerced 
or bullied. Some persons seem to have a notion that there is 
some connection between persecution and religion, but the truth 
is, it belongs to human nature. In all departments of life you 
may meet with narrow-minded bigotry and uncharitable party 
spirit The truth is, the majority of mankind have no 
real love of liberty, except that they are glad to have it them- 
selves, and to keep it all to themselves; but they have neither 
spirit enough to stand up firmly for their own rights, nor suffi- 
cient sense of justice to respect the rights of others. They will sub- 
mit to the domineering of a majority of their own party, and will 
join with them in domineering over others. In the midst of the 
disgust and shame which one must feel at such proceedings as you 
have alluded to, it is some consolation to the advocates of the sys- 
tem denounced to see that there is something of a testimony borne 
to them by their adversaries, who dare not trust the cause to the 
decision of reason and experience, but resort to such expedients 
as might as easily be employed for a bad cause as a good one." 
In the controversy between the two schools, there is no more 
noticeable incident than the letters of these two great men, Sir 
William Hamilton and Whateley, and it is not a little for 
homoeopathy to boast of that it called forth from them such in- 
dignant and such memorable protests against the way in which 
its adversary carried on the fight. It struck them as it must 
have struck all unbiassed and thinking onlookers that the argu- 
ment against the new medical doctrine never took the form of an 
appeal to experience; and yet in all times and ages experience 
has been allowed to be the test in medicine of any new thera- 
peutic formula. It is in hospitals and dispensaries, not in editor's 
parlors and in doctor's studies, that therapeutic questions can be 
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against our opponents that they " dare not trust the cause to the 
decision of reason and experience." 
Enough has now been said, though very far from all that could 
be said, about the opposition and persecution homoeopathy has 
been exposed to since the day when Dr. Quin attracted the at- 
tention of the Censors of the College of Physicians. The conflict 
carried on at Liverpool and Birmingham on the floor of their 
respective Medical Institutes, resulting at the latter place in favor 
of homoeopathy and at Liverpool in favor of its adversary, can 
receive no more than this passing notice. No more, also, can be 
said here than simply to mention the facts, that the medical jour- 
nals are closed to us whatever may be the attacks made in their 
pages against us, that certain tradesmen dare not publish or sell 
our books, that directories do not mention them, that even our 
advertisements are refused insertion in their journals, that public 
appointments are not open to us, that clubs and societies black- 
ball us if we are candidates for admission into them, that coro- 
ner's inquests are held on our fatal cases,* and that professional 
assistance is never given to our patients until we are in the first 
place dismissed from attendance upon them. 
All this is the more surprising, the more inexplicable, when 
we consider the admitted fact that homoeopathy has not only in- 
directly but directly influenced the practice of medicine, and that 
the obligations of the old to the young school are numerous and 
important. Heroic practice is forgotten. The lancet and cup- 
ping-glasses are rarely if ever used. Polypharmacy is having 
fewer advocates; even single medicines are sometimes prescribed. 
Physiological provings are recommended, and that without an 
allusion to the fact that we have been proving medicines on the 
healthy body since the first years of this century. Medicines intro- 
duced by us are being prescribed and for the same diseases and 
in small doses: aconite, for instance, and belladonna, hepar sul- 
phuris, arsenic, phosphorus, arnica, mercury, camphor, ipecacu- 
anha, cantharides, and many others. Trousseau practiced homoe- 
* It must be allowed that this weapon against us has not been used for a 
long time. Twenty years ago it was frequently employed, especially when 
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opathy under the name of medicine substitutive. Dr. Harley 
explains the action of specifics by saying that there are two 
similar effects, the one of the disease upon the body and the other 
of the medicine, and that they interfere with and neutralize each 
other; an explanation of cure by a specific medicine given by 
Dr. Drysdale and others of our school. Specifics are being la- 
boriously searched for. Dr. Reith became a convert to homoe- 
opathy, "by following out the teaching of some of our most emi- 
nent writers and not by studying the system itself." The safest 
guide, says Dr. Chambers, to a knowledge of the effect of medi- 
cines in disease is that of their effect on health. It is now found 
out that medicines have a special affinity for certain tissues. 
Notwithstanding these admitted facts it is more than strange that 
the body who are under such obligations to us should continue 
down to this date so to oppose and persecute us. 
It is time now to ask what effect on the rise and progress of 
homoeopathy this determined opposition had. It has been seen 
that Dr. Quin introduced homoeopathy into England in 1827. 
From that date to 1837 there practiced in London about ten 
other physicians, one or two of them for only a short time. They 
were Drs. Belluomini, Uwins, Kingdon, Taglianini, Massol, 
Cronin, Dunsford, Simpson, Cameron and Curie. During the 
next ten years, from 1837 to 1847, there was a rapid increase in 
the number of practitioners. At the last-named date there were 
between seventy and eighty. In this interval homoeopathy was 
introduced into Scotland; into Edinburgh by Drs. Black and 
Russell and into Glasgow by Dr. Scott. It was also introduced 
into Ireland by Dr. Charles and Dr. Gustavus Luther and by 
Dr. W. Walter. In these years many dispensaries were estab- 
lished and books published and journals set agoing, but the 
report on them is given elsewhere; it is not necessary in this 
place, therefore, to do more than mention the fact of their exist- 
ence. The fact also should be given of the proving in these 
years of Kali bichromicum by Dr. Drysdale, a proving which 
should have been followed up by others. Had it been so, and 
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During the next ten years our numbers increased greatly. In 
1857 there were upwards of two hundred practitioners in the 
three kingdoms and eighty-three institutions and dispensaries. 
Two important conversions to homoeopathy took place in this 
decade, and both of distinguished men, Dr. Horner and Dr. 
Conquest. The former had been President of the Provincial 
Medical and Surgical Association in the year that body met at 
Brighton and passed the celebrated resolutions against homoeop- 
athy. Dr. Conquest was well known as the author of the text- 
book, Outlines of Midwifery, and lecturer on midwifery at St. 
Bartholomew's. In these years six weekly, monthly or quar- 
terly journals were established or continued : the British Journal 
of Homoeopathy, the Monthly Homoeopathic Review, the Homoeo- 
pathic Times, the Homoeopathist, the Homoeopathic Record, and 
the Provincial Homoeopathic G-azette. There were also published 
between sixty and seventy works relating to the history and 
principles and practice of homoeopathy. In 1852 Dr. Sharp 
commenced the publication of his Essays, a very notable fact in 
this decade, and at short intervals of time they have been con- 
tinued down to the present year. In the last of the series he 
has given to the world his doctrines of Organopathy and Anti- 
praxy, doctrines which, if he establishes, will influence more the 
practice of medicine than any, except Hahnemann's, that have 
been advanced since the days of Hippocrates. But Dr. Sharp 
and his works will have fuller mention in another chapter. 
The number of practitioners did not increase so much during 
the next ten years, in the interval between 1857 and 1867. In 
the latter year there were two hundred and sixty-one in the three 
kingdoms and seventy-two dispensaries or hospitals. In 1858 
the Medical Act was passed, an event forming an era in the his- 
tory of homoeopathy. Had it not been for the " Society for the 
Protection of Homoeopathic Practitioners and Students," the legal 
position of homoeopathy would not have been secured by this Act. 
But after a hard fight a clause was introduced by which licensing 
bodies are forbidden, on pain of having their privilege taken 
from them, "to impose upon any candidate offering himself for 
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practice of any particular theory of medicine or surgery as a test 
or condition of admitting him to examination or of granting a 
certificate." The history of this Act is given in another chapter, 
so no more need be said of it here. 
There has been an increase from year to year in the number 
of practitioners during the years which have elapsed from 1867 
down to the present time. The numbers then wrere, as I have 
said, two hundred and sixty-one. In this year they are close on 
three hundred in the three kingdoms and Channel Islands. 
There has been an increase, also, in the number of institutions 
and dispensaries, which now number one hundred and twenty. 
During these.years Congresses, which, beginning with the year 
1850, had been held regularly for many years, were revived. 
The first was held in 1870 under the presidency of Dr. Drysdale 
at Birmingham; the second in 1871 under that of Dr. Madden 
at Oxford; the third in 1872 at York, Dr. Black being presi- 
dent; the fourth, presided over by Dr. Sharp, was held at Lea- 
mington in 1873 ; in 1874 the Congress was held in London, Dr. 
Dudgeon presiding, and in 1875 in Manchester under the pres- 
idency of Dr. Bayes. Another fact of these last years is the 
publication of the British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, under 
the auspices of the British Homoeopathic Society. It supplied a 
want which had been long felt, and was prepared by a committee 
of the Society of which Dr. Madden was chairman.* An im- 
portant event of 1875 was the inauguration of a course of lectures 
at the London Homoeopathic Hospital. Dr. Dudgeon, Dr. 
Richard Hughes and Dr. R. D. Hale were the lecturers ap- 
pointed by the British Homoeopathic Society, Dr. Dudgeon's 
subject being the 11 History and Principles of Homoeopathy and 
the Materia Medica," Dr. Hughes's being the " Homoeopathic 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics," and Dr. Hale's " Practical 
Medicine." It is to be hoped and expected that an impetus will 
* The demand for this work has already called for a second edition which 
is now in the hands of the printer ; it is also to be published under the sanc- 
tion of a committee of the Society, but the chief labor in its preparation has 
fallen upon its able chairman, Dr. Drury. [Since published. Gen. Sec., 
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be given by these lectures to the advancement of medicine, and 
that among other good results, will be not only the indoctrinating 
of the audiences with the principles and practice of homoeopathy 
but the indication of the fact of the obligations owing to it by the 
medicine of the day. The last incident of the history of homoe- 
opathy worthy of mention is one which we have already alluded 
to, and which we may hope argues a change to the better in the 
attitude towards us of our rivals and opponents. 
Within the last few months the Birmingham Medical Institute 
has been established. Dr. Evans, a late physician of that town, 
left his library to his brethren of the profession. The son of 
another Birmingham physician, Dr. Ingleby, left to the Institute 
<£5000 on the condition of suitable buildings being erected in 
memory of his father. £2000 more have been subscribed by 
the medical men of the place. The Institute is to have a library 
of works of science and literature, the foundation of which will 
be the library of Dr. Evans. Its object is the advancement of 
professional knowledge by " the establishment and maintenance 
of physiological and pathological laboratories and museums, and 
the delivery of lectures." Another of its objects is the relief of 
necessitous members of the profession. Among those subscrib- 
ing to its funds were one or two physicians practicing homoeop- 
athy. This opened the question of the admission of such to the 
Institute. It need not be here mentioned how that question was 
discussed. Much was said and written on both sides and many 
votes for and against were given. But the result, by large ma- 
jorities, was in favor of the homoeopathic practitioners being ad- 
mitted if they were legally qualified. We have a right, I think, 
to say that this is a proof of a more reasonable and liberal feel- 
ing towards homoeopathy on the part of our opponents, and it is 
not unlikely that it may foreshadow greater freedom of profes- 
sional intercourse between the two schools and a recognition of 
the fact that there should be no limits to a medical man's free- 
dom in the choice of means to secure the end all have in view,- 
the cure and prevention of disease. 
Something has thus been given in these pages of the past and 
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it has grown to what we see, an organization having* three hun- 
dred active members, numerous hospitals and dispensaries and 
societies and a large literature. If it is asked whether we in 
this country are satisfied with the position of homoeopathy at 
this present time or with its future prospects the answer must 
be in the negative. Its practice and its practitioners are forced 
to content themselves with a sectarian position, and it must be 
allowed that in these late years their rate of advancement has 
not been in the same proportion as formerly. At the same time 
there is another and more hopeful view to take of the future. 
In one respect the new doctrine and practice were never stronger 
than at present, and never before did the future look so bright. 
Not only do we recognize the obligations of the old to the new 
school, but the latter are doing the same, and more and more as 
the years go on. Though at present these obligations are not 
sufficiently acknowledged, the time cannot be far off when they 
will be so, willingly or unwillingly. When that day comes the 
terms Homoeopathy and Allopathy will, it is to be hoped, disap- 
pear, and the former be relieved from its sectarian position. The 
doctrine of Similars will be granted a place, and a high place in 
medical practice, perhaps even the chief place; but this will not 
be soon. It will be recognized that Medicine is in a transition 
state of progress, and that in the case of so experimental a science 
there must be no limits to the range of experiment, and that, 
however startling new theory or new practice may at first sight 
appear, both should be welcomed as a possible advance towards 
greater certainty in therapeutics. 
* The number three hundred scarcely gives a fair impression as to the 
size of the body of homoeopathic practitioners. It is a known fact that 
many practice homoeopathically who refuse to allow their names to appear 
in our Directory, either because they have not the courage to identify them- 
selves with our school, or because their practice is still largely leavened by 
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PART II. 
The Descriptive History of British and Irish Homoeo- 
pathic Societies, including- Hospitals, Dispensa- 
ries, Schools, etc. 
Herbert Nankivell, M.D., Edin. 
We may divide the homoeopathic societies of Great Britain 
into local and general. In the first division come the Northern 
Homoeopathic Medical Association, the Midland Homoeopathic 
Medical Society, the Liverpool Homoeopathic Medico-Chirnrgical 
Society, and the Northumberland and Durham Homoeopathic 
Medical Association; in the second division we place the Hah- 
nemann Publishing Society, the British Homoeopathic Society, 
and the British Homoeopathic Congress. 
Of the local associations it will be necessary to mention at 
length only the two first. 
The Northern Homoeopathic Medical Association was founded 
in 1852 by six gentlemen, Drs. Cameron, Craig, Dunn, Hayle, 
Pearce, and Pope; but the stimulus which launched it into ex- 
istence was unequal to the development of its future life, and it 
relapsed into a dormant condition for the rest of the decade. 
In 1862 we find it resuming more active functions: it added 
eight other members to its list, and since that date, under the 
fostering care first of Mr. Secretary Pope and afterwards of 
Mr. Secretary Fraser, it has done yeoman's service in binding 
together the scattered homoeopathists of the North, in the mutual 
sharpening of mind by mind, and in the promotion of good 
feeling amongst its members by its semestrial meetings and the 
pleasant dinners which invariably follow them. The Society 
now numbers thirty-four members and is in full activity, hold- 
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The Midland Homoeopathic Medical Society meets also half- 
yearly, although at first quarterly meetings were the rule. It 
was established in 1862, but consists of only eighteen members. 
Its prosperity has never equalled that of its northern neighbor, 
partly because it is not a migratory society, but a fixed one, 
meeting at Birmingham, and partly also because the good cheer 
which distinguishes the Northern society has been conspicuous 
only by its absence from the Midland reunions. 
Our general societies are three in number, and need more than 
a passing reference. 
The Hahnemann Publishing Society was established in 1848 
for the "purpose of supplying physicians practicing homoeopathy 
with works of real value the expense of whose publication 
would be too great a risk for private enterprise to undertake." 
It is therefore a commercial society, but it is more than this. 
Three of its permanent committees are engaged in the works of 
Materia Medica, of the Repertory, and of Therapeutics respect- 
ively, and the individual members of these committees either 
take up themselves or allot to others the different sections of the 
works in hand. It falls to the lot of Dr. Hughes in his review 
of our literature, to mention the publications of this Society, and 
I therefore pass on to notice 
The British Homoeopathic Society which was founded on April 
10th, 1844, by Dr. Quin, its President, and consisted of himself, 
Mr. Hugh Cameron, Dr. Partridge and Dr. Mayne. Dr. Quin 
had for many previous years cherished in his heart the project 
of this Society and had as early as 1834 drawn up a code of 
laws for its management. In 1837 he called a preliminary meet- 
ing on this subject, but though it was well received by many of 
his colleagues he found himself obliged to abandon it. But in 
1844 a meeting took place in Dr. Quin's house to commemorate 
Hahnemann's birthday, the first that had occurred since our 
Founder's death, and at that meeting "the foundation-stone of 
the British Homoeopathic Society was laid." The early meetings 
of the Society from 1844 to 1850 were held at the President's 
house, but from the opening of the London Homoeopathic Hos- 
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Board-room. Its growth has been steady and it now numbers 
113 ordinary members and fellows, besides corresponding and 
honorary members. Meetings are held on the first Thursday of 
each month throughout the session at which papers are read 
and discussions take place. The Annual Assembly occurs to- 
wards the close of June and lasts for two days. But the busi- 
ness of the Society is not confined to these meetings. In 1847 
in conjunction with the British Homoeopathic Association it 
determined on the foundation of the London Homoeopathic 
Hospital. In 1870 it published the British Homoeopathic Phar- 
macopoeia, a second edition of which valuable work has just 
passed through the press; and during the winter session of 
1874-75 it instituted a series of lectures which were thrown 
open to and were attended by both medical men and students 
of the old school. In these lectures Drs. Dudgeon, Hale and 
Richard Hughes took part, the latter physician lecturing on 
homoeopathic Pharmacodynamics. During the present winter 
session Dr. Bayes delivered the introductory lecture. Dr. 
Hughes's lectures are being continued, and Drs. Mackechnie, 
Hale, Drury, James Jones, Drysdale and Matheson will take 
part in other courses. The audiences are fairly well attended 
by practitioners from the ranks of allopathic medicine, and it 
is hoped that these effortswill hereafter attain the solidarity of a 
medical school. In the meantime good and necessary work is 
being done. 
The British Homoeopathic Congress in its revived form dates 
from the year 1870, when it assembled at Birmingham under 
the presidency of Drysdale. In 1871 it met at Oxford, when 
the presidential address was read by Dr. Richard Hughes for 
his friend Madden whom illness had prostrated three weeks pre- 
viously. In 1872 the ancient city of York, dear to Americans 
both for its name and its venerable minster, received the Con- 
gress which met under the presidency of Black. In 1873 the 
Congress met at Leamington and Sharp occupied the chair. 
In 1874 the largest Congress that has hitherto met assembled 
in London and listened to Dudgeon's incisive address on the 
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of Hahnemann and in September of this year (1875) the 
Congress which met at Manchester heard Bayes expound the 
" Position of Homoeopathy in the Rational Practice of Medicine/' 
and had the pleasure of receiving an American delegation in the 
honored persons of Messrs. Ludlam and Talbot. 
Our congresses hitherto have been remarkable for excellent 
papers and critical discussions; and they have been followed by 
capital dinners whose good fellowship and cheer have crowned 
the labors of the day. 
I now pass on to give a short account of the Hospitals and 
Dispensaries in Great Britain for the homoeopathic treatment of 
the sick poor. Chronologically the dispensary is the forerunner 
of the hospital, and of course the former institution exceeds the 
latter very much in number. The machinery of the dispensary 
is so simple that one may be started at an outlay of a few shil- 
lings only, and it has rarely happened that wherever a homoeop- 
athist has commenced practice, he has not very early sought to 
bring the benefit of his art to bear on our poorer and suffering 
brethren. This has been the origin of the numerous 
Private Homoeopathic Dispensaries which we possess. They 
are of the simplest possible character, being under the entire 
management of the medical officer, and they are unprovided 
either with Patrons, Committees, and often subscribers. In this 
latter case they are self-supporting, the regulated contributions 
of the patients themselves defraying the necessary expenses. 
About seventy-five of these dispensaries are in existence, and the 
number of fresh patients seen annually will vary from 150 at 
the smallest to between 300 and 400 at the larger institutions. 
No doubt they are open to some abuse-persons attending them 
who could pay the usual fees-but they have done good work in 
popularizing homoeopathy, in showing its power over chronic and 
intractable forms of disease, and in forming in many localities 
the nuclei of more highly organized and successful institutions. 
Of a more pretentious character than these are the Public 
Homoeopathic Dispensaries, which number about thirty-seven. 
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also with one or more medical officers^ and a chemist or dis- 
penser. The work of the medical officers is generally gratuitous; 
all moneys pass into the treasurer's hands; the institution is 
supported by subscribers who have the privilege of nominating 
patients, who are supposed to be of that class which needs gra- 
tuitous medical treatment. 
The chief towns and districts which possess these dispensaries 
are Blackheath, Brixton, Hackney, Pimlico, Southgate, Streat- 
ham and Surbiton within the postal district of the metropolis; 
while in the provinces Croydon, Liverpool and Manchester rejoice 
in the possession of two dispensaries each, and one exists respec- 
tively in Bournemouth, Brighton, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Wes- 
ton-super-Mare, Plymouth, Exeter, Hull, Leamington, New- 
castle, Devizes, Northampton, Reading, Scarboro, Southampton, 
Stroud, Taunton, Tunbridge-Wells, Torquay, Winchester, Wol- 
verhampton and York. 
Facile principes amongst our public dispensaries stand those 
of Liverpool. They are both under the management of one Com- 
mittee, and the medical officers form a single staff. It was 
founded by Dr. Drysdale in 1841, and at first occupied a small 
hired room in Mount Pleasant. His first task was to catch a 
patient-a tough old opprobrium medicorum ; his second to cure 
him, in which he was equally successful. Thus the ball was set 
rolling. In 1860 a large dispensary was built and opened in 
Hardman Street; in 1866 a second dispensary was opened in the 
North End during an epidemic of cholera; and by the report for 
1874 we find that Dr. Drysdale's infant institution has grown 
into an establishment, possessing four consulting physicians and 
surgeons, five honorary medical officers, and four stipendiary 
surgeons. The total number of patients coming under treatment 
during the year was 20,076, and the total number treated since 
1841 amounted to 210,631. Such a success is a noble testimony 
to the founder's work, to the truth of Hahnemann's teaching, 
and to the practical success of its medical officers. 
I shall notice also the dispensaries of Brighton and Devizes as 
types of successful institutions: the first is carried on in a popu- HOMCEOPATHY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
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lous and fashionable town of 100,000 inhabitants, the second in 
a country town of 6000 people. 
The Brighton Dispensary was founded in 1844 and carried 
on at first solely by the efforts of our distinguished colleague 
Dr. Henry Madden. It is now under the management of a 
Committee, possesses a staff of two consulting physicians, two 
honorary physicians, and a stipendiary medical officer. The total 
number of cases for the year 1874 amounted to 1920, of which 
number the large proportion of 403 cases were treated at their 
own houses. 
The North Wilts Dispensary was founded at Devizes in 1861 
by the late Dr. Marston, and has been carried on since his death 
by his successor Dr. Bodman. The total number of cases ad- 
mitted from 1861 to 1874 was 3522, of which 305 were under 
treatment during the last-named year. The affairs are managed 
by a Committee; there is no stipendiary medical officer. 
The net cost of these three institutions for the year 1874 was 
as follows : North Wilts £51, Brighton £303, and Liverpool 
£761 ; and the average cost of each patient at these institutions 
was respectively 3s. 4d., 3s. 2d., and 9d. 
I cannot leave the subject of dispensaries without reference to 
that of Weston-super-Mare. In this town of 15,000 inhabitants 
the Opchram Homoeopathic Dispensary has been founded in 
memory of our late colleague, Dr. George Blair Cochran ; and 
a freehold property has been secured and devoted in perpetuity 
to this admirable purpose. An example this which we trust 
may be imitated by larger and wealthier towns. 
Turn we now to the Hospitals. The large expense necessary 
for the maintenance of these institutions, and the fact that in a 
large number of towns the ground is already occupied by well- 
managed hospitals under old-school direction, has prevented the 
development amongst us of many examples of this form or 
charity. Yet the narrow-minded opposition of old-school prac- 
titioners might well compel us to seek every favorable oppor- 
tunity for starting homoeopathic hospitals. Whenever an avowed 
conversion to the tenets of homoeopathy has taken place amongst 
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has had the courage of his opinions has been compelled to re- 
sign his post; and this not through the free action of Committees 
or Governors, but by means of the trades' union regulations in 
force amongst allopathic medical men. Henderson at Edin- 
burgh, Reith at Aberdeen, Eubulus Williams at Clifton are 
instances of the truth of this statement. 
At Southport our colleagues Hrs. Stokes and Harvey officer 
a Children's Sanatorium, which has several years flourished under 
the guidance of an influential Committee. This Sanatorium owes 
its foundation to Dr. Blumberg who in 1861 raised a sum of 
£800 for the institution, but ill health compelled him to leave 
Southport before it got into working order. The scheme re- 
mained in abeyance until 1864, when the Misses Maniott nobly 
proposed to undertake the whole conduct and expenses of the 
Sanatorium, if the Committee would grant them a small sum for 
furnishing, and the annual interest of the funds at their disposal. 
This work they carried on till the close of 1867 when the man- 
agement was again restored to the hands of the Committee. 
From the reports before me I learn that in 1864, 46 admissions 
took place; in 1865, 41 ; in 1866, 28; in 1867, 53; in 1871, 
87; in 1872, 114; in 1873, 90; and in 1874, 76. There are 
thirty beds, but they are seldom all full. The Committee pro- 
pose to purchase a piece of land and erect a specially adapted 
building thereon, the house which they now occupy being " very 
unsatisfactory " for the purpose. 
St. James's Hospital, Doncaster, has a history of its own. The 
establishment of the Great Northern Railway Plant at that town 
forced on our gallant and far-sighted colleague Dr. Dunn, the 
necessity of a hospital for surgical accidents, and in 1852 St. 
James's Hospital was opened, and from that date was kept open 
for twenty years by his single-handed exertions. Many an oper- 
ation has he there performed unassisted: once at least he am- 
putated the thigh with the help of the porter only: until at last 
the intolerance of his allopathic colleagues broke down, and it 
was found advisable to meet and assist the man who had such a 
power of self-help within him. In 1872, increasing age and 
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but fortunately not until the town of Doncaster had realized the 
necessity for an infirmary on a large scale, and had at last ac- 
complished the much-desired but long-neglected work. 
The Bath Homoeopathic Hospital is officered by Drs. Newman 
and Morgan. It was commenced in a small but suitable house 
in 1859, and in 1872 a larger and more commodious building 
was obtained, capable of containing 30 beds. Since the opening 
of the hospital 286 in-patients have been received, and the out- 
patients have numbered 12,000. During 1874, 29 in-patients, 
and 1000 out-patients were treated at this institution. 
No town in England has witnessed a more rapid and solid 
growth in our art than has Birmingham. In 1847 a dispensary 
was opened in Charles Street, at a time when only three families 
in the town were sufficiently convinced of the truth of homoeop- 
athy to submit to our treatment. In 1848 the dispensary was 
removed to Old Square, and was then officered by Drs. Fearon, 
Lawrence and Parsons. In 1859 a hospital in the same square 
was opened, with six beds, under the medical care of Drs. Fearon, 
Lawrence and Gibbs Blake. In 1864 the number of beds was 
increased to fifteen, and the staff consisted of four honorary medi- 
cal officers and a resident house surgeon. In 1866 the building 
fund for a new hospital was commenced by munificent donations 
of £1000 each from Mr. R. L. Chance, and Sir Josiah Mason, 
the founder and endower of the Erdington Orphanage. In 1872 
a suitable site was purchased, and in the succeeding year the 
fund had reached the sum of £8500. The work since this date 
has gone on rapidly, and at the Inauguration Luncheon which 
took place in the new building on the 23d of November, 1875, 
£1600 was presented to the fund, bringing the total amount re- 
ceived by that date very nearly to the sum of £12,000. The 
hospital work is now carried on in the new buildings, and the 
names of Gibbs Blake, Wynne Thomas, Craig and Edward 
Madden are sufficient guarantees for that work being well done. 
Last in the order of my paper, although chronologically the 
earliest hospital connected with our school in England, stands the 
London Homoeopathic Hospital. It owes its foundation to the 
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men which was formed in 1847 in intimate connection with the 
British Homoeopathic Society to advance the interests of homoe- 
opathy. I quote the following historical passages from Dr. 
Quin's presidential address in 1859 to the annual assembly of 
the Society : " In less than eighteen months by the influence and 
tact of Mr. Sampson, and the ability and zeal of Mr. Heurtley, 
assisted by this Society, upwards of 1300 friends of homoeopathy 
were enrolled. Meanwhile your president had performed the 
part allotted to him-that of obtaining the sanction and support 
of several members of both houses of Parliament, and other gen- 
tlemen of influence, and their consent to having their names en- 
rolled on the Committee of the Association-the Duke of Beaufort 
consenting to act as President, and the Marquis of Anglesea as 
Vice-President." 
The Association for two years did an active work in the dis- 
semination of popular homoeopathic literature, but the founda- 
tion of a hospital having been decided on it merged its distinc- 
tive character and name on October 10th, 1849, into that of the 
Hospital Committee. In six months from this date the hospital 
in Golden Square was opened and ready for the reception of pa- 
tients (April 10th, 1850). Here its work for seven years was 
carried on ; here were successfully treated under the government 
inspectorship of Dr. Macloughlin those cholera cases, which the 
Royal College of Physicians refused to print as worthless and 
misleading, but which were afterwards printed by order of Par- 
liament; and from this site in 1857 a move was made to Great 
Ormond Street to the freehold building which the hospital still 
occupies. 
The number of patients (counting both in- and out-patients; 
admitted during the first septennium amounted to 23,085, an 
annual average of 3298. During the second septennium (in 
wrhich the move of site took place) the total number was smaller, 
viz., 22,905, an annual average of 3272; in the third septennium 
the increased resources and more numerous staff attracted 50,686, 
which gives an annual average of 7240; and in the triennium 
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increasing and amounts to 7485; the total number treated to 
the end of 1874 stands at 119,132. 
Of the cases treated in 1874, 7129 were out-patients and 428 
in-patients; of these last 133 were "cured," 187 "much im- 
proved" and " improved," 40 received "no benefit," 15 died, and 
53 remained " under treatment." 
The total expenses of the hospital for this work amounted to 
£3209, while its total income for the year was <£4036, but £1919 
of this sum was special and due to Bazaar-receipts. The funded 
property of the hospital consists of £8977 in the three per cent. 
Government Funds, besides the freehold building and furniture. 
The hospital is under the patronage of Her Royal Highness 
the Duchess of Cambridge, and of His Grace the Duke of Beau- 
fort. The Earl of Wilton is President, and associated with him 
are eleven Vice-presidents. The Board of Management under 
the chairmanship of Lord Ebury is intrusted with the general 
management of the institution, and with the appointment of the 
medical officers subject to the control of the Governors. The 
Medical Council acts in consultation with the Board of Manage- 
ment on any subject which specially touches the interest of the 
medical staff or the profession generally; it consists of metro- 
politan and provincial physicians of standing. 
The active medical staff are divided into two classes : (a), those 
in charge of in-patients, and (6) those in charge of out-patients. 
There is also a resident medical officer. 
The office of Consulting Physician is now vacant. It was held 
until the last year by Dr. Quin, who by his resignation has 
officially severed a connection which through a long course of 
years had been beneficial to the hospital and honorable to him- 
self. The office of Consulting Surgeon is held by Stephen Yeld- 
ham, a name well known to and much esteemed by English 
homoeopathists. 
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PART III. 
History of Homoeopathic Literature in Great Britain. 
Dr. Richard Hughes. 
In giving an account of the literature which homoeopathy has 
brought forth in this country, I shall best proceed in a historical 
manner. I will group the years over which the history extends 
in decades, and will sketch the productions of each. 
Section 1. 1831-1840. 
It was by laymen that homoeopathy was introduced Into Eng- 
land, and it was fitting that from a layman the first English pub- 
lication on the subject should come. The Rev. Thomas Everest, 
a clergyman who had himself been benefited greatly by the new 
system, and was personally acquainted with Hahnemann, issued 
in the year 1834 a Popular View of Homoeopathy, and a Letter 
to the Medical Practitioners of Great Britain, calling on them to 
examine its claims. 
In the same year Dr. Quin inaugurated the professional lite- 
rature of the system in this country. He reprinted Hahne- 
mann's Fragmenta de viribus medicamentomen positivis, at that 
time hardly accessible and only in a shabby form, heading it 
with a Latin dedication to the then President of the College of 
Physicians, Sir Henry Halford. He also put forth, in the same 
language, a Pharmacopoeia Homoeopathica, containing Hahne- 
mann's instructions for the preparation of drugs, as given in his 
Materia Medica Pura and Chronic Diseases. 
After Dr. Quin, the most prominent practitioner of the new 
method in England at this time was a French physician, Dr. 
Curie. In 1837 this gentleman published a treatise on the Prin- 
ciples, and in 1838 another on the Practice of Homoeopathy. 
Both were of course purely Hahnemannian in character, but 
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collection of cases treated by the author, which could hardly fail 
to make a favorable impression. 
Another attempt to set forth the principles and working of our 
method was made by Dr. Simpson, in a work entitled A Prac- 
tical View of Homoeopathy (1836). This physician also, it is 
said, about this time translated the Organon, but I can find no 
trace of his version. 
The only other publications of this decade was a pamphlet 
entitled Alloeopathy and Homoeopathy, by Dr. Luther; and a small 
volume by Dr. Dunsford, containing Pathogenetic Effects of some 
of the principal Homoeopathic Remedies, compiled from Jahr's 
Manual and other sources. 
Section 2. 1841-1850 
The ten years beginning with 1841 were a very active and 
fruitful time for homoeopathic literature in this country. We 
will arrange the work done in categories. 
First of all must be mentioned the foundation, in 1843, of the 
British Journal of Homoeopathy, which has continued to appear 
quarterly from that time to this. Its editors for the first annual 
volume were Drs. Drysdale, Russell and Black. The last 
name then ceased to appear on the title-page, and in the fourth 
volume was replaced by that of Dr. Dudgeon. Under these three 
conductors the journal remained till 1857, when Dr. Russell 
retired. His place, after a short interregnum, was filled by Dr. 
Atkin ; and when, in 1862, death robbed us of his services, after 
another brief interval Dr. Hughes joined the editorial staff, and 
it was constituted as it is to this day. From the beginning the 
British Journal of Homoeopathy aimed at a high tone, a scientific 
character, and a liberal spirit. It has been the depository of all 
the more elaborate writings of British practitioners, and has by 
copious translation and adoption given its readers the cream of 
what has been written in other countries; so that its volumes, 
now thirty-three in number, form a storehouse of homoeopathic 
thought and record of unique value. Among its contributors 
in this period we may mention, besides its editors already named, 
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The present decade was one especially of expository and apolo- 
getic works. New converts were continually being made; and 
each, as he declared his faith, gave some account of his investi- 
gations and defence of his position. The most notable of such 
publications were those of Dr. Henderson, then Professor of 
Pathology in the University of Edinburgh and physician to the 
Royal Infirmary of that city. His Enquiry into the Homoeopathic 
Practice of Medicine (1845) contained the record of the treatment 
of 122 cases of disease, on which his comments were unanswer- 
able; and in his Letter to Sir John Forbes (1846) he showed 
himself a ready and forcible controversialist. Publications of 
the same kind were put forth by Drs. Hayle, Madden, and 
Ransford, and, in a more substantial form, by Dr. Yeldham, 
whose Homoeopathy in Acute Diseases (1850) formed a companion 
volume to Henderson's " Enquiry?' Chief among the more purely 
expository writings must be placed Dr. Black's Principles and 
Practice of Homoeopathy (1842), and the Introduction to the Study 
of Homoeopathy of Drs. Drysdale and Russell (1844). After 
this come Dr. Dunsford's Practical Advantages of Homoeopathy 
(1841); shorter settings forth of the system by Drs. Newman, 
Luther, Marsden, and Norton ; and last, but (though from a lay 
pen) not least, Mr. Sampson's Homoeopathy; its Principles, 
Theory, and Practice (1846). 
But the progress of the doctrine of Hahnemann in England 
imperatively called for materials whereby the method might be 
worked. The provings of Hahnemann existed only in their 
German original and in the French version of Jourdan ; it was 
reserved for America, in the person of Dr. Hempel, to give them 
to us in an English dress. In this country it was thought more 
practicable to translate the Manual of Jahr, which was accord- 
ingly done by Dr. Curie in 1841, and again in 1847 ; Dr. Laurie 
at the same time gave us Bonninghausen's Manual; and in 
1849 Dr. Dudgeon enabled us to read the last edition of the 
Organon of the master in our own tongue. 
Works on practice were also called for, both for domestic and 
for professional use. The former were supplied by Curie, Laurie, 
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greater difficulties. Dr. Curie endeavored to supply the need by 
issuing monthly Annals of the medical institution served by him. 
Dr. Hamilton published a Guide (1844), and Dr. Malan, a Vade- 
mecum (1847). In the latter year Dr. Laurie gave us his 
Elements of the Homoeopathic Practice, of Physic, which, though 
well-intentioned, hardly answered its purpose so well as did its 
domestic forerunner. Upon the treatment of special diseases we 
had the brochure of Dr. Belluomini On Scarlatina (1843), and 
those of Black, Curie, Dudgeon, Hamilton, Malan, and Russell 
on Cholera. The last, however, was no brochure, but a substan- 
tial volume of 350 pages (1849), containing a complete discus- 
sion of the history, nature and character of the disease, as well 
as of its treatment. 
The Hahnemann Publishing Society was founded in 1848, and 
its first publication appeared in 1850 ; but as its work mainly 
belongs to the next decade, the account of it will best be reserved 
till then. 
Section 3. 1851-1860. 
In the first year of this decade, Dr. Dudgeon completed the 
work begun with the Organon by giving us in English the Lesser 
Writings of Hahnemann, forming a bulky volume of 881 pages. 
The work of exposition and defence was rendered specially 
necessary at this time by the grave assaults upon homoeopathy 
delivered by Sir James Simpson, Dr. Routh, and Sir John Forbes. 
To the Tenets and Tendencies of Homoeopathy of the first, Dr. 
Henderson opposed a weighty rejoinder in his Homoeopathy Fairly 
Represented (1853); and Dr. Wyld met it with lighter artillery 
in his Tenets and Tendencies of Sir James Simpson (1853). Dr. 
Routh's Fallacies of Homoeopathy was thoroughly dealt with in 
the British Journal, and Sir John Forbes's Nature and Art in the 
Cure of Disease, was answered by Dr. Henriques in a thoughtful 
volume on Art versus Nature, and by Mr. Theobald in his 
Homoeopathy, Alloeopathy, and Expectancy (1859). 
Besides these, professions of faith more or less argumentative 
were made by Dr. Cockburn, Dr. Harper, Dr. Bayes, Dr. Neville 
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a past President of the British Medical Association, and the ven- 
erable Dr. Conquest, of obstetric fame. More strictly expository 
were Dr. G. M. Scott's three lectures On the Elementary Principles 
of ITomoeopathy, and Dr. Walter Johnson's Principles of Homoe- 
opathy (1853). In this decade, moreover, there commenced with 
1852 the series of Tracts in which Dr. Sharp expounded the 
method of Hahnemann, and met the objections to it, with such 
clearness and force as to obtain a very wide circulation, and to 
commend homoeopathy to many minds. 
But the most important and elaborate work of this kind was 
the volume of Lectures on Homoeopathy which Dr. Dudgeon 
published in 1854, after delivery of the same at the Hahnemann 
Hospital. Herein is contained the life of Hahnemann and the 
history of his system, with the discussion of every point of theory 
and practice involved in it, in a fulness unknown elsewhere, and 
leaving nothing to be desired. It remains a record of our origin 
and a treatise on our institutes which can never become obsolete. 
Two works only on practice were added to our stock in Eng- 
land during this time, the Diseases of Females by Dr. Leadam 
(1851), and the Diseases of the Heart and Lungs by Dr. Wyld 
(1860). In the department of Materia Medica we received the 
Flora Homoeopathica of Dr. Hamilton (1853-5), a sericsof beauti- 
ful illustrations of the plants used in our practice. 
In periodical literature, the British Joicrnal of Homoeopathy 
continued its useful course. Its most frequent contributors at 
this time, in addition to those already mentioned, were Drs. 
Scott, Yeldham, Leadam, Kidd, Ker, Sharp, Acworth and Hen- 
riques. In the year 1856 it was reinforced in its advocacy of the 
new system by the Monthly Homoeopathic Review, which has ac- 
companied it-vires acquirens eundo-down to the present day. 
Its first editor was Dr. Ozanne; and since then it has counted on 
its staff at various times the names of Ryan, Pope, Bayes, Mad- 
den, and Herbert Nankivell. Mr. Pope has long been its ani- 
mating soul; and under his guidance the journal has proved so 
trenchant in controversy, and so ready at report and notice of all 
that is of interest to our cause, that it has done trusty service. 
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years assumed a much higher character, and in many instances 
are of permanent value. 
Two other periodical publications maybe mentioned here,-the 
Homoeopathic Times and the Notes of a New Truth. As the raison 
d'etre of either was dissatisfaction with the proceedings of the 
majority, much of their space was taken up with intestine con- 
troversy ; and, meeting no real need, it is hardly surprising that 
they have not continued in existence. The Homoeopathic Times 
was born in 1849 and died in 1854; the Notes of a New Truth, 
conducted by Dr. John Epps, began its career in 1854, and ended 
it with his decease in 1869. 
There yet remains to be noted the work of the Hahnemann 
Publishing Society. Established in 1848 on a plan like that of 
the Sydenham Society,-viz., to supply to its members at cost price 
works which could not be published on ordinary calculations of 
profit and loss-it set before itself two especial undertakings. One 
of these was a complete repertory to the Materia Medica; the 
other a series of monographs on medicines, arranging their path- 
ogenetic effects in such a manner as should be suitable for ready 
reference, and appending their therapeutical properties. The first 
step towards the former desideratum was taken by Dr. Dudgeon 
-the most active worker of this epoch-in the volume published 
in 1850 as the commencement of a Pathogenetic Cyclopaedia. It 
embraced the symptoms of the mind and disposition, and those 
of the head. His plan, however, was subsequently abandoned; 
and the future work was differently carried out. In 1859 ap- 
peared in succession the first four parts of A Repertory, or Sys- 
tematic Arrangement and Analysis of the Homoeopathic Materia 
Medica, containing the symptoms of the eyes, ears, nose, face and 
neck, mouth and its contents, and stomach. The use of signs in 
this work-to enable each symptom, under whatever heading 
found, to be given in full-has caused it to be known as the 
" Cipher Repertory." The same feature, moreover, has hindered 
its coming into general favor and use, but quite needlessly, since 
(as has often been pointed out) it can be worked with very well 
without using the cipher at all, which is merely an additional 
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this thing. The names of the laborers in this part of the under- 
taking are Drs. Dudgeon, Drysdale and Stokes. 
The other scheme of the Society bore fruit in 1851, in the pub- 
lication of the first part of the Hahnemann Materia Medica, con- 
taining Kali bichromicum, by Dr. Drysdale, Aconite by Dr. 
Dudgeon, and Arsenic by Dr. Black. All were most thoroughly 
done; and, though later knowledge would require some enlarge- 
ment of the two latter, yet the three monographs remain a xfijixa 
ael, a model of what such work should be. Other medicines 
were announced as in hand, but no subsequent parts appeared in 
the present epoch. 
Section 4. 1861-1870. 
The first year of the new decade was marked by the appear- 
ance of another periodical publication. The British Homoeo- 
pathic Society had been founded in 1844. The earlier volumes of 
the British Journal frequently printed the papers and reported 
the discussions of its meetings. After a time, however, it ceased 
to do so; and for some years the Society had no published records 
of its proceedings. These, however, with the clinical reports of 
the London Homoeopathic Hospital associated with it, were now 
thought to afford sufficient material for separate publication ; and 
began to be issued quarterly as the Annals of the Society and 
Hospital. The names of the publishing committee of the former 
appear at the end of the preface to the first volume; but it was 
understood that the real editorship lay with Dr. Russell. After his 
lamented death in 1866 it devolved mainly upon Dr. Yeldham. 
Dr. Russell, moreover-one of the most accomplished littera- 
teurs British homoeopathy has known-having delivered some 
Clinical Lectures at the hospital, published them under this title 
in 1865. They embrace the subjects of Rheumatism, Epilepsy, 
Asthma, and Fever, and are as practical in teaching as they are 
pleasant in reading. The same physician had previously, in 
1861, adorned medical literature with his History and Heroes of 
the Art of Medicine, a biographical history of our craft, doing full 
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The same year, 1861, saw another part of the Repertory-the 
conclusion of the stomach symptoms, by Drs. Drysdale and 
Stokes, and those of the abdomen, by the same physicians aided 
by Dr. Hayward. The Hahnemann Publishing Society gave no 
further sign of life during the present decade. 
The British Journal of Homoeopathy and the Monthly Homoe- 
opathic Revieio continued their active career during this period. 
Many of the older contributors to the former had become silent, 
but many still worked on; and fresh pens came to their aid, as 
those of McGilchrist, Bayes, McLimont, Nankivell and Hughes. 
In the Monthly Review the names of Bayes, Madden, Meyhoffer 
of Nice, and Sharp are of most frequent and notable appearance. 
In 1866 another periodical began to appear monthly in our cause, 
the Homoeopathic World, edited by Dr. Ruddock. It took up 
the popular place which the Monthly Review was gradually vacat- 
ing, and has since filled it with much assiduity and profit to its 
readers. 
Controversy had now, save in the journals, almost done its 
work, and only revived on special occasions. One of these was 
the appearance of an article on Homoeopathy by Sir Benjamin 
Brodie in Frazer's Magazine (1861). It called forth answers, 
from Drs. Dudgeon, Marston, Drury and Sharp. Similar at- 
tacks on homoeopathy in Manchester and Southampton were 
repelled by Drs. Drummond and Rayner in the former case, by 
Dr. Cooper in the latter. Another occasion for discussion was 
the acceptance of our doctrine by physicians attached to public 
institutions, which gave us the pamphlets of Dr. Eubulus Wil- 
liams of Clifton (1867) and of Dr. Reith of Aberdeen (1868). 
Dr. Bayes's Homoeopathy in 1869 was the only other publication 
of this kind. Of expositions of our doctrines we may specify Dr. 
Ryan's little book On Infinitesimals (1864), an excellent defence 
of their efficiency. There were also numerous brochures of the 
kind from the pens of Drs. Batchelour, Cockburn, Collins, Craig, 
Eadon, Epps, Fleury, Flint, Hayward, Matheson, Morgan, 
Pope, McConnell, Reed and Wyld. 
A more important work now remained to be done, viz., the 
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scientific basis of the method. No independent works on this 
subject appeared; but two series of contributions to journals went 
on, one of which has already become, while the other promises 
soon to be, a book. We refer to Dr. Sharp's Essays in the 
Monthly Homoeopathic Review, and Dr. Drysdale's articles, com- 
mencing from 1867, in the British Journal of Homoeopathy. 
We shall have to speak of these writings again in the next period. 
Of practical works we have to note two as of especial worth, 
Dr. Yeldham's Homoeopathy in Venereal Diseases (1862) and 
Dr. Chepmell's Hints for the Practical Study of the Homoeopathic 
Method (1868). The former is invaluable for the practitioner, 
and the latter for the student. Of the same kind, but of more 
limited scope, are Dr. Wilkinson's pamphlet on Small-pox, Ery- 
sipelas, etc. (1864), Dr. Cooper's on Sulphur as a Remedy for 
Neuralgia and Intermittent Fever (1869), and Dr. Drury's volume 
on Cholera, Dysentery, etc. (1866). 
In 1867 an attempt was commenced by the present writer to 
provide a manual of homoeopathic practice for students and be- 
ginners. No introduction to the study of the Materia Medica, 
no broad statement of what homoeopathy can do for the various 
forms of diseases, and how she does it, was extant for the Eng- 
lish professional reader. A Manual of Pharmacodynamics to 
supply the former want was issued in 1867, and a Manual of 
Therapeutics to meet the latter in 1869. 
The only other work on Materia Medica produced in this de- 
cade was Mr. Buck's Outlines of Materia Medica and Regional 
Symptomatology (1865). It was well-intentioned, and displayed 
much industry; but it can hardly be said to have succeeded in 
winning the acceptance of our body. In this connection, how- 
ever, we must note the British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, 
which, under the auspices of the Society so named, and mainly 
edited by Dr. Madden, appeared in 1870. It was greatly needed, 
and was admirably calculated to fulfil its purpose. 
We conclude by mentioning the works on Veterinary Homoe- 
opathy published during this time by Messrs. Moore and Lord; 
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from the pens of Drs. Ruddock, Morgan, Drury, Massy, Epps, 
G. Cameron, Wyld and Neville Wood. 
Section 5. 1871-1875. 
Our last decade is but a lustrum as yet; but to complete this 
sketch its productions must be named. 
Its opening witnessed a revival of the Hahnemann Publishing 
Society, and the appearance, after twenty years' interval, of a 
second part of the Hahnemann Materia Medina. This was a 
monograph on Uranium nitricum, by Dr. Edward Blake, con- 
taining much original experimentation. In 1873 a third part 
followed, in the shape of an arrangement of Belladonna by Dr. 
Hughes. The Repertory of the Society was also taken in hand 
anew, and its sixth part appeared in 1874, consisting of the 
symptoms of the stools and rectum, by Dr. Herbert Nankivell. 
The same year saw the first instalment of another Repertory 
from the pen of Dr. Berridge, containing the symptoms of the 
eyes. In this no cipher is used. 
Of other works on Materia Medica we have to mention the 
Applied Homoeopathy of Dr. Bayes (1871), an interesting ac- 
count of his experience with the several remedies of our stock. 
A third edition of the Manual of Pharmacodynamics, containing 
the lectures delivered by the author at the London Homoeopathic 
Hospital, saw the light in 1875. 
I think I may venture to claim for British homoeopathy the 
treatise on Chronic Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, the first 
volume of which appeared in 1871. Though Dr. Meyhoffer is a 
German, and practices at Nice, yet his work was written in Eng- 
lish and published in England; and we should take the compli- 
ment ill if we did not claim the honor which it does to oui' 
literature. 
Dr. Bayes has worked in this field of practical medicine also, 
giving us a short essay On the Treatment of Typhoid Fever by 
Baptisia (1872). And Dr. Ruddock, hitherto known as a do- 
mestic therapeutist and popular expositor only, has put forth a 
Text-book of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (1874) of over 
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The domestic manuals still, by their multiplication, evidence 
a demand for homoeopathy in British families. Of this kind 
are-in the present period-Dr. Shuldham's Family Homoeopathy 
(1871), Dr. Gutteridge's Woman's Guide to Health (1871), Mr. 
Pope's Medical Handbook for Mothers (1873), and Dr. Hay- 
ward's Taking Cold, which in successive editions has expanded 
from a little pamphlet on the casualty it specifies to a complete 
manual of the lay treatment of acute disease. 
Dr. Drysdale and Dr. Sharp have continued their work upon 
the Institutes of Homoeopathy. The latter has collected the 
labors of twenty years into a handsome volume of Essays in Med- 
icine (1874), containing twenty-six separate publications ranging 
from 1852 to 1873, and treating of every point connected with 
our method. Dr. Drysdale has gone deeper still to find the basis 
of specific medication. In his Life and the Equivalence of Force 
(1870), and his Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874) he has inves- 
tigated the latest thoughts of science on that which is the subject 
of Medicine,-the living organism; and he proposes to follow 
these up by considering the stimuli of life, and drugs as one of 
them. When his work is completed, it will be a rock of firm 
foundation on which to stand; and homoeopathy will have a 
philosophy harmonious with modern knowledge, and of unassail- 
able soundness. 
The three journals-the British, the Monthly, and the World- 
continue to flourish. The Annals have, since 1870, appeared 
in the former. The revival of the Annual Congress has evoked 
a series of Presidential Addresses worthy of the distinguished 
men-Drysdale, Madden, Black, Sharp, Dudgeon, Bayes-who 
have delivered them; and these, with the papers and discussions 
of the gatherings, have enriched the pages of the Monthly Review. 
I now close this brief sketch. It seems to me that, consider- 
ing the small number of men-never more than three hundred 
at a time-who have embraced homoeopathy in Great Britain, 
the contribution of this country to the English literature of the 
system has not been inconsiderable. But the future alone can 
determine how much of it is worthy to live. 
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PART IV. 
The History and Details of British Legislation af- 
fecting Practitioners of Homceopathy, whether by 
the Government or Corporations. 
Alfred C. Pope, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng. 
From a strictly legal point of view the practice of homoeop- 
athy by a duly qualified member of the profession in no way 
affects his status or privileges. Until the year 1858 the laws 
of this country respecting the practice of medicine were in an 
anomalous condition. A person duly qualified to practice medi- 
cine or surgery in Scotland or Ireland was not legally qualified 
to do so in England. 
An English physician was only regarded as duly qualified by 
possessing the degree of the University of Oxford or Cambridge 
or that granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the license 
of the Royal College of Physicians of London. For general or 
family practice the only diploma constituting a legal qualifica- 
tion was that granted by the Society of Apothecaries under their 
act of 1815. Any person not holding one or other of these 
qualifications was liable to prosecution by the College of Phys- 
icians on the one hand or by the Society of Apothecaries on the 
other. 
The only occasion on which these powers have been exerted 
to the detriment of a homoeopathic physician was in the case of 
Dr. Quin in 1833. The threat of prosecution in that instance 
was not carried out. I believe that Mr. Clifton of Northamp- 
ton was also threatened with prosecution by the Society of 
Apothecaries on the ground of his not having received their 
license; but here also no legal proceedings were taken. 
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and surgery throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland was obtained. By that measure the exclusive priv- 
ileges of the English Universities, of the College of Physicians 
and the Society of Apothecaries were abolished. At the same 
time the degree granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury ceased 
to constitute a legal title to the privileges of the profession of 
Medicine. 
The draft of the bill presented to the House of Commons con- 
tained a clause giving power to the proposed Medical Council to 
erase from the register of legally qualified medical practitioners 
the name of any practitioner who could be charged with " irreg- 
ular" practice. As it was by this phrase that homoeopathy was 
commonly defined, and as it was left to the proposed Medical 
Council to determine what was and what was not "irregular" 
practice, those who were interested in sustaining the rights of 
homoeopathic practitioners exerted their influence to have this 
clause expunged. They succeeded. 
Clause xxviii of the bill authorized the Council to erase from 
the register the names of those who had been struck off from the 
lists of the College or Body to which they belonged, provided 
that such an act had been performed in the exercise of any power 
such college or body might possess. In order to prevent the 
exercise of any power of this kind unfairly to homoeopathic prac- 
titioners the following proviso was added to the clause: 
" Provided that the name of no person shall be erased from 
the Register on the ground of his having adopted any Theory of 
Medicine or Surgery." 
Further, in order to prevent a belief in homoeopathy being a 
barrier to entrance into the medical profession, the following 
clause (xxiii) was added to the act: 
" In case it shall appear to the General Council that an attempt 
has been made by any Body, entitled under this Act to grant 
Qualifications, to impose upon any Candidate offering himself for 
examination an obligation to adopt or refrain from adopting the 
Practice of any particular Theory of Medicine or Surgery as a 
test or condition of admitting him to examination, or of granting 
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the same to Her Majesty's most Honorable Privy Council and 
the said Privy Council may thereupon issue an Injunction to 
such Body so acting, directing them to desist from such Practice; 
and in the event of their not complying therewith, then to order 
that such Body shall cease to have the power of conferring any 
Right to be registered under this Act, so long as they continue 
such practice." 
All persons registered under this act as practitioners of medi- 
cine and surgery, whatever may be their therapeutic views, are 
equally entitled to perform all the functions pertaining to a 
legally qualified medical practitioner and all are in the enjoy- 
ment of the same privileges. 
From this report of the act of 1858 it will be seen that so far 
from British law having placed any impediments in the way of 
homoeopathy being practiced, it has been directed to the preven- 
tion of any such impediments being so placed by any College or 
Body which might be disposed to use its power to prevent its 
practice increasing. That such is the case homoeopathists will 
ever owe a debt of gratitude to Lord Ebury for his exertions on 
their behalf in the House of Lords and to the Hon. W. Cowper 
(now known as the Hon. W. Cowper-Temple) for his support in 
the House of Commons. 
The provision of medical attendance upon sick paupers con- 
stitutes a portion of the work of a department of government 
formerly known as the Poor-Law Board, but more recently as 
the Local Government Board. 
For the appointment of parochial medical officer all registered 
practitioners are equally eligible. The election to such an office 
rests with the Guardians of the Poor of each Union, subject to the 
confirmation of the Local Government Board. Thirty years ago 
the Poor-Law Board of the day acting under the advice of the 
President of the College of Physicians, refused to confirm the elec- 
tion of Mr. Newman to the appointment of medical officer of one of 
the districts of the Glastonbury Union. Twelve or fourteen years 
later and Mr. Harmar Smith was called upon by the Guardians 
of the Sheffield Union to resign his appointment as one of their 
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homoeopathy. More lately Dr. Wilde of Winchester received 
the appointment of medical officer to the most desirable district of 
the Winchester Union on the ground that he practiced homoeop- 
athy. For the same reason, Dr. Archer in 1871 was elected 
a medical officer of one of the districts of the Southampton 
Union. 
While therefore the avowed practice of homoeopathy consti- 
tutes no disqualification for the office of Poor-Law Surgeon, it is 
possible that in many instances a homoeopathic practitioner would 
fail to secure such an election through the influence that would 
be brought to bear upon the electing body, the local Board of 
Guardians. That such influence would not always be successful 
has however been sufficiently well proved. 
The appointment of Medical Officer of Health is open to all 
legally qualified medical men whether allopathic or homoeo- 
pathic. The only homoeopathic practitioner who has contested 
an election for such an appointment succeeded in obtaining it, 
although every effort was made both locally and through the 
medical press to prevent his success. The appointment was 
confirmed by the local Government Board notwithstanding the 
pressure exercised upon them to refuse their sanction of it.* 
The poor-law medical service is wretchedly ill paid and has 
but small attractions for men who are fully occupied in private 
practice. Hence it has been seldom sought after by homoeop- 
athists, who are as a rule sufficiently well employed without 
it, and consequently opportunities have but rarely occurred for 
testing the influence which an avowal of faith in homoeopathy 
would have over an election to such an appointment. 
Universities, Colleges, and Societies. 
The Scotch Universities, with the exception of that of Glas- 
gow, have each attempted to prevent Candidates for their degree 
who were known to be favorably disposed to homoeopathy being 
promoted. The University of Edinburgh and that of Aberdeen 
were successful each on- the occasion. No effort of the kind 
* Mr. Ainley, Halifax, Yorkshire. HOMOEOPATHY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
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has been made of late years, and now the Medical Act of 1858 
expressly forbids any such attempt being made. 
The Royal College of Physicians of London, some five-and- 
twenty years ago, declined to accede to the application of a 
medical man practicing homoeopathy requesting permission to 
present himself for examination. 
The College of Physicians of Edinburgh have refused admis- 
sion to their fellowship on the ground of the candidate's known 
faith in homoeopathy. 
The College of Physicians and that of Surgeons in Dublin have 
declared their intention to refuse their respective licenses to per- 
sons known to believe in homoeopathy. 
These bodies framed "declarations" to be signed by all can- 
didates prior to their receiving their licenses. The College of 
Surgeons ordained that "no Fellow or Licentiate of the college 
shall pretend or profess to cure disease by the deception called 
homoeopathy." This resolution was rendered harmless by its 
very terms, there being no such thing known as "the decep- 
tion called homoeopathy," and as no person, even though he be 
an Irishman, can possibly practice the unknown or even "pre- 
tend" so to do, it follows that the College "Ordinance" is power- 
less. And so I believe it has proved to be. 
The College of Physicians, desirous of not being left in the 
rear of its surgical brotherhood, either in folly or in an un- 
blushing effort to put the drag in the chariot-wheels of scien- 
tific medicine, also formulated a declaration somewhat after the 
fashion of the oath administered to the candidate in Moliere's 
Malade Ima ginair e. Its first sentence is as follows: "I engage 
not to practice any system or method (so called) for the cure or 
alleviation of disease of which the College has disapproved," etc. 
As this declaration was obscure, no "system or method" having 
been mentioned as having been placed under the ban of the Col- 
lege, a gentleman who was desirous of obtaining the license of 
a College of Physicians, wrote to the Registrai* of the College for 
an explanation, asking what those "systems or methods" were 
which had incurred the displeasure of the college, and whether 
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answer, which I give verbatim et literatim, was received by return 
of post: 
King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, 
Dublin, 15th October, 1861. 
Sir : In reply to your queries, I have to state that the College 
has not disapproved of any system. Canditate have to take 
the delcleration before being admitted. 
I am, sir, Your fai, 
Lombe Atthill. 
Remarking on this the editors of the British Journal of 
Homoeopathy (vol. xx, p. 160) write: "The veiled prophet re- 
moves his mask and behind it we discover-nothing at all. 
The systems and methods of treatment disapproved by the Col- 
lege and prohibited to its licentiates under fearful penalties 
have no existence! The College tries to scare its licentiates 
with bogie; but behind the sheet there is nothing. It makes 
a new decalogue, in which it threatens condign punishment to 
those who practice what it disapproves, and all the time it dis- 
approves of nothing; and yet it insists on candidates subscribing 
a declaration (or 'delcl eration/ as the Registrar writes it) which 
binds them to abstain from-nothing." 
It may appear singular but I believe that it is a fact that the 
perpetrator of such singular orthography as that contained in 
the choice missive I have quoted is a graduate in Arts as well as 
in Medicine of "Old Trinity" ! 
I am not aware of any instance in which an attempt has been 
made to enforce the terms of these resolutions. Every few years 
they are republished in all their pristine absurdity to scare away 
young men from the investigation of homoeopathy. They are 
however not regarded as worthy of notice. 
The Royal College of Surgeons of England stands almost if 
not quite alone among the examining bodies of this country in 
having publicly refused to regard a belief in homoeopathy as a 
barrier to admission to its membership. The Council of the Col- 
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candidates who were known to practice or who intended to 
practice homoeopathy. In 1852 or 1853 one Dr. Charles John 
Hale, of Sheffield, a member of the College, addressed the Council 
on this matter, demanding the expulsion from the College of all 
members thereof practicing homoeopathy, threatening as the 
penalty of refusal by the Council the return of the diploma he 
had received from them. The following resolution constituted 
the reply of the Council : 
"The Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 
have attentively and repeatedly considered the various communi- 
cations which they have received on the subject of homoeopathy; 
and after mature deliberation, have resolved that it is not expe- 
dient for the College to interfere in the matter." 
Dr. Charles John Hale was duly furnished with a copy of 
this resolution, but not only did he retain the diploma he had 
threatened to return in the event of his wishes not being satis- 
fied, but he subsequently applied to the College for his higher 
diploma of Fellow, and was admitted a fellow in 1866, some ten 
or twelve years after the date of his letter on homoeopathy. 
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries some years back an- 
nounced their intention of refusing their certificate to any person 
who should express his faith in homoeopathy. 
This perhaps is hardly surprising when it is remembered that 
the Society derives a considerable income from a wholesale and 
retail drugshop. 
There is, I think, very little doubt that now these resolutions 
would not be enforced in any of the Colleges that passed them, 
except perhaps in those of Ireland. 
Societies.-Of the established Medical Societies it may be said 
that nearly every one has on its minutes a resolution not to ad- 
mit or retain in its list of members any member of the profession 
known to be practicing homoeopathy. Several societies termed 
Medico-ethical were established in different parts of the coun- 
try many years ago, the chief end of which was to bind the 
members not to practice homoeopathy and not to meet in con- 
sultation any medical man who did so. 
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PART V. 
A Statement of Existing Means in Great Britain and 
Ireland for the Education of Young Physicians in 
the Science and Practice of Homoeopathy. 
William Bayes, M.D, 
Were I to restrict myself stringently to the enumeration of 
the existing means for the education of young physicians in the 
science and practice of homoeopathy, my whole paper would oc- 
cupy but very few lines; but I hope I may be pardoned if I ven- 
ture to trace very briefly some of the means to which the present 
practitioners of homoeopathy in Great Britain and Ireland are 
indebted for their practical knowledge of homoeopathy. 
As early as the years 1852-3, whilst the homoeopathic hospital 
was in Golden Square, Dr. Quin gave six lectures on " Some of 
the Most Important Diseases of the Human Frame," illustrating 
them with cases selected from the wards of the hospital. During 
the succeeding years, 1853-4, Dr. Leadam gave a course of lec- 
tures on the diseases of women. 
In the year 1859 the hospital was removed to the more ex- 
tensive building in Great Ormond Street, and clinical lectures 
were subsequently delivered during two sessions, 1862-3, and 
1863-4, "by Drs. Hamilton, Leadam and Bussell, and by Mr. 
(now Dr.) Yeldham, surgeoh to the hospital. They were discon- 
tinued from causes connected with the private practice of the 
physicians, viz., inability to find time, and from there being 
insufficient interest among medical men, who, it must be remem- 
bered, were much more antagonistic to homoeopathy than now."* 
Concurrently with the first of these efforts on the part of the 
* Communicated by Dr, Hamilton. HOMOEOPATHY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
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physicians to the London Homoeopathic Hospital, the officers 
of its rival hospital, the Hahnemann (since closed), instituted a 
still more complete series of lectures. 
Dr. Dudgeon delivered a course of lectures on the " Theory 
and Practice of Homoeopathy," Dr. John Epps on "Homoeo- 
pathic Therapeutics," and Dr. Curie on " Clinical Medicine." 
These lectures were delivered during one session, 1852-3, but 
unfortunately were not resumed in the following year.* 
Some of the lectures delivered at the London Homoeopathic 
Hospital were reported in the Annals of the British Homoeopathic 
Society, scattered through the first four volumes. Dr. Ruther- 
ford Russell's were reprinted in a volume entitled The Treat- 
ment of Rheumatism, Asthma, Epilepsy, and Fever. Dr. Dud- 
geon's lectures were also reprinted under the title of Lectures on 
the Theory and Practice of Homoeopathy. 
As an interesting episode in the history of homoeopathic teach- 
ing in Great Britain I subjoin a short communication from Dr. 
Black. It shows how much may be done by the self-sacrificing 
efforts of a few noble, public-spirited minds: 
"A dispensary was opened at Edinburgh in 1842 by Drs. 
Russell and Black with the view of not only allowing the poor 
to experience the benefits of homoeopathy but also affording a 
field for demonstrating to the profession the practice of this new 
system of therapeutics. From the very first the attendance of 
indoor patients was large and as much time was devoted to the 
treatment of acute cases at the homes of the poor there was good 
material for clinical teaching. This was never carried out sys- 
tematically but limited to conversations. During the early years 
of this dispensary it was attended by various medical men and 
students, many of whom became distinguished advocates of homoe- 
opathy. The publication of the first report was the signal for a 
violent and abusive attack by the Edinburgh medical press, 
which was steadily persevered in so that at last medical students 
became afraid to attend. In 1848 the marked success attending 
the treatment of a prevailing epidemic of fever led the commit- 
* Communicated by Dr. Dudgeon. 142 
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tee of management of the dispensary to petition the Edinburgh 
Parochial Boards for hospital space, in which the treatment of 
this disease as well as of cholera, which was impending, might 
be publicly tested. This appeal met with no favorable reply. 
When the cholera broke out the medical staff, consisting of Drs. 
Russell, Wielobycki, Zynchinski, and Sutherland, aided by Dr. 
Cockburn and Dr. Atkin, resolved to keep the dispensary open 
day and night, with one of them in constant attendance. Act- 
ing in this devoted manner a large number of cases was treated, 
and the report of this epidemic is the last contribution which 
this dispensary has given to clinical teaching." 
In a letter from Dr. Black, inclosing the above, he says: 
"There was no systematic teaching; but Russell and I were 
young, full of enthusiasm, and so galled by the profession that 
we threw all our energies into what might advance homoeopathy 
through our dispensary, and we heeded little for private prac- 
tice." 
Before entering upon the body of my subject I deem it well 
to chronicle the following short notice of the arrest of homoeo- 
pathic teaching in Aberdeen, where for some years our talented 
confrere, Dr. Dyce Brown, had given practical instruction to not 
a few medical students. In answer to my question as to the 
means which existed in Aberdeen for homoeopathic instruction, 
I received the following letter from Dr. Dyce Brown : 
"I am sorry to say since last April (1875) I have not been 
able to do as I used to do, no longer having my dispensary ap- 
pointment. When there I always had about six pupils with me, 
who came for six months each, and to whom I first gave a lec- 
ture explanatory of what homoeopathy really is, and as we ex- 
amined each case, I explained the principles of the treatment 
and the action of each medicine prescribed, with its indications. 
I have had, however, some enemies among the board of Direc- 
tors, who have for some time back been trying various means 
to get me out. Last year they succeeded in getting a rule passed 
by which one of the six medical officers should go out annually, 
not by rotation, which would have been intelligible, but by bal- 
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the principle, and the medical society took it up, but decided on 
not taking any action or steps, as they believed such a rule would 
never be put into operation. At the meeting in April, however, 
they were told that the rule was to be acted on, and I was bal- 
loted out I The Provost, who is chairman, told me afterwards 
that he was much surprised when he found that it was I who 
was to go out, and if he could have overturned it he would. The 
work was beginning to be cumbersome in my time, but I do 
regret it mainly on account of my thus being deprived of the 
opportunity of sowing the good seed among the students. I half 
think in the meantime of giving a course of lectures on homoe- 
opathy and homoeopathic therapeutics perhaps during the sum- 
mer session, and as I am well known among the students I 
think I could get a class. However, this is only in the future." 
It will thus be seen that the only means really existing in 
Great Britain and Ireland up to the year 1874 for the education 
of young physicians in the science and art of homoeopathy have 
been such as they could attain by self-exertion, patient study 
from our books and literature, or obtain by attending at our 
hospitals and dispensaries, aided by such private teachings as 
they could reach through their knowledge of some practitioner 
of homoeopathy. The want of regular systematic teaching had 
long been felt, and had been insisted on in many articles in our 
periodical literature, but no action was taken till the year 1874. 
In his address at the close of his term of vice-presidency of the 
British Homoeopathic Society in this year, the writer impressed 
upon the Society that one of its duties was to provide means for 
the systematic instruction of young physicians in the science of 
homoeopathy. In response to this suggestion Dr. Richard 
Hughes wrote to him expressing his willingness to deliver a 
course of lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Thera- 
peutics, if the Hospital Board of Management would permit him 
to do so, at the hospital. The Board of Management referred 
Dr. Hughes's offer to the Medical Council. Unfortunately the 
council was divided in opinion and the majority decided against 
the advisability of attempting the public teaching of homoeopa- 
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est felt in the subject to insure its success.. This rejection did 
not however discourage the promoters of this movement, and 
the writer and Dr. Dudgeon brought the matter forward at the 
next meeting of the British Homoeopathic Society. The follow- 
ing resolution was the result: 
"At a meeting of the British Homoeopathic Society held on 
Thursday, November the 5th, 1874, the following resolution 
was passed. Proposed by Dr. Bayes, seconded by Dr. Dudgeon, 
and carried : 
" That in consideration of the feeling expressed by many mem- 
bers of the British Homoeopathic Society, that the time has come 
when courses of lectures shall be delivered in Great Britain, in 
which the science and practice of homoeopathy should be taught, 
the Society appoints a committee composed of the following gen- 
tlemen to examine into the question and report upon it:" Drs. 
Hamilton, Yeldham, Dudgeon, Black, Drysdale, Drury, Leadam 
and Bayes; Dr. Bayes to act as Honorary Secretary and Convener. 
The committee exercised the power to add to their num- 
ber by electing the lecturers and the internal officers of the 
hospital staff as ex officio members, and at the first meeting, on 
December 29th, 1874, of the committee the following gentle- 
men met: Drs. Yeldham, Leadam, Drury, Dudgeon, Hale, 
Mackechnie and Bayes. The committee recommended that 
courses of lectures should be delivered at the hospital, one lec- 
ture each week on the following subjects: 1st, on the Theory 
and Principles of Homoeopathy, by Dr. Dudgeon; 2dly, on 
Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Therapeutics, by Dr. Richard 
Hughes; 3dly, on Clinical Medicine, by the officers of the hos- 
pital staff. They further recommended that Drs. Dudgeon and 
Bayes should be appointed to carry out the details. In accord- 
ance with these recommendations, which were unanimously 
adopted, the British Homoeopathic Society appointed Dr. Richard 
Hughes to deliver a course of lectures on Homoeopathic Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics. Dr. Dudgeon was deputed to give 
two introductory lectures on the Theory and Practice of Homoe- 
opathy, and Dr. R. Douglas Hale was requested to deliver a 
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him was on some acute diseases of the chest, Laryngitis, Bron- 
chitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy. These lectures were delivered 
weekly at the London Homoeopathic Hospital and were attended 
by a small but attentive class of medical students and young 
physicians. The success of the first session of these lectures 
(1874-5) was such as to induce the Society to determine on their 
continuance during the present session (1875-6). Dr. Bayes 
being requested to deliver the introductory lecture on October 
7th, 1875, Dr. Richard Hughes was again appointed to deliver 
a course on Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Therapeutics on 
each succeeding Thursday, while at the conclusion of his course 
the following courses on homoeopathic medicine are to be de- 
livered by the medical officers to the hospital and by Dr. Drys- 
dale : 1st. Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs, by Dr. 
Mackechnie (one of the physicians to the London Homoeopathic 
Hospital); 2d. Lectures on Diseases of Children .... by Dr. 
Drury, physician to Diseases of Children at the London Homoe- 
opathic Hospital; 3d. Lectures on Diseases of the Chest .... 
by Dr. R. Douglas Hale (one of the physicians to the London 
Homoeopathic Hospital); 4th. Lectures on Diseases of Women 
. ... by Dr. Duncan Matheson (physician to Diseases of 
Women at the London Homoeopathic Hospital); 5th. Lectures on 
the Theory of the Homoeopathic Principle, by Dr. J. Drysdale. 
The organization of these lectures is very simple. The British 
Homoeopathic Society pays the expenses incurred for printing 
and advertising. A Lecture Committee, consisting of Drs. 
Black, Drysdale, Yeldham, Leadam, Hamilton, Dudgeon, Mac- 
kechnie, Drury, R. Douglas Hale, Richard Hughes, Matheson, 
James Jones and Bayes have the control of the general manage- 
ment. This committee is only called together on special occa- 
sions. It has appointed Drs. Dudgeon and Bayes a sub-com- 
mittee, to make arrangements and to conduct details, and Dr. 
Bayes is appointed the Honorary Secretary. There is a farther 
intention to organize regular clinical instruction at the hospital 
on one or two days in each week. The hospital is capable of 
accommodating seventy patients, but the funds only permit of 
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poses of clinical instruction, but it is to be hoped that the present 
movement will show both professional and lay homoeopaths the 
need of greater exertion, and that we may soon see the seventy 
beds all filled. Our present session (1875-6) has commenced 
most encouragingly. The introductory lecture was fully at- 
tended, and the Secretary has registered twenty-one students, 
many of whom are physicians of the old school desiring to study 
the system of homoeopathic therapeutics. There is no other at- 
tempt at a systematic teaching of homoeopathy in Great Britain 
or Ireland. There are hospitals at Birmingham and Bath. 
(The latter is very small.) There are many excellent dispensa- 
ries in different towns and cities, foremost among which that of 
Liverpool holds its preeminent position. Physicians desiring to 
see the practical working of the homoeopathic system can learn 
much at these institutions. At Liverpool, for example, Dr. 
Drysdale remarks, in a letter in response to our inquiry, " I am 
sorry I cannot say there is any clinic or systematic means of in- 
struction at our dispensary, nor would it be of any use if there 
were, as far as I can see, for nobody would come to it; the 
students of the medical school certainly not, and the younger 
medical men may come now if they choose. There are plenty of 
opportunities for any one to learn our practice at the dispensary 
if he is willing, but we can hardly say we have any persons who 
can be reported as students. It is true some medical men have, 
at times, taken advantage of the opportunity, but these are very 
few, and generally their conversion has been made in some other 
way before they came. The chief advantage of this dispensary, 
as a school, is the house surgeoncy (which gives a man a house 
and a salary of <£100 per annum), which has given experience to 
many young men; but of course they were converts before they 
took the place. We have also two or three posts as stipendiary 
medical officers (salary from £50 to £75 per annum), who are 
allowed private practice. This has been found useful, and has 
encouraged some medical men to settle here in practice." Al- 
though it will be seen that our "existing means" for the public 
instruction of young physicians in the science and art of homoe- 
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is to be hoped that the question now fairly placed before us and 
the foundation having been prosperously begun that we may, 
in each succeeding year, see an increment of superstructure that 
may result in the firm institution of a School of Homoeopathic 
Therapeutics. 
William Bayes, M.D. 
4 Granville Place, Portman Square, W. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL 
REPORT 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC 
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE. CONTENTS. 
Part I. General Report on the Rise and Progress of 
Homoeopathy in France Drs. Rafinesque, Degermann 
and Claude, and Messrs. 
Catellan Bros. 
Part II. Report on French Homoeopathic Literature, . Drs. Molin, Champeaux, Frh- 
dault, Cretin, Gounard 
and GuArin-Meneville. 
Part III. Report on Legislation in France affecting 
Homoeopathy, Mons. H. Becker. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT ON 
HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
PART I. 
General Report on the Rise and Progress of Homoe- 
opathy in France. 
By Drs. Bafinesque, Degf.rmann and Claude, and Messrs. 
Catellan Bros. 
Forty-eight years ago (1828) Hahnemann or his doctrine 
was scarcely known in France, while homoeopathy had numer- 
ous adherents in Germany and Italy. 
At this epoch Count des Guidi, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor 
of Science, and Inspector of the University at Lyons, was in 
Naples. Unsuccessful in arresting the supposed fatal malady 
of his wife, who accompanied him to get the benefit of the Baths 
of Pozzuoli, he was induced to consult Dr. de Romani, who was 
enjoying at Naples a great reputation as a homoeopathic phy- 
sician. 
The cure of his wife by Dr. de Romani's treatment produced 
a profound impression on Count des Guidi and induced him to 
study the doctrines of Hahnemann, and under the direction of 
Drs. de Romani and de Horatiis, he followed assiduously their 
homoeopathic clinic in the Hospital of the Trinity. 
In 1830, at the age of sixty-three years, Dr. des Guidi returned 
to Lyons and devoted himself to the practice of homoeopathy, 
whose benefits he proclaimed aloud, and whose scientific value 
he demonstrated a little later in that magnificent Letter to the 152 
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Physicians of France, which has been translated into all lan- 
guages, and which contains a luminous and eloquent exposition 
of the new medical doctrine. 
Such was the beginning of homoeopathy in France. 
While Dr. des Guidi was sharing his convictions with a cer- 
tain number of physicians who had gathered around him, Dr. 
Antoine Petroz, a physician of high standing in Paris, known 
by his work in the Grand Dictionary of Medical Sciences [Grand 
dictionnaire des sciences medicales'), was abandoning the beaten 
path of classical medicine and unfurling the flag of homoeop- 
athy. 
Paris immediately became the headquarters of the new doc- 
trine, the principal centre of its propagation. There all the 
earliest workers grouped around or near P6troz,-Curie pere, 
Gueyrard, the elder, Leon-Simon pore, Dezauche, Leboucher, 
Roth, Davet, Molin pere, Jahr, Libert, Croserio, Cabarrus, Ar- 
naud, Blanc, Laburthe, Franco, Lafitte, Perry, Chancerel pere. 
Let us name by himself the most glorious of all, Hahnemann, 
who pitched his tent at Paris in 1835. 
The provinces were not behindhand, the following physicians 
ranging themselves under the banner of homoeopathy: Desaix, 
Chazal, Rapou, Noack, at Lyons; Gastier, at Choisy; Laville 
de Laplaigne, at Dijon; Deschamps, at Torigni (?); Delaval- 
lade, at Aubusson; Charg6, Rampal, Gillet, Sollier, at Mar- 
seilles; Rigaud, at Pons; Perrusel, at Nantes; Nunez, Leon- 
Marchand, Bourges, de Bonneval, at Bordeaux ; Cronigneau, 
professor, adjunct of the School of Dijon, at Dijon; Gachassin, 
at Toulouse; Roux, at Cette; Andrieu, adjunct professor of the 
Faculty of Montpellier, at Agen; Granier, at Nimes; Juvin, 
Crepu, at Grenoble; the illustrious professor d'Amador, at 
Montpellier. 
Among the physicians of our school whose loss we have to de- 
plore, we will cite those who have served our cause with the most 
glory by speech, by the pen, or by success in practice: Hahne- 
mann, Curie pere, Des Guidi, Desaix, Gueyrard, the elder, Li- 
bert, Croserio, Molin pere, Prof. d'Amador, Timbart, Gabalda, 
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chant, Leon-Simon pore, Cabarrus, Davet, Desterne, Milcent, 
and finally Jahr, who died in Belgium some months ago, who 
belonged to France by his long residence and the numerous 
works he published here. 
There are to-day about three hundred and fifty homoeopathic 
physicians in France, of whom seventy are in Paris. Several 
have been internes and laureates of the hospitals; some belong 
to the official schools as professors. We will mention Dr. Im- 
bert-Gourbeyre, professor in the school of Clermont Ferrand ; 
Parlier, adjunct (agrege) professor in the school of Montpellier; 
Crossigneau, adjunct (agrege) professor at the school of Dijon. 
Physicians in Paris. 
Antraigues, 
Belet, 
Bertrand-Denamp, 
Bon, 
Boyer, 
Brand, 
Buchle, 
Champeaux, 
Chancerel pdre, 
Chancerel fils, 
Chanet, 
Chapuset pore, 
Chapuset fils, 
Claude, 
Clement, 
Conan, 
Conqueret, 
Cramoisy, 
Cretin, 
Davet, 
Dervillez, 
Dezanche, 
Dezermaux, 
Dubourg, 
Fiedault, 
Fournier, 
Franco, 
Gounard, 
Guerin-Meneville, 
Heermann, 
Hermel, 
Hoffman, 
Jousset, 
Lavi lie, 
Lebouclier, 
Leon-Simon pere, 
Leon-Simon fils, 
Leriche, 
Le Thiere, 
Love, 
Magnan, the elder, 
Magnan, the younger, 
Mailliot, 
Mercier, 
Molin, 
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Oldendorf, 
Ozanam, 
Partenay, 
PenoySe pore, 
Penoyee fils, 
Perrussel fils, 
Perry, 
Pitet, 
Poirson, 
Poppleton, 
Du Planty, 
Rafinesque, 
Raymond, 
Rochet, 
Roth, 
Roussel, 
Secretain, 
Serrand fils, 
Silvestre, 
Suberbie, 
Tessier fils, 
Teste, 
Tissier, 
Viollett. 
Of the physicians of the departments we have made efforts to 
have a complete list in time, but have not succeeded. We hope 
to before the opening of the congress. 
Pharmacies. 
The honor of having founded the first exclusively homoeo- 
pathic pharmacy in Paris belongs to Henri Petroz (brother of 
the well-known physician, Antoine Petroz), a member of the 
Royal Academy of Medicine. In 1833 he began to prepare 
medicines and put up the prescriptions of the few physicians, 
and in May, 1837, opened his pharmacy. Shortly aftei' Messrs. 
Catellan Brothers took direction of it, and moved it to its pres- 
ent location in Rue du Helder. 
There are now in France fourteen exclusively homoeopathic 
pharmacies, eight in Paris and six in the departments. In Paris 
Catellan Brothers have five, George Weber one, Derode & 
Deffes one, and Charles Weber one. At Lyons there are two, 
Lembert's and Bernay's; at Marseilles two, Trichon's and Bor- 
relly's; and at Bordeaux also two, Alexandra's and De Bachone's. 
There are in addition to these some mixed pharmacies at Passy, 
Paris, Nimes, Avignon, Nantes, Pau, Bayonne, Nice, and Al- 
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Hospitals. 
In 1832 Dr. Gastier introduced homoeopathy into the "Hos- 
pice de Choissy " (Ain), and obtained remarkable success. He 
left the hospital in 1848, being appointed deputy to the National 
Assembly. Later it was introduced by Dr. Leon Marchant into 
the hospital Saint Andra, at Bordeaux, from which it was ex- 
cluded in 1849. Afterwards it was introduced in the hospital 
of Carentan (Manche), by Dr. Seelies, of Mt. Desert, who is 
still there; then in the hospital of Bourgueil (Indre and Loire), 
by Dr. Chauvet, who has since changed his residence to Tours; 
and finally at the hospital of Roubaix, by Dr. Liagre, an ex- 
military physician. 
For the hospitals at Choissy and Bourgueil, the administrative 
commission stated officially (of the former January 2d, 1846, and 
of the latter May 17th, 1860) the superiority of the homoeo- 
pathic treatment. For the hospital of Roubaix, Dr. Liagre has 
published statistics giving the same result. 
To Dr. Tessier is due the honor of introducing homoeopathy 
into the hospitals in Paris. He practiced it in his wards at the 
Hospital Sainte Marguerite (Hotel Dieu, Annexe), at the Hos- 
pital Beaujon, and the Hospital for Infants. It was during his 
service that he converted a large number of distinguished in- 
ternes and outside physicians: Timbart,Gabalda,Escallier, Mil- 
cent, Davasse, Jousset, Fredault, Ozanam, Champeaux, Hermel, 
and Dr. Gounard, who has collected and reproduced his lectures 
in the most faithful manner. 
Tessier practiced homoeopathy in the hospitals from 1847 to 
1862. In reply to the incessant attacks of his adversaries, the 
administration published officially a comparative table of the re- 
sults obtained in three years (1849, '50, '51) by the homoeopathic 
method in the wards of Dr. Tessier containing one hundred 
beds, and the old method in the wards of Drs. Valleix and Ma- 
rotte (same hospital) containing ninety-nine beds. The com- 
parison was in favor of the homoeopathic treatment because, first, 
there was less mortality; second, the patients were a shorter time 
in the hospital; third, there was considerable reduction in the 
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To-day there are three homoeopathic hospitals in France: 
1st. The Hahnemann Hospital, founded in Paris in 1869, Rue 
Laugier, 26, quarter des Fermes. Staff: Chancerel fils, Boyer, 
Leon-Simon pere, Leon-Simon fils. 
2d. The Hospital Saint Jacques, founded in Paris in 1870, 
Rue Saint Jacques, 282. Staff: Drs. Jousset, Fredault, Gounard, 
Molin, Cretin, Love. Consulting physicians, Drs. Perry, Chanet, 
Ozanam, Cramoisy. 
3d. The Hospital Saint Luc, founded at Lyons in 1875. 
Staff: Drs. Emery and Cartier. 
Gratuitous consultations take place every morning in these 
hospitals. 
Homoeopathy is practiced, at least partially, at the hospitals 
of Carentan (Manche), of Vatan (Indre), and of Sens (Yonne). 
Dispensaries. 
The first dispensary established in Paris is at 8 Rue Git-le- 
Coeur. It was attended with the greatest zeal by Drs. Petroz, 
Leon-Simon pere, Davet, Molin pere, Jahr and Croserio. 
A second one was established at Rue Marmousets, by Messrs. 
Lafitte, Perry, Pitet and Leboucher. 
Finally, in February, 1838, Mr. Duquesnay, cure of Saint 
Laurent, to-day Bishop of Limoges, established at Paris, in his 
parish, a homoeopathic dispensary, with the professional aid of 
Drs. Charge, Escallier, Patin, Sarrand pere, and later, Dervillez. 
The very satisfactory results were published in a printed report 
in 1860. 
There are now in Paris five homoeopathic dispensaries, estab- 
lished by Messrs. Catellan Brothers, with the gratuitous attend- 
ance of several physicians. The medicine is furnished free 
to those only who cannot afford to pay. The dispensaries are 
located at 17 Rue de* la Chauss6 d'Antin, 27 Rue du Faubourg 
du Temple, 41 Rue de Verneuil, 106 Rue du Faubourg Saint 
Honore and 32 Rue des Bourdonnair. 
There are also some homoeopathic dispensaries in the principal 
cities of the provinces, at Lyons, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Nantes, 
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Societies. 
The first homoeopathic society was organized in 1834 at Paris, 
under the name of Homoeopathic Institute (Institut homoeo- 
pathique). Drs. Petroz, Gueyrard the elder, Croserio, Leon- 
Simon pere, Arnaud, Leboucher, Curie pere, Davet, Dezanche, 
were members. 
From 1832 a homoeopathic society had been established under 
the name of Societe Gallicane. It was t'o hold yearly meet- 
ings in one of the cities. The first and second sessions were held 
at Geneva, the third at Lyons, and the fourth and last at Paris, 
in 1835, under the presidency of Hahnemann. 
Later, in 1845, the Homoeopathic Institute was replaced by 
the Society of Homoeopathic Medicine (Societe de Medecine 
Homoeopathique). Besides there was established, in 1846, the 
Hahnemannian Society (Societe Hahnemannienne). 
In 1850, at the instance of Drs. Gastier and Delavallade, 
deputies to the National Assembly, the two were united in one, 
which took the name of Societe Gallicane, which must not be 
confounded with the former one under the same name, which 
ceased to exist fifteen years before. 
There is to-day but one society, which in 1860 took the name 
of Homoeopathic Medical Society of France (Societe Medicale 
Homoeopathique de France). It meets semi-monthly at Paris, 
at No 31 Cite d'Antin. Its officers, elected yearly, were as fol- 
lows for 1875: President, Dr. Gounard; Vice-Presidents, Drs. 
Champeaux and Rafiuesque; General Secretary, Dr. Molin; 
Recording Secretary, Dr. Claude; Treasurer, Dr. Parthenay; 
Recorder, Dr. Guerin-Meneville. 
There is no homoeopathic society in the departments. 
Journals. 
The first journal in France devoted to the defence and propa- 
gation of the new doctrine was established in 1833 by Drs. 
Curie pere and Leon-Simon pere. There were a number of 
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In 1834, Journal de la Medecine Homoeopathique, by Drs. 
Leon-Simon pere and Curie pere. 
In the same year the Archive de la Medecine Homoeopathique 
was published, first under the direction of Dr. Jourdan, member 
of the Royal Academy of Medicine, then under the editorship 
of Drs. Jourdan, Leon-Simon pere and Curie pere, and after- 
wards edited by Drs. Libert and Leon-Simon pere. 
In 1840 appeared the Journal de la doctrine Hahnemannienne, 
by Dr. Molin pere. 
In the same year, the Revue critique el retrospective de la Ma- 
tiere Medicale, by Drs. Charge, Petroz and Roth. 
In 1842 appeared Annates de la Medecine Homoeopathique, by 
Drs. Leon-Simon pere, Jahr and Croserio. 
In 1845 was published the Journal de la Medecine Homoeo- 
pathique, by the members of the Societe Hahnemannienne, and 
also the Bulletin de la Societe Homoeopathique de Paris, by the 
members of the Homoeopathic Society of Paris. 
In 1850 the Societe Gallicane published the Journal de la So- 
ciete Gallicane de Medecine Homoeopathique de Paris. 
The same year Drs. Roth and Davet de Beauzepaire, after- 
wards Dr. Roth alone, published the Gazette Homoeopathique de 
Paris. 
In 1857, Dr. Driard published Le Propagateur Homoeo- 
pathique. 
In 1861, Dr. Jahr published the Bulletin de VArt de Querie. 
At Avignon, in 1853, under direction of Dr. Bechet,, there 
was published the Pevue Homoeopathique. du Midi. 
At Bordeaux, in 1847, Drs. Ebers, Marchant and Gue pub- 
lished the Gazette Homoeopathique de Bordeaux. 
At Marseilles, in 1848, the Revue Homoeopathique du Midi was 
published by a society of physicians, under the direction of Dr. 
Charge. 
At Nantes, in 1845, appeared L' Observateur Homoeopathique 
de la Loire-inferieure, by Dr. Perrussel. 
At Rouen, in 1852, Dr. Lecoupeur published Medecine Homoeo- 
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At Metz, in 1869, appeared the Gazette Homoeopathique de 
Metz, edited by Dr. Roussel. 
To-day there are five journals in France devoted to the de- 
fence and propagation of Hahnemann's doctrine. They all are 
monthlies, and are: 
Bulletin de la Societe Medicate Homoeopathique de France. It 
first appeared in 1860. L'Art Medicate, founded in 1835 by J. 
P. Tessier, and continued by his disciples. L' Hahnemannisme, 
founded in 1868 by Dr. Leon-Simon and his associates. La 
Bibliotheque Homoeopathique, founded in 1868 by Dr. Charge, 
and continued by Drs. Pitet, Magnan, Leboucher, Heermann 
and others. The above four are published in Paris. The fifth is 
published at Nimes, by Dr. Peladan, L'Homoeopathic des Families 
et des Med^cins. It first appeared in 1875. 
Public Lectures. 
The first lecture on the doctrine of Hahnemann was given 
January 26th, 1835, at the Royal Athenseum, by Dr. Leon- 
Simon pere. The course of Dr. Simon from 1836 to 1841 was 
given at the Athenseum, and from 1841 to 1845 in an amphi- 
theatre of the Rue de Sorbonne. In 1869 Dr. Leon-Simon fils 
held some conferences at la Salle Gerson (annexed to the Sor- 
bonne), which is consecrated to the free lectures instituted by 
the Minister of Public Instruction. Some conferences were held 
in Paris in 1863 and 1864, by Drs. Jousset, Milcent and Fre- 
dault, at the homoeopathic dispensary. From 1864 to 1868 Dr. 
Jousset held them in Paris, in the quarter of the School of Medi- 
cine; Drs. Jousset and Gounard at the Hospital Saint Jacques; 
Dr. Gounard at the hall of the Boulevard de Capucines; Dr. 
Granier at Nimes; Dr. Arreat at Toulouse; Dr. Imbert-Gour- 
beyre, professor at the School of Clermont-Ferrand, at Nice. 
Homoeopathic Congresses. 
Several Congresses have been held in France, in order to hasten 
the progress of the doctrine. The first, held in Lyons in 1833, 
was presided over by Count des Guidi. The second one, at 160 
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Paris in 1835, was presided over by Hahnemann, who had just 
taken up his residence in our capital. The third, in 1851, also 
at Paris, was presided over by Dr. Petroz. Dr. Quin, of Lon- 
don, who introduced homoeopathy into England, was elected 
Honorary President. The fourth was held at Bordeaux in 1854, 
Drs. Leon-Simon, Count des Guidi and Marquis de Nunez were 
Honorary Presidents. The fifth was in 1855, in Paris, and pre- 
sided over by Dr. Petroz, Dr. Nunez being Honorary President. 
The sixth was at Brussels in 1856, over which Dr. Cartier, mem- 
ber of the Royal Academy of Belgium, presided. The Honorary 
Presidents were von Boenninghausen, of Munster, Varlez, mem- 
ber of the Royal Academy of Belgium, and Petroz of Paris. 
Although this Congress was held in Brussels we claim it for 
France because it was organized by the Central Homoeopathic 
Commission of Paris,* and also because it gave occasion to re- 
produce the noble words spoken at the opening of the session by 
the worthy President of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Bel- 
gium, Dr. Fallot, who said, "Whatever differences of doctrine 
or practice might exist they were striving for the same end, the 
search after truth, and doing the most good possible, and his 
colleagues would second their effort." The seventh, in 1867, 
was held in Paris, and presided over by Dr. Imbert-Gourbeyre, 
professor in the School of Clermont, and Dr. Nunez, Honorary 
President. The Homoeopathic Medical Society of France was 
authorized to collect funds and organize a homoeopathic hospital 
in Paris. It resulted in the establishment of the Hospital Saint 
Jacques. 
This is the history of homoeopathy in France. Such is its 
* The Central Homoeopathic Commission was appointed by the Congress 
held in Paris in 1835, to have general supervision over the propagation of 
homoeopathy, and to represent the physicians before the public and govern- 
ment. It did this in the suit against Dr. Moreau d'Angouleme (for illegal 
pharmacy), and in the suit for defamation brought against the Medical 
Union by the homoeopathic physicians. It was composed of Drs. Cretin, 
Escallier, Jahr, Leboucher, Leon-Simon pere, Love, Molin in Paris, Charge 
at Tamaris, Comte de Bonneval and Leon-Marchant at Bordeaux, Gastier 
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actual condition. Left to its own strength, without aid of any 
sort, with no other influence than its daily successes, it has fol- 
lowed its course, with a firm and sure step, across obstacles 
thrown in its way by prejudice, by routine and by interests. To- 
day the ground is in great measure cleared, hostile passions are 
more restrained, and the new doctrine makes rapid progress. 
Public opinion registers its remarkable cures, and puts them in 
comparison with the reverses or the powerlessness of official 
medicine. 162 
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PART II. 
Report on French Homceopathic Literature. 
In the session of March 15th, 1875, Dr. Gounard presiding, 
the order of the day brought up the discussion of the American 
correspondence published in the Bulletin of February 1st, 1875. 
The Society appointed three Commissions to reply to the 
various paragraphs of the letter of Dr. Carroll Dunham, Presi- 
dent of the Committee of Arrangements of the World's Homoe- 
opathic Convention of Philadelphia. 
The second of these Commissions, consisting of Drs. Molin, 
Champeaux, Fredault, Cretin, Gounard and Guerin-Meneville, 
the Librarian-archiveste of the Society, was instructed to pre- 
pare a historical and statistical report on French homoeopathic 
literature, in response to paragraph three of said letter. 
The following is the report of the Commission. 
J. Gu&rin-Meneville, D. M. P., 
Reporter. 
To the Committee of Arrangements of the 
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REPORT. 
French Homoeopathic Literature may be divided into 
I. Works treating especially of Homoeopathy. 
II. Works treating of general medicine, and of all other 
accessory sciences, but from the pen of homoeopathic physicians. 
The first division may be subdivided into 
1. Works on Practical Homoeopathy. 
2. Works on Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 
3. Collections and Periodicals. 
4. Memoirs, Notices, and Miscellaneous Writings, having 
for their object the propagation and defence of Homoeopathy. 
The second division may also be subdivided into 
Works treating of Anatomy, 
Physiology, 
Pathology, 
General Medicine, 
Miscellaneous Subjects. 164 
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FIRST DIVISION. 
First Subdivision-Practical Homoeopathic Medicine. 
La pratique de 1'homoeopathie simplifi^e. Paris, 1874. 1 vol. 
in-18. 346 pages. Par le Dr. A. Espanet. 
Elements de medecine pratique, comprenant le traitement ho- 
moeopathique de chaque inaladie. 2 vols. in-8 d'environ 
chacun. 520 pages. Dr. P. Jousset. 
Traitement homceopathique des maladies des organes de la res- 
piration. Paris, 1874. Grand in-8 de 454 pages. Par 
le Dr. A. ChargS. 
Guide du m6decin homoeopathe au lit du malade, pour le traite- 
ment de plus de mille maladies, et repertoire du therapeutique 
appliqu6e. Traduction faite sur la 8e edition AHemand du 
Dr. Hirschel, en 1874. 540 pages. Dr. V. Leon-Simon. 
(There was a previous edition of 1858, of 331 pages, by the 
same.) 
Formulaire pathogenetique usuel, on guide homceopathique pour 
traiter soi-m£me les maladies. 4e edition, augmentee, 1872. 
In-18 de 582 pages. Dr. J. Prost-Lacuzon. 
Medecine homceopathique domestique, par le Dr. Hering. Tra- 
duction nouvelle, augmentee d'indications nombreuses, et 
pr6ced6e de conseils d'hygiene et de therapeutique generale. 
6e edition. Paris, 1873. In-12 de 738 pages et 169 figs. 
Dr. Leon-Simon. 
La syphilis debarrassee de se dangers, par la medecine homoeopa- 
thique. Avis important pour les femmes, et considerations 
nouvelles sur la gale, les scrofules, les dartres, et autres 
affections de la peau. 1874. In-18 de 54 pages. Dr. 
Achille Hoffmann. 
Clinique homceopathique, on recueil des toutes les observations 
pratiques recueillier jusqu'a nos jours (1830-1839). 9 vols. 
in-8. Dr. Beauvais (de St. Gratien). 
Dictionnaire v6t6rinaire homceopathique, ou guide homoeopa- 
thique pour traiter soi-meme les maladies des animaux 
domestiques. 1865. In-18 de 496 pages. Par J. C. Berger, 
Veterinaire, et J. Prost-Lacuzon. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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Homoeopathic domestique. Paris, 1837. 1 vol. in-8 de 413 
pages. (Rare.) Dr. Bigel. 
Manuel de th6rapeutique homoeopathique, pour servir au lit du 
malade, en meme temps que guide pour I'Stude de la ma- 
tiere medicale pure, par le Dr. C. de Boenninghausen, tra- 
duit de l'Allemand. 1846. Vols. in-12 de LVIII, 270 
pages. Dr. D. Roth. 
Traitement du cholera, et moyens de s'en preserver. Paris. In- 
12, 81 pages. Dr. Crimotel (de Tilloy). 
Therapeutique experimentale; etude sur les effets et les indica- 
tions de la strychnine et de la noix vomique dans les traite- 
ment du cholera. Paris, 1854. In-8 de 63 pages. Par 
le Dr. Jules Davasse. 
Clinique homoeopathique de Staoiili (Algerie) pendant l'annee 
1850. Paris, 1851. In-8 de 290 pages. Dr. A. Espanet. 
Fi&vre intermittente. Paris, 1868. Grand in-8, 32 pages. 
Dr. A. Espanet. 
La methode homoeopathique dans le traitement des fievres inter- 
mittentes. 2e edition. Paris, 1858. In-8, 48 pages. Dr. 
Escallier. 
Traitement homoeopathique du cholera morbus. Lyon, 1832. 
In-8. Dr. Gueyrard. 
Nouveau manuel de medecine veterinaire homoeopathique, 2d 
edition, par H. A. Gunther, traduit par P. J. Martin. 
Paris, 1871. In-18, 504 pages, 34 figs. Gunther. Trad., 
P. J. Martin. 
Manuel du medecine veterinaire homoeopathique, a 1'usage du 
veterinaire, du proprietaire de troupeaux et du cultivateur, 
indiquant le traitement des maladies de tons les animaux 
domestiques, la composition d'une pharmacie veterinaire, et 
le moyen de se la procurer, par Lotzbeck, traduit de 1'Alle- 
mand. Paris, 1837. In-18. Par Lotzbeck. Sarrazin, 
trad. 
Doctrine et traitement homoeopathique des maladies chroniques, 
par Samuel Hahnemann, traduit de l'Allemand sur la der- 
niere edition. 2e edition. Paris, 1846. 3 vols. in-8, chacun 
de 600 pages. Samuel Hahnemann. A. J. L. Jourdan, 
trad. 
Traitement homoeopathique des maladies des enfants, par Hart- 
mann, traduit de l'Allemand avec des notes. Paris, 1853. 
In-8 de 700 pages. Hartmann. Dr. Leon-Simon fils, trad. 
La phthisie pulmonaire guerie par le traitement homoeopathique. 
4e edition. Paris, 1872. In-8 de 16 pages. Dr. A. Hoff- 
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Guerison certaine des premiers symptomes du cholera, quels 
qu'ils soient. In-8 de 4 pages. Dr. A. Hoffmann. 
Dernier coup porte au cholera. Paris, 1866. In-18 de 108 
pages. Dr. A. Hoffmann. 
Traitement preservatif et curatif du cholera. Paris, 1873. In- 
18 de 12 pages. Dr. A. Hoffmann. 
Le mal de mer vaincue par la medecine moderne. Paris, 1871. 
In-18, 12 pages. Dr. A. Hoffman. 
Traitement homoeopathique des maladies des femmes. Paris, 
1856. In-12, VIII, 496 pages. Dr. G. H. G. Jahr. 
Traitement homoeopathique des maladies de la peau et des lesions 
exterieures en general. Paris, 1850. In-8, XVI, 608 
pages. Dr. G. H. G. Jahr. 
Traitement homoeopathique des affections nerveuses et des mala- 
dies mentales. Paris, 1854. In-12, VIII, 660 pages. Dr. 
G. H. G. Jahr. 
Traitement homoeopathique des maladies des organes de la di- 
gestion. Paris, 1859. In-8, XII, 520 pages. Dr. G. H. 
G. Jahr. 
Traitement homoeopathique du cholera. Paris, 1868. In-12. 
Dr. G. H. G. Jahr. 
De 1'expectation et du traitement homoeopathique de la pneu- 
monic. Paris, 1862. Grand in-8, 46 pages. Dr. P. Jousset. 
Cours d'homoeopathie. Paris, 1863. In-8, 555 pages. Dr. 
Edw. La Sommerais. 
De la goutte et des rheumatismes. 20e edition. Montdidier, 
1874. In-18, 120 pages. Dr. Laville. 
L'epilepsie et la rage chez Phomme et chez les animaux. Bay- 
onne, 1864. In-8, 540 pages. Dr. Lavigne de la Plaigue. 
Medecine homoeopathique des families. 1852, 1853. 2 vols. 
Grand in-8. Dr. V. E. Lecoupeur. 
Du cholera epidemique, de sa preservation et de son traitement 
homoeopathique. Paris, 1854. In-8 de 43 pages. Dr. V. 
E. Lecoupeur. 
Manuel de medecine veterinaire homoeopathique de Lotzbeck. 
Paris, 1837. In-18. Traduit de FAllemand par Sarrazin. 
Clinique homoeopathique. 1837. In-8. Malaise. 
Guide de Phomoeopathiste. 2e edition. Bruxelles, 1861. In- 
18, 296 pages et portrait. Dr. Ph. de Molinari. 
La goutte. Paris, 1861. In-8, 96 pages. Dr. de Monostrol. 
Guide homoeopathique domestique des families. Lyon, 1865. 
In-8, 264 pages. Dr. Noack fils. 
L'homoeopathie mise a la portee de tout le monde. 3e edition. 
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Medecine domestique homceopathique. Marseilles, 1850. 1 vol. 
in-8, XVIII, 146 pages. (Rare.) Dr. A. de Parse val. 
La suette et la cholera epidemiques traites par l'homceopathie. 
Paris, 1856. In-8 de 157 pages. Dr. F. Perussel. 
Du cholera morbus epidemique et de son traitement curatif. 
Paris, 1854. In-8, 88 pages. Dr. D. Pitet. 
Du traitement homceopathique du cholera, avec notes et appen- 
dice. Paris, 1832. In-8, 64 pages. Dr. F. F. Quin. 
De la fievre typhoide et de son traitement homceopathique. 
Paris, 1851. In-8 de 108 pages. Dr. A. Rapou. 
Recueil de maladies graves. Paris, 1867. A. Reboullet. 
L'homceopathie appliquee au traitement du cholera morbus epi- 
demique. Paris, 1857. 139 pages. Dr. Roux (de Cette). 
Nouveau traitement de la phthisie pulmonaire par 1'homoeopa- 
thie. Toulouse, 1866. In-8, 24 pages. Dr. L. Sebe. 
Des maladies veneriennes et de leur traitement homceopathique. 
Paris, 1860. In-18, 744 pages. Dr. Leon-Simon fils. 
Coup d'oeil sur le cholera morbus Asiatique; traitement pre- 
servatif et curatif. Bruxelles, 1848. In-12, 76 pages. Dr. 
Varlez. 
Manuel homceopathique du goutteux. Paris, 1862. In-18, 124 
pages. Georges P. E. Weber. 
Plus de goutte ni de rhumatismes. Paris, 1864. In-18, 16 
pages. Werlhoff. 
L'homceopathie vulgarisee. Paris, Chevalier, ed. 1 vol. in- 
12. Dr. Paul Landry. 
Le medecin du people. Paris. Dr. Mure. 
Doctrine de 1'ecole de Rio Janeiro. Paris. Dr. Mure. 
Second Subdivision-Works on the Homoeopathic 
Materia Medica. 
Action des medicaments homoeopathiques on elements de phar- 
macodynamique, par le Dr. Richard Hughes, traduit de 
1'Anglais et annote par le Dr. T. Guerin-Meneville. 1 vol. 
in-18, de 650 pages. 
Etudes pathogenetiques et therapeutiques sur 1'Hydrocotyle Asi- 
atica. Paris, 1857. In-8 de 116 pages. Audouit. 
Effets toxiques et pathogenetiques de plusieurs medicaments sur 
1'economie animale dans 1'etat de saute. Paris, 1845. In- 
8, XII, 420 pages, avec 8 tabi, in folio. Audouit. 
Les cotes du corps ainsi que les affinites des medicaments etudes 
homoeopathiques. C. de Boenninghausen. Traduit de 1'Al- 
lemand, Bruxelles, 1857, par Ph. de Molinari. 168 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Tableau de la principale sphere d'action et des proprietes carac- 
teristiques des remedies antipsoriques. Paris, 1834. Trad., 
Rapou. Par C. de Boenninghausen. 
Note de matiere medicale et de therapeutique sur la glycerine. 
Paris, 1859. In-8 de 68 pages. Dr. J. Davasse. 
De l'arsenic considere comme antidote des maladies infectieuses, 
etc. 1871. In-8 de 60 pages. Dr. Despiney. 
Traite methodique et pratique de matiere medicale et de thera- 
peutique, base sur la loi des semblables. Paris, 1861. In- 
8 de XXXI I, 808 pages. Dr. A. Espanet. 
Traite de matiere medicale, traduit de l'Allemand par A. J. H. 
Jourdan. 1834. 3 vols. (Rare.) Hahnemann. 
Le sang bleu dit crabe royal, Xyphosura Americana, Simulus 
Cyclops. Paris, 1862. In-8. Hering. Trad, par G. P. F. 
Weber. 
Nouvelles donnees de matiere medicale homoeopathique et de 
toxicologie, on des proprietes physiologiques et curatives 
d'un certain nombre de substances encore pen connues et 
peu etudier en medecine. Paris, 1866-68. Dr. L. T. 
Houat. 
Etudes sur l'action elective de l'aconit sur la tete et les nerfs de 
la face. Paris, 1855. Grand in-8, 29 pages. Dr. Im- 
bert-Gourbeyre. 
Memoire sur 1'ipecacuanha. Paris, 1869. Dr. Imbert-Gour- 
beyre. 
J&tudes sur quelques symptomes de l'arsenic et les eaux mine- 
rales arseniferes. Paris, 1863. Dr. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
De l'action de l'arsenic sur la peau. Paris, 1872. In-8 de 136 
pages. Dr. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
De l'action de l'arsenic sur le coeur. Paris, 1874. In-8 de 73 
pages. Dr. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
Nouveau manuel de medecine homoeopathique. 8e edition. 
Paris, 1872. 4 vols. in-12. G. H. G. Jahr. 
Nouvelle pharmacopee homoeopathique. Paris, 1862. In-18, 
436 pages, 144 figs. Jahr and Catellan freres. 
Note sur le sei commun (natrum muriaticum, chlorure de so- 
dium). Paris, 1857. In-8. Dr. A. Leboucher. 
Communications pratiques, notamment sur 1'emploi therapeu- 
tique de la poudre d'huile de foie de morue. Paris, 1861. 
• In-8, 31 pages. Dr. La Thiere. 
feude medicale sur le venin de la tarentule. Paris, 1866. 1 
vol., In-8, 268 pages, avec fig. Dr. J. Nunez. Traduit 
de 1'Espagnol par le Dr. J. Perry. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
169 
Etude sur le venin des arach nodes, et son emploi en therapeu- 
tique. Paris, 1853. In-8, 68 pages. Dr. C. Ozanam. 
De Fefficacite du brome dans les traitement des affections pseu- 
do-membraneuses. Paris, 1876. Dr. C. Ozanam. 
Memoire sur Faction curative et prophylactique du brome. 
Paris, 1859. In-8 de 24 pages. Dr. C. Ozanam. 
Memoire sur les dissolvants et les desagregeants des produits 
pseudo-membraneux. 2e edition. Paris, 1869. Dr. C. 
Ozanam. 
De Faction anesthesique des gaz et de Foxyde de carbone. Paris, 
1857. In-8, 16 pages. Dr. C. Ozanam. 
De la difference d'action sur Forganisme des medicaments natu- 
rels on attenues par les procedes de I'homoeopathie. Paris, 
1856. In-8, 24 pages. J. Perry. 
De Fanalgesie et de Femploi therapeutique des metaux a Fexte- 
rieur. Paris, 1851. In-8, 30 pages. J. Perry. 
Etudes de therapeutique et de matiere medicale, preceder d'une 
introduction sur sa vie et ses travaux par le Dr. Cretin. 
Paris, 1864. In-8, 736 pages. Petroz. 
Carlsbad, ses eaux thermales. Paris, 1858. H. Forges. 
Matiere medicale pure. 4 vols. Poth. 
Pharmacopee homoeopathique polyglotte redige pour la France. 
Par le Dr. Noack fils. Wilmar Schwabe, Leipsig, 1872. 
Systematization pratique de la matiere medicale homoeopathique. 
Paris, 1853. In-8, 600 pages. Dr. Teste. 
Codex des medicaments homoeopathiques. Paris, 1854. In-12, 
VII, 440 pages. G. P. F. Weber. 
Memoire sur les proprietes antiseptiques du charbon vegetal pur. 
Paris, 1846. In-8, 35 pages. G. P. F. Weber. 
Plus de goutte ni de rhumatismes; expose succincte d'une me- 
thode d'emploi du soufre anti-goutteux et anti-rhumatismal. 
2e edition. Paris, 1864. In-18, 16 pages. Werlhoff. 
Third Subdivision-Collections and Periodicals. 
Annales de la medecine homoeopathique, publier par les Drs. 
Leon-Simon, G. H. G. Jahr et Croserio. Paris, 1842. 2 
vols. in-8, en 10 cahiers. Leon-Simon, Jahr et Croserio. 
Archives de la medecine homoeopathique, publiee par une so- 
ciete de medecins de Paris. 1834-1837. 6 vols. in-8. 
L'Art Medical; journal de medecine generale et de medecine 
pratique, fonder en 1855 par le Dr. J. P. Tessier. 
La Bibliotheque homoeopathique, fonder en 1868 par le Dr. 
' Charge. Continued since by Dr. Pitet and the United 
Hahnemannian Society. 170 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Gazette homoeopathique de Bordeaux. 1847,1848. 1 vol. In- 
8 de 291 pages. Not continued. 
Gazette homoeopathique de Paris. Tome ler. Paris, 1856. Not 
continued. Publier par le Dr. Roth. 
L'Hahnemannisme; journal de la medecine homoeopathique, de- 
puis 1867. Directeur, Dr. Leon-Simon fils. 
Journal de la doctrine Hahnemannienne. Paris, 1840. 2 vols. 
in-8. Not continued. Dr. Molin. 
Journal de la medecine homoeopathique. Tome 1. Not con- 
tinued. 1833, 1834. 24 Nos. (Rare.) Drs. Leon-Simon 
et Curie. 
L'observateur homceopathe de la Loire inferieure. Premier 
No. Not continued. 9bre, 1844, Nantes. Dr. F. Pe- 
russel. 
Revue critique et retrospective de la matiere medicale homoeopa- 
thique. Paris, 1840, 1842. 5 vols. Drs. Charge, Petroz 
et Roth. 
Revue homoeopathique du midi. Marseille, 1848. Only one 
volume. Dr. Charge. 
Bulletin de la soci6t6 homoeopathique de Paris, de 1845 a 1849. 
7 volumes. 
Journal de medecine homoeopathique, publier par le societe 
Hahnemannienne de 1845 a 1850. 5 volumes. Plus pa- 
thogenesie des medicaments. Complementaire. 6 vols. 
Journal de la societe Gallicane de medecine homoeopathique, 
suite du precedent, le serie, Mai, 1850 a Avril, 1857. 8 
volumes in-8, formant 7 annees; 2e serie, Mai, 1857 a Avril, 
1860, 3 annees en 4 volumes. 
Bulletin de la societe medicale homoeopathique de France, fai- 
sant suite an journal de la societe Gallicane, fondd le ler 
Mai, 1860, iusqu'a ce iour, formant 14 volumes complets 
en Avril, 1865. 
L'homoeopathie des families, journal mensuel, fonde en 1875, & 
Nimes, par le Dr. A. Peladan. 
Fourth Subdivision-Works, Memoirs, Notices and 
Various Publications designed to Propagate 
and Defend Homoeopathy. 
Exposition de la doctrine medicale homoeopathique, on organon 
de l'art de guerir, par S. Hahnemann. Traduit de 1'Alle- 
mand par A. J. L. Jourdan, 4e edition, avec commentaires, 
etc., par le Dr. Leon-Simon pere. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
171 
Comment on devient homceopathe. 3e edition. Paris, 1873, in- 
18, de 322 pages. Par le Dr. Teste. 
Les harmonies medicales et philosophiques de l'homoeopathie. 
1 vol. in-8 de 660 pages. Avignon. Dr. J. J. Bechet. 
Annuaire homoeopathique, le et 2e annees, 1860-1863. 2 vols. 
in-12. Par M. M. Catellan freres. 
De 1'homoeopathie, simples reflexions. 1859. Arreat. 
Notice sur 1'institut medical d'homoeopathie et d'electricite de 
Cannes. Paris, 1864. In-8, 44 pages. H. Andre. 
Est-il possible de fonder la medecine sur des principes et des 
axiomes? Paris, 1867. 96 pages in-8. Arreat. 
Du progres en therapeutique par 1'homoeopathie; 2e lettre au 
Dr. Perry. Paris, 1856. In-8.. Dr. Audouit. 
La loi, les hopitaux homoeopathique et les ambulances homoeopa- 
thiques a Paris, en France, et a 1'etranger, etc. Paris, 1870. 
In-8 de XVI, 100 pages. Becker. 
Justification de 1'horaoeopathie dans ses principes essentiels. 
Gand, 1868. H. E. Bernard. 
Conseils d'un medecin homceopathe. Traduit de l'Allemand. 
Paris, 1837. In-18, 180 pages. Bertholdi. 
Examen theorique et pratique de la methode curative du Dr. 
Hahnemann. Varsovie, 1829. 3 vols. Bigel. 
Manuel dietetique des 1'homoeopathie. Varsovie, 1833. In-8 
de 124 pages. Bigel. 
fipitre a un homceopathe. 1842. 14 pages. A. Bignan. 
Les aphorismes d'Hyppocrate, accompagneer des gloses d'un ho- 
moeopathe. Bruxelles, 1864. 2 vols. C. de Boenning- 
hausen. Traducteur, Dr. Mouremans. 
Discours sur les petitions relatives a la medecine homoeopathique. 
Paris, 1837. In-8, 24 pages. De Boret. 
L'homoeopathie professee a 1'ecole de medecine de Paris. 1860. 
In-8 de 44 pages. Dr. Bourgeois. 
Des rapports de l'homoeopathie avec la doctrine des signatures. 
Paris, 1866. In-12. Dr. Chapiel. 
L'homoeopathie et ses detracteurs. Paris, 1855. In-8, 236 
pages. Dr. A. Charge. 
De l'homoeopathie. Encore une fois, qu'est ce que 1'homoeopa- 
thie? Il faut en finir avec elle. 1 vol., grand, in-8, de 140 
pages. Dr. A. Charge. 
L'avenir de l'homoeopathie. 1860. N. M. Chauvet. 
La medecine officielle au dix-neuvieme siecle. Paris, 1861. In- 
8 de 48 pages. N. M. Chauvet. 
Le discours de Mr. le Docteur Duclos; lettre & l'auteur. Tours, 
1867. In-8 de 16 pages. N. M. Chauvet. 172 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Esprit, force et matiere; nouveaux principes de philosophic me- 
dicale, etc. 2e edition. Paris, 1867. N. M. Chauvet. 
Comptes rendu de cinq congres homoeopathiques, 1842, 1851, 
1855, 1856 et 1867. 
L'homoeopathie. Paris, 1867. In-8, 54 pages, Th. Couqueret. 
Proces intente an journal 1'Union Medicale. A. Cretin. 
Statistique de la medecine homoeopathique. Paris, 1848. In-8, 
68 pages. Camille Croserio. 
Le Docteur Alphonse Milcent et 1'ecole de J. P. Tessier. Paris, 
1874. Grand, in-8 de 180 pages. Dr. Jules Davasse. 
Lettre aux medecins Frangais sur la medecine homoeopathique. 
4e edition. Paris, 1861. Le Comte S. des Guidi. 
Lettre a MM. les membres de la Societe Royale de Medecine. 
Lyon, 1835. In-8 de 23 pages. Le Comte S. des Guidi. 
L'homoeopathie et ses agresseurs. Lyon, 1835. In-8. Dr. J. 
M. Desaix. 
L'homoeopathie, de l'art de guerir et de ses progress; et da: de la 
medecine conjecturale, soi-disant rationnelle, et de la mede- 
cine positive, etc. Dr. J. M. Desaix. 
Memoire sur la method curative dite homoeopathic. 1833. In- 
8, 24 pages. Dr. Dezauche. 
Recherches sur l'homoeopathie, ou theorie des analogues. Paris, 
1839. In-8, 321 pages. J. A. Doroszko. 
Opinion sur l'homoeopathie exposee clevant le senat a propos de 
deux petitions. Paris, 1865. Dumas. 
La verite sur le magnetisme et l'homoeopathie. Paris, 1852. 
Grand, in-8 de 42 pages. V. Diimez. 
Opinion de M. Dupin, procureur General, Senateur, dans le dis- 
cussion des petitions concernant l'homoeopathie. Paris, 
1869. In-8 de 12 pages. Dupin. 
De l'homoeopathie, nouveau systeme en medecine, ses avantages 
et ses dangers. Paris, 1834. In-8 de 260 pages. Du- 
ringe. 
De 1'empirisme et du progres scientifique en medecine, par un 
rationaliste. Paris, 1863. In-18 de 274 pages. Dr. A. C. 
Rencontres homoeopathiques dans une promenade sur le terrain 
de la presse medicale. Paris, 1854. Dr. Escallier. 
A propos ole l'homoeopathie, quelques pages d'histoire m^dicale 
contemporaire. Paris, 1864. Dr. Escallier. 
Pourquoi je fais de l'homoeopathie. 3e edition. Paris, 1864. 
In-8 de 40 pages. Dr. Escallier. 
Rapport adresse a Mr. le Cure de St. Laurent par les Docteurs 
Charge, Escallier, Patin, Serrand, sur le Dispensaire Ho- 
moeopathique de St. Laurent. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
173 
Dans 1'etat actuel de la science le medecine peut-il, sans manquer 
a la morale medicale, negliger 1'etude de l'homoeopathie. 
Paris, 1867. Dr. A. Espanet. 
Testament d'un medecin, on, mon dernier mot sur la medecine. 
Paris, 1853. In-8, 63 pages. Dr. A. Espanet. 
Replique a M. Varlez. In-8, 11 pages. Fallot. 
Nouvelle decouverte en homoeopathie. Paris, 1866. In-8, 44 
pages. Finella. 
L'homoeopathie devoilee. 2e edition. Paris, 1839. Louis 
Fleury. 
Des rapports de la doctrine medicale homoeopathique avec le 
passe de la therapeutique. Paris, 1853. In-8 de 84 pages. 
Dr. F. Fredault/ 
L'homoeopathie venger. Paris, 1869. Dr. Gailliard (de Bruges). 
Projet d'hopitaux mixtes allopathiques et homoeopathiques, etc. 
Paris, 1861. In-8, 96 pages. Gallavardin. 
Experiences sur les malades des hopitaux, institueer par 1'Acade- 
mic de medicine. Paris, 1862. In-8, 60 pages. Galla- 
vardin. 
Le Comte des Guidi, introducteur du l'homoeopathie en France. 
Paris, 1863. Gallavardin. 
Causeries cliniques homoeopathiques. Tome Ire. 1868. Grand, 
in-8 de 24 pages. Gallavardin. 
Un homoeopathe honteux. Mr. le Dr. Munaret. Paris, 1864. 
Grand, in-8 de 24 pages. Gallavardin. 
Une dose infmitesimale entre deux fiancees. Grenoble, 1867. In- 
8 de 32 pages. Giorun P***. 
Lettre a M. le Professeur Bouillaud sur l'homoeopathie. Paris, 
1843. In-8 de 16 pages. Giraud. 
Trois homoeopathes declares indiguer de faire partie de la So- 
ci5te Medicale du Vie Arrondissement. Paris, 1846. In- 
8 de VII, 62 pages. Giraud. 
L'homoeopathie devant le monde, jugee sur ses principes et ses 
resultats. Lehaire, 1863. Godier Chailly. 
Essai critique sur 1'institution de la dualite chancreuse. Paris, 
1863. In-4 de 71 pages. Dr. C. Gounard. 
L'homoeopathie et Mr. le Dr. Gubler. Paris, 1872. In-8 de 23 
pages. Dr. C. Gounard. 
L'Ecole officielle devant son principe, l'allopathie, etc. 2e Edi- 
tion. Paris, 1858. In-8, 112 pages. Dr. F. Gout. 
Conferences sur l'homoeopathie. Paris, 1858. In-8 de VIII, 
524 pages. Dr. Michel Granier. 
Des homoeopathes et de leur droits. Paris, 1860. In-8 de 170 
pages. Dr. Michel Granier. 174 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Homoeolexique, dictionnaire de medecine selon 1'ecole homoeopa- 
thiste. Paris, 1874. 2 vols. Dr. M. Granier. 
Manuel pour servir a 1'etude critique de l'homceopathie. Paris, 
1849. 1 vol. in-] 2, 416 pages. Griesselich. Traducteur, 
Dr. Schlossinger-Rahier. 
Sur l'homceopathie, legou professee & I'hopital Beaujon le 14 
Mai, 1871. Prof. Gubler. 
L'homceopathie & I'hopital Beaujon en Mai, 1871. In-8 de 23 
pages. Dr. T. Guerin-Meneville. 
La doctrine medicale homoeopathique examinee sous le rapport 
theorique et pratique. Paris, 1834. Un vol. in-8, relie. 
(Rare.) Gueyrard. 
L'allopathie et l'homceopathie jugier par les medecins. 3e edi- 
tion. Paris, 1869. Dr. Aug. Guyard. 
Parallele de l'homceopathie et de l'allopathie. Paris. 1 vol. 
Dr. Wieteche. 
Memorial du medecin homoeopathiste. Paris, 1850. In-18 de 
289 pages. Dr. Haas. Traduit de l'Allemand par J. L. 
Jourdain. 
Etudes de medecine homoeopathique. Paris, 1856. 2 vols. de 
600 pages. Dr. S. Hahnemann. 
Compte rendu du proces de M. Hahnemann. 8e edition. Paris, 
1847. Grand, in-8 de 58 pages. 
Hopital Hahnemann, inaugure le 10 Avril, 1870. Ire rapport 
annuel. Paris, 1871. 
Le medecin homceopathe des enfants. Paris, 1837. Grand, in- 
18, 132 pages. Hartlaub. Traduit de l'Allemand par 
Sarrazin. 
Lettre aux medecins Frangais sur l'homceopathie. Paris, 1860. 
In-8, 16 pages. Dr. Achille Hoffmann. 
L'homceopathie et la vieille medecine. Paris, 1860. In-8, 16 
pages. Dr. Achille Hoffmann. 
Lectures publiques sur 1'homoeopathie. Paris, 1869. In-8 de 
200 pages. Prof. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
Principes et regies pour la pratique de 1'horaoeopathie. Paris, 
1857. In-8, 528 pages. G. H. G. Jahr. 
Notions elementaires d'homoeopathie. Paris, 1861. In-18 de 
144 pages. G. H. G. Jahr. 
Reponses aux lettres de Mr. Manee sur l'homceopathie. 1856. 
In-8. Dr. P. Jousset. 
Conferences publiques sur 1'homoeopathie. Paris, 1867. In-8 
de 56 pages. Dr. P. Jousset. 
Essai critique sur l'homceopathie. Paris, 1840. In-8 de 40 pages. 
Dr. Jean Kunzli. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
175 
Reflexions critiques sur l'homoeopathie. Bayeux, 1854. In-8 
de 104 pages. Th. Labbey. 
Reponse aux Dr. Labbey, refutation des ses reflexions critiques. 
Paris, 1855. In-8, 83 pages. Dr. Leboucher. 
Lettre a un medecin de Paris sur une question du plus haut in- 
t^rets. Marseille. J. C. 
Observations sur 1'homoeopathie. Bordeaux, 1839. In-8 de 
219 pages. J. Mabet. 
De 1'homoeopathie, et particulierement de Faction des doses in- 
finitesimales. H. Magnan. 
Lettres sur 1'homoeopathie. Paris, 1855. Grand, in-8 de 240 
pages. F. A. Manee. 
Nouveaux essais de pratique homoeopathique. Bruxelles, 1855. 
In-18 de 148 pages. Molinari. 
L'homoeopathie exposee aux yeux du monde. Paris, 1870. Ach. 
Hoffmann. 
De 1'homoeopathie en dehors des prejuges de ses adversaires et 
des exagerations de ses partisans. Paris, 1861. In-8, 96 
pages. J. de Monstrol. 
La verite de 1'homoeopathie. 1871. In-12. F. Monteville. 
L'homoeopathie, ses raisons, ses erreurs. 1840. Nivelet. 
Observations pratiques de S. Hahnemann. Paris, 1857-1860. 
In-8, 398 pages. A. de Parseval. 
Homoeopathie et allopathic. Paris, 1856. A. de Parseval. 
Guide du medecin dans les choix d'une methode pour guerir, 
etc. Paris, 1860. In-18, 484 pages. De Boenninghausen 
et F. Perussel. 
La medecine et la loi de l'attraction universelie. Paris, 1847. In- 
8, avec portraits. F. Perussel. 
L'homoeopathie au senat. Paris, 1864, 1865. F. Perussel. 
Simple reponse d'un ami de l'homoeopathie, etc. Saumur, 1857. 
In-8 de 32 pages. F. Perussel. 
A Messieurs les Senateurs, sur la position de l'homoeopathie 
dans les monde. Paris, 1863. F. Perussel. 
L'homoeopathie, ou la medecine de l'analogie & propos de la 
medecine veterinaire. Paris, 1862. F. Perussel. 
De 1'homoepathie. Paris, 1853. In-12. 3e edition. F. Perussel 
et De Monostral. 
Lettre sur le progrSs en homoeopathie. J. Perry. 
De la combination de l'homoeopathie avec les autres methodes 
de traitement. Paris, 1867. J. Perry. 
Lettre au Professeur Gerdy. 2e edition. Paris, 1841. Peschier. 
Visite a Hahnemann. Geneve, 1832. Peschier. 176 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Lettre a Mr. Louis, Medecin de I'Hotel Dien de Paris. Pes- 
chier. 
Lettre sur 1'homoeopathie. Namur, 1863. Prost-Lacuzon. 
Histoire de la doctrine medicale homoeopathique. Paris, 1847. 
2 vols. in-8. Aug. Rapou. 
Ce que c'est que 1'homoeopathie. Paris, 1844. Aug. Rapou. 
Lettre en reponse a Particle contre 1'homoeopathie. Lyon, 1843. 
Rapou fils. 
Nouvel organe de la medecine specifique. Traduit de 1'Alle- 
mand. Paris, 1845. Rau. 
Reponse a la note scientifique sur la doctrine homoeopathique & 
1'occasion du proces intente au journal 1'Union Medicale. 
Paris, 1858. 
Homoeopathic. Paris. In-8 de 16 pages. Requin. 
De 1'homoeopathie et de son efficacite curative. Montpellier, 
1848. In-8 de 179 pages. F. Roux, de Montpellier. 
L'esprit de la medecine ancienne et de la nouvelle compare. 4e 
edition. Paris, 1854. Rucco. 
La medecine traditionelle et 1'homoeopathie, proces intente au 
journal 1'Union Medicale par douze homoeopathes. Paris, 
1858. Sabbatier. 
Principe de la doctrine medicale homoeopathique. Paris, 1853. 
In-8 de 360 pages. Salevert de Fayolle. 
Observations pratiques sur 1'homoeopathie. Paris, 1837. In-8 
de 61 pages. L. Scuderi, de Messine. 
Memoire presente par la commission centrale homoeopathique au 
sujetdu proces intente 4 Mr. Ie Dr. Moreau. In-4, 20 pages. 
Sicaud. 
Lemons de medecine homoeopathique. Paris, 1836. Leon-Simon 
pere. 
Lettre a MM. les Membres de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris. 
Paris, 1843. Leon-Simon pere. 
Lettre a Mr. Ie Ministre de 1'Instruction Publique. Leon-Si- 
mon pere. 
Cours de medecine homoeopathique. 1867-68. Leon-Simon fils. 
Lettre adressee a Mr. Imbert Gourbeyre. 1869. Leon-Si- 
mon fils. 
Conferences sur 1'homoeopathie. Paris, 1869. Leon-Simon fils. 
De la medication homoeopathique. . Paris, 1852. J. P. Tessier. 
Comment on devient homoeopathe. 3e edition. Paris, 1873. 
In-18, 322 pages. Teste. 
Rapport sur une petition relative a 1'homoeopathie. Paris, 1865. 
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Les medecins statisticiens devant la question homoeopathique. 
Paris, 1850. In-8, 122 pages. Timbart. 
L'homoeopathie, ou la reforme medicale exposee aux gens du 
monde. 1849. James Touchon. 
Reponse aux dernieres attaques dirigier centre l'homoeopathie. 
Bruxelles, 1850. Varlez. 
SECOND DIVISION. 
First Subdivision-Works on Anatomy. 
Etudes d'anatomie pathologique. Paris, 1855. F. Fredault. 
Histologic generale; etude critique sur Virchow et la patholo- 
gic cellulaire. Paris, 1870. P. Jousset. 
Second Subdivision-Works on Physiology. 
Cours de physiologic generale; traite d'anthropologic, physio- 
logique et philosophique. Paris, 1863. In-8 de XVI, 
864 pages. F. Fredault. 
L'heterogenie; histoire de la generation spontanee. Paris, 1869. 
In-8 de 35 pages. Ch. Ozanam. 
Third Subdivision-Works on Pathology, 
Elements de pathologic et de therapeutique generales. Paris, 
1873. Six vols. in-8 de 243 pages. Dr. P. Jousset. 
Les passions dans leurs rapports avec la sant6 et les maladies, 
Famour et la libertinage. 3e edition. Paris, 1871. In- 
12, 208 pages. Dr. L. X. Bourgeois. 
De 1'influence des maladies de la femme pendant la grossesse sur 
la sante et la constitution de Fenfant. Paris, 1862. In-4 
de 126 pages. Dr. L. X. Bourgeois. 
De l'apoplexie et de son traitement. Paris, 1868. Dr. L. X. 
Bourgeois. 
De Fangine et de son varietes. Paris, 1865. In-8, 94 pages. 
Chancerel. 
Du tricophython. Paris, 1856. In-4. Dr. E. P. Cramoisy. 
Des fievres ephemere et synoque. Paris, 1847. Jules Davasse. 
Affections symptomatiques dont 1'existence et le role sont peu 
connues dans la maladies. Paris, 1847. J. Davasse. 
Etudes cliniques; la grippe et la pneumonic grippale. Paris, 
1858. In-8 de 77 pages. J. Davasse. 178 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
La syphilis, ses formes, son unit^. Paris, 1865. 1 vol. in-8 de 
XII, 568 pages. J. Davasse. 
La diathese purulente meconnue. Paris, 1866. J. Davasse. 
Traitement compare du rhumatisme. Paris, 1855. In-8 de 
VII, 120 pages. (Dpuise.) E. A. Escallier. 
Note sur un nouveau ver vesiculaire trouve dans le cerveau. 
Paris. Grand, in-8, 15 pages. F. Fredault. 
De la contagion des symptomes secondaires de la syphilis. Paris, 
1859. In-8 de 29 pages. Gabalda. 
Les paralysies phosphoriques. Paris, 1865. Gallavardin. 
Essai critique sur 1'institution de la dualite chancreuse. Paris, 
1863. In-4 de 71 pages. C. Gounard. 
Recherches sur le traitement de l'alienation mentale. Paris, 
1856. In-8, 150 pages. Hermel. 
Distinction a etablir entre l'alienation mentale et la folie. Paris, 
1856. In-8, 19 pages. Hermel. 
Des accidents produits par 1'usage des caissons ou chambres a 
air comprime dans les travaux souterrain ou sous-marins. 
Paris, 1863. In-8, 96 pages. Hermel. 
Memoire sur 1'epidrose. Paris, 1865. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
Recherches pour servir & 1'histoire de la contracture des extre- 
mites. Paris, 1862. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
De l'alienation et de la folie. Paris, 1865. P. Jousset. 
Du suicide et de la monomanie du suicide. Paris, 1858. P. 
Jousset. 
Des formes de la folie (Archives de Med., 1845). P. Jousset. 
Du cancer. (These inaugurale, Paris, 1846.) P. Jousset. 
Les phenombnes de 1'inflammation. These de concours de 1'agre- 
gation. 1847. P. Jousset. 
Histoire de 1'inflammation de la pie-mere et de la substance 
cerdbrale corticale, consideree comme lesion du delire fe- 
brile. (Art Medical, 1856.) P. Jousset. 
Congestion cerebrale apoplectiforme. 1861. P. Jousset. 
Des formes et du traitement de 1'eclampsie. 1863. P. Jousset. 
Des formes et du traitement de 1'hysterie. 1864. P. Jousset. 
De 1'etat dit typhoide dans les maladies. Paris, 1847. These 
de concours. A. Milcent. 
Recherches sur les formes de 1'ictere essentiel. Paris, 1846. 
Grand, in-8 de 22 pages. Ch. Ozanam. 
De la forme grave de 1'ictere essentiel. Paris, 1849. In-8 de 
103 pages. Ch. Ozanam. 
Recherches cliniques sur 1'eclampsie des enfants. Paris, 1850. 
In-8 de 68 pages. Ch. Ozanam. 
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general qui lui succede. Paris, 1854. Broch in-8. Ch. 
Ozanam. 
Polypes du larynx exterpes par la laryngotomie. Paris, 1865. 
Ch. Ozanam. 
Lettre sur le cholera. Paris, 1855. J. Perry. 
L'histoire de la musculation irresistible ou de la choree anomale. 
Paris, 1850. Roth. 
Recherches cliniques sur la traitement de la pneumonic et du 
cholera. Paris, 1856. Un vol. in-8 de XXXII, 300 
pages. J. P. Tessier. 
La fievre typho'ide. These inaugurale. Paris, 1873. J. P. Tes- 
sier fils. 
Fourth Subdivision-Works on General Medicine. 
Cours elementaire d'hygiene & 1'usage des lycee. 1873. 1 vol. 
in-18 de 152 pages. Henri Perussel. 
Des fraudes dans l'accomplissement des function generatives. 3e 
edition. Paris, 1870. L. F. E. Bergeret. 
Recherches et considerations sur 1'operation Cesarienne. Anvers, 
1859. L. X. Bourgeois. . 
Etude sur 1'ophthalmoscope. Paris, 1864. Ach. Boyer. 
La medecine basee sur 1'examen des urines. Paris, 1858. 1 
vol. de 320 pages. Brunner. 
De 1'epreuve galvanique on bioscopie electrique. Paris, 1866. 
In-12 de 48 pages. Crimotel (de Tilloy). 
Proposition de medecine et de chirurgie pratiques. Paris, 1849. 
E. A. Escallier. 
Conseils nouveaux aux jeunes femmes. 2e edition. Paris, 1872. 
In-18, 36 pages. Ach. Hoffmann. 
De l'albuminurie puerperale et de ses rapports avec 1'eclampsie. 
Paris, 1856. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
Des paralysies puerperales. Paris, 1861. Imbert-Gourbeyre. 
De la bronchotomie. Paris, 1844. P. Jousset. 
Memoire sur un nouveau procede pour pratiques les injections 
iodeer. Paris, 1857. P. Jousset. 
Mosaique medicale. Paris, 1852. Leboucher. 
Effet du moral sur les malades, etc. Paris, 1862. Le Thiere. 
Etudes medicales. Paris, 1869. Le Thiere. 
Etudes sur les maladies epidemiques. 2e edition. Paris, 1861. 
L. Marchant. 
L'anesthesie; histoire de la douleur. Paris, 1857. Ch.Ozanam. 
Des anesthesies en general. Metz, 1858. Ch. Ozanam. 
De la legitimite de 1'operation Cesarienne et de ses conditions de 
succes. Paris, 1862. Ch. Ozanam. 180 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Action therapeutique et elective des divers alcaloides de Fopium. 
1866. Ch. Ozanam. 
Polypes du larynx extirpes par la laryngotomie. 1865. Ch. 
Ozanam. 
Les battemens du coeur reproduits par la photographic, nouveau 
sphygmographe. Paris, 1867. Ch. Ozanam. 
Etudes de medecine generale. Paris, 1856. J. P. Tessier. 
Fifth Subdivision-On Various Subjects. 
Les Aissaoua, on les charmeurs de serpents. Nouvelle edition. 
Paris, 1862. In-8. Jnles Davasse. 
De la systematization et de 1'unification de 1'oeuvre universelie. 
St. Lo, 1854. A. Deschamps. 
D'une reforme a introduire dans 1'etude des eaux minerales natu- 
relles. Paris, 1864. E. A. Escallier. 
Histoire de la medecine; etude sur nos traditions. Paris, 1870- 
1873. 2 vols. in-8 de 300 pages. F. Fredault. 
Des indications therapeutiques deduiter de 1'etiologie. Paris, 
1873. In-4. (These de concours.) F. Fredault. 
Lettre Apostolique de N. S. O. Ie Pape Pie IX an Dr. Fre- 
dault. 
De 1'enseignment de la therapeutique & 1'ecole de Paris. Paris, 
1858. In-8 de 75 pages. Gabalda. 
Bibliographic de Mr. Ie Dr. Le Thiere, par Tisseron. 
Des specifiques en medecine. Paris, 1847. L. J. L. Molin. 
Le Dr. Tessier et les principes de la philosophic medicale. Paris, 
1863. Ch. Ozanam. 
Les doses infinitesimales devant la decouverte de Bunsen. Paris, 
1862. Ch. Ozanam. 
Une visite a la colonie des cretins de 1'Abendberg. 1862. Ch. 
Ozanam. 
Les Kaimens, ou les brulees; les volcans de Santorin ; le con- 
temporair. 1866. Ch. Ozanam. 
M4moire pratique sur la construction des oculaires terrestres et 
astronomiques. Paris, 1854. D. Pitet. 
Des contraires en medecine. Montpellier, 1863. Ringuet. 
De 1'enseignement de la medecine en France. Paris, 1854. J. 
P. Tessier. 
Besides many, often very elaborate, memoirs, published only 
in the periodicals, such as L' Art Medicale, Le Bibliotheque Ho- 
moeopathique, Le Bulletin de la Societe Medicale Llomoeopathique 
de France, L'Hahnemannisme, etc., etc., and which were not 
always published separately. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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PART III. 
Report on Legislation in France affecting 
Homoeopathy, etc. 
By Mons. H. Becker, Attorney at the Paris Court of Appeals, 
and Honorary Member of the Homceopathic Medical 
Society of Prance. (April 24th, 1876.) 
There exists in France no special legislation concerning ho- 
moeopathy, as the introduction of this new method of therapeutics 
in the country is subsequent to the organization for teaching 
medicine, surgery, pharmacy and the veterinary art, an organi- 
zation which in fact reaches back to the commencement of the 
century. In consideration of the immense progress which Hah- 
nemann's doctrine has made in the last twenty years, legislation 
ought to have provided a special place for it in the faculties, 
schools and hospitals; but a systematically hostile opposition 
organized by allopathic interests has excluded homoeopathy from 
participation in any of the curricula of official instruction. To- 
day allopathy reigns supreme, and guards with jealous care her 
sacred precincts. In order to escape this unjust ostracism homoe- 
opaths, faithful to the commands of their conscience, have used 
every effort to gain through public opinion what is denied them 
by official action; sustained by a rich and numerous clientage 
they have profited by favorable interpretations of the law, and 
have thus obtained an independent position. We shall show 
this in the following chapters. 
Chapter I. 
In France the right to practice medicine, surgery, pharmacy 
and the veterinary art, is acquired in establishments supported 182 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
by the state, by departments or by municipalities. The law 
makes no distinction in this regard between allopaths and 
homoeopaths. 
A. Medicine-Surgery-Veterinary Art. 
In France the practice of medicine and of surgery is not free. 
The diploma delivered by the faculties of medicine to those per- 
sons of either sex who have passed special examinations in the 
schools and hospitals, and have paid the university fees, is the 
only condition demanded for practicing medicine and surgery. 
The duration of the studies is four years. The diploma is re- 
quired in the court of the practitioner's domicil for the security 
of the citizens. The diplomas being based upon the degree of 
knowledge which the recipient has exhibited, confer only corre- 
sponding privileges. For instance, the diploma of doctor of 
medicine and of surgery gives the right to the full practice of 
these branches throughout the entire country. The diploma of 
officer of health gives the right to practice medicine and surgery 
only in the department where the recipient has passed examina- 
tion on his special studies; but as the studies of the latter are 
less extensive than those imposed upon the doctor, he cannot, 
even in the limit of this department, perform the major surgical 
operations without the surveillance and inspection of a doctor of 
medicine and surgery. It is the same for the midwife of the 
first or second class. Her diploma confers the right to attend 
simple but not difficult accouchements; in the latter case she is 
forbidden to employ instruments without the assistance of a sur- 
geon, and the limit of the field of practice varies as she is of the 
first or second class. 
The studies which a Frenchman has pursued in foreign coun- 
tries or the degrees which he has taken there are not recognized 
in France, unless when he has been employed abroad in public 
service. (Briaud and Chaude, Medical Jurisprudence, edition 
1874, p. 836.) 
Foreign physicians have, according to the present legislation 
of France, two distinct rights. They may obtain the degree of 
doctor of medicine from one of the French faculties, and in THE HISTORY OF HOMCEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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order to do this must undergo the usual five examinations, and 
present a thesis; they are then exempt from regular yearly ex- 
aminations, but must pay the university fees. 
They may also obtain the right of practicing in France by a 
decree of the government, but the foreign physician thus quali- 
fied by an authorization which is revocable on the part of the 
government is obliged to pay the university fees imposed upon 
Frenchmen, that is to say, twelve hundred and sixty francs, but 
some reduction of this fee may be granted on petition. (Decree 
of August 22d, 1854, art. 5, loc. cit., pp. 836, 846.) 
The profession of oculist can only be practiced by such as 
possess the diploma of physician, surgeon or officer of health 
(foe. cit., p. 849). The dentist requires no diploma provided he 
confine himself to simple dentistry and abstain strictly from sur- 
gery (foe. cit., 850, 851). 
The cattle doctor requires no diploma, but is not allowed the 
title of veterinary surgeon unless he has received it from one 
of the special veterinary schools. 
B. Pharmacy. 
The practice of pharmacy is not free in France. The phar- 
maceutist must pass special examinations, pay the university fees 
and receive a diploma. He must study three years, and pass 
three years in a pharmacy. 
The title of pharmaceutist of the first class gives the right to 
practice throughout the whole country, but that of pharmaceutist 
of the second class only gives the right to practice within the 
limit of the department where the special examination was held 
(foe. cit., pp. 942, 943). 
Before practicing his profession the pharmaceutist must exhibit 
his diploma to the prefect of his department and take an oath 
before him (foe. cit., p. 943). 
The preparation and sale of pharmaceutic compositions is re- 
stricted to legally qualified pharmaceutists (loc. cit., p. 949). 
A foreigner wishing to practice in France, though he have a 
foreign diploma, must comply with all these conditions (loc. cit., 
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C. Dispensation of Homoeopathic Medicines. 
The privilege exclusively reserved to qualified pharmaceutists 
has given rise to many lawsuits since homoeopathy attained a cer- 
tain importance in France. 
Homoeopathic physicians using special remedies not described 
in the official Pharmacopoeia, the question arose, whether these 
physicians had not the right, in localities where there were only 
allopathic pharmacies, to dispense these remedies themselves, pro- 
vided they had obtained them in a homoeopathic pharmacy. 
This right has been absolutely denied by a series of decisions 
in the French courts from 1852 to 1858. The arguments on both 
sides are given in the work already cited, pp. 980, 981. 
It has been, nevertheless, admitted that the exclusive rights of 
allopathic pharmaceutists ought to cease in localities where there 
were neither allopathic nor homoeopathic pharmacies, and in the 
case of patients to whom a homoeopathic physician is called. 
It would be the same in case the allopathic pharmaceutists of 
a community should refuse to make up the prescriptions of a 
homoeopathic physician. But these concessions are always sub- 
ordinate to the restrictions imposed upon the possession and dis- 
pensation of poisonous substances, which are regulated by the 
ordinance of October 29th, 1846 (loe. cit., p. 1028). 
D. Professional Ethics. 
Physicians, surgeons, health officers, midwives and pharma- 
ceutists are subject to certain professional obligations, viz., the 
secrecy of consultations, and the prohibition to accept gifts and 
bequests in their favor on the part of their patients. 
E. Appointment to the Faculties of the State Uni- 
versities, the Preparatory Schools, Veterinary 
Schools, and the Staff of the Hospitals. 
The faculties of medicine are composed of titulary professors 
whose nomination is made by the government, of honorary pro- 
fessors taken from among the retired titularies, and of adjunct 
professors, these last being nominated by competitive examination. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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The government generally nominates professors from a list of 
adjunct professors furnished them by the faculties in which there 
are vacancies. The government has likewise the right to choose 
them from the whole medical body. 
The judges of the competitive examinations are designated by 
the Minister of Public Instruction. So are those for the superior 
schools of pharmacy. -As regards the preparatory schools of medi- 
cine and of pharmacy, a decree of the 4th of February, 1874, 
has organized the competitive examination for the nomination of 
professors. The judges of the examination are designated from 
among the professors and substitutes of the preparatory schools, 
and the physicians and pharmaceutists of the hospital within the 
province of the academy to which the school belongs. As re- 
gards the veterinary schools, the professors and chiefs of service 
are, by the terras of a decree of the 9th of May, 1873, named 
by the minister of agriculture, after a competitive examination 
before a special jury appointed by the minister. 
The medical staff of the hospitals and asylums of Paris are 
nominated after a competitive examination passed before special 
juries. It is to be regretted, nevertheless, that the board of pub- 
lic charity in Paris, which has all the power in its hands, allows 
its special juries to be composed only of allopathic physicians. 
In the departments the administrative commissions of the hos- 
pitals nominate the physicians of those hospitals. But these 
commissions have not often availed themselves of their right to 
confer these offices on homoeopathic physicians. (See on this sub- 
ject the Law and Homoeopathic Hospitals in France, by H. Becker, 
pages 70 and following; brochure in-8vo.) This omnipotence 
of the official authority, which has heretofore caused allopathy to 
fare so well in the nomination of the hospital staff, received a 
blow from the government of national defence in 1870-71. In 
imitation of the republican legislators of 1849, who had provided 
that the visiting health physicians of Paris should be elected by 
other physicians, the provisional republican government of 1870, 
by a decree of January 18th, 1871, reorganizing the public charity 
of Marseilles, and by the decrees of September 29th, 1870, and 
February 17th, 1871, relating to public charities in Paris, intro- 186 
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duced the civil element into the administrative commissions of 
the hospitals. 
These commissions, taken from various classes of citizens, could 
thus counterbalance the omnipotence of the official authority. 
But the National Assembly, willing to annul the acts of the gov- 
ernment of the 4th of September, 1870, passed the law of May 
21st, 1873, which repealed the preceding deeree, and replaced the 
whole power in the hands of the Minister of the Interior and his 
prefects, leaving them the right to choose the members of the 
administrative commissions of hospitals, asylums and bureaus of 
charity. 
F. Academy of Medicine-Academy of Sciences. 
Members of the Academy of Medicine are appointed from 
among the professors of public instruction, from the staff of hos- 
pitals and asylums, and even from among simple practitioners 
having the title of physician, surgeon, pharmaceutist or veteri- 
naire. 
The members of this academy form the electoral body. As 
they are all allopaths their vote has never been thrown for a 
homoeopathic confrere, however worthy. 
The same is true of the Academy of Sciences, which constitutes 
one department of the grand National Institute of France. The 
section of medicine and of surgery, comprised in the department 
of physical sciences, contains only allopathic physicians and sur- 
geons. The perpetual secretary is M. Dumas, the celebrated 
chemist, who in 1865 delivered before the Imperial Senate a dis- 
course against homoeopathy filled with the most monstrous inex- 
actitudes. It is thus seen that the section of medicine and sur- 
gery is well guarded in this learned body supported by the state. 
G. Boards of Health-Commissions of Hygiene- 
Medical Commissions of Hospitals and Asylums. 
These kinds of commissions, which are functionaries of the 
administrative authorities, are very numerous in France, but we 
defy one to find among them a single homoeopathic physician. THE HISTORY OF HOMCEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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There is the same negative result as regards the teaching and 
practice of homoeopathy. 
H. Military and Marine Services. 
I and J. Programmes of Public Instruction. 
The programmes of public instruction in the three grand 
faculties of medicine in France, Paris, Montpellier and Nancy, 
which has taken the place of Strasbourg (annexed since 1871 to 
the German empire), are completely silent as regards the teach- 
ing of homoeopathy. 
It is the same in the three superior schools of pharmacy, Paris, 
Montpellier and Nancy. 
The twenty-two preparatory schools of medicine and of phar- 
macy observe the same silence in their teaching. 
Allopathy might, however, have departed from this rigor in 
the three veterinary schools of Alfort, Lyons and Toulouse. As 
the treatment in these schools is entirely confined to animals, the 
famous objection based on respect for human life which they never 
fail to invoke when they desire to exclude homoeopathy from 
hospital services, cannot be raised in this case. But the pro- 
grammes remain inflexible. They contain, it is true, courses of 
materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacy, but there is the most 
absolute silence upon homoeopathy, which constitutes neverthe- 
less a veritable science by reason of the certainty of its methods 
of observation in pathology and therapeutics, on account of the 
excellence of its materia medica, and finally because of the 
wonderful effect produced upon the organism by the dose, the 
mode of preparation and administration of the remedies. Can 
the representatives of public instruction pretend that they are 
the true friends of humanity, after having thus refused the means 
of enlightening science and themselves? 
K. Clinics of Hospitals and Asylums. 
The clinic of the hospitals and asylums, which is the practical 
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remained a neutral ground for the purpose of medical experi- 
mentation. Allopathy, alarmed by the success of her rival, has 
proscribed homoeopathy by a series of arbitrary and unjust meas- 
ures. The administrative authorities have been weak enough to 
lend themselves to this ostracism. Physicians who had intro- 
duced into their hospital services the homoeopathic treatment 
have been stigmatized by their adversaries, and have been led 
by vexations of all kinds to hand in their resignations. It is in 
vain that their pupils have sought to enter into hospital services; 
they have been repulsed; their admission would only have been 
tolerated upon the condition of abjuring homoeopathy and of sub- 
mitting to the orthodox discipline. 
As to the internes who form the auxiliary service to the physi- 
cians of the hospitals, as they are admitted at Paris by a compe- 
tition judged by allopathic juries, and in the provinces by admin- 
istrative commissions named by the prefects, it is no longer 
astonishing that the treatment in the hospitals of the state, of 
the departments and of municipalities should remain and will 
remain indefinitely allopathic, as long as this state of things is 
not modified by an impartial distribution of services between 
the representatives of each of the two schools. 
Chapter II. 
The Exclusion of Homoeopaths from Public Services. 
The "greater excommunication" launched against homoe- 
opathy by triumphant allopathy has been so complete, that at 
Paris there no longer remains a single representative of the dis- 
senting school in the public services, and in the provinces there 
remain only a few. 
It is not necessary to retrace here the history of the forfeitures 
and denials of justice committed against homoeopathy; the de- 
tails of them have been published in their time; one might, 
however, consult upon this interesting subject the following 
books, that are found at Paris, at M. Balliere's, 19 Rue Haute 
Feuille. THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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Milcent on Intolerance and Scientific Liberty (1854). 
Homoeopathy in the Hospitals, memoir apropos of the petition 
to the Senate (1865). 
H. Becker, Law and Homoeopathic Hospitals (1870). 
Report of 1876 upon the Homoeopathic Hospital of the House 
of St. Jacques of Paris. 
A simple enumeration of facts suffices to demonstrate the sys- 
tematic hostility of the interests which are opposed to the intro- 
duction of homoeopathy into public services. 
In 1835, M. Guizot, Minister of Public Instruction, after 
having taken the advice of the Academy of Medicine, which 
pretended that homoeopathy was a system full of absurdity, re- 
fused to authorize Petroz and Leon-Simon, Sr., who first prac- 
ticed homoeopathy in France, to found a homoeopathic institute, 
dispensary and hospital. 
In 1842, Amador, Professor in the Faculty of Montpellier, 
was forbidden by order of the University to lecture upon the 
doctrine of Hahnemann. 
In 1846, three physicians were expelled from the medical 
society of the sixth arrondissement of Paris because they were 
homoeopaths. At the same epoch a medical society of Paris 
pushed intolerance so far as to forbid any of its members to ac- 
cept a consultation with a homoeopathic physician. 
In 1847, Dr. Laburthe, military surgeon, having wished to 
treat homoeopathically the patients of his service, was immediately 
stopped in this course. 
In 1849, Dr. Leon Marchant, physician of the Hospital of St. 
Andrew, at Bordeaux, is denounced to the Minister of the Interior 
as practicing homoeopathy. This high functionary, in transmit- 
ting by a letter of the 28th of March, 1849, the decision of the 
Academy of Medicine to the prefect of the department, recom- 
mends him to ascertain whether, in obliging the physician to ab- 
stain from homoeopathic practice in his service, it would not be 
well to put at his disposal one ward to which patients who pre- 
ferred the homoeopathic method might voluntarily resort. But 
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suggestions, and Dr. Leon Marchant was obliged to hand in his 
resignation. 
In 1852 it was the turn of the veterinary homoeopaths. Dr. 
Perrussel, after successful experiments upon the horses of the 
army, was refused by the Minister of War permission to con- 
tinue them on a larger scale. It was the same with M. Cor- 
douan, a homoeopathic veterinary, who had cured glandered 
horses of the omnibus company of Marseilles, and who under- 
went the same refusal from the Minister of the Interior. Evi- 
dently the two ministers had only put their vetoes on these 
essays not in anima vili but on account of unfavorable advices 
given by commissions composed of allopaths, which are function- 
ary to each minister. 
In 1854, a paper by Dr. Imbert-Gourbeyre, homoeopath, had 
carried away in secret committee the prize proposed by the Society 
of Medicine of Hospitals, upon the subject of albuminuria, the 
subject submitted for competition. But the sealed envelope con- 
taining the name of the author having been opened, it was de- 
clared that they had not awarded a prize. 
In 1855, from the foundation of VArt Medicate by J. P. 
Tessier, a distinguished physician who openly practiced homoe- 
opathy in his hospital service, the Academy of Medicine sent 
back to its founder, in the most insulting manner, the first num- 
bers which he had addressed to them. 
In 1856 this eminent physician was expelled, on account of 
homoeopathy, from the Anatomical Society with three of his co- 
laborers. By right of seniority J. P. Tessier ought to have 
taken the service of the hospital of the Hotel Dieu, but this 
place was given to another physician in order to prevent homoe- 
opathy from penetrating into the service of this hospital, which 
is the most important of the metropolis. 
In 1862, J. P. Tessier died, overcome by the bitter injustice 
of which he had been the victim. There was only one allopathic 
physician at his funeral. 
After his death the same blind hostility pursued his pupils. 
In vain did Drs. Gabalda, Fredault, Milcent, Tousset, Cham- 
peaux, Ozanam and Davasse present themselves in competitive THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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examination for hospital service. They were always systemati- 
cally repulsed as homoeopaths, although they were worthy by 
their merit to be admitted there. 
Drs. Davasse and Champeaux were even banished from the 
modest service of the Bureaus of Charity, for the simple crime 
of practicing homoeopathy. 
In 1855, one of the pupils of the same physician, Dr. Milcent, 
installed ad interim in a chair of the military hospital of Vai de 
Grace, was dismissed from it by the Minister of War, at the in- 
stance of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, for teaching homoe- 
opathy there. 
At the same time Dr. Ozanam, another pupil of J. P. Tessier, 
was forced for the same reasons to hand in his resignation as 
librarian of the Academy of Medicine. 
At the same epoch the Minister of Public Instruction of Na- 
poleon III, M. Fortoul, refused to M. Leon-Simon, Sr., the au- 
thority to renew his private course which had been tolerated 
during the reign of Louis Philippe. 
In 1865, Dr. Patin, one of the veterans of the Institution of 
the Bureau of Charity, was in like manner attacked by adminis- 
trative measures forbidding him to practice homoeopathy in his 
service. Tn the same year a petition signed by Dr. Feuillet, 
homoeopathic physician at Algiers, described to the Senate of the 
empire the inconveniences and the dangers of a legislation which 
evidently had been made without any regard to the new needs 
created by homoeopathy; " thus," said he, " the homoeopathic 
physicians in urgent cases are placed in the alternative either 
of abandoning the patient or of violating the law which forbids 
him to dispense the remedy himself. It is in order to avoid such 
risks that the homoeopathic physician finds himself obliged to 
advise his patients to procure boxes of homoeopathic medicines, 
whose use in inexperienced hands may be dangerous." But the 
Senate, coupling this petition with that of the workingmen 
which we cite below, rejected them without even submitting 
them to competent commissions. 
The petition of 1865, signed by two thousand workmen of 
Paris, implored the intervention of the Senate-for the installa- 192 
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tion of a homoeopathic service in the hospitals of the metropolis. 
It was rejected despite the energetic support of two senators, 
Messrs. Thayer and Bonjean, the latter the eminent magistrate 
of the Court of Appeals who was basely assassinated when a 
hostage in 1871, during the last days of the insurrection of the 
Commune. And the Senate had the proof nevertheless that at 
least one-tenth of the senators were treated by homoeopathy. 
One might then fairly assume that the Parisian population sup- 
ports the new therapeutic method in about this proportion. 
In the memorable seance of the 1st of July, 1865, were seen 
two personages, one at- the head of the magistracy o? the country, 
M. Dupin, the other, M. Dumas, in the first rank of scientific 
men, opposing with a remarkably unanimity a medical doctrine 
that they were far from understanding, by affirmations absolutely 
inexact. 
In 1875, one last hope remained to the partisans of homoe- 
opathy, in the bill concerning freedom in the higher instruction. 
Alas! the law of the 12th of July, 1875, has brought no ame- 
lioration of the ostracism which homoeopathic teaching suffers. 
There is in this law an article 24 which obliges the government 
to present a new bill for introducing into the superior teaching 
of the state the ameliorations acknowledged to be necessary. 
A commission formed of allopathic physicians, all professors 
of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, has already formulated its 
desires by asking for the creation of four new chairs, viz., clinic 
of mental diseases, of dermatology, of ophthalmology and of dis- 
eases of children. 
Homoeopathy ought evidently by right to formulate in its 
turn its wishes to the government, asking for the addition of a 
certain number of chairs devoted to instruction in materia 
medica, therapeutics and homoeopathic pharmacology, which 
differ so essentially from the old method. 
At this moment even, when the state is seeking to regain by 
a new bill already presented to the legislative chambers, the 
monopoly of the gift of the grades which the last law of the 
12th of July, 1875, has divided between the faculties of the 
state and the free faculties, the true friends of liberty in the THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN FRANCE. 
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higher branches demand in the faculties of the state the admis- 
sion of free professors, known by the name of privat docent, in 
imitation of the practice of the universities of Germany. This 
institution would open in effect to homoeopathic physicians a 
door by which they might enter with dignity into teaching. 
For it is in the colleges of the faculties of the state that pupils 
learn to judge by comparison of the worth of a doctrine which 
its adversaries have only proscribed from the official programmes 
by a sort of tacit coalition in favor of their threatened interests. 
But supposing that this institution of docent passes into 
the new law, are the homoeopathic physicians who desire to 
profit by this innovation quite sure of not meeting various ob- 
stacles; for through official media, triumphant allopathy goes 
proclaiming everywhere, " Homoeopathy is dying, homoeopathy 
is dead; there will soon be no more homoeopathic physicians; 
public indifference has killed them." 
Chapter III. 
Particular Homoeopathic Institutions. 
We have thus described the legal status of medicine and 
pharmacy in France. It is not sufficiently different in her colo- 
nies to call for especial remark; besides it is well known that our 
colonies do not enjoy autonomy, but remain under the civil and 
military control of the mother government. 
This exposition makes clear to the reader by what arbitrary 
despotism allopathy has excluded homoeopathy from every de- 
partment of the higher instruction, to the great damage of science 
anol public health. 
In spite of this iniquitous ostracism the new doctrine has 
made such progress in the various classes of French society that 
it may boldly say to its rival, " No, homoeopathy is not dead; 
it is not dying. The number of its physicians does not diminish. 
Public indifference has not killed it!" 
In his report of 1876 to the Society of the Founders of the 194 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Homoeopathic Hospital, No. 182 St. James Street, Paris, Dr. 
Cretin, chief of service in this establishment, said, speaking in 
the name of his confreres, " We are continuing the strife at the 
cost of every sacrifice, the sacrifice of career, of position, of for- 
tune, and even of pride. As to our confreres of orthodox medi- 
cine, if we are no longer charlatans, unenlightened, ignorant; if 
we arc no longer pariahs; if they condescend to have some con- 
sultation with us, we are none the less excluded. We are always 
kept out of their societies, their academies, their faculties, and 
their hospitals. We undergo a veritable ostracism." 
And Dr. Cretin adds, in thanking the founders of the hospital, 
" But thanks to you, our faithful subscribers, we are able to meet 
this hostility on better conditions than formerly. You are our 
witnesses before our adversaries; this effaces humiliations and 
increases our energy tenfold. Thanks to you, we have a hospital 
of our own and can there teach freely." 
The word f reely employed in this report goes a little too far, 
for homoeopathy has not yet been able to teach in complete 
liberty, and the author of the report ought to have said, freely 
as far as the tolerance of the government, and afterwards the new 
law of the 12th of July, 1875, permit it. In truth these iso- 
lated courses or conferences (Article II) are always subject to 
lamentable restrictions; and the establishing of a faculty or 
school of medicine and pharmacy is possible only on condition 
of its being connected with a hospital containing at least one 
hundred and twenty beds; a condition not easily realized in the 
present situation of homoeopathy and her physicians in relation 
to the superior authority and the administration of public charity. 
But homoeopathy has found encouragements in the sympathy 
and confidence of the public. Its progress is more and more 
marked every day. It counts now numerous partisans and de- 
votees in science, in the magistracy, in the bar, and among pub- 
lic functionaries. The working class appreciated long ago this 
medical method which cures it tuto, cito etjucunde, and spares it 
long and ruinous convalescences. By degrees homoeopathic phy- 
sicians are accepted in the societies of mutual relief, in societies 
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It is with the assistance of their numerous clients that homoeo- 
paths have been able to found dispensaries and hospitals, to pub- 
lish journals, and institute societies for the teaching and propa- 
gation of the doctrine of Hahnemann. 
In order to convince any one of this, we refer the reader to the 
picture of the situation of homoeopathy in France, which has 
been traced in a remarkable manner in the report of M. Charles 
Catellan, homoeopathic pharmaceutist and member of the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society of France. 
One may thus be reassured as to the fate and future of ho- 
moeopathy in France. The efforts of its adversaries will not suc- 
ceed in effacing the remembrance of the benefits which it has 
spread throughout all classes of society. The richest, as well as 
the poorest, being able to appreciate the value of this new thera- 
peutic method, it is certain that within a given time the doors 
of public establishments will open of themselves to allow free 
entrance to the teaching and practice of homoeopathy. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL 
REPORT 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN AUSTRIA. CONTENTS. 
Part I. The History of Homoeopathy in Austria, . . . Dr. Edward Huber. 
Part II. History and Statistics of the Homoeopathic Hospitals of 
Austria Dr. M. L. Mueller. 
Part III. History and Statistics of Homoeopathic Education in 
Austria (exclusive of Hungary), Dr. Gerstel. 
Part IV. History and Particulars of Austrian Legislation affect- 
ing Homoeopathic Physicians, etc., .... Dr. Gerstel. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT ON 
HOMOEOPATHY IN AUSTRIA. 
PART I. 
The History of Homceopathy in Austria. 
Dr. Edward Huber, of Vienna. 
It would be difficult to discover the exact time when Hahne- 
mann's principle of similarity first arrested the attention of an 
Austrian physician. According to Altschul it was in 1817, in 
Bohemia; and this is confirmed by the fact that Prof. Veith, the 
Nestor of our Vienna Homoeopathic Society, first had his atten- 
tion directed to homoeopathy in 1818 by the array surgeon 
Krastiansky, in Klattau. 
In 1819 Dr. Gossner was practicing homoeopathy in Ober- 
hollabrun, Lower Austria, and Dr. Mussek, in Seefeld, a neigh- 
boring town. But although the system of homoeopathy had not 
developed much in Austria at this time, it was forbidden by law 
in 1819. 
According to an official decree issued October 21st, 1819, his 
Imperial Majesty had ordered, on October 13th, 1819, that "Dr. 
Hahnemann's homoeopathic method of cure should be generally 
and strictly forbidden." 
The originator of this edict was Dr. Stift, physician to the 
emperor, Francis I, who was at the head of the sanitary depart- 
ment of the government, and exercised a great personal influence 
over the emperor. Nevertheless homoeopathy continued to spread 
during the next decade. 
In Prague we find Dr. Marenzeller, military staff-surgeon 200 
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and attending physician to his Imperial Highness the Archduke 
John, and also Dr. Schaller. 
In Graz there were Drs. Mal, Maly, Herwitz and Menz, the 
latter removing to Vienna in 1824. 
Surgeon Fischer moved to Brunn in 1825, having already 
used homoeopathic remedies in chronic cases in Eibenschutz, 
Saar and Rossitz, in Moravia. In Brunn he found two allies, 
Steigentisch, a merchant, and Albrecht, a government official. 
The former had gone through a course of surgery and had done 
medical service in our army during the French war. Hav- 
ing some practical knowledge, he succeeded in gaining many ad- 
herents to our system among the higher classes of society, treat- 
ing mostly chronic cases. Albrecht, a faithful correspondent of 
Hahnemann's, devoted his attention to the preparation of homoeo- 
pathic remedies. Being himself an invalid he was very thorough 
in his studies of the action of remedies. Neither of these men 
having diplomas, they merely served to pave the way for Fischer. 
He soon gained the confidence of the public and attained to a 
large and profitable practice; but having no right, as surgeon, 
to treat internal diseases, he was much harassed by his adver- 
saries. Frequently brought into court, and threatened with the 
loss of his diploma, he determined to leave Brunn rather than 
relinquish his favorite method of treatment. In 1831 he re- 
moved to Raigen, neai' Brunn, and was appointed physician to 
the monastery of the Benedictines. Now for the first time he 
could develop his practice with undisturbed activity. He was 
sought by the clergy, the middle classes, and the peasants. 
Patients came in crowds from the neighboring provinces, while 
in Moravia he was known in every town and village. In fact 
he converted all Moravia to homoeopathy. 
Let us now turn to the condition of our system in Vienna dur- 
ing the second decade of this century. The pastor and canon 
Dr. Veith, who is still living and active in literary matters, hav- 
ing passed his medical examination in 1820, devoted himself 
after that to theology. In 1825 he began to use homoeopathic 
treatment with great effect, while his brother, Prof. S. Veith, 
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converted by Dr. Menz, who cured him, with Ignatia, of a car- 
dialgia of many years'* standing, after the unsuccessful efforts of 
the best allopathic authorities. 
But Dr. Marenzeller was the most powerful agent in spread- 
ing a knowledge of homoeopathy in Vienna. He was called 
thither from Prague under the following circumstances: In 
Hungary, at that time, many cases of intermittent fever occurred 
in the army, and the percentage of deaths was large. Count 
Henry Hardegg, afterwards general of cavalry, and an adherent 
of homoeopathy, recommended this system for trial to a regi- 
mental surgeon. The latter, discouraged by the ill success of his 
treatment, assented, and was furnished with* Nux vom. and 
Ipecac, for his experiments. His results were so brilliant that 
they came to the notice of the emperor, Francis I. He sum- 
moned Adjutant-General Kirtschera, a patient of Marenzeller's, 
to obtain further information, and Count Hardegg was also 
called upon to give his experience. The result was that Dr. 
Marenzeller was called upon by a personal letter of his majesty, 
to commence clinical experiments, with homoeopathic treatment, 
at the St. Joseph's Medico-Chirurgical Academy, on April 2d, 
1828. 
For this purpose a ward of twelve beds was furnished. Four 
patients were selected alternately, by Dr. Marenzeller on one side, 
and by the commissioners (professors of the Academy) on the 
other side. The latter, and usually about forty other physicians, 
followed Marenzeller in his morning and evening visits. Every 
ten days the commissaries were relieved by two others, so during 
sixty days the following officiated: Profs. Scherer and Wagner, 
Von Zimmermann and Tbltengi, Zang and Jager, Bischoff and 
Hager, Romer and Fischer, Schwarger and Soix. 
Profs. Zang and Jager were on duty from April 22d to May 
2d, and made a report unfavorable to the treatment. Records 
of the cases were kept, and delivered to the authorities as soon 
as the patients were discharged or transferred. Unfortunately, 
no copies were kept by Marenzeller, and the originals were never 
published, probably at the instigation of the emperor's physician, 
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and at present one of the most active homoeopathists of Vienna, 
has published a report of 46 cases, taken from the imperfect 
records of his father. The following are the most important: 
2. Pleuritis; postia febris nervosa. The pleurisy was cured 
in 5 days. The patient taking cold, brought on a feverish state; 
also cured in 5 days. 
4. Icterus cum psora. A very instructive case, on account of 
the simultaneous existence of several diseases. A cure resulted 
in 20 days, after the use of China, M. sol. and Carbo veg. 
8. Erysipelas faciei et meningitis. The second disease set in 
after the termination of the first. The patient confessed that he 
did not take his medicines during two days, but always spit them 
out. His recovery seemed doubtful to all who saw him, but he 
was discharged convalescent on the 11th day. (Bellad., Rhus.) 
10. Febris tertiana. The patient was convalescent in 6 days. 
(Ignatia.) 
11. Febris tertiana. Recovered in 4 days. (Pulsat.) 
12. Hepatitis. An important case. The inflammation was 
very severe, and recovery occurred in 7 days. (China.) 
13. Pneumonia. A severe case. Convalescent in 7 days. 
(Aconit.) 
14. Syphilis. This case was especially dwelt upon by Prof. 
Zang, in his adverse report, as a primary chancre which had not 
improved after 3 weeks of treatment. It was an inflammatory 
chancre of the fraenum, and the patient was out of health in 
other respects. (Merc, sol.) 
18. Angina. Cured in 3 days. (Bellad.) 
19. Parotitis cum febri. Subinflammation. Cured in 3 days. 
(Ignatia.) 
21. Febris quotidiana. Cured in 5 days. 
22. Febris quartana. Convalescent in 7 days. 
23. Angina. Cured in 3 days. (Bellad.) 
25. Diarrhoea sanguinea. Cured in 3 days. (M. sol.) 
27. Febris tertiana. Cured in 8 days. 
29. Angina. Cured in 3 days. (Bellad.) 
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lung, bloody expectoration, tendency to hectic fever. (Prof. Zang.) 
Still cured in 16 days. (Aeon., China, Ammo.) 
32. Pleuritis cum nota gastrica. Cured in 3 days. 
33. Febris tertiana. Cured in 4 days. 
34. Pleuritis. Cured in 7 days. The patient very full- 
blooded. (Aconit.) 
35. Febris tertiana. Cured in 3 days. 
42. Diarrhoea aquosa. Cured in 1 day. (Chamom.) 
43. Febris quotidiana. Convalescent in 8 days. 
45. Febris tertiana. Recovery in 6 days. 
The cases not reported were either transferred soon after en- 
trance, or the result was not decisive, or the duration of treat- 
ment was not recorded, or they were transferred at the closure 
of the clinic. 
Dr. Gliicker, who assisted at the visits, was impressed by the 
cure of the chronic case of icterus (4), the patient having had 
allopathic treatment for a year without effect. 
The closing of the clinic was brought about by four convicts, 
who were told that they were brought there to be experimented 
upon. They offered active resistance, and induced other pa- 
tients to do the same. 
Thus, about the middle of May, ended these experiments, 
which, if continued, might have broken the bonds of incredu- 
lity and prejudice. 
While thus engaged, Marenzeller had an audience with the 
emperor, who received him very graciously, and expressed his 
satisfaction at the results of treatment, of which he received daily 
reports, and also wished to know if thereafter four pharmacies 
could not supply all the wants of Vienna. 
The report of the commissioners was to the effect that they 
could not give a decision either for or against the value of this 
new method. Prof. Zang alone submitted an adverse minority 
report. This was the only voice that actually opposed the ho- 
moeopathic treatment, while Prof. Zimmermann, one of the com- 
missioners, soon after became a convert to the new system. We 
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especially when we consider that they took place in an allo- 
pathic hospital, where the very servants were hostile, and the 
patients themselves rebellious and distrustful. One patient (8) 
admitted that he took no medicine for two days, and others may 
have followed his example. The daily presence of two commis- 
saires and forty hostile physicians did not add to the success of 
the treatment. 
That Marenzeller was satisfied with his success, is shown by 
the fact that he left his lucrative practice in Prague and removed 
to Vienna in 1829, one year after his clinical experiment. 
From this time homoeopathy progressed in Vienna with gigan- 
tic strides. Marenzeller was overwhelmed with patients from 
early morning till late at night, and died at his post in 1854. 
Contemporary with him were Menz, the two Veiths, Lichtenfels, 
Schafer, Lederer, Sr., Gliicker, Wricha, Arnold and Lowe. 
In Salzburg homoeopathy was introduced, in 1830, by Dr. 
Martinez, and in Schwarzach, by Dr. Tonaillon. Dr. Schreter 
settled in Lemberg in 1830, practicing the new method, which 
soon became popular through all Gallicia. 
In 1831, the success of our treatment of cholera was so bril- 
liant, that the hospital in Gumpendorf was opened for homoeo- 
pathic treatment in 1832, the first physician being D. G. Schmidt. 
At the intervention of Count Coudenhaven, the Sisters of Charity 
took charge of the nursing of the sick. 
In Briinn Dr. A. Gustel practiced for some time with great 
success. When the cholera appeared in Prague, he removed 
thither, but, when the epidemic came to an end, he returned to 
Briinn, taking the place of Fischer. 
About the beginning of the third decennium, the prior of the 
Brothers of Charity in Laibech was practicing homoeopathy with 
such success, that he became known far and wide as Pater Faus- 
tus. When the order was dissolved, he continued to practice, 
his great success making many converts to homoeopathy. 
In 1834, a number of adherents of homoeopathy in Trieste 
united for the purpose of inducing a homoeopathic physician to 
settle there. They persuaded Dr. Ginzel to come to them from 
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But, as homoeopathy was still forbidden at this time, its ad- 
herents had much to suffer from their opponents. Some were 
summoned before court, and their remedies confiscated. It is 
well known that at one time Marenzeller was obliged to keep 
his homoeopathic preparations concealed in a store. In Vienna 
it came to such a pass, at the instigation of Stiff, that the houses 
visited by homoeopathic physicians were entered by the police, 
and the remedies carried off. 
On June 6th, 1835, the Bureau of Instruction in Vienna pro- 
pounded the following questions to the medical faculty of Prague, 
at the request of the Duchess of Lucca : 
1st. Is homoeopathy a scientific system? 
2d. If this is the case, can the free practice of homoeopathy be 
permitted ? 
3d. Is the dispensing of remedies to be allowed to homoeopa- 
th ists ? 
Profs. Krombholz and Nusshardt were ordered to report on this 
subject. In reply to the first question they both stated that they 
could not give a correct decision, because the practice of the sys- 
tem being illegal, they had bestowed no attention upon it. But 
Prof. Krombholz decided that homoeopathy should be looked 
upon as a scientific system, and that its free practice should be 
permitted. The bedside, he said, was the sure test, and would 
lead it either to speedy destruction or to a new life. 
Dr. Nusshardt was to report upon the practical value and re- 
liability of the homoeopathic method of cure. His first report 
was unqualifiedly unfavorable, and showed more of passionate 
hostility than of knowledge of the subject in question. But 
this first anathema was soon recalled by himself. The more he 
became acquainted with homoeopathy the more favorable was his 
reports. In his last, the thirteenth, he exclaims: "It would be 
a treachery against humanity and against science to oppose a 
method of cure which can be of incalculable value to suffering 
humanity." 
The epidemic of cholera in 1836 gave our system another 
great impetus. Dr. Fleischmann was at that time physician of 
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brothers Veith, of an obstinate sciatica, and thus converted to 
our system. Of 732 cholera patients received in his hospital, 
488 recovered, and 244, that is one-third, died. In the other 
hospitals of Vienna at least half of the patients died. 
In consequence of this result and also the success in private 
practice, a number of citizens combined to send a deputation to 
the Emperor Ferdinand I, begging him to annul the prohibition 
of homoeopathy in the Austrian empire. Other influences may 
also have been brought to bear on the emperor, but, on February 
10th, 1837, a decree was issued by His Majesty abolishing the 
decree issued October 13th, 1819, which prohibited the practice 
of homoeopathy. 
In 1841 the cure of Field-marshal, Count Radetzky, by Dr. 
Hartung, added much to the renown of homoeopathy. Dr. 
Jager, Imperial Councillor and staff surgeon, had, in connection 
with Dr. Hartung and Professor Flarer, established the positive 
diagnosis of scirrhus within the orbit, with the prospect of can- 
cerous ulceration and certain death, all the characteristic signs of 
the disease being present. He made the same statement in his 
official report to the Department df War, stating his opinion that 
recovery was impossible either by nature or art. Nevertheless 
Dr. Hartung succeeded in curing his illustrious patient with 
homoeopathic treatment. 
After nearly fifteen years this case was called into question by 
an allopathic journal. Dr. Wurzian, then physician to Radetzky, 
wrote to the editors for the purpose of showing them their error. 
He met with such poor success that the old field-marshal felt 
obliged to issue the following autograph letter in defence of the 
truth and the credit of homoeopathy. 
My dear Wurzian : Having learned that there are malicious 
doubts in circulation as to the efficacy of homoeopathy, I hereby 
declare that the disease of my eye in 1841 was cured exclusively 
by the homoeopathic treatment of my staff physician, Dr. Hart- 
ung, now deceased. 
Radetzky, M. P. 
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On May 30th, 1842, the homoeopathic hospital of the Sisters 
of Charity was opened in Linz, where Dr. Bergmann had already 
been practicing. Dr. Simon Reip came from Vienna to take 
charge of the institution, and remained until his death in 1870. 
In 1845, a hospital was established in Kremsia, and in 1849 
another in Steger. 
In 1842, Professor Poltenyi began a violent attack upon ho- 
moeopathy. He denied that there was any truth in the system, 
accused its adherents of evil motives, and opposed their estab- 
lishing hospitals or schools for instruction. 
This hostile demonstration induced Drs. Fleischmann, Hampe, 
Wurmb and Watzke to form a firm union for the purpose of re- 
sisting the attacks of the enemy. Not content with a reply 
written by Watzke, they formed a society for the further devel- 
opment of homoeopathy and the Materia Medica. After several 
preliminary meetings the first regular session took place on De- 
cember 15th, 1842, the business before the meeting being the 
reading of the report of the provings of Colocynth by the mem- 
bers. 
During the following year Aconite, Gentian and Natrum mur. 
were proved, and the correctness of Hahnemann's symptom reg- 
ister confirmed. The society also received permission from the 
government to publish a homoeopathic journal. In 1844 the 
number of members had increased to seventeen, and the provings 
of Bryonia and Thuja were undertaken. During this year the 
society also obtained permission from the government to publish 
a homoeopathic journal. 
In 1844 the number of those members of the society only, 
who resided in Vienna, had increased to seventeen, and Thuja 
and Bryonia were proved. In 1845 decisive steps were taken to 
insure the recognition of the society by the authorities. During 
this year they also proved Argentum metal, and nitricum; also 
the iodine spring of Halle and the salt spring of Ischl. 
The greater part of 1846 was devoted to the proving of Sul- 
phur, in which nearly all the members of the society took part. 
This year was also made memorable by Emperor Ferdinand's 
publication of a decree, on December 9th, allowing homoeopa- 208 
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thists the right of dispensing medicines. According to this 
order physicians were obliged to buy their tinctures and crude 
drugs at the pharmacies. But they could then make their dilu- 
tions and triturations and dispense them to their patients gratui- 
tously, always giving the degree of the potency in writing, and 
over their signature. 
In cases of suspected illegal action on the part of a homoeo- 
pathic physician, the case was to be examined not only by 
members of the faculty, but also by a certain number of reputa- 
ble homoeopathists. 
Another imperial decree of the 19th of the same month per- 
mitted the formation and legal organization of a society of 
homoeopathic physicians for the proving of remedies. This was 
done at once, and the first regular meeting was held on January 
2d, 1847. The officers were chosen, a code of statutes adopted, 
and all other business of the society transacted in regular order. 
It was determined to hold two meetings every month, which 
were attended by the government commissioner, Count Couden- 
haven. During this year Coccionella, Agaricus muse., Euphra- 
sia and Guaco were proved. 
In 1848 the number of members had increased to sixty, but 
the then impending revolution destroyed their activity for a time. 
The last meeting that year was held on May 3d. Then after a 
pause of more than two years, the next meeting was called on 
June 8th, 1850. 
For the steady increase in the number of physicians in our 
ranks we have to thank, in great part, Dr. Fleischmann, of 
Gumpendorf, whose name appeared in the catalogue of the Uni- 
versity of Vienna, as docent for practical instruction in homoe- 
opathy, from 1841 until the time of his death, in 1868. Dr. 
Zlatarovich, Professor of Pharmacodynamics at the St. Joseph's 
Academy until its dissolution in 1848, probably also converted 
many of his pupils to the new doctrine. Permission to practice 
in the military hospitals was never obtained, although often 
promised by the authorities. 
In 1849 Dr. Altschul, of Prague, received the appointment of 
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of Prague. He also maintained a dispensary, and prepared 
many young physicians for homoeopathic practice. 
In 1850, through the exertions of Drs. Watzke and Wurmb, 
a second homoeopathic hospital was opened in Vienna, they 
promising to take charge of it for eight years gratuitously. 
Here Wurmb delivered clinical lectures, always attended by a 
large number of native and foreign physicians. One of his 
pupils was the Knight of Kacykowsky, who settled in Lemberg 
in 1857. He translated Lutze's Manual of Homoeopathy, and 
published a quarterly journal for two years. Through his ex- 
ertions a petition, comprising the names of twelve hundred 
people of good standing, was presented to the authorities, asking 
for the establishment of a homoeopathic hospital and dispensary, 
but it was not granted. 
The Vienna Society recommenced its sessions in 1850, and 
showed its activity by the provings of Lycopodium, Glonoin, 
Ferrum acet., Eupion, Aloe, Plicthranthus and Opium, and J. 
O. Muller's experiments with remedies from the animal king- 
dom (Saliva and Hydrophobic Poison). 
As the number of medicinal provings gradually grew less, the 
name of the Society for Provings was changed, in 1873, to that 
of the Society of the Homoeopathic Physicians of Austria. The 
activity of the Society is now confined to guarding the interests 
of homoeopathy, and the occasional production of contributions 
to practice. The present number of members is forty-three. 
The organ of the Society, the Austrian Journal of Homoeopathy, 
was published by Fleischmann, Hampe, Watzke and Wurmb, in 
four volumes, from 1844 to 1848. After an interruption of sev- 
eral years, two more volumes appeared, under the editorship of 
Dr. J. O. Muller, in 1857, and finally, it was edited by Dr. 
Eidherr during 1862 and 1863. Since then the Society has pos- 
sessed no organ of its own. 
In 1869 a society was formed in Mattsel, Salzburg, called 
the Hahnemannia, for the homoeopathic treatment of animals. 
The number of members was thirty-four. Through the exer- 
tions of Drs. Streintz, Sr., and Leidl, also Pastor Joh. Legar, 
another society, called Hahnemannia, was founded in Graz, hav- 
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Homoeopathy has thus manfully fought its way to recognition 
in Austria, but still it possesses no legalized professorship or 
clinic. Altschul did much service while acting as docent, but 
his place has remained unfilled since his death. Fleischmann 
was nominally docent in Vienna, but his many occupations gave 
him no opportunity to properly fill his chair, which has remained 
empty since his death, in 1868. Thus homoeopathy exists to- 
day in Austria without any means of public instruction. To 
remedy this state of things Dr. G. Schmidt published a pam- 
phlet, in 1873, entitled, The Unavoidable Problem of Medicine 
in our Day, showing the advantages of our method of cure, and 
the necessity of creating professorships for instruction in its 
branches. Soon after a petition was sent to the authorities, ask- 
ing for the establishment of three chairs: one for general in- 
struction in homoeopathy; a second for materia medica and medi- 
cal provings, and a third for a homoeopathic clinic. This peti- 
tion was received on December 4th, 1875, and a consideration of 
it postponed because similar petitions were expected from the 
Hahnemannia Society of Gratz, and also from the Vienna 
Homoeopathic Society, asking for the establishment of homoeo- 
pathic professorships, or at least the use of some of the wards in 
the larger hospitals of the capital. We are thus on the eve of 
great possibilities for the future of homoeopathy in Austria. 
Schmidt's proposition that every student, at his final examina- 
tion, should also be examined as to his attainments in homoe- 
opathy would, no doubt, meet with the most violent opposition 
from our adversaries. 
We cannot close without referring to the enthusiasm for ho- 
moeopathy existing among the laity. In many provinces, par- 
ticularly in.Krain, Galizia, Salzburg and Steiermark, landed 
proprietors, teachers and priests use our treatment with the best 
results. In Austria proper alone there are at least fifty of the 
clergy who practice among the people. Pater Maximilian, of 
the Franciscan order, who died in 1854, was followed by such a 
crowd of patients, on account of his remarkable cures, that he 
attracted the notice of the authorities. His dwelling was often 
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escaped detection because he kept them concealed in make- 
believe or dummy books. 
Many of the nobility are interested in our system. Patients 
come in crowds to Count Gustav Auersberg, on the boundaries 
of Steiermark, on account of his successes in treatment. The 
Princess Wilhelmina Auersberg, renowned for her benevolence, 
goes from cottage to cottage in her estates in Bohemia, giving her 
needy tenants the benefits of homoeopathic treatment. In Zleb, 
in Bohemia, she has established a hospital with 12 beds for 
poor peasants, attended by her physician, Dr. Kohout. In 1846 
the Countess Harrach also founded a homoeopathic hospital for 
the poor in Nechanitz, in which 404 patients were treated during 
the first three years. May such munificence find many imitators. 
APPENDIX. 
List of the Homoeopathic Physicians of Austria. 
I. LOWER AUSTRIA. 
A. Vienna. 
Surgeon Alb, 
Dr Blumerfeld, 
Dr. Chmel, 
Surgeon Czary, 
Dr. Eckstein, 
Dr. Friedlander, 
Dr. Frohlich, 
Dr. Gerstel, 
Dr. Grunberg, 
Dr. Hampo, 
Dr. v. Hartungen, Sr., 
Dr. v. Hartungen, Jr., 
Dr. Hemisch, 
Dr. v. Hofmansthal, 
Dr. Jachimovicz, 
Dr. Kick, 
Dr. Lackner, 
Dr. Lederer, 
Dr. Marenzeller, 
Dr. Molin, 
Dr. Muller, Sr., 
Dr. Muller, Jr., 
Dr. Pazer, 
Dr. Pokorny, 
Dr. Porges, 
Dr. Richter, 
Dr. Rossival, 
Dr. Schmid, 
Dr. Schwarz, 
Dr. Seegen, 
Dr. Taubes, 
Surgeon Tedisco, 
Prof. Veith, 
Dr. Walter, 
Dr. Waltmann, 
Dr. Wiiller, 
Dr. Weinke, 
Mag. Witek, 
Dr. Wiirstl, Sr., 
Dr. Wiirstl, Jr. 
B. In the Pi'ovinces. 
Dr. Landesmann, in Baden, 
Dr. Tiggelmann, in St. Polten, 
Dr. Wendel, in Kultenhofen. 212 
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II. UPPER AUSTRIA. 
Surgeon Baumgartner, Freistadt, 
Dr. Bugmann, Linz, 
Dr. Eichhorn, Linz, 
Dr. Fischer, Linz, 
Dr. Lackner, Linz, 
Dr. Kaan, Ischl, 
Surgeon Schachermeyer, Linz, 
Surgeon Stiasny, Gmunden, 
Dr. Wagner, Gmunden, 
Dr. Wolf, Steyer. 
Dr. Brauner, Klastran, 
Dr. Elsass, Prague, 
Dr. Fischer, Teplitz, 
Surgeon Gersung, Teplitz, 
Surgeon Wausten, Weipert, 
Dr. Herzberger, Protian, 
Dr. Hirsch, Prague, 
Dr. Hopichter, Prague, 
Dr. Kafka, Sr., Prague, 
Dr. Kafka, Jr., Karlsbad, 
Dr. Klaber, Jaronnerz, 
Dr. Kohout, Zleb, 
Dr. Kovoe, Prague, 
Dr Kraut, Raaden, 
Dr. Lewit, Koric, 
III. BOHEMIA. 
Dr. Lipau, Wodolka, 
Dr. Loudon, Karlsbad, 
Dr. Mandi, Melnik, 
Dr. Mayer, Prague, 
Dr. Muller, Brux, 
Dr. Porsche, Reichenberg, 
Surgeon Richter, Prague, 
Dr. Sehlecht, Prague, 
Dr. Seeger, Prague, 
Dr. Siegel, Brux, 
Surgeon Stein, Teplitz, 
Dr. Strasser, Komstan, 
Dr. Sturm, Postel berg, 
Dr. Tschuschmer, Brux, 
Dr. Wehle, Prague. 
IV. MORAVIA. 
Dr. Brach, Brunn, 
Surgeon Czerny, Triiban, 
Dr. Dedack, Nafragedl, 
Dr. Eder, Olmiitz, 
Dr. Fuchs, Olmiitz, 
Dr. Haunsch, Tischnowitz, 
Dr. Hauck, Turras, 
Dr. Kolisch, Brunn, 
Dr. Kotze, Brunn, 
Dr. Kotze, Budschonitz, 
Dr. Locker, Datschitz, 
Dr. Lurz, Brunn, 
Dr. Richter, Rbmerstadt, 
Dr. Rohrig, Schonberg, 
Dr. Sirch, Olmiitz, 
Dr. Sirch, Schonberg, 
Dr. Stossl, Brunn, 
Dr. Schonn, Tropnitz, 
Dr. Schweizer, Kremsier, 
Dr. Sum, Toeltsch. 
V. SILESIA. 
Surgeon Sommer, Troppan, 
Surgeon Adam, Wurfenthal, 
Dr. Siegel, Engelsberg, during sum- 
mer in Carlsbrunn. 
VI. GALLICIA. 
Dr. Bielki, Lemberg, 
Surgeon Brust, Herow, 
Surgeon Buchta, Tysmienica, 
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Surgeon Friedmann, Rohstyr, 
Surgeon Hamburger, Gczymator, 
Dr. v. Kacykowski, Lemberg, 
Dr. Keler, Lemberg, 
Dr. Kniaziolucki, Husyatir, 
Dr. Lbw, Tarnow, 
Dr. Madeisky, Lemberg, 
Dr. Maxiinorvicz, Samber, 
Surgeon Neupauer, Betz, 
Surgeon Stiissner, Kimpolung, 
Dr. Paliczny, Krakau, 
Dr. Weiss, Criszkovier, 
Dr. Wilkowski, Mielnica, 
Dr. Wyszewski, Brygozow. 
Dr. Geiger, Thiiringen, 
Dr. Greussing, Feldkirch, 
Dr. Helbock, Hochst, 
Dr. Hensler, Bregenz, 
Dr. Huber, Weiler, 
Dr. Kbnig, Andelsbach, 
VII. TYROL AND VORARLBERG. 
Dr. Marz, Innsbruck, 
Dr. Mazegger, Obermais in Meran, 
Dr. Muller, Bregenz, 
Dr. Rottensteiner, Bozen, 
Dr. Sehbnach, Innsbruck. 
VIII. SALZBURG. 
Surgeon Achleitner, Durnberg, 
Dr. Friesnegger, Salzburg, 
Surgeon Hanselmann, Zell, 
Surgeon Hermann, Mittersilt, 
Surgeon Hermann, Thalgan, 
Dr. Hilschmer, Salzburg, 
Surgeon Keidel, Lofer, 
Surgeon Laschinski, Oberndorf, 
Surgeon Mayer, Salsburg, 
Surgeon Nusko, Hendorf, 
Surgeon Pirkel, Sr., Anef, 
Surgeon Pirkel, Jr., Durnberg, 
Surgeon Speckbacher, Berndorf, 
Dr. Proll, Gastein, 
Dr. Stern, Ebenau, 
Dr. Stranbinger, Salzburg, 
Dr. Stranbinger, St. Johns in Bon- 
gan, 
Dr. Strohl, Nussdorf. 
IX. KAINTHEN 
Dr. Kaspar, Klagenfurt, 
| Dr. Holercek, Klagenfurt. 
X. KRAIN, 
Dr. Mader, Laibach, 
| Dr. Werann,' St. Karzian. 
Dr. Adler, Feldbach, 
Dr. Fiittner, Marburg, 
Dr. Kocewar, Cilli, 
Dr. Lindermann, Gratwein, 
Dr. Schleicher, Graz, 
Dr. Seidl, Graz, 
XI. STEIERMARK. 
Dr. Semlitsch, Marburg, 
Dr. Streintz, Sr., Graz, 
Dr. Streintz, Jr., Graz, 
Dr. Zaruber, Graz, 
Dr. Zoff, Graz. 
XII. COAST PROVINCE. 
Dr. Faventer, Gbrg, 
Dr. Wartdobler, Trieste, 
Dr. Willberger, Trieste, 214 
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PART II. 
History and Statistics of the Homoeopathic Hospitals 
of Austria. 
Dr. M. L. Mueller, of Vienna. 
Our new method of cure was sustained in Austria at a very- 
early period, by a number' of admirers and adherents. In spite 
of the vexations and obstructions that always impede the prog- 
ress of what is novel or introduced from without, they followed 
their convictions in practicing homoeopathy, and, by their bril- 
liant success, made many proselytes. Still the system entered 
upon a precarious existence, being at first forbidden, afterwards 
merely tolerated, and generally treated with suspicion and dis- 
dain. But as what is true will always hold its own in spite of 
the hostility and persecution of its opponents, thus homoeopathy 
finally fought its way to recognition in Austria among the people, 
while the voice of opposition was gradually silenced. 
But our success is not as yet complete, because the position that 
the government holds towards homoeopathy is still a passive one. 
The state has done nothing to promote the proper education of 
homoeopathic physicians, or towards the establishment of homoe- 
opathic hospitals or dispensaries.* This explains the small num- 
ber of our hospitals, and all the more credit is due to the private 
congregations and independent societies, who established these 
institutions by their private means. 
The number of our hospitals is eight, three in Vienna, and five 
in provincial towns. They are, first, the Public District Hospi- 
* As yet we have no school or chair for instruction in homoeopathy. The 
place of homoeopathic docent has been vacant for years. Neither is there a 
public homoeopathic dispensary. The student who wishes to become ac- 
quainted with homoeopathy in Austria must depend upon his own industry, 
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tai in Sechshaus, a suburb of Vienna; second, the Hospital of the 
Sisters of Charity in the Leopoldstadt (in Vienna); third, the 
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Gumpendorf (in Vienna); 
fourth, the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Linz; fifth, the 
Hospital in Kremsier; sixth, that in Baden (near Vienna); 
seventh, in Steyer (Upper Austria); eighth, in Zwittau. 
1. The Public District Hospital in Sechshaus. 
We begin with the history of this, one of our youngest insti- 
tutions, because it has thus far been the Only public homoeopathic 
hospital in Austria as well as the largest, and because the history 
of its origin and rapid increase is of special interest. 
The establishment of this hospital occurred at the time of that 
important epoch in the history of Vienna when its walls and 
fortifications were razed to the ground, when it was proclaimed 
as an open city, and immediately began to develop and spread its 
gigantic body in all directions. The progress of the western 
suburbs was even greater than that of Vienna. Many industrial 
establishments were transferred to them, and this necessitated a 
dense population of working people. 
Under these circumstances the need of a hospital was soon 
felt. A number of citizens united their efforts and, by means 
of private subscriptions and contributions from the nine congre- 
gations embraced in the western suburbs, the sum of 18,000 
gulden ($9000) was soon collected. 
At the same time some citizens endowed a number of free beds, 
for all time, by the annual payment of 30 gulden, they retaining 
the right to make use of them in case of the sickness of one of 
their servants. 
Sufficient money having been collected for a building fund and 
for the maintenance of 100 beds, a building, that had formerly 
been used for other purposes, was bought, and opened on May 
17th, 1857. At first the hospital was under the control of the 
Sisters of Charity, and the treatment was exclusively allopathic. 
But, for various reasons, especially on account of financial trou- 
bles, this system only lasted for five months, the hospital being in 
danger of dissolution. At this critical period, at the instance of 216 
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Dr. Fleischmann, for many years physician of the homoeopathic 
hospital in Gumpendorf, Dr. S. B. Muller was induced to take 
charge of the institution. 
At first the sanitary authorities who were interested, looked 
upon this change with suspicious eyes, and exercised a somewhat 
hostile vigilance in watching the proceedings at the hospital. 
But, after a time, the very favorable results of treatment, ren- 
dered incontrovertible by statistical tables, gradually induced 
them to be more lenient in their supervision. 
The hospital is divided into a medical and surgical division. 
The latter is the smallest but harbored a large number of 
wounded during the wars of 1859 and 1866. According to the 
rules of the institution, the treatment in this division is allo- 
pathic. 
In 1862 the hospital, which had thus far been under the con- 
trol of the Sisters of Charity, was transferred to the united 
parishes of the suburbs, the sisters being retained to take charge 
of the nursing. The hospital soon became popular, and was 
overcrowded, so that, in 1865, it became necessary to add another 
story, the number of beds being thus increased to 150. During 
the year 1866, besides many wounded, 325 cholera patients were 
brought to the hospital. Of the latter, 179 were males and 146 
females. There were cured 114 males, 87 females. Died, 65 
males, 59 females. Brought in dying, 92. 
In 1867 it became necessary, on account of want of room, to 
buy an adjacent building to add to the hospital, thus increasing 
the number of beds to 225. The epidemic of typhus in 1871, and 
of variola in 1871, 1872, and 1875, still overcrowded the wards, 
and another adjacent building was purchased, increasing the 
number of beds to 350; at the same time a separate dead-house 
and chapel were also constructed, the funds for building, since 
1867, being obtained by loans. 
Another epidemic of cholera occurred in 1873, 538 patients 
coming under treatment, 266 being cured, 182 died, and 84 
were brought in moribund. During the epidemic of small-pox, 
in the years 1871, 1872 and 1873, 1916 patients were received; 
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About this time it became necessary, on account of the ex- 
penses connected with the addition of new buildings, and on ac- 
count of the general increase of the cost of living, to increase the 
daily price of maintenance per head from 63 to 72 kr. per day. 
In conclusion we will give a short sketch of the present con- 
dition of the institution. 
The Public District Hospital in Sechshaus is the property of 
the six communes existing in the six western suburbs of Vienna 
(Funfhaus, Sechshaus, Rudolfsheim, Obee, Mod ling and Unter 
Mbdling, and Gaudenzdorf). It is a public hospital, that is, the 
expenses of those patients who are without means are defrayed 
by funds taken from the public treasury. It is managed by a 
board of directors chosen by the six communes. The daily ex- 
pense per head is 72 kr.; of this sum 45 kr. is paid to the 
Society of Sisters of Charity, for which they take charge of the 
kitchen, the laundry, bath, heating, and lighting the building, 
and the purchase of the necessary remedies. 
The medical staff consisted at first of one chief of the medi- 
cal division, one chief of the surgical division, and one assistant. 
Dr. Jachimovicz was the first to officiate in the medical wards; 
he was succeeded by Drs. Chmel, Carl Wiirstl and Franz Bayer. 
As the hospital increased in size it became necessary to in- 
crease the number of physicians to five. At present Dr. J. O. 
Muller is at the head of the medical division, and also physician- 
in-chief of the whole hospital; Drs. Franz Bayer and M. L. 
Muller are his assistants. Dr. Hoyer is chief of the surgical 
division, his assistant being Dr. F. Mayer. 
All patients are received with the following exceptions: 1st. 
Children under four years of age, unless affected with variola or 
epidemic disease; 2d. Syphilitic patients; 3d. Diseases of the 
eye; 4th. Scabies; and 5th. Parturients, very near the time of 
their confinement. 
The nursing of the patients is undertaken by 50 nuns of the 
Order of St. Vincent de Paul. 
At present the hospital contains 350 beds, 250 for medical 
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The gradual increase of the hospital is shown by the following 
table: 
Year. 
No. of cases. 
Died. 
Year. 
No. of cases. 
Died. 
1857 
724 
107 
1867 
2389 
393 
1858 
1381 
236 
1868 
2830 
418 
1859 
1489 
248 
1869 
3021 
461 
1860 
1363 
219 
1870 
3359 
557 
1861 
1513 
268 
1871 
3493 
596. 
1862 
1634 
261 
1872 
4180 
715 
1863 
1757 
270 
1873 
4232 
909 
1864 
1604 
280 
1874 
3887 
604 
1865 
2136 
312 
1875 
4141 
631 
1866 
2649 
622 
Total in 19 years, 
47,782 
8107 
From the number of deaths there should be deducted 8 per 
cent., cases that were brought in moribund. In three-fifths of 
the cases, that is, 62 per cent., the cause of death was phthisis 
pulmonalis. Besides, a large number of patients who are ex- 
pected to live but a short time, are brought to the hospital by 
their friends, to save themselves the expenses of a private 
funeral. It should also be remembered that the hospital passed 
through a long epidemic of variola, two of typhus and two of 
cholera. All these circumstances render the mortuary statistics 
of a hospital of this kind of little value in estimating the success 
of the treatment employed. More satisfactory results can be 
obtained in smaller private hospitals. 
2. The Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in the Leopoldstadt, 
Vienna. 
This hospital was established in 1840, for both males and 
females, with a capacity of 84 beds. During the first ten years 
the treatment was allopathic, under the control of Drs. Koelschka 
and Zimmerman. Already in 1848 Dr. Wurmb endeavored to THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN AUSTRIA. 
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obtain control of one-half of this hospital for the purpose of in- 
troducing homoeopathic treatment. His petition to that effect 
to the government was granted the same year, but the political 
disturbances at that time occasioned delays, so that the wards 
were not opened until January 1st, 1850. 
During the first year Dr. Wurmb had sole charge of the hos- 
pital, but subsequently his labors were shared by Dr. Caspar. 
During and after 1855 only female patients were received in 
the hospital, the males being transferred to the neighboring hos- 
pital of the Brothers of Charity. 
During the years 1856 and 1857 Dr. Henry Low also officia- 
ted, especially among out-patients. In 1857 Dr. Eidherr took 
the place of Dr. Caspar. In 1864 Dr. Wurmb died, the founder 
of the hospital and a faithful advocate of the cause of homoe- 
opathy in Austria. At the same time, on account of the illness 
of Dr. Eidherr, Dr. Seibert was obliged to officiate for three 
years. In 1867 Dr. Eidherr resumed his post, and with Dr. 
Carl Wiirstl as assistant, officiated until the time of his death 
in 1874; then Dr. Carl Wiirstl took his place. 
At the present time the hospital holds 42 beds for homoeo- 
pathic patients. The number of patients received annually is 
between 650 and 700. In connection with the hospital is a dis- 
pensary, treating annually an equal number of patients. The 
following diseases are excluded: Syphilis, small-pox, chronic 
diseases of the womb and ovaries, chronic diseases terminating 
in general dropsy and marasmus senilis. 
The number of deaths annually varies from 25 to 30. Of 
these, on an average, one-third are cases of consumption, and 
three-fourths of the remainder are from organic heart disease, 
the rest of the deaths being caused by pneumonia, typhus, men- 
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TABLE OF THE ANNUAL RESULTS. 
Year. 
Entered. 
Died. 
Year. 
"Entered. 
Died. 
1850 
460 
26 
1863 
821 
28 
1851 
737 
37 
1864 
725 
26 
1852 
750 
46 
1865 
706 
28 
1853 
830 
51 
1866 
725 
36 
1854 
721 
55 
1867 
723 
29 
1855 
787 
48 
1868 
722 
31 
1856 
790 
36 
1869 
699 
34 
1857 
742 
29 
1870 
638 
33 
1858 
740 
30 
1871 
677 
43 
1859 
756 
32 
1872 
720 
34 
1860 
617 
17 
1873 
612 
34 
1861 
787 
36 
1874 
605 
27 
1862 
842 
17 
1875 
627 
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3. The Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Cumpendorf. Vienna. 
This, the oldest of the three homoeopathic hospitals of 
Vienna, was founded in 1832, at the time of the invasion of the 
cholera. The treatment has always been homoeopathic in the 
hospital as well as in the dispensary connected with it. It is 
under the charge of the Sisters of Charity, was established and 
is now sustained by voluntary contributions, and the patients 
are treated gratuitously. 
The first attending physician was Dr. Schmid. After him 
came Dr. Fleischmann. At his death he was succeeded by Dr. 
Rothausel, the present chief officer, who is assisted by Dr. W« 
Waldmann. 
At first the hospital had a capacity of 30 beds. This was in- 
creased in 1838 to 60, while at present the number is 80, dis- 
tributed in five spacious wards. 
The dispensary connected with this hospital has a large 
clientele. From 1833 to 1840 the average number of cases 
annually was about 2000. From 1870 to 1873 the average was 
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was 8016. No chronic diseases are received, nor syphilis, dis- 
eases of the eye, nor diseases of the skin, including small-pox. 
The following tables show the annual results of treatment: 
Total 
Cured. 
Not cured. 
Moribund. 
Died. 
From July 1,1832, to Nov. 1, 1833,* 
437 
318 
8 
3 
Ill 
" Nov. 1, 1833, " " 1834, 
311 
255 
23 
33 
" " 1834, " " 1835, 
476 
437 
8 
31 
" " 1835, " " 1836, 
339 
286 
21 
32 
July 1, 1836, to Oct. 1 (cholera cases), 
732 
488 
244 
From Nov. 1, 1836, to Jan. 1, 1838, 
645 
590 
4 
3 
51 
1838 
1839 
1840 
1841 
1842 
1843 
1844 
1845 
1846 
1847 
1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
1852 
1853 
1854 
1855 
1856 
Year. 
574 
672 
903 
895 
1004' 
1016 
1089 
944 
1095 
1108 
1138 
1038 
1090 
1034 
1022 
1013 
706 
1313 
1196 
Admissions. 
536 
621 
820 
829 
925 
941 
1003 
843 
1016 
1004 
1010 
881 
983 
959 
941 
910 
652 
1037 
1040 
Cured. 
5 
11 
13 
12 
17 
11 
12 
26 
17 
24 
40 
23 
27 
26 
30 
17 
8 
35 
44 
Not cured. 
• • • 00 : 2 
Moribund. 
33 
40 
70 
54 
62 
64 
74 
75 
62 
80 
88 
135 
80 
49 
51 
86 
46 
241 
112 
Died. 
1857 
1858 
1859 
1860 
1861 
1862 
1863 
1864 
1865 
1866 
1867 
1868 
1869 
1870 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1874 
Year. 
1153 
916 
971 
997 
1049 
1015 
984 
1034 
1177 
1211 
1230 
1314 
1275 
977 
930 
982 
1046 
1007 
Admissions. 
1022 
810 
870 
887 
944 
911 
886 
912 
1042 
1009 
1111 
1194 
1130 
840 
762 
866 
890 
842 
Cured. 
46 
37 
30 
39 
31 
36 
41 
72 
60 
75 
58 
59 
60 
61 
74 
36 
49 
71 
Not cured. 
; C5 CO ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 
Moribund. 
85 
69 
71 
71 
74 
68 
57 
50 
75 
127 
61 
61 
85 
76 
94 
80 
107 
93 
Died. 
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4. The Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Linz, Upper Austria. 
The city of Linz was first made acquainted with homoeopathy 
by Dr. Bergmann. The Hospital of the Sisters of Charity was 
opened in 1842. Previous to this two other hospitals under 
allopathic treatment, one for males and one for females, had been 
supported by the Sisters. 
•As early as 1840 steps were being taken for the establishment 
of our hospital. The bishop of Linz, Gregory Ziegler, induced 
the magistrate of Linz to donate the necessary ground. Then 
the Archduke Maximilian contributed 20,000 gulden towards 
the erection of a hospital, chapel and dead-house. The build- 
ings were begun in 1841, and finished in the autumn of the 
same year. A body of Sisters of Charity took charge of the in- 
ternal arrangement of the buildings, and it was formally opened 
on May 30th, 1842. 
The hospital was under the direction of the Rev. Prof. Reh- 
berger, a strong friend and advocate of homoeopathy. On the 
recommendation of Dr. Fleischmann, he appointed as physician 
Dr. Simon Reiss, who had but recently graduated, and who re- 
tained his post until the time of his death in 1870. His suc- 
cessor is Dr. Carl Fischer. 
The hospital consists of two spacious wards, well ventilated, 
one, on level ground, for women; one, on the first flight, for men, 
each containing twenty-two beds. 
In 1846 the Countess Weissenwolf took steps for the erection 
of a children's hospital. The Archduke Maximilian promised 
the funds necessary for the erection of the building, provided 
others would form an association for the furnishing and future 
support of the hospital. Various circumstances, especially the 
state of politics in 1848, impeded progress, so that the institu- 
tion was not opened until January 15th, 1851. It is also under 
the control of the Sisters of Charity. It contains twelve beds, 
six for boys and six for girls. It has passed through an epidemic 
of scarlatina, small-pox and diphtheria. 
The following tables give the general results since the time of 
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Entered in the year. 
Admissions. 
Died. 
Entered in the year. 
Admissions. 
Died. 
July 1st to Dec. 1 
31st, 1842, J 
332 
11 
1856 
857 
41 
1843 
574 
32 
1857 
764 
31 
1844 
592 
27 
1858 
869 
52 
1845 
618 
35 
1859 
817 
48 
1846 
700 
28 
1863 
842 
56 
1847 
801 
25 
1864 
886 
74 
1848 
838 
44 
1866 
873 
72 
1849 
802 
42 
1867 
933 
66 
1850 
830 
51 
1868 
979 
81 
1851 
839 
39 
1869 
856 
67 
1852 
858 
50 
1870 
833 
72 
1853 
859 
39 
1873 
877 
85 
1855 
940 
38 
1874 
889 
69 
A. THE HOSPITAL FOR ADULTS. 
B. THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. 
Year. 
Admissions. 
Died. 
Year. 
Admissions. 
Died. 
1853 
163 
18 
1866 
139 
15 
1854 
153 
11 
1867 
155 
15 
1856 
148 
10 
1868 
147 
13 
1857 
152 
9 
1869 
137 
37 
1858 
208 
12 
1870 
177 
21 
1859 
131 
7 
1873 
116 
21 
1863 
126 
19 
1874 
155 
36 
1864 
178 
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5. The Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Kremsier, Moravia. 
This hospital, the third in the order of time that was opened 
in Austria, owes its existence to the noble-hearted Princess Ernes- 
tine of Ahrenberg. This institution consists of a homoeopathic 
hospital, and also a school for girls. Both sections are under 
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hospitals in the Austrian empire are under the supervision of the 
Sisters, their superior being the Right Reverend Canon Ernst 
Max Hurex, of Vienna. The medical department has for thirty 
years been in the hands of Dr. J. V. Schweitzer. 
This institution admits all patients gratuitously without regard 
to sex or religion or nativity, with the following exceptions : 1st, 
syphilis; 2d, scabies; 3d, parturients; 4th, absolutely incura- 
ble; and 5th, children under four years of age. 
The hospital is situated in a healthy, open locality. It is two 
stories in height; contains, in its four wards, eleven beds for 
males, eleven for females, and four for children. The treatment 
has always been according to the law of similia similibus curan- 
tur, avoiding high potencies, and using remedies not below the 
second, and not above the sixth, potency. In the dispensary 
globules are dispensed with the proper directions. 
The hospital was opened on October 12th, 1845. The physi- 
cian, Dr. Schweitzer, at first met with much opposition, princi- 
pally from the fact that the burgomaster then in office was an allo- 
pathic apothecary, and of course dependent upon the patronage 
of allopathic physicians. Still the institution made rapid prog- 
ress, and the rush of in-patients was often so great that cot- 
beds had to be employed for their accommodation. During the 
thirty years, 11,502 cases were received in the hospital, of which 
number 9938 were cured ; 357 improved ; 236 left uncured ; 944 
died, and 27 remained under treatment on December 31st, 1875. 
During the same period more than 40,000 patients were treated 
in the dispensary. 
The relative proportion of deaths will appear favorable, when 
it is considered that the institution passed through three epi- 
demics of cholera, and several of typhus and small-pox, not to 
speak of the large preponderance of cases of tuberculosis. 
6. The Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Baden, near Vienna, 
called St. Mary's Hospital. 
Baden is a watering-place somewhat famous for its warm sul- 
phur baths, and attracts annually thousands of visitors. As long THE HISTORY OF HOMCEOPATHY IN AUSTRIA. 
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ago as 1811, a society of ladies of the nobility founded a hospital 
for charitable purposes. It is well situated in a large garden. 
Connected with it there is a dead-house, and a neighboring 
building which could be used for hospital purposes. It con- 
tains five spacious wards and several smaller rooms, having a 
capacity in all of 50 beds. 
During the summer 10 beds for males and 10 for females are 
ready for the care of acute eases. In case of necessity more room 
can be provided. The other 20 or 30 beds are devoted to 
patients with chronic diseases who propose to use the baths 
during the summer. The Sisters of Charity take charge of the 
administration of the hospital with their accustomed patience and 
devotion. Until ten years ago the treatment was exclusively 
allopathic. The acting physician dying at that time, the society 
of noble ladies proposed to introduce homoeopathic treatment as 
an experiment, and appointed Dr. Landismann as physician. 
The result was so satisfactory that it may be hoped that our 
treatment is permanently established in St. Mary's Hospital. 
Surgical cases are treated by Dr. Kohl. The increase in the 
number of patients is owing partly to the general increase of the 
population, but mostly to the success of our treatment. 
TABLE GIVING THE RESULTS OF TREATMENT SINCE THE 
INTRODUCTION OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
Year. 
Admitted. 
Cured. 
Improved. 
Not cured. 
Died. 
Remaining. 
1867 
215 
121 
58 
17 
13 
5 
1868 
184 
83 
65 
16 
14 
7 
1869 
206 
96 
66 
19 
17 
8 
1870 
224 
100 
70 
19 
21 
14 
1871 
259 
141 
79 
13 
15 
11 
1872 
269 
129 
77 
20 
30 
13 
1873 
297 
143 
85 
23 
40 
6 
1874 
233 
101 
83 
22 
22 
5 
1875 
238 
104 
84 
24 
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7. The Oily Hospital in Steyer, Upper Austria, called St. Ann's 
Hospital. 
This hospital was built in 1849, partly at the expense of the 
town and partly by charitable contribution. At first the num- 
ber of beds was 40. In 1859 this was increased to 60, and 
later to 80, the present number. The Sisters of Charity 
have charge of the general administration. Dr. Wachtl was 
physician from 1849 to 1853, and Dr. Huber from 1853 to 
1859. During this period the annual number of patients varied 
from 400 to 500. In 1860 the number rose to 600. Since 
then it has gradually increased, the average being 1000 since 
1869. The patients consist, besides members of the working 
classes, of the superannuated and of incurables. These latter 
furnish from 10 to 11 per cent, of the mortality. Excluding 
these the ratio of death is from 8 to 9 per cent. Two-thirds of 
the patients are males, one-third females. Since 1859, Dr. Wolf 
has been attending physician. 
8. Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Zwittau, Moravia. 
This little hospital of 12 beds was opened on July 1st. 1868. 
Only internal diseases are treated homoeopathically. Infectious 
diseases are excluded. 
The following table shows the results of treatment: 
Year. 
Admitted. 
Died. 
Year. 
Admitted. 
Died. 
1868 
23 
2 
1872 
95 
5 
1869 
95 
15 
1873 
83 
10 
1870 
88 
9 
1874 
83 
10 
1871 
112 
7 
1875 
98 
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CD 
Present 
Average 
admis- 
sions per 
annum. 
Aggregate since 
opening, of those 
a 
s 
Name of Hospital. 
Opened. 
number 
Medical officer. 
of beds. 
Admitted 
Died. 
1 
The Public District Hospital in 1 
Sechshaus J 
May 17th, 1857. 
350 
(250 Hom) 
4000 
47,782 
8,107 
Dr. J. O. Muller. 
(The institution is public and con- 
( trolled by six communes. 
2 
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity 1 
in Leopoldstadt J 
Jan. 1st, 1850. 
84 
(42 Hom.) 
650-700 
18,559 
874 
Dr. C. Wurstl. 
(Connected with it is a Hom. Dis- 
< pensary attending 700 patients 
( annually. 
3 
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity 1 
in Gumpendorf. J 
July 1st, 1832. 
80 
1000 
41,058 
3,406 
Dr. E. Rothausel. 
S Dispensary connected with it, 
( treating 8000 patients annually. 
4 
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity 1 
in Linz 1 
May 30th, 1842. 
56 
800-900 
20,858* 
1,537 
Dr. Fischer. 
$ Including a children's hospital of 
j twelve beds. 
5 
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity 1 
in Kremsier J 
Oct. 12th, 1845. 
26 
350-400 
11,502 
944 
Dr. J. V. Schweitzer. 
( Dispensary connected with it has 
< treated 40,000 patients since 
t opening. 
6 
St. Mary's Hospital in Baden J 
1811. 
Hom. since 1867. 
50 
200-250 
2,123 
190 
Dr. Landermann. 
7 
City Hospital of St. Ann's in 1 
Steyer f 
1849. 
80 
1000 
? 
10-11 p.c. 
annually. 
Dr. Wolf. 
8 
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity 1 
in Zwittau j 
July 1st, 1868. 
12 
90-100 
677 
67 
Dr. Lichtonegger.(?) 
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Statistical Table of the Homceopathic Hospitals of Austria. 
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PART III. 
History and Statistics of the Homoeopathic Litera- 
ture of Austria (exclusive of Hungary). 
Dr. Gerstel, of Vienna. 
Until about 1837, as may be inferred from the attitude of 
the government towards homoeopathy, and from the censorship 
as it then existed, it was difficult to appear in print openly in 
favor of homoeopathy, but so much easier to appear against it. 
The censorship of medical works was vested in a professor of 
medicine of the University. 
Of antagonistic works, the first appeared 
1819. Dr. T. Bischoff (Professor in University); Ansichten 
ueber das bisherige Heilverfahren und die ersten Grundscetze der 
homoeopathischen Krankheitslehre. Prague, 1819. 
Bischoff writes in a dignified manner, doing justice to homoe- 
opathy in many points, but disputes the doctrine of similia 
similibus. 
1825. Grohmann; Animadversiones in Homoeopathiem. Vi- 
enna, 1825. 
1826. Grohmann; Ueber das Heilungsprincip der Homoeopa- 
thic; fuer das gebildete Publicum und Laien. Vienna and 
Trieste, 1826. 
Both are vulgar antagonistic works. 
1829. Schimko; Das Hahnemannische System in chemisch- 
geologischer Hinsicht beleuchtet und wiederlegt. Teschen, 1829. 
(See Archiv, viii, 3, 188.) 
1839. Dr. Richard Comfort; Ueber Hahnemann's Heilmethode. 
Vienna, 1839. (See Archiv, xviii, 1, 139.) 
In the interest of homoeopathy. 
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auf den gesunden Menschen und als antipsorisches Heilmittel, von 
Dr. G. W. Gross. 
The author was Dr. Hromada, practicing at Teplitz, who was 
not permitted to make himself known. 
1832. Dr. T. E. Veith; Die Heilung und Prophylaxis der 
Cholera. Hanover, 1832. 
1834. Dr. Attomyr; Briefe ueber die Homceopathie. Leipsic, 
1834. 
1836. Dr. T. Hirsch; Universalregister der homoeopathischen 
Journalistik Herausgegeben. Leipsic, 1836. 
1837. E. Homoeopathische Bekehrugsepistel fuer angehende 
Aerzte. Herausgegeben von Trinks. Leipsic, 1836. 
The anonymous author was Dr. Watzke. 
1839. Dr. Attomyr; Die venerischen Krankheiten. Ein Bei- 
trag zur Pathologie und homoeopathischer Therapie derselben. 
Vienna, 1839. 
The first work in the interest of homoeopathy appearing in 
Vienna. 
1839. Dr. Rosenberg; Der Weichselzopf. Theoretisch-prak- 
tische Abhandlung, sammt neuer pragmatischer Geschichte dessel- 
ben, treu nach der Natur beobachtet und nach homoeopathischen 
grundsaetzen bearbeitet. Munich, 1839. 
1841. Dr. Altschul; Der homoeopathische Zahnarzt, oder Ent- 
wurf einer specifisch medicinischen Therapie der vorzueglichsten 
Zahnkrankheiten im Geiste der specifischen Heilkunde. Prague, 
1841. 
1842. Th. Lederer; Mutter und Kind. Second edition. 
Vienna, 1842. 
1843. Dr. Ad. Gerstel; Wissenschaftliche Begruendung des 
Princips der Homoeopathic. Vienna, 1843. 
1843. Dr. George Schmid; Die Hauptscetze der Hahnemann- 
sch'en Lehre. Vienna, 1843. 
1844-48. Zeitschrift, Gdsterreichische, fuer Homceopathie. He- 
rausgegeben von den Drs. Hampe, Fleischmann, Watzke und 
Wurml. Vienna, 1844-48. 
1846. Dr. Peratz; Die Mineralquellen zu Toeplitz als homoeo- 
pathisches Heilmittel betrachtet. Vienna, 1846. 230 
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1846. Dr. Rosenberg; Des Leibes und der Seele volkommene 
gesundheits-und Erziehungs-lehre. Vienna, 1846. 
1846. Dr. G. Schmid; Ekomoeopathische Arzneibereitung und 
Gaben groesse. Vienna, 1846. 
1848. Arneth und Marenzeller; Jahresberichtueber Fortschritte 
und Leistungen der Homoeopathic im In-und Aus-lande, in den 
Jahren 1845 und 1846. 2 vols., Vienna, 1848. 
1849. G. Schmid; Das Wesentleiche und Wichtigste von der 
Dehandlung der Cholera. Fuer Aerzte. Vienna, 1849. 
1850. Dr. Rosenberg; Die Krankheiten der Respirations-und 
Circulations-organe und deren Behandlung nach homoeopathischen 
Grundscetzen. Ein Ver such zur Loesung der von der Societe de 
med. Homoeopathique, zu Paris aufgestcllten Preisfrage. Vienna, 
1850. 
1850. E. Chepmel; Der homoeopathische Hausarzt, frei bear- 
beitet nach der englischen 2ten Ausgabe, von einem praktischen 
Arzte. (Dr. Weinke?) Vienna, 1850. 
1851. Dr. Attomyr; Beitroege zur Arzneimittellehre. Press- 
burg, 1851. 
1851. Dr. Attomyr; Primordien der Naturgeschichte der 
Krankheiten. 2 vols., Vienna, 1851. 
1851. Dr. Haas; Ad. Die Homoeopathic, lichtvoll in der Theorie 
und heilvoll in der Praxis. Zur Belehrung und Beherzigung fuer 
jene, denen das wahre Wesen dieser Heilmethode nicht nceher be- 
kannt ist. Hit einem illustrirtem Grundriss des homoeopathischen 
Heilsystems. Vienna, 1851. 
1852. Dr. Altschul; Lehrbuch der physiologischen Pharma- 
codynamik. Eine klinische Arzneimittellehre fuer homoeopathische 
Aerzte als Grundlage am Krankenbette und Leitfaden zu akade- 
mischen Vorlesungen. Leutmeritz, 1852. (Litomerice.) 
1852. Wurml and Caspar; Homoeopathisch-klinische Studien. 
Vienna, 1852. 
1853-1863. Dr. Altschul; Prager medicinische Monatschrift 
fuer Homoeopathic, Balneoloqie, Therapie und Hydropathic. 
Prague, 1853-1862. 
1857. Dr. Altschul; Homoeopathisches Taschenwoerterbuch, 
fuer das Haus, die Reise und das Krankenbett. Nach dem heu- THE HISTORY OF HOMCEOPATHY IN AUSTRIA. 
231 
tigem Standpunkte der Wissenschaft fuer junge Praldiker bear- 
beitet. Sondershausen, 1857. 
1857. Dr. T. O. Mueller; Zeitschrift des Vereins homceopath- 
ischer Aerzte Oesterreichs. Vienna, 1857. 
1858. Dr. Altschul; Systematisches Lehrbuch der theoretischen 
und praktischen Homoeopathic. Nach den an der Prager Uni- 
versitaet oeffentlich gehaltenen Vortrcegen. Sonderhausen, 1858. 
1858. Dr. Altschul, Dr. Veroey; Die Homoeopathic gegen- 
ueber den anderen Heilmethoden. Aus dem Franzoesischen frei 
uebertragen. Von Dr. Altschul. Prague, 1858. 
1859. Dr. F. Siegel; Die Stellung der Homoeopathic zur Wis- 
senschaft und zur Oesterrcichischen Medicinal-verfassung. Prague, 
1859. 
1860. Dr. Schleicher; Aus dem Ungarischen Uebersetzt; Ar- 
genti, Die homoeopathische Behandlung Verschiedener Krankheiten, 
fuer angehende Aerzte und, gebildete Nicht-Aerzte, mit einer Le- 
bensbeschreibung Hahnemann's. Pesth, 1860. 
1860. Dr. A. Loewe; Der homoeopathische Kinderarzt; Ein 
Taschenbuch fuer muetter. Vienna, 1860. 
1862. Dr. Porges ; Gedanken eines Homoeopathen Deber Brun- 
nenkuren. Prague, 1862. 
1862. Dr. Proell Gasteni; Erfahrungen und Studien. Vienna,. 
1862. 
1862-1863. Dr. Eidherr; Zeitschrift des Vereins homceopath- 
ischer Aerzte Oesterreichs. Vienna, 1862-1863, 2 vols. 
1863. Dr. Altschul; Taschenbuch der Kinderkrankheiten und 
ihrer homoeopath ischer Behandlung mit stetter Angabe der neueren 
einfachen Heilmittel der physiologischen Schule, fuer Aerzte tend 
Wundaerzte bearbeitet. Prague, 1863. 
1863. Dr. T. Kafka; Die homoeopathische Therapie auf 
grundlage der physiologischen Schule. Ein praktisches Handbuch 
fuer Aerzte, welche die homoeopathische Heilmethode kennen lernen 
und am Krankenbette versuchen wollen. Sondershausen, 1863. 
2 vols. 
1864. Dr. Altschul; Reallexicon fuer homoeopathische Arznei- 
mittellehre, Therapie und Arzneibereitungs-kunde. Sondershausen, 
1864. 232 
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1865. Dr. T. Hirsch; Der homceopathische Arzt in der Kin- 
derstube. Eine Belehrungsschrift fuer Eltern und juengere Fach- 
genossen. Leipsic, 1865. 
1866. Dr. Forges; G-esundheits-lexicon fuer Karlsbader Kur- 
gceste. Prague, 1866. 
1866. Dr. Watzke ; Ein Tag aus Meiner Praxis. Parallellen 
Zwischen Allopathic und Homoeopathic; fuer angehende praktische 
Aerzte. Vienna, 1866. 
1866. Dr. Wei n ke; Welche Krankheiten heilt die Homoeopa thie ? 
Vienna, 1866. 
1867. Carl Boehm; Die homoeopathischen Thierarzneimittel; 
deren Bereitung, physiologische Wirkung und Klinische Anord- 
nung. Fuer Thier-cerzte und gebildete Landwirthe. Vienna, 
1867. 
1868. Dr. T. Hirsch; Die naturgemcesse Behandlung der 
Rueckgratsverkruemmungen, oder; Wie wird man schief? Wie 
wird man grade ? Eine Belehrungsschrift fuer Eltern zur verhue- 
tung der Misgriffe und der physichen Erziehung der Jugend. Mit 
2 Steindruck Tafeln. Leipsic, 1868. 
1868. Dr. G. Schmid ; Das Choleragift eine Cyan-verbindung, 
bald Blausceure, bald Cyan-ammonium. Mit Bezugnahme auf 
Desinfeldion und Therapie. Leipsic, 1868. 
1871. Dr. T. Hirsch; Die Unterleibsbrueche, und die neuen 
patentirten Bruchbandagen, ohne Hueftfeder, und ohne. Mit 8 
Abbildungen. Leipsic, 1871. 
1873. Boehm; Kurze praktische Anleitung fuer alleViehbesitzer, 
welche Hire Hausthiere in den am hceufigsten vorkommenden Er- 
krankungsfoellen durch sorgfceltige auffassung der scemmetlichen 
sinnlich wahrnehmbaren Krankheits-erscheinungen mit den dagegen 
erprobten, homoeopathischen Heilmitteln, auf die einfachste, natur- 
gemoesse und wenig Kostspielige Weise hcilen wollen. Leipsic, 1873. 
1875. Dr. G. Schmid; Ebat die Homoeopathie ein Recht auf 
die Staatshilfe? Zur aufklcerung der "Petition der Anhcengender 
Homoeopathic an den Reichsrath." Vienna, 1875. (Published by 
himself.) 
Besides these independent works of homoeopathic physicians 
in Austria, a large and important part has been taken by Aus- THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN AUSTRIA. 
233 
trian physicians in contributing to the homoeopathic journals 
appearing in Germany. 
N. B.-Dr. Klauber greatly aided me in gathering the above 
literature. 
A Clear Representation of the Actual Legal Standing of a 
Practicing Homoeopathic Physician in Austria. 
The standing of a physician in Austria practicing homceopathi- 
cally is in nowise different from that of any physician in Aus- 
tria practicing legally in general. 
He is in no manner prevented from following his practice; on 
the contrary, in preference to the physician practicing allopathi- 
cally, he even enjoys the special legal privilege of being permitted 
to dispense his own medicines. 
Legally, he is also in nowise prevented from applying for any 
public office which may be open for any graduated physician. 
Legally, it would be permitted to any public professors or 
teacher to teach the homoeopathic system of healing, or to apply 
the same clinically. But none will do so. 234 
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PART IV. 
History and Particulars of Austrian Legislation, 
IN REFERENCE TO PHYSICIANS PRACTICING HoMCEO- 
PATHICALLY, EITHER IN THE EMPLOY OF THE GOVERN- 
MENT or in Corporate Bodies, such as Universities, 
Hospitals, etc. 
Dr. Gerstel, of Vienna. 
A. Legislation. 
It cannot be ascertained with any certainty through what 
special cause the Austrian government was induced to direct 
its attention to homoeopathy; but it can safely be assumed that 
homoeopathy was used and with good results, even earlier than 
1819; probably in the army, in Lower Austria, by a county physi- 
cian of Hollabrunn, named Gassner, and in Bohemia, by a pen- 
sioned physician-in-chief, Hostiansky, and this gave rise to the 
first legislative declarations having reference to homoeopathy. 
These were made in the following court-chancery decrees of Octo- 
ber 21st, 1819 (L. 33,571), and read, viz.: 
" I. His Majesty has been pleased to decree in accordance with 
his most gracious resolve of October 13th, 1819, Dr. Hahne- 
mann's homoeopathic method of cure is to be wholly and strictly 
forbidden." 
In spite of this, the practice of homoeopathy could not be pre- 
vented, and of army physicians principally it can be stated, that 
they treated their patients homoeopathically. 
It should also be noted that at this time (up to 1848) a strict 
censorship was exercised, which prohibited communications even 
to foreign journals, and penalties were imposed for a violation of 
this rule. 
This prohibition, however, could be evaded by sending the THE HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN AUSTRIA. 
235 
communication to some foreign friend, who could then publish it 
as a letter, or it could be sent under an assumed name. 
This state of things was also described later in Archiv, vol. 
xii, part 3, p. 96, by Dulalethes. 
Dulalethes was also an assumed name; this was our (even at 
that time) active and industrious colleague, Dr. Attomyr, since, 
we regret to say, deceased. Attomyr was a pupil of the Joseph's 
Academy of Vienna, which was composed of a sort of military 
medical faculty by which physicians were trained for the army, 
and which was under the management of the surgeon-general. 
Dulalethes in these, his rhapsodies, designated all names hav- 
ing reference to Austria, even the word "Wien," only with 
initials, as for instance, " W r Censur," etc. 
The first of this kind of epistolary communications with 
even the full name attached date back to the years 1825-1826 
(Archiv, vol. iv, part 1, pp. 110-119), and was from the county 
medical staff of the Austrian military boundary, and who be- 
longed to the army. 
They were Drs. Sonenberg, Von Piegel and several others, 
chiefly from Hungary. 
Hungary was at that time less influenced by the operation of 
legislative enactments of Austria, and most of the Hungarian 
nobility had homoeopaths as physicians in ordinary. Even Hun- 
garian county physicians at this time did not hesitate to profess 
themselves in favor of homoeopathy openly. 
This was done by Drs. Bandis, Muller and Mossbauer. 
(Archiv, vol. v and vi.) 
But still, previous to this by several years, brigade physician 
Marenzeller, who was stationed at the invalid hospital in Prague, 
Bohemia, had achieved incredible results and triumphs through 
the practice of homoeopathy. 
He wras the same who in 1823, in conjunction with Hahne- 
mann, professionally treated the Austrian field-marshal, Prince 
Schwarzenburg, who was taken ill at Leipsic. 
In 1828, notwithstanding that the prohibition of 1819 still ex- 
isted, Marenzeller was called to Vienna by the Emperor Francis 
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healing at the Imperial Royal Medico-Surgical Joseph's Academy. 
(Arch., x, part 2, and xviii, part 3.) 
The cholera broke out in 1831, during which homoeopathy 
achieved unusually favorable results, such as those of Dr. Ger- 
stel and Surgeon Fischer, in Maehren (Bruenn and vicinity); of 
Drs. Veith and Lichtenfels, in Vienna; and in 1836, those of 
Dr. Fleischmann, in the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity in 
Gumpendorf. But even these could only be made public frag- 
mentarily through letters (Arch., xi, part 2, and xii, part 2), and 
in the Allgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung, vol. i. 
It was only at so late a period as 1844, that Fleischmann 
himself was permitted to make a communication on the subject 
((Estr. Zeitschrift fuer Homoeopathic, vol. i, part 1); and, as may 
be inferred from this, it was due mainly to the favorable results 
in the homoeopathic treatment of cholera, that the first proclama- 
tion of 1819, interdicting the use of Dr. Hahnemann's method 
of cure, was recalled according to a court chancery decree of Feb- 
ruary 10th, 1837. 
But the censorship still existed in Austria; only in Hungary 
was there more freedom, and for this reason the majority of 
communications on the subject of homoeopathy made public at 
this time came from Hungary, from Argenti, Ivandvah, Staro- 
vezky, Schreter, Horner, Bless, Gulyas (Arch., xviii and xx), 
and only a few from other provinces, viz., Hauptmann, Hromada 
and Scholze, in Bohemia (Arch., xii, xiii, xx), Streintz, Vienna 
(Noach's Arch., iii). The homoeopathic proselytic tracts (Homoeo- 
pathischen Bekehrungs Episteln) which appeared about 1837 over 
the signature of Y., and published at Leipsic by Trinks, were 
from Dr. Watzke under an assumed name. 
Attacks upon homoeopathy only passed the censorship without 
hindrance, while replies in vindication were suppressed (Arch., 
xx, part 3, p. 155). 
Totteny, professor in the Vienna University, was notable as 
appearing openly as an opponent to homoeopathy. This first 
caused the Vienna physicians to unite, beginning with Drs. 
Fleischmann, Hamper, Watzke and Wurmb. Their object was 
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of the Materia Medica, by guiding and carrying out the physio- 
logical proving of remedies, warding off hostile attacks, and in 
addition to all these advantages, the furtherance of interprofes- 
sional relations. 
The first private meeting of the society was held December 15th, 
1842, and at length it was made possible to have the chief diffi- 
culty in the way of a free practice of homoeopathy removed, inas- 
much as the dispensing of medicines by homoeopathic physicians 
was legally regulated and permitted in the most liberal manner. 
"His Imperial Royal Majesty, agreeable to his most eminent 
decision of December 5th, 1846, has most graciously been pleased 
to order, in reference to the measures to be introduced regard- 
ing the employment of the homoeopathic method of cure, 'the 
regulations existing against the unauthorized practice of medi- 
cine or surgery in general against quackery, shall also be spe- 
cially applicable to the homoeopathic method of cure.' The 
original tinctures and preparations necessary for this practice can 
only be prescribed, for from an apothecary; but these medicines 
can then be diluted and triturated by the physicians and sur- 
geons favoring this practice and given to their patients gratui- 
tously. It is necessary, however, that the medicine should be 
accompanied by a memorandum bearing the name of the remedy, 
the dilution or trituration, authenticated with the name of the 
physician or surgeon. 
"If a well-founded suspicion of doubtful conduct should arise 
regarding a physician or surgeon when practicing homoeopathy, 
not only the faculty, but also theoretical and practical homoeo- 
pathic physicians of note shall be examined, when judging of 
the case and a decision is to be made, taking into consideration 
all the circumstances in the light of the clear purpose and intent 
of the law." 
In the same year, according to decree of December 19th, 1846, 
the private society of homoeopathic physicians, which had existed 
since 1842, was legally constituted and privileged as a "Society 
of Homoeopathic Physicians of Austria," for the physiological 
proving of medicines. 
On the 9th of August, 1857, the following decree was issued 
by the Department of Justice: 238 
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" This department, with the concurrence of the Department of 
the Interior, has issued the following explanation in regard to 
doubts which have arisen as to whether the definitions regarding 
the sale of internal and external remedies, contained in section 
■354 of the general penal code of June 27th, 1852, could be ap- 
plied to prepared homoeopathic remedies: 
"Under section 354 of the penal code, the sale of prepared 
homoeopathic remedies is also prohibited except through public 
dispensers, or by properly accredited physicians and surgeons in 
the country, or under special permit granted for the purpose. 
"The limited privilege of gratuitous dispensing, granted to 
physicians and surgeons who use homoeopathic remedies, and 
the substance of the court chancery decree of December 9th, 1846, 
T. G. S., No. 1007, are not changed by the present regulation. 
" Count Nadasdy, M. P." 
Since then the government has in no manner found occasion 
to interpose in matters pertaining to homoeopathy. 
B. Private and Public Practice of Physicians. 
Homoeopathic practitioners, as may be seen from these legis- 
lative enactments, are entirely untrammelled in pursuit of their 
vocation; and it should be specially noted, that, by physicians 
of the old school, they are not only entirely unmolested, but that 
generally, and more especially in collegiate towns of the realm, 
there'exists a fellowship between them. 
There were, and still are, a number of larger or smaller hos- 
pitals in Austria, most of them founded by religious orders, in 
which the treatment is partly or wholly homoeopathic, using 
remedies prepared in their own homoeopathic pharmacies. 
There are no homoeopathic physicians in hospitals erected by 
the government or communities for county or military purposes, 
nor in the universities, but under the existing laws a clinical 
professor could not be prevented from teaching and practicing 
homoeopathy. So far, unfortunately, there are none to do so. 
Vienna, December 31st, 1875. REPORT 
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Homoeopathy in Switzerland. 
Dr. Th. Brueckner, of Basle. 
The development of homoeopathy in Switzerland goes on 
hand in hand with that in Germany, and the homoeopathic 
physicians of both countries are closely united, the greater part 
of the literary work of the Swiss physicians having been pub- 
lished in Germany. The number of Swiss physicians is thirty- 
three, located in twenty-two different communities. 
In 1864 and 1865, Dr. Schadler, of Berne, published two 
polemic articles, defending homoeopathy against the attacks of 
Professor Menck, of Berne. 
The result of this controversy was, that the general public 
began ardently to take part with our system of medicine. A 
homoeopathic society was established in Berne, under the title of 
the " Society for Popular Medical Science," and another similar 
society was formed in Aaran. The president of the first society 
is a well-known writer on homoeopathic subjects, Mr. A. von 
Fallenberg-Ziegler, of Berne. He has written a small Homoeo- 
pathic Materia Medica, and also a very popular pamphlet, well 
known in Germany, explaining the differences between homoe- 
opathy and allopathy. The organ of the Society is the journal 
entitled The Village Doctor, edited by Dr. Switz Rodiger, and 
has existed since 1868. 
Prominent among our physicians is Prof. Dr. F. Hoppe, 
who is Professor of Logic at the University of Basle. He has 
especially distinguished himself by his excellent philosophical 
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important being a pamphlet entitled The Cellular Theory and 
Homoeopathy. 
In Basle there is a small homoeopathic hospital containing 
twelve beds, under the charge of Dr. Siegrist. There are special 
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ON 
HOMOEOPATHY IN RUSSIA. 
PREPARED BY DRS. BOJANUS AND DERICKER. CONTENTS. 
Part I. Historical and Statistical Report of the Rise, Progress and 
Present Condition of Homoeopathy in Russia, etc., . . Dr. Bojanus. 
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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN RUSSIA. 
PAET I. 
Historical and Statistical Report of the Rise, 
Progress and Present Condition of 
Homceopathy in Russia. 
By. Dr. Bojanus. 
Prefatory. 
In undertaking to write a history of the rise and progress of 
homoeopathy in Russia, during the lifetime of some of the earli- 
est and most talented opponents of the new doctrine, the author 
has not been unmindful of the delicacy of his task. He has 
endeavored to deal with the subject impartially; to present a 
correct and conscientious statement of facts, with such accessory 
circumstances as seemed to be required to more fully elucidate 
them, as well as to give coherence to the narrative. If, here and 
there, the reader should encounter an unexpected severity of 
criticism, it is believed that the facts or authorities cited will be 
found to sustain the judgment pronounced, and dissipate even the 
semblance of controversial unfairness. 
Without claiming for this essay that it does full justice to its 
subject, the author may venture to say that he has availed him- 
self of all accessible material in order to render his work as com- 
plete as possible. Yet with the result before him, he is sensible 
of needing the indulgence of his readers, who may perhaps 
hereafter have the subject presented to them in a more accepta- 
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Report. 
The homoeopathic system of medicine was introduced into 
Russia in the year 1823, its pioneers being, as in other countries, 
laymen. Nothing, however, is known of the place where it first 
germinated; but Dr. Adam, who in the year above-named had 
become acquainted with Hahnemann in Germany, is said to have 
been the first who practiced, in accordance with his teachings, at 
St. Petersburg. During the two following years homoeopathy 
made considerable progress, judging by a letter of Dr. Stegemann, 
Imperial Russian States Counsellor, which appeared in Gross 
and Stapf's Archives in 1825. Stegemann, who writes like a 
zealous disciple and propagator of the new faith, is supposed to 
have introduced it into the provinces of the Eastern Sea. At 
Dorpat, he induced the Clinical Professor Sahmen to experiment 
with homoeopathic remedies, who soon afterwards published his 
work, On the Present Position of Homoeopathy in regard to the 
Pre-existing Science of Healing, by Dr. G. F. I. Sahmen, Dor- 
pat, 1825. This work, characterized by rare impartiality and 
moderation, while admitting the truths of homoeopathy, seeks to 
establish an alliance, in place of an antagonism, between them 
and the teachings of previous experience. Sahmen holds that 
homoeopathy can only be acknowledged by the dominant school 
as a branch of therapeutics, because there are other methods of 
cure, well approved by long experience, which medical science 
must recognize as based on empirical truths. "All," he says, 
"that homoeopathists can justly demand of us, is to confess that 
" in many cases the similarity of the symptoms of the disease to 
"be cured with the symptoms produced in proving the remedy, 
"cannot be denied." Similar views were expressed by M. Mar- 
cus in his Medical Notes, Moscow, 1827, vol. i, p. 3, but this 
acknowledgment seems to have been forgotten some years after- 
wards, when Marcus, in his official capacity, gave judgment 
against homoeopathy. 
While these favorable criticisms were being published at Dor- 
pat and Moscow, the new faith obtained a more complete recog- 
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and gave evidence of an aggressive power that was soon to 
awaken the fears and the strenuous opposition of the dominant 
school. An important convert also appeared in the person of 
Dr. Bigel, physician to the wife of the Grand Duke Constan- 
tine, who being at Dresden during a fierce medical controversy 
then raging, was led to the study of Hahnemann's Organon. 
Convinced of the truth of homoeopathy, Bigel published in 1825 
his Justification de la Nouvelle methode Curative du Dr. Hahne- 
mann nomme Homoeopathique, the effect of which was propor- 
tionate to the high position and talents of its author. In the 
summer of that year Dr. Seidlitz, chief physician of the St. 
Petersburg Marine Hospital, visited Orienbaum, where the cadets 
were suffering from ophthalmia, and was introduced by Dr. 
Adam into the temple of the new 2Esculapius. The cures which 
were related to him and of which he read, prompted him to 
make trial of the new remedies in the Marine Hospital. Failing 
to satisfy himself with the results in cases of syphilis, to which 
his experiments were chiefly confined, he sought further light 
from the study of Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases. Here, how- 
ever, according to his own story, further disappointment awaited 
him, for he encountered so much "nonsense" that thenceforth 
he would neither read nor practice homoeopathy.* 
Dr. Schering, also a convert of Adam's, came to an opposite 
conclusion, and his success in the homoeopathic treatment of 
Egyptian ophthalmia was so marked, that the Emperor Nicho- 
las determined to test the practice on a large scale, with the ulti- 
mate purpose of introducing it into the army.f It happened 
that Dr. Hermann, who had arrived at St. Petersburg during an 
epidemic of dysentery, had achieved brilliant results in that dis- 
ease with the new remedies, and he was accordingly commissioned 
by the Grand Duke Michael Paulowitsch to go to Tultschin, a 
distant city of Podolia, where he was directed to treat about 1000 
* Seidlitz, on the Experiments with Homoeopathy in the St. Petersburg 
Military Hospital, made by order of the Emperor, reprinted from Hacker's 
Scientific Annals of the Healing Art, vol. xxvii, page 269. 
f The authority for this statement is Dr. Wedrinsky of Moscow, who was 
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patients, comprising fever cases of various kinds, dysentery, and 
(at his option) other diseases. For this he was to receive a com- 
pensation which, from the prominence given to it by his unfriendly 
critics, was clearly a sore subject with them and a prominent 
cause of their active hostility. 
As summed up by Seidlitz,* the comparative results of two 
months' experience at Tultschin were as follows : 
Allopathic. 
Homceopathic. 
Admitted, . 
. 457 
128 
Cured, 
. 361 
65 
Died, . . . . 
5 
Remaining, 
. 93 
58 
While Hermann's official report to the authorities gives the fol- 
lowing figures for three months (the actual time employed) re- 
lating to his treatment: 
Patients admitted 164, cured 123, convalescing 18, remaining 
sick 18, died 6.f 
When it is borne in mind that the sanitary condition of the 
building allotted to Hermann was exceedingly defective, being 
damp and without proper ventilation, that the local allopathic 
authorities selected the patients assigned to the rival hospitals, 
that one-half of those received by Hermann had been under 
allopathic treatment for various periods, and that Hermann had 
to contend with all the petty hindrances, intrigues and interfer- 
ences, which in that far-off district could be opposed to him, the 
results could hardly have been more favorable. 
An analysis of the cases shows six of typhus cured, of which 
three had been pronounced incurable by the allopaths, two of 
phthisis, eight of inflammatory rheumatism, one of colliquative 
diarrhoea, one of gangrenous scorbutic ulcers, and one of hyper- 
trophy of liver and spleen. The deaths comprised one of typhus, 
two of phthisis, and of diarrhoea, gangrene and hypertrophy, 
* Seidlitz, 1. c., pp. 269-271. 
f Annals of Hom. Clinics,.by Hartlaub and Trinks, vol. ii, pp. 390-399. 
There is evidently a misprint in the Annals, 123 18 + 18 -f- 6 make 165 
not 164. HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN RUSSIA. 
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one each ; all of which cases had come from other hospitals in an 
enfeebled state. However, the experiment was terminated by 
an order of the Emperor at the end of three months, based on 
the statistics, which were said to show " that the new treatment 
furnishes no better results than the old." 
But it seemed evident, at least to the imperial family, that this 
trial of homoeopathy was inconclusive; for in 1829 the Grand 
Duke Constantine placed an institution at Warsaw, containing 
500 children of soldiers, under the medical control of Dr. Bigler.* 
Furthermore, on the return of Hermann to St. Petersburg he 
was appointed by high order to make trial of his mode and 
practice in the military hospital, under the supervision of the 
chief physician, Dr. Giegler, who was to set aside a department, of 
the same extent as Hermann's ward, in which to test the compara- 
tive merits of the expectant method. This second series of ex- 
periments forms the subject of Dr. Seidlitz's work before referred 
to, the animus of which is plainly shown in the unreasoning and 
intemperate abuse of Hahnemann and his system which dis- 
figures its pages.f Out of 431 cases he selects 50 for critical 
analysis, professing that these have been impartially taken from 
the total number, and thus proceeds to judgment! 
As above mentioned, Hermann's department was placed under 
the supervision of Dr. Giegler; but as the latter was led by the 
good results he witnessed to regard homceopathy with too much 
favor, the government replaced him by another physician. 
The experiments were commenced September 19th, 1829, and 
terminated February 19th, 1830. The homoeopathic returns 
were as follows: 400 patients cured {Te Deum laitdamus !); 31 
patients lost {Orate pro nobis !). 20,000 rubles (about $7000) 
found their way into the pockets of the homceopathists {ex ungue 
Leonem !). 
The report was, however, made out by the hostile committee 
of the hospital to suit their own views, and handed to the Im- 
perial Medical Council, whose judgment was invoked to give 
* Gross and Stapf's Archiv, vol. viii, p. 117. 
f Seidlitz, 1. c. 250 
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homoeopathy the coup de grace ! This judgment is recorded in 
the Journal of the Ministry of the Interior, 1832, No. 3, pp. 48- 
63. After reciting the orders of the Emperor for the trial of 
homoeopathy at Tultschin and in the St. Petersburg Hospital, 
the Council continue: " The chief physician reported that this 
method was only effectual in slight febrile diseases, and that its 
introduction into the hospitals would be attended with difficul- 
ties, and productive of no advantage." The Council admit 
that the mortality of 1 in 15 is not a large proportion, while it 
seems even to show favorably by comparison with that of the 
other departments, viz., 1 in 10. This difference, however, 
they hasten to explain, is due to the absence from the homoeo- 
pathic ward of cases of phthisis and dropsy, which form a large 
proportion of the fatal cases treated in the usual manner, and 
that deducting these the allopathic ratio of mortality, 1 in 10, 
would be decreased to 1 in 85. In a word, it is claimed 
that of 4203 cases treated allopathically in hospital, after de- 
ducting 385 dropsical and phthisical cases, but 50 died I But 
Dr. Giegler's own report shows that the greater half of the 
patients so treated were afflicted with venereal, eye and other 
disorders, of which but few died, and of which diseases none 
were assigned to the homoeopathic ward. Allowing for these, 
the ratio of 1 to 85 is increased to from 1 to 16. 
The Council then quote the results of the expectant treatment: 
Total patients 341, cured 260, transferred to homoeopathic ward 
22, and to other wards 31 (of these latter 9 died). The propor- 
tion of deaths to cures is thus assumed to be 1 to 32J. This 
experiment, say the Council, proves clearly and irrefutably 
that a great proportion of patients admitted to the hospitals are 
curable by dietetic means alone, with regard also to sanitary 
conditions; 11 and thus it appears that the homoeopathic system 
is nothing else but the methodus expectans, based on the vis 
medicatrix naturae." " Already, more than once, has the Med- 
ical Council expressed its opinions on the insignificancy and 
uselessness of the homoeopathic method, and is convinced that 
its introduction into military and other hospitals is not practi- 
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to forbid the homoeopathic treatment in all land, marine and 
civil hospitals, not only to the extraordinary but also to the 
ordinary physicians, unless the medical authorities ordained by 
the Emperor shall have given special permission." 
It appears that the Medical Council had also before them a 
communication from the military governor of Podolia and 
Wolkynia, inclosing a petition of Dr. Tscherminsky, with attests 
from the military hospital at Schitzmir, setting forth that Dr. 
Tscherminsky has in twenty-two days treated homoeopathically 
122 patients with various diseases, of whom 55 are cured, 1 died, 
and 66 continue under his care. The Council profess to see 
nothing extraordinary in a return which leaves " this method 
far behind the expectant treatment as tested at St. Petersburg," 
and that the advantages claimed for it, in contrast with the reg- 
ular method, of more limited periods of sickness and economy of 
expenditures, are "in direct contradiction to the nature of things 
and to sound reason." Besides, "as homoeopathists refuse to 
treat external ailments, as well as mutilations and grave dis- 
eases which soldiers contract in service," the half of all hospital 
patients would in such hands be left helpless. 
In order to deal justly by this decision of the Council, it must 
be admitted that the condition of homoeopathy at the time, the 
rigid observance of the dogmas of Hahnemann, the exclusive 
use of high attenuations at long intervals, the vexatious meddling 
with external conditions supposed to counteract the effect of the 
minute doses, the aggressive attitude of the new school, and 
lastly the inexperience of Hermann in the machinations of Rus- 
sian officials, all contributed to strengthen the prejudices of the 
opponents of homoeopathy. 
The above-mentioned Dr. Tscherminsky writes to the Rus- 
sian Journal of the Homoeopathic Healing Art, vol. ii, p. 23, 
to the effect that during the cholera epidemic in Schitzmir, 
in 1831, he had two quarters of the city under his care; that 
a highly favorable report of homoeopathic treatment of that 
disease to the Minister of the Interior (Nowossiltzof) caused 
an order to be sent to the medical authority of Wolkynia to 
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Tscherminsky, in 1837, treated there in six weeks 400 patients, 
of whom twelve died. 
It is curious to observe how persistently the highest officials 
(non-medical) continued to extend their favor to the new doc- 
trines, while the local and central medical authorities, armed 
with a formidable power of repression, were bent on putting 
down the pestilent heresy. The former, it seems probable, recog- 
nized the conditions which attended the public trials of homoe- 
opathy, under the supervision and largely under the control of 
bitter opponents of the system, as rendering the reported results 
inconclusive, while the spread of the system in private practice 
amongst the educated classes would further tend to influence 
their action. 
The next step taken by the opponents of homoeopathy was 
the introduction of a project of law into the Imperial Diet, 
founded on the report of the Medical Council; and a day was 
chosen when Count Mordwinoff, an enlightened advocate of the 
system, was absent. This cunningly devised project proposed 
to forbid the dispensing of medicines by physicians, on the 
ground that homoeopathy operated in the dark with remedies 
which were unknown, and could not be recognized when so ad- 
ministered. But by the influence of Prince Galitzin, formerly 
Minister of Instruction, and of the Imperial Controller Chitroff, 
the ultimate aim was defeated by the appointment of a com- 
mission, consisting of Drs. Hermann, Adam and Trinius, to 
devise a method of meeting the objections urged. Their report 
resulted in the legal establishment of a homoeopathic central 
pharmacy in St. Petersburg under competent and trustworthy 
direction of their own nomination.* The obvious intention of 
the project of law being to compel homoeopathic physicians to 
have their prescriptions made up at the pharmacies employed by 
their opponents, it will be readily understood how cleverly and 
completely this purpose was thwarted. But while the practice 
was thus protected, and allowed freely to prefer its claims to the 
confidence of the public, the interdiction against its introduction 
into government hospitals continued, and is yet unrepealed. 
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The Emperor Nicholas was notoriously in favor of the new 
doctrines, personally influenced many physicians to study them, 
and never went into the country without his case of homoeopathic 
medicines. But even the Emperor, gifted with unequalled force 
of character, with an iron will, and, nominally at least, absolute 
in his position, could not, as Dr. Von Villers has well said, 
break down "the Chinese wall by which the medical hierarchy 
surrounds its domain." During the cholera epidemic of 1831, 
the restrictions excluding homoeopathy from hospitals were re- 
laxed, but little was gained thereby. Admiral Mordwinoff, not 
only an able officer, but a man of high literary and scientific 
attainments, writes thus to Kersakoff, another disciple of Hahne- 
mann : "While the cholera is slaying its victims here (St. Peters- 
" burg), the new and old schools are quarrelling; the physicians, 
"superior by position and number, put everything at stake, 
" in order to destroy the results of the former " (new school). 
" Hermann writes to me that he had to give up the treatment of 
" cholera patients in the hospital, for all those who were sent to 
" him were dying, and had already gone through the whole course 
u of allopathic treatment. All methods are admissible here, only 
" homoeopathy is persistently persecuted."* 
The extreme measures taken at the time referred to to dis- 
courage homoeopathic practice in the hospitals and discredit any 
favorable results, are explained by the well-known intention of 
the Emperor to profit by the evidence, if in favor of his chosen 
system, to introduce homoeopathy into the army, and to estab- 
lish a professor's chair with the necessary support and facilities 
for teaching the system. It was therefore of vital importance to 
the physicians of the dominant school to prevent any fair trial 
of homoeopathy in the hospitals under their charge. 
After a hot contest between the few friends and numerous 
enemies of homoeopathy in the Imperial Council, laws were 
enacted on the subject,f containing the following amongst many 
provisions: 
The practice of homoeopathy is confined to legally qualified 
* Journ. of Hom. Art of Healing, vol. iii, No. 6, pp. 40-41. 
f Codex Civilis, vol. xiii, part 1, edition, 1857. 254 
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physicians. Central pharmacies in St. Petersburg and Moscow 
shall supply provincial pharmacies and physicians, and shall 
only sell homoeopathic preparations (not in a more crude form 
than the first dilution or trituration). Physicians must admin- 
ister by written prescription, duly signed, excepting in urgent 
cases, or where no pharmacy is in the place. When dispensing 
himself, the physician must write on a printed formula, with a 
special stamp, the dose of the remedy, and the date when given; 
also (in Latin) the chief symptoms, name of remedy, name and 
social position of patient, and name of physician. He must 
record the changes at each visit in like manner. 
When medicines are given from the physician's own case, the 
little packages must be duplicated and sealed by the physician ; 
having name of patient, date, number of papers, and doctor's 
signature written on it. One packet is used by the patient, the 
other kept with seal unbroken, to enable the medical authorities in 
case of death to open a trial, and test the remedies in presence of the 
attending physician. Another section fixes the prices to be 
charged for the medicines. The carrying out of the law is in- 
trusted to the central and provincial medical authorities, to whom 
reports from the homoeopaths must be rendered monthly. Many 
minute and vexatious provisions have been passed over in this 
record; those cited being sufficient to show an ingenuity of malice 
in concocting them which is disgraceful to the authors. It is 
true that these laws have not been strictly enforced, but their 
very existence is an outrage, which only a disregard of justice 
and a forgetfulness of all that is due to the dignity of science 
could have allowed our opponents to commit. 
But the prejudices bordering on fanaticism which originated 
those and other oppressive measures have so far attained their 
object, that during a period of thirty years all attempts to form 
a homoeopathic society, and to found a public organ of the 
press for the new doctrine, have failed. It has been extremely 
difficult to get our writings published at all in Russia, because 
the medical censorship has been all along in the hands of our 
opponents. It must be frankly owned that the degree of success 
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of a few powerful official friends, who have stood between it and 
the assassins who sought its life. 
. The name of Dr. Brutzer of Riga may here be mentioned as 
having in 1833 made a bold stand in favor of the new doctrines. 
He put the question openly to a medical society of which he was 
a member, " Is it becoming in a conscientious physician, under 
present circumstances, to refuse to study homoeopathy." Two 
years afterwards he repeated this question, and quoted cases from 
his own homoeopathic practice. A violent commotion seems to 
have been created by this persistency, which resulted in Brutzer's 
resignation of his membership. Persecution by his late col- 
leagues followed ; but he gained a strong party amongst the more 
intelligent of the public, who presented him with a large silver 
cup in acknowledgment of his fearless championship. Since 
then both he and the system he defended have derived advan- 
tage from his great talents, noble character, and enormous ac- 
tivity; and full of years and memories of an honorable life, he 
still lives at Riga. 
A fitting mention should also be made of some active and en- 
ergetic laymen, who not only by personal example and influence, 
but by their marked success in treating disease when compelled 
by circumstances to undertake the task, rendered eminent ser- 
vices to our cause. Of these are the Admiral, later Count, Nicholas 
Mordwinoff; the Collegiate Counsellor Iseman Korsakoff, and the 
Chamberlain Swoff. Korsakoff was probably the earliest con- 
vert, for he wrote to Hahnemann in 1829 in regard to a new 
method of medicating homoeopathic pellets, which suggests some 
previous study of and acquaintance with the subject. Although 
no physician, Korsakoff has perhaps done more than any one else 
to prepare a safe foundation for homoeopathy in Russia. He 
went much further than a mere amateur: he studied, tried, ex- 
amined, and succeeded in making discoveries of which no one 
before him had thought, not even the master himself, then living. 
That Hahnemann esteemed him highly is proved by a letter found 
amongst Korsakoff's papers, in which the venerable master says : 
" I admire the zeal with which you devote yourself to the 
" beneficial homoeopathic art, not only in order to have help for 256 
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"your own family and neighbors, but also to penetrate the 
"secrets of nature, as proved by your valuable notes. I like 
" one of your last suggestions, handed to my nephew, to decide 
"on the suitable remedy by the test of smelling it. I have 
"myself seen such experiments confirmed. With my utmost 
"power I try above all things to find out what will be of most 
"use to my fellow-men. I take this for the best road, in which 
" the happiness of us mortals during this short life is to be found, 
" and I am convinced that you also are of this opinion. Con- 
"tinue an activity which satisfies a feeling heart and do not 
"relax. This is my desire to enjoy your favor. 
" Your most devoted, 
" S. Hahnemann." 
From other papers we learn that Korsakoff had occupied him- 
self with medicine before his conversion to homoeopathy. He 
left five books, containing 302 copies of allopathic prescriptions, 
and the particulars of cases treated up to June, 1828. From 
February, 1829, another journal of homoeopathic treatment of 
family and dependents, continued till 1834, records 11,725 cases. 
From that time he seems to have made no record of cases, though 
he continued to administer as before to the sick on his estate, 
giving their claims at all times precedence of other affairs. He 
was an active and efficient propagandist, and his literary produc- 
tions bear the stamp of an eminently original and thoughtful 
mind. In the cholera years 1830 and 1847, Korsakoff was 
elected by the nobility district inspector. From this appoint- 
ment we derive notes on the character of the cholera in Oren- 
burg ; of its treatment in Kasau by Arnhold, and in Pensa by 
Peterson; its course in different European countries, also the 
results of homoeopathic treatment of cholera in the old Catharine 
Hospital, under the management of Dr. Goldberg, showing that 
out of 1274 cases in 1841-4 the mortality was but 6 per cent. 
To facilitate the selection of a remedy by some general classifica- 
tion Korsakoff studied and recorded the mode of action of ani- 
mal, vegetable and mineral substances, alkaliesand acids, on dif- 
ferent parts of the body. This work, though it bears the stamp 
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died, in 1853, he had labored faithfully and successfully for twenty- 
six years for the advancement of homoeopathy. As originator of 
the high potencies, he did a great service to the cause of science, 
and it cannot be denied that he proved the efficacy of certain 
substances in a degree of attenuation far beyond all conceivable 
limits. Future times, perhaps, will know better how to appre- 
ciate such discoveries, which hitherto, it must be owned, have 
promoted discord and contention to a far greater extent than they 
have produced conviction. 
In the Memoirs of Admiral Mordwinoff, by his daughter, 
published in 1873, we find the following: "In February, 1831, 
"my mother was taken sick. We had already treated ourselves 
" homceopathically, and this successful cure of a dangerous dis- 
" ease converted us completely. Soon afterwards my fathei' pub- 
" lished his treatise, Pensees sur I'Efficacite des Remedies Homoeo- 
" pathiques, dans le plus grande Attenuation.* When the cholera 
(i made its appearance at Moscow, we received letters from Swoff 
" and Korsakoff, written from Moscow and Saratoff, about the 
"successful results of homoeopathy in this disease. Their own 
" and their neighbors' peasants were treated by them; many pro- 
"prietors of estates followed their example, and the striking 
" results had such effect on the peasants that they everywhere 
"asked for help. When the cholera broke out in St. Petersburg, 
" my father procured full particulars of the disease, its various 
"stages, the treatment and statistics of results, which with ex- 
" tracts from letters he forwarded to the Russian consul in 
"America. Ten years later my father received an honorary 
"diploma from the ' homoeopathic society' (American),f which 
"recognized him as one of the first introducers of homoeopathy 
" into America." 
Mordwinoff was a man of rare talents, energy and honesty, 
with an insatiable interest for everything promising to further 
the welfare of humanity. His efforts as a homoeopathist were 
directed to the procuring of physicians from Germany; to estab- 
lishing of schools in connection with hospitals; to bringing 
* Gross und Stapf's Archiv, vol. x, part 3, p. 77. 
f Probably New York. 258 
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constantly before the public the statistics of homoeopathic and 
allopathic treatment; to translating homoeopathic works into 
Russian; to employing the new method especially to counteract 
syphilis amongst the people; anol in endeavors to constitute a 
homoeopathic society independent of the medical faculty. The 
accession to our ranks of one such man outweighs all the an- 
tagonism and insults of the profanum vulgus. 
The nobleman Swoff treated in Saratow 939 cholera cases 
with a loss of 78, or 8.30 per cent., using as chief remedies 
Veratrum30 and Arsenicum30. (Peterson, Hermann and Arnold's 
reports show that in cases of collapse, lower potencies were more 
efficacious.) Swoff, determined to have undoubted testimony 
from opponents of the efficacy of his treatment, caused the 
Cholera Committee and the District Physician Wagner, in Sara- 
tow, to certify his cures; and the physician who had received 
homoeopathic remedies from Swoff for his private use, also certi- 
fied that he had found them promptly curative in his own prac- 
tice. A similar certificate was obtained from Dr. Mueller of 
Saratow. 
The name of Alexander Peterson has already been mentioned 
in connection with the cholera in Pensa. Although a layman 
he was authorized in that great emergency, by the governor of 
the district, to render medical aid. He treated 175 cases with a 
loss of 29 or 16.57 per cent. Some articles of Peterson's pub- 
lished by Hartlaub and Trinks indicate great powers of observa- 
tion and judgment, and he must have the credit of first recogniz- 
ing the carbo-nitrogenous character of cholera, though that term 
was not then used to express the idea. 
The report of Dr. Leider, of Wishni Wolotschock, in the Gov- 
ernment Fever Hospital, is of unusual interest as presenting a 
comparison of the old and new methods of treatment carried out 
by himself. Of 209 cases of cholera, 93 absolutely refused to be 
treated homceopathically, and he was obliged to administer the 
ordinary remedies, while he treated the rest with homoeopathic 
medicines. The results were as follows : Treated allopathically 
93, died 69, a mortality of 74.2 per cent. Treated homoeopathi- 
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A tabular statement prepared by Admiral Mordwinoff from 
reports of homoeopathic treatment of cholera in 1830-31, in 
twelve different parts of the Russian Empire, was published in 
the Journal of the Ministry of the Interior of 1832, vol. vi, 
No. 1, p. 104. The totals are as follows: Treated 1273, cured 
1162, died 111, proportion of deaths 8.7 per cent. 
Dr. Jal, of St. Petersburg, where he arrived in 1840, labori- 
ously collected a great mass of statistical information on the 
treatment of cholera by the rival methods. It appears from his 
report,* that of 901,413 cases treated allopathically, the deaths 
were 462,581 or 51.31 per cent, whereas of 16,436 cases treated 
homoeopathically, but 1448 died, a proportion of 8.80 per cent. 
During the time of the epidemic, which was a time generally 
speaking of great toleration towards homoeopathy, the nobleman 
Wratzky translated the Organon into the Russian language.f 
The proofs of the efficacy of homoeopathic treatment at this 
time, which were offered on all hands, might have been expected 
to break down the wall of official prejudice, and procure a favor- 
able recognition of the new doctrine. But when the destroying 
angel had departed, and the public mind had become calm, all 
favors were forgotten. " The Moor has done his duty, the 
Moor may go! " This remark applies to persons in power 
under the influence of the dominant school, for the public at 
large, including many persons of rank and influence, construed 
the evidence before them intelligently, and the cause progressed 
accordingly. Up to the year 1865, homoeopathy may be said, 
from the number of its influential supporters, to have had a semi- 
official recognition. In Moscow, Dr. Goldenberg had a depart- 
ment assigned to him for homoeopathic treatment in the old 
Catharine Hospital, where from 1841 to 1844 he treated 1274 
patients with a mortality of 6 per cent.J 
The General Schtscherbinni established in Babai, Government 
Charkow, a homoeopathic hospital, in which, in 1842-43, Dr. 
Gastpeund treated 1048 patients, with a mortality of 5.82 per 
* Rueckert, Clinical Experience, vol. i, pp. 906-8. 
f Journ. Hom. Art of Healing, vol. iii, No. 6, p. 46. 
| Ibid., p. 38. 260 
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cent. Prince Lionel Galitzer at a later period founded one in 
Moscow, which, however, was closed at his death; and the 
nobleman Mddoschefsky established another, in 1848, in St. 
Petersburg, for working-men, but the exact details of its man- 
agement could not be obtained in time for statement here. 
While homoeopathy was making headway in the cities and 
districts which have been referred to, it acquired a champion in 
the far east, on the borders of inhospitable Siberia, whose zeal 
spread a knowledge of it far and wide. This was Waldemar 
Dahl, whose father was fleet surgeon at Nicolajeff, on the Black 
Sea. After graduating as a physician, and serving in the army, 
he accepted a high office under the General Governor of Orenburg, 
and here became acquainted with homoeopathy. His father-in- 
law was suffering from an enchondromatous degeneration of the 
bone of the left arm, with profuse suppuration. Amputation was 
deemed necessary, but as the swelling extended to the shoul- 
der, and the boundary of degeneration could not be ascertained, 
some previous treatment was desirable. This was intrusted to 
Dr. Lessing, a homoeopathist, and his success was so complete in 
a few weeks, in subduing the local symptoms and strengthening 
the patient, that, after amputation, the wound healed by the first 
intention, and the patient left his room eight days afterwards. 
Dahl, who had supervised the case and performed the operation, 
promptly commenced to make experiments on himself and others 
with high attenuations of inert substances; and these proving 
satisfactory, he was led onward to study the writings of Hahne- 
mann, and to undertake the propagation of his doctrines. Some 
of the most striking results in his own practice occurred amongst 
the Baschkirs, a tribe partly nomadic and partly agricultural, 
living mostly on boiled mutton, and ignorant of the use of salt, 
and he ascribed his greater success amongst them to their sim- 
plicity of life, and their freedom from scrofulous affections. In 
1849, while occupying the post of chief of chancery to the 
Minister of the Interior at St. Petersburg, he converted the 
minister to homoeopathy, and obtained the assignment of a ward 
of one hundred beds in the large hospital for working-women. 
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ilar size was assigned to the allopathists; and the patients were 
admitted in turn as they applied, to avoid favoritism in their 
allotment. Both departments were placed under the supervision 
of Dr. Rosenberger; subsequently the treatment was continued 
by Dr. Steuder, with Lindgreen, Johannsen, Rosa and Gast- 
freund as assistants, and the comparative results, up to 1855, 
were these: 
Homceopathic Ward. 
Treated, 5900 
Cured, 5144 
Died, 736 
Mortality, ........ 12.81 per cent. 
Average duration of treatment, .... 24 j days. 
Expenses for medicines during eight years, . 960 rubles. 
Allopathic Ward. 
Treated, 2782 
Cured, 2386 
Died, 413 
Mortality, ........ 14.80 per cent. 
Average duration of treatment, . . . 27J days. 
Expenses of medicines for eight years, . . 5600 rubles. 
Besides, the shorter duration of treatment under homoeopathy 
caused a saving of 16,225 rations, equal at that time to 1298 
rubles. 
After Dahl had retired from office, and the minister Peroffsky 
was dead, the homoeopathic ward was entirely neglected. Its 
very existence was scrupulously ignored in the annual reports of 
the medical department, and the very name of homoeopathy 
avoided. It is said that not a scrap of paper could be found in 
the medical department which could testify to the existence of a 
homoeopathic ward; and after Steuder's resignation in disgust, 
the ward itself was suppressed. 
During the raging of this medical controversy attention was 
drawn for a time to what purported to be a new method of prac- 
tice, called by its originator Mandt the " Atomistic Method." 
Mandt was the private physician of the Emperor Nicholas, and 
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died, publicly taught his system. The writer of this essay was 
in 1838-9 a student of the military academy, and formed one of 
twelve who, shortly before graduation, became pupils of Mandt, 
and were called derisively the twelve apostles. Mandt was ac- 
knowledged to be an able diagnostician and clinical lecturer, and 
in general a man of great talent and profound learning. It is 
probable that he was a homoeopathist who knowing the intrigues 
of the allopathic authorities, feared to imperil his influence and 
official position by open acknowledgment, for his system bears 
clear evidence of such derivation. He supposed the seat of all 
morbid affections to be in the mucous membranes, and on that 
theory he based the action and classification of his remedies, 
carefully ignoring the source from which he derived his knowl- 
edge of their specific properties. He used doses of ^th to j^th 
of a grain, prepared by trituration for two consecutive hours. 
The classes of remedies were three: 
I. Acting on the vegetative life, as 
a. Chiefly on the mucous membranes: Nux vomica, Car- 
duns Mariee, Bellad., Nat. mur., etc. 
b. On the process of assimilation: Arsen., lod., Sulph., 
Calc, mur., Carbo., Ferrum, etc. 
c. Affecting the circulation: Camph., Moschus, Aeon., 
China, Digitalis, Arnica, etc. 
II. Acting on the animal life, as 
a. Corresponding with exaltation of nervous system: Zin- 
cum, Cuprum, Rhus, etc. 
b. Corresponding with depression of the nervous system: 
Hyos., Opium, etc. 
III. Specific remedies: For the mucosa of the duodenum, 
Phosph.; process of ulceration of intestines, Argent, 
nit.; for dysentery, Merc, corr., etc., 
and so follow all the various remedies with their indications. 
The measure of success of this system with the cholera in 1848, 
and later in different military hospitals, induced the Emperor to 
cause a circular to be sent to the physicians of all military hos- 
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employment of the remedies accordingly. This important result 
and the pseudo-homoeopathic character of the system, led to the 
introduction of the subject here. 
A controversial curiosity appeared in the German paper of St. 
Petersburg in 1836 (No. 32) in the shape of an article signed by 
Seidlitz and Weiss, announcing, on the part of the Society of 
Allopathic Physicians, a prize for the treatise in relation to dis- 
eases and their development which " suits most the expectations 
of the Society." The Society, starting with the " conviction that 
all diseases running a course under homoeopathic treatment are 
only examples of the natural development of morbid conditions 
of the organism, demand that the histories of diseases in the en- 
tire homoeopathic literature be sifted, critically examined, and com- 
piled, in order to show clearly the process of development of whole 
classes of diseases, as well as single diseases, the result being com- 
pared with the rules governing diseases as laid down by the Hip- 
pocratic school. Also must be pointed out those phenomena 
which usually precede the favorable as well as the unfavorable 
termination of diseases treated homoeopathically," etc. 
The prize was awarded the following year to a Dr. Simson of 
Breslau, who in the preface of his treatise declares that he has 
written with the "purest scientific intentions, and with the deepest 
abhorrence of everything which has the slightest relation to homoe- 
opathy," declarations which evidently touched the hearts and 
opened the collective purse of the " Society " to the prize-seeker. 
Amongst the men whose names and works are part of the his- 
tory of homoeopathy, Brutzer occupies a prominent position. 
He was dissatisfied with the scientific arguments propounded in 
the Organon. He held that the essence of homoeopathy does not 
rest on the use of medicines producing like symptoms but like 
conditions. He would replace "Similia similibus curantur" by 
" Idem efficientibus eodem debellantur," and the name Homoe- 
opathy by Isocraty or Isonergy. But whatever the value of such 
criticisms as these, he entertained some just views on the condi- 
tion of the Materia Medica, which he characterized as defective, 
since it contains mostly subjective symptoms; paying no heed to 
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the organism. To this imperfection he attributed the frequent 
want of success of homoeopathic remedies, and considered it to be 
the source of the famous psora theory. He urged the reproving 
of remedies, with a studious regard to pathological anatomy, the 
aid of chemical analysis, and the light derived from experiments 
with animals with poisonous doses. Thus, he thought, we should 
learn the general characteristics of remedies, and by a proper 
classification of them, materially aid the selection of the proper 
remedy in a given case. 
At the second advent of cholera in 1848, homoeopathy had 
no organ of the press which could collect and publish the results 
of the treatment. The busy physicians of our school, compara- 
tively few and scattered over the empire, had none to whom they 
could usefully report their cases, and the only sources of informa- 
tion of a reliable kind are the statements in foreign journals fur- 
nished by our colleagues in the Baltic provinces. Of these that 
of Lembke gives 6041 cases in Riga, between July 1st and 
August 8th, with a loss of 1953, and 449 still sick.* 
In 1849, Dahl after quitting St. Petersburg went to Nischony 
Norvgorod, where he established hospitals throughout the crown 
domains. In these homoeopathy was successfully practiced 
until 1863 when, with the abolition of bond-service, the hospitals 
were discontinued. In the Central Hospital were 22, afterwards 
40 beds; 1766 cases were treated, of which 147 died or 8.32 per 
cent. The out-patients numbered 20,260, of whom 7513 were 
cured, 407 improved, 6 died, and the rest came but once for pre- 
scriptions or surgical treatment. Amongst all cases, 844 opera- 
tions were performed, of which 74 (8.76 per cent.) proved fatal. 
After the closing of the ward in the St. Petersburg Hospital 
before referred to, a petition was addressed to the new minister, 
Lansky, to authorize homoeopathic physicians and laymen to 
form a society, which should have a dispensary, and eventually 
found a hospital. The reply was a refusal on the ground that 
though tolerated, homoeopathy was a dangerous method, which 
while unproved it was necessary to put under special control. 
* Universal Homoeopathic Journal, vol. xxxvi, page 1. HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN RUSSIA. 
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That a medical society could not admit laymen, but that the 
homoeopathic physicians were at liberty to appear before a com- 
mittee appointed by the medical council, to give account of 
their doctrine, and prove its efficacy in accordance with a pro- 
gramme drawn up by that committee. This curious document 
is couched in the loftiest language of scientific certainty, as if the 
science of medicine as taught by allopathy was characterized 
by mathematical exactness, and its practice and the results were 
as certain as the operations of a well-constructed machine. Says 
the programme: 
"It needs but a little common sense to convince any one that 
for a successful and comprehensive treatment of diseases, two 
most important conditions are required of a physician. 
" 1. An accurate diagnosis of the disease in all its relations to 
the human organism, and a curative plan founded on such diag- 
nosis. 
" 2. A timely and appropriate choice of the medical remedies, 
whose action on the diseased organism in regard to their effect, 
and the space of time necessary for carrying out the curative 
plan, traced by the physician, is invariably and accurately de- 
fined. 
"Medical science is the union of the different branches of 
knowledge that afford us the power to fulfil within human 
limits these two important conditions. Medical art is the prac- 
tical application of the different branches of knowledge accu- 
mulated by medical science. Facts must prove how far these 
two main conditions in the treatment of diseases may be complied 
with according to the laws, rules and statutes of homoeopathy. 
" 1. As regards the diagnosis of diseases: 
"Although homoeopathy asserts a right to be considered a 
branch of medical science, entirely independent of the rational 
school of medicine, which it has arbitrarily denominated 'allop- 
athy,' nevertheless such right rests only on the fact that the 
diagnosis of the homoeopathic school is exclusively devoted to 
the analysis of the minutest symptoms of diseases, including the 
personal sensations of the patient, according to the rules of the 
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in their reference to the disease by which they are called forth, 
and their relation to the different changes in the textures of the 
body, which are of themselves an organic element of disease. 
This strange peculiarity of the homoeopathic system is easily ex- 
plained by the fact that all the experiments with drugs made 
by Hahnemann and his pupils, on themselves and others, in 
good and bad health, were confined to observations on subjective 
and functional symptoms, without entering into the critical 
analysis of the possible relation between casual and individual 
symptoms and the effective symptoms called forth by the drug. 
The physical examination of different organs, the chemical analy- 
sis of secretions and excretions, experiments on animals, accom- 
panied by a careful study of the anatomical and pathological 
changes in the tissues produced by the medical drug, all these 
are points entirely lost sight of. . . . The necessary consequence 
of this is that in the homoeopathic curative system, either there 
exists no diagnosis or such diagnosis must remain exclusively 
symptomatic. 
"How far this limited fund of diagnostic material may prove 
sufficient for an effective plan of action in the treatment of dis- 
eases, is a point that may be easily decided by the experimental 
solution of the following questions." 
The questions are directed to ascertain how homoeopaths 
proceed with chronic diseases " organically different and symp- 
tomatically alike," in affections ex parte latentes, diseases of 
children, the insane, the deaf and dumb, etc. ? How distinguish 
adynamic fever, an inflammation of brain and meninges, and 
inflammatory irritation of the small intestines, all symptomati- 
cally similar? How manage in the legion of chest diseases, and 
so on, and yet continue the programme. " So soon as homoe- 
opathy finds itself induced to accept the objective diagnosis, or a 
proper distinction between diseases, it comes into collision with a 
multitude of real symptoms, physical, organic and chemical, 
whereby the subjective symptoms lose all their signification, and 
the choice of a homoeopathic remedy becomes impossible." The 
programme then demands as a condition of admitting the possi- 
bility of homoeopathic cures, " palpable proofs that drugs admin- HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN RUSSIA. 
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istered in homoeopathic doses are really capable of calling forth 
in the human and animal frame visible objective effects, . . . ac- 
cessible to the ^senses of any one;" but insists that no dose below 
"the second dilution" shall be used in such trial. / 
But the most extraordinary conditions laid down are, that 
homoeopathic medicines shall be able "at the will of the physi- 
cian " to produce purging, vomiting, sweating, stimulation, etc., 
as in old-school practice; such effects being gravely assumed to 
be absolutely necessary in .treatment; also that in such cases as 
of poisonous substances swallowed, the homoeopathic remedy shall 
relieve the patient. If it cannot " fulfil all the above indica- 
tions, which are facts of daily occurrence in the treatment of dis- 
eases," .... "we must look forward to the opinion that the 
homoeopathic treatment of disease is a social evil which ought to 
be restricted;" .... and in conclusion: "Let any one judge, 
by his own personal feelings, in what state must be the conscience 
of the physician who, facing the suffering and danger of his 
patient, is obliged to own in all sincerity that he feels incapable 
of fulfilling the above-mentioned conditions, because he voluntarily 
rejects the holy truths acquired with so much labor by the 
science he disregards." 
In what state, it may be asked rather, must the conscience of 
the medical council have been, which could require the advocates 
of homoeopathy to plead their cause on such conditions, before a 
tribunal predetermined to maintain the " holy truths " of allop- 
athy ? All efforts made by different parties to induce conces- 
sions from the men in power and to give the proposed investiga- 
tion some little color of fairness proving vain, the subject was 
laid aside. But the programme drew forth some able critical 
responses, amongst which Dr. Dericker's furnishes a few quota- 
tions. Dr. Dericker properly complains that the authors of the 
programme have neglected the prime condition of a truly scien- 
tific examination, that is, "they have not even given themselves 
the trouble of studying the subject under examination out of its 
own literature," confounding the Organon with the pharma- 
cology, and the infinitesimal dose with the homoeopathic law. 
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to acknowledge those which are daily to be observed in the treat- 
ment of diseases, and will not try experiments according to the 
indications of homoeopathy." "They are told to study the action 
of a drug on a healthy subject, to acquire a thorough knowledge 
in all its details of how the animal frame is thus affected, and 
then give such drug to a patient who may be suffering with dis- 
ease presenting like symptoms. But the answer is, 'Call forth 
dilatation of the pupil, increase salivation, produce diarrhoeal' 
We say : ' Prepare the ground and then sow they say, ' Let us 
sow the seed on the stone, and see if it will grow!"' 
"The programme not only calls homoeopathy to account for 
opinions on pathology and objective diagnostics announced half 
a century ago, .... but on the pretext of experimenting to 
test the efficacy of its remedies, offers a series of physico-chemical 
experiments, mostly useless, and applicable only from the allo- 
pathic point of view." The self-sufficiency with which these ex- 
periments are propounded, as if their solution were infallibly in 
the power of the allopathic school, appears to Dr. Dericker 
simply amazing, in the face of the uncertainties, contradictions, 
doubts and failures of which its daily experience is full, and to 
which its own highest authorities bear ample testimony. " Cele- 
brated diagnosticians are known to have been mistaken in their 
diagnosis; if therefore every physician is left to act on his indi- 
vidual interpretation, every patient will have to be subjected to 
possible injury at the pleasure of his doctor. Homoeopathy will 
have nothing to do with such fancies. Its disciples are called 
upon for an attentive observation of facts, and action strictly cor- 
responding to the cause; by which means better results are ob- 
tained, with less self-sufficiency and parade." ... " The fullest 
and most accurate allopathic diagnosis is limited in comparison 
with the homoeopathic, and is in a great measure useless in thera- 
peutics, as it only gives a general idea of the disease anol deter- 
mines its name. But the successful treatment of a complaint is 
always doubtful when the physician is guided by nothing but a 
general idea; it is the treatment of a name, not of a patient. 
Each separate individual suffering from the same complaint 
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corresponding to his state. . . . Notwithstanding all the com- 
plicated and very interesting experiments made on rabbits and 
dogs, the treatment of diseases remains exactly the same, and 
allopathic practitioners are still groping in the dark." Dr. Der- 
icker's paper is a complete and masterly refutation of the assump- 
tions and false positions of the programme; but as these contro- 
versies have since been repeated in almost every civilized country 
and in every tongue, everywhere presenting the same general 
characteristics, it is thought that the few extracts from the papers 
and descriptions given will suffice for the purpose of this history. 
Although the formation of an official society had been pre- 
vented, the adherents of homoeopathy succeeded, with some 
trouble, in obtaining permission to publish a journal, nominally 
under the editorship of Hering, but really conducted with great 
skill by Dr. Dericker. This Journal of the Homoeopathic Science 
of Healing appeared in 1861, 1862 and 1863, when it ceased 
for want of pecuniary aid, not, however, without contributing 
largely to the spreading of true views of medical science during 
its short life. 
Indeed, the period from the second great cholera epidemic to 
the middle of the sixties, thus about fifteen years, shows a con- 
stant advance of homoeopathy, which, bidding defiance to every 
opposition, gained the public more and more to its side, and by 
the establishment of the journal took, as it were, a step towards 
its official existence. Though the existence of the journal was 
ephemeral, it afforded proof of the scientific capacity required in 
a public organ. The necessary means coming from private 
sources proved inadequate for such an undertaking, confined as 
it was to a small special circle of readers; but it is at least a 
satisfaction that the journal perished from financial and not in- 
tellectual insufficiency. One evidence of the increasing public 
interest in homoeopathy is found in the increasing number of 
homoeopathic physicians, not only in the chief cities, but through- 
out the empire to its Asiatic boundaries. 
In St. Petersburg, from 1835 to 1845, there were practicing 
Adam, Eisenberg, Feuer, Grum, Herrmann, Hoffmann, Kleinen- 
berg, Niemeyer, Ochs, Pryemitzki, Schering, Schmidt, Trinius, 270 
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Werther, Wagner, Zimmermann. From 1845 to 1855, Adam, 
Feuer, Jal, Johannson, Gastfreund, Lindgreen, Ochs, Hahn, 
Leidesdorf, Steuder, Rosa, Oblomlewski, Wedrinski, Schering, 
Bittich, Walz. 
In the years 1855 to 1865, Beer, Delmas, Feuer, Gastfreund, 
Hering, Hubenett, Beck, Kasakewitsch, who was murdered in 
1871 in the Caucasus, Lind, Sollier, Steuder, Stetkewitsch, v. 
Villers. 
In Moscow, where by the issue of various appropriate publi- 
cations in the Russian language, as much was accomplished, if 
not more than in St. Petersburg, there were from 1835 to 1845 
the following practicing homoeopathic physicians: Beljawski, 
Goldenberg, Suboff, Roggenbau, Heinrichsen, Maurojani,* Ha- 
gen,* Forster,* Celut,* Smollian,* Dindgreen (brother of the 
professor in Kasan), Hiemer,* Schreckenfels, Major,* Schwei- 
kert,* Haas,* Eltz, Adamy, Hoffmann, Leidesdorf, Gastfreund, 
Leo, Delmas, Theuille, Johannson, Wladimiroff. 
From 1845 to 1855, Delmas, Theuille, Johannson, Wladimiroff, 
Samson von Himmelstern,* Goldenberg, Hoffmann, Schweikert,* 
Suboff, Celut, * Roggenbau, Major, * Gassowsky, * Hiemer,* 
Strupp, Heesen, who with peculiar skill and intelligence thor- 
oughly repelled an attack upon homoeopathy by Professor Polu- 
nin, in a reply entitled Where is the greater Rationalism, in 
Homoeopathy or Allopathy ? Szokologorsky,* Wagner,* Makla- 
koff,* Dannenberg, dentist, Eisner.* From 1855 to 1865 the 
same and also Wedrinsky, Stern, Pahl,* Strothausen (field sur- 
geon) and Bojanus. Quaglio moved to the interior of Russia; 
Heesen moved to St. Petersburg and retired from practice; 
Roggenbau and Wedrinsky died in 1860 and 1864 respectively. 
From 1865 to 1875 the same, and Yegeroff and Lensky, who 
moved to St. Petersburg in 1872, and Lantzky, who moved to 
St. Petersburg in 1873; also v. Deutsch* and Trifanoffsky. In 
the interior of the empire the number of homoeopaths also in- 
creased, as well as of those who exceptionally treated their 
patients homoeopathically. 
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We find in Belgorod (Government Kursk), Labatschewsky; 
in Brest-Litowsky (Litthauen), Lesedorf; in Cherson, Pappenhut 
and Termolinsky; in Podolien, Schuh; in Kamnischen (Govern- 
ment Ssaratoff), Ignatowitsch. In the government city Saratow, 
Dr. Hempel, now in St. Petersburg, practiced from 1861 to 1864 ; 
besides there were at that time and are still practicing, more or 
less, Dr. Knorre, son of Dr. Knorre who died some years since 
in Pernau; Theuille, son of Theuille, already'well known to us, 
now dead; Wrobluoski, at present in Wilna. (Hempel and 
Knorre presented to the department of medicine a petition for 
the establishment, in Saratow, of an independent homoeopathic 
pharmacy, which was, however, denied.) In Kischineff (Bessa- 
rabia), Scheinkewitsch. In Pensa, Tchirikoff. In Mitau, Meyer. 
In Reval, Heinrichsen and Schreckenfelt, and those already 
named. In Rostow, Samarin. In Schitomar, Tcherminsky. 
In Tchugniew (Charkow), Wolkogan. In Tiflis, besides Pribil, 
Ponciko. In Baku and Tiflis,* Kirsten, who was induced to 
come to Russia by Prince Gagarin, a zealous adherent of homoe- 
opathy, subsequently went to Grusien, where he treated the 
family of the ex-king, and in 1860, returned to Tiflis. He 
founded a polyclinic, of which he reported that of 55 patients 
41 were cured, 3 improved, 1 went away, 3 were only once there, 
and 7 remained under treatment.f Unfortunately his premature 
death, in 1863,| put an end to his praiseworthy effort. About 
1869 Kirsten was succeeded by Reichenbach, who is still prac- 
ticing in Tiflis. 
In Poland and the chiefly Polish-speaking provinces, the seed 
sown by Bigel in his day has borne a not inconsiderable harvest; 
but here too, just as in Russia, we see homoeopathy defended, 
spread abroad and practiced especially by the laity. Joseph Pod- 
wigotzky, a nobleman, translated into Polish, in 1856, Hering's 
Domestic Practice. By studies pursued day and night he gained 
such skill as enabled him to maintain an extensive unremunerated 
practice among poor and rich, and attained such repute that even 
* Allg. Hom. Zeit , Bd. 61, S. 56. 
f Ibid., Bd. 61, S. 63-72, 80-87, 96, 196, 204. 
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Field Marshal Paskewitsch intrusted himself to his care.* Pre- 
sumably, though as yet there are no historical data on the subject, 
Podwigotzky was for Poland what Korsakoff was for Russia. 
Be that as it may, to judge from the reports in various periodi- 
cals, the reception in Poland of the new doctrine, and the position 
of its adherents, have a far more friendly aspect than in Russia, 
except perhaps in the Baltic provinces. 
Already in 1867 we find in Warsaw five homoeopathic physi- 
cians, of whom the most prominent were Wenjawsky, Kuschin- 
sky and Woidzowitsch,f who by their zeal and brilliant success 
maintain a very reputable position beside the justly distinguished 
medical faculty. The understanding between the two schools is 
entirely harmonious and thoroughly cordial, making absolutely 
impossible the intrigues and mutual bitternesses unfortunately 
common in other places. 
Dr. Wenjawsky had under his direction from October 1st, 1856, 
to July 1st, 1858, the hospital of Szczebrzeszin at Zamose in the 
government Lublin, belonging to the estate Zamoiski, and there 
among others attained the following results: Of 511 patients 18 
died, or 3 per cent. The daily expense per patient for medicine 
was not more than kopaki (about | centime). 
Dr. Kuschinsky delivered public lectures on homoeopathy in 
Warsaw in 1867. During the same year the administration of 
the clinical hospital of the faculty itself, the Hospital of the 
Holy Ghost, gave a ward to Dr. Wenjawsky to begin homoeo- 
pathic treatment there. In August, 1868, with the gracious 
assent of the Emperor Alexander II, a homoeopathic pharmacy 
was opened in Warsaw by II. Schmidt. In general it seems the 
Emperor is not averse to homoeopathy, since in 1867 a valuable 
diamond ring was presented to Dr. A. Teste of Paris as a dis- 
tinction for his Systematisation de la Matiere Medicale pure, pre- 
sented to the Emperor.^ With this pharmacy Drs. Wenjawsky 
and Kuschinsky with an additional colleague combined a poly- 
clinic, which, to judge from the published report for 1871, 
* Zeitschrift fur Hom. Klinik, Bd. 6, p. 104. 
f Ibid., Bd. 12, p. 151. 
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furnished right good results, and showed the greater range of 
their activity. According to this report there were treated 520 
cases, of which 275 were cured, 56 improved, and of the re- 
mainder, only once there or remaining away, the result is 
unknown. 
As the historical statistics in respect to various situations and 
occurrences affecting homoeopathy are by no means finished, and 
we are far from pretending to give a completed history of ho- 
moeopathy, the written communications of our colleagues Wen- 
jawsky and Kuschinsky may find their place here, so much the 
more as they do not entirely correspond with what has been 
collected from the publications, and thus perchance may subse- 
quently serve as material for a thoughtful writer with more 
leisure. 
After Bigel had introduced homoeopathy into Warsaw, the 
revolution of 1830 caused it to be entirely forgotten; from Lub- 
lin only came information in regard to it, through Dr. Kopersky, 
who practiced there after 1840. In 1850, Dr. Peletzky, in 
Kowno, published Hering's Domestic Physician in Polish, and 
in 1855 removed to Warsaw, where, however, he practiced se- 
cretly to escape the persecution of the medical authorities, and 
finally retired to Vienna. He was the only publicly practicing 
homoeopathic physician after Bigel until 1859, when a young 
Dr. Weltschinsky practiced with brilliant success in Warsaw, 
dying about 1863. At that time the physicians of some provin- 
cial cities, Dr. Kuschinsky in Grubischew, Dr. Piramowitsch in 
Belgorai, Dr. Wenjawsky in Schtschebreschino on the estate of 
Count Zamoisky, were the only homoeopathic physicians in 
the kingdom of Poland. In 1856 to 1858 Wenjawsky with 
Count Zamoisky conducted a homoeopathic hospital, in which 
were treated 611 patients with only 18 deaths, hence 3.38 per 
cent., while in 1845 to 1856 as an allopath he was obliged to 
report a mortality of 9 and 11 per cent. He removed in 1865 
to Warsaw. 
Dr. Kuschinsky went in 1860 to Lemberg, became acquainted 
with Kaczkowsky, Bakody and Kirkarowittsch, and with them 
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two years, and then died, partly for want of patronage and partly 
in consequence of the outbreak in Krakow. In 1867 Kuschinsky 
removed to Warsaw, and delivered lectures on homoeopathy, 
which were subsequently printed. In 1869 the Minister of the 
Interior granted his request for permission to open a homoeo- 
pathic polyclinic at the pharmacy, officially established the year 
before, and in 1868 appeared his popular' Homoeopathic Thera- 
peutics. In 1868 there settled in Warsaw the homoeopathic 
doctors Masurewitsch and Grigorowitsch. the latter ex-editor of 
the allopathic journal, Drug Zdrawija {Friend of HealiF)', but 
both died soon after, so that now there remain (in Poland only) 
in Warsaw, Kuschinsky, Wenjawsky; in Lublin, Kopersky; 
in Belgorai, Piramowitsch, and in Wilna, Wrublewsky. 
As to the homoeopathic department which Dr. Wenjawsky 
conducted in the Hospital of the Holy Ghost, and about which 
an anonymous writer in the Zeitschrift fur Hom. Klinik, I. c., 
told so much that was kindly and delightful on the part of his 
allopathic colleagues and the faculty, it turns out something 
different, and as follows : 
After Dr. Wenjawsky had settled in Warsaw, General Paw- 
listscheff, a friend of Korsakoff and Hahnemann, opened to him 
the columns of the journal of which he was editor, the Dzennik 
Warczawski {Warsaw Tageblatf, in which Wenjawsky declared 
freely and openly the advantages and excellencies of homoeop- 
athy ; and thereupon (under what circumstances is not related) 
the establishment of a homoeopathic ward in the Hospital of the 
Holy Ghost came under discussion, and resulted in its opening. 
But now this ward met with the misfortune of having assigned 
to it patients declared by the faculty incurable ; thus it became 
an unpleasant and disagreeable neighbor, which they determined 
to get rid of, and to this end a nosocomial gangrene was fabri- 
cated as the occasion for a " temporary suspension," as it was 
officially designated; and, finally, the vacated premises were 
used for the reception of the dogs intended for vivisection. 
What principally moved the l( loyal and fraternal f gentlemen to 
this step were the comparative tables published by Wenjawsky 
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it may be seen that here also, just as with us, "loyalty and 
fraternity" are among the exotics. 
Though a reopening of .the hospital was promised, Wenjawsky 
had little hope of it, the nosocomial gangrene having evidently 
become chronic; so he moved for a concession for a hospital 
which should be founded under the name of " Hospital of the 
Adherents of Homoeopathy," and supported by those adherents. 
The concession was indeed granted by the medical bureau, but the 
name was changed to the " Private Hospital of Dr. Wenjawsky," 
and the accumulation or collection of contributions was inter- 
dicted. It was, indeed, very cleverly manoeuvred. The division in 
the Hospital of the Holy Ghost must be closed on account of noso- 
comial gangrene quid faciendum? The concession to Wenjawsky's 
hospital was given : " Dixi et salvavi animam." But that the 
hospital might never be realized and again become an unpleasant 
neighbor, it was forbidden to collect contributions: "Si cum 
Jesuitis non cum Jesu itis." Yes, yes, Father Samormain, were 
the idea not so exceedingly smart, one were tempted to call it 
downright stupid 1 So the hospital is still a pium desiderium. 
The homoeopathic publications which have appeared from time 
to time in the Polish language are the following: 
Bielsky; Homoeopatica populcirna. Lwow, 1873. 
Dluzniowsky; Wyjawienie sposobu leczenia cholery. Lwow, 
1857. 
Dluzniowsky; Weterynarija homoeopatyczna. Lwow, 1858. 
Hanemann; Prgemodnik w leczeniu Krupu. Koklusza, 
1858. 
Hanemann; Zapalein gardlanych. Paryz, 1858. 
Hausmann ; Dyrtetyka homoeopatyczna. Wilna, 1858. 
T. P. (Podwysocky); Leczebnik homoeopatyczny domowy. 
Kijow, 1854. 
T. P. (Podwysocky); 0 sposobie leczenia bydla rogatego. 
Zitomirz, 18-. 
Kaczkowsky; Cholery azyatyckiej homoeopatyczny sposob 
leczenia. Lwow, 1872. 
Kaczkowsky; 0 dyccie homoeopatycznej. Lwow, 1861. 276 
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Kaczkowsky; Prezerwalywne scodki diet zapobiezenia zarazie 
bydecey ospie o wieczej v wocieklizme. Lwow, I860. 
Kuczynsky; Terapia popularna. Warczawa, 1863. 
Lutze; Nauka homoeopatie. Lwow, 1863. 
Lewandowsky; Poradnik veterynaryi. Warczawa, 1858. 
Miller; Domowy lekarz homoeopata. Lipsk, 1858. 
Podwysocky; Domowy lekarz homoeopatica. Warczawa, 1858. 
Podwysocky; Slowko 0 homoeopatie. Warczawa, 1855. 
Rapou; Goraczka tyfoidalna. Warczawa, 1855. 
S. D.; Dyetetyka homceopatyona. Warczawa, 1859. 
The understanding between the adherents of the old and the 
new schools was thus as little edifying in Poland as in Russia; 
yet the Baltic provinces appear to be an exception, e.g., 
Dr. Brauser, Fellow of the Society of Practicing Physicians in 
Riga,* is an example, which, so far as we know, all the rest of 
Russia has not exhibited. But the proposal, about twelve years 
ago, of the writer, as a member of the Physico-Medical Society 
of Moscow, aroused a storm, which even reached the news- 
papers, since the honor of the medical profession and of the 
university was thereby threatened. In respect to the Baltic 
provinces, we must mention that orthodox Dorpat still cherishes 
her hate of homoeopathy and its adherents; yet even there it 
was possible, in 1875, to say in a dissertation that homoeopathy 
has rendered a great service to medicine, f 
After the Journal of the Homoeopathic Healing Art, published 
in the Russian language in St. Petersburg, had ceased to appear, 
and the semi-official hospitals existing up to about the same 
period were closed, the new doctrine entered upon a phase in 
which it was restricted to acting in quiet upon the public, singly 
and alone by its results, until in 1872 it succeeded in attaining 
a permanent position. 
For in the ten years which had elapsed since the first petition 
(for the organization of a homoeopathic society) was presented to 
* Allgem. Hom. Zeitung, Bd. 47, p. 23. 
f Anton Jakowicki. On the Physiological Action of Transfusion. Dor- 
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the new minister, circumstances and relationships had changed. 
The orthodox corporation, however much they might desire it, 
could lay no further obstructions in the way, as Adjutant General 
Timascheff, the successor of Count Lanskoy, was personally an 
adherent of homoeopathy, and would himself have no other treat- 
ment. The position of medical director in the department of the 
interior was no longer filled by Otzolich, but by Pelikan, an un- 
prejudiced lover of justice, standing scientifically very high. 
Hence the petition presented was granted, and at last the " Homoe- 
opathic Medical Society of St. Petersburg " was officially insti- 
tuted, and the associated hospital with polyclinic came into pros- 
pect. In accordance with the desire to make the Society an ex- 
clusively learned one, laymen were excluded, against the protest 
of both Dericker and Flemming. The existence of the Society 
on this basis for a year showed the correctness of their opposition 
by the want of means experienced, owing to which the realiza- 
tion of the hospital and polyclinic was indefinitely postponed. 
This potent reason occasioned the remodelling of the existing 
statutes, which in a condensed form are as follows: 
The association is for the scientific advancement of homoeop- 
athy, endeavoring to present evidence of its practical value, and 
by combating the prevalent misunderstandings between it and the 
physiological school, to pave the way for a union of the two schools 
in support of one inseparable medical science. 
To attain this aim the association takes for its purpose the de- 
velopment of the scientifically theoretical and practical side of 
homoeopathy, which purpose is attained in part by exchange of 
views and opinions in the meetings, partly by special works, as 
prize essays and drug provings, partly also by the bringing to- 
gether of facts showing the independence of homoeopathy and its 
value as a law of cure. To this end a polyclinic and subsequently 
a hospital is to be established, to be open to every one willing to 
be convinced, but especially to the physicians of the physiolog- 
ical school. Moreover the hospital and polyclinic are to publish 
reports of their work, either in the form of special reports or of 
a journal, and the association proposes to establish a medical 
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nary surgery as a matter of course lie within the sphere of the 
Society. The members of the Society are either active, hence 
physicians, pharmaceutists and veterinarians, or honorary, those 
who either in any scientific specialty or by service rendered es- 
pecially to homoeopathy, or who in material or immaterial manner 
have served the interests of homoeopathy, and finally, so called 
auxiliary members, whose number is unlimited and among whom 
women may be admitted. 
By the payment of not less than 5 rubles yearly a fund for 
philanthropic purposes is established, as also from the dues of 
active members (10 rubles yearly). The honorary members are 
subject to no dues and are at liberty by material or immaterial 
means, as may best suit them, to contribute to the general interest. 
The meetings consist of special, held semi-monthly, in which only 
active members participate, and plenary, held semi-annually; 
the first are purely scientific, the latter devoted to economic and 
philanthropic interests. All discussions are settled by majority 
vote by ballot. Every member present has a vote. The presi- 
dent has a right to call extra meetings. The officers consist of 
president, chosen for two years, secretary and treasurer according 
to existing regulations. For the administration of the polyclinic 
and hospital a special committee is chosen consisting of two active 
and two honorary or auxiliary members. The remaining rules 
of the Society do not differ essentially from those which are cus- 
tomary and requisite, and may accordingly for brevity's sake be 
omitted. 
The first assemblage of this Society, thus organized after a long 
contest, voted unanimously on the 6th October, 1869, for the es- 
tablishment of the polyclinic upon subscription, and there was 
collected at once 360 rubles,* so that the institution was opened 
to the public, July 26th, 1870,f the resident homoeopathic phy- 
sicians assuming the gratuitous care of the patients. 
The results attained are reported as follows : 
From Oct. 1st, 1870, to Oct. 1st, 1871, patients, 1831; cured, 
* Journal of St. Petersburg Homoeopathic Medical Society, Bd. i, p. 28. 
f Ibid., p. 329. HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN RUSSIA. 
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579; improved, 287; died/7; indefinite and under treatment, 
958. 
From Oct. 1st, 1871, to Opt. 1st, 1872, patients, 1926; cured, 
611; improved, 287; died, 3; indefinite and cured, 1025. 
From Oct. 1st, 1872, to Oct. 1st, 1873, patients, 2112; cured, 
731 ; improved, 313; died, 1; indefinite, 963; under treatment, 
104; 1067. 
From Oct. 1st. 1873, to Oct. 1st, 1874, patients, 2430; cured, 
866; improved, 353; died, 3; indefinite, 945; under treatment, 
263; 1208.* 
From the record for the four years of the existence of the poly- 
clinic we perceive the number of patients seeking assistance 
steadily increasing, those coming once and remaining away 
steadily decreasing. The number of cured and essentially im- 
proved increased in like ratio. Who will question that these are 
facts which attest not only the effective management of the 
matter, but also increasing confidence in the new doctrine and 
its spread amongst the community. Though up to 1870 the 
number of members of the Society had increased from 59 to 128, 
and its vitality was thus sufficiently demonstrated, not satisfied 
with this alone, it was proposed to establish a public organ to 
lay before the public the doings of the Society, not only in a sci- 
entific but in a more extended direction. 
The fourth plenary assemblage of the Society, April 30th, 1871, 
considered the question, and though upon careful consideration 
of the matter it appeared that a deficit of about 500 rubles could 
not be avoided, the publication of the journal was nevertheless 
voted, as the pharmaceutist Flemming offered to assume the cost 
of the publication to the amount of 800 rubles annually, on con- 
dition that every issue of the journal should be his, and at the 
same time also the deficit of 500 rubles was to be paid from the 
means of the Society, H. W. Dericker consenting to be ap- 
pointed editor. 
But since 1870 the number of members had increased 60. 
* Journal of the St. Petersburg Homoeopathic Medical Society, Bd. i, 
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Gradually a fund of 6000 rubles was raised, and many impa- 
tient spirits were urgent for the establishment of a permanent 
hospital. The representations of the more prudent minority 
(Dericker and Flemming) concerning the relatively scanty means 
at command, which scarcely permitted the erection of a very 
small hospital, necessarily possessing great disadvantages, were 
unheeded in the general enthusiasm, and it was decided upon 
the 22d of March, 1873, to establish a permanent hospital of 10 
beds at the location of the polyclinic. On the 14th September of 
the same year, in the presence of the inspector of the Medical 
Bureau, Baron von Maydl, it was opened with the utmost so- 
lemnity. After a time it was arranged to lengthen the hours from 
10 to 2 o'clock for the reception of patients, and subsequently, 
when it should be necessary, to appoint special hours for the re- 
ception of sick children. The head of the police department of 
St. Petersburg informed of this arrangement, at once notified the 
people through the Police Gazette. Thus for the first time by 
official recognition on the part of the administration was homoe- 
opathy placed on an equality with her older sister. It is appar- 
ent that so small a hospital, for lack of means, could not receive 
all patients gratuitously or for such a very small sum as com- 
pared with similar institutions; and hence it is limited to an ex- 
tremely modest numerical data. Accordingly, for the present, 
any judgment pro or contra would surely be premature. The 
number of patients from September 8th, 1873, to October 1st, 
1874, was 22, of whom 18 recovered, 2 died, and 2 remain under 
treatment; there is accordingly at most reason to hope for the 
enlargement of the hospital by more abundant means. 
To complete what has already been said in respect to the 
spread of homoeopathy in the interior of the empire, we must add 
that in Krasnoslobodsk des Gouvernement Pensa, Dr. Slubimoff, 
and in Koselsck des Gouvernement Kaluga, Dr. Koslowsky are 
practicing. The first treated the cholera there in 1872 with good 
success, losing only 5 out of 200 patients with cholera and 
cholerine. Dr. Uljaninsky in Gouvernement Wolhynien, in the 
same disease showed 80 per cent, of cures; he gives a statisti- 
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of 553 patients, 469 recovered, 23 died, and 61 remained under 
treatment. The town of Kotzka in Government Sedletz in 
Poland, has two homoeopathic .physicians, who are in the seven- 
ties to be sure, Drs. Koisowitsch and Kopersky; in Kownoist 
the nobleman Kuschelewsky is successfully active in the spread of 
homoeopathy. The Governments Wjatka, Kanas and Orenburg 
are strongly inclined toward homoeopathy, prepared for it during 
many years by the Forstmeister Dalmatoff; the practice being 
for the most part in the hands of the priests provided with hand- 
books and domestic cases. In Governments Tula, Kriese Beljew, 
homoeopathy was introduced by the Lantag (Lemstwo) at the in- 
stigation of Baron Tcherkassoff for treatment of the serfs. The 
copy of the act of the Lantag, bearing date September 5th, 1869, 
was sent to us for use by the favor of the president, Baron Tcher- 
kassow, and may find place here. The act reads: 
"At the session of the Landtag of Kreis Beljew on September 
5th, 1869, was considered the motion of the president to intrust 
experimentally to the clergy of the Kreis the homoeopathic treat- 
ment of the peasants in order to provide a larger sphere of ac- 
tivity for the medical department of the administration. The 
president was led to this proposal by an article in the Eparchial 
Zeitung, No. 15, 1865, entitled 'Concerning the most Effective 
Mode of Medical Treatment of the Common People? It was 
determined by the Landtag, that the administration to try the 
experiment, may propose to the clergy of the Kreis whether they 
are inclined to furnish aid to their sick after the homoeopathic 
method of treatment, and in case of assent, all assenting clergy 
to be supplied with handbooks and medicines, for which purpose 
the annual sum of 150 rubles is appropriated, and that amount 
shall be entered in the annual budget as a constant item." 
Report. 
In accordance with the resolution of the Landtag of Kreis 
Beljew, of date September 5th, 1869, 20 homoeopathic cases with 
the appropriate handbooks were distributed to the clergy. Of 
the annual appropriation of 150 rubles included in the budgets 
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as economized. According to the reports received from 13 
priests concerning their efficacy, the homceopathic method of 
treatment was thoroughly successful, especially in the treatment 
of uncomplicated cases. These reports are entirely trustworthy, 
for the priests reporting took the matter up con amove, as is 
shown by the number of patients seeking aid from them, as 
follows: 
In the village of Kamenki, by Priest Fleroff, in 1870-73 were 
2606 patients. 
In the village of Pogorelowo, by Priest Preobrajensky, in 
1870-73 were treated 1533 patients. 
In the village of Ssemionowskoje, by Priest Uspensky, in 
1870-73 were treated 815 patients. 
In the village of Ssnuichowo, by Priest Snamensky, in 1870- 
73 were treated 823 patients. 
In the village of Nownich-Doletz, by Priest Ssergijewsky, in 
1870-73 were treated 751 patients. 
In the village of Labodino, by Priest Troitzky, in 1870-73 
were treated 250 patients. 
In the village of Pesskowatowo, by Priest Barsky, in 1870-73 
were treated 304 patients. 
In the period before the reports were sent to the administra- 
tion, the priests in the villages of Saizowo, Kusminky and 
Stromka treated 275 additional patients. Thus it follows that 
in the course of 3 years, at an expense of 300 rubles, 7357 
patients were effectively treated. 
From the villages Durakowa, Lutschek, Komarewo, Poronino, 
Temrossuja and Twamordino no reports were returned 
There is no doubt that the priests from whom no report has been 
received have had similar gbod results. The general result thus 
proves altogether favorable. 
(Signed), Baron Tcherkassow. 
(A true copy), Kasansky, 
(Secretary.) 
So far as was practicable a similar course was adopted par- 
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Bogoroditzk des Gouvernement Moscow. In the veterinary field, 
which in every respect is yet in its infancy in Russia, we perceive 
a movement though insignificant. Veterinary surgeon Basara- 
ninsky practices in Gouvernement Twer, and treated the rinder- 
pest there with great success. Veterinary surgeon Hempel in 
St. Petersburg publishes a yearly report of his treatment of 
different domestic animals, which for the years 1872, 1873, 1874 
runs as follows: 
Of 601 sick horses, cows, dogs, cats, birds and monkeys, 13 
died, unimproved or result unknown on account of sale 10, im- 
proved 2; all the rest recovered. Before proceeding to the dry 
statistical details of the condition of the pharmacies, and the 
number of practicing homoeopathic physicians, we cannot leave 
unreported two occurrences which happened, one in 1864 the 
other in 1871-72. 
Upon the occasion, in 1864, of the reorganization of the medi- 
cal military academy in St. Petersburg, by order of the higher 
authorities, there was in the programme arranged for discussion 
one paragraph calling for the institution of a chair of homoeo- 
pathic clinics. This was declined without discussion by the 
experts of the advisory committee, on the pretext that homoe- 
opathy is no science, so much the more readily as the lay mem- 
bers were not in position to make an effective opposition.* In 
1871-73 Dr. von Grauvogl was invited by the Count Adlerberg, 
Governor-General of Finland, to come to Helsingfors to lecture 
on homoeopathy, and thus to diffuse the light of the new doctrine 
in a land in which it had hitherto never shone. But we will 
hear Dr. von Grauvogl himself, whose express desire it is that 
his communication shall appear here word for word. 
" To officiate at an interrupted sacrificial feast is bad enough, 
to recall it or narrate it is still worse. Since you really desire it I 
can very briefly give the most unpleasant episode of my life. 
"Even before the French war the governor-general of Fin- 
land, Count Adelberg, tormented me to go to him at Helsingfors, 
and that for a whole year, at once to introduce homoeopathy, 
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because there was not nor had there been a single homoeopathic 
physician there, and it would be a great thing to be the first to 
lecture on the science of homoeopathy at the Helsingfors Uni- 
versity, etc., etc. The intrigues, animosity and hindrances which 
I should encounter, as matters easily settled, the count did not 
take into consideration at all. As provisional honorarium he 
could only promise me 1000 gulden, hence it did not occur to 
me to think of fulfilling his expectations. Scarcely was the 
war over, which I passed through as a senior field surgeon of 
the first rank, gaining the iron cross, etc. (orders and nobility 
are of prime importance to secure a reception in Russia), when 
the attempts at persuasion were renewed, and after I had again 
declined the count wrote me that he was now in negotiation with 
Dr. T., who appeared inclined to accept. Now there was a 
question of upholding the honor and reputation of homoeopathy, 
for this man was in no single aspect fitted to accomplish such a 
task in the midst of the most bitter enemies of homoeopathy, 
and he had also not the slightest qualification as a representative 
even less for making an impression, and to spare homoeopathy a 
fiasco so scandalous I chose rather to make a great sacrifice, and 
consented, with the condition that I should be permitted to take 
writh me a reliable homoeopathic pharmaceutist, under guarantee 
for the safety of his existence, which was readily granted, for 
one person at least I must have upon whom I could rely. 
"In November, 1871, I began my lectures and had listeners, 
especially two military surgeons of high rank and the chief of 
the medical department of the university, a practical physician. 
I took no students. Only the first two remained constant. Then 
by order of the Emperor, there were transferred to me two wards 
in the Helsingfors Military Hospital for exclusively homoeopathic 
treatment of the soldiers, with assistants, likewise older military 
surgeons, separate nurses, etc., and for the year 4000 rubles 
appropriated as honorarium. The homoeopathic treatment of 
the patients in these wards lasted from January 1st to July 25th, 
1875. A right nice practice also soon sprang up in Helsingfors, 
which frequently called me even to St. Petersburg. For filling 
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the most difficult, even incurable cases, giving me not a single 
acute case which was not already spoiled; and so the practice 
continued in spite of my repeated complaints to the governor- 
general, and requests that, of the daily receipts, at least an equal 
number of acute and chronic cases be given me. But even the 
Count did not succeed. The medical director in Helsingfors 
was an outspoken enemy of homoeopathy, and was supported in 
his intrigues at St. Petersburg. Such a procedure, in spite of 
and contrary to the intention of the Emperor and his representa- 
tive, is possible only in Russia. Consequently all my patients were 
a long time in hospital, and I was able to discharge fewer, hence, 
receive fewer, than if I had had acute cases to treat, so that in the 
first half year in 20 beds I could treat only 81 cases, of which 52 
recovered, 10 went under allopathic treatment, 5 died, and 14 re- 
mained. As a curiosity I will enumerate them. 
Cases. 
Chronic bronchial catarrh, . . 10 
Induratio pylori, .... 4 
Rheumatismus articularis cum vi- 
tio cordis, . . . . .2 
Paralysis musculorum brachii, . 1 
Erysipelas faciei, . . . .2 
Febris intermittens, . . .7 
Gonorrhoea chronica, . . .5 
Prolapsus ani, .... 1 
Mania, . . . . .1 
Inflam, chron. articul. femoris, . 1 
Cases. 
Pleuritis cum oedemate pulmonum, 1 
Tuberculosis pulm., . . .6 
Periostitis capitis radii, . . 1 
Rheumatalgia syphilitica, . . 4 
Icterus chronieus, . . .1 
Angina catarrhalis, . . .4 
Ulcera syphilitica, . . .12 
Pneumonia, ..... 1 
Otitis, ...... 1 
Orchitis, • . . . . 1 
Haemoptysis, .... 1 
"But these are wholly the diagnoses of the military assistant 
surgeon, who also kept the case-books, and neither with the one 
nor with the contents of the other did I agree; but I let it pass 
to avoid every appearance of dealing simply pro domo, and 
wishing to color things. Hence it had always to be kept open 
to the inspection of any one, and there were also the three fol- 
lowing momenta, all of which taxed my patience: 
" 1. That all these sick soldiers without exception suffered 
from chronic mercurialismus, which is very common in the' 
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developed in these wards, in addition to the disease already 
existing, which the military surgeon, in cold blood, declared to 
be a well-known and common occurrence; 
"3. That homoeopathy, my hearers and I myself were attacked 
in the bitterest manner in the Helsingfors papers, anol every 
conceivable opposition was constantly placed in my way. 
"As already indicated, the support in every direction, which 
was promised by the Count, was not rendered. Although the 
building of a new pavilion for my patients was already in 
prospect and the site determined, nevertheless, to prolong the 
whole misery by denying even this project (upon the carrying 
out of which I insisted with all possible emphasis), it was not 
taken promptly in hand. I desired, therefore, to make an end 
of the matter. Therapeutically I noted, as the sole gain of im- 
portance, the discovery of Calc. iod. as the only but certain 
remedy for the cure of the frightful combination of syphilis with 
mercurialismus, for the use of which, certainly, in the world, 
there can nowhere else be so much occasion. 
" Now the Count invited me to a fourteen days'journey of in- 
spection through all Finland. After we had gone for thirty hours 
uninterruptedly, in a screw steamer, on the great Saimo Sea, and 
were only a few hours distant from Kuopio, the Count took cold 
by sleeping one very cold night with all the windows of his cabin 
open and getting the clothes off, so that he woke about 4 a.m. 
with a pain in the nape, and was taken with a chill. He wak- 
ened me, but without being able to speak plainly, and beckoned 
me to follow him, when I found a tremendous cold draft through 
his cabin. His left arm was paralyzed, the tongue protruded to 
one side. I gave him paper and pencil to write, for I saw he 
wanted to say something. He wrote a word entirely unknown 
to me, and he could not make his servant understand him. I 
desired him to move the left foot, but he moved the right only. 
I asked to land immediately to procure from the nearest apothe- 
cary some Arg. nit. to make the third dilution, as this drug had 
not been brought with us. Fortunately the captain of the 
steamer, a Finlander, knew of a neighboring island on which 
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hour later both feet and arms were paralyzed. Up to this time 
the Count remembered everything, but how he got into the boat 
and came to land he could not remember at all. Under the use 
of Arg. nit., and subsequently of Bell.; his condition improved 
from hour to hour. Yet his retinue desired that another phy- 
sician should be consulted, which the Count roundly refused; 
but under my persuasion he finally yielded. This physician 
diagnosed cerebral apoplexy, and declared that, unless he was 
immediately bled freely, his case was hopeless. I assured the 
physician that I considered it a rheumatic paralysis, and per- 
mitted no venesection whatever, to which the Count assented by 
nodding his head. My situation was by no means enviable. 
When the Emperor learned of it, I must send a daily bulletin. 
In short, it was dreadful; for I thought at the same time of my 
task at Helsingfors, which now could not so very soon be com- 
pleted. After six weeks all paralytic symptoms had disappeared, 
with the exception of some awkwardness of the tongue, and some 
days the Count would say things quite other than what he intended. 
The whole company, with the Count and myself, returned by my 
advice to the charming villa Anjula for a few weeks, with the 
view of having the Count go afterwards to Wildbad in Wiirtem- 
berg for his complete restoration. Then I thought to resume 
my clinic in Helsingfors, and continue my lectures; but the 
Emperor expressed the wish that I should accompany the Count 
to Wildbad, and that I should not leave him at all for the 
present. Naturally that was equivalent to a command; and so 
the remaining half year passed by, and in Helsingsfors all the 
work had ceased. Three months later the Count resumed his 
service as governor-general, and, in the best of health, continues 
it to this day. Any one may imagine how they would have 
attacked homoeopathy, if I had not cured this important person- 
age. So the affair ended not without honor, for the Emperor 
gave me the order of St. Ann, second class. Now I am very 
glad that I have briefly written out this story for your instruc- 
tion ; but I shall always refer to this letter whenever any one 
wishes to hear about these miserable occurrences, for I desire so 
little to remember them, that I have forgotten the most of the 288 
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names and places concerned. I would beg you in addition to 
embody this letter, word for word, in your report, which is not 
long, as these ever memorable occurrences therein contained be- 
long to the history of homoeopathy."* 
Here then is a side play to Hermann's almost half century old 
passion play. Prejudices descend like an eternal disease. In Her- 
mann's drama we heard the other side, here we hear only the one; 
but taught thoroughly by personal and others' experience, we 
know accurately and definitely this much, that gentlemen rulers 
of the medical hierarchy have here again set up for themselves a 
monument of their noble and honorable dealing, ad majoram 
ipsam gloriam, and who knows what sleeps in the lap of time? 
Come they finally to an assemblage of such monuments, taken 
to be sure in a different sense; it will stand worthily by the side 
of a Pere Lachaise. 
The necessary question how the position attained by homoe- 
opathy at present compares with that of her older sister is best 
shown by the position of the pharmaceutists and the number of 
physicians; here and there the need of the latter is acutely felt. 
The St. Petersburg Society of Homoeopathic Physicians num- 
bers at present 218 members, of whom 38 are active, 15 in St. 
Petersburg, and 23 in the interior, 9 foreign honorary members, 
72 non-contributing honorary members, and 99 auxiliary or con- 
tributing members.f 
St. Petersburg has at present 17 practicing homoeopathic 
physicians, of whom 3 are veterinary surgeons. Drs. Adams, 
Gastfreund, Carl Hempel, Adolph Hempel, Hering, v. Hub- 
benet, Delmas, Dericker, Ditmann, Tuvenel, Krutulewsy, Lant- 
zky, Lensky, Stetkewitsch. 
Veterinarians, Basaraninow, Wilhelm Hempel and Voigt. 
The Central Homoeopathic Pharmacy opened August 23d, 
1834, put up 2000 prescriptions up to the following January. 
From that time the number increased steadily, so that at present 
it amounts to 16,000 annually. 
* Dr. Dericker, in a letter dated August 29th and 30th, 1875. 
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Moscow has 7 practicing homoeopathic physicians, viz., Gold- 
enberg, Tegoroff, Strupp, Trifanowsky, Bojan us, v. Deutsch and 
Schweikert; the two latter also treat allopathically. 
The Central Pharmacy of Moscow, fourided in 1835, dispensed 
the first year 3206 prescriptions. This number increased with 
fluctuation to 6613 in 1839, then decreased till 1849, and rose 
again in 1850 to 6500, since which time the number has increased, 
with individual fluctuations, to over 10,000 in 1875. 
In Riga there are at present practicing Drs. Brauser, Worms, 
Henke, the untiring elaborator of the Materia Medica from prac- 
tical material, and Lembke, who has also reproved many reme- 
dies, and during many years has published much of value in the 
Allg. Hom. Zeitung. Dr. Brutzer, very old and weak, has re- 
tired from practice entirely. Dr. Vespasian v. Gruezewsky, a 
layman, a zealous adherent and assiduous promoter of the inter- 
ests of homoeopathy, in order to put an end to the eternal dose- 
darkness (Gaben-Hoder), especially in respect to high potencies, 
and bring the whole matter within the sphere of observation and 
experiment, published a paper On the Incompetence of the Proofs 
for and against Homoeopathy, as respects the Conditio sine qua 
non; how to settle the whole Homoeopathic Dispute. This paper, 
however, perhaps not quite justly, met with a condemnatory 
judgment at the meeting of the Central Association, August, 9th, 
1874. This caused Jos. von BiHivicz, candidate for Ph.D. in 
1875, to issue a defence, entitled Roma Locuta Est, and Dr. v. 
Gruezewsky a similar one, styled A Review of a Paper on the 
Incompetence, etc. This whole question, belonging to the imme- 
diate future and far from definitely settled, as well as that of 
the homoeopathic doses in general as of the high potencies in 
particular, naturally, for that very reason, lies outside the do- 
main of a historical decision ; nevertheless, thankfully acknowl- 
edging the praiseworthy effort of these gentlemen, we must 
express our opinion to this extent, that the matter in question 
certainly should be decided experimentally rather than theoreti- 
cally, which latter attempt leads to strife and darkness, seeing 
that the whole matter is no longer a new thing, similar attempts 
having already been instituted in Vienna and published at the 290 
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time in the CEst. Zeitschrift. The pharmacy in Riga was founded 
in 1834 by a union of all the allopathic pharmaceutists with a 
special overseer to superintend it. In the first ten years the 
number of prescriptions steadily increased, without fluctuation, 
from 2983 to 9309, then in 1855 to 13,301, in 1865 to 14,708, 
and at the close of 1874 reached 23,420. 
From this it is apparent that the Riga pharmacy does the most 
business, and taking into consideration that by the quantity of 
family cases, which scarcely any family is without, the number 
of prescriptions is greatly lessened, it is easily seen that the ho- 
moeopathic public of Russia in general, but especially of the 
Baltic provinces (where the general culture is of a higher grade), 
is a very considerable one, and with a greater number of good 
homoeopathic physicians, of whom there is generally a great lack, 
would increase materially. 
The practicing homoeopathic physicians scattered throughout 
the great Russian Empire, or those in part homoeopathic, accord- 
ing to the list published in 1866, by H. Bremer, manager of the 
Moscow Homoeopathic Pharmacy, are the following: 
Gouvernement. 
City. 
Name. 
Archangel, 
Arcbangel, 
P. M. Paioloff Ssilwansky. 
Wjatka, 
Yelabuga, 
Matuschewitsch. 
Taroslaw, 
Peschechonui, 
Dzewulsky. 
Wladimir, 
Murom, 
Dreyer. 
Orenburg, 
Werchneuralsk, 
Ssokoloff. 
II 
Orenburg, 
Kurbatoff (veterinarian). 
tl 
Tscheljabinsk, 
Pokrowsky. 
u 
Ssantinsky-Sawod, 
Gordinsky. 
u 
Troitzk, 
Maluischewsky. 
Ufa, 
Slatoiist, 
Padilowsky. * 
ll 
Menselinsk, 
Twanoff, Klauss. 
ll 
Ufa, 
Ssergatcheff, Barkowsky(vet- 
erinarian). 
ll 
Belebej, 
Woronzoff, Boginsky, Yak- 
owleff. 
Omsk (Siberia), 
Omsk, 
Lewenewsky. 
Smolensk, 
Dorogobusch, 
Schoor. 
Witebsk, 
Diinaburg, 
Kuritzky. 
Mogilew, 
Homel, 
Doroschkewitsch. 
Tchermgow, 
Konotop, 
Doroschinsky. 
H 
Neschin, 
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Gouvernement. 
City. 
Name. 
"Wolhynien, 
Brazow, 
Grocholsky, Tcherwinsky. 
It 
Lljubar, 
Nadeschdin. 
Cl 
Ostrog, 
Gorbatschewsky. 
Cl 
Staroy-Konstantinow, 
Uljaninsky, Schuljakowsky. 
Shitomir, 
Shitomir, 
Richlinsky, Tcherminsky. 
Kijew, 
Berditschew, 
Koritzky. 
Poltawa, 
Senjkowo, 
Osskerko. 
Podolien, 
Kamenetz-Podolsk, 
Losch. 
Kowno, 
Kowno, 
Tawlowsky. 
Lublin, 
Lublin, 
Kopersky, Masurkewitscb. 
Cherson, 
Odessa, 
Lewitzky, Lukomsky Stern. 
a 
Wosnesenk, 
N epokaitschitzky. 
Kursk, 
Belgorod, 
Lobatschewsky. 
Ekaterinoslaw, 
Ekaterinoslaw, 
Hennig. 
Ssamara, 
Ssamara, 
Stanilawsky. 
Ssaratow, 
Ssaratow, 
Knorre. 
Woronesh, 
Sadonsk, 
Bohuschewsky. 
Kaluga, 
Koselsk, 
Koslowsky. 
Pensa, 
Krasnosslobodsk, 
LI u bi m off. 
u 
Pensa, 
Dwritrewsky. 
u 
Inssar, 
Ssarossek. 
Tiflis, 
Tiflis, 
Reichenbach. 
Taurien, 
Berdjansk, 
Schiffer. 
Bessarabien, 
Beljzni, 
A. Novitzky. 
u 
Kischenew, 
Schimkewitsch. 
For the correctness of these data, however, we cannot be an- 
swerable, the more as it is already ten years since they were col- 
lected, and time is unfortunately wanting for a special corre- 
spondence of inquiry; we must for the present be satisfied with 
it as given, since, and that is the principal thing, it presents evi- 
dence of the spread of homoeopathy. 
We perceive from this brief sketch that, as elsewhere so also 
in Russia, homoeopathy has advanced, per aspera indeed, but by 
no means ad astra; still, and this every one will recognize, the 
Russian government has never interdicted homoeopathy, has never 
legally prosecuted a homoeopathic physician for his practice. On 
the contrary, in comparison with others, it has always been tole- 
rant, and had it not been deceived by the professional rivals of 
homoeopathy, it would have put all the rest of Europe to the 
blush by what it was ready to do. This we thankfully acknowl- 292 
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edge, and hope that the day will come, in whose light all unfair- 
ness toward Hahnemann and his doctrine will vanish. 
That this paper cannot lay claim to completeness arises partly 
from the fact that, as the first attempt, it had to be laboriously 
wrought from a mass of raw material scattered through many, 
very many volumes, in part also from the comparatively very 
brief time (eight months) allowed for its completion, which was 
much reduced by professional and other unavoidable duties. 
We are fully convinced that much has been omitted, much, per- 
haps, through no fault of ours, incorrectly reported, for which we 
beg indulgence, and herewith express in advance our most hearty 
thanks to all those who will consider it worth their while to cor- 
rect and enlighten us, as well as to all our colleagues who kindly 
and willingly assisted us in our work. All our readers to whom 
the bearing of this work may seem too polemic, we take the liberty 
to entreat to imagine themselves in the position of truth opposed 
by every fine-spun and slyly executed intrigue, and to judge of 
the spirit which is warm through love to it alone, for 
"That man is sure a sorry wight 
Who knows the truth and hides its light." 
Moscow, 
Jan. 20th (Feb. 1st), 1876. 
Note.-Appended to this treatise is a paper by Dr. Dericker on " Russian 
Homoeopathic Literature," to which the reader is referred for information 
on a subject not discussed in the preceding pages, though connected with the 
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PART IL 
Russian Homceopathic Literature. 
W. Dericker, M.D. 
The homoeopathic literature of Russia cannot boast of more 
than sixty works, including pamphlets; and it mainly consists of 
translations from foreign languages. Nor could it well have 
been otherwise, for this literature owes its existence not to physi- 
cians but to cultivated laymen, who untrammelled by the tradi- 
tions of medical schools, and independent of medical societies, 
could allow full sway to their interest in science and philanthropy. 
Our literature in short arose and developed itself as did the 
homoeopathic doctrine, in a manner different from the experience 
of foreign countries. There, where learning is much more equally 
and liberally diffused than it is here, and where active members 
in every society and of every scientific specialty (medical in- 
cluded) are so much more numerous, the homoeopathic doc- 
trine, though slowly and with difficulty, still acquired adherents 
amongst physicians, who were more or less compelled to aban- 
don the old practice for the new. There non-practitioners who 
took any active interest in the propagation of the doctrine could 
be regarded only as exceptions to the general rule. In Russia, 
on the contrary, there always was, and continues to be, a very 
limited number of physicians, comparatively speaking, and the 
practice of homoeopathy, as well as other methods of advancing 
its interests, has therefore devolved to a far greater extent than 
elsewhere upon the laity. 
Proprietors of estates far distant from cities or towns where 
medical assistance could be had, have been obliged to provide 
themselves with a household medicine-chest, and many of them 
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the sick on their own lands, but also for those amongst the sur- 
rounding peasantry, who otherwise could have had no assistance. 
To such persons, who warmly interested themselves in the great 
questions of health preservation, the discovery of new medica- 
ments and easier means of treatment, and whatever touched 
upon the improvement of medical science, were heartily wel- 
come. Benevolent men like Toulinoff, Korsakoff and Mord- 
winoff, having become acquainted with homoeopathic publica- 
tions in the French language, at once interested themselves in 
the translation of manuals of practice into Russian, in offering 
inducements to practitioners in Germany to settle in Russia, in 
converting such native physicians as would listen to new doc- 
trines and in establishing homoeopathic pharmacies. 
As only Mordwinoff and Korsakoff ever openly appeared in 
print (and they only in French), we are unable to give the names 
of the earlier translators or editors. But in 1831, during the 
cholera epidemic, Count Mordwinoff published his first pamphlet 
On Homoeopathy (translated afterward into German by Eckstein). 
Two years later appeared, in St. Petersburg, the translation of 
Trinks's Epistle to Dr. Hufeland, and, in 1834, there appeared in 
Moscow, Hartlaub's Explanation of the Homoeopathic Method of 
Treatment for Non-professional Persons, probably translated by 
Toulinoff. There were successively published at Moscow, in 
1835, a translation of the Organon; in 1836, one of Gross's 
Treatment of Mothers and Infants; Ruckert's Review of Ho- 
moeopathic Remedies ; Hartlaub's Art of Preserving Health, and 
Attaining a Great Age; and Beliavsky's Unfailing Means of 
curing the Maladies of Women and Children according to Hah- 
nemanns Doctrine; for the use of Affectionate Mothers. Com- 
piled from the most recent Homoeopathic Writings and Practical 
Observations. This was the first original Russian compilation 
on homoeopathy, but it met with scant favor, for some of its 
1000 copies may even now, forty years after its publication, be 
found on sale. 
Here followed a long interval until 1842, when the homoeo- 
pathic apothecary in Moscow, Mr. Forbricher, published a trans- 
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which appeared in 1858); 1847 produced Caspari's Household 
and Travelling Homoeopathic Dispensary, and Vedrinsky's Con- 
cise System of Homoeopathic Treatment of Epidemic Cholera ; in 
1838 Dr. Dahl published his Letter on Homoeopathy, addressed 
to Prince Odowsky, in which he ably and warmly maintains the 
efficiency of homoeopathic medicine. In 1850, Forbricher, the 
only one in Moscow who since that period has published any 
works on homoeopathy, issued Jahr's Manual of Homoeopathic 
Treatment translated from the French. The translation, how- 
ever, was so unskilfully performed that the book in its original 
French was generally preferred by persons fit to use it. The 
same year appeared Rosenberg's Homoeopathic Dietetics; in 1852 
Jahr's First Notions of Homoeopathy, and an anonymous Letter 
to a Friend on Homoeopathy and Homoeopathic Treatment; in 
1853 appeared Fellur's Homoeopathic Pocket Guide for the Use 
of Women; in 1854 Malakoff's (an allopath) Essay on the Em- 
ployment of Homoeopathic Treatment. Forbricher also published 
a translation of Hartmann's Special Therapeutics in Acute and 
Chronic Diseases. About this time Forbricher found a com- 
petitor in Flemming, of St. Petersburg, who published Muller's 
Homoeopathic Guide, translated and completed by Dericker, of 
which the fifth edition is about to be issued. Then followed 
Jahr's Clinical Instructions, and Teste's Homoeopathic Treatment 
adapted to Children's Diseases, translated with many additions 
by Dericker. The Crimean war suggested to Dr. Dericker to 
write a Military Dispensary, which, however, was prohibited by 
the Medical Censor, and only appeared in 1862 in the Journal of 
Homoeopathic Treatment; in 1855 Moscow produced Hartmann's 
Children's Diseases and their Treatment, and about the same time 
Jahr's Homoeopathic Posology, and an Alphabetical List of Dis- 
eases, composed according to German Dispensaries; in 1856 ap- 
peared Gunther's Children's Diseases, Apelt's Arnica Tincture 
and Precepts relative to Dietetic Precautions. In St. Petersburg, 
Sharpe's What is Homoeopathy? translated from the English. 
In Moscow, 1857, Altschul's Homoeopathic Dentist; in 1859 
Gunther's Women's Diseases and their Treatment; in 1860 Moli- 
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ment of Siberian Plague, and Shafer's Homoeopathic, Veterinary 
Guide; in 1861 Chepmel's Domestic Physician; in Nijny-Nov- 
gorod, Bojanus's Essay on the Use of Homoeopathy in Surgery, 
with drawings illustrating difficult cases successfully treated by 
homoeopathic remedies in the public hospital. It is to be re- 
gretted that surgeons are, for the most part, adherents of allop- 
athy, and disinclined to accept any evidence favoring the ho- 
moeopathic system, so that the instructive facts in Bojanus's 
admirable book are little likely to work any marked change in 
their medical practice. In Moscow, 1862, appeared a translation 
of Hirschel's Domestic Practice, one of the best homoeopathic 
manuals; in St. Petersburg, Dericker's translation of Croserio's 
Manual of Obstetrics, and Grauvogl's Letter to Dr. Liebig; also 
Dericker's On Preservative and Medical Remedies for the Plague 
of Horned Cattle. Of this pamphlet 10,000 copies were printed, 
and either sold at a low price for wide circulation or distributed 
gratis at the expense of H. I. H. the late Grand Duchess Helena 
Paulowna. In 1863 Dericker published his original Popular 
Dispensary; 7000 copies were printed. A second edition ap- 
peared in 1873. The author in this work addresses himself to 
people of humble intelligence, with a view of supplanting quack 
medicines in their favor, and substituting a safe for a dangerous 
mode of domestic treatment. It was preceded by an article in a 
popular journal on "Quacks and Home Treatment amongst the 
People." About this time was published a Programme for 
Proving the Efficacy of Homoeopathic Treatment and the Possi- 
bility of admitting Homoeopathy as a Medical Art, by Professors 
Kozloff and Zdekauer, and the answer to it made by Drs. Beck, 
Bojanus, Willers and Hiibbernet under the revision of Dericker. 
The history of this programme, with some quotations from it, 
and the reply, are given in the preceding History of Homoeopathy 
in Russia. 
In Moscow, 1864, appeared a translation of Brucker's Homoeo- 
pathic Pocket Dispensary; at St. Petersburg, 1865, Heser's pam- 
phlet, The Rationality of Allopathy and Homoeopathy Discussed, 
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new method of treatment, founded on an immutable law of nature, 
and rules deduced therefrom. 
In Moscow, 1866, Altschul's Homoeopathic Home and Travel- 
ling Almanac ; in St. Petersburg, Dericker's Homoeopathic Treat- 
ment of Cholera, Morbus, for the Use of Practitioners and Non- 
practitioners, and Collections of all the Popular Means of Treatment 
used in Russia, by Vulgar Quacks and Conjurors, by the same 
author. This collection was the fruit of many years' diligent 
research, which along with a rich variety of popular receipts, 
brought to light a curious fact, that many of them are uncon- 
sciously applied on the principle of similia similibus.. 
In Moscow, 1867, Gunther's Homoeopathic Veterinary Doctor, 
the sole manual of the kind we possess. In 1869, Gerhardt's 
Practical Manual of Homoeopathy, mostly plagiarized from Liitze, 
and very far from answering its title. 
In St. Petersburg, 1867-9, Dericker's Homoeopathic Pharma- 
cology, in four volumes, composed after the method of Trinks's 
Materia Medica. It contains a collection of all the medicaments, 
and what was known about them, up to 1869, as recorded in 
German, English and French writings. The book was dedicated 
to Russian practitioners; but they have not extended that wel- 
come to it which would have justified the author in publishing 
a corrected edition. 
In 1869 appeared a work by Bouracheck entitled The Organ- 
ism of Man, and of Nature in General, is a mere Homoeopathic 
Laboratory of Vital Processes, wherein the author eloquently 
strives to prove by polemical arguments and mathematical for- 
mulae, that the physiological processes of the organism are gov- 
erned by the very same law on which the curative action of 
homoeopathic medicines is based. This work contains much that 
is suggestive and noteworthy, and it is to be regretted that its 
influence should be impaired by a mysticism, repellent to scien- 
tific inquirers. 
At St. Petersburg, in 1871, appeared Dericker's Preservative 
Means against Small-pox, and its Homoeopathic Treatment. The 
agent recommended is a disinfectant, Kali hypermanganicum, 
which when pulverized is found to annihilate all filthy and con- 298 
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tagious emanations, in the atmosphere of the sick-room. The 
same drug is recommended for ablution as a preservative against 
syphilis. In 1873 was published Gullon and Sorokin's Infants' 
Diseases and their Homoeopathic Treatment. In 1874, Muller's 
Characterization of Thirty Principal Homoeopathic Remedies, 
translated by Dr. Dittman. 
At Moscow, 1875, appeared Bojanus's translation of Wolser's 
lecture, Allopathy and Homoeopathy Analyzed, in which the 
author endeavors to explain the action of remedies by the law of 
polarity. He holds that the only difference between allopathy 
and homoeopathy lies in the quantity of the dose, specific action 
being destroyed by the power of the more bulky dose; while the 
■effect desired in the administration of large doses is equally de- 
feated by the reduction of the quantity to a degree which develops 
the specific action of the remedy. The conclusion is that both 
systems being imperfect, their adherents should " forsake their 
prejudices," join hands, and interchangeably employ each other's 
methods ! Forbricher issued in 1870 a Homoeopathic Miscellany, 
in three volumes, containing all the articles on homceopathy which 
had been translated into Russian from the French ; including the 
Theory of Homoeopathy from Jahr's Principles, and Special 
Therapeutics and Pharmacology from various periodicals. The 
publication, however, met with but little encouragement. 
Reference should here be made to a homoeopathic journal pub- 
lished at St. Petersburg by Flemming in 1861, 1862 and 1863, 
under the editorship of Dr. Dericker. Owing to the limited 
number of homoeopathic physicians in Russia, and the absence of 
interest in such an undertaking by allopaths, the subscribers 
were almost exclusively laymen, and their number proving in- 
sufficient, the publication was abandoned at the end of three 
years. It was an attempt to address at once the profession and 
the public, and as the latter complained of its erudite character, 
one reason for the failure of the enterprise is manifest. About 
ten years afterwards another attempt was made by the same pub- 
lisher and editor to maintain a homoeopathic periodical, and the 
Journal of the Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of St. Peters- 
burg was issued. But this journal had not even the good for- RUSSIAN HOMOEOPATHIC LITERATURE. 
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tune which attended its predecessor, of attracting the notice and 
provoking the denunciation of the allopaths, but died of sheer 
neglect. 
In Russia the policy of allopathic journals has been to ignore 
homoeopathy as far as possible. At long intervals the stubborn 
vitality of the pestilent thing has stirred their virtuous indigna- 
tion ; and then, for a time, articles and books have appeared, 
which, it seems to have been hoped, would by the ferocity of de- 
nunciation, or the blight of sarcasm, purge away the heresy. 
These wise and witty productions have rarely been of home 
manufacture, but republications from German writers of various 
degrees of notoriety. The literary and political newspapers have 
manifested a complete submission to the dominant school in 
medical matters. With one or two insignificant exceptions, no 
mention has ever been made in their columns of even the best of 
our Russian homoeopathic publications; and whenever the ob- 
noxious doctrines were made the subject of sport or censure by 
some contributor, it has rarely been possible to gain admission 
to their pages for a reply. Under this policy of suppression it 
is hardly to be wondered at that allopathic doctors should inno- 
cently ask us, whether we have any manuals other than the 
Organon ! 
Only one work against homoeopathy of those alluded to need 
be cited here, and that is done not because of its intrinsic worth 
(for its main characteristics are the ignorance and vanity of its 
author), but because it incited a very able and impartial inquirer 
to a keen and careful analysis of Hahnemann's doctrines and 
practice. The opponent of homoeopathy was Volsky, the criti- 
cal inquirer Senkovsky. 
A critique of Volsky's work by Dr. Nikitin, which after thor- 
ough revisal by the editor, Senkovsky, appeared in The Library, 
contains so much matter of interest to homoeopaths that we ven- 
ture to transcribe freely from it. 
" We are far," it says, " from being Hahnemann's adherents ; 
but, notwithstanding, ask every one to whom his doctrine is 
known, whether the above-quoted paragraphs" (from Volsky's 
work) "and coarse jests show any traces of knowledge, even of 300 
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the first principles of homoeopathy. Whether we have any right 
thus to assail a doctrine which has had power enough to deprive 
the classical method of treatment of nearly half of its adherents 
abroad ? What must that medical science, that famous allop- 
athy be, in the name of which the pragmatic work so unmerci- 
fully consigns homoeopathy to nought ? It must undoubtedly be 
the height of indubitable knowledge; a storehouse of secular 
truths; a very overflow of incontestable wisdom, which to oppose 
would be utterly impossible! Far from it. It is the most im- 
perfect science that ever existed. Putting aside the opinions 
which some of the most sensible allopathic doctors have lately 
formed of it, we may easily realize its nothingness, its desperate 
situation, when we find that the honorable author of the prag- 
matic work himself, having undertaken the defence of allopathy, 
can find nothing better to do than annihilate all its proved and 
adopted theses, replace them by new ones, and invent an entirely 
new method of treatment, to wit, the ' methodus medendi dy- 
namica symmetrica !' Yes, that same allopathy, which so ex- 
clusively assumes the denomination of medical science, has for a 
long time past been liable to those charges it now imputes to 
homoeopathy, namely, absurdity and illusive principles. We are 
sorry to say, it is itself standing far too low to have any right 
so rigorously to criticize other systems 
" Now the homoeopathic doctrine is, perchance, not a whit bet- 
ter than any other medical theory, but if it is to be fought against, 
assuredly it deserves to be combated by fairer means than deri- 
sion and banter, and sarcastic comparisons. 
"Medical theories, generally speaking, have arisen from such 
philosophical ideas as were dominant at the time. Homoeopathy 
had a similar origin. Considering the ideas that speculative phi- 
losophy was propagating in Germany towards the close of the 
last century, homoeopathy could not but have arisen. 
"Kant, a man of grand intellect, and one of the greatest phi- 
losophers of Germany, who was accustomed to discuss physical 
phenomena in metaphysical language, chanced to enunciate an 
ingenious paradox. He assumed that every substance is nothing 
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expansion, for in case of the condensing power obtaining the 
mastery, the substance itself would undoubtedly be brought to a 
mathematical point, namely, to nought, while the victory of the 
dilating power would transform the substance into pure space. 
Consequently in both cases the matter would disappear, leaving 
only the primitive and unsubstantial power. This strange idea, 
founded most probably on a mere play upon words, was eagerly 
accepted by Kant's numerous disciples, and they applied words 
meant for matter in general to substances in particular. The 
result is clear enough. Every substance possesses a great many 
qualities or properties, which if infinitely condensed would all 
be brought to a mathematical point, or if expanded would be 
dispersed as immaterial powers in space. Now one may easily 
realize that a doctor who reverently listens to such a theory may 
quite naturally come to the following logical conclusion. ' If I 
take a body which has the power to produce diarrhoea, fever or 
any other disease, and dilute it infinitely, I shall free it from the 
matter and obtain in its place a pure immaterial diarrhoea, an 
absolute purgative principle, a pure abstract fever, an absolute 
immaterial disease But how is it to be diluted? Very 
easily. . . . The substance is to be dissolved in a glass of water. 
Then a thousandth part of the solution, say a drop, should be 
further diluted in ten glasses of water, and the diluting must be 
continued till the primitive solution be weakened up to the tenth 
potency, containing only a decillionth part of the original sub- 
stance.' 
" 'Each substance is the equilibrium of two opposite and con- 
tending powers; each disease is a power too. Dynamics show us 
that two opposite powers always create a third malady. Two 
such powers or maladies, a condensing and dilating one, give 
birth to a third disease, substance or matter, and the classical 
medicine evidently acts against all the laws of nature, sense and 
philosophy, by prescribing medicaments, that is to say powers, 
opposite to the given disease, as cooling substances against fever, 
composing draughts against irritation, etc. The inevitable con- 
sequences of such a doctrine must be the manifestation of new 
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reciprocally destroying each other. Two dilating powers cannot 
possibly exist together; the most powerful of the two is sure to 
expel the other, and transform it into pure space. Out of two 
condensing powers put together, the most powerful will annihil- 
ate the weaker one, and reduce it to a cipher. It is now very 
clear that a given disease can only be annihilated by a similar 
disease, separately obtained in the form of an immaterial power 
by infinitely dilating it. As for the kind of power or disease 
which may be obtained out of a given substance, its efficacy may 
easily be ascertained by trying its effects on a perfectly healthy 
individual.' 
" However strange all these deductions may appear, they still 
are quite logical, and faultlessly issue from each other. They 
could not but have occurred to a mind which, like Hahnemann's, 
was penetrated with the theoretical doctrine of dynamics, to a 
physician endowed with a vivid imagination and great logical 
power. Instead of slandering Hahnemann's life and morals, wre 
ought respectfully to recognize the power of his noble enthusiasm, 
which, having devoted itself to the abstract idea, considered at 
the time as a glorious discovery of philosophy, subjected to that 
idea his whole existence, all his thoughts, exertions and aims, 
and pursued its development to its fullest limits. He toiled 
conscientiously, honestly and logically; and provided Kant's 
idea be right, homoeopathy, notwithstanding the singularity of 
the preceding deductions, ought to be considered as the only 
sound, conceivable and well-grounded medical doctrine. 
"Now, personally, I do not believe in the idea; I should 
rather call it a paradox. Why? I cannot say. I am even 
nourishing a secret hope that it will be found an absurdity, but 
to prove it so myself, I humbly confess my inability, that very 
nonsense having all the insignia of sense, and that paradox being 
as simple as truth ought to be." 
And this avowal was evidently sincere. Sankovsky did not 
believe in homoeopathy, and in the frequent attacks of sickness 
to which he was subject never resorted to it. Being, however, 
an erudite scholar and a man of clear judgment, and not a doctor, 
he brought an impartial mind to the consideration of Hahne- RUSSIAN HOMOEOPATHIC LITERATURE. 
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mann's conscientious labors in the cause of true science. He is, 
no doubt, correct in attributing the theories of Hahnemann con- 
cerning the origin of disease and medical powers, to the dogma 
of Kant; but Hahnemann, as will be seen in the Organon (page 
280), never assumes to employ disembodied powers, but only ex- 
ceedingly small portions of matter, the least of which "is enough 
for creating an artificial disease capable of conquering and forcing 
out a natural or casually acquired disease." That theory is un- 
doubtedly founded on an hypothesis, viz., that medical sub- 
stances have more power over the vital processes than natural 
or casually acquired diseases, and is open to question as unsatis- 
factory. Yet a theory when it is only the explanation of a fact 
or law can be altered, while the fact and law remain untouched. 
Many have been the theoretical explanations of the effects of 
medicine, mostly founded on new hypotheses, harmonizing with 
some general law of nature. 
Altschul, in 1852, and Wolser, in 1872, founded their expla- 
nations on the law of polarity. Grauvogl cites a whole series of 
laws. Dericker (in the introduction to his Pharmacology) strives 
to explain the origin of organic reaction by the law of reflection.. 
Every one is free to make his own theory, but the law of similia 
will remain unshaken. Hahnemann himself, feeling satisfied 
with the immutable law he had discovered, never stopped long 
to explain it. Besides he was not a blind follower of Kant's 
ideas, but in the construction of his doctrines used material of 
his own gathering. 
Just at this time there is a verbal truce with homoeopathy in 
the papers and periodicals controlled by its opponents, partly 
perhaps from a repugnance to the topic, and partly, it may be, 
because many allopathic doctors, more or less famous, have be- 
come prescribers of very small quantities of simple medicine dis- 
solved in pure water ! These may be symptoms of observation 
and experiment, the forerunners of serious study. May heaven 
grant it! HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL 
report 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN BELGIUM. 
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC 
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF FLANDERS. CONTENTS. 
Historical and Statistical Sketch of Homoeopathy in 
Belgium, Drs. Stockman and Schepens. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HOMEOPATHY IN 
BELGIUM. 
MADE ON BEHALF OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY 
OF FLANDERS, AT GHENT. 
T. F. Stockman, M.D., and Dr. Schepens. 
Belgium, situated in the centre of Western Europe, is bounded 
on the north by Holland, on the east by the German Empire, on 
the south and southwest by France, and on the west by the North 
Sea, which separates it from England. 
It has a population of 9,000,000 on a surface of 30,000 square 
kilometres. Notwithstanding the narrowness of its boundaries, 
three languages are spoken within it: in the northern provinces 
Flemish, in the southern French, and in some of the eastern 
districts German. 
Belgium has always excited the covetousness of her powerful 
neighbors; thus, during the last five centuries, we see her occu- 
pied in turn by France, Spain and Germany. Not until 1830 
was she separated from Holland to form an independent country. 
Her topographical situation, her history and even the origin of 
her inhabitants, have all contributed to make Belgium partici- 
pate in the scientific, philosophical or religious movements which 
have taken place in France and Germany. The religious wars 
of the sixteenth century show us that ideas of reform had found 
numerous adherents here, and the present generation still feels 
the influence of the philosophic ideas of the French writers of the 
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world's homoeopathic convention. 
This disposition could not fail to show itself with regard to 
homoeopathy, so that scarcely had the genius of Hahnemann 
given to the world the sublime truths of his doctrine, when some 
Belgian physicians resolved to become acquainted with the new 
medicine. At the head of these courageous men, who were re- 
buffed neither by the difficulties of the undertaking nor by the 
railleries to which they were exposed, we find Dr. De Moor of 
Alost,* titular surgeon of the Civil Hospital of that city. This 
good man was not satisfied with being himself in possession of 
medical truth, but to the end of his career he made himself the 
apostle of our doctrine. At that epoch, much more than in our 
days, one did not labor with impunity in the propagation of 
homoeopathy; moreover his allopathic associates gave him con- 
siderable annoyance, and were the cause of the difficulties which 
stirred up the administrative commission of the hospital of Alost 
against him. But in addition to the satisfaction of duty accom- 
plished, he had the happiness to see his eldest son, our learned 
colleague, shine in the first rank of the Belgian homoeopathists. 
Toward 1832 homoeopathy made its appearance at Brussels; 
Drs. Varlezf and Carlier were the first who practiced the new 
medicine in that city. In 1835 Varlez founded a gratuitous 
homoeopathic dispensary there, which he did not abandon until 
his benevolent intentions were frustrated by his failing strength. 
It was Varlez and Carlier who, in 1837, with Brixhe, Dugniolle, 
Van Meerbur, Duneniberg, etc., founded the Belgian Homoeo- 
pathic Society. This society, after having gained other members, 
such as Charles De Moor of Alost, Bernard of Thuin, Gauthier 
of Hyon, and Darn of Brussels, established a second dispensary, 
which after many transformations has become the Hahnemann 
Dispensary. 
In 1835 the homoeopaths must have already given umbrage 
to their allopathic colleagues, for at the medical congress of Bel- 
gium, held that year at Brussels, Dr. Marcq of Charleroi pro- 
* The practice of homoeopathy since 1829. 
f Dr. Carlier has practiced homoeopathy since 1831 ; some months earlier 
than Varlez. It was the pharmaceutist Dr. Darn who had the first homoeo- 
nathic pharmacy in Belgium. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HOMOEOPATHY IN BELGIUM. 
309 
posed to imitate the Academy of Medicine of Paris, and to con- 
demn homoeopathy by a solemn vote. But wiser counsels 
prevailed; after having heard the observations of Messrs. Lebeau, 
Dugniolle, Limage, Mouremans, etc., the assembly refused to 
vote upon it and declared themselves incompetent to reject one 
system more tlran another. 
From this moment an impetus was given, and in different 
cities of our country courageous men arose who braved the 
opinion of their associates and openly declared themselves par- 
tisans of the new doctrine. Among this number we find Drs. 
Demeester at St. Nicholas, Bron at Namur, Brixie and Malaise 
at Liege, Bernard at Thuin, Dupire at Tournay, De Boey at 
Courtray, Bosteels at Ninove, Stockman and Schauwenberge at 
Ghent, etc., etc. We will also mention Dr. Gauthier of Hyon, 
who when forty-two years old, began the study of German, left 
his practice and his country to go to Germany and study at its 
sources the Hahnemannian doctrine. In 1853, the Society of 
Science, Art and Letters, at Hainaut, having put to the meeting 
the following question : To investigate and report the positive 
value of homoeopathy principally in the effects which it produces 
or the results which it obtains, Dr. Gauthier, for all reply, sent 
the results of his medical practice, founded on the rules given by 
Hahnemann, during the year in which this question was put. 
But these results probably did not answer the purpose of the or- 
ganizers of the meeting, for three years after he demanded his 
paper, which had not yet been reported on. 
In 1841 the Royal Academy was created. A good number of 
the professors of different universities as well as other scientific 
notabilities of the country were created members of it. Homoe- 
opathy was never again completely set aside; thus we find Mr. 
Gaudy (Senior) among the titular members, and soon after Drs. 
Varlez, Carlier and Dugniolle occupied among the corresponding 
members the place which was justly theirs by merit and learning. 
Although surrounded by allopaths, the representatives of 
homoeopathy never allowed any opportunity to escape for de- 
claring their principles and defending their flag. In 1849, 
among others, on the occasion of a work by Dr. Carlier on the 310 
world's homceopathic convention. 
homoeopathic treatment of cholera, Messrs. Varlez, Carlier and 
Dugniolle delivered several remarkable discourses in favor of 
homoeopathy, which were conclusive for whoever was capable of 
forming an impartial judgment ; but everywhere there are deaf 
who will not hear, and notwithstanding the unhoped for and 
eloquent support which homoeopathy received from Professor 
Frangois of Louvain, the more violent than scientific address of 
Professor Lombard of Liege obtained the approbation of the 
majority of the Academy. 
While the homoeopathic physicians, members of the Academy 
of Medicine, defended their principles in the midst of this as- 
sembly, others of our associates sent communications, as well 
surgical as medical, to the medical societies of Brussels, Antwerp, 
Willebrock, Bruges, etc., but the learned body in which homoeo- 
paths have most frequently made their voice heard is without 
doubt the Medical Society of Ghent. 
In the month of January, 1837, Dr. De Meester of St. Nico- 
las sent a memoir to this Society, having for title Some Remarks 
upon Homoeopathic Medicine. In this memoir the author ex- 
pounds the doctrine of Hahnemann in so far as it relates to the 
law of similars and to the dynamic action of medicaments; a 
second memoir was to treat of the employment of infinitesimal 
doses; but whether on account of the unfavorable reception ac- 
corded to his work by the committee of this Society, or for some 
other reason, the second part never appeared. 
At the risk of wounding the well-known modesty of our 
honored president, Mr. Stockman, we ought nevertheless to 
state that he was the homoeopath who showed himself the most 
indefatigable in forcing his convictions upon the Medical Society 
of Ghent, of which he was one of the most active members. 
Neither the isolation in which he found himself in the midst of 
unfriendly colleagues nor their railleries weakened his zeal; and 
never in a conversation did he allow an opportunity escape him 
of attributing to the law of similars the cures which his associates 
often made without being able to give a satisfactory explanation 
of them. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HOMCEOPATHY IK BELGIUM. 
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Among the numerous works which Mr. Stockman addressed 
to this Society we signalize among others : 
1st. January, 1845, Cure of an Hallucination by Datura 
Stramonium. 
2d. August, 1845, Epilepsy Cured by Sulphate of Ammoniacal 
Copper. 
3d. On Cholera-Parallel between the Homoeopathic and Allo- 
pathic Treatment of this Affection. 
4th. 1851, Symptomatic Hemiplegia cured by Arnica'2. 
5th. 1867, Reply to the Attacks of Dr. Brenier on Homoeopathy. 
Dr. Ch. De Moor also sent some works to the same Society. 
1st. 1844, An Account of the Cure of an Injury of the Brain 
by means of Aeon., Arn. and Bell., given in Massive Doses, but 
according to Homoeopathic Indications. 
2d. 1847, Monograph on Croup, followed, by the Recital of Six 
Cases of Cure obtained by the Hahnemannian Method. 
The sending of this work procured, at least for Dr. De Moor, 
the satisfaction of hearing Dr. Dumont, to whom the work was 
referred to report to the Academy, avow, while declaring himself 
allopathic, that the principles of homoeopathy ought not to be 
disavowed by a conscientious physician. It is right to say that 
some years later we counted Dr. Dumont among our brethren in 
Hahnemann. 
In 1846, Dr. De Moor represented Belgium at the Homoeo- 
pathic Congress of Paris, and in one of the most remarkable 
discourses retraced the history of homoeopathy in our country. 
The best proof that De Moor performed his task well, and 
that Belgium had succeeded in taking rank from a homoeopathic 
point of view among the other nations of Europe, was the choice 
of the city of Brussels as the place of meeting of the Inter- 
national Homoeopathic Medical Congress, which took place in 
1856. 
This congress, which had a happy influence upon the develop- 
ment of homoeopathy in Belgium, was opened at Brussels the 
24th of September, 1856. The limited extent of this sketch 
does not permit us to give the history of this congress; we shall 
content ourselves with citing several names which by themselves 312 
world's homceopathic convention. 
alone will give a sufficiently exact idea of the importance of this 
meeting. 
Honorary Presidents, Bonninghausen, of Munster; Petroz, of 
Paris; Varlez, of Brussels. President, Mr. Carlier, of Brussels. 
Vice-Presidents, L. Simon, Sr., of Paris. General Secretary, 
Molin, of Paris. Secretaries, L. Simon, Jr., of Paris, and Jorez, 
of Brussels. Treasurer, Dugniolle, of Brussels. 
A large number of Belgian and foreign physicians were present, 
and numerous letters were sent thither by the Belgian, French, 
English, German, Italian and other physicians. 
Among the audience, among others, were Mr. Fallot, presi- 
dent of the Royal Academy of Medicine, and other members of 
that assembly; Baron Seutin, surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital 
of St. Pierre, of Brussels; Mr. Martens, professor of the Uni- 
versity of Louvain, etc. 
July 15th, 1856, a monthly publication appeared at Brussels 
under the title of International Review of Homoeopathic Medicine. 
Dr. Yorez undertook its introduction and direction, and an asso- 
ciation of homoeopathic physicians worked together upon it. It 
was issued until November, 1862. 
Another event which took place this year, and which produced 
the most fruitful results for homoeopathy, was the creation of the 
Hahnemann Dispensary of Brussels. This dispensary, which 
exists to-day, has served as a practical school to most of the 
living Belgian homoeopaths. Among its principal founders we 
find Dr. Mouremans, M. Ph. De Molinari and M. Van Bercke- 
laar. 
The first, a physician of talent and reputation, had practiced 
homoeopathy for a number of years; he was the soul of the dis- 
pensary, where he loved to instruct young doctors who were 
eager to know the new doctrine. It is also to the enterprise of 
Dr. Mouremans that we owe the creation of dispensaries at Ant- 
werp, at Bruges, at Arion, at Wilemont and at Namur. 
Mr. Ph. De Molinari although not a regularly graduated doc- 
tor of medicine was not the less one of the most distinguished 
homoeopaths of the country. His support was very advanta- HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HOMOEOPATHY IN BELGIUM. 
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geons to the dispensary, for the prosperity of which he did not 
cease to work till the close of his life. 
Mr. Von Berckelaar established at Brussels a special homoe- 
opathic pharmacy, located the dispensary there, and by so doing 
rendered a signal service to homoeopathy. 
In the second year of its existence the dispensary issued a 
journal, The Belgian Homoeopath, which was published under the 
direction of Dr. Molinari, and of which Dr. Loin of Antwerp 
was the principal editor. 
In 1862, a monthly review appeared under the title of Jour- 
nal of the Hahnemann Dispensary. This review was published 
under the direction of Dr. Mouremans; its editors were succes- 
sively Drs. Leon, Gaudy and Gailliard. After the death of Dr. 
Mouremans (August 17th, 1874), an association of homoeopathic 
physicians, all of whom were formerly his pupils, continued and 
still continue the dispensary; as for the journal, it has taken the 
title of The Belgian Homoeopathic Review, and is published under 
the direction of Dr. Martiny. 
The French-German war of 1870 had a happy influence upon 
the development of homoeopathy in Belgium. In consequence 
of the edict of proscription which affected the Germans resident 
at Paris, Madame Hahnemann and Dr. Jahr removed to Brus- 
sels. During eight months the former accepted the hospitality 
which Mr. and Mrs. Mouremans offered her. The latter, received 
with open arms by all in Belgium who were partisans of homoe- 
opathy, forgot his age and his misfortunes, to work with re- 
doubled ardor for the propagation of our doctrine. After some 
consultations at the " Maison du Koi," he definitely established 
himself at the Hahnemann Dispensary, whose chief, Dr. Moure- 
mans, had been for some time withdrawn from active service by 
the cruel malady which last year took him from us. Twice a 
week Jahr gave a lecture on the Theory of Homoeopathy, and 
the numerous patients who attended his consultations enabled 
him to hold a regular clinique, which was complete so far as con- 
cerned the treatment of chronic diseases. 
Unfortunately, the Belgic law forbids the practice of medicine 314 
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to those who have not obtained their diploma of doctor of medi- 
cine in Belgium. Dr. Jahr was of this number, and neither his 
merits nor his learning found favor with the medical commission 
(composed of allopaths); it was necessary to submit to the law. 
These annoyances had a disastrous influence upon the variable 
health of our master. Death robbed us of him July 12th, 
1875. 
Among the principal homoeopathic publications which have 
appeared in Belgium, besides the periodicals which we have 
mentioned, we will cite: 
Dr. Dugniolle, of Brussels : 
1. Les doses en Homoeopathic (Brussels, 1836). 
2. Memoire sur la Cholerine (1838). 
Dr. Malaise, of Liege: 
Clinique Homoeopathique a Vusage des Medecines, et des gens du 
monde (1837). 
Dr. De Meester, of St. Nicholas: 
Considerations sur la Medecine Homoeopathique (1837). 
Dr. Bron, of Namur : 
1. Guerison d'une Cataracte lenticulaire obtenue en 20 jours par 
Cannabis Saliva. 
2. De la Vulgarization de I'homceopathie. 
Dr. Varlez, of Brussels: 
1. Coup d'oeil sur la Cholera Asiatique (1837). 
2. Reponse aux Derniers attaques dirigees contre I'homceopathie 
(1850). 
Dr. De Molinari, of Brussels : 
1. Essais pratiques Homoeopathiques (1854). 
2. Nouveaux essais pratiques Homoeopathiques (1855). 
3. L'homoeopathic en Presence des Autres Methodes Curatives. 
Traduit du Hollandais du Dr. Vervez (1856). 
4. Les cotes du Corps ainsi que les Affinites des Medicaments. 
Traduit du Dr. Von Bonninghausen (1857). 
5. Les Caracteristiques des Expectorations, des Medicaments 
Homoeopathiques. Traduit du Dr. Von Bonninghausen (1857). 
6. Guide de Vhomoeopathiste (1861). HISTORICAL, SKETCH OF HOMOEOPATHY IN BELGIUM. 
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Dr. Mouremans, of Brussels : 
Les aphorisms eV Hippocrate suivi des gloses d'un Homoeopathe. 
Traduit de Von Bonninghausen (1864). 
Dr. Ch. De Moor d'Alost: 
1. Observations et Communications nombreuses envoy ees aux 
Societes de Medecine de Gand, Anvers, Willebrock, Bruges, ainsi 
qu'aux Archives de la Medecine Beige. 
2. Lettre a un detracteur de I'homoeopathic; reponse au Dr. 
Bulekens de Malines (1845). 
3. Memoir e sur la Pleuropneumonie (1845). 
4. Monographie du Croup (1847). 
Dr. De Moor has moreover contributed to the following patho- 
geneses : 
(a.) In the Archives de la Medecine Homoeopathique, second 
series, fourth year. Teucrium marum, Crocus sativus, Rhodo- 
dendron chrysanthemum. 
(6.) In the Journal de la Doctrine Hahnemanniene (1840), Nux 
moschata. 
(c.) In the Revue Retrospective de la Matter e Medicale Specifique, 
by Roth : 
Cuprum, Plumbum, Ranunc. bulb., Ranunc. scderat, Plat., 
Polyg. seneg., T6r6benthine, Grat, officin., Valerian, Coff. Arab., 
Junip., Sabina, lodium, Cantharid., Euphorb., Tart, emetic. 
(d.) In the Journal de la Medecine Homoeopathique, published 
by the Hahnemannian Society of Paris (1845-50). 
(e.) Sang, canad., Chlore, Brome, Acid hydrocyan., Amande 
amire, Laurier cerise, Lachesis. 
(/.) In the Bulletin de la Society de Medecine Homoeopathique. 
Thuja occidentalis. 
{g.') In the Bibliotheque Homoeopathique de Paris (1869), Cya- 
nure de mercure, Arg. fol., Arg. nitric, Cobalt, Corail., Iris versi- 
color, Indigo. 
(A.) In the Revue Homoeopathique, Beige, 1874, Baryta, 1875, 
Eupion. 
Mr. Sentin, physician, at Brussels. 
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Dr. Dobbelaere, of Bruges : 
Samenspraak tusschen eenen apotheker von het oude en een doktor 
van het nieuwe Stelsel (1866). 
Dr. Gailliard, of Brussels: 
L'homoeopathie vengee (1868). 
Dr. Bernard, of Mons: 
Justification de l'homoeopathie dans ses Principes Essentiels 
(Ghent, 1868). 
Dr. Flasschoen, of Brussels: 
1. L'homoeopathie prouvee par ses adversaires (1870). 
2. Traitement Homoeopathique du Cholera et de la Cholerine et 
des moyens de prevenir les atteintes de ces maladies (1871). 
3. Principes de l'homoeopathie Clairement et Succinctement ex- 
poses au gens du monde (1874). 
Mouteville, of Namur (pseudonyme): 
La verite de l'homoeopathie (1870). 
Dr. Marti ny, of Brussels: 
Etat actuel de l'homoeopathie (1875). 
Two societies of homoeopathic medicine exist in Belgium. 1. 
The Society of the Hahnemann Dispensary, at Brussels (founded 
in 1874). 2. The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Flanders, 
at Ghent (founded in 1872). 
Up to the present time we regret to say we have not had a 
homoeopathic hospital in Belgium, for we cannot consider as such 
the hospitals of Alost and of Ledeberglez-Ghent, where Drs. 
De Moor and Van Ootegem practice according to the method of 
Hahnemann ; for a change in the medical staff would certainly 
cause a change of method. On the other hand, all the large cities 
of the country have dispensaries; Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, 
Liege, Bruges, etc., and the favor which these establishments 
enjoy, shows that homoeopathy has struck deep roots in our land. 
And yet the propagation of homoeopathic medicine here is sur- 
rounded with many difficulties. In the state universities as well 
as in the independent ones, homoeopathy is completely neglected, 
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to make allusion to it in one of his lectures, it is only to excite 
merriment among his audience. 
The only source to which physicians desirous to become ac- 
quainted with the practical difficulties of the new doctrine could 
go to draw knowledge was the Dispensary Hahnemann of Brus- 
sels, where Mouremans and Jahr placed at their service their 
profound knowledge in this matter; unhappily death has taken 
from us both these men. 
Another very serious event for homoeopathy took place last 
year. The law about the art of curing, passed in 1818, forbade 
the union of pharmacy and medicine, even when the doctor of 
medicine was also doctor of pharmacy; the only exception was 
in favor of country doctors. 
Now, the homoeopathic physicians in different cities did not 
always find pharmaceutists disposed to prepare medicaments pre- 
scribed by them according to the principles of the new school; they 
were therefore obliged to obtain their medicines themselves from 
some rural or foreign pharmacy, and to furnish them directly to their 
patients. This state of things lasted until the year 1863, when, 
on the complaint of the Medical Commission, an action was 
brought for the illegal use of the pharmaceutist's art against Drs. 
Gits and Van Campenhout of Antwerp, but the Court of Cor- 
rection of that city, at its session, February 26th, 1863, acquitted 
the accused, and the Court of Appeals at Brussels confirmed the 
judgment by a decree stated at length, and rendered the 25th 
April the same year. This same ruling was adopted the follow- 
ing year by the tribunals of Arion and of Tournay. 
The Belgian homoeopaths believed this matter to be fully set- 
tled in their favor, when, ten years after, in 1873, the subject 
came before the Court of Antwerp, which this time decided in 
favor of the pharmaceutists, and the judgment was confirmed 
when appealed. The Belgian homoeopathists, too confident in 
the justice of their cause, did not fail to provoke a decision from 
the Supreme Court, which should definitely fix the law in this 
matter. The decision which followed was contrary to our views; 
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without the direct intervention of a pharmaceutist. This deci- 
sion, which was calculated to have an unhappy influence upon 
the development of homoeopathy, if the latter had not been deeply 
rooted in our land, has the rather been favorable to us, for it has 
caused the establishment of special homoeopathic pharmacies in 
our principal cities. 
Ghent, November 30th, 1875. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL 
REPORT 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN SPAIN AND ITS 
COLONIES. 
PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC 
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF MADRID. CONTENTS 
The History of Homoeopathy in Spain and its Colonies. HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN SPAIN AND ITS 
COLONIES. 
The Homoeopathic Society of Madrid desires to respond heart- 
ily to the invitation of the committee of the World's Homoeo- 
pathic Convention, and sends this historical sketch to that re- 
union of its numerous and distinguished colleagues, as a testimo- 
nial of its allegiance and respect, reciting as briefly as possible 
the introduction of homoeopathy into Spain, its development and 
present status. 
In 1829 there came to Madrid a royal commission sent by the 
King of Naples, to attend the marriage of Donna Maria Christina 
with Don Ferdinand VII, to which commission, Dr. Horatiis, a 
practitioner of homoeopathy, was attached as physician. But as 
his stay in Spain was short, he left no notable results of the re- 
formed medicine which he practiced. Of more importance were 
the services rendered by a layman, called Zuarte, a merchant of 
Cadiz, who, when travelling for his health, made the acquaint- 
ance of Dr. Necker, and became an enthusiast on the subject of 
homoeopathic treatment. Said Zuarte was a friend of Senor 
Vilalba of the Diplomatic Corps, and they together travelled to 
Coethen, to visit Hahnemann, and to consult him concerning the 
illness of the former. Hahnemann advised him to go to Lyons, 
where he recovered his health under the care of Dr. Desquidi, 
and full of gratitude for this new method of healing, to which 
he owed his cure, he bought a large number of copies of Hahne- 
mann's works, and distributed them among the various physi- 
cians of Andalusia. Moreover, he sent to Leipsic, at his own 
expense, a medical student, nephew of his friend Vilalba, to study 322 
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this new system of medicine with the most distinguished German 
homoeopaths, but having a preference like his uncle for a diplo- 
matic career, he did not carry out the intentions of Zuarte. 
The reform of Samuel Hahnemann became known then in 
Spain in 1829 and 1830, and was first practiced in the Andalu- 
sian provinces, as we have seen above. Before going further, 
however, we cannot do less than mention the curious fact, not 
through any pride of nationality but as a just tribute to histori- 
cal accuracy, and that is, that in the latter part of the 17th 
century, a professor in the University of Saragossa, named Don 
Jose de Caralite, produced a thesis whose title was Diseases are 
Cared by their Similars, a proposition which made much noise 
and gave great offence. The conclusion of this dissertation may 
be found copied in a book which was published in Saragossa, in 
1699, by Dr. Tomas Lonyas, under the title Enchiridion novae 
et Antiquae Medicince Dogmaticce pro Ematione febris Maligne. 
But this idea, analogous to the principle of similars formulated 
by Hahnemann many years afterward, bore no other fruit than 
the transient discussion which it produced in the university. In 
giving this historic fact, we do not claim any priority in the con- 
ception of the Hahnemannian principle, for the idea of Dr. 
Caralite merely presaged that therapeutic law which had been 
dimly foreshadowed by Hippocrates, Paracelsus, Van Helmont 
and various others, who cannot on this account be considered as 
founders of homoeopathy, the glory of which is due to Samuel 
Hahnemann, who promulgated a complete doctrine with its pa- 
thology, its physiology, its materia medica and its therapeutics, 
giving the science of the laws and the means for relieving human 
sufferings. But the formula of Caralite is notable in that it ab- 
solutely affirms that diseases are cured by their similars. 
In 1831, the Spanish government sent a commission to Ger- 
many to study the cholera, and Dr. Folch, professor at Barcelona, 
as one of this commission, became acquainted with homoeopathy, 
and on his return devoted himself to its study in conjunction 
with Dr. Janer, practicing it secretly. But some years afterward 
Folch abandoned it and became one of its antagonists, although 
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A few years after the first glimmerings of homoeopathy due to 
Zuarte there appeared three distinguished physicians who firmly 
and courageously taught and practiced the new doctrine; these 
were Drs. Lopez Pinciano, Pino y Hurtado and Purdentio 
Querol, two of whom have passed away, while Dr. Pino, sole 
survivor, is to-day the senior of Spanish homoeopathic physi- 
cians, and who, in 1833, lived in Badajoz, where he was assisted by 
the pharmaceutist, Don Juan Rubiales, who prepared his medi- 
cines, particularly in combating the cholera which raged there at 
that time. In 1842, a periodical was published entitled Archives 
of Homoeopathic Medicine, which sustained an animated contro- 
versy with the Bulletin of Medicine, an allopathic journal, which 
intrusted its polemics to the vigorous and elegant pen of Don 
Cazetano Balseiro, who was afterwards converted to homoeopathy 
and practiced it as long as he lived. We cannot conclude the 
record of Dr. Don Pedro Pino y Hurtado without stating that 
he contributed largely, by his example and his writings, to the 
spread of the doctrines of Hahnemann at the time of its intro- 
duction into Spain, and that, notwithstanding his advanced age, 
he still shows his ability and his love of work in his retirement 
at Badajoz, where he still resides. 
Dr. Lopez Pinciano, a graduate of the College of Montpellier, 
a man of great merit aud distinction, was appointed physician- 
in-chief of the canal of Castile, and as there were many cases of 
severe fevers among the workmen, he employed the homoeopathic 
treatment, the result justifying his convictions of the superiority 
of this treatment. In 1834 he treated many cases of cholera in 
Madrid, and at the same time published a periodical called The 
Medico-Chirurgical Monitor, with the intent of giving publicity 
to the Hahnemannian doctrine. Pinciano was an indefatigable 
worker, and published from 1835 and onwards, translations of 
the Organon ; of Desguidi's Letters to Physicians ; of the Dietetic 
Manual of Homoeopathy, by Bigel; of the Homoeopathic Phar- 
macopoeia, by Hartmann; of the Medico-Homoeopathic Memoran- 
dum, by Hass; of the Manual of Homoeopathic Remedies, by 
Jahr; of the Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever, by Boenning- 
hausen; of the Pathogenetic Effect of Drugs, by Weber; of the 324 
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Examination of Homoeopathic Doctrine, by Guizard ; and of 
Hahnemann's Materia Medica, of which latter he published 
only two volumes, leaving the translation unfinished. 
Dr. Querol resided in Seville, and was among the first Span- 
ish converts to homoeopathy. He removed to Madrid in 1834, 
with the object of treating the epidemic of cholera which then 
raged there by the new system. He translated the Clinica of 
Beauvoais de Sangratien, which he left incomplete, and he also 
translated the Organon. 
At the same time the French journal entitled Archives of Ho- 
moeopathic Medicine was translated in Cadiz by some physicians, 
converts to homoeopathy. But the place which was really the 
focus of propagandism was the city of Seville, which enlightened 
all the Andalusian provinces, and produced such distinguished 
homoeopathic physicians as Lopez de Bano, member of the Mili- 
tary Board of Health and deputy to the Cortes, who made 
another translation of the Organon; Don Jose Nostench; Don 
Juan Lorenzo Pelez, who translated the lectures of Leon Simon; 
Don Francisco de Paula Caldas, of Alcala la Real, who con- 
verted many of his colleagues ; and various professors who prac- 
ticed in Jaen, Baesa, Frales, Albunol, Malaga and Granada. In 
this last city, Dr. Manuel Gidela was prosecuted for practicing 
homoeopathy, and was acquitted by the tribunal; and a short 
time afterwards Dr. Jose Lopez, one of the prosecutors of Gi- 
dela, became insane, and having recovered under the care of 
the homoeopathic physician, Don Felipe Gil, who practiced in 
Zubia, he was himself converted to homoeopathy. 
In the province of Zamora, Don Sebastian Coll practiced upon 
the new system, and was aided by the pharmaceutist of the city 
of Toso, Don Alexander Rodriguez Tejedor, who prepared his 
medicines. 
This Dr. Coll maintained a violent controversy with the faculty 
of the University of Valladolid, which culminated in a public 
discussion. Among his adversaries were the Drs. Ara and Pio 
Hernandez, who, having conversed with Dr. Coll and become 
acquainted with homoeopathy, adopted and practiced it. 
The new system spread more slowly in Madrid, for it did HISTORICAL REPORT OF SPAIN' AND ITS COLONIES. 
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not arouse antagonism until 1843, although several physicians 
were practicing it; among others, Dr. Andres Marino, who was 
made honorary physician to the Queen, and is one of the most 
reputable physicians in Madrid. The civil war, which termi- 
nated in 1840 after having lasted seven years, was not a favor- 
able time for the study and cultivation of scientific discoveries; 
this was one reason, among others, why homoeopathy was not 
propagated more rapidly. But as soon as these bloody conflicts 
terminated and peace began to bear its fruits, scientific investi- 
gation commenced anew and the Hahnemannian reform took its 
place in intellectual discussion. 
Some professors in the University of Madrid had acquired 
some ideas of homoeopathy, and not only practiced it but incul- 
cated on their alumni favorable views of the new doctrine, 
guarded, however, by a certain reservation, partly because their 
conversion was not yet complete, partly out of regard for the 
institution in which they taught, which was far from being inde- 
pendent at that time. Nevertheless, the Drs. Hyesern, Obrador, 
Toca and Argumosa, all professors in the university, were more 
or less adepts in homoeopathy. 
In 1843 there existed then, in Madrid, two pharmacies and a 
number of homoeopathic physicians, and in the Esculapian 
Academy which they had formed, one of the members read a 
dissertation in which he made a complete exposition of the ho- 
moeopathic doctrine, and invited the allopaths to a discussion of 
it. It was believed that these meetings would prove interesting, 
and by reason of the large attendance upon the first day, it was 
arranged that they should be held in the Chapel of Ysidro, the 
hall of the Academy being deemed too small for the purpose. 
Stenographers were engaged and through the public press such 
allopaths were invited as might desire to take part in the debates. 
But to the astonishment of all, the homoeopaths and their disciples 
alone were present, and when the various papers in defence of 
homoeopathy were read, no controversy was possible because 
there was no one to attack them. A short time after this abor- 
tive attempt at discussion, the subject was mooted in the Medi- 
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Hahnemannian doctrine, and an adverse decision was unani- 
mously rendered, not only denouncing the homoeopaths, but full 
of personal attacks, which demonstrated the bad faith which ani- 
mated the opponents of the new doctrine. This was followed by 
violent and bitter articles on both sides, thus preventing the seri- 
ous and tranquil discussion of the doctrines in question. 
Up to this time public attention had been fixed upon these 
heated discussions without comprehending the theoretical points, 
which were but dimly seen in the mass of personalities which 
filled up the debates; but the merit of the cures which the ho- 
moeopaths had effected in private practice, by reason both of their 
surprising character and the social position of the persons cured, 
forcibly challenged public attention. This glory belonged to Dr. 
Jose Nunez, who having studied homoeopathy with Hahnemann 
himself and his first disciples, had already practiced it with great 
success in Bordeaux ; and returning to Spain, in 1844, with the 
object of receiving the degrees of licentiate and doctor in medi- 
cine, he continued his practice with such zeal and brilliant re- 
sults that he became the admiration of all and the object of the 
attacks of the allopaths. One of his first cures occurred in a 
person of high position at court, who had been treated by the 
most distinguished allopathic physicians and by them pronounced 
incurable. When Dr. Nunez was called in, with complete con- 
fidence he predicted his cure by means of homoeopathic remedies. 
Similar cases were very quickly repeated in the practice of this 
distinguished physician, and in a short time his clientage became 
so fabulously large that he had to summon to his assistance seve- 
ral other physicians, who thoroughly demonstrated to the public 
the superiority and advantages of homoeopathic medicine. The 
growing reputation of Dr. Nunez carried him even into the pal- 
ace of the Queen of Spain, and he remained one of the physi- 
cians of the bed-chamber until the revolution in 1868 ; the gov- 
ernment of Her Majesty having previously rewarded his merits 
by the title of Marquis of Nunez, and the grand crosses of 
Charles III and of the Civil Order of Beneficiencia. 
This gave such vitality to the new doctrine that after the year 
1845 several journals were published with the object of propa- HISTORICAL REPORT OF SPAIN AND ITS COLONIES. 
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gating it, and of controverting the attacks of the allopathic press. 
The first was La Gazeta Homoeopathica, under the conduct of 
Don Roman Fernandez del Rio and Don Pio Hernandez. This 
was followed by La Homoeopatica, then by El Propagador y la 
Reforma Medica, later by La Decada Homoeopatica, and finally 
by El Debate and also La Reforma. All these had special po- 
lemic objects and therefore their existence was not prolonged; 
one after the other disappeared, the journal of the Hahneman- 
nian Society of Madrid alone surviving. This corporation was 
founded in 1845 by Dr. Nunez, and started its official journal in 
1846, since which time it has been published without interrup- 
tion, first under the title of Boletan de la Sociedad Hahnemam- 
niana, then under that of Annates de Medicina Homopatica, and 
since 1860 under that of El Criteria Medico. This, without 
doubt, has fulfilled a most important mission in Spain, for it has 
expounded and fully discussed the new doctrine, has propagated 
it with enthusiasm, has fought its battles, has kept pace with its 
growth, in a word, has been the expression of the Hahnemannian 
Society, which has always maintained the integrity and purity of 
the doctrines of the master without impeding the natural progress 
due to study and experience. This periodical is not only the 
record of Spanish homoeopathy for the last thirty years but of 
the homoeopathy of the whole world, because it has collated 
from all sources, both foreign and domestic, whatever affects the 
advance of the genuine homoeopathic doctrine. 
The greater number of the homoeopathic physicians and phar- 
maceutists of Madrid, and even some from the provinces, united 
in forming the above society, but dissensions soon arose which 
resulted in the separation of many individuals who had been 
frequently hostile to this association and whose deplorable strife 
was taken advantage of by the allopaths. With this design and 
in consequence of this schism, was founded the Homoeopathic In- 
stitute of Spain, of which Dr. Don Joaquin de Hyssem was 
president; but this corporation was short-lived, being replaced 
by the Homoeopathic Academy. In 1859, these personal dissen- 
sions being smoothed over, the Hahnemannian Society and the 
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because that had been sanctioned by the government. Peace, 
however, was not of long duration. Antagonisms were revived, 
the new associates seceded and reformed the Academy with.Dr. 
Hyssem as president. This grouping of homoeopathic physicians 
has remained characteristic, for many of the members adopted a 
standard and rule of conduct in practice which were rejected by 
the Hahnemannian Society, which never admitted, as did many 
of the former, either the necessity or advantage of mixing allo- 
pathic treatment with the homoeopathic, such as bloodletting in 
certain cases, the preference of mother tinctures and first tritura- 
tions, etc. These and other differences have established a line of 
separation between the Hahnemannian Society and the Academy. 
Notwithstanding these lamentable dissensions, which interfered 
with its growth, the homoeopathic doctrine received such enthu- 
siastic support from the public, especially after the advent of Dr. 
Nunez, and its clientage became so numerous and distinguished, 
that in 1850 the allopaths could no longer restrain their wrath 
and bitterness in seeing their rich patients desert to our camp. 
After having written long articles in the journals the faculty of 
the traditional school gathered together every weapon of attack, 
even those which dignity ordinarily forbids. Drs. Frau, Conal 
and Mata each delivered addresses attacking homoeopathic medi- 
cine, the two first in the University and the third in the 
Athemeum. The place chosen by Dr. Mata, his great eloquence 
and reputation as professor, filled the Athenaeum with a large 
and select audience. Without a doubt never was homoeopathy 
so spread abroad, never did it have such enthusiastic proselytes 
as then, as well in the provinces as in Madrid. In addition to 
the replies to these attacks which appeared in the homoeopathic 
periodicals, we must mention some addresses, which were given 
also in the Athenaeum, by Dr. Pio Hernandez, in refutation of 
those given by Dr. Pedro Mata, and although the latter had a 
great advantage over the former, by reason of his finer oratory 
and more persuasive style, adorned with poetic phrases, his gi- 
gantic force produced results contrary to his expectations. Dr. 
Mata had never devoted himself to practice, had never studied 
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made a superficial and incomplete lecture on the works of Hahne- 
mann. The result was that his addresses, which were shortly 
after published, are an exposition of his physiological and patho- 
logical doctrines, rather than a serious attack upon homoeopathic 
medicine. 
Inasmuch as the addresses of the three professors mentioned 
above did not produce the results which the allopaths desired, 
they resorted to personal defamation of the most distinguished 
homoeopaths, publishing for that purpose a periodical called the 
Medical Lantern. To counteract this, El Guende Homoeopatica 
(the homoeopathic hobgoblin) was started, which at its fourth 
number, was suspended by royal order and was replaced by the 
Sentinel, which lasted until the Lantern was extinguished in 
October, 1851. 
These discussions were not confined to the homoeopathic peri- 
odicals of Madrid, but several in the provinces, such as El Cas- 
tellano Homoeopatica in Valladolid, El Progreso Medico in 
Alcoy, and El Propagador Balear in Palma, took active part 
in the work of propagandism; and though not long-lived they 
proved that a knowledge of homoeopathy was diffused through- 
out the whole peninsula, and that it embraced a very respectable 
number of practitioners. 
Inasmuch as there have always existed in Spain legal restric- 
tions concerning the teaching and practice of the professions, the 
habit of homoeopathic physicians of carrying their medicines 
with them, and administering them to the sick was pronounced 
an infringement of the rights of the pharmacies, and the persecu- 
tion now took this shape. The Spanish homoeopaths could not 
do differently, because they had no pharmacies of their own, and 
the few that did keep homoeopathic medicines were allopathic 
drug stores at the same time. On the other hand it happened 
that in many pharmacies, unmedicated globules and water were 
dispensed as homoeopathic remedies. The pharmaceutists them- 
selves, as well as the allopathic physicians, confessed these facts, 
and it was simply impossible to intrust our cures and the credit 
of our doctrines to the bad faith of a majority of our opponents. 
The homoeopaths either prepared their own medicines or obtained 330 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
them from the few pharmacies in which they had confidence, and 
resisted to the utmost the enforcement of the letter of the law. 
They carried their case into the courts, and obtained a decision 
in their favor, giving them the right to dispense their own med- 
icines. Notwithstanding, there is no lack, even in these days, 
of persons who reopen this question and impugn before the au- 
thorities this indisputable right of the homoeopaths. 
The Hahnemannian Society of Madrid, which, as has been 
stated, has represented in Spain the true interests of the homoeo- 
pathic school, and has always zealously labored for the spread of 
this doctrine, besought from the government in 1848, a clinique 
in which to make an official comparison of the advantages of the 
new therapeutics. This request was referred to the Council for 
Public Instruction, and caused long and heated discussions, which 
resulted in two reports; the majority report refused the granting of 
a clinique, while the minority favored it and were supported by Dr. 
Joaquin Hyssem and Felix Janer, both professors in the College 
of Madrid, and members of the council, the latter being its secre- 
tary. The enlightened intelligence of these two physicians, who 
had belonged to the old school and now were partisans of the 
Hahnemannian reform, called so much attention to the numer- 
ous and weighty reasons urged in defence of the petition of the 
Society that Senior Seijas Lozano, the minister, approved the mi- 
nority report, and in consequence a royal mandate was issued on 
the 18th of January, 1850, which granted to the Hahnemannian 
Society a professorship and a clinique for teaching the new doc- 
trine, it being understood that the professors should serve gratui- 
tously and provisionally during the trial of this curative method. 
Dr. Nunez was appointed Clinical Professor, and Dr. Fernando 
del Rio, Professor of Homoeopathic Institutes; while a commis- 
sion of inspectors, composed of Dr. Bonafacio Jutiersez, Senior 
of the College; Dr. Tomas Conal, Professor of the Diseases of 
Women; Drs. Robustiano Tonesand Joaquin Lanio, homoeo- 
pathic physicians; and Dr. Juan Pon y Campos, Professor of 
Pharmacy, was appointed to investigate and report to the gov- 
ernment any result which might be obtained. 
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were not allowed the exclusive use of a ward, where the atten- 
dants and service would be under their complete control; but 
the senior and other college professors insisted that the cliniques 
should be held in any hall of the college they chose, without 
any change in the customary service or regimen, and selected for 
trial three chronic and incurable cases, so that Drs. Nunez and 
Fernando del Rio failing to get any assurance that their pre- 
scriptions, whether dietetical or medical, would be followed, and 
finding themselves embarrassed and hampered on every side, re- 
signed their position, and in consequence the royal ordinance 
never went into effect. 
During the next fifteen years the development of homoeopathic 
medicine was limited to discussions in periodicals, to transla- 
tions of foreign works, and to its demonstration in private prac- 
tice, with a steady increase in the number of its practitioners. 
The centralizing system of the government of Spain is such that 
the state absorbs the liberty and the autonomy of the individual, 
and all official teachings must have its sanction, anol in all the 
public asylums and charitable institutions the traditional allo- 
pathic practice is alone allowed. Inasmuch as no free schools 
were permitted, it was impossible to teach the homoeopathic doc- 
trines in the colleges, or to introduce its therapeutics into the 
hospitals. Under these circumstances the Hahnemannian So- 
ciety, which had gathered its forces for a new campaign, drew up 
a statement of its position, which was circulated through the whole 
country, and was signed by more than fifty thousand names, 
which included many corporations, high dignitaries of the state, 
and even a goodly number of allopathic physicians. As a con- 
sequence, another royal order was promulgated on the 5th of 
January, 1865, reaffirming that of 1850, and commanding that 
professorships and cliniques of homoeopathic medicine be estab- 
lished in a place exclusively devoted to that object, and the 
duties of which should be gratuitously discharged by members 
of the Hahnemannian Society, who should volunteer their ser- 
vices. But this also was illusory, for when the Minister of Fi- 
nance was asked to insert in his estimate the expenses of the 
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such hospital in the list of public buildings, and all efforts to cut 
this red tape failed. The result was that this second royal man- 
date of 1865 was a nullity, and all the benefits which the poor 
were to have derived from it were brought to naught. The free 
dispensaries, however, which the Hahnemannian Society and the 
profession at large had established in Madrid and in the prov- 
inces, remained constantly open for the indigent classes. 
With the revolution of 1868, greater freedom of thought be- 
came possible, the exaggerated pretensions of the dominant school 
of medicine were diminished, and the Hahnemannian Society, 
which had always advocated liberty of instruction, found the 
road open for the accomplishment of its object. But in Spain, 
alas, little public spirit could be found for these grand enterprises, 
and although all acknowledged the necessity for erecting a homoeo- 
pathic college, and the possibility of its successful completion at 
this time, the means essential to its success, especially money, were 
wanting; for in our country physicians rarely become rich, and 
consequently are wanting in those elements of activity, of asso- 
ciation, of enthusiasm and of wealth, which are united with such 
wonderful ease and promptitude in the United States, and even 
in England, where are created institutions which command our 
admiration, but which here are entirely dependent upon the action 
of the state. The- homoeopathic school derived therefore few 
advantages from the establishment of liberty of instruction. One 
member only of the Hahnemannian Society, Dr. Garcia Lopez, 
who was made professor of physiology in the University of Sal- 
amanca, gave in it a free course of homoeopathic medicine in 1872, 
and his lectures were published by order of said Society. In the 
same year, the office of homoeopathic physician was established 
in each of the houses of succor of Madrid, by order of the mu- 
nicipality; but the small salary, the thankless and hard work 
and the obstacles and annoyances which their allopathic brethren 
put in their way, shortly compelled them to resign their positions. 
Each day was showing more clearly the necessity of an estab- 
lishment where homoeopathy could be taught, and the sick poor 
relieved. The older homoeopathic physicians were gradually 
dying off, and a younger generation ought to be educated to fill HISTORICAL REPORT OF SPAIN AND ITS COLONIES. 
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their places. Homoeopathic medication had gained a great rep- 
utation among the poorer classes, but they could obtain it only 
in those cases of chronic ailments which allowed patients to attend 
the free consulting rooms and private dispensaries, and were de- 
prived of its advantages in acute cases, where they were reluc- 
tantly compelled to go to an allopathic hospital. To accomplish 
these two grand objects of educating homoeopathic physicians 
and treating acute as well as chronic cases among the poor, 
the Hahnemannian Society undertook, in 1873, the work of 
founding a homoeopathic hospital, and in truth its members sub- 
scribed beyond their means, especially the Marquis of Nunez, 
who not only bought the site for the hospital, but also contrib- 
uted a considerable sum of money ; public subscription lists were 
also opened with very fair results, though not sufficient as yet to 
cover the estimated cost of construction, and the work still goes 
slowly on. In anticipation of its accomplishment, the younger 
members of the Society, under the direction of the president, have 
just commenced a series of outdoor visitations among the poor, 
which supplements to a certain extent the shortcomings of the 
official Board of Charity. 
It will be understood from what has been already said, that 
we have in Spain no recognized school of instruction in homoe- 
opathy. All physicians obtain their diplomas in allopathic uni- 
versities, but the practice of homoeopathy and the dispensation 
of its medicines are permitted, although there are no exclusively 
homoeopathic pharmacies, and those which do exist are, perforce, 
also allopathic. This is the actual legal position of homoeopathic 
physicians in Spain at the present day. 
Many people of high rank and social position have been treated 
by the new system, and have contributed largely to its public 
consideration and triumph. Members even of the royal family 
and of the government have, on various occasions, given tokens 
of their appreciation. Dr. Pelhier, Sr., by reason of having 
cured His Royal Highness, the Infante Don Sebastian Gabriel, 
of a very serious illness, was named first physician of the bed- 
chamber, and also honorary physician to Her Majesty the Queen, 
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Cross of Isabella the Catholic, which orders were also bestowed 
upon Don Andres Marino and Don Anastasio Alvarez, members 
of the Hahnemannian Society. The consideration which the 
royal family of Spain has shown to the homoeopaths was even 
more marked in exile, for the Infante Don Sebastian appointed 
Dr. Pelhier, Jr., as second physician of the bed-chamber, and 
in Paris, Her Majesty, Queen Isabella II, chose Dr. Leon Simon 
to take charge of her health. 
In regard to the number of physicians in the Peninsula and 
its colonies, the census taken some ten years ago gave about six 
hundred, which number has probably somewhat diminished since 
that time. Although there are two societies in Madrid, there is in 
reality but one periodical, El Criteria, published for La Reforma, 
an official organ of the Academy, suspended publication a few 
months ago. The greater number of homoeopathic physicians 
always have centred in the large cities, and our school has con- 
sequently never attained much importance among the rural pop- 
ulation. The scanty means for instructing our youth in the 
Hahnemannian doctrine, especially in the practical or clinical 
part, has prevented any increase in our number, the young phy- 
sicians scarcely sufficing to fill up the vacancies made by death 
among the elders. Hence it results that there is a scarcity of 
homoeopathic practitioners, except in the larger cities Madrid and 
Barcelona. 
To complete our historical sketch, we will add a few words in 
regard to our school in the colonies. In the Balearic Islands, 
Dr. Tons has published a journal devoted to the interests of the 
new system. 
In the Canaries it met a hearty welcome. Among its practi- 
tioners we may mention Drs. Bramgulez and Yzguerdo, the 
former of whom was chief of the military sanitary commission. 
In regard to the Antilles, we may say that our school has had 
and still has numerous practitioners, both Spanish and foreigners, 
especially in Havana and Santiago de Cuba. Drs. Catala, 
Fontanels, Pina, Gresa, Bramon, Estugnes, Ytunalde, Navarro, 
Sorvilla, Heneso, Cabanellas, Plana y Cunill y Castroverde, who 
was Dean and Rector of the University of Havana, practiced HISTORICAL REPORT OF SPAIN AND ITS COLONIES. 
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the new system with remarkable success. We ought to make 
special mention of Dr. Querol, Jr., who practiced gratuitously. 
In the island of Porto Rico, the new system was first intro- 
duced by Drs. Comeling and Cruxent. The latter returned to 
the Peninsula, where he published an able work on homoeopathy, 
which, although attacking some of the theories of Hahnemann, 
shows vast learning and unusual ability. Drs. Moyo, Orenga, 
Goico and some others, also practiced homoeopathy in Porto 
Rico. 
Of the Philippines we have scanty knowledge, and can only 
say with certainty, that Dr. Giromiere practiced many years in 
Luzon; though there are some missionaries and priests who pre- 
scribe homoeopathic remedies. 
Recognizing the necessity of brevity in all contributions to a 
scientific congress, we have condensed into as few words as pos- 
sible this one report upon the history of homoeopathy in Spain 
and her colonies, from the period of its introduction in 1830 until 
the present day. In cordially greeting the homoeopathic conven- 
tion which is to meet in Philadelphia in June, 1876, the Hahne- 
mannian Society of Madrid congratulates it upon the realization 
of the grand idea of thus assembling together from all parts of 
the world the representatives and exponents of the reformed school 
of medicine. REPORT 
ON 
HOMOEOPATHY IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY. CONTENTS. 
Report on Homoeopathy in Sweden and Norway, Dr. P. J. Liedbeck. HOMOEOPATHY IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY. 
Dr. P. J. Liedbeck, of Stockholm. 
Stockholm, March, 1875. 
To the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements 
of the World's Homceopathic Convention of Phila- 
delphia. 
My dear Colleague : I beg to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of the 1st of November last, and, having given its 
subject matter a mature consideration, I am glad to express my 
entire sympathy with the aim you have set before you. 
During the last twenty years it has been more and more evident 
to me that the principal doctrines of homoeopathy would become 
generally embraced in practical America, and this the more be- 
cause it has been there associated and combined in practice with 
modern surgery. (See American Observer.) Nothing more seems 
wanting with you for the completion of a therapeutic system 
worthy of our time, but the adoption of Ling's movement-cure 
(Kinesi-therapeutics), a system which, with almost mathematical 
nicety, lays hold of and exhibits the motorial phenomena of the 
human frame, controls in a great measure the waste and repair of 
the various bodily tissues, and by its force-developing influence 
and plastic operations becomes, as a new organic tonic, a most 
important adjunct to the modern treatment of chronic disease. 
Let us hope that Dr. Taylor's practice of this treatment in New 
York will ultimately lead to such a desirable result.* 
* I have much pleasure in appending the two following documents, of 
which the one, a testimonial of Ling himself, will explain in some measure 
the interest I take in Ling's System of Gymnastics ; the other showing the 
present organization of the institution in Stockholm, which has a develop- 
ment and organization not equalled in any other country. 340 
world's homceopathic convention. 
Notwithstanding, I must confess I was not prepared to see so 
magnificent a manifestation as the one you propose to carry out 
No. 1. I hereby testify that Peter Jacob Liedbeck, Licentiate of Medi- 
cine and Master of Surgery, has since November, 1829, at the Royal Central 
Gymnastic Institution, practiced certain parts of the hygienic gymnastics, 
and partly during nine months practiced medico-gymnastic manipulations. 
He has during this time tried to obtain all the necessary skill and carefulness 
in the practical parts, as well as such an amount of theory as can only be 
gained, during so short a time by those who, out of real zeal for a cause, and 
with a previous strict scientific training, are able to unite science and ex- 
perience. Dr. Liedbeck has also during some months given lectures on anat- 
omy to the pupil teachers of the institution. 
P. Henry Ling, 
Stockholm, January 14th, 1831. Director of the Central Institution. 
No. 2. The object of the Gymnastic Central Institution in Stockholm is 
the practice of Ling's System of Gymnastics, and the education of properly 
qualified practitioners of the system in its various branches. For this pur- 
pose it is divided into three departments, viz. : the medical, the educational, 
and the military, each under the direction of a separate professor, assisted by 
a principal instructor and an efficient staff, who, in the two former divisions, 
are both male and female. It is required that the professor at the head of 
the medical department shall be a physician, and over the military depart- 
ment an officer of the army. 
The control of the institution is vested in aboard, composed of a president 
and three members, appointed by the government. Of these members one 
must be a doctor of medicine, one a member of the board of education or a 
certificated master of public schools, and one a military officer. 
For such persons as desire to obtain the qualification enabling them to ob- 
tain appointments at the public schools, and under which alone they can 
practice gymnastics in Sweden, a regular curriculum is prescribed. This 
course of study includes the following subjects : Anatomy, Physiology, 
Pathology, Hygiene, together with instruction in the theory and practice of 
gymnastics, educational, military, and medical. The full course extends 
over two years, at the end of which time examinations are held on the vari- 
ous subjects taught, and certificates of proficiency granted. 
Physicians who may wish to obtain the necessary diploma to enable them 
to practice medical gymnastics, are exempted from so long a continuance of 
study as well as from attendance at the various lectures on anatomy, etc. 
They are merely instructed, and, at the end of their course, examined in the 
theory and practice of gymnastics as applied to the treatment of disease 
(Kinesi-therapeutics). In the case of the commissioned officers who are 
training for army and navy instructors, as well as for those who only intend 
to practice educational gymnastics, the course of study, as well as the exam- 
ination, is somewhat modified. HOMOEOPATHY IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY. 
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on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition in Philadelphia in 
1876, "The World's Homoeopathic Convention." May it be 
the harbinger of a more general victory of our noble science of 
therapeutics ! It is a grand idea, worthy of Constantine Hering, 
and in full harmony with the spirit of the age. May the worthy 
veteran live, not only to see its realization, but for many more 
years to come ! 
Though I understand enough of the Anglo-American tongue 
to read what has been published on the subject of our noble science, 
yet as I am unable to speak it, this would in itself be a great ob- 
stacle to my appearance at your Universal Convention-still more 
so, my seventy-four years, which I shall have attained at that time. 
I shall then, if I live, be a year older than the great founder of 
our homoeopathy, when he wrote the following sentence, well 
worth remembering: " Ein hoherer Wirk in die Ewigkeit, was 
in meinem 73ten Lebensjahre nicht unwahrscheinlich war." (S. 
Hahnemann, Chron. Krankheiten, 1828, p. 8.) 
Your questions with reference to the state of homoeopathy in 
Sweden and Norway I am only able partly to answer. For as 
regards Norway, I have hitherto had no intercourse with my 
colleagues there, and it is only since I received your letter that 
I have put myself into communication with them. Having a 
married daughter at Stevanger, I have asked her by letter to re- 
quest her physician, Dr. Sigurland, to answer your four points 
respecting homoeopathy in that country. I also wrote shortly 
afterwards to Dr. Kaurin, in Christiania, with the same request. 
No doubt Dr. Kaurin would be pleased to receive a similar in- 
vitation to that with which you have honored me. 
For aught I know neither Dr. Kaurin nor any other homoeo- 
pathic physician in Norway has published anything in that lan- 
guage on homoeopathy, but Dr. Kaurin has once communicated 
his ideas in Germany. It appears, however, that, in spite of this 
silence, a greater success has been attained in making converts 
among the public and among the profession in Norway than here 
in Sweden, where I, besides being engaged in an extensive prac- 
tice, have published a great number of books, pamphlets, etc., 
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appreciated. I have been told that there is a homoeopathic 
chemist in Christiania, a proof of advancement to which we have 
not yet attained in Sweden. 
The honor of having introduced homoeopathy into Sweden be- 
longs by right to my venerable teacher, Dr. George Wahlenberg, 
Professor Linneanus at the University of Upsala. Having to 
lecture on botany and pharmacia organica in 1826, he felt him- 
self bound to study even works on homoeopathy. He never 
practiced homoeopathy himself, but having obtained some med- 
icines from Dr. Stapf in Germany, he soon became convinced of 
the truth of the fundamental doctrines of homoeopathy. It was 
at his lectures that I first heard of the system, and of Hahne- 
mann's Organon and Materia Medica Pura. I then resolved to 
put the new doctrine to a practical test. My friend and fellow- 
student, Dr. Souden, having come to the same resolution, we 
were the first Swedish physicians who practically embraced 
homoeopathy. We soon made a convert of Dr. Sonderberg, an 
eminent botanist and ornithologist, who had settled in the an- 
cient little town, Sigtuna. Unfortunately his useful and prom- 
ising career was cut short in 1835 by typhus fever. 
Of the few physicians who had at that time embraced the 
homoeopathic system, I am the only one still in practice. Pro- 
fessor Wahlenberg, M.D., our teacher, died in 1850 of marasmus 
senilis, etc. 
Dr. Souden gave up the practice of homoeopathy almost simul- 
taneously with that of all practice of medicine, except that of 
psychiatry. He was about the same time appointed councillor 
of medicine, from which dignity he has lately retired with a 
pension. 
Dr. Sellden likewise retired with a pension as surgeon major, 
seeming rather to have preferred to make for himself a reputa- 
tion in the army service than to brave the wearisome annoy- 
ances inevitably attending a private homoeopathic practice in 
Sweden. 
Dr. Bergman died of small-pox soon after I had sent ray ac- 
count to Dr. Grieselich in 1835 about the state of homoeopathy 
in Sweden. HOMOEOPATHY IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY. 
343 
Professor Branting, Ling's successor, as director of the Central 
Gymnastic Institution, Stockholm, from which he has retired 
with a pension, here well known and acknowledged as an excel- 
lent anatomist and physiologist, and as the first kinesiatric prac- 
titioner, seems lately in his practice to prefer the use of water 
treatment a la Priestnitz to homoeopathy. 
Dr. Franz Nozeus, my only pupil in homoeopathy during the 
time of my anatomical teachership at Upsala, practiced homoe- 
opathy with great success in Norrk oping, the greatest manufac- 
turing town in Sweden, where his father had enjoyed a large 
allopathic practice. Unfortunately he was carried off by an 
organic disease of the liver in 1860. In a short sketch of his 
life published by myself, principally taken from his letters to 
me, it is evident how deep was his conviction of the importance 
of our medical reform, how warm his zeal in propagating its 
truths, and how incessantly he had to struggle against economical 
and other difficulties which beset him on all sides. 
My only living colleague, Dr. Petterson, in Calmar, is auto- 
didact like myself in the Hahnemannian system of medicine.* 
A glance at the preceding short account of the introduction of 
homoeopathy into Sweden, and of its first practitioners, explains 
without any further comment why we have no homoeopathic so- 
cieties, institutions, or hospitals. An attempt that way was first 
made in 1854, when one of my patients and early converts to 
homoeopathy, Count Adolph de Rosen,f brought in a bill at the 
Diet, proposing to establish a Homoeopathic Polyclinic in Stock- 
holm. This motion meeting a compact resistance in the bureau- 
cratic party, united to that of the state medicine, was thrown out, 
* I would have mentioned here also Professor Georgii, formerly teacher 
of anatomy, and subdirector of the Royal Central Gymnastic Institution, 
Stockholm, as one of my pupils in homoeopathy, but for his having for many 
years settled in London, where he is engaged in kinesiatric practice. I am 
glad to acknowledge my obligations to him for his translations of such of my 
articles as have been inserted in the British Journal of Homoeopathy, the 
Homoeopathic Times, and the Monthly Homoeopathic Review. He is also 
well acquainted with the principles of the homoeoplastic treatment, which I 
have introduced as a part of physiological medicine. 
f Count de Rosen was also the introducer of the first railway in Sweden. 344 
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but was again brought forward by the same gentleman for the 
second time at the Diet of 1856 unfortunately with the same 
result.* 
The arrival in Stockholm of an American homoeopathist, Dr. 
T. E. Smith,f in 1865, brought the question of a polyclinic again 
to the front. We soon agreed to organize one in Stockholm of 
a private character, when Dr. Smith all of a sudden had an at- 
tack of haemoptysis, and it was considered more prudent that, 
instead of remaining at Stockholm, he should go to Norrkoping, 
and commence practice there, both on account of the climate 
* See further Zeitschrift der Verein der Homoeopathischen Oerste Oester- 
reichs, p. 298. Jahrgang, 1857. Brieflische Mittheilung von Herrn, Dr. P. 
T. Liedbeck in Stockholm. 
f Dr. Smith's arrival in Sweden forms an episode in the history of homoe- 
opathy there, as he was the only foreign homoeopathic physician who has 
visited the country with the intention of practicing there. He brought with 
him a letter of introduction from Dr. T. P. Wilson, Professor of Physiology 
of the Homoeopathic College, Cleveland, together with Dr. Wilson's photo- 
graph, showing a considerable frontal development of the head. It was 
interesting to see Dr. Smith's travelling ease of medicines, such as are used 
by Armenial physicians and practitioners on their journeys in the country. 
I found in Dr. Smith a sagacious and experienced homoeopathist; we were 
seldom at variance as to the dose. He met with success in Norrkoping, and 
by energy and great activity he succeeded in organizing a lay society there, 
called "The Friends of Homoeopathy," which society had the courtesy to 
enrol me as honorary member, but I am not aware that it has had any in- 
fluence in promoting the interests of homoeopathy. 
In the meantime it appears that the success and zeal of Dr. Smith had 
attracted the notice of the medical authorities, and as the laws in Sweden 
are positive respecting medical men from other countries wishing to practice 
medicine in this country, laws which had not been fulfilled by Dr. Smith, 
he was summoned to appear before a court of justice at Norrkoping. He 
received a warning not to practice medicine there till he had complied with 
the law, viz , till he had passed such an examination at any of the Univer- 
sities of Upsala, Lund, or at the Carolinian Medico-surgical Institute at 
Stockholm as is required for the qualification of native practitioners of medi- 
cine in Sweden. Even as regards Norway and Denmark this prohibition 
holds good. 
This action no doubt diminished Dr. Smith's practice, but still more so did 
his failing health. On that account he wished to go to Norway, his native 
country, but near Youkoping, on his way thither, he died. The medico- 
legal examination of his body confirmed my opinion that both his lungs 
were studded with tubercles-an opinion I had based on the whole habitus 
of the man. Sit Ei terra lenis Sueciae ! HOMCEOPATHIC LITERATURE IN SWEDEN. 
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being more favorable, and also because the vacancy caused by 
the death of Dr. Nozeus could thus be filled. 
Thus again interrupted, it was not till 1868 that I succeeded, 
with the pecuniary assistance of one of my oldest patients, Cap- 
tain F. Sterley, in establishing a Homoeopathic Polyclinic in 
Stockholm. Though a private establishment, a yearly report 
had to be sent to the Royal College of Health in accordance with 
the laws of the country. The arrangement with Captain Sterley 
ceased in 1870, since when the polyclinic has been continued on 
a smaller scale at my own expense by my seeing at my own 
house one hour two days a week non-paying patients, constitut- 
ing a voluntary supplement to the duty of every Swedish phy- 
sician, who, according to a law as far back as 1688, is enjoined 
to 11 serve the poor gratuitously." This duty falls thus still upon 
every private practitioner here, though at present district physi- 
cians in the pay of the government are appointed to attend the 
poor. 
Homceopathic Literature in Sweden. 
(a.) Publications by Dr. Leidbeck. 
On the Action of Alcohol on Man. Stockholm, 1831. 8vo. 
On Homoeopathic Medicine and its Literature. Upsala, 1832. 
8vo. 
Is there a Remedy in Consumption? Upsala, 1841. 8vo. 
On Vomiting and the ordinary Emetics in relation to Conges- 
tion and Inflammation of the Brain and other Viscera. 
Upsala, 1843. 8vo. 
De Cerebello Humano Observato. Upsala, 1845. Translated 
and inserted in Hygea, VII, 617. 
De Veneficio Phosphoreo Acuto, a translation inserted in Hygea 
and in Magazine for Physiological and Clinical Medicine 
and Toxicology, IV. Leipzig, 1846. 
How to cure Congelations, Frostbites, and other injuries from 
Cold, and how to heal Burns. Stockholm, 1850. 12mo. 
Homoeopathic Information for the Swedish People, Nos. 1-5. 
Stockholm, 1855; No. 1-12. Stockholm, 1856.* 
* This is the only attempt at establishing a homoeopathic periodical in 
Sweden. Not being sufficiently supported, its publication had to be discon- 
tinued after the second year. 346 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
On Popular Medicine, in contradistinction both 11 to Scientific 
Medicine and to Quackery." Stockholm, 1858. 12mo. 
Some Traits of the Life of Dr. Franz Noreus. Stockholm, 1860. 
12mo. 
On the different Factions amongst Physicians of the present day, 
and their peculiar divergencies. Stockholm, 1862. 8vo. 
Spirit of Camphor alone an efficient Remedy in Cholera. Stock- 
holm, 1866. 2d edition increased 1866. 
Reports of the Homoeopathic Polyclinic in Stockholm, 1868- 
1869. 
On Highland Air in the Cure of Incipient Phthisis, inserted in 
the American Observer from the Monthly Homoeopathic 
Review. London, 1871. 
Contributions to the following homoeopathic periodicals : The 
British Journal of Homoeopathy, the Homoeopathic Times, the 
Monthly Homoeopathic Review, Dr. Grieselich's Hygea, Die 
Allgem. Homoeop. Zeitung, Archiv fur Homoeop. Heilk. and 
Jahrbiicher fur Homoeopathic. 
Hahnemann's Organon, translated by Dr. Leidbeck. Stockholm, 
1835. 
Hering, Dr. Const. Review of the Homoeopathic Medicine. 
Norrkoping, 1835. 
Quin, Dr. F. F. On the Homoeopathic Treatment of Cholera. 
Stockholm, 1834. 
Roth, Dr. I. S. The Use of Homoeopathy in Cholera. 1854. 
Hartmann, Dr. Fr. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine, from the 
8th original edition. Stockholm, 1853. 
Joslin, Dr. B. F. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Diarrhoea, 
Dysentery and Cholera. 
(b.) Translations. 
There is no special law affecting homoeopathy or its practition- 
ers in Sweden. I have the privilege of dispensing my own med- 
icines, and like every other properly qualified Swedish physician, 
the right to import drugs for my own practice, after having first 
given due notice to the Royal College of Health. 
As to my own practice, I would only briefly mention that, 
having first filled several official medical appointments, I obtained 
the post of Professeur Agrege (Prosector Anatomise) at the Uni- 
versity of Upsala in 1831. This made me in some measure in- HOMOEOPATHIC LITERATURE IN SWEDEN. 
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dependent of the uncertainty of practice, giving me at the same 
time liberty to practice homoeopathy. As I had on several occa- 
sions officiated instead of the professor of anatomy in giving lec- 
tures, holding examinations, etc., I had a fair prospect at his 
retirement of succeeding to the chair of anatomy. My medical 
heterodoxy was, however, too well known not to influence to my 
prejudice in the appointment of a successor, and I therefore re- 
moved in 1846 to Stockholm, where I have since continued as a 
private practitioner of homoeopathy. 
Though, as I have said before, neither the success of my prac- 
tice nor my publications seem to have had any influence on the 
medical profession at large in making converts among them, yet 
homoeopathy has not a few patrons and followers in all classes 
of society, and several of the clergy have in this country as 
elsewhere been warm advocates and even practitioners of the 
system.* 
As to the question of dose, it will be seen from sundry articles 
emanating from my pen from time to time, that I belong rather 
to those who follow Hahnemann in his early practice than in his 
old age, when he advocated almost exclusively the higher attenu- 
ations. Not to make this letter too long, I must also refer you 
to the homoeopathic literature as regards the homceoplastic treat- 
ment I have introduced as a supplement to our homoeopathy. 
From what has been mentioned above, it is evident that homoe- 
opathy is losing ground in Sweden [si parva magis componere 
licent) more so than anywhere else in Europe, where the same 
complaint is heard, viz., that the young generation does not supply 
enough homoeopathic practitioners to replace those who pass away. 
Our ranks grow thinner everywhere. It remains to be seen if 
the Buda-Pesth professors, with their new chair of homoeopathy, 
will be able to prevent this decline in defiance of the complaint 
raised against them by the despotic dean of the faculty. Many 
look towards the West in the hope of discovering there a more 
* As a pleasing tribute to the good effected by homoeopathy, and the in- 
terest taken in the cause, I may mention that in 1858, on the occasion of my 
silver wedding, I was presented with a testimonial consisting of a splendid 
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glorious future for the new but as yet partly elaborated doctrine 
of Father Hahnemann: Similia similibus curantur. 
With great esteem, I remain, 
Your faithful friend and colleague, 
P. J. Leidbeck, M.D. 
I hereby testify, that my friend and son-in-law, Professor 
Georgii, has always translated my articles into English to my 
entire satisfaction, and that his translations are by me considered 
authentic. 
P. Jakob Leidbeck, M.D. 
Stockholm, March, 1875. REPORT 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN CUBA AND JAMAICA. CONTENTS. 
Homoeopathy in Cuba Dr. Jose J. Navarro. 
Homoeopathy in Jamaica, Dr. Jose J. Navarro, HOMCEOPATHY IN CUBA. 
By Dr. Jos£ J. Navarro, of Santiago de Cuba. 
Homceopathy was introduced into Santiago de Cuba in the 
year 1845 by Dr. Joaquin Bramon, who came from Barcelona, 
Spain. He remained in full practice until 1847. 
About this time Dr. Manuel A. Aranda, an eminent surgeon 
of this city, turned his attention to the homoeopathic system, 
studied it thoroughly, and practiced it faithfully whenever med- 
ical attendance was required in his almost exclusively surgical 
practice. He continued an ardent disciple of homoeopathy until 
his death, which took place in 1870. 
Dr. Bramon returned in 1849, and at the same period Dr. 
Cayetano Cruxent came from Porto Rico. Both parties suc- 
ceeded in establishing excellent practices; but they left for Spain 
in 1853, leaving as successor Dr. Martin A. Cabanellas, who 
labored here until 1864. 
In 1858 Dr. Victor Iturralde arrived from Spain, and made 
a very great reputation and a first-class practice. Pie also left 
in 1863. In the same year Dr. Gerardo Vilardell came from 
Spain, and the author of this report, Dr. Jose J. Navarro, from 
New York. 
In 1864 Dr. Mariano Omedes came from Havana, and prac- 
ticed here until 1866, in which year he left for Havana again. 
In 1870 Dr. Vilardell left for Spain, and Dr. Navarro for 
New Orleans, U. S., and after having visited several of the West 
India Islands, the latter settled in Kingston, Jamaica, where he 
practiced till 1873. 
In 1871 Dr. Lasala came from Porto Rico, returning, how- 
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In 1872 Dr. Vilardell again visited Santiago, and remained 
till 1874, leaving at that time for Havana, where he is at present 
established. 
In 1873 Dr. Navarro returned to his native place, where he 
is now in full practice. 
In 1875 Dr. Jos6 C. Chacon came from Spain, and is the only 
other qualified homoeopathic physician besides Dr. Navarro; so 
that at present this population of 40,000 souls counts but two 
homoeopathic practitioners, although at the same time there are 
numberless amateurs. 
It is, however, worthy of remark that Dr. Jos6 M. Aviles, the 
actual subddegado, Dr. Jos6 Maury, one of the poor doctors, 
and Dr. Lucas Giron, a retired army doctor, although allopaths 
treat their patients in many cases homoeopathically. 
In 1850 a venerable and respected priest, Rev. Wenceslao 
Callejas, devoted himself to the study and practice of the homoeo- 
pathic system. Although without any regular medical education, 
and consequently without a diploma, he studied hard and be- 
came very successful in his practice. By treating all persons 
gratuitously, by his influence as a well-known and respected 
priest, and by his many contributions to the public press, he 
did a great deal towards the spreading of homoeopathy not only 
in this city, but also throughout the island. Although an invalid, 
he devoted all his time to writing and the preparation of med- 
icines, of which he left a great quantity in all dilutions, from the 
crude drugs to the 6000th potency. He published also a family 
Manual in two volumes, which contributed in a great degree to 
popularize homoeopathy in Cuba. This man, to whom our sys- 
tem owes so much of its reputation in this island, died in 1869, 
to the last a friend of suffering humanity, and a devoted cham- 
pion of homoeopathy. 
The status of homoeopathy here is very satisfactory. It has 
spread solely by its effects on the public mind, that is to say, by 
palpable results in the great number of cures made by the homoeo- 
paths in difficult cases given up by the allopaths. Here there 
has never been, as in other places, violent controversy or great 
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in this city sixteen allopathic physicians, while, as before stated, 
there are but two of the new system; and it is pleasant to record 
in this report the unbroken harmony which exists between all 
parties, and the utter absence of animosity and prejudice. Mem- 
bers of both schools frequently meet, and discuss most amicably, 
and even agree in some points of practice as far as is consistent 
with the principles of each. Efforts are being made for the estab- 
lishment of a medico-pharmaceutical society, the idea emanating 
from the allopathic side, and it is not uncommon to see at the 
meetings homoeopathic physicians discussing the by-laws with 
their allopathic confreres. 
The laws here make no distinction between homoeopathy and 
allopathy. The members of both schools are employed by the 
government and judicial authorities, without regard to medical 
opinions. The subdelegado or head doctor is also appointed by 
the government without regard to system or practice. From 
1864 to 1866 Dr. Omedes, a homoeopath, was the subdelegado ; 
and Dr. Aviles, who now occupies that position, is, as before 
mentioned, partially a homoeopath. There is also no distinction 
in regard to the recognition of services rendered by the medical 
profession. Drs. Vilardell and Navarro, both strict homoe- 
opathists, have been rewarded by the superior government at 
Madrid with the Cross of Beneficence, as also several of the allo- 
paths, for their services during the cholera epidemic of 1869. 
In regard to public acceptance, homoeopathy has all that can 
be desired. As a general thing, the majority of persons believe 
the system superior to the old one. There are a large number 
of families who will only be treated homoeopathically ; and even 
those that generally employ allopathic physicians, prefer homoe- 
opathic treatment for certain diseases, namely, affections of the 
throat and mouth, yellow fever, dysentery, small-pox, etc., and 
also diseases of children. In fact, such is the pressure of public 
opinion here in favor of homoeopathy, that on the signs of every 
drug store in the city may be read, " Homoeopathic medicines for 
sale " Good homoeopathic remedies kept here," etc., etc. 
The city of Santiago de Cuba also possesses a good homoeo- 
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gist and importer. The pharmacy is separate from, although close 
to his allopathic drug store, and is well supplied with a complete 
stock of homoeopathic medicines from New York, Philadelphia, 
Paris, and Germany, including Dr. Dunham's preparations (the 
200th potency), which have a great name here. This establish- 
ment does a good business by selling remedies and medicine- 
chests for the city and country, and by putting up prescriptions 
sent by the practitioners of homoeopathy. 
The writer deems it a duty to improve this opportunity of 
calling the attention of the profession to a very interesting fact 
in the history of homoeopathy in Cuba. Dr. Iturralde, who, as 
before stated, was engaged in practice in Santiago from 1858 to 
1863, and who was a physician of undoubted merit, occupied 
part of his leisure time in studying attentively the Cuban 
11 Flora Medica." He made on himself several provings, and at 
last discovered in one of our plants what may be called a specific 
for the cure of yellow fever. Iturralde used the plant largely in 
his practice, and with great success. He gave it also for clinical 
experiments to the other practitioners, and to the above-named 
Rev. Sefior Callejas, and the most flattering results were ob- 
tained from its use. Nearly every case of yellow fever that 
occurs here is treated homceopathically, and this is owing in a 
great measure to the successful treatment of this disease by the 
almost exclusive use of the new remedy. The author of this 
report is happy to be able to add his personal testimony to the 
excellent results of this Cuban remedy. In the summer of 1864 
Dr. Aviles experimented with it in the treatment of yellow fever 
on the patients of the Charity Hospital, of which institution Dr. 
Aviles was visiting physician at that time. The patients were 
all sailors of different nationalities, Spanish, French, English, 
Americans, Swedish and Germans. The medicament was ad- 
ministered in globules at the 3d dilution. In a few cases, when 
the patients were very robust and the fever was very high, Aconite 
3d was given in alternation for the first few hours and then dis- 
continued ; no accessory treatment was resorted to. The results 
were, out of 107 cases treated but 13 deaths occurred. 
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await with anxiety the name of such a precious remedy; but it 
is greatly to be lamented that it is not possible to satisfy this 
reasonable desire, for Dr. Iturralde refused to communicate to 
anybody the name of the plant from which he prepared the 
remedy; and as his death took place in Spain a few years ago, 
he has carried to the grave the secret of such a valuable discovery. 
In lieu of its proper name we are accustomed to call the remedy 
" Fiebre amarilla" literally, yellow fever. Dr. Iturralde left here 
a great quantity of the medicament prepared, sufficient to last 
for many years; but as it consists of globules of the 3d, 6th, 
12th, and 30th dilutions, no chemical analysis can untie the 
Gordian knot. For this reason the writer did not make public 
the existence of such specific when he was in New Orleans in 
1870, for fear of being blamed by his confreres with fathering a 
mystery, and thus becoming liable to a charge of charlatanism. 
He intended to use the remedy in as many cases as possible, and 
according to the results, communicate the facts to the profession; 
but this design was frustrated by the departure of Dr. Navarro 
from New Orleans before the yellow fever set in, on account of 
sickness in his family. 
Having said so much for homoeopathy in Santiago de Cuba, 
we would add that lack of time has impeded the acquisition of 
information on the same subject from the other cities in the island. 
In Matanzas, Puerto Principe, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, and some 
other places, homoeopathy is well and favorably known, and in 
each city are qualified practitioners of the system, as well as 
amateurs, who abound throughout the island, both in city and 
country. 
From Havana, the capital of this island, the author has been 
able to glean the following facts through Dr. Catala, who in 
1846 established in that city a special homoeopathic pharmacy, 
which is still in a flourishing condition. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Havana, a city containing 
250,000 inhabitants, about the year 1842, by Dr. Francisco de 
P. Escopet, who came from Spain at that time. From that 
period until the present time there has been no lack of practi- 
tioners of the new school, the most prominent of whom are Drs. 356 
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Zunzunegui, Castroverde, Melgares, Gonzales, Palacios, Pina, 
Felix, Struch, Torres, Cruxent, OmedeS, Masnata, Fraschieri, 
Bellido de Luna, Esparragos, Terradas, Querol, Bramon, Fonseca, 
Lapatero and several others. 
At present there are sixteen qualified physicians practicing 
homoeopathically in Havana, viz., Drs. Comas, Segarra, Perez, 
Utrera, Torres, Escovedo, Vilardell, Belot, Mendoza, Trujillo, 
Cavero, Caballero, Villaverde, Delgado, Amistoy and Hevia, 
besides a great number of amateurs. 
There is but one special homoeopathic pharmacy, which we 
have already mentioned, of Dr. Catala; but, as in Santiago, 
homoeopathic medicines are kept for sale in all drug stores. 
Dr. Belot has established a " Casa de Salud " or private hos- 
pital, where he prescribes homoeopathically in many cases. 
Dr. Struch published in 1857 a manual called Medicina 
Domestica Homceopatica, adapted to the use of families, in which 
he paid special attention to the diseases peculiar to Cuba. The 
work reached two editions. 
Dr. Lapatero published and sustained for some time a journal 
called La Bandera de la Homoeopatia (the Flag of Homoeop- 
athy). 
Two other journals were also published at different periods by 
Drs. Esparrago and Terradas. At the present time there is no 
homoeopathic publication. 
The author, before drawing to a close, would express the 
pleasure he experiences in presenting these limited notes on the 
introduction and progress of homoeopathy in the island of Cuba, 
desiring to contribute, so far as lies in his power, to the fur- 
therance of this efficacious system of practice, the influence 
of which is already manifested by the beneficial modification in 
the treatment of their patients by members of the old school of 
medicine. HOMGEOPATHY IN JAMAICA. 
By Dr. Jos^ J. Navarro, of Santiago de Cuba. 
As there is at present no homoeopathic physician resident in 
Jamaica, and having practiced in that island myself, I volun- 
tarily submit to the attention of homoeopathists a part of my 
personal experience on that hardly fought battle-field. 
When I arrived in Jamaica, in 1870, I found that homoe- 
opathy was totally unknown; only a few families who had been 
in England knew the existence of such a system of medicine. 
Kingston, the first commercial city in the island, with 32,000 
inhabitants, had about ten allopathic practitioners, that is to say, 
two M. D.'s, and the remainder licentiates of the Royal College 
of Surgeons, or of the Apothecaries' Hall of Great Britain. In 
the treatment of their patients they follow the orthodox method, 
favored by the most ancient and fanatical disciples of the allo- 
pathic school; the popular points of their treatment being, un- 
limited purging, vomiting and cupping, with the administering 
in great quantities, for almost all diseases without distinction, of 
Calomel, Turpentine and Quinine. The rival kings, de l'ancien 
regime, " knife and red-hot iron," reign supreme. 
I learned that there was in force a Jamaica Medical Act, which 
enacted that no medical diploma be recognized (not even those 
from Canada) except English ones. The law did not forbid any 
one to practice medicine or surgery even without a diploma, and 
no certificate of death is required for burial; but no one was 
authorized to collect or receive fees for medical or surgical ser- 
vices, unless registered in the island as medical or surgical prac- 
titioner. 
To be registered as such, the candidate was obliged, besides 
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trate, to establish his identity, to pass an examination, like a 
medical student, before a committee of doctors appointed by the 
government. Before revealing my homoeopathic principles, I 
decided to take the first step for my registration, and with that 
object consulted some of the first lawyers in the city ; they unan- 
imously advised me to make no attempt to register myself, as 
disappointment would be the result. They informed me that 
other foreign physicians had tried in vain before me. None had 
succeeded; some had been rejected, after passing perfectly their 
examination, the committee alleging that the candidates were 
deficient in medical knowledge. It is the custom in Jamaica 
for doctors generally to dispense their own medicines, and I was 
advised to begin practice at once, charging only for the medicine, 
which any one is authorized to sell. I acted accordingly, and 
treated successfully some chronic cases already given up by the 
allopaths; and that circumstance called the public attention 
towards homoeopathy. Soon after this, yellow fever broke out 
in the harbor, and the results of homoeopathic treatment in this 
disease tended to confirm the public faith in the efficacy of our 
system. The first thirteen cases all died under allopathic care, 
and I was requested to take charge of the fourteenth case; the 
result was complete recovery; after this, I treated all the other 
cases, twenty-six in number, and only one death occurred. Al- 
though this result built up the reputation of homoeopathy, it 
tended to exasperate my confreres, and a war of persecution was 
begun and sustained by them during the time of my residence 
in the islands. First, a rumor was spread to the effect that I 
was not a regular doctor and possessed no diploma. This attack 
I parried by inserting a card in the newspapers, inviting all to 
come and inspect my diplomas, or to inquire of the Spanish and 
American consuls, who had already seen them. I also stated in 
the card that I was not registered in the island, and did not intend 
to be, under the actual medical act; for having graduated at two 
first class universities, those of New York and Havana, and thus 
being twice accredited a doctor of medicine and surgery, by 
virtue of two different diplomas, I considered it derogatory to my 
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who did not constitute any college or university, and whom I did 
not recognize as my equals as regards professional position, for 
the reason that the greater number of them were only licentiates 
in surgery. 
I was then indirectly threatened with a coroner's inquest on 
my first fatal case. Three days after this information one of my 
patients died, and I challenged my confreres to make good their 
menace; but they did not see fit to make a complaint, and no 
inquest was held. 
A few weeks after, a gentleman, newly arrived from Cuba, 
where small-pox was raging at the time, was taken ill and sent 
for me to attend him. Finding that it was a case of confluent 
variola, I reported to the Board of Health, as I considered it 
my duty; and what was my astonishment, when on the next 
visit to my patient I was prevented from entering the house by 
a policeman, placed there by order of the Board of Health, 
with special instructions not to allow me to enter. I complained 
of this outrage to the Superior Board of Health located in 
Spanish Town, capital of the island, but received no answer to 
my letter; and after waiting three days, I complained to Sir 
John Peter Grant, Governor-General of the island. 
In the meantime, all the Kingston doctors went to visit the 
patient, and offered their services even gratis. This kind offer 
was absolutely declined by the patient, who refused to be treated 
by any medical man other than Dr. Navarro. The family also 
protested against the cruelty of depriving the patient of the 
services of a doctor in whom he had confidence, and who had 
been always his family physician in Cuba. The Spanish consul 
communicated with the mayor of the city about the injustice of 
acting in that manner with a Spanish subject. However, the 
Board of Health appointed the "poor doctor" to visit the patient 
every day, and I must say that this gentleman accomplished his 
task most faithfully, although the patient refused to take his 
remedies, as they were not prescribed by the doctor he had 
chosen. A few days after, I received from His Excellency the 
Governor an answer to my letter, saying that I was allowed to 
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Health, at the patient's request. I am sorry to add, when I 
received the Governor's letter the poor patient was already dead 
and buried, leaving a wife and five children destitute in a 
foreign country. 
A few months after this, the Legislative Council held its annual 
session; and in one of its first meetings the Governor-General 
presented a motion to the effect of amending the existing Medical 
Act, so that diplomas from Canada and other British Colonies 
would be admitted to registration in the same way as the British 
diplomas from the mother country. This, like an alarm bell, 
aroused all my confreres in Kingston; they presented a petition to 
the council opposing the proposition of the Governor, alleging 
that it was neither right nor just to allow foreign doctors to come 
to an English colony and compete with the English ones, whose 
education was so expensive; and more so, as many foreigners ob- 
tained their diplomas through influence or otherwise, and devoted 
themselves to practice as a business, forgetting the nobler and 
higher ends of the profession. 
I also immediately presented a petition, protesting before the 
Legislative Council of Jamaica and the world at large, against the 
stigma which the Jamaica doctors were striving to impose upon 
the foreign medical schools and foreign physicians and surgeons. 
I also stated the fact that several Spanish doctors had been by 
their confreres of Kingston, driven from the island, the pretext 
for such persecution being the very Medical Act that was under 
projected amendment. I related how I had been driven from 
the bedside of a patient by the egotism of the medical men of 
Kingston. I ended my petition by asking that the same privi- 
leges intended to be conferred on the Canadian diplomas be ex- 
tended to mine. 
Another popular petition was presented to the council, signed 
by over one hundred residents of Kingston, both Cubans and 
English, representing that having experienced the very satis- 
factory results of treatment by the Cuban physicians, they greatly 
preferred it to that of the Jamaica doctors. They therefore 
prayed that the same privileges to be conferred on the Canadian 
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These measures produced a storm. A petition came in signed 
by all the practitioners of the island, fifty-one in number, in 
which they repeated the charge against foreign practitioners, add- 
ing that many obtained their certificates by purchase; they also 
deprecated the idea of foreigners coming to the island to compete 
with them in pecuniary advantages, etc., etc. 
They quoted from the Lancet, March 6th, 1869, a para- 
graph alluding to the Medical Act of Upper Canada thus: 
"Another remarkable and most objectionable feature of this 
measure is that it gives a representation in the council to the 
number of five members to licensed practitioners in homoeopathy, 
and makes special provision for the examination of homoeopaths, 
by stipulating that they shall only be examined on certain sub- 
jects by examiners approved by the homoeopathic representatives 
in the council, and a similar provision for special examination is 
to believers in the ' Eclectic System of Medicine,' whatever that 
may be." 
By request of the Colonial Secretary, information was sent in 
by the Board of Medical Examiners of Jamaica, which was of 
course adverse to the intended amendment. They spoke of the 
"duty of the government to maintain a high standard of medical 
education, to save life and prevent distress and penury, pauperism 
and crime;" they spoke of "State Medicine," and at last gave 
birth to a great truth in the following words, " that the loss of a 
single life from preventible causes becomes a national calamity." 
Paragraph II of this information deserves to be printed in gilded 
letters, viz.: " That to the British medical schools belong the high 
distinction of taking the first rank from their curriculum of study. 
They send forth to the world a class of practitioners who have 
been educated to the highest standard, and have undergone an 
examination and expense unequalled by any school or university 
in any part of the world." 
Then they alluded to the manifest injustice of allowing persons 
whose education had been less expensive and whose course of study 
was of a lower standard, to compete for public favor with any ex- 
pensively educated British practitioner. They spoke also of the 
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venting charlatanism and quackery in Jamaica, and expressed 
their disapproval of the intended amendment, insisting on the 
necessity of local examinations. They, however, suggested that 
a Board of Medical Examiners be formed in England for the 
colonies; that sealed questions be sent by the Board to the 
Colonial Governor, who would transmit them to the local Board 
of Examiners; that the candidate should write his answers before 
the board, whose members would "examine him practically in 
anatomy, medicine, surgery, pharmacy, midwifery, etc., and then 
transmit their report to the Home Board, together with the 
answers of the candidate, for decision, which should be final." 
Risum teneatis, amici. 
They also suggested that rather than to have foreign practi- 
tioners, being of a lower standard and cheaper education, it was 
better to have unregistered assistants and dispensers and nurses 
trained in the hospitals of Jamaica, and licensed by the Medical 
Board of Jamaica. 
All through the report repeated mention was made of expense, 
professional fees, the increasing of salaries for district medical 
officers, etc., etc. 
All of these documents were of course sent to a select com- 
mittee of the council, composed of the Hons. Edward E. Rush- 
worth, Colonial Secretary, and John W. Stratton, Auditor-Gen- 
eral. I regret my inability through want of space to copy in 
full the report of the committee, for it is a very remarkable 
document. Among many good things it says in Paragraph IX: 
" The Board of Medical Examiners have recorded opinions 
adverse to the registration and admission to practice, without 
special examination, of any persons other than registered British 
practitioners, and opinions adverse generally to any amendment 
of the laws of Jamaica relating to medical practitioners, that 
seem to them not likely to have the effect of protecting the ex- 
isting registered practitioners of British schools in the enjoyment 
of the pecuniary advantages incidental to the close monopoly 
that they at present practically hold. In these opinions the 
committee are not able to coincide on any grounds; but least of 
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grounds maintained by the board that ' it would be a manifest 
injustice in any British colony for persons whose education had 
been less expensive, and whose course of study was of a lower 
standard, to be allowed to compete for public favor with any expen- 
sively educated British practitioner,' ' it being at the same time 
their expressed opinion that all those British practitioners/ ' have 
undergone an examination and expense unequalled by any school 
or university in any part of the world,' ' so that they do not admit 
the possible existence at present of any person whom it would 
be just to allow to compete here with the' ' expensively educated' 
' British practitioner.' In coming to their expressed opinion 
about the ' unequalled ' examinations of British schools, the 
board must have left out of their 'mature consideration' the 
many eminent universities and schools in the chief capitals of 
Europe, which have in past centuries produced, and probably in 
centuries to come, will produce men of scientific attainments and 
professional skill, quite equal, at least, to the most ' expensively 
educated' of the least distinguished registered British practi- 
tioners ; and it is not obvious to the committee how the healing 
of sick persons in Jamaica can, with justice to them, be kept by 
law dependent upon the chance that any, not to say an adequate 
number of ' expensively educated ' British practitioners may think 
fit to practice in Jamaica. Notwithstanding the expressed opinion 
of those ' expensively educated ' British practitioners, who are 
petitioning for a continuance of protection from the 'encroach- 
ments ' of all other practitioners, it may perhaps be doubted by 
some persons whether there are more of them than of any other 
practitioners who think fit to select Jamaica as the field of their 
career, for any reason other than the reason that at the time of 
their selection it seems to offer them the highest attractions of 
' pecuniary advantage ' without regard to any ' higher and nobler 
aims and objects' Of those British practitioners who are now 
practicing in Jamaica, it is twice stated by the Board of Medical 
Examiners in their report, that some are exacting high rates of 
fees ' when the opportunity offers, from a class of persons whose 
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Paragraph 11 is also worthy of attention, viz.: 
"Amongst the petitions under reference to the committee is 
one from Don Jose J. Navarro, a native of Cuba, reciting that 
he holds two diplomas of physician and surgeon 'from colleges, 
conferring legitimate degrees in physic and surgery, valid in the 
respective countries in which they were granted,' namely, the New 
York Medical College and the Royal University of Havana; 
that he gained these diplomas, the first, ' after a regular course 
of study and prescribed curriculum,' and the second, after having 
undergone, as an indispensable condition, 1 rigid examinations, 
both practical and theoretical;' that under these diplomas, accord- 
ingly, he has been in full practice for ten years, first of all in the 
city of New York, and afterwards in Cuba; that at St. Jago de 
Cuba he held the appointments of quarantine doctor and visiting 
physician and surgeon to the St. Joseph Asylum, and that his 
Havana diploma entitles him to practice, not only in Cuba, but 
in Spain, and wherever graduates of the Spanish colleges of 
physic and surgery are admitted to practice. The prayer of this 
petition is that ' the Council will afford him such relief as is pro- 
posed to be extended to Canadian practitioners by giving to the 
diplomas he holds the same vitality of privileges the bill now 
under report is intended to confer upon the faculty of Canada.' 
Another petition from one hundred Cubans and others resident 
in Kingston, recites that there are now resident in Kingston 
several medical gentlemen educated in the Royal University of 
Havana, and holding its diplomas, whose attendance the peti- 
tioners much prefer to that of the registered medical practitioners 
of Jamaica, which latter practitioners exclusively they are, never- 
theless, by law forced to consult; one case in particular having 
recently occurred in which, as is alleged, Dr. Navarro was actually 
' driven from the bedside' of a sick Cuban whom he was attend- 
ing, and superseded in his attendance by a registered practitioner. 
The prayer of this petition is, that the same rights may be con- 
ferred on the holders of diplomas from the Havana college, as 
the bill now under report seeks to confer on the qualified prac- 
titioners from the Dominion of Canada." 
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complement to the preceding: " It cannot be necessary for the 
committee to say much about the character of this enactment as 
affecting personally any unregistered practitioner like Dr. Na- 
varro, and as entailing extreme hardship upon a patient in any 
case where it prevents him from consulting some unregistered 
practitioner he particularly desires to consult, and forces him to 
consult some registered practitioner whom he, rightly or wrongly, 
dislikes or distrusts ; to a highly nervous woman the consequent 
vexation and agitation might prove seriously injurious. To the 
Cuban exiles now in Jamaica, of whom, it is alleged, more than 
two thousand are resident in Kingston, it must be peculiarly 
vexatious that they should be debarred from consulting, if they 
wish to do so, one of their own countrymen living in their midst, 
who speaks their own language, and whose habits of life and 
manners are the same as their own; and that they should be 
forced to consult a foreigner (to them) who, although ' expen- 
sively educated' 'is, perhaps, scarcely able to carry on conversation 
with them, except through the medium of an interpreter.' " 
The committee proposed to admit all diplomas, and to divide 
the doctors by categories, according to their qualifications. 
While these discussions were going on in the legislative coun- 
cil, the press took up the matter all through the island, and I 
must acknowledge I was most generously supported by it. As 
an example of this, I insert the following, which appeared in a 
paper of Montego Bay, ably edited by Mr. Sidney Levien, in 
response to an ambiguous allusion to me in one of the daily 
journals: 
" Homceopathy.-Dr. J. J. Navarro, a physician of the 
school of medicine above designated, a gentleman to whom be- 
longs the merit of having effected a reform in the medical juris- 
prudence of the colony, in respect to the admission of foreign 
diplomas, has received a signal mark of approbation from his 
sovereign, the King of Spain. La Bandera Espanola of San- 
tiago de Cuba (date 10th September, 1872) states that His Maj- 
esty, King Amadeus, has been graciously pleased to confer the 
decoration of the Cross of Benevolence on him, in recognition of 
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for his humane conduct on various emergencies in the Island of 
Cuba. 
"We have much pleasure, says the Colonial Standard of 
Kingston, from which we quote the extract from the Spanish 
paper, in noticing this honorable award to Dr. Navarro, who is 
now among us. We go farther. We reproduce the announce- 
ment of Dr. Navarro's well-earned honor, because he has been 
most ungenerously treated by certain members of the medical 
profession in Kingston. Instead of hailing the presence of an 
accomplished physician as an acquisition to the talent of the 
colony, all the interest the faculty possessed was arrayed against 
him, and the most violent opposition tendered to the new and 
liberal medical bill, just passed the Council." 
" Dr. Navarro has made some astounding cures since he has 
been located among us, and homoeopathy, under his administra- 
tion, is gaining ground daily. His practice at this moment em- 
braces a large circle of the elite of Kingston, while obstinate cases 
do, most undoubtedly, yield to his treatment, demonstrating be- 
yond cavil that his method of treatment is as skilful as it is 
pleasant, in contrast with the administration of large doses of 
nauseating medicine." 
At last the bill was passed and approved by the Governor- 
General, and, becoming a law, was called "The Medical Law, 
1872." Among other things, it provides that the practitioners 
in Jamaica be divided into three classes: 1st. Those qualified to 
practice medicine and surgery; 2d. Those qualified to practice 
medicine only; and 3d. Those qualified to practice surgery only, 
and that each one would be allowed to practice only according 
to his qualifications. 
Of course, all foreign practitioners would belong to the first 
category, while the greater number of Jamaica practitioners 
would be limited to practice only surgery. 
It also provides that unregistered practitioners are not entitled 
to sue for fees, but that they may receive them for services. 
Also, that " any medical or surgical practitioner holding a 
diploma, a license, or certificate of a,ny kind of his professional 
qualifications, granted to him by any university, any college, or HOMOEOPATHY IN JAMAICA. 
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faculty of physicians or surgeons, after and in consequence of his 
having passed through a course of study and examinations as 
thorough and sufficient as is the minimum course in any like case 
approved by Her Majesty's most honorable Privy Council, under 
section 'list of the act of the United Kingdom, 21 and 22 Victoria, 
chapter 20, may be registered without examination." 
It provides also that unqualified persons may become registered 
after examination by the Medical Council of Jamaica. 
Paragraph 20 of this law must be quoted in full, viz.: " In no 
case where, under this law, the qualifications of any medical or 
surgical practitioner have to be taken into consideration with refer- 
ence to his application to be registered as such, shall it be lawful, for 
any one concerned, to take into consideration as a test or condition 
of the due qualification of such practitioner, the fact that he adopts 
or refrains from adopting, or intends to adopt, or refrains from 
adopting, the practice of any particular theory of medicine or sur- 
gery. And in no case where, under this law, any candidate offers 
himself for examination in order to obtain a certificate entitling him 
to be registered, shall it be lawful, for any one concerned, to impose 
upon such candidate an obligation to adopt, or to refrain from 
adopting, the practice of any particular theory of medicine or sur- 
gery, as a test or condition of admitting him to examination, or of 
granting him a certificate." 
As the bill needed the sanction of the Queen, it was sent to 
England to that effect; and by mere chance it happened that Dr. 
Stern, one of the " expensively educated " Kingston practitioners, 
also took a trip to England at this time. Public rumor said that 
this gentleman went as envoy extraordinary, and at the expense 
of the Jamaica faculty, to use whatever influence he could com- 
mand in England to defeat the sanctioning of the bill. After a 
few weeks, Dr. Stern returned as a licentiate of the College of 
Physicians, passing from the third to the first category, having 
been before his voyage only a licentiate in surgery. By the same 
or next mail, the bill returned to Jamaica already sanctioned by 
the Queen, and became a law. 
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I could not enjoy, being called to Cuba at this time on family 
business. 
On my departure from the island, homoeopathy was widely 
spread both in city and country, and great regret was expressed 
at being deprived of the salutary effects of homoeopathic treat- 
ment. Many families are provided with medicine chests and 
books, and only apply to the allopathic practitioners in extreme 
cases ; and I am frequently consulted by mail in chronic cases. 
To the enlightened Governor-General Sir John Peter Grant, 
who was unremitting in his efforts for the public good of Jamaica, 
belongs the credit of having admitted for the benefit of the in- 
habitants of that island, the rich boon of homoeopathy. 
There are men of high talent and culture in Kingston, lawyers, 
merchants, planters, and government employes, who with their 
families hailed with enthusiasm the advent of homoeopathy among 
them ; and I can truly say that I regretted my inability to remain 
and enjoy their grateful friendship and hospitality. REPORT 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY AT THE CAPE OF GOOD 
HOPE. CONTENTS. 
Homoeopathy at the Cape of Good Hope Dr. C. W. Kitching. HOMOEOPATHY AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
Dr. C. W. Kitching, of Cape Town. 
The colony of the Cape of Good Hope lies in the same lati- 
tude as, and possesses a climate similar to, that of Adelaide and 
Melbourne-a climate resembling that of the south of France; 
it does not, however, suffer from the hot winds which are so 
distressing to the dwellers in Australia. 
In the fifth volume of the Annals of the British Homoeopathic 
Society is a valuable paper by Dr. Madden on the climate of 
Victoria. 
The conclusions arrived at by Dr. Madden with regard to 
Victoria correspond exactly with those I have drawn from my 
experience with respect to South Africa. Dr. Madden notices 
especially as consequences of the great heat: 
First, The rapidity with which acute disease advances to its 
termination; and 
Secondly, The loaded condition of the blood, and the reduc- 
tion of vital power. This is traced to the depressed functions of 
the excretory organs, more especially of the liver, preventing 
that complete elimination of effete matter which is essential to 
health. 
Dr. Madden's observations are as true in reference to the 
climatology of South Africa, as these are to that of Victoria. 
The colony is extensive, reaching to the Orange River, which 
is its northern boundary. Beyond this lie the Diamond Fields 
(Friqualand West), and the two independent Dutch Republics 
and Natal. 
For fifty miles inland from Cape Town we have a tolerably 
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(Further eastward and in Natal, rain falls liberally during sum- 
mer, accompanied by frequent, often daily, thunderstorms.) 
In going still more inland, we rise through mountain passes 
to high table lands, stretching hundreds of miles away to the 
Orange River and Diamond Fields. The soil in this part of the 
country is excellent, though the rainfall is small and irregular. 
The undulating character of the country offers many facilities 
for storing by the formation of large dams. The preservation of 
water in this way, and the construction of trunk lines of rail- 
way into the interior are now being proceeded with. Through- 
out these many hundred miles of table-land, the air in winter is 
crisp, frosty, and life-giving. During the summer the climate, 
though it is undoubtedly warm, is not more so than that of Vic- 
toria, while the atmosphere is at all times dry, and free from the 
depressing characteristics of a warm relaxing climate. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into South Africa fully fifty 
years ago by missionaries from Europe, chiefly by those be- 
longing to the German societies. 
One, however, the Rev. Mr. Philip, deserves special and 
honorable mention. Having witnessed the benefit of homoeo- 
pathic treatment, he went to Europe, obtained a medical diploma, 
and became the first qualified homoeopathic medical man in 
South Africa. 
These pioneers performed good and lasting service, and sowed 
broadly the seed which has since borne much fruit. Their labor 
was all the more valuable, because the population was scattered, 
and medical help very difficult to be obtained. Their work was 
continued by several intelligent and educated laymen, whose 
mission was productive of much good, which was not, however, 
without alloy. For while, on the one hand, they were enabled 
to introduce homoeopathy into quarters where otherwise it 
would have been denied access, on the other hand, their imper- 
fect knowledge of disease often led them to speak oracularly, 
where a skilled physician would proceed with caution. This 
helped to discredit the system in the eyes of the profession, and 
has, I believe, proved one main cause which has prevented its 
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tioners, the people were compelled to trust to the knowledge 
handed down by their forefathers. And this information is by 
no means small. 
This need has made them more ready to resort to homoeop- 
athy, and in consequence books and boxes are largely sold and 
bought throughout the land, while the demand for both steadily 
increases. 
Besides the ordinary works and periodicals in English and 
German, there is a very good Dutch translation of Guernsey's 
Domestic Homoeopathy, which enjoys a large circulation. Our 
government recognizes all diplomas which would entitle their 
holders to practice in the country where they were granted. And 
this is quite irrespective of creed. At the present time there are 
but few qualified medical men who publicly avow their trust in 
the law of similars, and these are wide apart. 
I am aware, however, of more than one, who know the truth 
and value of homoeopathy, who yet shrink from the penalty at- 
tached to confession. 
I now pass on to a few remarks on some of the features of dis- 
ease as met with in Cape Colony. 
I have found that, with few exceptions, persons suffering from 
pulmonary disease do not improve, but on the contrary grow 
worse, if they remain on the seacoast; while, if disease is not far 
advanced, they regain much, at any rate, of health and strength, 
on their removal to high ground. 
Ten years ago I had occasion to examine a gentleman's chest, 
and found evidence pointing distinctly to the existence of a large 
cicatrix at the apex of the left lung. He told me that twenty- 
two years ago, he had been hurriedly sent away from Dublin, in 
order, as he was told, to save his life. He found that he lost 
ground so long as he remained near the sea, but that he rapidly 
improved when he removed to Beaufort, 350 miles inland. On 
two occasions he returned to Cape Town ; each time he did so 
marked aggravation of his chest symptoms recurred. He there- 
fore decided on settling inland, and has remained since in excel- 
lent health. This was a case of pneumonic, not of tubercular, 
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far beyond the Orange River, as I learn on the undoubted au- 
thority of missionaries living at Molepolele (25° south latitude), 
and Inyati (19J° south latitude). In the colony, however, it is 
common, affecting individuals of all ranks and races impartially. 
So far as my experience of its treatment has gone, the results I 
have obtained are in no degree more encouraging than those met 
with elsewhere. It has been thought that the presence of con- 
sumption in a country would exclude that of ague. This seems 
true of Cape Colony, where phthisis is rife, while intermit- 
tent fever is unknown. The only case I have seen during my 
fifteen years' residence here was one imported from Holland, and 
this rapidly recovered after a few small doses of quinine. 
In reply to my inquiry, Rev. John Moffat, son and successor 
of the renowned missionary, writes : " Here in Bechwana coun- 
try (27° south latitude), we have hardly any fever at all, except 
such as may accompany other ailments. The country is intensely 
dry; we have had no rain since last April (written in October), 
and yet it is not considered to be drought so far. The people 
almost live in the open air, for even when in their huts there is 
such free ventilation, that for air they might be beneath the open 
sky. 
" Northwards there is fever, apparently bilious for the most 
part. It is not till you get into the river region towards the Zam- 
besi, that you find fever as the result of miasma. People who 
have had the Zambesi fever seem to be liable to renewed attacks, 
even years after, in this country." 
The kind of fever described by Dr. Madden as colonial fever, 
is frequent in the Cape Colony. It is typhoid in character, and 
runs its course usually in eleven or twelve days. Ulceration of 
the intestinal glands frequently occurs. It is also apt to recur, 
so much so that one attack seems to predispose the patient to a 
second. 
Stimulants are largely used by the majority of medical men in 
the treatment of this fever. My own practice, however, has been 
to withhold them until indications of prostration are apparent. 
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is complete unanimity of opinion ; strong soups, milk and eggs 
are of great value in all cases. 
Several instances of the apparent power of Baptisia to cut short 
this fever have occurred to me, of which the following is a very 
satisfactory illustration. A robust girl of nineteen years of age 
suffered from this fever in a very severe form. She however re- 
covered. A year or two later she again came under my care, and 
presented every indication of a similar attack recurring. On this 
occasion I gave her Baptisia 1st dec., and in five or six days she 
was convalescent. 
From what I can learn respecting the Zambesi fever, I judge 
it to be acute congestion of the liver. The treatment in vogue 
is smart purging, followed by the regular exhibition of Quinine 
and Mercury. 
In conversation with Dr. Laws, the medical man in charge of 
the Nyassa exhibition, I suggested the following treatment: On 
the occurrence of the premonitory rigor to apply the wet pack, 
to allow frequent sipping of cold water, and give repeated doses 
of Aconite, 1st dec., until profuse perspiration supervened; after 
which the proper homoeopathic remedies, China and Mercury, 
would be found efficacious, while the doses would be smaller and 
safer. 
He promised to give the suggestion a fair trial. 
Relapses in this fever are very numerous. 
In cholera infantum I have found, as Dr. Madden did in Aus- 
tralia, that it is necessary to preface the specifically indicated 
medicine with one or more doses of Aconite, 1st dec. or <p. Dr. 
Madden explains the necessity for this departure from the ordi- 
nary rule of practice by suggesting that the direct vasomotor, 
excitant power of the drug is required to contract the small 
arteries, and thus unload the mucous membrane of its superfluous 
blood before the direct specific can find a clear field for the dis- 
play of its curative power. 
In cases where a child, say of six months old, has been vomit- 
ing and purging large quantities of serous fluid, and within a 
few hours has become cold, shrivelled and exhausted, having- 
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give Aconite every ten or fifteen minutes, with a strong convic- 
tion that benefit will result. 
Phosphorus and Arsenic are the two best medicines to follow 
Aconite in cases of this kind. In one, where the severity of the 
disease has passed, leaving total loss of appetite, Phosphate of 
Iron, in 2d dec. trituration, was of great service. China and 
Arsenic was in this instance useless. The white of an egg, beaten 
with brandy and water, I have found very serviceable. 
It is only fair to remember that, many years ago, Dr. Hempel 
recommended Aconite to be given in the foregoing manner. 
In commencing the treatment of all recent catarrhal attacks, 
especially those occurring in the intestinal canal, I generally 
employ Aconite with equally favorable results. 
In malignant scarlatina I have used Ailanthus with much 
advantage. The first case in which I used it was that of a little 
girl four years old. The disease had advanced too far to be 
within the range of medicinal influence when I resorted to the 
remedy, and proved fatal. Shortly afterwards I was in attend- 
ance on a little boy eight years of age, and a member of a mark- 
edly scrofulous family. The throat was greatly swollen, dark red, 
almost purple in color; the eruption plentiful and of a bluish 
tint. There was also great prostration and a countenance indi- 
cating much distress. Ailanthus, 1st dec., was given every half 
hour. Within six hours amendment had commenced, the op- 
pression was lessened, the eruption grew brighter, and he made 
good recovery. Several cases similar to this one occurred to me 
during the same epidemic; they were treated in the same way, 
and with equally favorable results. 
From diphtheritic croup I have seen two recoveries. In one, 
apparently not very severe, Bromine 1 was followed by improve- 
ment. 
The medicine was then ordered to be taken at longer intervals, 
when a relapse ensued. The mother begged that the medicine 
might be given more frequently. To this I readily consented, 
and amendment again set in, and was uninterrupted. The other 
case was of some special interest. The patient was a child one 
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the previous year the parents had lost three children from croup 
following diphtheria. On visiting the child I found two or 
three patches of membrane at the back of the throat. Two days 
later symptoms of croup set in, and the parents said that the 
course of the disease was precisely what had occurred in the 
children they had lost. I first of all gave the child Chloride of 
lime in the 1st dilution. When dyspnoea became extreme, and 
death from suffocation was imminent, I resorted to the Bichro- 
mate of potash in physiological doses; six grains of the salt were 
dissolved in half a tumbler of water, and a teaspoonful was given 
every five minutes until vomiting was produced. This occurred 
in half an hour, and was followed by great relief, the false mem- 
brane being freely expelled. 
It may be said by some that this was not homoeopathic treat- 
ment, and consequently ought not to have been employed. While 
I admit the fact to some extent, I entirely deny the correct- 
ness of the conclusions drawn from it. The child was choking 
from what, to all intents and purposes, was a foreign body in the 
larynx. It could only be removed by an emetic, or by tracheot- 
omy. The latter is a measure which experience has proved to 
be of doubtful value ; and further, the knife should never be 
resorted to if medicine will be equally serviceable. Hence I was 
thrown back upon an emetic drug as my only recourse. I chose 
that which had, over and above the emetic action, a specific in- 
fluence upon the larynx. The result, at any rate, justified the 
measure used, and I think it is such as might advantageously be 
employed in similar instances of this always anxious and very 
generally fatal form of disease. 
I will now refer to a case of diabetes mellitus where the Nitrate 
of uranium appeared not to do much good, while a palliation re- 
sulted from the use of a native plant growing in this neighbor- 
hood. Mrs. P., a tall handsome woman of thirty-five, had 
weaned her child four months ago; she was greatly debilitated, 
which condition her attendant met by giving her Iron, Quinine, 
and liberal support. (June, 1867.) There is want of appetite, 
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dryness of skin, with terrible itching of the vulva. Arsen3 gave 
some relief, as also did Calcarea6 and Phosph, acid3. (July 5th.) 
Up to this time the patient had declared that the urine was 
natural. Upon examination it was found to contain sugar. She 
passed thirty pints in the twenty-four hours, having sp. gr. 10.30. 
Uran. nit., 2d dec., was now administered and restricted diet 
enjoined. A month later she was much better and stouter; the 
quantity of urine passed in the twenty-four hours was eight pints 
of the sp. gr. 10.27. 
She remarked that while she used salt food she was less thirsty 
than at other times. She relishes salt meat more than she did 
when her health was good. 
Query. Does this fact point to the need of giving diabetic 
patients plenty of salt to replace what is probably drained off in 
large quantities ? She took the Uranium for nearly two months ; 
the urine passed measured about twelve pints on the average, 
with a sp. gr. 10.27. 
On two occasions she felt better, and as the restriction of her 
diet became intolerable she ate everything at table ; she quickly 
became worse in consequence. (January, 1868.) On the recom- 
mendation of a friend who cured the following case, she has been 
taking an infusion of "Belles." 
" A girl of fourteen had intense thirst; drank twenty-five 
wine bottles of water daily; grew very thin; she got well in a 
month." 
Our patient took the Belles for eight weeks, with the follow- 
ing results: 
The skin was always moist, often perspiring; it used to be 
intensely dry ; tongue had quite lost the feeling of soreness; she 
quite lost the irritation of the privates, which had troubled her 
all through her illness; thirst was less; urine the same. She 
died suddenly on March 21st, 1868. Fright seemed to be the 
cause of the attack. Shr was nearly carried out to sea while 
bathing; was carried home insensible; afterwards severely suf- 
fered from headaches and nose bleeding until the diabetes set in. 
"Belles" is the Osmitopsis asteris-coides, a composite plant 
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with a great deal of aromatic volatile oil, which, from its odor 
and taste, seems to contain camphor. 
There are many indigenous plants which possess marked 
medicinal powers, of which I will notice one or two, e. g., 
the Buchu (Barosma crenata), one of the Rutaceee, which grows 
largely at the Cape. It is employed by the old school in large 
doses in chronic diseases of the bladder, and is a very popular 
remedy in chronic bronchitis, cases of which I have seen fre- 
quently benefited by it. The Dutch colonists use it extensively 
as a remedy for bruises and strains. From ray own experience 
I should say that it is a good remedy in such injuries. On one 
occasion I strained both wrists from a heavy fall; the right se- 
verely, the left slightly. The pain in the former was increasing 
for two days, and so severe as to prevent sleep. The right wrist 
I enveloped in a handkerchief soaked in Buchu vinegar, and 
allowed the left to go unattended to. As a result, both wrists 
recovered in the same time, notwithstanding the difference in the 
degree of injury each had received. The mention of inflamma- 
tion of the bladder reminds me of a case of chronic cystitis in an 
old man, to whom a quack doctor recommended lemon and Cape 
brandy; it greatly alleviated his severe sufferings. 
On this hint I acted in the case of a sea captain who had a 
large stone in his bladder. The urgent dysuria, terrible pain 
with loss of rest were exhausting his strength rapidly; he desired 
to postpone the operation of removing the stone until he should 
reach England. Canth.1 gave only slight relief, but gin and 
lemon-juice produced a marvellous effect, giving him sleep, and 
causing him to lose the pinched face expressive of much suffering. 
The improvement lasted for three weeks, when he left the colony. 
I have verified the indication mentioned under the larynx 
symptoms of Calcarea carbonica, i( cough, expectoration of fetid 
mucus." A little girl of five had suffered from a cough with fetid 
expectoration since she was six months old ; both the cough and 
badly-smelling sputa were removed in less than a month under 
the use of Calcarea carb.6. The symptom did not recur. On 
several occasions I have seen lime water afford marked palliation 
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before my mind. A man of forty was the subject of malignant 
disease of the transverse colon, verified as such by post-mortem 
examination a year later. Under the advice of a friend he drank 
milk and lime water, with immediate and prolonged relief from 
his sufferings. 
The Mesembryanthemum edule, Hottentot fig, grows abun- 
dantly in sandy tracts of this colony. It is extensively used by 
persons both in and outside of the profession, chiefly as a gargle; 
the expressed juice of the succulent leaves is the form employed. 
The cases in which it has seemed to me to be most beneficial is 
where the angina is venous, and the constitution adynamic. I 
remember attending a clergyman who had long suffered from 
varicosis of the throat; while Pulsat1. and Hamamelis1 only 
gave slight relief, he got quickly better from a gargle of the 
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HOMCEOPATHY IN MEXICO. CONTENTS. 
Homoeopathy in Mexico, ....... Dr. Pablo Fuentes y Herrera. HOMCEOPATHY IN MEXICO. 
Dr. Pablo Fuentes y Herrera. 
Homoeopathy was not known in Mexico, even by name, until 
the early part of 1853, when it was introduced by Dr. P. Rafael 
Navarrete, a native of Havana, whose success in practice enabled 
him to overcome the many difficulties attending such a radical 
change as that from the complex system practiced by medical 
men with a justly acquired reputation, to the one whose sim- 
plicity formed such a contrast with it. 
In July, 1873, there arrived at the capital Dr. D. Ramon 
Cornelias, a Spaniard, formerly a professor of pathology in the 
University of Valencia. He established a small pharmacy, the 
advertisement of which in two newspapers was the first public 
announcement of a new art of healing. 
In August, 1854, at a time the vomito was making fearful 
ravages, Dr. Jose Carbo opportunely arrived at Vera Cruz from 
Catalonia. Announcing a new and sure method of cure, he was 
invited by the Governor of the State to accompany him to Fort 
Ulna, where he gave proof of his skill and the efficacy of the 
system by curing forty-five serious cases. This, in connection 
with many other brilliant cures, procured for him an honorary 
certificate from Gen. Don Antonio Lopez de Santa-Ana, at that 
time president of the republic, authorizing him to practice medi- 
cine there. 
In the beginning of the year 1855, Don Narciso Sanchis ar- 
rived from Spain. Possessing rare attainments, he would have 
been a great acquisition to the new school, but his inclinations 
were to a mercantile life, which obliged him to make frequent 
journeys from home, on one of which his death occurred. 
In the end of the year 1855 I began the study of homoeopathy 384 
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under the direction of Senor Sanchis, which was continued 
under the guidance of my partner and friend, Dr. Navarrete, to 
whom, in this connection, I desire to express my thanks. I had 
thus the pleasure of being the first Mexican to embrace the new 
doctrine. 
In 1856 I learned that there was practicing in Mexico a Dr. D. 
Pascual Bielsa, a Spaniard. To his vigorous articles in the press, 
homoeopathy owes its victorious defence against the attempts of 
the old school to ridicule the propagandism of homoeopathy. 
In 1856-57 Dr. D. Jose Max Echeveste, director of the military 
corps of physicians, a person of great reputation as a scientist and 
surgeon, was compelled to resign from the service on account of 
the persecution following his public declaration in favor of 
homoeopathy. 
About this time was also known to us Dr. D. Joaquin Salas, 
an old physician, a worthy master of medicine and science, who 
was converted to homoeopathy by Dr. Cornelias. 
In 1857 Dr. D. Jose Puig y Moumani, a Catalonian, an old- 
school physician, began to practice homoeopathy, but did not fully 
adopt the doctrine till ten years later, when, through the instru- 
mentality of Dr. Sanfelin, also a Catalonian, lately arrived in 
Mexico, he practiced it exclusively. 
In the years 1856 and 1857 several Mexicans embraced homoe- 
opathy. Among others the religious Dominican friar, Manuel 
Aguas, a scientific lecturer in his convent, a man well versed in 
medicine; the presbyter, Don Jose Gomez de Leon and Don Jose 
Rivas. • < 
In the year 1861 Dr. D. Rafael Degollado, for many years 
connected with the School of Medicine, and one of the directors 
in the Hospital of S. Pedra y St. Pablo, a well-informed phy- 
sician, from witnessing some remarkable cures, gave his adhe- 
rence to homoeopathy. 
Since the above date there have been many converts. There 
are now in the capital Don Mariano Valdes y Morelos, Don 
Rafael Navarrete, Don Manuel Ruiz Davita, Don Pascual 
Bielsa, Don Enrigue Carrera, Don German Chavez, Don An- 
tonio Salas, Don Jose Pontones y Giral, Don Antonio Medina, HOMCEOPATHY IN MEXICO. 
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Don Pablo Barona, Don Domingo Ramirez Arellano, Don Man- 
uel Echavarri, Don Juan D. de las Cuevas, Don Guillermo Hay, 
Don Francisco Aguilar, Don Juan P. de los Rios, Don Fran- 
cisco Perez Ortiz, Don Jose Puig y Moumani, Don A. Arteaga, 
Don Jose Franquilino Hidalgo, Don Mariano Omedes de Biela, 
and myself. 
The above mentioned are the professors of homoeopathy known 
to us. There are others who have just begun its study, and who 
practice simultaneously homoeopathy and allopathy, but whom 
we do not reckon among the homoeopathists. 
In the State of Puebla are Don Miguel Ramirez, Don Fran- 
cisco Mardrena, Don Francisco Caro, Don J. Mendez, and 
Senorita Donna Dolores Mendez. The latter is the first lady in 
the country who has devoted herself to the noble career of med- 
icine, passing through its difficult study, finishing with that of 
homoeopathy after passing an examination by the allopathic 
physicians. 
In Cardova is Sr. D. Pedro Suelmo; in Vera Cruz, Don Jose 
San Felin; in Cuernavaea, Don Francisco de Rojas; in Foluca, 
Don Justino Camargo and Don Nicanor Mireles; in Hidalgo, 
Don Rafael Mirando. In the interior are Don Gomposo Palino 
and two others whose names we do not remember. In Chiamahua 
are Don Genaro Chavez and Don Jacobo Hamber. 
The homoeopathic societies are as follows: 
In 1860, at my instigation, there was founded an academy for 
the study of the Mexican flora, under the direction of the prin- 
cipal homoeopathic physicians', with the title "Sociedad Homoeo- 
patica de Mexico." It was organized April 10th, with Dr. D. 
Rafael Navarrate, President; the writer, General-Secretary; Fr. 
Manuel Aquas, Vice-Secretary and Treasurer. The subject of dis- 
cussion at several of the literary meetings was " The Comparative 
Study between the Medicinal Plants of Mexico and European 
Medicines in general." The object was to prove that medicinal 
substances produced under the same climatological conditions as 
the individual must necessarily be better adapted to his ailments 
than those produced under different conditions. As an example 
was given the comparative application between the Mexican 386 
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and European Bufo. The Society existed only a few months, 
and was dissolved on account of the political agitations of the 
Republic. 
In the beginning of 1869, there was held a general meeting of 
more than twenty persons, physicians and laymen, and a society 
formed with the following officers : President, D. Jose Ping y 
Maumani; Vice-President, D. Pomposo Patino; General Secre- 
tary, the writer; Vice-Secretary, D. Guillermo Hay; Treasurer, 
D. Julian Gonzales. A committee appointed to draft a consti- 
tution reported August 18th, 1869, when the society was organ- 
ized under the name of "Institute Homoeopatico Mexicano." 
It commenced work April 10th, 1870. In July of the same 
year, the Society opened its public and free clinic; and on the 
6th of September the first number of its official periodical ap- 
peared under the name of El Propagador Plomoeopatico. In its 
prospectus it was announced that the object of the institute was 
not only the study and propagation of the doctrine of the master, 
but scientific and rational discussion, to which the columns of 
the periodical would be open, as they were more than once. 
Among those who formed the Institute was Dr. Dcgollado, of 
whom we have already spoken, who, after travelling consider- 
ably about the Republic, fixed his residence in San Miguel de 
Allende, where the government commissioned him to establish 
a hospital, which was done in 1871. This was the first and only 
homoeopathic hospital in the Republic. 
In 1873 many of the members of the Institute withdrew, and 
on the 11th of December organized the "Sociedad Medico 
Homoeopatico Mexicana," with D. Mariano Valdes y Morelos, 
President; D. Jos6 Antonio Martinez, Vice-President; the writer, 
General Secretary ; D. Enrique Carrera, Provisional Secretary, 
and D. Francisco Aquilas, Treasurer. A constitution was adopted 
January 24th, 1874, and the Society inaugurated on the 10th of 
April, with a large attendance, terminating with a banquet. Its 
public clinic was established soon afterwards, in which five oi' 
six persons were treated a year. The first number of its period- 
ical, El Faro Homoeopatico [Homoeopathic Beacon) was issued 
April 15th, 1874. Its publication is still continued. This HOMOEOPATHY IN MEXICO. 
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Society is prospering, while the Institute exists but in name. 
The Society contemplates establishing a hospital. 
In Puebla the few physicians propose organizing a society. 
The literature of homoeopathy in Mexico is still poor. It 
consists of a few original articles. In 1860 we published in La 
Gaceta an article showing, from observations of many years of 
our practice, that cancerous and tuberculous diseases have the 
same causes of development. In El Propagador, periodical of 
the "Institute Homoeopatico Mexicano," there are some original 
articles by different persons, among others one by Dr. Perez 
Ortis, entitled "La nada y el veneno" (the Nothing and the 
Poison), the object of which is to remove the prejudice which the 
allopaths instil among the public that we use poisons, or we cure 
with nothing. 
In the Faro Homoeopatico have been published the following 
articles : On Thermometry, by Dr. Ruiz Davilla; Osmium, by 
Dr. German Chavez ; Observations on Cisampelos Pareira, by 
Dr. Schwarri; Observations on the Great Salvia and Cactus 
Rubens Florens, by Dr. Medina; the article on Tuberculosis, 
with a study of Psorinum. Regarding books, Dr. Julian Gon- 
zales has written one for families, containing the principal pre- 
scriptions of authors who have written guides, for families. 
Written in Spanish and sold at a low price, it has been the 
means of disseminating a knowledge of homoeopathy among the 
country people. The translations of Hughes's Materia Medica 
by Dr. Francisco de Rojos has some faults, particularly in the 
language, yet serves as an instructor for the public. 
In concluding the account of the homoeopathic literature of 
the country, we may mention a work in preparation by Dr. 
Teodoro Quintana, giving the pathognomonic symptoms of each 
medicine. 
The legal status of the homoeopathic physician is now the 
same as that of the allopathist. 
When the Society establishes its hospital there will probably 
be in connection with it clinical lectures for the instruction of 
young physicians in homoeopathy. 388 
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Supplemental Report on Homceopathy in Mexico.* 
Having been educated in the city of Mexico, and a resident 
of that country since 1843, I take pleasure in stating, to the 
best of my knowledge, a few facts that have come to my notice, 
in reference to the date and the manner in which homoeopathy was 
introduced into Mexico. If I had with me the data that could 
be easily obtained from our society in Mexico, which has existed 
under different appellations since the year 1860, I could furnish 
in detail an historical report of homoeopathy in Mexico from 
1850. This was the year of its introduction into Mexico by 
Dr. Ramon Cornelias, a distinguished physician and professor 
from Spain, who at that time was associated with Dr. Julian 
Gonzales, their first office being on Canoa Street, No. 13. 
In 1852 both Cornelias and Gonzales took a trip to Europe. 
Gonzales returned to Mexico alone the following year, much 
better prepared to open a new office for practicing homoeopathy, 
which he did at No. 12 Coliseo Street, in association with Dr. 
Rafael Degollado, who also was so devoted to the new system of 
curing that he built up a very successful homoeopathic practice. 
A little later they made their first attempt to establish a hospital, 
based on homoeopathic principles, in Pueblo de Dolores, a place 
of note in the history of that country. This hospital was exclu- 
sively under the supervision of Dr. Degollado, but it was Dr. 
Gonzales alone who defrayed all expenses for the benefit of the 
public, for the sake of showing the superiority of the new system 
as compared to the old school, the result of which was very sat- 
isfactory; but the hospital was short-lived, owing to the want 
of funds. 
Dr. Gonzales next moved his office to Bettlemitas Street, No. 
2, where he was associated with Dr. Gapf, an intelligent and 
true homoeopathist from Germany. In the early part of 1867 a 
more suitable building was selected on San Francisco Street, No. 
* By John C. 0. Hill, M.D., Hidalgo ; written in Philadelphia, Pa. HOMOEOPATHY IN MEXICO. 
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13, where the first pharmacy and dispensary were opened to the 
public. This necessarily created a great sensation among the old- 
school physicians, who were not contented till they compelled 
Gonzales, by law, to close his establishment. Then the warfare 
commenced in the public press, which was victoriously sustained 
by Dr. Gonzales, as can be seen in his refutation of the articles 
published by his principal opponent, Dr. Galindo, under title 
La Literatura Medica y Homeopdtica. This polemic was de- 
cided by the government under President Juarez, who gave 
Gonzales all necessary protection, allowing him at once to reopen 
his establishment; and since that time homoeopathy has been 
progressing rapidly throughout the country, not having met with 
any further serious trouble. 
Many of the old-school physicians have become homoeopathists. 
One of the most distinguished professors of the National Medical 
School in Puebla, Dr. Marchena, was one of the first in that 
State to study the Organon and to practice true homoeopathy. 
Soon after his death that State passed a decree establishing, in 
said college, a special class for teaching homoeopathic Materia 
Medica, and one of the principal wards of the hospital was as- 
signed for clinical lectures. Now there are many good and 
highly accomplished professional men following the wise ex- 
ample that Dr. Marchena set before them. Dr. F. Zaragoza is 
the first professor who gave lectures on homoeopathic clinics in 
Puebla. 
For the instruction of young physicians in homoeopathy a 
charitable hospital has also been established in the city of Mexico, 
near San Cosme, founded by a few charitable private individuals 
under the direction and special care of Dr. Cresencio Colin and 
Dr. Perez Ortiz, who obtained from different parties donations 
for the support of the hospital, which is in a thriving condition. 
All the particulars of these proceedings were published in the 
special organ of the Mexican Homoeopathic Society, and on my 
return to Mexico I will, undoubtedly, take great interest in getting 
the said society to send, regularly, copies of all their monthly 
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As I do not recollect all the names of those who practice ho- 
moeopathy in Mexico, I will mention, besides the ones already 
spoken of, those that are well known to the public in general. 
These are Drs. Manuel Echavarri, Jos6 Antonio Martinez, Pablo 
Fuentes y Herrera, Jaime Puig, Francisco Rojas, Pascual Bielsa, 
Guillermo Hay, Pablo Barona, Juan de D. de las Cuevas, Al- 
berto Salinas, Antonio Medina, Max Madariaga, Francisco 
Aguilar, Mani. Omedes de Biela, Ysmael Talavera, of Orizava; 
S. Sanfelieu, of Vera Cruz; Rafael Miranda and myself in the 
city of Tulancingo, State of Hidalgo. Many others, who have 
distinguished themselves in their successful practice of homoeop- 
athy, have died within the last few years; of these I will men- 
tion Drs. Rafael Navarreti, Jose Puig, Manuel Aguas, Rafael 
Degollado, and F. Marchena, of Puebla, whose loss was deeply 
regretted by the profession and public at large. REPORT 
ON 
HOMOEOPATHY IN AUSTRALIA. CONTENTS. 
A Letter from Dr. Jas. P. Teague. 
A Letter from Dr. F. N. Collins. HOMCEOPATHY IN AUSTRALIA. 
Dr. Dunham. 
Melbourne, December 2d, 1875. 
My dear Sir : In answer to your letter of August 7th, 1874, 
asking me to forward information to the " Committee of the 
World's Homoeopathic Convention, Philadelphia, 1876," I beg to 
state that I was, with Mr. Poulton's assistance, enabled to glean 
the few following accounts. I was very much engaged, and he 
wrote to the medical men in the other colonies for me. They 
have, in some slight measure, responded to the request. I forward 
a synopsis of our information herein. Homoeopathy has been 
practiced in Victoria, Australia, about twenty-five years. Mr. 
Berigny, a non-qualified man, was the first to introduce it. He 
subsequently left for India, and then was succeeded by Drs. 
Rochlitz, M.D., and Mr. Robert Ray, L.R.C.P., London. Roch- 
litz and Berigny have finished their great work on earth, and 
are much regretted. Dr. Madden, of European reputation, vis- 
ited Melbourne for three years, and did much to further the 
knowledge of homoeopathy. We have at present five men prac- 
ticing here in Melbourne, four physicians anol one surgeon : Dr. 
Robert Ray, L.R.C.P. and L.M., London ; Emery Gould, 
L.R.C.P., London; J. Wemerfunst, M.D., Leipsic; Jas. P. 
Teague, M.D., H. M. College, Philadelphia, U. S.; Surgeon Geo. 
T. Teague, M.D., University, Melbourne. 
There is a homoeopathic dispensary in Melbourne, founded in 
1870, reports of which I forward. 
The system is gradually spreading and is less opposed than for- 
merly. It is being used very much by the settlers in the interior, 
where they have not the advantage of a physician. At Geelong, 
Sydney R. Robinson, M.R.C.S.E., is the only practitioner who 
succeeded to Dr. Teague's practice eleven years ago. There is 392 
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also a dispensary there which I commenced fifteen years ago. 
I forward reports. 
At Ballarat there have been three, Drs. Speck and Ray, now 
deceased. The practice is since carried on by Dr. Ray, Jr., who 
is now the only representative succeeding his father. He- is, I 
believe, doing well. No public institution. There have been 
at various times other men, but they have either died or left the 
colony. 
There are two pharmacies in Melbourne, Messrs. Poulton & 
Sons, and Martyn & Co. There is also a pharmacy at Sandhurst, 
carried on by Mr. Poulton, Jr. Also one at Geelong by Mr. 
Owen. Also one at Ballarat by Mr. Pleasance. There is not any 
society or institute. Government has granted a site for a hos- 
pital in Melbourne, and we hope some day to see it established 
in connection with the present dispensary. 
The physicians at Melbourne are pretty well employed. 
From Sydney, New South Wales, Mr. Poulton has been able 
to obtain very little information, but his letter shall be inclosed. 
Drs. Bracton, Atherton, Irvine, and Fisher are the representa- 
tives, all of whom are good men. They have no public insti- 
tution. 
At Adelaide, South Australia, Drs. Campbell, Mageary, and 
Miller are the gentlemen practicing homoeopathy. I think no 
public institution. 
Tasmania has one representative at Hobart Town ; no institu- 
tion ; Dr. Benjafield. 
New Zealand has two or three, Dr. Jahn at Auckland, Dr. Deck 
at Dunediar, 
I have now only to say that these colonies require all their 
medical men to have studied at a school of medicine for three 
years; nothing less will pass the local medical board. They 
must bring diplomas from after examination. No honorary 
papers are of any service. The boards are composed of allo- 
paths, who have a great dislike to us, and throw every obstacle 
in the way of granting their certificate, without which no one 
can practice legally. 
I regret also to state that much odium has been thrown on all HOMCEOPATIIY IN AUSTRALIA. 
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American degrees, on account of the loose practice of granting 
them at Cleveland and elsewhere, after two years' study, or even 
less, and from several honorary degrees having been granted that 
have striven to pass muster but without avail. I regret this the 
more that the rule is generally applied to all American institu- 
tions, and if the colleges are not more exacting and careful in 
requiring three or four years' study, they will not improve in 
public estimation, and any graduates coming from the United 
States will find it absolutely impossible to be registered. The 
University here requires five years of medical study for their 
degree of M.D., and is naturally jealous of its advantages. I am 
happy to state that the feeling against homoeopathy is not more 
than elsewhere; that its adherents are among the better and poorer 
classes. I beg to forward the report of our " Dispensary and 
Hospital-outdoor." Trusting that the Convention at the dear 
old city which gave me my degree may be of great service to our 
cause, and assuring its members that they have the best wishes 
of their Australian friends, 
I beg to remain, my dear sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
Jas. P. Teague, M.D. 
Sydney Homoeopathic Pharmacy, July 6th, 1875. 
W. B. Poulton, Melbourne. 
Dear Sir: In reply to your note I regret that it is out of 
my power to supply you with the papers you require, the fact 
being that no such papers are in existence. 
Although homoeopathy is much adopted in private practice, so 
much so that its supporters have been able to defeat a medical 
bill brought before Parliament for the purpose, in a great meas- 
ure, of suppressing the practice, no philanthropic or charitable 
institutions have yet been founded under its auspices, and until 
we have a larger staff of medical men I think it very unlikely 
any establishments of the kind will be commenced. 
Yours very truly, 
F. N. Collins. REPORT 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN MONTEVIDEO. CONTENTS. 
Letter from Dr. J. Christiano D. Korth. 
Keport of Cases treated in the Insane Asylum of Montevideo, ..... By Db. Korth. HOMOEOPATHY IN MONTEVIDEO. 
Montevideo, March 10th, 1876. 
Dr. Carroll Dunham. 
Respected Colleague: Your favor of 21st September re- 
ceived on the 8th inst., being the first I have had the honor of 
receiving from you. You request me to extend an invitation to 
my colleagues to attend the World's Homoeopathic Convention, 
under the auspices and control of the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy, to beheld at Philadelphia, June 26th, 1876. 
I am sorry to inform you that the political agitation in this 
unfortunate country, and frequent change of government, has 
impoverished all classes of society, and will make it impossible 
for any of us to undertake so long and costly a voyage, and will 
therefore have to forego this pleasure. 
I shall not be able to send you a detailed report respecting the 
progress of homoeopathy in this country for the want of statistics 
and amicable relations among our physicians; each one here 
is for himself, and they take no interest in science. 
There are seven homoeopathic physicians here, divided into two 
schools, viz., Santiago Estrazulas, Korth, and Maria Lopes, who 
are pure homceopathists, graduates of the school at Rio Janeiro. 
We received our diplomas in 1847. The other four allopaths, 
who have adopted the homoeopathic practice. I am the only one 
among our colleagues who has held an official appointment. I 
have been for the last fourteen years physician to the Insane 
Hospital of Montevideo, also port physician at the capital of the 
republic, which position I have held over three years. I am 
now publishing in Spanish the pathogenesis of the new medi- 
cines by Hale, in the journal Criterio Medico Matrence, in order 
that the Spanish physicians may enjoy the benefit of them. 
I have mailed to you two statistics from the Insane Hospital, 
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institution, purely homoeopathic, and the medicines employed ac- 
cording to symptoms were Bell., Hyos., Plat., Strain., Hell, nig., 
Caust., Opi., Nux vom., Glonoine, Apis, Tarant., Amb. gri., 
Anacard., Ars. alb., Aur. f., Coffea, Sepia, and Verat. alb., etc. 
Of the new medicines, Cannabis ind., Codeine, Cim., Gels., 
Podophyl., Sanguinaria, Verat. v. For drunkenness, Cann., 
Chlor., Gels., and Scutellaria, and Solanum nig. in cases of furor 
alternating with imbecility and risa sardonica. 
We have no meetings of physicians, nor any homoeopathic in- 
stitutions, not even a paper or journal to represent our cause. 
This is all I have in my power to report to you in answer to 
your questions for the present; hoping to hear from you again, 
I am respectfully yours, etc., 
Juan Christiano D. Korth. 
Appended are statistics of cases under homoeopathic treatment 
in the Insane Asylum, annexed to the Charity Hospital in Mon- 
tevideo, in charge of Dr. J. Christiano D. Korth, during fourteen 
years and five months, from the year 1861 to May 29th, 1875, 
from which date the homoeopathic treatment ceased in the wo- 
men's department, by request of the Board of Public Hygiene, 
and the Secretary of State, Dr. Isaac de Tezanos, May 20th, 
1875. 
Number of patients on hand and admitted from 
the year 1861 to May 29th, 1875, . . . 979 
Patients cured in fourteen years, . . . 617 
Escaped, . . . . . . . .73 
Died, .167 
857 
Remained on hand May 29th, 1875-, . . . 122 males. 
General Entrance for the Fourteen Years. 
Many filthy and incurable patients from the Central Charity 
Hospital were sent to the Asylum, and placed under my charge, 
and some also were sent from the chronic department. Notwith- 
standing many of these were cured. 
From July 23d, 1861, to November 1st, 1869, both the male HOMOEOPATHY IN MONTEVIDEO. 
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and female departments were under my charge and received the 
homoeopathic treatment exclusively, but in consequence of an at- 
tack of illness which confined me to my bed for three months, 
allopathic influence succeeded in having the women's department 
placed under the old-school treatment. 
D. Korth, M.D. REPORT 
ON 
HOMOEOPATHY IN NEW BRUNSWICK. CONTENTS. 
A Letter from Dr. Henry C. Preston. HOMOEOPATHY IN NEW BRUNSWICK, DOMINION 
OF CANADA. 
The first who practiced homoeopathy in New Brunswick was 
a German by the name of Von Schrader; as he had not a 
diploma he did not extend the cause much, but certainly has the 
credit of calling the attention of the people to it. He came here 
about twenty years ago, and after practicing awhile in a small 
country town called Quaco, removed to St. John, and was shortly 
after joined by a Dr. J. C. Peterson, son of Dr. Peterson, of 
Auburn, N. Y. They disagreed, but Dr. Von Schrader and he 
practiced in the city until the spring of 1858, when, through 
the representation of Dr. Peterson, who the year before had sent 
for me to come down here in consultation, and partly on account 
of my health requiring a colder climate, I settled here in March, 
1858, having had fourteen years' experience in Connecticut and 
Rhode Island, and as you are aware was one of the editors of the 
North American Journal at the time I came here. Finding the 
climate agreeing so well with me and my family, and the prac- 
tice so steadily increasing, I have remained, and probably shall 
continue here for some years, if I live. In the eighteen years I 
have resided in St. John the cause of homoeopathy has spread 
over the whole province and extended to Nova Scotia and Prince 
Edward Island, I may say without boasting mainly through my 
influence, as I have had and now have patients in every part of 
the three provinces. There are besides myself only four others in 
the province, but there are plenty of good localities for a homoeo- 
pathic physician if he could be induced to settle in them. Dr. Ring 
and Dr. Peters are practicing in this city; the former a young 
man, and the latter an old one, and a convert from the old school. 
I am, dear sir, very truly, 
Your friend and colleague, 
Henry C. Preston, M.D. 
St. John, May 24th, 1876. REPORT 
ON 
HOMCEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. CONTENTS. 
Homoeopathy in Brazil, . Dr, Alexander Jose de Mello Moraes, HOMCEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
By Dr. Alexander Jose de Mello Moraes, of Bio de Janeiro. 
Doctor Antonio Ferreira Franca acquainted the Medical 
and Surgical School of the City of Bahia with the knowledge of 
the medical system of Hahnemann in 1818, but no practical re- 
sults followed this communication. In the two schools of Bahia 
and Rio de Janeiro, created by royal order of February 18th, 
1808, and reorganized by the law of October 3d, 1832, nothing 
had been said about homoeopathy, until after Dr. Gama Castro, 
editor of the Jornal de Commercio of Rio de Janeiro, had praised 
it in a series of articles published in his journal, when some ap- 
preciation of it was evinced. Still there were no practical results, 
inasmuch as the efforts of this advocate failed to make any pros- 
elytes from the physicians of the capital of the empire. 
At length a student of the University of Leipsic, Frederico 
Emilio John, coming to Rio de Janeiro to conclude his studies 
in the Medical School of Rio, chose as the subject of his thesis 
the system of medicine then attracting so much attention, and 
making so much progress in Germany and other parts of Europe 
and Russia as homoeopathy. He wrote regarding the advan- 
tages to humanity of the new system of practice, and sustained 
his thesis, and on it obtained the degree of Doctor in Medicine. 
This was in 1837. 
This event is referred to in the pamphlet by Dr. Duque 
Estrada, published in 1845, being a reply to a speech by Dr. 
Meirelle (Senior), delivered in the House of Deputies, in which 
without any practical knowledge of his subject he attempted to 
expose to ridicule the doctrines of Hahnemann. Dr. Estrada 
writes as follows: 
" For four years I had practiced the ancient system of medi- 
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in 1837, the first thesis in homoeopathy was sustained by Mr. 
Frederico Emilio John, a native of Germany, who came to our 
school to complete his studies, begun in the University of 
Leipsic, from which place he emigrated to Brazil. It was this 
colleague who loaned me the first books on homoeopathy I read. 
"My first attempts were made in 1840, and being very fortu- 
nate ones, my ardor became so great that I soon had enough 
confidence in my new remedies to employ them in this or that 
case in which the allopathic means failed me. Unfortunately 
the people dreaded the remedies, and in order to make use of 
them I often had to act deceitfully. Of this conduct, however, 
I swear on my honor I have never had cause to repent. 
" At that time the scarlet fever was increasing with the greatest 
virulence, allowing but scant time for action; many persons 
dying in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. I felt it to be 
impossible for me to employ homoeopathic treatment in these 
cases, not from want of confidence in its efficacy, but from fear 
lest, patients dying from the disease, I should be accused by the 
allopaths of having killed them. 
" At this time I believed myself to be the only homoeopathist 
in Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Santo Amaral, who in part practiced 
homoeopathically, having died of the scarlet fever. Drs. Mure 
and Vicente Sisboa did not practice homoeopathy at this time. 
"Finally, however, being deeply grieved at the impotency of 
the ordinary means of meeting this dreadful epidemic, and en- 
couraged by my reading in Beauvais' Clinic, I began to treat 
my scarlet fever patients by means of globules, and obtained ex- 
traordinary curative results. 
i( On this unsatisfactory footing homoeopathy stood when in 
1840 Dr. Bento Mure came to Brazil to contract with the Im- 
perial Government for the establishment of an agricultural 
colony in Sahy, province of Santa Catharina. Obtaining his 
contract he returned to Europe, where he remained the necessary 
time to engage colonists, and returning with them established 
himself in Sahy. As he did not reap the benefits he had ex- 
pected, however, he abandoned the colony, and in the beginning 
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and opened the first consulting office in Rua de S. Jose, No 59, 
on the 10th of December." 
Joao Vicente Martins, a man of great talent and ability, who 
left Rio de Janeiro on account of an occurrence in his private 
life, had returned to the capital very much dissatisfied with allo- 
pathic treatment. Knowing that the medical system discov- 
ered by Hahnemann was remarkable for its simplicity he sought 
Dr. Mure, in order to be instructed in the homoeopathic doctrines. 
He gives the following account of himself: 
" Having but just left the Royal Surgical School of Lisbon, I 
arrived in Brazil in 1847, and was assured by my generous re- 
ception that all the medical classes were my sincere friends. I 
praticed my profession without the least obstacle, and was soon 
intrusted with the internal clinic of the Imperial Hospital dos 
Lazaros, and the external clinic of the Expostos da Santa Casa 
de Misericordia. 
"In these two establishments, partly maintained by the gov- 
ernment, I found no obstacles, but on the contrary nothing save 
the warmest commendations. Yet I soon abandoned all these, 
becoming convinced that in surgery only there was anything 
positive in the art of curing. Like Hahnemann I left that false 
science of the practice of which no one disputed my qualifica- 
tions, and practiced as an oculist and midwife, these seeming to 
me to be the least fatal branches of surgery. I pursued these 
in order to obtain my daily bread, and wandered through the 
forests of Minas and Bahia, studying nature in its relations to 
men and their arts. 
"Having arrived at the capital of Bahia I was invited by the 
professors of the faculty to operate in the Hospital da Miseri- 
cordia of that city, and it was with extreme pleasure and pride 
that I acceded to their requests.' Returning to Rio de Janeiro 
after three years of wandering I was anxious to investigate the 
truths of medical science, for which I had long waited in vain, 
and as Dr. Mure, who worthily sustained the standard of inno- 
vation, was popularly considered a philosopher, I at once intro- 
duced myself to him. 
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accept, saying that only facts could convince me. He gave me 
facts; these I did not oppose, neither did I wish to allow myself 
to be influenced by them, but their number and importance im- 
pressed me favorably. 
"I, myself, gave these simple remedies in single doses and in 
small quantities, and I saw many people saved from the grave 
who owed their recovery to homoeopathy. 
li Satisfied that I had at last found the true science of healing, 
I wished to return to Bahia, and there propagate the new medical 
doctrines, and extend them to the limits of the empire,. I was, 
however, persuaded that my co-operation with Dr. Mure in the 
capital would be more conducive to the establishment of homoe- 
opathy in Brazil, and I thank fortune that I remained, for I feel 
that I was successful, not only in my endeavors for the dissemi- 
nation of homoeopathy, but also was instrumental in bringing 
about the revolution in the habits of the country which has 
taken place in Brazil. 
" As soon as I declared myself convinced of the truth of the 
new medical system, and gave the reasons for my conversion to 
homoeopathy, all those who had received me in their tender em- 
braces now declared themselves my enemies. My previously 
admitted skill now became gross ignorance, and all my abilities 
previously acknowledged now were bitterly denied by my quon- 
dam school. 
" But what did I care for enraged snarling critics ? what great 
evil could come to me from these insensate sectarians of error 2 
I only wished them to give me one moment of agony in which 
I could say to them: 'You err because you do not see; look, 
and you will see; and, seeing, you will pray to God that He 
may pour upon you, by the hand of His chosen, that healing 
balsam which is required for the many wounds of misguided 
man, and you may well praise His infinite mercy; for as in the 
Gospel He has given you remedies for the infirmities of the soul, 
so He gives you in homoeopathy remedies for the infirmities of 
the body.' " 
On the 10th day of December, 1842, Drs. Mure and Lisbon 
founded, at the residence of the former, the Homoeopathic Insti- HOMCEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
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tute of Brazil. A formal session of this Institute was held«on 
March 10th, 1843, when a notable speech was made significative 
of its principles and purposes, and the articles and statutes which 
were to govern its workings were read, approved, and solemnly 
signed by all present. The names of the signers are as follows : 
Dr. Bento Mure, President. 
Dr. Vicente Jose Lisbon, 1st Secretary. 
Dr. Dommigos de Azevedo Coutinho Duque Estrada. 
Dr. Francisco Alves de Mowra. 
Dr. Jose Ignacio Malta (druggist). 
Major-Surgeon of the Army Manoel Antonio Henrique Tota. 
J. P. Pacheco, Jose Feliciano Pereira. 
Antonio Frederico Colona. 
Carlos da Cunha Hendries. 
Joao Baptista Gomes. 
Emydio Fernandes da Costa Guimaraes. 
E. Tallone, Joaquin da Costa Costivetly. 
Jose Francisco de Souza Bastos. 
Dr. Jacinto Soares Rebello. 
Thomar Jose Tinoco de Almeida. 
P. J. Von Reis. 
Manoel Ignacio Cavalcanti. 
Jose Manoel de Carvalho Bulhoes. 
Manoel Pedro de Alcantara Ferreira e Costa. 
Jose Firmino Craveiro. 
Antonio de Souza Dias. 
Bartholomeo Bartholazzi. 
C. Augusto Dantonil. 
Professor Edme Hilu, General Henriques Marques d'Oliveira, 
Lisboa. 
Antonio Ferreira da Silva Campos. 
Manoel Jose Cardozo Machado. 
Jose Vieira Pimenta. 
Francisco Maria Colona. 
Joao Manoel Martins da Costa. 
Francisco Jose Gomes da Silva. 
Jose Galdino de Castro. 412 
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•Pedro Jose d'Almeida. 
Joao de Castro Silva. 
Jose Antonio Goncalves. 
Ignacio Joaquin d'Albuquerque. 
Dr. Jose Pereira Rego (now Baron do Laveadio, and President 
of the Junta Central de Hygiene-Publica, i. e., The Central As- 
sembly of Public Hygiene, and a great enemy to homoeopathy). 
Jose Feliciano da Costa Monteiro. 
Joao Vicente Martins. 
Jose Ferreira Pinto Guedes. 
Antonio Jose de Carvalho Chaves. 
Destembargador (a judge in next to the highest court). 
Joao Candido de Deos e Silva. 
Dr. Jose Maria de Novonha Feital (who afterwards became 
adverse to homoeopathy). 
Joaquin de Sa Charem. 
Manoel Pinto da Silva Valle Adolfo Tiberghiin. 
Joao Nery Ferreira. 
Jose Nicolau da Costa Ferreira. 
Commandador (Knight) Joao Pereira d'Andrade. 
Dona Laura Joaquina de Moraes (a lady). 
Goncalo Jose Machado. 
Suiz Mendes Ribeiro. 
Edmond Tiberghiin. 
Antonio Jose Mendes de Campos. 
Dr. Manoel Duarte Moreira. 
Demetrio Antonio Rio dos Santos. 
And many other gentlemen. 
Joao Vicente Martins becoming more enthusiastic than ever 
on account of the practical results he obtained in his medical 
clinic, and in what he saw in the practice of Dr. Bento Mure and 
in that of his colleagues, began to write luminous articles in favor 
of homoeopathy for the Jornal de Commercio of Rio de Janeiro ; 
on account of this he was obliged to battle against the allopathic 
physicians, and even against some who, having formerly adhered 
to homoeopathy, had now abandoned and were opposing it. But HOMOEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
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Joao Vicente Martins, strong in the truth of facts and in the 
might of his will, resisted and gained a victory over them all. 
To better serve science and humanity Mure and Joao Vicente 
Martins opened a Homoeopathic Consulting Office in 1844, in 
Nitheroy, and in the villages of Mage, Iguassi, and Lozena. 
We had long before opened the Central Homoeopathic Phar- 
macy in Rua de S. Jose, No. 52, in order to satisfy the necessi- 
ties of the doctors ; here they intrusted the officinal purity of the 
medicines to the conscientious and clever pharmaceutist Ventura 
Pinheiro, who maintained until death his good reputation. 
The fervor of homoeopathists increased, and to continue this 
enthusiasm in the Institute it was suggested that a special school 
to teach the doctrines of Hahnemann be opened. This school 
was organized by the law of October 3d, 1832, and opened 
January 18th, 1845. 
Joao Vicente Martins prepared the statutes, which, being ap- 
proved, were adopted. 
The school having no power to grant diplomas, Dr. Mure and 
Joao Vicente Martins petitioned the Imperial Government to 
grant them authority to issue certificates of studies. This was 
granted in an order passed March 27th, 1846. With this legal 
authority the first certificates of studies were given in July 2d, 
1847, to the first students who completed their studies and gra- 
duated from the Homoeopathic School of Rio de Janeiro. 
The curriculum was as follows: 
1st. Medical Physic. 
2d. Medical Chemistry and Rudiments of Mineralogy. 
3d. Medical Botany and Rudiments of Zoology. 
4th. Descriptive and General Anatomy. 
5th. Physiology. 
6th. General Pathology. 
7th. Pathogenesy and Homoeopathic Doctrines. 
8th. Pharmacy and Interrogation of Patients. 
9th. Hygiene and Medical History. 
10th. Homoeopathic Chemistry and Medical Criticism. 
11th. Legal Medicine and Toxicology. 
This was a three years' course; the matriculation of students 414 
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began on the 1st and ended on the last day of February, and on 
March 1st the lessons began, ending November 30th. Students, 
before admission to this homoeopathic medical course, were re- 
quired to present certificates of examinations made in Latin, 
French, Philosophy, Arithmetic, and Geometry. 
The professors for the first year of the course, were as follows: 
Physic.-Dr. Jose Victorino dos Santos Moura (a famous 
astronomer and Jubilateo Professor of the Military School of the 
capital). 
Chemistry.-Dr. F. M. Soares de Souza. 
P>ota,ny.-Dr. Luciano Lopes Pereira. 
Anatomy.-Dr. Manoel Duarte Moreira. 
For the Second Year's Course. 
Physiology.-Joao Vicente Martins (in his absence Dr. Joao 
Henrique de Medeird). 
Pathogenesis.-Dr. Bento Mure (in his absence Dr. Maximini- 
ano Marques de Carvalho). 
Homoeopathic Pharmacy.-Dr. Carlos Chideloc was in 1850 
appointed. 
Pathology and Hygiene.-Dr. Francisco Alves de Moura. 
For the Third Year's Course. 
Surgery.-Dr. Luiz Antonio Neivia. 
Legal Medicine.-Dr. J. B. P. de Figueredo. 
Medical History.-Luis Antonio de Castro. 
Medical clinic and criticism was held daily, but only in the 
presence of patients in the central consulting offices by the respec- 
tive consulting physicians. 
In the organization of the Homoeopathic Medical School in 
1845, the following gentlemen taught: Dr. Duque Estrada, Lis- 
boa ; Dr. Bento Jose Martins, Cochrane ; N. Idefouse Gomes 
(who was a native of the Province of Minas Geraes, was a grad- 
uate of Germany, and was possessed of vast erudition and supe- 
rior intelligence), Dr. M. Lemas, Dr. Costa, Dr. Ackerman, Dr. 
Guedes, and Dr. Montevio. The Homoeopathic School of Rio de HOMOEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
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Janeiro being opened and in operation, a spirit of rivalry mani- 
fested itself among the members of the Institute, and, fighting 
amongst themselves, the homceopathists formed another institu- 
tion under the name of The Academia Medico Homoeopatha do 
Brazil, which was inaugurated October 4th, 1847, but which, 
like nearly all the institutions and societies in Brazil, died of the 
Brazilian chronic maladies of selfishness and envy. 
On June 20th, 1859, another homoeopathic medical society was 
organized for the purpose of injuring the Institute Homoeopath- 
ico do Brazil, the school and the academy ; this was called The 
Congregacao Medico Homceopathica Fluminense. Not being 
able to destroy the Institute it fell by itself, after having for some 
time published a review. 
Meanwhile the allopathic physicians, jealous of the homoeo- 
pathic victories, entered upon new struggles against them, and, as 
they could not contradict facts, made use of calumnies, lies, and 
persecution to gain their end. They fabricated three cases of 
poisoning produced by homoeopathy and the homoeopathic doc- 
tors. Cochrane, Proenea, and Moura were called before the 
courts to answer this charge. They gave the facts and did not 
suffer. Thus were the jealous accusers defeated. They now brought 
another suit of poisoning against Drs. Pastor and Provenca with 
the same result. 
The intrigues among the homceopathists themselves, and the 
calumnies of the allopathists against homoeopathy continued, but 
the activity and talents of Joao Vicente Martins overcame them 
all. He did not fight with the allopaths only, for jealousy and 
contempt appearing he took measures against them, and for the 
credit of homoeopathy. In order to propagate it throughout 
Brazil he offered to provide free, to all vicars and priests in the 
interior of the empire, a pocket-book with medicines and homoe- 
opathic books for the cure of the poor, which provision he con- 
tinued to make as long as he lived. 
Pleased with the practical truths which he gathered from the 
doctrines of Hahnemann, he decided to go to the great capitals 
of the empire to propagate homoeopathy, beginning in the me- 
tropolis of the colonial times. Leaving Bio de Janeiro on Octo- 416 
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her 2d, 1847, for the city of Bahia, he announced his arrival 
there on October Sth, opening a free consulting office for the cure 
of the poor in Rua da Gameleria, No. 10, at 5 o'clock, p.m. 
From October 10th Joao Vicente Martins availed himself of 
the columns of the Mercantil, a daily journal, and maintained 
day by day the most violent discussion with me, concluding it 
on February 10th, 1848, at which time I had become convinced 
of the wonderful truths of homoeopathy. I commenced the prop- 
agation of homoeopathy by means of a religious service celebrated 
in the church of the Monges Benedictines at 10 A.M., on Feb- 
ruary 10th, 1848. 
I was then chief editor of the Correio Mercantil of Bahia, and 
although a very young physician, the medical question against 
homoeopathy did not frighten me, for I knew that the homoeo- 
pathic system was the only one originally created by a doctor, 
and I remembered the words of the illustrious Broussais antici- 
pating the benefits that would result from its teachings. I pitied 
the confusion of the adversaries of Joao Vicente Martins. I was 
not interested in medical questions because I was at that time 
engaged in politics, and was chief editor of a daily newspaper, 
which was the organ of a pacific population. I waged war against 
the famous Guaycuin, which, as a republican periodical, pro- 
claimed, sanctified, and defended the revolutionary movement of 
November 7th, 1848, in Pernambuco. 
Going to assist at the examination of a friend, Dezembar Avo 
Candido Ladislao Japiassu de Figueredo e Mello, in the Univer- 
sity of Medicine, on December 16th, 1847, I read a correspond- 
ence against the Director of the Faculty, Dr. Joao Francisco de 
Almeida, written by Dr. N. Jemsteo, because he did not allow 
him to pass an examination of capacity in any other language 
but that of the country. 
The Director of the Faculty, Dr. Almeida, was present, and 
introducing the correspondence of Dr. Jemsteo as a topic, asked 
me to defend through the press his denial. I wrote an answer 
in the office of the Faculty, which was published in the Correio 
Mercantil, December 17th, without my signature. 
Joao Vicente Martins turned against me because of this arti- HOMOEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
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cle, I having previously remained silent about homoeopathic sub- 
jects, and obliged me to admit its authorship, which I did with 
the best of feeling, and after a discussion without bitterness we 
reached the facts, and I was obliged to submit to them. Aban- 
doning political questions I now became a conscientious propa- 
gator of Hahnemann's doctrines. 
After February 10th, Joao Vicente was silent, and the attacks 
directed at him turned upon myself; but used to the fights of the 
political press I did not recoil from the presence of enemies that 
I knew, but continued to oppose them with the irresistible argu- 
mentation of facts until they were silenced. 
Joao Vicente Martins, who had nothing more to do in Bahia, 
sailed on board the steamship Imperatriz, on March 3d, 1848, 
for Bio de Janeiro, where he entered into new battles, not with 
the allopaths, but against those who compelled Dr. Mure to re- 
tire to France. 
What passed between him and the members of the Academia 
Medici Homoeopatha was published in the Jornal do Commercio 
of 1848 and 1849. 
Notwithstanding that he was endowed with a great and gen- 
erous spirit he was often vexed; but as his apostleship was born 
of his unalterable convictions, he found in contrarieties new 
means with which to oppose his adversaries. In September, 
1849, the yellow fever appeared in Bahia, and the first place in- 
vaded was the ward of Santa Barbara, in the lower city. The 
doctors of that city, the professors of the Faculty of Medicine, 
and of the Junta St. Hygiene, did not understand this disease, 
because as a rule in Brazil the country and its own history is not 
well understood. I knew that the yellow fever, cholera morbus, 
and typhus arise in the marshes of the Bio Negro, and the symp- 
toms of this invading and rapidly spreading disease resembling 
those of which I had read in a manuscript on Males on bicha, 
that had in 1685 ravaged Bahia and Pernambuco, I thought this 
to be the fever of Siam, or yellow fever, which was now deci- 
mating us. I published in the Correio Mercantil an article, say- 
ing that this disease among us was yellow fever. It was in the 
presence of this scourge that homoeopathy worked miracles, sav- 418 
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ing from death not only those who were treated by it, but also 
many who had been given up by allopathy. 
The same state of affairs also occurred in Rio de Janeiro, 
where there was an invasion of yellow fever,* and also of chol- 
era morbus,f of which the greater part of the cases recovered 
under homoeopathic treatment, showing its vast superiority over 
all other means of curing the infirmities of humanity. 
My interest in propagating homoeopathy was so great that, two 
days after the Correio Mercantil refused an article of mine on 
homoeopathy (July 26th, 1850), I published a paper called The 
Medico do Povo, which was devoted exclusively to the interests 
of homoeopathy, and which I continued for three years. 
Joao Vicente Martins, speaking of me in his book on Cholera 
* In 1850 the yellow fever spreading with great severity into Rio de Ja- 
neiro, killing hundreds of victims, the Soeiedade Portuguese do Beneficien- 
cia opened an infirmary for the treatment of poor people attacked by this 
epidemic. This infirmary was opened under the name of Enfirmaria d.e S. 
Vicente de Paulo, on March 1st, 1850, in a large house, containing beds, 
medicines, diets, physicians, nurses, and all the resources of religion. 
Homoeopathic medicine was exclusively employed in the infirmary, the 
physicians being Drs. Joao Vicente Martins, Director ; Dr. Francisco Alves 
Moura, Dr. Jose Henrique Medenos, and Dr. Joao Francisco Gomes. 
During the three months of its existence 448 patients were received, and 
the rate of mortality was much inferior to the allopathic infirmaries. 
f In 1855 an epidemic of cholera morbus appeared in Rio de Janeiro, and 
among the many ambulances and infirmaries opened for the treatment of its 
victims by order of the government, two were devoted to the interests of 
homoeopathy. The first was that of N. Senhora da Conceicao, created by 
the Provedoria da Sta Casa de Mis6ricordia, with the following physicians: 
Dr. Maximiniano, Marques de Carvalho, Director; Dr. Jose Henrique de 
Medeiros, Secretary; Drs. Joaquin Jose da Silva Pinto, Thomas Cochrane, 
Maximiniano Antonio de Lenos, Francisco Alves de Moura, Carlos Chidoe, 
Pedro Antonio Vievia da Costa. 
The second infirmary was founded by private initiative and by charitable 
donations, and had the following medical board: 
Dr. Alexandre Mendes Calaza, Director; Drs. Pedro Ernesto Albuquer- 
que de Oliveira, and Francisco Antonio Gunnares. These two institutions 
received a large number of patients, and the medicine of Samuel Hahne- 
mann showed its superiority over that used by the allopathic school. 
The Government of Brazil, although not recognizing homoeopathy as offi- 
cial medicine, it not being taught in their schools, yet rewarded in 1855 the 
humanitarian efforts of homoeopathic doctors, by giving them decorations 
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Morbus* (page 122), says: "I wish to make special mention 
here of my dear friend Dr. Alexandre Jose de Mello Moraes, 
who devotes himself more assiduously than any one else, and 
with an energy that astonishes me, not only to writing and pub- 
lishing a good compendium of homoeopathy, in order that its doc- 
trines may become familiar to all, but also in giving singly more 
lessons on the subject than all our schools have given in many 
years. There is no number of the Correio Mercantil of Bahia 
published since February 10th, 1848, which does not contain a 
lesson by him." 
Dr. Sabino Olegario de Pinho, who was then practicing allop- 
athy in the Villa da Matta de S. Joao, in the province of Bahia, 
becoming acquainted with the progress we were making in 
homoeopathy, and finding that certain physicians had already 
adopted it, as taught by Drs. Alexandre Rouan and Antonio 
Pereira de Mesquita, who had both been assisted by the illus- 
trious Benedictine monk, Brother Mariano de Santa Koza, 
Lima,f i. e., chief surgeon I. Jose Baptista, Manoel Joaquin, a 
surgeon of great merits, Dr. Enquiel Francisco das Neves, chief 
surgeon Alorin of the City of Cochoeira, and Dr. Jernsted, also 
adopted it. Dr. Jernsted opened an office and a homoeopathic 
pharmacy at Pernambuco and published Therouro de Medicina 
Homoeopatica (Treasury of Homoeopathic Medicine), a book which 
was well received and still is very popular. 
In Bahia, at the beginning of our propagation, we found 
friends who eagerly adopted this system for themselves and their 
families; among whom were Baron de S. Francisco, Kio das 
Contas, and Paraguassfi, Conselheiro Joaquin Marcellino de 
Brito,| the Illustrious Commendador (Knight) Joaquin Alves do 
Amaral, Secretary of the Government, and Viscount dos Friaes, 
the Bandeira family, Baron de Piraja, the celebrated vicar of 
Itaparica, Jose Maria Brayner, the important merchants, Custo- 
* Printed in 1849, printing-office of Laemmdth. 
f It was this monk who, with myself and others, published the famous 
periodical, 0 Ncticiadbr Catholico, under the auspices of the learned Mr. 
Don Romualdo Antonio de Seixas, Archbishop of Bahia. 
| Ex-minister or premier of the empire, and now President of the Su- 
preme Tribunal of Justice. 420 
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dio Joaquin da Costa, Antonio Jose da Costa, Francisco Jose 
Machado, and the ladies, D. Caroline Mattos Villela, D. Maria da 
Silva, the wealthy proprietress, with a great number more of 
merchants and people. After all discussion by means of the 
press had ceased, and I remained alone to sustain my principles 
and the clinic, certain illustrious physicians adopted homoeop- 
athy. Meanwhile my venerable master and particular friend, 
Conselheiro Dr. Jonathus Albot, Professor of Anatomy in the 
University of Bahia, and chief of the Surgical Clinic of the 
Hospital di Misericordia, became ill with dyspepsia, and com- 
plaining to me of his sickness, asked me to treat him, and I did 
so with satisfactory results. 
Notwithstanding Dr. Sabino was successfully located in Per- 
nambuco, Joao Vicente Martins also went there to see what Dr. 
Sabino was doing, and opened a discussion with the priest, Lopez 
Gama, editor of the satirical periodical, O' Carapucciro. This 
discussion was so warmly debated that I was compelled to en- 
gage in it, and the Archbishop of Bahia, the learned Mr. Don 
Romualdo Antonio de Seixas concluded it through the interposi- 
tion of the Noticiador Catholic© Canon, Joaquin da Fanceea, Lima. 
Joao Vicente Martins was a Portuguese citizen, a native of 
Lisbon, and was looked upon as a foreigner among us, and as 
the allopaths found no opposition they determined to arrange the 
Junta Central de Hygiene with such regulations as to embarrass 
Dr. Martins and compel him to leave Brazil. 
For this purpose they influenced the General Government, 
and the Junta Central de Hygiene Publica was organized with 
its monstrous contradictory regulations, which I exposed in an 
article published in the Jornal de Commercio of 1852. 
Joao Vicente Martins being a foreigner found it difficult to 
oppose the institutions of the Brazilian Government, and he went 
to Bahia to enlist me, who, as a Brazilian, could better oppose 
the absurd creations of my country in his behalf. He arrived 
at Bahia September 25th, 1851, and we sailed October 4th, reach- 
ing Rio de Janeiro October 8th, and went to Dr. Martins's house. 
I knew that he needed rest, remembering the words of Phedurs: 
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should travel in Europe while I remained in Rio de Janeiro to 
uphold homoeopathy and answer the attacks of the press. Oc- 
tober 23th, 1851, Dr. Martins called a special meeting of the 
Institute in his capacity of First Secretary, and informed its mem- 
bers of the report which Dr. Mure had sent from Thibet, in 
which he announced his determination not to return to Brazil? 
and resigned as perpetual and actual President of the Institute 
Homoeopath!co de Brazil. My services for homoeopathy were now 
mentioned, and I was proposed and unanimously elected to fill 
Dr. Mure's place. 
I was at this same session sworn, and taking the President's 
chair directed the labors of and closed the session. 
Dr. Martins remained in Rio de Janeiro but a short time after 
this meeting. He went to Europe, where he remained fourteen 
months, and then returned in the British steamship " Severn," 
on January 8th, 1853. 
While in Europe he rendered important services to humanity, 
an account of which was published in my journal, Medico de 
Povo, for 1853. Soon after his return a discussion arose with an 
audacious Galenista, in which he suffered from anonymous re- 
ports and calumny, coming from people whom he had benefited. 
He finally became ill, on account of a draft, which produced pa- 
ralysis, and died July 8th, 1854, and was buried in the Cemi- 
terio de S. Joao Baptista, where his remains lie in a marble vault. 
Joao Vicente Martins's death left a vacancy impossible to fill; 
a blessed remembrance remains, and his name is engraved in the 
annals of humanity. 
Homoeopathy has become popular in Brazil, not so much by 
the efforts of the physicians as by its practical results in the 
hands of the people. 
The Brazilian Government which fosters worms, surrounding 
them with prestige and importance and submitting to their 
schemes, has not admitted homoeopathy officially; but in some 
religious hospitals homoeopathic infirmaries exist,* though not- 
* The orders of Tercevia and Sociedade de Beneflcencia which have perma- 
nent hospitals with homoeopathic infirmaries, for the treatment of thebrothers 
and members who adopt or prefer that treatment, are: 
1st. A Veneravel Ordem 3a da Penetencia (1859). Actual Physician, Dr. 422 
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withstanding the superiority it shows in daily practice it is no- 
where officially recognized. 
During the first years of homoeopathy in Brazil, a great num- 
ber of publications appeared in the Jornal do Commercio, the 
Diario do Rio, the Mercantil, the Correio da Tarde, and in other 
periodicals of Rio de Janeiro. 
In Bahia much was written for the Mercantil, the Correio 
Mercantil, and the Gnayacuni. At last the Medico do Poro ap- 
peared, devoted exclusively to the interests of homoeopathy. 
Several periodicals were started in Rio de Janeiro, especially 
to defend the doctrines of Hahnemann, among which were The 
Sciencia, TheHahnemannista, of 1846, The Homceopatha, of 1850, 
The Medico Populao, of 1851, and The Athleta, of 1852. Several 
works upon the practice of homoeopathy have appeared from the 
pens of Drs. Joao Vicente Martins, Mure, Emilio Gernon, Sa- 
bino, Cochrane, Derembargador Wellosa de Oliveira, Consel- 
herio Jose Bernardino Baptista Pereira, Everton de Almeida? 
Joao Francisco dos Reis, Albuquerque de Oliveira; also five 
works by myself, with many translations from foreign books. 
Jose Henrique do Medeiros ; Adjunct Physician, Dr. Joaquim Jos£ da Silva 
Pinto. 
2d. Ordem 3a de Nossa Senhoras do Carmo (1873). Effective Physician, 
Dr. Americo Hypolito Edverton de Almeida ; Adjunct Physicians, Drs. An- 
tonio Rego and Baptista de Meirelles. 
3d. Sociedade Portuguese de Beneficencia since 1859. Effective Physi- 
cian, Dr. Jose Henrique de Medeiros ; Adjunct Physician, Dr. Maximinian 
Antonio de Lemos. 
In 1873 the yellow fever appearing again as an epidemic in Rio de Ja- 
neiro, the government organized temporary infirmaries for the pauper 
classes, and commissions of charities collected enormous sums for like pur- 
poses. Some of these infirmaries were intrusted to homoeopathic physicians. 
A Commissad Central Portuguese de Sucorros chose for the homoeopathic 
treatment of their patients Drs. Braz Dias da Matta, Joaquim Jose da Silva 
Pinto, Saturmim Soares de Meirellas, Maximiniam Antonio de Lemos, and 
Antonio de Magathaes Calret. 
The Providona da Santa Caso de Miserecordia instituted an ambulance, 
appointing as physicians Drs. Saturnino Meirelles, Liberate de Castro Car- 
reira, and Joaquim Clarimundo da Silva. HOMOEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
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Institute Homoeopath ico do Brazil, April 10th, 1876, a true copy of the 
original written by Dr. Alexandre Jose de Mello Moraes, President of the 
Institute Honioeopatieo do Brazil. 
Dr. Jose Henriques de Meduros, 
Acting Secretary. 
Homoeopathic Physicians in Brazil-1876 
Amazonas.-Dr. A. D. Vasconcellos Canavarro. 
Pard-Belem.-Dr. Augusto Thiago Pinto, Jose do O. de Al- 
meida. 
Maranhao.-Francisco Pereira da Silva Novaes. 
Pernambuco-Recife.-Dr. Jesuino Augusto dos Santos Mello, 
Dr. Pedro de Athayde Loto Moscoso, J. B. Cazanova, P. S. 
Regis. 
Bahia.-Dr. Antonio Pereira de Mesquita, Dr. Jose Antonio 
Ribeiro de Lima, Dr. Manoel Joaquim Lino. 
Rio de Janeiro-Campos.-Jose Ferreira Passos, Dr. Francisco 
Rodrigues Penalva, Dr. Jose Pinto Ribeiro de Sampaio, Joao 
Francisco dos Reis. 
Mage.-Dr. Domingos Joao da Soledade Vallente. 
Marica.-Dr. M. Pereira Sudre. 
Sao Joao da Barra.-Patricio H. Teixeira Mendes. 
Nictheroy.-Dr. Boaz Dias da Matta, Dr. Jose Severino de 
Avellar, Dr. Liberate de Castro Carreira, Dr. Guitherme 
Taylor March, Dr. Jose Antonio Nogueira de Barros, Dr. 
Manoel da Silveira Rodrigues, Dr. Marcellino Pinto Riberio 
Duarte. 
Rio de Janeiro (Capital of the Empire).-Dr. Alexandre 
Jose de Aiello Moraes, Dr. Americo Hypolito Errerton d'Al- 
meida, Dr. A. Monteiro de Barros, Dr. Antonio Joaquim Correia, 
Dr. Antonio de Castro Lopes, Dr. Antonio Rego, Dr. Antonio 
Rodrigues de Oliveira, Andre Braz Chabrio, Bertholdo Gold- 
smith, Dr. Carlos Chidloe, Dr. Cezario Eugenio Gomes de 
Araujo, Dr. Francisco de Paula Travassos, Dr. Domingos de 
Azevedo Coutinho Duque Estrada, Dr. Jacintho Soares Rebello, 
Dr. Joaquim Clarimundo da Silva, Dr. Joaquim Jose da Silva 
Pinto, Dr. Joaquim Duarte Martinho, Dr. Joao Baptista Soares 424 
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de Meirelles, Dr. Jose Henrique de Medeiros, Jose Pereira Peix- 
oto, Joao Rodriguez Damascene Salgado, Dr. Manoel Antonio 
Marques de Faria, Manoel Antonio de Magalhaes Calvet, Dr. 
Maximiniano Antonio de Lemos, Dr. Maximiniano Marques de 
Carvalho, Pedro Ernesto Albuquerque de Oliveira, Dr. Satur- 
nino Soares de Meirelles, Dr. Thomas Antonio de Abren. 
Sao Paulo-Campinas.-Joao Baptista Morato do Canto. 
Sao Paulo-Capital.-Candido Ribeiro dos Santos, Carlos 
Marquois, Emilio Jantier. 
Rio Cla.ro.-Jose Joaquim Rodrigues da Silva, Luiz Antonio 
Jose de Freitas. 
Tatuhij.-Joao Manoel de Carneiro Bastos. 
Santos.-Dr. Henrique Correia Moreira, Antonio Manoel 
Bicudo. 
Santa Catharina.-Jose Rego Rapozo. 
Sao Pedro do Sul Alegrete.-Francisco da Silva Moraes, Edu- 
ardo de Miranda. 
Pelotas.-Dr. Germano Francisco de Oliveira. 
Porto Alegre.-Dr. Israel Rodrigues Barcellos, Dr. Jose Ber- 
nardino da Cunha Bittancourt, Dr. Thomas Lourenco Carvalho 
de Campos. 
Rio Grande.-Dr. Joao Lundell, Jose Dias de Almeida 
Pires, Luiz Candido de Assiz Aranjo, Dr. Octaci]io Aristides 
Camara. 
San Gabriel.-Augusto Pedro de Alcantara, Dr. Jonathas 
Abbot. 
Homoeopathic Pharmacies in Rio de Janeiro. 
Botica Central Homoeopathica, Veird, Martins & Co., Rua 
de S. Jose, No. 59. 
Laboratorio Especial de Homoeopath ia Pura of Joao Pinheiro 
Magathaes Bastos, Rua de S. Jose, No. 58. 
Pharmacia Homoeopathica of Francisco Pinheiro Bastos, Rua 
de S. Jose, No. 55. 
Laboratorio Homoeopathica of Antonio Jose de Mello, Rua da 
Guitanda, No. 17. HOMOEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
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Pharmacia Homoeopathica of Joao de Souza Martins, Rua da 
Guitanda, No. 36. 
Grande Laboratorio Homoeopathico of Antonio Gonfalves de 
Araujo Penna, Rua da Guitanda, No. 47. 
Pharmacia Homoeopathica of Bachelor Jose Maria de Souza, 
Rua da Guitanda, No. 55. 
Grande Laboratorio Plomoeopathico of J. & M. Pinho, Rua 
da Guitanda, No. 58. 
Homoeopathic Societies in Rio de Janeiro. 
Instituto Homoeopathic© do Brazil. President, Dr. A. J. de 
Mello Moraes; Secretary, pro tem., Dr. J. H. de Medeiros. 
( Vide Historical Sketch before.) 
Instituto Hahnemanniano Fluminense, Rua de S. Jose, No. 
59. President, Dr. Domingos A. C. Duque Estrada; ls£ Sec- 
retary, Dr. Joaquim Duarte Martinho; 2d Secretary, Dr. J. H. 
de Medeiros; 'Treasurer, Jose Rodrigues dos Santos. 
Editor of the Revista {Review'), Dr. A. J. de Mello Moraes. 
All homoeopathic doctors and druggists are members of this 
association, and have session once a month, when homoeopathic 
subjects are discussed. 
N.B.-This Institute made an offer last March to the govern- 
ment for the free treatment of paupers, who, being attacked with 
the yellow fever, prefer this medical treatment. 
Jornal do Commercio. 
The Instituto ITahnemanniano Fluminense to the Public: 
In acquainting the public with the petition below, which on 
the 20th ultimo was communicated to the Imperial Government 
in the name of the Instituto Hahnemanniano Fluminense, it 
proves it was not indifferent to the sufferings of the unfortunates 
attacked by the yellow fever; it leaves to the just opinion of 
the public to judge of the reason why its humanitarian offer was 
not received up to this day, and this in face of known statistics 
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gathered, not only on the occasions of yellow fever epidemics 
in the past, but also of other statistics published by the Board of 
Directors of Beneficiencia Portugueza and the administration of 
the orders Terceira da Senitencia and Carmo, all in favor of 
Hahnemann's doctrines. 
Rio de Janeiro, April 9th, 1876. 
PETITION. 
Sire: The city of Rio de Janeiro is being visited by the yel- 
low fever. The Imperial Government, exclusive of its hygienic 
measures, has ordered allopathic infirmaries to be opened where 
the poor people attacked by the malady might be sheltered, 
satisfying thus one of the most urgent necessities of the occasion. 
But, Sire, a great part of this population prefer to be treated by 
homoeopathic medicine, which is proved by the existence and 
maintenance of many physicians and druggists, who dedicate 
themselves to the exclusive practice of this medicine; thus 
the creation of a homoeopathic infirmary is at present a public 
necessity. The Institute Hahnemanniano Fluminense, sure that 
the Government has not yet attended to this necessity as every 
one expected, by lack, perhaps, of proper means, and also sure 
that the government is not a representative of any scientific 
party, but a representative of the interests and necessities of the 
people, offers gratuitously, not only the medical services of all its 
professional members, but also the necessary medicines from the 
members of the pharmaceutical section, if the government 
thinks in their wisdom that a homoeopathic infirmary should 
be opened. 
The Institute Hahnemanniano Fluminense considers that in all 
times that statistics have been made they have been favorable to 
Hahnemann's doctrines, and that it is not an experiment they 
ask, but to once more offer to the sick the benefit that this medi- 
cine has always produced. 
The Institute Hahnemanniano Fluminense hopes that the 
paternal government of your Imperial Majesty will not deny to 
the unfortunates, attacked by the epidemic, the dearest liberty HOMCEOPATHY IN BRAZIL. 
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they possess, that of treating themselves by the medicine they 
most confide in, and that it will not shrink before any difficulties 
in the discharge of a public necessity. 
Sire, the Institute Hahnemanniano Fluminense does not aspire 
to any reward, but the satisfaction of having fulfilled their duty 
towards humanity and their country, and of having once more 
an opportunity to propagate the truth. 
Dr. Domingos de Azevedo Coutinho de Duque Estrada, 
Dr. Joaquim Duarte Martinho, 
President. 
First Secretary. 
Dr. JosP Henrique de Medeiros, 
Second Secretary. 
Rio de Janeiro, March 20th, 1876. 
The Government considered this offer, and ordered the Director 
of the Misericordia to open an infirmary if lie thought it advis- 
able; this has not yet been done. 
(Signed) Mello Moraes, 
April 10, 1876 A. J. Secretary. PAGES 429-430 MISSING SECTION I. 
HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT OF HOMOEOPATHY 
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. CONTENTS- 
Introduction, f R. J. McClatchey, M.D 
' (Joseph C. Guernsey, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of New York. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Louisiana, . . . . W. H. Holcombe, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Connecticut, .... | S' 
(IN. A. 1UOSMAN, ivl.U. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Maryland, . . . . F. R. McManus, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Vermont, .... S' Currier, M.D., 
' ( G. E. E. Sparhawk, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Rhode Island. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Delaware, .... { ]^'a^h'lui^fns'M D ' 
( S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 
Homoeopathy in the State of Ohio J D. H. Beckwith, M.D., 
(N. Schneider, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Kentucky, .... William L. Breyfogle, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of New Jersey. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Maine, William E. Payne, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of New Hampshire, . . . f J' ^.D., 
( J • Jc ■ WHITTLE, 
Homoeopathy in the State of Indiana, O. P. Baer, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Michigan, . . . . F. Woodruff, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Georgia, F. H. Orme, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Wisconsin, .... { y p" p^tchen^ M D 
Homoeopathy in the State of Alabama, . . . . F. F. De Derkey, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Illinois, -IA' M.D., 
x ( It. JuUDLAM, 1V1.U. 
Homoeopathy in the District of Columbia, .... T. S. Verdi, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Tennessee, .... { £ p ^otise'M D ' 
Homoeopathy in the State of Missouri, . . . . P. G. Valentine, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Texas, W. M. Mercer, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of California, .... { e j^Fraser SK?D° ' 
Homoeopathy in the State of Minnesota, .... {aIbertVhe^ 
Homoeopathy in the State of Nebraska { a. Swp^mhwait, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Colorado, J. M. Walker, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Iowa, G. Neuman Seidlitz, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Massachusetts, . . . I. T. Talbot, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Pennsylvania, . . . J. C. Guernsey, M.D. 
Homoeopathy in the State of Virginia, Joseph V. Hobson, M.D. HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT OF 
HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES 
OF AMERICA. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Homoeopathy was represented in the United States fifty 
years ago by one man, and by one little much-abused and ridi- 
culed pamphlet of 24 pages written by that man. There was no 
book on homoeopathy printed in the English language; there 
were no schools, colleges, societies, or institutions. 
To-day the doctrines of Hahnemann and Gram are followed 
and taught by thousands, our colleges and institutions are known 
and honored throughout the land, there is hardly a town in the 
country that has not now its popular and respected homoeopathic 
physician. 
In writing of this marvellous progress it will be at once un- 
derstood that regarding facts, data, and local occurrences con- 
nected with the introduction of our system into the various States 
of the Union, there is considerable uncertainty. A great deal 
of the history presented in this volume has been completed after 
laborious research through musty files of early journals, from 
old college announcements, and even from the backs of medical 
magazines. 
Each State is supposed to have furnished its own complete 
history for this work ; but as each State did no such thing, of 
course the result has been that the Secretaries* have been obliged 
to do the work that other people should have done. 
With nothing else from which to gather facts it is of course not 
strange that certain sections of this history are defective, and if 
any man finds errors of omission or commission it is because of 
* Drs. R. J. McClatchey and Joseph C. Guernsey. 434 
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the failure of State committees to do the work which they 
pledged themselves to do. 
The work is divided into five sections. In section one, the 
general history of homoeopathy in the different States is given, 
taking the States, as nearly as possible, according to the time 
when homoeopathy was first introduced into each. 
In section two, is given a succinct account of homoeopathic 
institutions, viz., colleges, societies, hospitals, dispensaries, asy- 
lums, homes, and pharmacies. 
While it is certain that the history of these institutions is de- 
fective and incorrect, yet the most of the statistics are reliable, 
as great care has been taken to collate them from trustworthy 
sources. These are, as far as possible, given in chronological 
order. It is possible that the name and history of certain smaller 
institutions have been omitted. It is not from any oversight, as 
very great pains have been taken to discover and tabulate all the 
institutions, now or in the past, that have been under homceopathic 
treatment, or have been in any way connected with homoeopathy. 
In section three, is given as full and complete a tabulated list 
of all the publications of our school as could be made up. 
Section four, is devoted to a short history of special legislation 
for and against homoeopathy, with a few typical cases illustrat- 
ing allopathic bigotry. 
In section five, is given a brief account of the past and present 
means of homoeopathic medical education. 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into America by Dr. Gram, 
who settled in New York city in 1825. He gradually made 
converts ; the new doctrine spread into other parts of the State, 
physicians of the allopathic school seeing its incalculable advan- 
tages embraced homoeopathy, and under many difficulties fol- 
lowed successfully its practice. 
The first organization of homoeopathic physicians in America 
was formed in Philadelphia in 1833. This was composed 
of both physicians and laymen. The second was organized in 
New York city in 1834, and was called the New York Homoeo- 
pathic Society, being also composed of physicians and laymen. 
In neither society did laymen remain but a short time. HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
435 
The next State to embrace homoeopathy was Pennsylvania. 
Dr. Detwiler came from Switzerland in 1817, locating in Allen- 
town. He began to investigate homoeopathy in 1828, and gave 
his first prescription Jnly 23d of that year. It is not known by 
whom he was induced to test the new system.* 
There is no account of any one practicing homoeopathy in any 
other State until 1836, when Dr. .Martin, having become con- 
verted in France, his native country, settled in New Orleans, 
La., and began to practice. 
In 1837 Dr. Vanderburg, who had been a pupil of Gram in 
New York, went to Connecticut, and prescribing for the wife of 
Dr. Charles Taylor cured her so rapidly as to induce Dr. Taylor 
to renounce allopathy and devote himself to homoeopathy from 
that time. Dr. Gregg, of Massachusetts, in 1837 or '38, hearing 
of Dr. Vanderburg's success in New York, visited him, was in- 
structed by him in the new system, and commenced about 1840 
to practice homoeopathy in Boston. 
The same year, 1837, Dr. McManus, of Baltimore, Maryland, 
had his attention called to homoeopathy by two educated friends, 
who were studying German in order to read the homoeopathic 
works, of which none had ever been printed in English. He 
visited Philadelphia, consulted Dr. Matlock, was interested, and 
finally ended in adopting the new system. Dr. McManus is 
still in active practice in Baltimore. 
The next State to embrace the new law was Vermont, where 
Dr. Baird began to practice in 1838. 
In 1839 Dr. Louis Pari in began to practice homoeopathy in 
Providence, Khode Island. 
In 1839 Dr. Gosewich, a graduate of the Allentown Academy, 
settled in Wilmington, Delaware, introducing the law of similia 
into that State. 
Dr. Strum, a native of Germany, and who was converted by 
Hahnemann himself, came to America in 1839, and at once com- 
menced to practice homoeopathy at Cincinnati, Ohio, being the 
first to introduce the system into that State. 
* This is known. For full particulars refer to A Brief Sketch of the 
Allentown Academy, section iii, chap. 1.-J. C. Guernsey. 436 
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The first institution for teaching homoeopathy was the Alien- 
town Academy, situated at Allentown, Pa., and opened in 1835. 
In 1848 the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania 
was opened. These were the first two colleges in the country to 
teach homoeopathy. 
The first dispensary was organized in New York in 1845, and 
called the New York Homoeopathic Dispensary. The first phar- 
macy was opened in Philadelphia about the year 1835. The 
first hospital under homoeopathic treatment was located in Phila- 
delphia, and opened in 1850. 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into Louisville, Kentucky, 
in 1839 by Dr. J. G. Rosenstein. 
The next State into which the new system penetrated was 
New Jersey. Situated so near New York, the pioneer State, 
there is little doubt that the people had heard of the wonderful 
results of the new practice soon after its introduction by Gram, 
but there is no record of any practitioner of the system prior to 
1840, when Dr. R. S. Middleton located in Burlington city. 
In the year 1840 homoeopathy was introduced into Maine. 
Drs. W. E. Payne, E. Clark, A. Rea, J. Merrill, old-school prac- 
titioners, commenced to investigate homoeopathy about the same 
time. 
During the same year, 1840, Dr. Moses Atwood, the pioneer 
in New Hampshire, settled in Francistown. 
In 1840 Dr. Isaac Coe settled at Indianapolis, Indiana, who 
was converted by Dr. Hull in New York city. 
In 1841 Michigan beheld the light, Dr. S. S. Hall locating 
in Detroit. Dr. Hall was an allopath, who became converted to 
the new school by witnessing its wonderful results. 
In 1842 Dr. J. B. Gilbert located at Savannah, Georgia. 
In 1842 the wife of an Episcopal clergyman introduced homoe- 
opathy into Wisconsin. 
In 1846 Drs. Caton and Tracy located at Milwaukee. 
In 1843 homoeopathy was introduced into Montgomery, Ala- 
bama, by a layman. 
In 1843 Dr. D. S. Smith, who is still in active practice, settled 
in Illinois, the pioneer in the whole Northwest. HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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Iii 1844 Dr. Philip Harsh located in Nashville, Tennessee, 
having learned the system from Dr. Pulte in Cincinnati. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into St. Louis, Missouri, in 1844, 
by Dr. J. T. Temple. 
Texas was the next State into which homoeopathy was intro- 
duced. In 1848 Dr. Henry C. Parker located at Houston. One 
Dr. Ober going to California at the time of the gold excitement 
in 1849 introduced homoeopathy into that State. 
In 1852 Dr. Sperry located at St. Paul, Minnesota. 
Dr. A. S. Wright settled in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1862. 
In 1863 Dr. Ingersol settled in Denver City. 
Dr. Beck settled at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1871. 
But few of the pioneers who introduced the new law of cure 
into the several States went from New York. Homoeopathy 
sprang up as though the seed had been sown broadcast, and the 
harvest commenced in many places distant from each other at 
about the same time. The people were eager for something better 
than the old system of blistering, purging, and bleeding, and 
many thinking men in the allopathic ranks were glad to find a 
substitute to a system in which they had lost confidence. The 
new law came, and men welcomed it from the eastward and the 
westward. 
The history of the various institutions, colleges, homes, hospitals, 
pharmacies, etc., also illustrates the rapid growth of our system. 
The first society was composed of physicians and laymen ; 
there were but few physicians, and as these few desired to 
strengthen themselves and to imbue the minds of the laity with 
Hahnemannian truths, they invited them to a membership in 
their societies. The societies were few, the membership scanty at 
first; but the new law becoming better known as the number of 
physicians increased they felt it imperative to band together for 
mutual help and support, and also in order to present a firm 
front to the insidious attacks of their quondam brethren. Then 
the want was felt for a place where the poor could receive the 
incalculable benefits of homoeopathy, and dispensaries were or- 
ganized, hospitals opened, and to supply pure medicines homoeo- 
pathic pharmacies established. 438 
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To the American Institute is clue largely the formation of the 
numerous State and County societies; the Institute advised their 
formation for the purpose of proving medicines and extending 
and perfecting the Materia Medica, and for a time the societies 
were principally engaged in that work, which they reported 
yearly to the Institute. Gradually their sphere of usefulness 
extended itself until they became in a degree State institutes of 
homoeopathy. 
A full and careful account of these societies is given in the 
appropriate section of this work. 
In the earlier years of the growth of homoeopathy the prac- 
tice was conducted in certain places by laymen,-men and wTo- 
men who, without understanding the science of medicine, yet were 
able with their simple homoeopathic remedies to make cures; 
the people soon discovered this, and would have them in prefer- 
ence to their more regularly educated physicians. In many sec- 
tions homoeopathy was first introduced by these domestic doctors, 
and even now, in sparsely settled country districts, they can be 
found sowing the good seed and working for humanity and for 
the relief of the sick. 
All honor to the noble-minded women who, in the past and 
to-day, are treating their friends and neighbors in regions too 
sparsely settled to support a regularly educated physician, and 
treating them without thought of fee or reward save the glorious 
consciousness that some poor suffering child has been saved from 
the torments of the " regular " style of practice. 
Gradually there came to be felt a want for homoeopathic rep- 
resentation in our public institutions; the allopathic monopoly 
was distasteful to the people. The efforts were many and strong 
on the part of the friends of homoeopathy, and the opposition as 
strong. The history of the actions of the dominant school to 
homoeopathy is one great page of bigotry and impotent rage. 
After denouncing us as ignorant men, after predicting our speedy 
fall, after trying us for malpractice, after using every means in 
their power to thwart and defeat us, the allopathic rank and file 
are awakening to the fact that the shadows of old dogmas are 
growing beautifully less, that the press is the people's voice in its HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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denunciation of their bigotry, that instead of waning the doc- 
trines of Hahnemann were never more powerful and popular. 
If the history of homoeopathy in another half century be as 
glorious as that of the fifty years just past, then will allopathic 
dogmas be looked on much as are the exploded theories of the 
buried centuries of the past. HOMCEOPATHY IN NEW YORK. 
Hans Birch Gram, the person who introduced and first 
practiced homoeopathy in the United States of America, was the 
grandson of a wealthy sea-captain of Copenhagen, Denmark. 
The doctor's father, Hans Gram, when a young man, was pri- 
vate secretary to the governor of Santa Cruz. While, with his 
servant, making the tour of the United States, in 1782 or 1783, 
he met a Miss Burdick, of Boston, Mass., whom he soon married. 
He then relinquished his secretaryship, settling in Boston. For 
thus marrying, his father disinherited him, but afterwards recon- 
sidered this act, and, dying in 1802, left him the bulk of his 
property. In 1803, the night before he was to have sailed for 
Denmark to attend to this inheritance, he was attacked with 
colic, and died in a few hours. Hans Birch Gram, who was 
born in 1786, remained in Boston with his mother until her 
death, which occurred two years after the death of her husband. 
He then went to Copenhagen, and succeeded in obtaining a por- 
tion of his grandfather's estate. 
At the solicitation of his uncle, Dr. Fenger, one of the king's 
physicians, he began the study of medicine. He graduated at 
Copenhagen in 1814, receiving the degree of C.M.L., the high- 
est of three grades.* 
He occupied a high position in that city, being connected with 
the Royal Military Hospital during the last seven years of the 
Napoleonic wars, and being at one time assistant physician to 
the king.f He was engaged in private practice for a long time 
in Copenhagen, where he enjoyed the companionship of the most 
eminent literary and medical scholars of Denmark.J His prac- 
* Historical Sketch of Homoeopathy, by Henry M. Smith, M.D., New 
England Medical Gazette, 1871, p. 92. 
f Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soc.,vol. i, p. 93. 
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tice was very lucrative, and at the age of forty he had acquired 
a competency for his future support, and from which he assisted 
the younger members of his family who were in America. 
He fully tested the method of Hahnemann, during the years 
1823 and 1824, upon his own person and in his extensive prac- 
tice, and became convinced of its truth. 
He returned to America, probably during the early autumn 
of 1825, and settled in New York city, where he commenced to 
practice homoeopathy. He resided with his brother, Neils B. 
Gram, at 431 Broome St. 
In 1825 he published, in the form of a letter to Dr. Hosack, 
a translation of Hahnemann's Spirit of Homoeopathy, which, 
owing to the peculiar idiomatic expressions with which it 
abounded, was not well understood or received by physicians, 
among whom it was gratuitously distributed. Dr. Gram felt 
the neglect which he received after this publication very keenly. 
Many physicians turned from warm personal friends to bitter 
and vindictive enemies, and he was, during the remainder of his 
life, never free from their persecutions. 
In 1826 he proposed to a friend, Dr. R. B. Folger, to be al- 
lowed to treat some of his chronic cases homoeopathically. Dr. 
Folger assented, and he took such cases as were willing to place 
themselves in his hands. These cases were all speedily relieved, 
though Dr. Folger says he had considered one case as incurable.* 
The accounts of Dr. Gram's career are very meagre, but 
several anecdotes are told of him by his contemporaries, among 
which are the following: 
Dr. Vanderburg gives the following account of his first meet- 
ing with Dr. Gram. "I was attending a gentleman on Pearl 
Street, one of whose toes were set at right angles with his foot 
by a contraction of its tendon. I wished him to have it divided, 
and he assented unwillingly. The next day Dr. Gray and my- 
self met according to agreement, when he discharged us both. 
Thirty days thereafter I met him walking the street with his toe 
adjusted. I asked him how it was done, and he said Dr. Gram 
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had given him sugar-pellets the size of a mustard-seed, and thus 
straightened the toe. Having no prejudices to encounter, I 
straightway introduced myself to Gram. I found him using a 
gigantic intellect with the simplicity of a child, entirely uncon- 
scious of its power. He seemed to be learned beyond the books, 
and with his capacious mind was working out the problems and 
primal facts of science from his own standpoint. I saw at a 
glance that he .dwarfed all my proportions immeasurably, and 
that I had been creeping in a labyrinth while he was walking 
in the noonday sun."* 
Dr. Vanderburg continues: "My first trial of his skill was 
remarkable. A lady, aged 36 years, came from Hudson to con- 
sult me on board a steamer. She had been for four years ill 
with what she called ' black jaundice I had lost a sister with 
the same disease. I took a careful record of her case, and on 
my return home I met Gram at his door, and asked him to read 
the record. He said she had been poisoned with bark, and Cham- 
omilla would cure her. I said I had prescribed that, and Arsenic 
beside. He said the Arsenic was wrong; that in three days 
after the Chamomilla was taken the old chill of four years ago 
would reappear, but so feebly that she would recover without 
another. His prophecy proved true." 
Dr. Gram was a very earnest Royal Arch Mason, and through 
this channel became acquainted with Dr. R. B. Folger on May 
25th, 1825. He seems to have formed a very close friendship 
for him, and the two gentlemen twice very nearly became part- 
ners. 
Dr. Gram loaned Dr. Folger a manuscript article, The Phar- 
maco-Dynamic Properties of Drugs, which Dr. Folger afterwards 
lost. It is probably not now in existence. 
Dr. Folger introduced Dr. Gram, in September, 1826, to a 
Mr. Ferdinand L. Wilsey, who was also a prominent Mason, in 
order that Dr. Gram might instruct Mr. Wilsey regarding some 
important Masonic points. Dr. Gram frequently visited Mr. 
Wilsey's place of business, and finally, he being in ill health, 
* Narrative of Dr. Vanderburg, from MS. in possession of Dr. H. M. 
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treated him homoeopathically and cured him. Mr. Wilsey was 
much delighted, and became greatly interested in this new method 
of cure. 
Dr. Gram was not a rich man after his return to America. 
He was a very influential and well-to-do citizen while in Copen- 
hagen, but he chose to return to his native land as the pioneer 
of a great truth, where he met, instead of kindliness and praise, 
only relentless persecution. Regarding the last years of his life 
Dr. J. F. Gray thus writes :* " Gram failed in health completely 
just as the new period began to dawn upon us. Broken in heart 
by the misfortunes, insanity, and death of his only brother, upon 
whom he had lavished all the estate he had brought with him 
from Europe, he was attacked by apoplexy in 1838, and after 
many months of suffering he passed away February 18th, 1840. 
Wilson and I tenderly cared for him, and Curtis watched him 
as a faithful son would do a beloved father. He was an earnest 
Christian of the Swedenborgian faith, and a man of the most scru- 
pulously pure and charitable life I have ever known. In the 
presence of want, sorrow, and disease, secluded from all observa- 
tion of the world, he ministered with angelic patience and with 
divine earnestness. The squalid hovel of the sick poor was to 
Gram ever the most holy temple of religion; its atmosphere con- 
secrated his whole soul to the strongest exertion of his many- 
sided wisdom, the most perfect and potent application of his 
painstaking art. His conscience was then all alive to heavenly 
inspiration. No darkness or wintry storm, or failure of strength, 
or allurement of the world detained Gram when the suffering 
poor needed his healing presence. He believed in God ; he 
worked and walked his pilgrimage with his Redeemer."* 
He was buried in St. Mark's Burial-ground, between 11th and 
12th streets, New York, but on September 4th, 1862, his old- 
time friend and pupil, Dr. John F. Gray, removed his remains 
to his own lot in Greenwood Cemetery.j* 
At a meeting of the New York State Homoeopathic Medical 
* N. Y. State Hom. Soo. Trans., vol. i, p. 104. 
f Mass. Hom. Trans , vol. i, p. 26. 444 
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Society, held at Cooper Institute on the evening of September 
14th, 1869, Dr. J. F. Gray asked the society to take measures 
for a more public commemoration of the labors of Dr. Gram. 
The society, on motion of Dr. Paine, appointed a committee on 
the erection of a monument in Greenwood Cemetery over his 
remains. This committee was constituted as follows: Drs. 
John F. Gray, L. Hallock, S. B. Barlow, B. F. Bowers, Carroll 
Dunham, H. D. Paine, R. C. Moffatt, I. T. Talbot, Walter Wil- 
liamson, G. E. Shipman, Wm. H. Holcombe. Dr. H. D. Paine 
was appointed Treasurer. The contributions were fixed at one 
dollar.* Contributions were raised throughout the United States, 
and the monument was eretfted in accordance with the resolution. 
The first person in America who followed the teachings of Dr. 
Gram was Dr. Robert B. Folger, whom Gram first met at a 
Masonic meeting held on May 25th, 1826. 
Dr. Folger was born in Hudson, New York, in 1803, and 
commenced the practice of medicine in 1824 in New York city. 
For a time after he became the friend of Gram he ridiculed the 
new law of homoeopathy, but in August, 1826, Gram treated 
for him several cases successfully which Dr. Folger had consid- 
ered incurable. Dr. Folger then commenced the study of the 
German language under Dr. Gram, reading with him the Or- 
ganon and Materia Medica Pura. He commenced to practice 
homoeopathy in 1827, but not feeling confidence in his own 
knowledge of homoeopathy, Dr. Gram always accompanied him 
when he visited patients. Dr. Folger, on account of ill-health, 
was obliged, in January, 1828, to visit the South, Dr. Gram 
bidding him goodby at the vessel in which he sailed. During 
this time he was Gram's only student and assistant.! After the 
date of Dr. Folger's first departure for the South his connection 
with Gram ceased, nor did he again practice medicine. 
Mr. Ferdinand L. Wilsey, a merchant in delicate health, was 
in September, 1826, introduced to Dr. Gram by Dr. Folger. 
Dr. Gram cured Mr. Wilsey, and interested him in the new 
system of medicine. He instructed him concerning the effects of 
* Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soo., vol. viii, pp. 8, 14. 
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certain remedies, and Mr. Wilsey soon became quite skilful in 
their use, earning for himself the title of " Doctor," but he did 
not charge any fee for his medical services. 
Dr. Folger says: "Mr. Wilsey may be considered not only 
as the first convert to the doctrine of homoeopathia in the United 
States, but also as the first American who made any pretensions 
to the practice of the same. 
" As early as 1828 Mr. Wilsey was occupied with many pa- 
tients. He was devotedly attached to Gram, and in all his ad- 
versities and changes was to be found at his side. He was a 
companion to him in his protracted illness, and was the last at 
his final resting-place."* 
Mr. Wilsey received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1844, 
though he had practiced homoeopathy as a layman previously. 
He soon acquired a large practice. He died in New York city 
in 1860. 
The next person who entered the homoeopathic ranks was Dr. 
John F. Gray, who was born in Sherburne, Chenango County, 
N. Y.,in 1804. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Peter 
B. Havens, of Hamilton. When he was sixteen years old his pa- 
rents removed to Jamestown, Chatauqua County. He afterwards 
became the student of Dr. Ezra Williams, of Dunkirk. At 
Hamilton he learned Latin and taught school. In September, 
1824, when twenty years old, he came to New York, becoming 
the pupil of Drs. Hosach and John W. Francis. 
In 1825 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Navy, and 
in order to obtain this position he received a license from the 
County Medical Society. His income at that time was very 
small, and Dr. Hosach, learning this, got for him an appoint- 
ment as Assistant Surgeon in the New York Hospital, with a 
salary of fifty dollars a month and his board. 
Dr. Gray was obliged to first pass an examination by men op- 
posed to Dr. Hosach. Dr. Watts, who had been his strongest 
opponent, became- as earnest a friend, and advised him to open 
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an office in the growing part of the city. He displayed a sign in 
Charlton Street, and soon acquired a large and lucrative 
practice.* 
In 1828 Mr. Wilsey sought to induce Dr. Gray, who had 
previously treated him unsuccessfully for the disease which Dr. 
Gram cured, to make the acquaintance of Dr. Gram. Dr. Gray 
for some time refused to be introduced to Dr. Gram, but finally 
met him in Mr. Wilsey's store; he hesitated to take his hand, 
telling him that he could only consider one who made such pre- 
tensions as a quack. Dr. Gram maintained that he could demon- 
strate the correctness of his views in any way Dr. Gray might 
choose. On leaving the store Dr. Gray invited Gram to walk 
with him, and they walked and talked till midnight. 
Dr. Gray submitted a carefid report of some difficult cases to 
Gram {Gram did not, see the patients), and speedy cures fol- 
lowed.f Dr. Gray was so well satisfied with the results that 
he became a firm believer in the doctrine of the similars ; but his 
patients had no faith in so little medicine and one by one left 
him, until he had not sufficient practice for self-support. 
At this time, in 1829 or 1830, Dr. Vanderburgh, who had a 
large practice, advised Dr. Gray to remove to Broadway, prom- 
ising him families enough to pay his rent. 
He accepted the offer, and took a house near the corner of 
Hancock Street and Broadway. He took $1650 the first year.J 
In 1835 Dr. Hull, his father-in-law, who had been engaged 
in the truss business, died, leaving Gray his executor. Much 
time was occupied in attending to this business, and from 1835 
to 1838 he had an office in Vesey Street, under the Astor House. 
Previous to this Dr. Gray studied German§ under Dr. Gram, 
and he was thus soon enabled to prescribe without the help of 
his instructor. 
* Historical Sketch, by Dr. Smith, N. E. Med. Gazette. February, 1871, 
p. 94. Also MSS. from Dr. Gray, in possession of Dr. H. M. Smith. 
f For full account, wide N. Y. State Trans., vol. i, p. 96. 
| MSS. of Dr. Vanderburgh, in possession of Dr. H. M. Smith. 
There was at this time no English translation of the Materia Medica, and 
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Dr. Gray's successful practice soon brought friends and wealth. 
Since that time his hospitality and numerous kindnesses to the 
poor have endeared him to many. He has graduated a large 
number of students from his office, from whom no fee was ever 
asked or received. 
Dr. Folger thus speaks of Dr. Gray: "Dr. Gray may be 
truly reckoned the very first scientific homoeopathic physician 
after Dr. Gram, and has been an unflinching and constant 
champion up to the present hour."* 
Dr. Gray edited, with Dr. Hull, the American Journal of 
Homoeopathia and the Homoeopathic Examiner, first series. He 
assisted Dr. Hempel in the preparation of the Symptomen Codex, 
and he has written several pamphlets. The Duty of the State in 
Relation to Homoeopathy, The Early Annals of Homoeopathy in 
New York, and Homoeopathy in Nezu York and the late Abra- 
ham D. Wilson, A.M., M.D., are among the most important of 
these. 
The next person who embraced the new law was Abraham D 
Wilson, who was introduced to Dr. Gram by Dr. Gray. He 
became a convert in 1829. He was born September 20th, 1801, 
in Columbia College, New York city. He graduated therefrom 
in 1818. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1822. He is said to 
have had the largest clientage in New York city at that period. 
After he commenced to practice homoeopathy he lost all his 
old families, except one. He was a man of great talent and posi- 
tion, and was much esteemed by his medical brethren, but he 
sacrificed practice and friends to his convictions of truth and 
right. 
For some years he was obliged to depend upon Gram in his 
cases, as he could not read German. 
Dr. Gray eloquently says: " God bless him ! but never shall 
I forget the joy his advent to homoeopathy gave me. A ripe 
scholar in the humanities, a physician in full practice, a genial 
man, quick to learn, apt and able to instruct, I have ever found 
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him what he was thirty-four years ago, when he came into our 
communion, a brave follower of truth, a practical friend of jus- 
tice."* Dr. Wilson died January 20th, 1864. 
Dr. Daniel E. Stearns, born at Hinesburg, Vt., came to New 
York in 1827, graduating the following year at the University 
of Vermont, at Burlington. He met Gram in November, 1828, 
and in 1829 he commenced to practice homoeopathy. He re- 
mained in practice till 1833, when he removed to Tremont, N. Y. 
Dr. Amos Gerald Hull was the first student of homoeopathy. 
He was born in New Hartford, N. Y., in 1810. He graduated 
at Union College, Schenectady, in 1826. 
He remained there some months, pursuing a post graduate 
course of studies in chemistry and anatomy, under Dr. B. F. 
Joslin. 
Hull entered Rutgers Medical College, New York, in 1828. 
He studied an extra college course as a private pupil of Drs. 
Francis and Bushe. He also received daily instruction from 
Dr. Gram. Gram taught him botany in the summer, and in the 
winter evenings Gram dictated a course of anatomy to Hull in 
Latin, which he recorded in Latin as it fell from the master's 
lips.f 
He graduated from Rutger's College in 1832, and the next 
year began to practice homoeopathy. He was the first student 
who underwent the public and recorded examination of the Med- 
ical Society of the County of New York. 
Dr. Hull practiced medicine twenty-seven years. 
In 1834 he edited, with Dr. Gray, the American Journal of 
Homoeopathia, and in 1840 he edited the Homoeopathic Examiner, 
three volumes of which were published. Dr. Hull edited several 
editions of Jahr's Manual, and assisted in the preparation of the 
Symptomen Codex. He edited an American edition of Everest's 
Popular View of Homoeopathy, and several editions of Laurie's 
Domestic Homoeopathic Practice. In 1828 he became a member 
of the New York Medical Society. The next year he became its 
corresponding secretary, and the following year he was elected 
* Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soe., vol. i, p. 96. 
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president. He was a member of the New York County Medical 
Society, and in 1835 one of the censors.* 
He died April 25th, 1859. 
Dr. William Channing, a gentleman of culture and education, 
was born in Massachusetts about 1800, and graduated at Rut- 
gers CYllegef in New York. He joined Gram's party in the 
County Medical Society for the establishment of the public and 
recorded examination of candidates, and having been elected in 
that body to the office of censor with Gram and Wilson for 
colleagues he often heard the new practice discussed.J In 1832, 
on the first outbreak of the cholera, Dr. Channing tendered his 
services at the hospitals. He made a public trial of the efficacy 
of Camphor, Veratrum, and Cuprum as prescribed by Hahnemann. 
He thought so well of his results that he published them over 
his own signature in the Commercial Advertiser of that day, and 
soon after avowed his entire change of practiced 
Channing's conversion marked an era in the history of homoe- 
opathy. The regular profession, who had heretofore paid little 
attention to the subject, now were aroused to opposition, which 
increased as the new system gained in public favor. Dr. Chan- 
ning accepted homoeopathy as a principle, and was a thorough 
Hahnemannian, or " Purist." He was the first physician to be- 
lieve in its all-sufficiency. 
Pie died of paralysis at Harrisburg, Pa., February 11th, 1855. 
Dr. Louis Folk Van Beuren was Gram's student in 1832 or 
1833. Nothing farther is known about him. 
Dr. Joseph Thomas Curtis was the second and a much-es- 
teemed pupil of Dr. Gram. He was born at Danbury, Conn., 
January 29th, 1815. He entered Dr. Gram's office as a student 
in 1833. He passed one of the most brilliant "public and re- 
corded examinations" ever held in this city, receiving his license 
to practice March 23d, 1836. He was profoundly versed in 
anatomy, physiology, and materia mcdica, and was regarded as 
* N. E. Med Gazette, 1871, p 141. 
j- Or Harvard College. 
J N. Y. State Trans., vol. i, p. 99. 
Dr. Smith in N. E. Med. Gazette, 1871, p. 142. 450 
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one of the most learned of practitioners. But, lacking the bland- 
ishments and power of pleasing which many possess, he never 
attained to wealth or fame. Valentine Mott said of him in a 
testimonial: "Dr. Curtis is a medical scholar of rare attain- 
ments, and a gentleman of spotless character." Willard Parker 
also attests to his possessing "a superior and highly cultivated 
intellect, which he has most ardently devoted to the science of 
medicine and its collaterals." 
In 1852 he was elected President of the Hahnemann Academy 
of Medicine,* and delivered an inaugural address on "The Re- 
lations of Homoeopathy to Chemistry," which was published in 
pamphlet form. In 1843 he edited, with Dr. James Lillie, An 
Epitome of Homoeopathic Practice. 
His practice was large and successful during the ten years in 
which he could work, and his personal influence with men of 
weight and character exerted a very strong bias in favor of 
homoeopathy.f 
His health, by excessive study and toil, failed, and his death, 
which occurred November 13th, 1857, was sudden and sad. 
Dr. John Granger came from ParisJ early in 1833, and opened 
an office in Canal Street. At that time he was not a graduate. 
He afterwards resided in St. Louis, where he had an extensive 
practice. He now lives in New York, but is not in practice. 
Dr. Benjamin C. Dutcher came from Utica to New York city 
in 1831. In 1834 he studied German in order to study homoeop- 
athy. 
In 1840 he relinquished the practice of medicine for that of 
dentistry. In 1869 he removed to Newark, N. J., where he is 
again practicing medicine.§ 
Among the early friends of Dr. Gram was Dr. Stephen R. 
Kirby,-having made his acquaintance in 1832, soon after Dr. 
Wilson's adoption of the practice. He frequently conversed with 
* New York Medical Gazette, 1871, p. 142. 
f Transactions New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society, vol. i, p. 
103. 
| Ibid., vol. v, p. 116. 
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Wilson and Channing at Gram's office on homoeopathy. Not 
understanding German, Kirby was able to practice but little, and 
hesitated to avow himself a homoeopathic physician till after the 
publication of the Organon and Materia Medica. He was in 
favor of public and recorded examinations. 
He was one of three to organize the first homoeopathic dis- 
pensary in this country. 
Dr. Kirby was editor of the American Journal of Homoeop- 
athy, an early publication. 
He has been an active member of the various homoeopathic 
medical societies. For many years he was connected with the 
New York Homoeopathic College. He embraced homoeopathy 
in 1838. He was at one time Professor of Materia Medica in 
the Women's Medical College, New York. He is still in prac- 
tice in New York city. 
Dr. Federal Vanderburgh was born in Beekman, Dutchess 
County, N. Y., in 1788. He studied medicine with Dr. Wright, 
at New Milford, Conn. He attended lectures at New York city, 
graduating before he was twenty-one years old. His health fail- 
ing in 1811, he went to Geneva, N. Y., and there practiced for 
ten years. He returned to New York city in 1838. 
An account of his introduction to Dr. Gram is given in the 
sketch of Gram's life. He died at Rhinebeck, N. Y., January 
23d, 1868. 
"The secret of his success lay in his enthusiasm for his pro- 
fession. In 1865 he passed through Poughkeepsie with a patient 
whom he had escorted from New York. The husband said, on 
the day after their arrival, 'Well, doctor, you will stay with us 
a few days and rest yourself?' ' No,' said Dr. Vanderburgh, 'I 
must return to-morrow.' ' So soon,' replied the host; ' well, what 
can I do to entertain you?' 'O, show me some sick folks!' A 
man at eighty or more, who could rest himself by examining and 
prescribing for 'sick folks,' is just the man that 'sick folks' 
would be likely to seek after all his life long; and this was the 
experience of Dr. Vanderburgh.* He was the author of one or 
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two pamphlets on homoeopathy, and also published a work, The 
Geometry of the Vital Forces.'" 
Dr. Alonzo S. Ball was born at Keene, N. H. He studied 
law, and was preparing to enter Hamilton College when his 
mother's death caused a change of plan. In 1821 he became a 
student of Dr. Miller, of Louisville. In 1824 he attended lec- 
tures at Fairfield College, and the following year came to New 
York to attend lectures and graduate at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons. A sickness lessened his income so much 
that he only took a partial course, and returned to Syracuse. 
He had spent much of his time in the New York Hospital and 
Eye Infirmary. He afterwards received a license from the Lewis 
County Medical Society. Fie returned to New York in 1838, 
and became acquainted with Dr. Vanderburgh, but was opposed 
to his dogmas. Shortly after his old preceptor gave him a work 
on homoeopathy, which pleased him. Having a case of laryn- 
gitis, he called on Dr. J. T. Curtis by night, not wishing to be 
seen entering the office of a homoeopath. Under Dr. Curtis's 
prescription the patient got well, and the doctor, commencing to 
experiment further, has continued it to this day. Dr. Ball is 
still in active practice in New York city.* 
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Bowers was born in Billerica, Mass., 
in 1796. He graduated from Yale College in 1819. He went 
to New York in 1837, forming a copartnership with Dr. B. F. 
Joslin. Fie was appointed physician to the New York Dispen- 
sary, but in 1839 he was expelled for investigating homoeopathy. 
He thought to do the State a service by showing the fallacies of 
homoeopathy, but instead he discovered that the old school was 
fallacious, and avowed his faith. A dissolution of partnership 
occurred, his partner not believing in the new school of medi- 
cine. 
Dr. Bowers has been prominent in the profession, taking an 
active part in societies and dispensaries. He is now in practice 
in New York city. He has been President of the Hahnemann 
Academy of Medicine, and of the New York County Ilomoeo- 
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pathic Medical Society. He has also written several pam- 
phlets. 
Dr. Alfred Freeman was born at Salem, Washington County, 
N. Y., in 1793. He came to New York in 1834, receiving his 
license from the New York County Medical.Society. In 1840, 
or 1841, he was induced by Dr. Ball to become a homoeopath. 
He had a large and successful practice. He died in New York 
March 8th, 1861. 
Dr. Zina Harris came from Vermont, and in 1840 was prac- 
ticing homoeopathy in New York. He was a zealous advocate 
of the system, a successful practitioner, a great thinker, and close 
reasoner. Nothing further is known about him.* 
Dr. Henry Gale Dunnell was born in Albany, 1804. He 
graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1826, 
in the same class with Drs. Gray, Hallock, Joslin, and Palmer. 
He was on friendly terms with the homoeopaths, and voted 
with them in favor of a public and recorded examination, but 
was opposed to homoeopathy. He left, at one time, a patient 
with Dr. Freeman, who cured her. On finding- that homoeo- 
pathic medicine had accomplished this he investigated and soon 
accepted its claims. He was President of the New York Ho- 
moeopathic Physicians' Society, and died in New York Septem- 
ber 4th, 1868. 
Dr. Bichard M. Bolles, born in 1797 at Hudson, N. Y., 
graduated at Williams College. He practiced five years in Co- 
lumbia and Delaware counties, coming to New York in 1824. 
Dr. Bolles formed a friendship for Dr. Channing prior to 1840. 
A personal observation of Channing's treatment convinced him of 
the truth of the law of the similars. He was a ripe scholar and 
a persistent student. He was connected with the homoeopathic 
dispensaries and the Half Orphan Asylum. He was much inter- 
ested in society affairs and was elected President of the Hahne- 
mann Academy of Medicine. In 1843 he prepared a synoptical 
index to vol. ii of Jahr's New Manual, and at the time of his 
death was writing two works on homoeopathy. He died in New 
York in 1865. 
* N. E. Med. Gazette, 1871, p. 190. 454 
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Dr. Walter' C. Palmer was born in New Jersey in 1804. He 
graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New 
York, in 1826, in the class with Drs. Gray, Dunnel, and Joslin. 
In 1840 Dr. Palmer had a severe case of hip disease that had 
baffled the skill of many distinguished allopathic physicians, and 
which was not improving under his care. He remembered that 
Dr. Ball had mentioned cases cured by homoeopathic remedies, 
and called upon him for a prescription for his patient. The 
child began from the first dose to improve. Hoping that the ad- 
ministration of the remedy and the previous medication were 
simply coincident, he determined to prescribe a homoeopathic 
remedy in a case of diarrhoea, expecting thus to prove the fallacy 
of homoeopathy. Much to his regret his patient was cured and 
he was forced to become a homoeopath. After practicing homoe- 
opathy eighteen years he retired from practice in 1858. He still 
lives in New York.* 
Dr. Samuel Bancroft Barlow was born at Bancroft, Mass., in 
1798. He began to study medicine in 1819, with Dr. V. Hol- 
comb, in Granville. He graduated at Yale College in March, 
1822, and practiced in East Granville until 1834, when he re- 
moved to Florida, Orange Co., N. Y. In 1837 he became a 
homoeopath, and in 1841 removed to New York city, where he 
has since resided. He has always taken a prominent part in 
everything relating to homoeopathy. For several years he was 
Professor of Materia Medica in the New York College. He ed- 
ited an American edition of Dr. Chepmell's Domestic Work. He 
has recently deceased. 
Dr. John A. McVickar graduated at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, in New York, in 1833. He came here from 
Schenectady. He was induced to investigate homoeopathy by 
Dr. Zina Harris, and in 1841 acknowledged it as a " principle in 
medicine," but not an exclusive system (yide a pamphlet ad- 
dressed to Allen Goldsmith, and published in 1841). He does 
not practice homoeopathy exclusively. He was in 1853 Presi- 
dent of Hahnemann Academy of Medicine, and delivered an in- 
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augural address ou " The Social Position of Medicine," which was 
published as a pamphlet. He is practicing in New York city.* 
In 1842 Dr. B. F. Joslin, a very talented allopathic physician, 
became convinced of the truths of homoeopathy by proving drugs 
upon himself, noting the symptoms, and then comparing them 
with the printed pathogenesis. In 1843 he became President of 
the New York Homoeopathic Physicians' Society. He wrote a 
great many able articles on medical subjects,! together with a 
valuable treatise on cholera. He died in 1861. 
In 1844 Dr. George E. Belcher investigated homoeopathy and 
adopted it in his practice. 
The first society of homoeopathic physicians in the United 
States was organized at New York city, September 23d, 1834, 
and was called The New York Homoeopathic Society. It was 
composed of physicians and laymen. A more extended account 
of this association will be given in another place. 
From this time the growth of the new school was very rapid, 
not only in New York but in other States. The people recog- 
nized that under this new system they could be more quickly 
and comfortably cured of ailments, and they hastened to em- 
brace it. 
Before this period the allopaths had not considered it worthy 
of notice, but, finding that they were losing patients, they took 
a firm and determined, but unsuccessful stand against.its unde- 
niable results. 
The rise and progress of homoeopathy thus far had been con- 
fined to New York County. 
Chatauqua County was the next in which it appeared. In 
1833 Dr. Joseph Birnstill, a homoeopathic physician, a native of 
Germany, and a graduate from a German university, went to 
Dunkirk, N. Y., and commenced to practice. 
Few in the county knew the meaning of the word homoeop- 
athy, and as Dr. Birnstill could not speak English and the 
people could not speak German he labored under great difficulty. 
* N. E. Med Gazette, 1871, p. 192. 
f Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Soo., vol. i, p. 107. 456 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
During his eight months' stay in Dunkirk he treated some 
chronic cases successfully. Hethen went to Westfield, where he 
remained two years, curing chronic cases pronounced hopeless by 
other physicians. 
He then practiced a few months in Buffalo, but being unsuc- 
cessful returned to Westfield. He was refused admission to the 
Chatauqua County Medical Society on account of his homoeo- 
pathic principles, and was threatened with penal prosecution for 
illegal practice under the statute. 
Under all this prosecution and ridicule he continued and per- 
formed some important cures, but, finally discouraged, went to 
Erie, Pa., in 1839.* He died in 1867 at Newton, Mass., where 
he had a large practice.f There was no other practitioner of the 
new school until Dr. A. W. Gray, a clergyman of Portland, the 
brother of Dr. John F. Gray, of New York city, being com- 
pelled to give up preaching from weakness of voice, returned to 
his original profession. Dr. John F. Gray, visiting his brother, 
had left homoeopathic books with him and his neighbor, Dr. Wol- 
cott. In a fatal epidemic of scarlatina they were induced to use 
homoeopathic remedies with good success. In 1844 Dr. Gray 
resigned his pastorate and commenced to practice homoeopathy 
successfully in Portland. In 1845 he removed to Jamestown, 
where he soon became a partner of Dr. William S. Hedges, 
whom hereon verted to his belief. They had a very large prac- 
tice. 
Dr. W. G. Wolcott, in 1843, commenced practicing in West- 
field, where he soon acquired a large practice. 
The following allopaths, largely through the influence of Dr. 
Gray, became homoeopaths, and commenced practice as such : 
1843, Dr. W. G. Wolcott. 
1846, Dr. Cornelius Ormes, who settled in 1833 at Panama, 
N. Y. He remained there till 1861, when he went to James- 
town, where he still practices, leaving his son, Dr. F. C. Ormes. 
Dr. Boswell F. Van Buren settled at Clymer, N. Y., in 1823. 
* Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iii, p. 189. 
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In 1836 he removed to Frewsburg, N. Y. He became a homoeo- 
path in 1846, and died in Illinois in 1863. 
Dr. W. S. Hedges settled in 1838 at Jamestown ; became a 
homoeopath in 1846 ; was a partner of Dr. A. W. Gray. 
Dr. Benjamin Potwine settled in Gerry in 1831; became a 
homoeopath in 1847. Died, 1852. 
Dr. L. M. Kenyon settled in Westfield about 1841 or '42; be- 
came a homoeopath in 1846. He was a partner of Dr. W. G. 
Wolcott, until Dr. Wolcott's health failing he was obliged to 
leave the town. Dr. Kenyon continued there until 1856, when 
he went to Buffalo, entering into business with Dr. N. H. 
Warner, the principal homoeopathic physician of that city. 
Dr. Charles Parker settled at Ashville, but in 1847 became a 
homoeopath and removed to Fredonia. He then went to Forest- 
ville and from thence to Ellery.* 
Other practitioners of the region were : Drs. E. T. Foote, C. 
L. Stockton, D. T. Brown, Elisha G. Cook, George A. Hall, 
A. S. Couch, A. E. Keyes, and a number of others. 
The Chautauqua County Homoeopathic Society was not or- 
ganized until 1863. It now has sixteen members. 
ALBANY COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into the city of Albany by 
Dr. Biegler in the autumn of 1837. At that early period a 
few persons only had heard of the new system, and a still smaller 
number of adherents were willing to trust it in violent attacks 
of disease. • 
Among this class of firm believers the name of Rev. Dr. 
Myers deserves special mention. The reverend doctor at that 
early day had procured from Leipsic a number of homoeopathic 
remedies and a small book, printed in the German language, 
giving directions for the proper administration of the medicines. 
By these firm believers in homoeopathy Dr. Biegler was cor- 
dially welcomed and zealously supported. 
Dr. Augustus P. Biegler was born in Prussia. He resided, at 
* Transactions of the New York Homoeopathic Medical Society, vol. iii, 
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world's homceopathic convention. 
the time of graduation from the University of Berlin, in St. 
Wendel. His diploma is dated March 29th, 1832, and bears 
the signature, among others, of Christian G. Hufeland. He re- 
ceived letters of recommendation from Dr. Hufeland and others 
to professors in another German university, in which also he pur- 
sued medical studies subsequent to his graduation at Berlin. 
He began the practice of homoeopathy in Albany, N. Y., 
November, 1837. In the year 1838 he passed the requisite ex- 
amination, and was admitted to membership in the Medical So- 
ciety of the City and County of New York. 
He remained in Albany until the spring of 1840, when he re- 
moved to Schenectady, and in the autumn became a resident of 
Rochester, Monroe County. During this journey to the West, 
which occupied several months, Dr. Biegler delivered lectures on 
homoeopathy in the principal cities along the route. These lec- 
tures awakened great interest in the new system, and resulted in 
the addition of many converts to the homoeopathic method of 
medical treatment. 
Late in the autumn of 1840 Dr. Biegler left Rochester for 
the purpose of visiting Hahnemann in Paris. He remained in 
that city about a year. As a testimonial of esteem Hahnemann 
presented him with a beautiful carnelian stone ring, on which a 
bust or the head of Hahnemann was engraved ; also a lock of his 
own hair, with a note from Madame Hahnemann. After his re- 
turn to this country Dr. Biegler again took up his residence at 
Rochester. He formed a partnership in business with Dr. John 
Taylor, which continued two years, and was terminated by the 
removal of Dr. Taylor to the city of New York. Dr. Biegler 
enjoyed the rare opportunity of a long personal acquaintance 
with Hahnemann. 
Dr. George McKnight, of Providence, was his first student in 
Rochester. The late Dr. M. M. Matthews, of Rochester, was a 
convert to the system through the influence of Dr. Biegler. 
Dr. Biegler remained a resident of Rochester until his death, 
which occurred in 1849, at the age of 59 years. 
Dr. Biegler delivered many public lectures on homoeopathy, 
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garding its principles among the people as well as the profes- 
sion. 
His son, Dr. J. A. Biegler, lias resided in Rochester many 
years. 
Soon after Dr. Biegler's advent, Dr. Rosenstein settled in Al- 
bany. The two physicians formed a partnership, which was ter- 
minated in a few months by the removal of Dr. Rosenstein from 
the city. 
Dr. Biegler was succeeded in the spring of 1840 by Dr. Hof- 
fendahl, of Philadelphia. 
Dr. Charles Frederic Hoffendahl was born June 28th, 1799, in 
New Brandenburgh, in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He commenced 
medical studies in 1816, at the age of seventeen, in the St. 
Joseph's Academy of Vienna, a training-school for military sur- 
geons. 
In 1820, having passed his examination, he was attached to 
an Austrian infantry regiment (entitled Wiirtemburg), and ac- 
companied it during a campaign in Italy. He then, in 1828, 
finished his studies and obtained his degree at the Medical Uni- 
versity of Berlin. He came to this country in 1837, and settled 
in Philadelphia, where he remained until 1840, when he removed 
to Albany. In July, 1842, he removed to Boston, Massachu- 
setts. 
It is probable that he became a homoeopathic practitioner soon 
after graduation. He became acquainted with homoeopathy while 
in the Austrian army, through the kindness of Regimental Sur- 
geon Schmidt. 
In 1841 Dr. Isaac M. Ward, of Newark, N. J., came to Al- 
bany. After a very successful and remunerative practice of 
several years he retired to New York, in the autumn of 1847. 
Dr. C. H. Skiff came to Albany in 1842. He remained less 
than one year. He removed to New Haven, Conn., in 1843. 
He died in Hew Haven in the year 1875. 
Dr. Henry D. Paine came from Newburg, Orange County, to 
Albany in 1845. He formed a partnership in business with Dr. 
I. M. Ward. The partnership continued two years, and was 
terminated by the removal of Dr. Ward from the city. Dr. 460 
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Paine remained until the spring of 1865, when he returned to 
the city of New York, where he is at the present time engaged 
in,active practice. He was succeeded by Dr. H. M. Paine, of 
Clinton, Oneida County. 
Dr. C. Darien Jones began the practice of homoeopathy in 
Albany in the spring of 1846. He had been an allopathic prac- 
titioner a few years. On investigating the homoeopathic system 
he became convinced of its superiority, and immediately adopted 
it in practice. 
Dr. David Springsteel also had been an allopathic physician 
a number of years. He was induced to read homoeopathic books 
and journals, and to test the utility of homoeopathic remedies in 
certain diseases. After a prolonged examination, involving 
many practical experiments, in the spring of 1846 he openly 
announced himself a convert to the new system. Dr. Spring- 
steel then resided in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County. 
He removed to Albany in 1861, and is still engaged in active 
practice. 
Dr. John A. Paine, of Newark, N. J., removed to Albany in 
January, 1847. Dr. Paine had been an allopathic practitioner 
twenty years, and a homoeopathic physician four years. He left 
Albany in 1853, to reside in Utica, Oneida County. 
Dr. Henry Adams, son of Dr. Peter C. Adams, was born in 
Coxsackie, N. Y., on July 6th, 1787. He studied medicine with 
his father and was admitted to its practice in his twenty-first 
year. 
He was appointed surgeon in the army, during the war of 
1812, and was stationed at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. After the 
close of the war he returned to Coxsackie, where he continued 
the practice of his profession until 1848, when he removed to 
Albany. 
A few years before his removal he adopted the principles of 
homoeopathy, and ever remained firm in his belief. 
In 1850 he removed to Cohoes, N. Y., where he had a very 
extensive practice. 
He died at Cohoes on July 6th, 1857, on his seventieth birth- 
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Dr. Horace M. Paine, son of Dr. John A. Paine, graduated 
from the Medical Department of the University of the City of 
New York in March, 1849, and immediately commenced prac- 
tice in the city of Albany. He remained until 1855, when he 
removed to Clinton, Oneida County, where he resided until 1865, 
returning that year to Albany. Prior to this time (1849) the 
accessions to the ranks of homoeopathic practitioners were from 
among those who had been previously engaged for several years 
in allopathic practice. Dr. Paine was the first young physician 
who commenced the practice of homoeopathy immediately after 
graduation. He received the honorary degree of Master of 
Arts from Hamilton College in 1861. 
In 1861 a Dr. Brooks came to Albany. He remained two 
or three years. 
Dr. William H. Bandel graduated in the spring of 1851 from 
the Medical Department of the University of the City of New 
York. He immediately began the practice of homoeopathy in 
Albany. He visited Europe in 1867, and spent a greater part 
of a year in observing the results of treatment adopted in the 
principal hospitals and remedial institutions in England and on 
the Continent. 
Dr. James W. Cox graduated in the spring of 1853 from the 
Albany Medical College, and immediately thereafter began the 
practice of homoeopathy in Albany. He entered into partner- 
ship with his former preceptor, Dr. Henry D. Paine. The part- 
nership continued four years, when it was dissolved by mutual 
consent. 
Dr. C. B. Bryant graduated in the spring of 1853 from the 
Albany Medical College. He associated himself in practice 
with his former preceptor, Dr. D. Springsteel. He remained one 
year in Albany and then removed to San Francisco, where he 
died in 1856. 
Dr. Lester M. Pratt, of Fulton, Oswego County, came to Al- 
bany in August, 1854. He graduated in the spring of that year 
from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Philadelphia. He 
formed a partnership with Dr. H. M. Paine, which continued 
one year, and was terminated by the removal of Dr. Paine- to 462 
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Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y. Dr. Pratt is still engaged in 
active practice in Albany. 
Dr. George H. Billings graduated from Castleton Medical 
College in 1857, and the same year began the practice of homoeop- 
athy in Cohoes. He remained seven years, and then removed to 
Brooklyn. In 1870 he returned to Cohoes, where he is now en- 
gaged in active practice. 
Dr. John S. Delvan graduated from the Albany Medical Col- 
lege in the spring of 1865, and commenced the practice of ho- 
moeopathy in Albany the same year. He formed a partnership 
with Dr. James W. Cox, which continued two years. Dr. Delvan 
subsequently entered into partnership with Dr. L. M. Pratt. 
He removed to Washingtcya, D. C., in 1870, thence, in 1875, to 
Geneva, Switzerland, where he now resides and is engaged in 
general practice. 
Dr. William S. Baker came to Cohoes in 1865. He had been 
practicing medicine a year or two in the city of New York be- 
fore he removed to Cohoes. He remained in Cohoes four or five 
years, and then removed to Newark, N. J. 
Dr. John C. Butler graduated from the Albany Medical Col- 
lege in the spring of 1867, and commenced the practice of ho- 
moeopathy in Albany. He was associated for a year or two with 
his former preceptor, Dr. William H. Randel. He subsequently 
moved from Albany. 
Dr. K. B. Norton came to Albany in 1867. He had been an 
allopathic physician eight or ten years. He had resided and 
practiced in the western part of the State, a greater portion of 
the time in Erie County. He remained in Albany two or three 
years. He was the first resident physician to the Albany Ho- 
moeopathic Dispensary. He removed to Kinderhook, Columbia 
County, and subsequently to Huntington, Long Island. 
Dr. James F. McKoun, a recent graduate of the Albany 
Medical College, adopted the homoeopathic practice in 1868. The 
doctor had been investigating the claims of the homoeopathic 
system for a couple of years before he fully adopted it as supe- 
rior to all others in general practice. 
In the year 1868 Dr. J. H. A. Graham, of Berne, united with HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Albany County, thereby 
identifying himself with the progress of homoeopathy in Albany 
County. He had been an allopathic practitioner more than a score 
of years, and a convert to homoeopathy for several years. He is 
still engaged in the active duties of his profession, although well 
advanced in years. 
Dr. Porter L. F. Reynolds joined the Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Albany County in 1869. The doctor had practiced 
the allopathic system a number of years. He had served several 
years as surgeon in the war of the rebellion, and while in the 
army was led to investigate the claims of homoeopathy by the 
results of remedies prescribed by homoeopathic physicians for 
soldiers in his regiment. He was so thoroughly convinced of 
the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies, and of their superiority in 
the treatment of some forms of disease met with in the army, 
that he resolved to investigate the system carefully and impar- 
tially on his return to private practice. On leaving the army at 
the close of the war he commenced practice in Albany. He pur- 
sued the study and practice of homoeopathy, and soon became a 
convert to the new system. 
In the same year, 1859, Dr. George A. Cox, a recent graduate 
of the Albany Medical College, commenced the practice of 
homoeopathy in Albany. He was associated a year with his 
uncle and former preceptor, Dr. James W. Cox. He then 
removed to Cohoes, where he remained two years and then 
returned to Albany. 
In the same year, 1869, Dr. G. H. Carroll, a graduate of the 
New York Homoeopathic Medical College, entered upon the 
practice of homoeopathy in Albany. 
In the same year, 1869, Dr. Nelson Hunting, of Gallupville, 
Schoharie County, joined the Homoeopathic Medical Society of 
Albany County. Dr. Hunting had been practicing homoeopath- 
ically in Gallupville four or five years. He removed to Albany 
in 1870. 
Dr. Edward A. Carpenter, a recent graduate of the Albany 
Medical College, commenced the practice of homoeopathy in Al- 
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Dr. E. D. Jones, two years, and then removed to Plattsburg, 
Clinton County. 
During the same year, 1870, Dr. John Smithnick identified 
himself with the practice of homoeopathy by uniting with the 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Albany County. He was 
appointed resident physician to the Albany Homoeopathic Dis- 
pensary. He removed in 1871 to Weston, Mass. 
Dr. Henry G. Preston came to the city of Albany and com- 
menced the practice of homoeopathy in 1871. lie had been en- 
gaged in practice in St. Johns, New Brunswick, two or three 
years before he came to Albany. He received the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts from the University of Brunswick. In Octo- 
ber, 1876, he removed to the city of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
In the same year, 1871, Dr. Philip I. Cromwell, a recent 
graduate of the Albany Medical College, was appointed resident 
physician to the Albany Homoeopathic Dispensary. He re- 
mained one year, and then removed to De Kalb County, Illinois. 
In the same year, 1871, Dr. J. H. Fitch, a recent graduate of 
the Albany Medical College, became a resident of Albany, and 
commenced the practice of homoeopathy. Fie remained two or 
three years, and then removed to the town of New Scotland. 
In this same year, 1871, Dr. F. FI. Thomas came to Albany 
from Philadelphia, to fill the appointment of resident physician 
to the Albany Homoeopathic Dispensary. He remained in con- 
nection with the dispensary a year and a half, and then removed 
to Ohio. 
During this same year also, 1871, Dr. E. C. Howe decided to 
identify himself with the homoeopathic interests. He joined the 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Albany County in 1871. He 
bad been a homoeopathic practitioner four or five years, and an 
allopathic practitioner as many years prior thereto. Fie then 
resided in New Baltimore, Greene County. In 1872 he removed 
to Tarrytown, Westchester County, N. Y. 
Dr. Rufus Reed graduated from the Hahnemann Medical 
College in Philadelphia in the spring of 1871. He resided and 
practiced one year in Staunton, Virginia. He removed to HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
465 
Cohoes, and commenced practice in February, 1872. He still 
resides in Cohoes. 
Dr. Frederick W. Halsey became resident physician to the 
Albany Homoeopathic Dispensary in 1872, and joined the 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Albany County the same year. 
He remained in charge of the dispensary nearly a year, and then 
removed to the northern part of the State. 
Dr. William E. Milbank graduated from the Albany Medical 
College in December, 1872, and commenced practice in Albany. 
Dr. Milbank formed a partnership with his former preceptor, 
Dr. Springsteel, which continued two years. The partnership 
was then terminated by mutual consent. 
In 1873 Dr. Townsend Bowne, a recent graduate of the Al- 
bany Medical College, accepted the appointment of resident physi- 
cian to the Albany Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary. 
He remained one year, and removed to Huntington, L. I. He 
subsequently removed to Oneonta, Otsego County, where he 
established a large and remunerative practice, which, after a 
trial of two years, on account of failing health, he was obliged 
to relinquish. He removed to Denver, Colorado. 
In the same year, December, 1873, Charles C. Jones grad- 
uated from the Albany Medical College, and commenced prac- 
tice in Albany. He has been ever since associated with his father 
and former preceptor. He has just returned from Europe (June, 
1876), having spent a year in study at several European hos- 
pitals and medical schools. He has taken the degree of Master 
of Arts in course. He has also received the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine from the New York Homoeopathic Medical College. 
Dr. J. J. Wallace came from New York in 1873, and opened 
an office in Albany. He had been an allopathic physician many 
years, and a homoeopathic fifteen or twenty. He is still able to 
engage in the active duties of his profession. He now resides 
in East Albany. 
During this same year, 1873, Miss Doctor Catharine E. 
Goewey graduated from the Woman's.Medical College in the city 
of New York, and commenced practice in Albany. She is at the 466 
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present time engaged in the active duties of her profession in the 
city of Albany. 
In 1875 Dr. R. B. Sullivan, a recent graduate of the New 
York Homoeopathic Medical College, was appointed resident 
physician to the Albany Homoeopathic Hospital Dispensary- 
He remained in connection with the institution nearly a year, and 
then resigned to accept a similar appointment in the Homoeo- 
pathic Hospital at Ward's Island, in New York. 
In the same year, 1875, Dr. Howard L. Waldo began the 
practice of homoeopathy in West Troy. Dr. Waldo has been 
resident physician to the Albany Homoeopathic Hospital and 
Dispensary. He was the first undergraduate who passed suc- 
cessfully the rigid written examination adopted by the first State 
Board of Medical Examiners. On recommendation of the State 
Board of Examiners the degree of Doctor of Medicine was con- 
ferred on Dr. Waldo by the regents of the University of the State 
of New York at the twelfth annual convocation, held in Albany 
June 30 th, 1875. The degree confers the title of Doctor of Medi- 
cine of the University of the State of New York. With the 
exception of the honorary title this is the only medical degree 
bestowed by the State through its representatives; hence, while 
it confers no special privileges, it is, on account of the source 
from which it emanates and the method by which it is obtained, 
manifestly superior in grade to those which proceed from other 
corporate institutions. The method of open written examina- 
tions affords certain and permanent evidence of the qualifications 
of the applicant. On this account, and also on account of the 
impartiality of the examiners, they having no pecuniary or other 
interest in the success of the candidate, the diploma bestows the 
most honorable and distinguished title that can be conferred by 
any corporate body or institution in this or any other country. 
On recommendation of the Board of Examiners, Dr. Waldo re- 
ceived the prize of merit from the fund established by Dr. John 
F. Gray, of New York. 
In December, 1875, Dr. William H. Van Dergee graduated 
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Albany. He is associated in practice with Dr. P. L. F. Rey- 
nolds. 
Dr. E. V. Trull graduated from the Albany Medical College 
in December, 1874. He commenced the practice of medicine in 
the city of Cohoes early in 1875. At the present time he is 
engaged in active practice in that city. 
In January, 1876, Dr. John J. Peckham received the ap- 
pointment of resident physician to the Albany Homoeopathic 
Hospital and Dispensary. The doctor graduated from the Phila- 
delphia Homoeopathic Medical College in 1873. He resided and 
practiced in the village of Crescent, Saratoga County, prior to 
his removal to Albany. 
In October, 1876, Dr. E. B. Graham removed from Three 
Rivers, Michigan, to Albany. He purchased the goodwill and 
practice of Dr. H. G. Preston, who removed to Brooklyn, N.Y. 
In the past forty years, forty-six homoeopathic physicians have 
resided in the city of Albany. Of this number twelve com- 
menced practice prior to the year 1850. They may very properly 
be considered the pioneers of the homoeopathic profession. Five 
of them are known to be living, and all of the five are fulfilling 
ordinary professional duties. Their names are Drs. I. M. 
Ward, Henry D. Paine, E. Darwin Jones, David Springsteel, 
and Horace M. Paine. 
Of the whole forty-six, thirty-seven are supposed to be living 
and at the present time engaged in practice. Eighteen of the 
thirty-seven at present reside in the city of Albany. 
The Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Albany 
was organized in January, 1860. The original members and 
founders were, Drs. Henry D. Paine, E. Darwin Jones, David 
Springsteel, Lester M. Pratt, James W. Cox. 
The society has been organized sixteen years. Its list of 
members contains the names of thirty-seven homoeopathic physi- 
cians. It is not known that a single death has occurred among 
its membership since the foundation of the society. All are ac- 
tively engaged in practice. 
Seventeen members of the society reside in the city of Albany, 
one in West Albany, one in West Troy, two in Cohoes, one in 468 
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Schenectady, one in East Albany, one in Berne, and one in New 
Scotland. 
Eight of the thirty-seven came to Albany mainly to fill ap- 
pointments to positions in the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dis- 
pensary. Of this plumber all except one, the present incumbent, 
have removed to other localities on the expiration of their terms 
of service at the hospital. 
Thirteen members have removed beyond the jurisdiction of 
the society. 
This county contains various homoeopathic institutions, an ac- 
count of which will be given under the proper heading.* 
DUTCHESS COUNTY. 
In 1835 or 1836 a homoeopathic pioneer went from Albany to 
Clinton to attend a case of rheumatism of twenty years' standing, 
and very much relieved his patient. 
Dr. Federal Vanderburgh went from New York about the year 
1837 or 1838 to Dutchess County. He was the first to intro- 
duce the system into this county.f 
Soon after Dr. Hall, of Fishkill, was by Dr. V. induced to try 
homoeopathy. Dr. Hall now resides in Poughkeepsie.J 
A German physician, named Dr. Formes, about this time in- 
troduced homoeopathy into Poughkeepsie, but remained there 
only .a short time, and was succeeded by Dr. Hall. 
1840, Rev. James Lillie was induced by Dr. Vanderburgh to 
become a homoeopath. In 1841 or 1842 Mr. Lillie went to New 
York city, where he graduated. Soon after he removed to To- 
ronto, and after remaining there ten years went to Scotland, his 
native country. Dr. Lillie was a very thorough scholar. 
The next accession was Dr. Charles Haight, of Hartsville, who 
abandoned the regular practice for homoeopathy about 1842. 
He is now practicing in Poughkeepsie. 
In 1843 we note the advent to homoeopathy of Dr. Martin 
* For yearly reports of this and other county societies in New York, see 
Trans, of N. Y. State Horn Med. Soc. 
f Sketch of his life on page 451. 
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Freligh, of Saugerties, Ulster County. In 1836 he visited New 
York to consult Dr. Vanderburgh about homoeopathy. The 
doctor being engaged, he was sent to Dr. Channing, who advised 
certain homoeopathic books. It was a hard battle for him, but 
his conversion was finally accomplished. He went to New York 
city in 1850. 
TABULATED LIST OF PHYSICIANS IN DUTCHESS COUNTY, 
from 1838 to 1865. 
NAME. 
I 
When commencing 
to practice ho- 
moeopathy. 
System 
first adopted. 
REMARKS. 
Federal Vanderburgh.. 
Dr. Hall 
Dr. Formes 
James Lillie 
Charles Haight 
Martin Freligh 
George Lo rill aid 
J. Augustine Kiersted. 
T. S. Ring 
Rodman Bartlett 
C. P.Guernsey 
O.D. Cass 
Ephraim Case 
G. C. Lansing 
John Hornby 
E. F. Hoffman 
J. F. Merritt 
Dr. Kornbach 
S. G. Cooke 
Dr. Lourie 
B. Lansing 
W. R. Case 
Dr. Burroughs 
Dr. Davis 
Dr. De La Montaguie.. 
Dr. Baxter 
Dr. Scoffield 
1838 
1838 
1838 or '39 
1840 
1842 
1843 
1847 
1848 
1848 
1849 
1844 
1844 
1852 
1854 
1852 
1855 
1857 
I860 
1855 
1863 or '64 
1864 
AU op. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop^ 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Hom. 
Poughkeepsie. 
Poughkeepsie. 
Rhinebeck. 
Hartsville. 
Rhinebeck. 
Unknown. 
Unknown. 
Yorkville. 
Rhinebeck. 
Clinton. 
Clinton. 
Clinton. 
Rhinebeck. 
Poughkeepsie. 
Poughkeepsie. 
Pleasant Plains. 
Poughkeepsie. 
Standford ville. 
Rnineheck. 
Hyde Park. 
Clinton. 
Poughkeepsie. 
Pine Plains. 
Wappinger's Falls. 
Poughkeepsie. 
Died in 1850. 
Died in 1856. 
Removed. 
Went to London in 1860. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
For a more complete history of homoeopathy in this county 
we refer the reader to Transactions of New York State Medical 
Society, vol. iii, p. 203. 
The county society was organized in 1861. It now has a 
membership of thirteen. 470 
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queen's county. 
Homoeopathy was introduced by Dr. Spaulding, who settled 
in Flushing in 1825 as an allopath, but embraced homoeopathy 
in 1839. He left Flushing in 1844. 
There are now seven homoeopathic physicians. The County 
Society was organized in 1873. It has a membership of six. 
COLUMBIA COUNTY. 
Dr. George W. Cooke commenced to practice homoeopathy in 
Hudson, in 1838. He went to New York in 1844, where he 
remained until 1849, when he returned to Hudson, and died in 
1849. 
Dr. Robert Rossman commenced to practice homoeopathy in 
1839, but soon removed to Brooklyn. 
Dr. A. P. Cook commenced with homoeopathy in 1840 at 
Kinderhook. He went to Hudson in 1844. 
Dr. Stephen Coburn, of Ghent, adopted homoeopathy in 1841. 
Has since removed to Ohio. 
Dr. E. L. Coburn, of Ghent, adopted homoeopathy in 1842. 
Dr. John Phillips, of Stockport, adopted homoeopathy in 1841. 
He died in 1850. 
The County Society was organized in 1861. It now has twelve 
members. 
SCHENECTADY COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into Schenectady County by 
Dr. A. P. Biegler, who removed from Albany in the spring of 
3840. Dr. Biegler remained only a few months, long enough, 
however, to introduce the new system to the favorable notice of 
several of the most intelligent and influential families in Sche- 
nectady. 
In 1847 Dr. L. S. Roe commenced practice in Schenectady. 
He remained to the time of his death, which occurred the follow- 
ing year (July 10th, 1848), by the explosion of a lamp. 
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471 
of Schenectady. He was a student of Dr. Roe, and commenced 
practice in July, 1848. 
The sudden death of Dr. Roe left Dr. Swits sole occupant of a 
field in which the new system had, even at that early period, 
many firm adherents. 
Dr. Swits hesitated to assume the duties he was so feebly pre- 
pared to meet. He had recently commenced the study of medi- 
cine, and deeply felt his inability to engage successfully in prac- 
tice. He knew, too, that the opposition of allopathic rivals 
would be intense and prolonged. But, encouraged by homoe- 
opathic colleagues in neighboring cities, he resolved to continue 
his studies and to treat at first only the milder forms of disease. 
He soon found himself obliged to undertake to treat every form 
of disease occurring in general practice. He subsequently re- 
ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the New York 
Homoeopathic College. 
Dr. T. S. Blodgett, of Cooperstown, Otsego County, came to 
Schenectady in the summer of 1848, forming a partnership with 
Dr. Swits. He remained six or eight months, and then returned 
to Cooperstown. 
Dr. Charles H. Carpenter removed from Pittstown, Rensselaer 
County, to Schenectady, in February, 1862. He had been an 
allopath in Pittstown six and a homoeopathist five years. He 
remained in Schenectady one year and then removed to Troy, 
where he is at present engaged in a large and lucrative practice. 
He graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1851. 
Dr. D. A. Cookinham, of West Troy, removed to Schenectady 
in 1871. He had been engaged in allopathic practice six or 
seven years. After a careful investigation of the claims of ho- 
moeopathy he adopted that method of treatment and commenced 
practice in Schenectady. He remained two years and then re- 
moved to Chicago. At the present time Dr. Swits is the only 
homoeopathic practitioner in Schenectady County. He is a 
member of the Albany County Society. 
RENSSELAER COUNTY. 
The first practitioner of homoeopathy was Dr. F. S. Field, a 
graduate of King's College Hospital, London, who settled in 472 
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Troy in 1840. He was an able and highly accomplished man, 
but, being unknown, he could not support himself, and after a two 
years' residence in Troy he went away. He was intimate with 
Drs. Bryan and Bloss, to whom he gave a translation of Jahr's 
Manual, but lately published. One of their first trial cases was 
of puerperal peritonitis, which, to their astonishment, recovered 
under Bell., Bry., and Aeon.3.* 
Richard S. Bryan, M.D., born in Norwalk, Conn., 1790; 
obtained license from the County Medical Society, according to 
the then existing law of that State, to practice medicine and sur- 
gery, with a degree of M.D., in 1819. Commenced to investi- 
gate homoeopathy about 1840, while practicing in Troy, N. Y., 
and fully adopted the creed of similia similibus curantur in 1841. 
To this faith he was a strong adherent and earnest disciple till 
his death, which occurred in 1859 from malignant disease of 
the pancreas. 
Richard Bloss, born in Bethel, Vermont, 1798; graduated 
from Dartmouth College in 1823; practiced according to the 
dominant school in Royalton, Vt., till 1840, when he removed 
to Troy, N. Y., and entered into partnership with Dr. R. S. 
Bryan. He, together with his partner at that time, commenced 
the study and trial of homoeopathy as they best could under the 
comparatively limited aid that was then to be obtained. The 
opposition and obloquy they sustained, both public and private, 
from former medical brethren, and through them from the public 
generally, for the first ten years, is but to repeat the struggle of 
homoeopathy elsewhere; but a steady and intelligent persistence 
in the faith and practice of pure homoeopathy was finally re- 
warded in its complete establishment in Troy, and acceptance by 
the majority of the intelligent and educated portion of its citizens. 
The copartnership of Drs. Bryan and Bloss was dissolved in 
1846, although a constant increase of business had required 
separate offices for nearly two years previous. The latter years 
in practice of these two pioneers of homoeopathy in Rensselaer 
County was a recompense for the struggles and painful efforts of 
the first ten, as they had not only the respect and esteem of the 
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community, but material aid and support in the way of large and 
lucrative practice. 
Dr. Bloss died in 1863 of septicaemia, the virus being obtained 
in post-mortem examination of an obscure case of puerperal 
peritonitis. 
In 1869 Dr. S. A*. Cook removed from Bushkirk's Bridge to 
Troy, and, from being a very bitter allopath, soon became a 
homoeopath. During the cholera epidemic of 1853 homoeopathy 
won a great triumph. 
In 1848 Drs. Charles Mosher and Joseph Mosher, of Schagh- 
ticoke, became homoeopaths. 
In 1854 Dr. E. S. Coburn, a reformed allopath, removed from 
Ghent, Columbia County, to Troy, where he was a partner of 
Dr. Bryan for two years. He remained there three years, then 
going to Chatham Corners, where he died in 1864.* 
O O 7 
PHYSICIANS IN RENSSELAER COUNTY, FROM 1839 TO 1866. 
NAME. 
Commenced prac- 
tice of homceop- 
athy. 
System 
first adopted. 
Where residing when 
first commencing 
homoeopathy. 
Remarks. 
F. S. Field 
R. S. Bryan 
Richard Bloss 
S. A. Cook 
Charles Mosher 
Joseph Mosher 
E. L. Coburn 
George Kellogg 
R. D. Bloss 
J. P. Bloss 
H. R. Fuller 
C. H. Carpenter 
Wm. S. Searle 
C. s. Woodruff. 
M. W. Campbell 
A. M. Cushing 
J. C. Mosher 
John Younglove. Jr... 
J. F. Miller 
I). W. Pitts 
R. E. Belding 
E. S. Coburn 
1839 or '40 
1841 
1841 
1849 
1848 
1848 
1841 
1858 
1854 
1853 
1857 
1856 
1859 
1854 
1851 
1861 
1860 
1861 
1865 
1865 
1866 
1864 
Aliop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop. 
Allop 
Allop. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Allop. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Hom. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Schaghticoke. 
Schaghticoke. 
Chatham Corners. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Lansingburgh. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Lansingburgh. 
Pittstowu. 
Troy. 
Troy. 
Johnsonville. 
Unknown. 
Troy. 
Came from England. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Now in New Orleans. 
Now in Massachusetts. 
The Homoeopathic County Society was organized in I860. 
It now has thirteen members. 
* See Transactions of New York State Homoeopathic Society, vol. iv. 474 
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king's county. 
In the spring of 1840 Dr. Robert Rosman removed from Hud- 
son, where he had become a convert from allopathy, and was the 
first to practice homoeopathy in King's County. lie settled in 
Brooklyn. He remained alone for three years, when he formed 
a brief partnership with Dr. A. Cook Hull (1843), then of New 
York city. Dr. David Baker also commenced to practice in 
Myrtle Avenue in 1840, a few months after Dr. Rosman's ad- 
vent. Dr. Baker left Brooklyn in 1856. Dr. Rosman died sud- 
denly in 1859. 
Dr. A. C. Hull came from New York to Brooklyn in 1843; 
and a few weeks later Dr. P. P. Wells went from Providence, 
R. I., to Brooklyn. For the five years succeeding Dr. Wells's 
coming the growth was slow, but continuous. 
From 1843 to 1850 a Dr. Bennett practiced there. 
Drs. Guy, Burke, Moffat, Bryant, Jr., and Stanbury succes- 
sively went to Brooklyn. In 1850 there were nine homoeopaths 
practicing in Brooklyn. After this newcomers were more 
abundant. 
Soon after Drs. Hull and Wells went to Brooklyn they ap- 
plied for membership in the County Medical Society; but as 
homoeopaths were rejected. Dr. Wells acquiesced in the decision; 
but Dr. Hull, after a sixteen-year lawsuit, vindicated his right 
to membership, and compelled the society to give him admis- 
sion. He did not connect himself with it, however, but soon 
became President of a Homoeopathic County Medical Society. 
In 1854 occurred the trial of some doctors for malpractice upon 
Agnes Lattimer, which will be treated of at length under the 
head of Legislation. 
Williamsburg was not united to Brooklyn until 1855. Pre- 
vious to this homoeopathy was introduced into Williamsburg by 
Dr. George Cox, of London, England. lie went there in 1823. 
He became a homoeopath in 1841-42, and largely increased his 
business thereby. He was cast out by his "regular" brethren, 
but he still continued victorious over their venom. He died in 
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In 1845 Drs. S.C. Hanford, E. Guernsey, and AV. A. M. Col- 
bert went to Williamsbnrgh to praetiee allopathy, but in a few 
years became homoeopathists. 
In 1848 Drs. Guernsey and Culbert left the town for other 
fields of usefulness. 
In 1849 Dr. Albert Wright, an allopath of nineteen years' 
standing, became a homoeopath and settled in Williamsbnrgh.* 
A tabulated account of homoeopathic physicians who have re- 
sided in King's County will be found in the New York State 
Homoeopathic Society Transactions, vol. ii, p. 304. 
Practitioners of Homoeopathy in Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1840 to 
October, 1863. 
1840. Robert Rosman, M.D. 
1840. David Baker, M.D. 
1843. A. Cooke Hull, M.D. 
1843. P. P. Wells, M.D. 
1846. S. S. Guy, M.D. 
1847. A. C. Burke, M.D. 
1848. R C Moffatt, M.D. 
1849. Carroll Dunham, M.D. 
1849. J. Bryant, M.D. 
1850. Stansbury, M.D. 
1851. I. M. Ward, M.D. 
1852. H. May, M.D. 
1852. F. G. Johnson, M D. 
1852. Geo. V. Newcomb, M.D. 
1853. Zimmerman, M D. 
1853. R. C. Macy, M.D. 
1853. E. A. Lodge, M.D. 
1853. J. P. Duffin, M.D. 
1853. S. B. Doty, M.D. 
1853. J. P. Dinsmore, M.D. 
1853. John Turner, M.D. 
1853 John Barker, M.D. 
1853. Henry Minton, M.D. 
1854. B. Fincke, M.D. 
1854. J. B. Elliott, M.D.' 
1854 O. R King, M.D. 
1854. A. J. Palmer, M D. 
1854. G. W. Palmer, M.D. 
1855. E. T. Richardson, M.D. 
1855. M. A. Richter, MD. 
1855. H. Bateman, M.D. 
1855. J. R. Orton, M.D. 
1855. W. L. R. Perrine, M.D. 
1856. H. E. Morrill, M.D. 
1856. James L. Watson, M.D. 
1856. H. R. Stiles, M.D. 
1856. Edward Thomas, M.D. 
1857. Frank Bon'd, M.D. 
1857. W. W. Palmer, M.D. 
1857. John Rockwell, M D. 
1858. J. G Rosman, M.D. 
1858. Achille Ascol, M.D. 
1858. Victor de Hanne, M D. 
1858. F. G. Hunt, M.D. 
1859. H. J. Cate, M.D. 
1859. Charles E. Bates, M.D. 
1859 J. F. Talmage, M.D. 
1859 Jonathan Hawks, MD. 
1860. H. O. Gilbert, M.D. 
1860. J. W. Smith, Jr., M.D. 
1860 Lester Keep, M.D. 
1860. J. Lester Keep, M D. 
1860. C. H. Skiff, M D. 
1860. Charles W. Skiff, M.D. 
1861. Timothy F. Allen, M D. 
1861. D. F. Wells, M.D. 
* N. Y. State Trans., vol. ii, p. 292. 476 
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1861. J. C. Fanning, M.D. 
1861. H. W. Richter, M.D. 
1861. J. Whiton, M.D. 
1862. Gustavus Bloede, M.D. 
1862. S. W. Burroughs, M.D. 
1862. F. W. Skiles, M.D. 
1862. Bowen, M.D. 
1862. Melville Bryant, M.D. 
1862. Charles R. Davis, M.D. 
1863. J. S. Water, M.D. 
1863. A. E. Sumner, M D. 
1863. Henry Holt, M.D. 
(69 in all.) 
The King's County Homoeopathic Society was organized in 
1857. In 1875, 105 names had been appended to the constitu- 
tion since its organization. Of these 16 have died ; 48 are regu- 
larly notified. 
In 1870 Mrs. Alice B. Campbell, M.D., was elected a mem- 
ber of the society, at which time, and on account of which, 28 
members withdrew, but most of them were afterwards re- 
admitted. 
CAYUGA COUNTY. 
In 1841 Dr. Horatio Robinson, an allopath of fifteen years' 
standing, embraced homoeopathy, and went to Auburn. He there 
formed a partnership with Dr. Humphrey, the physician to the 
Auburn Prison Hospital. Dr. Humphrey, not knowing of his 
professional change of opinion, left him and went on a visit to 
New York.* 
Dr. Robinson's first convert was Dr. McCarty, an allopath of 
Throopsville. He commenced to practice in Utica in 1842. 
Dr. Peterson, a lawyer by profession, got books and practiced 
homoeopathy, taking fees therefor. He was tried, and the jury 
gave a verdict of three-fourths of a cent for the plaintiff, donating 
their fees to the defendant. 
In 1841 Dr. Robinson treated the wife of an allopath, Dr. Cator, 
so successfully that Dr. Cator at once took up homoeopathy. 
Dr. Bennet, Dr. Cator's partner, also soon became a homoeo- 
path. They practiced in Moravia. 
Dr. Smith, a student of Drs. Cator and Bennet, in 1842 as- 
sumed the homoeopathic practice in Moravia. 
In 1844-45 Dr. E. C. Witherill and Dr. E. C. Swift gradu- 
ated as homoeopaths. 
* For anecdotes, etc., concerning Homoeopathy in this county, vide N. Y. 
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The Homoeopathic County Society was organized in 1859. It 
now numbers thirteen members. 
LEWIS COUNTY. 
In 1842 Dr. Ira Adams, of Lowville, an allopath of thirty 
years' standing, adopted homoeopathy. He died suddenly in 
1856. 
In 1848 Dr. Hannum, of Hanesville, became a homoeopath. 
In 1858 Dr. T. P. Tisdale, a graduate of the Cleveland Ho- 
moeopathic College, settled in Lowville, remained there two 
years, and then went to Pulaski, Owego County. He was suc- 
ceeded by Dr. Ira R. Adams.* 
JEFFERSON COUNTY. 
In 1842 Dr. D. S. Kimball, who had for fourteen years prac- 
ticed allopathy in Sackett's Harbor, became a homoeopath, re- 
maining in the same place. 
Dr. Dunning, then of Watertown, became converted in 1845- 
46, and Dr. Ira Wright, of Watertown, now in Plattsburg, in 
1847. Dr. C. W. Boyce settled there about the same time. In 
1849 Dr. S. Seymour, of Smithville, became a homoeopath.f 
SCHUYLER COUNTY. 
In 1842 Dr. Richard Huson, an allopathic practitioner, be- 
came convinced of the truth of homoeopathy. 
In 1845 Dr. William Gulich, also an allopath, began to prac- 
tice homoeopathy in Tyrone. 
Dr. E. W. Rogers soon commenced practice, and Dr. E. W. 
Lewis soon settled in Watkins. At that time (1846) there were 
but two homoeopathic families in Watkins. 
The county society was organized in 1872. It now has a 
membership of six.J 
* Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soc., vol. ii, p. 309. 
f Trans. N. Y. State Hom. Med. Soc., vol. ii. p. 310. 
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ONONDAGA COUNTY. 
In 1842 Dr. H. H. Cator, an allopath, commenced to practice 
homoeopathy at Syracuse. 
In 1843 Dr. E. Humphreys,also an allopath, adopted the new 
svstem.* 
The county society was formed in 1862. It has now fourteen 
members. , 
ONEIDA COUNTY. 
The pioneer in this county was Dr. Erastus Humphreys, who 
settled in Utica in 1843. 
Among the earlier practitioners of homoeopathy in Oneida 
County were Drs. Frederick Humphreys and S. G. Haven, of 
Utica; Erastus A. Munger, of Waterville; Samuel Stewart, 
Stebbins, and J. H. Paine, of Clinton ; Leverett Bishop, of 
Sauguoit; Silas Bailey, of Brookfield ; J. L. Kellogg, of Bridge- 
water, and Hiram Hadley, of Boonville. All of these, formerly 
practitioners of the old school, date their conversion to homoeop- 
athy to some period between 1840 and 1845. Subsequently Drs. 
Raymond, Wells, Pomeroy, and Watson, of Utica; Scudder, of 
Rome, and H. M. Paine, of Clinton, followed the example so 
worthily set them by the first named. These generally became 
thorough converts to the law similia similibus curantur, involving 
the belief in the superiority of potentized drugs in the treatment 
of disease. From this number Drs. E. Humphreys, Stewart, 
Stebbins, and J. A. Paine have been removed by death. 
The county society was organized in 1857. It has now fifty- 
two members, of whom thirty-three are honorary.f 
HERKIMER COUNTY. 
The first in Herkimer County to adopt the new system of prac- 
tice was Dr. N. Spencer, of Winfield, who now rests from his 
labors. Dr. W. B. Stebbins, of Little Falls, became early a con- 
* N. Y. State Horn. Trans., vol. iii, p. 336. 
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vert to homoeopathy ; he is still in successful practice at that 
place. 
A County Medical Society was organized October 20th, 1857, 
and annual and semi-annual meetings have been held regularly 
up to the present time. At the meeting last week (October 1st, 
1875), fourteen members were present. The physicians of Her- 
kimer County are included in its organization. 
Thus far not one who came over fully to the ranks of homoeop- 
athy has fallen from the faith ; on the contrary, clinical experi- 
ence at the sick-bed has served to convince them more fully of 
the absolute truth of their belief. From nine at the start, the 
number of members has increased to twenty-five. This cannot but 
be gratifying to those who saw the beginnings of what even now 
cannot be said to have fully entered upon its progressive course. 
Among the remarkable conversions to the true faith was Dr. 
Loomis, of Westmoreland, a true man in all the relations of life. 
His antagonism to the doctrines of homoeopathy was fully devel- 
oped, and he was engaged in writing up for publication the vari- 
ous systems of quackery. Of course, homoeopathy came up for 
its share in the analysis. Having prepared about one-half of 
his article, he concluded, in order to prove the fallacy of the sys- 
tem, to draw his arguments directly from Hahnemann's writings. 
A careful study of the Organon gave him new light, and, after 
a practical trial, he became a true convert, and his article on th^ 
quackery of homoeopathy yet remains unfinished. 
Dr. Hiram Hadley, of Boonville, nephew of the late Professor 
Hadley, an early convert, is still full in the faith, although his 
health for some years has rendered him incapable of a general 
practice. 
The county society was formed in due time. 
LIVINGSTON COUNTY. 
Dr. C. M. Dake, an allopath, adopted homoeopathy in 1844, 
settling in Genesee. 
The county society was organized in 1863, and now has six 
members. 480 
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ERIE COUNTY. 
Dr. N. H. Warner, of Buffalo, adopted homoeopathy in 1844; 
was the first in the county to practice the system.* 
The county society was organized in 1859. It now numbers 
sixteen members. 
TIOGA COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Tioga County about 1845, 
by Dr. E. Lovejoy, then located at Owego, the county seat. 
Dr. Ezekiel Lovejoy was born at Stratford, Conn., July 6th, 
1803. He graduated with honors at Union College, New York, 
in 1823. Enjoying the instructions of, and taking his degree 
under, such men as Mott and Hosack, it is not to be wondered at 
that when he came to Owego, in 1828, he soon outstripped all 
competitors, as a physician of the old school. 
While on a visit to a sister, she called his attention to the new 
system, and having providentially met Granger, of New York, 
he was induced to test it. Procuring books and medicines, he 
tried it faithfully, and, on finding it to be what it is, the only 
true law of cure, his noble character prompted him to openly de- 
sert the old, nauseous, bungling method, and declare himself an 
advocate and practitioner of the safety and precision of the new. 
His previous standing, the popular reliance upon his judgment, 
and faith in his honesty of purpose, carried with him all those 
whose patronage he had hitherto enjoyed, thus becoming the 
pioneer of homoeopathy in the southern part of Central New 
York. He died in 1871. 
Tioga has had for its exponents, after Dr. Lovejoy, E. B. 
Sprague, M.D., H. C. Champlin, M.D., T. S. Armstrong, M.D., 
A. R.Vail, M.D., C. A. Walsh, M.D., and J. T. Greenleaf, M.D. 
Dr. J. L. Corbin went to Waverly some time about the year 
1857 or 1858. He was succeeded by Dr. Titsworth, and he by 
Dr. L. B. Hawley. Dr. J. Burling followed Dr. Hawley, and 
Dr. J. M. Cadmus is now in Waverly. 
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Spencer. 
Mr. Chauncy Cowell took up the study of homoeopathy, under 
direction of Dr. Lovejoy, in 1850 or 1855, and practiced largely 
and successfully till 1868 or 1869. 
Candor. 
Mr. W. W. Hunt studied under direction of Dr. Lovejoy, 
began practice about 1852, and enjoyed a large and successful 
practice until in 1867. J. T. Greenleaf settling in the place at 
that time, Dr. Hunt gave up practice, and has not resumed it. 
Newark Valley. 
Mr. F. M. Bishop began practice in this place in 1872 or 
1873, and continued in successful business till October, 1875, 
when he attended lectures in Philadelphia. He holds a license 
from the county society. 
Mr. H. AV. Camp began practice in Owego, after a course of 
study with Dr. Lovejoy*, somewhere about 1849 or 1850, and 
continued till his death in 1874. 
The county society was organized in 1870, and has now a fair 
membership. 
WYOMING COUNTY, 
In 1846 Dr. C. A. Dake, one of the first graduates of the 
Cleveland Homoeopathic College, opened an office in Warsaw. 
People knew so little then about the new system that they stopped 
to spell the word "homoeopathy" on his sign. He made his 
practice successful. 
RICHMOND COUNTY (STATEN ISLAND) 
In 1848 Dr. T. W. Donovan settled at Stapleton. His prac- 
tice extended all over the Island. 
In 1865 Dr. T. S. Goodwin settled at Port Richmond, and, 
after great opposition, acquired a practice. 
In 1869 Dr. R. G. Rogerson, an English surgeon, settled in 
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Dr. G. Oehme went to Tompkinsville in 1872. There is no 
Medical Society here. 
SUFFOLK COUNTY (LONG ISLAND). 
In 1850 Dr. R. C. Moffat introduced homoeopathy into this 
county, being called to see a gentleman ill with consumption. A 
Mrs. Davis, who was also, as it was supposed, incurably ill, sent 
for Dr. Moffat, and was by him speedily cured. 
In 1851 Dr. Burke, of Brooklyn, passed a few weeks at Green- 
port. By his advice Mrs. Davis commenced to study homoeop- 
athy with a view to doctor her own family. In 1857 Dr. S. B. 
Barlow, of New York, visited Mrs. Davis, and finding how suc- 
cessful she was in her practice among the neighbors, advised her 
to charge a fee, which she had not done. From that time her 
practice steadily increased. 
In 1862 Dr. Joel Stevens went to Greenport. After remain- 
ing six months he went to Orient, and afterwards to St. Johns- 
land, where he died soon afterwards. Dr. M. Bryant also went 
to Greenport in 1862, remaining a year. 
In 1872 Dr. Hartrant went to Riverhead.' 
Mrs. Davis was much annoyed by the allopaths at first, but 
now has a practice extending about thirty miles. 
Dr. Ireland, an allopath, was converted by watching Mrs. 
Davis's success. 
ORLEANS COUNTY. 
Dr. J. W. Dake located in Albion in 1863, where several 
homoeopaths had tried to succeed, and were compelled to quit, 
because they could not get a foothold sufficient to live on. It 
was a proverb among the old-school physicians that he would 
do likewise, and six months was the time allotted him to die a 
natural death. It frequently came to him that this decree had 
gone out. He bought a house, moved into it, and sent word 
to his allopathic friends that he had bought a home, had paid for 
it, and had enough ahead to keep him one year, and that he should 
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five years, and was compelled to desist, not for want of business, 
but for want of health to do business with. It is enough to say 
that since then the same field has supported two homoeopaths 
above board ; and whereas then only Merdin in the whole county 
could show a homoeopathic physician, now every village of ac- 
count has one or more. 
Of the following counties no historical record whatever can 
be found: 
Broome, 
Cattaraugus, 
Rockland, 
Steuben, 
Sullivan, 
Tompkins, 
Chenango, 
Clinton, 
Cortland, 
Fulton, 
Hamilton, 
Madison, 
Ulster, 
Washington, 
Wayne, 
West Chester, 
Alleghany, 
Delaware, 
Franklin, 
Chemung, 
Monroe, 
Montgomery, 
Orange, 
Oswego, 
Seneca, 
Yates, 
Essex, 
Niagara, 
Ontario, 
Otsego, 
Putnam, 
Saratoga, 
Schoharie, 
Warren, 
St. Lawrence, 
Genesee. 
Now New York State has its homoeopathic college, dispen- 
saries, hospitals, life insurance company, etc.; and there is hardly 
a town of any size that is not now represented by one or more 
homoeopathic physicians. A history of its homoeopathic institu- 
tions, of its legislation regarding homoeopathy, and of its myriads 
of homoeopathic publications, will be given at length in the 
proper section. 
The seed sown by Dr. Gram has yielded most bountifully; 
and to-day, in spite of bitter opposition from the " regular " 
school, homoeopathy stands on an equal footing with allopathy. 
There are at present 830 physicians actively practicing homoe- 
opathy within its borders. HOMEOPATHY IN LOUISIANA* 
The honor of introducing homoeopathy into Louisiana belongs 
to Dr. Joseph Martin, a medical gentleman connected with the 
French Navy. Whilst in that service he had visited New Orleans, 
and became enamoured of the gay and brilliant Paris of the New 
World. Returning to his native country, he was converted to 
homoeopathy through the influence of Dr. Tournery, of Lyons. 
He subsequently returned to America, and located in New Orleans, 
in the year 1836, and was probably the first man who practiced 
the new system in the whole Southern country. 
He made a favorable and permanent impression upon the 
French population, and pursued his profession with usefulness 
and honor until 1861, when he died of organic disease of the 
heart. He left behind him a son, who is now an intelligent allo- 
pathic physician, illustrating the curious fact that neither the 
qualities nor opinions of one generation are always transmitted 
in the direct line to another. 
The next laborer in the field was an eccentric and enthusiastic 
layman, Formel by name, an old soldier of the Empire, an ama- 
teur homoeopathist, who practiced it with more zeal than discre- 
tion. He made, however, many remarkable cures, and assisted 
materially in preparing the ground for its popular reception. 
The French and American elements were at that time so 
thoroughly separated from each other, that many intelligent peo- 
ple, especially Northern residents, were anxiously awaiting the 
advent of a homoeopathic physician without ever having heard 
of either Martin or Formel. The first help which came to these 
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American inquirers after the new system, was brought by Dr. 
Robert Glass, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, who for several years 
(from 1840 to 1844) spent his winters in New Orleans, and prac- 
ticed his profession, exciting the wonder of the people and the 
contempt of the "regular" doctors. 
About this period two German physicians, Drs. Keifer and 
Luyties, made brief but fruitless efforts to obtain a good profes- 
sional anchorage in the metropolis of the South. 
The arrival of Dr. Gustavus M. Taft, of Hartford, Connecti- 
cut, in 1845, gave a sudden and remarkable impulse to the new 
system in New Orleans. Dr. Taft was an elegant and accom- 
plished gentleman, a thoroughly educated physician, and to a 
fascinating address he added the charm of a fine personal appear- 
ance. He acquired rapidly an immense business, and his sudden 
death, of yellow fever, in 1847, was regarded as a public calam- 
ity. 
Dr. Taft was succeeded very soon by Drs. Belden, Leon, Bunitt, 
and other capable and educated physicians of the new school, and 
the French quarter was happily reinforced by the conversion of 
Dr. Adolphe Cartier, and the arrival from France of Dr. Taxil, 
both of them physicians of superior attainments and ability. 
By the concerted action of these gentlemen and their friends, 
the repeal of certain laws was obtained, which placed all physi- 
cians possessing the diploma of chartered colleges on an equal 
footing. The unfriendly legislation alluded to was instigated 
by allopathic enemies, ostensibly for the suppression of quackery, 
but really to arrest the growth and impair the reputation of the 
homoeopathic school. Since 1852 no discrimination in favor of 
any one class has disgraced the statute-books of Louisiana. 
Dr. Caboche, a French homoeopathist, was the first to estab- 
lish a paper advocating the principles of the new school. It was 
entitled Le PracticeAi,r Homoeopathe. It was followed by La 
Homoion, the organ of the first homoeopathic medical society of 
New Orleans 
The homoeopathic profession in New Orleans, the great com- 
mercial metropolis of the South, has contributed greatly to the 
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agement of yellow fever, the scourge of the tropics. Its great 
triumphs in that field, having mainly a local significance, have 
scarcely been properly recognized by the profession, and the 
world at large. And it is to be regretted that among so many 
educated and experienced observers of that dreaded disease, only 
Dr. Adolphe Cartier (in L' Art Medical) and Dr. William H. 
Holcombe have contributed anything to its homoeopathic litera- 
ture. 
There are three small pharmacies and one dispensary in the 
city of New Orleans. " The Protestant Half Orphan Asylum," 
one of the largest charitable institutions in the city, has been 
for eighteen years under homoeopathic management. Dr. Rich- 
ard Angell had charge of it for seventeen years. It is now 
under the medical control of Dr. E. A. Murphy. 
About twenty physicians practice the new system, quite enough 
to form an excellent medical society, but the cohesive attraction 
between them is too feeble at present for any efficient organiza- 
tion. 
There are very few homoeopathic physicians in the State of 
Louisiana, outside of the city of New Orleans. This is owing 
greatly to the large plantation system, the wide scattering of the 
population, and the predominance of the negro element. There 
are, however, a great many isolated believers in the system 
throughout the State. 
Homoeopathy is established on a firm and respectable basis in 
Louisiana. Allopathic physicians are very generally courteous 
and respectful. Our progress has been retarded immensely by 
the great civil convulsion which wrecked almost every material 
interest in the State. With the advent of new men and new 
ideas, with a better government, a greater diffusion of knowl- 
edge, and a growing freedom of opinion, homoeopathy will begin 
to prove itself worthy of its glorious title, " The Medicine of the. 
Future." HOMOEOPATHY IN CONNECTICUT* 
Homceopathy was introduced into Connecticut in 1837 by 
Dr. Vanderburgh, of New York, who, while on a friendly visit 
to New Milford, prescribed for the wife of Dr. Charles Taylor. 
Her rapid recovery directed her husband into a course of study 
which resulted in his adopting homoeopathy and becoming the 
first resident homoeopathic physician in the State. He is still 
in New Milford in company with his son. 
In 1842 Dr. G. M. Taft opened an office in Hartford. His 
practice grew rapidly, but failing health caused him to leave in 
1845. He went direct to New Orleans and settled. His place 
was filled by Dr. John Shue, who located in Hartford in 1844. 
A little later came Dr. C. A. Taft, who still remains. Hartford 
has now thirteen homoeopathic physicians. 
In 1842 Dr. Charles H. Skiff settled in New Haven, being 
the pioneer in that city. He was soon followed by Dr. E. T. 
Foote. At present there are eight homoeopathic physicians in 
New Haven. 
In 1846 Dr. O. Sites settled in New London, where he still 
remains. In the same year (1846) Dr. L. H. Norton settled in 
Bridgeport, where he and Dr. C. E. Sanford are the only repre- 
sentatives at present. 
Since 1850 Dr. William C. Bell has been at Middletown, and 
until recently has been alone. 
In 1853 Dr. W. N. Dunham located in Meriden, but remained 
only a short time. His place was soon filled by Dr. G. H. Wil- 
son, who for ten years was the only representative. At present 
he has two coadjutors, and all are in full business. 
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Norwich was early supplied by several talented men, who re- 
mained but a short time. Among them was Dr. E. P. Moss- 
man, whose untimely death left vacant an excellent field, which 
is now filled by Dr. H. M. Bishop, who is in full business. 
Norwalk is well supplied. The same may be said of many 
of the towns of the State, both large and small. 
The homoeopathic practice is almost universally accepted by 
the best families, but it has not yet reached the poorer classes. 
In 1851 a State society was organized, but was not sustained. 
In 1864 " The Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society" 
was chartered, and it is now in a flourishing condition. It has 
a nominal library. 
There are at present in the State seventy-two homoeopathic 
practitioners. 
There are two homoeopathic pharmacies in Hartford. 
The literature of the State consists only of addresses and pam- 
phlets. 
The only public institution under the care of the homoeopathic 
physicians is the " Home." 
Regarding legislation there is little to note, excepting resist- 
ance to "State Medicine," and several failures to obtain repre- 
sentation on the hospital boards. With this latter exception, the 
legal status of physicians is uniform. HOMOEOPATHY IN MARYLAND* 
Dr. F. R. McManus was the first to practice homoeopathy in 
this State. He commenced to practice medicine in Baltimore 
April 6th, 1829, and has remained at his post there up to the 
present time. After having practiced according to the common 
routine (allopathically) for eight and a half years, homoeopathy 
was mentioned to him by a distinguished Catholic priest, and 
shortly afterwards by a distinguished lawyer, both of Baltimore, 
both of whom were then engaged, together, in the study of Ger- 
man, that they might read and translate the writings of Hahne- 
mann,-no English translations of his works having at that time 
been made. The Organon and the first German publication of 
Jahr's Manual, were then just being translated by the Professors 
of the Allentown Homoeopathic College and their co-laborers. 
From the opinions advanced by the two gentlemen referred to, 
regarding the miraculous action of homoeopathic medicines upon 
diseased systems, Dr. McManus at once concluded that they 
were either egregiously deceived, or that there must be something 
in the new method worthy of investigation. 
Dr. McManus says: " I claim the honor of having been the first 
physician of Maryland who attempted such investigation. Hav- 
ing no one to make inquiries of in regard to it, my first object 
was to find a physician who had practiced both systems or modes 
of treatment, to get from him the comparative merits of the two, 
and I was directed to Dr. Matlack, of Philadelphia, as a gentle- 
man and a scholar. I visited him, told him the object of my 
visit, and he very frankly and satisfactorily replied to my ques- 
tions. I asked him, first, 'How long have you been practicing 
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medicine?' and he replied, 'Twenty years; the first fifteen allo- 
pathically, the last five homoeopathically.' I very naturally asked 
him if he preferred the latter to the former, and his reply was, 
'If I did not, I would not practice it.' I asked him if he had 
ever cured cases of unquestioned croup, pneumonia, bilious fever, 
and several other acute forms of disease, which I could not be- 
lieve could be combated safely by the vis medicatrix. He replied 
in the affirmative, and added, that 'I thought I had done a great 
deal of good in my practice, but if I changed it to homoeopathy, 
I would very soon find out how much harm I had done.' He 
inquired if I understood German? I replied that I did not, and 
he said I must learn German, if I intended to do the subject 
justice, as there were no English works to guide or teach me, 
and he recommended a few works on practice, with which I was 
to commence the undertaking. I purchased the works and a 
copy of Hering's Domestic Physician with its box of forty-five 
medicines. 
" Having returned to Baltimore with my German books, I 
employed an accomplished German teacher. He understood the 
German but not the medical technicalities, and I understood the 
latter and not the former, and between us we selected a medicine 
or medicines, which would apply to the cases I visited in the 
morning, and of which I took very minute notes. In the even- 
ing of each day, after the German lessons and selection of the 
medicines, patients would send for them, and, in my morning 
round of the following day, I obtained a knowledge of the effects 
of the previous day's prescription, and reported to my teacher at 
his afternoon call. This course I continued for six months, 
when, to my great delight, appeared the five parts, complete, of 
the first American translation of Jahr's first Manual of Homoeo- 
pathic Remedies. To use a common phrase, 'I was made up,' 
when I had a work to study from of my own vernacular. By 
this time I was fully convinced that there must either be astonish- 
ing curative powers in homoeopathic medicines, or that I could 
cure many very serious cases which would be formidable to treat, 
and sometimes fatal, with my previously used heroic mode of 
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has had one, or, perhaps, many remarkable cases and cures, and 
I beg to relate here one of that kind, cured with a single dose. 
I was attending a young lady, aged seventeen years, who was 
singularly and severely afflicted. One day, without any ap- 
parent cause, she was attacked, at 2 P.M., with a severe stitch- 
pain in region of the heart. She described it as like the punc- 
ture of a very sharp long needle. It was momentary, but always 
followed by violent convulsions, of the epileptic kind, continuing 
from one to six or eight hours. The stitch-pain occurred every 
day at 2 P.M., and the convulsions were sure to follow. I con- 
sidered it a species of intermittent neuralgia. I had been treat- 
ing the case allopathically for three or four weeks, giving, in the 
intermissions, various tonics, such as Quinine, Carbonate and 
Muriated tinctures of iron, Fowler's solution of Arsenic, etc., 
and generally anticipated the hour of attack by the application 
of a sinapism over the region of the heart, anteriorly and pos- 
teriorly, until I concluded that I could not cure it. At this time 
a gentleman came to Baltimore, and advertised himself as a 
practitioner of homoeopathy. He was not a physician, but an 
amateur practitioner, having been engaged as a co-translator of 
the Organon and of Jahr's first Manual with the professors of 
the then existing and first homoeopathic college in the United 
States-the Allentown, Pa., school or college-of which our 
venerable colleague Hering was a professor. The gentleman's 
name was Radcliffe, and he was, I believe, a Baptist clergyman, 
and a person of a very high order of literary attainments. I 
called upon him in regard to my case of intermittent neuralgia, 
asking him if he had ever seen such a case, or had ever read a 
description of such a case, to which he replied in the negative. 
I asked him if he thought he could give any medicine to cure or 
relieve the case. He referred to a book for a few minutes, and 
said: 'Yes! I think a dose of Spigelia would cure it.' He 
gave me what he called a dose of Spigelia, directing me to place 
it upon her tongue, which I did between 10 and 11 o'clock, 
a.m. I visited the house again at 5 p.m. of the same day, and 
was met at the door by her mother, who said : 4 Maria has missed 
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may be imagined, and my confidence in homoeopathy was fully 
established. 
" In all my medical readings and studies I never saw a record 
of such a case, and I never met a physician, of any school, who 
ever admitted to have had such a case. I am writing of a period 
thirty-eight years ago; and such was my success that I have 
continued to practice homoeopathy ever since that time, and 
among the most intelligent and wealthy families in Baltimore. 
" Homoeopathy here, as well as elsewhere, had a ' hard road to 
travel,' as, in all other places, nothing but its success could vin- 
dicate its adoption; and now it enjoys a proud and enviable posi- 
tion. Maryland cannot, like many of her sister States, boast of 
a homoeopathic college or hospital, or of the publication of a 
journal; but there are many practitioners who, I am told, are 
sustaining themselves by their success. In Baltimore some of 
our physicians are giving valuable services in attending to a free 
dispensary, rendering comfort and relief to many who are objects 
of charity. A recent publication gives the names of fifty prac- 
titioners of homoeopathy in Maryland, almost thirty of whom 
resided and practiced in Baltimore city,-the remainder in eight 
of the counties. We are highly favored in Baltimore by having 
a well-conducted branch pharmacy of Boericke & Tafel. There 
are now thirty-two homoeopathic physicians in Baltimore." 
Carroll County.-Rev. Jacob Geiger, M.D., introduced homoe- 
opathy in 1836. There are now six in the county. 
Washington County.-Dr. Radcliffe went there in 1841. It 
now contains five practitioners. 
Alleghany County.-J. A. Fechtig, M.D., Cumberland. 
Harford County.-Drs. J. B. Crane, Bellair, and S. B. Ducker- 
man, Abingdon. 
Kent County.-F. A. Clift, M.D., Sassafras. 
Somerset County.-Dr. R. D. Dashiell, Princess Anne. 
Talbot County.-Dr. J. A. Barber went in 1873 to Easton. 
Frederick County.-Drs. F. T. Burch, Q. A. Roth, A. D. 
Worman, all of Frederick. HOMCEOPATHY IN VERMONT* 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into Vermont by Dr. 
Baird, who began to practice it in Troy, Orleans County, in 
1838. 
Dr. Baird was not a graduate of any medical college, but 
seems to have been a man of much talent, and possessed with 
an indomitable will. 
Dr. Baird lived but a few years, and Dr. S. C. Moore, who is 
now located at North Troy, and who has been in the harness for 
over thirty years, succeeded to the practice of homoeopathy in that 
part of the State. About 1850 three or four more physicians 
were added to the homoeopathists, among whom was Dr. G. N. 
Brigham, who began this mode of practice at Waitsfield, Wash- 
ington County; Dr. J. W. Jenness, of Derby, Orleans County; 
and Dr. Stone, and Dr. Beniah Sanborn, of St. Johnsbury, Cale- 
donia County. From that time homoeopathy began to assume 
some importance in the State. 
Dr. T. C. Taplin, who was practicing dentistry, became ac- 
quainted with Dr. Baird soon after he began to promulgate the 
new medical law, and under his teachings began the practice of 
homoeopathy in Danville, Caledonia County, about the year 1845. 
He soon removed to Montpelier, Washington County, where he 
practiced until his death in 1864. 
In Middle Vermont, Montpelier was the first place where 
homoeopathy found a foothold, and the pioneer was Dr. T. C. 
Taplin. The second place was in the town of Waitsfield, and 
Dr. Brigham pioneered the cause. The third town was Barre, 
and Dr. Evans introduced homoeopathy there with the aid of Dr. 
Brigham. 
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The introduction of homoeopathy into Windsor County was 
made in the year 1844 by Dr. A. J. Pike and Dr. Amos Dean, who 
came from Lowell, Mass., and located at Woodstock, Vt., where 
they spent about one year practicing in partnership, and making 
many friends to the system in that town and vicinity. Wood- 
stock being the location of the Vermont Medical College made 
it much more difficult to introduce any new methods of cure. 
In 1845 Dr. Pike, having an increasing practice in the ad- 
joining town of Barnard, decided to leave Woodstock and locate 
among his more numerous patrons. He applied for board 
and rooms at the hotels and was refused on account of his medi- 
cal notions, the doctrine of homoeopathy being then regarded, as 
it has been since, as an infringement upon inalienable rights and 
privileges; and at that time the hotel was controlled by a rela- 
tion of the practicing physician, and all hands joined in the at- 
tempt to keep out the intruder upon time-honored customs. But 
the doctor was not to be thus thwarted ; and, although unable to 
find a boarding-place in the village, at last found a home under 
the hospitable roof of Lot Chamberlin, who said "he believed 
the doctor had a better way than the old, and he should not be 
driven away." Although his office and home was fully three 
miles from the village he remained there about two years, enjoy- 
ing a very favorable patronage; after which time his health, 
which was delicate when he came to the country, having become 
firm again, he removed to Lawrence, Mass., where he continued 
in practice until his decease, a few years since. 
Dr. H. N. Guernsey, a native of Rochester, did much to intro- 
duce homoeopathy into his native town, and at each of his visits 
he was called to see many of the cases that had baffled the skill 
of the allopathic fraternity. His brother, William P. Guernsey, 
became an early convert to the faith, and, from having a do- 
mestic case and a few books, he soon was of no small import- 
ance outside of his immediate family as a doctor. About the 
year 1851, he left the farm and other business pursuits, and 
completed a course of medical study at Philadelphia, under his 
brother's tuition, and since that time has enjoyed an increasing 
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friends to the new faith, Mrs. Webber being a sister of the Doc- 
tors Guernsey, and by their assistance and influence, a number 
of young men studied homoeopathy, who are among its honorable 
practitioners to this day. 
Another prominent person who acted as a lay-practitioner, 
previous to their having a homoeopathic physician, was J. C. 
Tilden, Esq., who, being a good nurse, a keen observer, and 
somewhat versed in Hering's Domestic Physician, did much good 
in relieving the sick, and dispensing medicines gratuitously, thus 
preparing the way for the physician. In 1851 Dr. H. W. 
Hamilton, an eclectic physician, came into Rochester, and estab- 
lished himself, and did a very thriving business, many thinking 
" roots and herbs," or eclecticism, preferable to allopathy. Dur- 
ing the early part of the year 1852 Dr. II. N. Guernsey visited 
his native town, and, on becoming acquainted with Dr. Hamil- 
ton, proposed to him to adopt the new system. This proposition 
was seconded by the few friends of homoeopathy in the town, 
and the doctor finally consented to the change, and Dr. Guern- 
sey furnished him the needful books and a set of remedies from 
his own stock. In a short time Dr. Hamilton placed ho- 
moeopathy in the foreground, and his " roots and herbs " were 
consigned to the shades. He continued in an increasing prac- 
tice, having, during the winter of 1852-3, one of the most violent 
epidemics of pneumonia ever known in the region, but the num- 
ber of the fatal cases were so few, when compared with the old 
school, that homoeopathy at once had a position it has ever since 
maintained. In June, 1853, Dr. G. E. E. Sparhawk, then re- 
cently a graduate of the Pennsylvania Homoeopathic College, 
went to Rochester, and entered into a partnership with Dr. Ham- 
ilton, having a very extended practice until the early part of 
1854, when Dr. Hamilton retired from the firm, and left the 
State; Dr. Sparhawk continued there until the fall of 1857, 
when he gave up his business to Dr. C. B. Currier. Dr. Cur- 
rier increased the popularity of homoeopathy very greatly during 
his stay in Rochester, having several students under his tuition, 
who since have distinguished themselves as practitioners, among 
whom we might name Dr. J. H. Jones, of Bradford, Vt.; Dr. 496 
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H. K. Bennett, of Fitchburgh, Mass.; Dr. E. B. Whittaker, of 
Hinesburgh, Vt.; Dr. C. P. Holden, the present resident physi- 
cian of Rochester. 
In 1863 Dr. Currier disposed of his practice to J. W. 
McDuffee, M.D., who added many to the list of homoeopathic 
patrons, so that a majority might be called in favor of the homoeo- 
pathic system. During the earlier years of Dr. Sparhawk's prac- 
tice, the prejudice against the system, and the opposition of the 
allopathic physicians, was so great, that in some neighborhoods 
they could not obtain watchers to assist in caring for the sick, 
because of the treatment not being in accordance with the time- 
honored customs. 
Dr. G. E. E. Sparhawk located at Gaysville in December, 
1858, where he has to the present time enjoyed a very extensive 
practice. When he located in Gaysville, the town boasted of 
two eclectic physicians, and one allopathic. They gradually 
withdrew, until for several years he was master of the situation, 
often employing an assistant during the sickly seasons. At 
present, his brother, Dr. S. H. Sparhawk, is his partner in prac- 
tice. 
Other towns in the county have enjoyed less of homoeopathic 
practice. In the fall of 1860, Dr. J. R. Hamilton located at 
Woodstock, the shire town of the county. The opposition was 
very great, and he failed to make homoeopathy popular in the 
town, although he had a good business in the surrounding towns. 
The fact that the Vermont Medical College had been in full 
operation until 1855, and that more than half the people were 
related to allopathic physicians by marriage, or otherwise, made 
it a very difficult matter to overcome the established prejudices 
of generations. When the writer attended lectures at that col- 
lege in 1852, a clinical case of indolent ulcer came before the class. 
The professor pronounced it incurable, and so dismissed it. A 
dentist, then a resident of the town, and attending lectures at the 
time, invited the patient into his office, and proposed to cure the 
case, if he would take homoeopathic pellets. He prescribed for 
him, and in a few weeks the ulcer was healed. At that time 
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of the system, and ridicule of those who believed in it, that every 
one kept his own counsel, and it was not until after-years that 
they knew each other as homoeopaths at the Vermont Medical 
College. 
Dr. Hamilton left Woodstock, as too hard a place for him to 
battle the way, in 1863, and until 1870 they had no homoeopathic 
physician, when Dr. G. W. Colton, in searching for a location, 
concluded such a beautiful and thriving town ought to support 
one homoeopathic physician, if it could five allopaths, and he 
came to Woodstock, as he said, " to stay, business or no busi- 
ness." During the first six months he did not have a single call. 
But he staid there, and soon business came to him, and now it is 
one of the best homoeopathic fields in the State. 
While Dr. Hamilton was located at Rochester he was con- 
sulted by Dr. A. S. Lamb, of Plymouth, to whom he lent books 
and medicines for a trial, all of the 30th dilution, by the way, 
who became a firm convert to homoeopathy. Poor health has 
limited his practice, but he is a good example of a genuine homoe- 
opathist. 
The thriving town of Springfield has had Dr. S. H. Colburn 
for its homoeopathic representative for about one year, but he has 
removed to Athol, Mass., and Dr. N. R. Perkins, a graduate of 
the Boston University School, has lately succeeded him there. 
It is one of the active places in the State, and we expect to hear 
good things from the locality. At present the interests of ho- 
moeopathy in Windsor County are represented by only six prac- 
titioners, but, notwithstanding the paucity of the laborers, ho- 
moeopathy has a name, and its representatives a good standing 
and reputation among their patrons. Like most of the physi- 
cians of the State they are of the Hahnemannian stamp. 
Dr. C. B. Darling, who graduated at the Woodstock Medical 
College in 1843, began the practice of homoeopathy at Lyndon, 
in Caledonia County, soon after receiving his diploma, and 
was a popular physician in that vicinity for twenty years. He 
died of hereditary consumption, whose ravages he had delayed 
for years with homoeopathic medicines. 
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fined to Burlington and Hinesburgh. Several of the adjoining 
towns have laymen who dispense the "pellets" to their neigh- 
bors on occasion, but no located physician. 
Dr. T. S. Blodgett, now of Cooperstown, N. Y., came to Bur- 
lington about the year 1850, but remained only a short time. 
He was succeeded by Dr. John A. Ward, now of New York. 
Dr. Ward was a young man and a good practitioner, but the 
practice was almost unknown and the people conservative, so he 
became discouraged and went away. 
He was succeeded in 1854 by Dr. Thomas Bigelow, who was 
induced to come to Burlington through the efforts of his brother- 
in-law and had recently become a convert to the homoeopathic 
faith. Dr. Bigelow graduated at the medical college in Castle- 
ton, Vermont, in 1828, and practiced as an allopathic physician 
in West Granville and Hartford, Washington County, N. Y. 
At the time he came to Burlington there were some seven 
thousand inhabitants in the town, of whom only a few were 
favorably disposed towards homoeopathy, through the efforts 
of Dr. Ward, but the practice has gradually increased, although 
there has been much opposition. Burlington has always been a 
very conservative place, owing to the presence of the University 
of Vermont and the medical college connected therewith, whose 
influence has always been unscrupulously thrown against ho- 
moeopathy ami its practitioners and adherents. Dr. Bigelow was 
a man of sterling qualities, uncompromising with error, and able 
to fight his way, until he compelled, at least, the respect of his 
professional foes. In 1870, finding his health giving way, he 
took Dr. Samuel Worcester into partnership, and in October, 
1871, retired from practice and moved to Green Bay, Wis. 
Dr. Sanford Wager came to Burlington about the same time 
as Dr. Bigelow and associated himself as an assistant in the Water- 
cure establishment of Drs. Redfield and Whiting, and after their 
failure remained permanently as a homoeopathic physician. He 
has succeeded in the face of much opposition in building up a 
large practice, and his rides extend into many of the adjacent 
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Mass., in December, 1870, and succeeded to the business of Dr. 
Thomas Bigelow. He received his medical education at Har- 
vard Medical College, and served several months as Medical Ca- 
det, United States Army, during the latter part of the war, and 
was Assistant Physician at the Butler Hospital for the Insane, at 
Providence, R. I., for two years and a half. He received his 
degree in 1868, but did not enter on general practice until April, 
1870, when he went to Concord, Mass., remaining there until 
December, when he removed to Burlington, and has since done 
what he could to build up homoeopathy, and has thus far suc- 
ceeded well. 
Dr. Albert Colvin studied under Dr. H. A. Houghton, of 
Keeseville, his native place, and attended medical lectures at 
Burlington, New York, and Cleveland, finally graduating at the 
latter place. He moved to Burlington in 1872, and has suc- 
ceeded in building up a good practice with prospects of a steady 
increase. He is a man of good natural abilities and great perse- 
verance. 
Dr. E. B. Whitaker was a student of Dr. C. B. Currier, of 
Middlebury, and graduated at the New York Homoeopathic 
College in 1868. He settled in Hinesburgh in 1868, and was the 
first homoeopathic physician in that town. He is a young man 
of uncommon ability and has gradually gained a reputation in 
the county that few young men possess. 
The first practitioner in Addison County was Dr. Oliver J. 
Eells, who began the practice of medicine in Cornwall in 1812. 
For the greater part of his life he practiced allopathy, and took a 
high stand in that school. While travelling in Western New 
York in 1854 he met a homoeopathic physician, with whom he 
had a discussion on the subject of homoeopathy, and was finally 
persuaded to try it in his own practice, his homoeopathic col- 
league sending him books, medicines, etc. Dr. Eells began his 
experiments upon patients without their knowledge. The suc- 
cess was so marked and the results so astounding that, after a 
year's secret practice, he threw away his saddlebags and declared 
to the world his intention never more to give drugs, which reso- 
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for a time, but soon all came back, having seen for themselves 
the astonishing success of the doctor's new method of practice. 
At the time of his death, in 1860, he had a field so large that, 
for the last few years of his practice, he required an assistant. 
Dr. Eells was a man of great energy of character, a great and 
constant worker, and was devotedly attached to his profession. 
He was universally loved and esteemed by his patients and 
friends, and respected by all. To-day the name of "old Dr. 
Eells" is still a household word in many houses in Cornwall. 
Homoeopathy owes to him a debt of gratitude, for from that nu- 
cleus in Cornwall we can trace all the growth of homoeopathy in 
that part of the State. 
Dr. Eells educated a young man (R. C. Green) who graduated 
at the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College in 1857, and 
then practiced several years with his preceptor. He was a man 
of some ability, and would have sustained the reputation of ho- 
moeopathy in that locality had not his health failed him. He 
suffered for years from phthisis, and died from haemorrhage of the 
lungs on February 9th, 1866. Dr. Green would have a severe 
haemorrhage from the lungs, losing several ounces of blood, would 
lie in bed one day and frequently ride many miles the next, an 
exhibition of energy and ambition indicative of his character. 
Dr. C. B. Currier, a graduate of Pennsylvania University, 
located in Cornwall in 1860. After four years' practice, finding 
his field so extensive, he located in Middlebury, it being a better 
centre from whence to do business. Not a homoeopathic family 
welcomed him to his new field. This being the county seat, 
there were many old and well-established physicians of the old 
school. They were united in nothing but opposition to the doc- 
tor and homoeopathy. Everything that could be done to injure 
him was tried, no stone being left unturned to make him and 
his " little sugar pills " a target for ridicule. He was many miles 
from any homoeopathic physician, with no friendly counsel to 
call upon. The doctor fought the battle alone, surrounded on 
every side by opponents wary and unscrupulous, ready to falsify 
facts in regard to the new system, and to promulgate scandal 
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A single decade has worked wonders in Middlebury, and in 
fact all through Addison County. The skill, boundless energy, 
and good judgment of the doctor have overcome all obstacles 
and placed him at the head of the profession there. 
Dr. Currier enjoyed a large and constantly increasing practice. 
In no place in the State has homoeopathy had more opposition 
than in the county seat, and in no place has the victory been 
more complete. Many students have gone from his office who 
have already attained high rank. The pension office recognized 
the merits of the doctor and appointed him Examining Surgeon 
for Pensioners, the only one of the kind in New England, we 
believe. 
In the spring of 1874 the doctor's duties were so laborious 
that he was obliged to have an assistant. In the spring of 1875, 
owing to ill-health, he was obliged to remove. He located in 
New York city, where he is now practicing. 
Dr. E. T. Crafts, of Joliet, Ill., graduated at the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Chicago in 1870. Ele came to Middlebury, 
Vt., in the spring of 1874, and associated himself with Dr. Cur- 
rier. Soon after his introduction Dr. Currier was prostrated by 
a severe attack of typhoid pneumonia. Dr. Crafts proved him- 
self equal to the emergency. 
Dr. G. R. Sanborn, of New Elaven, Vt., was converted by Dr. 
Currier. He graduated at the medical school at Pittsfield, Mass., 
in 1850; practiced allopathy for three years; and although his 
practice was successful, as compared with that of his brother phy- 
sicians, he became dissatisfied with the uncertainties of allopathy. 
He left the profession and devoted his attention to agricultural 
pursuits for fifteen years. In 1860 his attention had been called 
to homoeopathy, but he scouted the idea that the millionth part 
of a grain of medicine could have any curative action when 
several grains failed to produce any effect, and would not inves- 
tigate the merits of the system, until, finally, he had an oppor- 
tunity of witnessing its wonderful effects in the practice of Dr. 
Currier. He immediately procured books and medicines, and 
again began the practice of medicine; but this time he was not 
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most sanguine expectations crowned his efforts, and to-day he is 
one of the most thorough-going advocates of the beneficent doc- 
trines of Hahnemann. 
Dr. A. A. Arthur graduated at the Bellevue Hospital College, 
N. Y., in 1868, and at once began the practice of homoeopathy 
in Vergennes, Vt. Homoeopathy was entirely unknown except 
to a few families who had employed Dr. Currier, of Middle- 
bury ; but as in all places, when homoeopathy is represented by 
an able, intelligent man, the number and influence of its patrons 
continually increased, until to-day Dr. Arthur has a very re- 
munerative practice. 
Dr. Smith, of Addison, was, we believe, an eclectic'physician, 
but was recently converted to homoeopathy, and is now prac- 
ticing in Addison, Vt. 
Dr. I. V. Daggett was a student of Dr. C. B. Currier; grad- 
uated at the New York Homoeopathic College in 1868; com- 
menced the practice of homoeopathy in Canton, N. Y.; finally 
returned to Addison County, and settled in Whiting, where he 
is now practicing. 
Dr. H. K. Bennett was a student of Dr. C. B. Currier; grad- 
uated in 1865 at Pennsylvania University, Pa.; settled in Bristol, 
Vt.; remained there but a short time, and is now practicing in 
Fitchburg, Mass. 
Dr. J. R. Hamblin began the practice of homoeopathy in Rip- 
ton, Vt., in 1870, where he practiced for five years, when, de- 
siring a larger field of usefulness, he removed to Starksboro. 
He is still in practice there, and meeting with the success which 
always attends active and energetic labors when properly directed. 
Dr. Jane A. Rich was a daughter of Judge Davis Rich, of 
Shoreham, Vermont. She entered upon the study of medicine 
and attended the lectures of the Medical College for Women 
(homoeopathic), at New York, and graduated in March, 1875. 
She practiced through the summer and fall of 1875. In Janu- 
ary, 1876, she went to New York city, and died April 23d, 1876, 
of diphtheria, after an illness of three days. 
She was a woman of remarkable energy and skill, and homoe- 
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In Addison County, in the brief space of twenty years, where 
homoeopathy was entirely unknown, there are ten now in active 
practice. With several doctors of this school, there are yet unoc- 
cupied fields where a practitioner of homoeopathy would be gladly 
welcomed. Although it is not strictly in the history of Addison 
County, we feel that we ought to mention that it is mainly from 
the success of homoeopathy there, that homoeopathy has obtained 
so strong a hold in several towns in New York, across the lake. 
We claim that this is the banner county of homoeopathy in the 
State. 
We number more homoeopathic physicians in active practice 
than any county in the State, and as is usual everywhere its pa- 
trons are among the most intelligent and refined people. 
Several prominent men have moved from the State and are in 
successful practice in other States of the Union. Among whom we 
may mention : 
Dr. James Steele, who moved from Morrisville, Vt., to Illinois; 
Dr. Stone, who moved from St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Greenfield, 
Mass., where he soon after died; Dr. Chester Scott, who moved 
from Lyndon to Lawrence, Mass., where he is now in a lucra- 
tive practice; Dr. H. M. Hunter, who moved from Concord, Vt., 
to Lowell, Mass.; Dr. Packer, who moved from Barre, Vt., to 
Lowell, Mass., and then to Chelsea, Mass.; Dr. A. M. Cushing, 
who moved from Bradford, Vt., to Lynn, Mass.; Dr. Sanger, 
who moved from Hardwick, Vt., to Littleton, N. II.; Dr. G. N. 
Brigham, who moved from Montpelier, Vt., to Grand Rapids 
Mich.; Dr. Flanders, who moved from Waterbury, Vt., to In- 
dianapolis, Minn.; Dr. Charles Houghton, who moved from St. 
Johnsbury, Vt., to Keeseville, N. Y.; Dr. Brown, who moved 
from Moretown to Potsdam, N. Y.; and Dr. J. W. Jenness, who 
moved from Derby to Chickopee, Mass. 
In the necrology of the State we have to insert the names of 
Dr. Baird, Dr. C. B. Darling, Dr. Stone, Dr. Eells, Dr. Beniah 
Sanborn, Dr. Taylor, of Boston ; Dr. Pope, of Johnsbury; Dr. 
T. C. Taplin, of Montpelier; Dr. Smith, of St. Albans; Dr. 
Evans, of Barre ; and Dr. Carpenter, of Irasburgh. 
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little later became known as the Vermont State Homoeopathic 
Medical Society. 
Since that time there have been organized, in the interest of 
homoeopathy, the Connecticut Valley Medical Society, and the 
Champlain Valley Medical Society. There are in the State about 
sixty practicing physicians of this school. 
The man longest in the practice now in the State is proba- 
bly Dr. Levi C. Moore, of North Troy. Dr. Bingham, before 
leaving the State, was probably the next in years of practice. 
The oldest man in the profession is probably Dr. N. H. Thomas, 
of Stoner, who is about seventy-five years, Dr. Moore being about 
seventy-two years ; both are yet vigorous. 
The majority of the homoeopathic physicians in the State favor 
the use of high potencies in chronic diseases, and a few use as 
high as the 30th for acute diseases. The use of one remedy at a 
time is the adopted custom. 
So far as we know homoeopathy has less mongrelism in its 
ranks here than in any other locality, and we know something of 
Eastern and Western practice. 
In 1850 there was not a pound of Arnica flowers to be bought 
at any of the drug stores in the State, and the Tincture of arnica 
was unknown to any but the homoeppathist. Aconite was as 
little known, but these remedies now, as well as some other 
homoeopathic preparations, are popularized and used quite as 
often by the old school as by homoeopathists,-chiefly empirically 
however. A charter for a school of medicine in charge of homoe- 
opathy has been secured. 
Vermont has furnished but little literature for our school. 
Dr. Brigham has given addresses to the people at a few places, 
and an essay on homoeopathy, prepared for the Vermont Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society, was published in the Vermont Patriot, and 
had a wide reading;. Dr. Brig-ham has also contributed to ho- 
moeopathic journals, the most important paper being, perhaps, 
his report of several cases of morbus Brightii cured by Apium 
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insanity and its treatment, which have attracted considerable 
notice. 
A small pamphlet was published a few years ago by the Rev. 
A. J. Copeland in the defence of homoeopathy. 
Dr. Charles Woodhouse has published a small work on the 
use of domestic remedies. 
Dr. H. Noah Martin received his academical education in 
Derby Academy and Caledonia County Grammar School, where 
his parents had long resided, although he was born in Albion, 
N. Y. He also began the study of medicine here. 
Professor Henry Newell Guernsey, now in Philadelphia, was 
born in Rochester, Windsor County, Vt., and received his 
academical education in the State. 
Dr. William Fuller Guernsey was born at Rochester, Vt., 
December 12th, 1814; now a resident of Philadelphia. 
Dr. Mary S. Safford (now Blake), of Boston, Mass., was born 
in Hyde Park, Vt., and received her academical education at 
Bakersfield Academy. 
Dr. Josiah Q. Stearns, 6f Elizabeth, N. J., was born in Hines- 
burgh, Chittenden County, Vt. 
Professor William P. Wesselhoeft practiced homoeopathy at 
Brattleboro, Vt., before removing to Boston, Mass., and his uncle 
managed a hydropathic establishment for a long time in that 
town, using homoeopathic remedies in connection with it. 
Our climate is rigorous and productive-of a large per cent, of 
consumptives, which has led to a study of the pathogenetic indi- 
cations for the treatment of that most fatal malady by one of our 
members at least. Dr. Brigham has found Sulphur in the 20m 
or 100m potency to be more effective than any other remedy. At 
least it has cured more cases. Stannum and Silicea hold nearly 
the same rank. The indications for Sulphur have been a har- 
assing, comparatively dry cough, or when' small quantities of 
muco-purulent matters have been expectorated. More fre- 
quently the left lung is the seat of disease in these curable cases, 
and often an attendant symptom is pain or an uncomfortable feel- 
ing passing from front, back to shoulderblade. In one case a ca- 
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parenchyma of the lungs had set in a fistula in ano followed. 
The case was of hereditary character. Another was complicated 
with constipation, and still another with diarrhoea. Stannum 
has cured a few cases, noticeably one where a tumor on the neck 
had been dispersed by Iodine. A large vomica was formed in 
apex of right lung and the expectoration was enormous and of a 
muco-purulent character, but mucus largely in excess. Stannum 
3d cured the case. The most notable case cured by Silicea was 
one who had cavities in apex of both lungs, expectorated largely 
an almost purulent matter, had nightsweats and the appearance 
and odor of septicaemia, had bled badly six months before, and 
had been abandoned by others with a prognosis that he could 
not live six weeks. 
Albuminuria has been cured by Dr. Brigham in the most ad- 
vanced stages by Apium virus 3d, and Mercurius corrosivus200. 
Polypus of the uterus by Thuja occidentalis200. Epilepsy has 
been cured in the case of a lady affected with it seven years from 
her first menstrual period, and when the mind had suffered to 
the state of approaching idiocy, and the stomach could only 
receive milk, by Pulsatilla and Belladonna. Epilepsy in a fat 
child, with voracious appetite, by Cicuta200. Cases have been im- 
proved, coming on in the night, with Lachesis200. Cases of recent 
insanity have been cured by Belladonna, Nux w, Stramonium, 
and Veratrum, and saved being sent to the insane asylum. Ty- 
phoid fever in his hands has yielded best to Sul. quinine 2d, from 
midnight till noon, and Sulphuric acid, two or three drops in a 
half tumbler of water, from noon till midnight, two teaspoonfuls 
every two hours. Baptisia, Rhus, and other remedies have been 
used to meet particular indications. As these seem to be obser- 
vations valuable to the general profession, they are herewith trans- 
mitted with this brief historical report of homoeopathy in the 
State. HOMOEOPATHY IN RHODE ISLAND. 
It is singular that while a liliputian war was raging in the 
little State of Rhode Island for the removal of a royal statute of 
George III of England, which allowed only the " manor born " 
to vote,-a war that met with partial success in its struggle for 
freedom,-homoeopathy was introduced, causing no little dis- 
turbance among the people as well as among the medical pro- 
fession. This introduction began a new era in the history of 
medicine in the State. 
Dr. Louis Parlin, a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1835, 
commenced to practice homoeopathy in Providence about 1839. 
He was a thorough scholar not only in medicine, but also in phi- 
lology (he spoke fluently French, German, Italian, Spanish, and 
English), and classic literature. He commanded the respect of all 
who knew him. He was a man of strong character, and, although 
severely ridiculed by the medical fraternity, he soon had a strong 
hold on the people's favor by his eminent success in the practice 
of medicine. Of course, while the political parties were forming 
in the State, he had to throw his -personal influence into the scale 
for freedom by becoming a " Dorrite." He stood by his party 
to the bitter end, and had to flee from the State. Where he 
went no one knew, nor was he ever heard from afterwards. 
Some of his still living contemporaries say he went to Ger- 
many. Flis nationality is doubtful, some saying he was a Ger- 
man, some a Frenchman, and others that he was an American. 
Whatever nation he belonged to, that nation need not blush for 
her son. 
The seed of homoeopathy was sown, and, soon after the depar- 
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Dr. Channing, of New York, made frequent professional visits 
here in 1839 to 1841, although he did not reside here, and did 
much to strengthen the faith of the early practitioners, and aided 
them by his counsel. 
Dr. Josiah F. Flagg, who was induced by Dr. Humphrey to 
accept homoeopathy, practiced here in 1840-41. 
Dr. P. P. Wells, of Brooklyn, N. Y., having relatives in the 
city of Providence, often visited here, and frequently prescribed 
for patients, frequently holding consultations with Dr. Gray, of 
New York. 
Abraham H. Okie, a graduate of the Allentown Academy, 
Pennsylvania, commenced practice in Providence about 1842. 
A man of keen intellect, quick, intuitive perception, and an ex- 
cellent diagnostician, he soon gained the confidence of the people 
and built up in a few years a practice unequalled in the history 
of medical practitioners in this State. Pie wrote an excellent 
monograph on Aconite; and his inaugural address, delivered 
before the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Medical Society in 1850, 
as its President, was published in an octavo pamphlet of twenty- 
eight pages. 
It is a great pity that a man of such talents, and even genius, 
is as good as lost to the profession, he having taken for the last 
decade no interest whatever either in society meetings or in 
other enterprises concerning homoeopathy. He still continues in 
practice. His son, Howard A. Okie, a graduate of Harvard Uni- 
versity in 1868, is with him in.business. 
About the year 1843 Dr. John J. De Wolf, of Bristol, Rhode 
Island, became a homoeopath, settled here, and is still in practice. 
Ira Barrows, A.M., M.D., graduated at Brown University in 
1824; studied medicine with Dr. A. Johnson, of Pawtucket, 
Mass.; graduated from Harvard Medical College in 1827, and 
followed the old practice until 1842. In that year he had a con- 
versation with Dr. P. P. Wells, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the sub- 
ject of homoeopathy, was induced to try homoeopathic remedies, 
and finally commenced practice in Norton, Mass. He subse- 
quently took an office in Pawtucket with Dr. C. F. Manchester, 
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to Providence, where he has continued to pursue his beloved 
science till the present time. The allopathic system of practice 
was followed by him for fifteen years, and was attended with as 
much success as were the labors of his compeers. In the homoeo- 
pathic practice, having been far more successful in curing the sick, 
and believing homoeopathy to be far more scientific than the old 
system, and destined, in his opinion, when thoroughly under- 
stood, to become a perfect system of medicine, he has never re- 
gretted the change, nor desired to return to his first love. He 
was President of the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Medical So- 
ciety in 1874-75; and his excellent inaugural address in 1875 
was published in pamphlet form. Although nearly seventy-four 
years old he attends society meetings promptly; takes great in- 
terest in the dispensary and in the creation of a homoeopathic 
hospital. He has an extensive practice, and is loved by all who 
know him. Dr. William E. Barrows, a graduate of the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1871, is in practice 
with his father, Dr. Ira Barrows. 
Dr. Washington Hoppin, a graduate of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, entered into partnership with 
Dr. Ira Barrows, which was continued till his death in 1867. He 
was lost too soon to the profession. He was an earnest thinker 
and scholar. 
Dr. Greenville S. Stevens graduated at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, New York, in 1854, and in the same year 
opened his office here, where he still practices. 
Dr. William A. von Gottschalk, a graduate of Leipzic Uni- 
versity, settled in Providence in 1855. In 1848 he joined in 
the revolutionary movement in Germany, became exiled and 
practiced in Switzerland from 1849-50, when he emigrated to 
New York, where he practiced until 1854. Through the influ- 
ence of Dr. C. J. Hempel he became a homoeopath. In 1854 he 
went to Paris and attended lectures in L'Ecole de Medicin and the 
hospitals, perfecting himself principally in surgery. He has 
gained by his indomitable energy and perseverance a most select 
and extensive practice. He re-established the Rhode Island 
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unabated vigor the establishment of a homoeopathic hospital. 
In 1863 he was appointed Surgeon of the Sixth Regiment Rhode 
Island Militia and served one year. 
Dr. George D. Wilcox, who is also in full practice and in part- 
nership with Dr. Barrows, is a graduate of the Medical Depart- 
ment of the University of New York. 
Dr. Courtland Hoppin graduated at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of New York, and opened an office here in 1860. 
He is the attending physician of the Protestant Orphan Asylum, 
which position he has held for the last ten years, with great sat- 
isfaction and honor to the profession. 
Dr. Isaac AV. Sawin, a graduate of the Western Homceopathic 
College, came here from Centredale in 1867. He was born in 
Dover, Norfolk County, Mass., in 1823. He is a lineal descend- 
ant of John Sawin, who emigrated from Bayford, Suffolk County, 
England, about the year 1649, to Watertown, Mass., where he 
held several offices of trust. His son was the co-laborer of Eliot, 
the "apostle to the Indians." After receiving a sound general 
education, the subject of this sketch engaged in various pursuits 
until after his thirtieth year, when he began the study of medi- 
cine under the guidance of Dr. P. T. Bowen, of Providence. 
He was prompted to this course by illness. Being attacked with 
a troublesome and dangerous bronchial affection, he placed him- 
self under the care of Dr. Bowen, was treated homoeopathically by 
him, and was cured. Thereupon he determined to aid the sick 
and suffering by the same system. He completed his studies at 
the Western Homoeopathic College, of Cleveland, Ohio, in the 
class of 1836-37, and commenced practice in Centredale, R. I., 
continuing there ten years. In 1867 he removed to Providence, 
where he occupies a high position among the profession. He 
was elected a member of the Hahnemann Institute of Medicine 
in Philadelphia, in 1859, and is a member of the American In- 
stitute. 
Peleg Clark, M.D., was born in Richmond, R. I., in 1784. 
Having completed his preparatory education in the schools of his 
native State, he entered upon the study of medicine under Dr. 
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under Dr. Caleb Fiske, of Johnston, R. I. In 1808 he com- 
menced practice in Johnston, where he labored with success until 
1813. In that year he attended lectures in the Medical Depart- 
ment of Brown University. He was one of the original peti- 
tioners for a charter for the first medical society in the State. 
He retained his membership till his death. In 1832 he removed 
to Coventry and practiced allopathy until 1844, at which time so 
little were the merits of homoeopathy acknowledged that in the 
whole State there were but two who ventured upon its practice. 
Dr. Clark, after a careful examination of the system, bravely 
adopted it, and by his sound and judicious treatment contributed 
largely in paving the way for its more rapid extension through- 
out the State. Uis advancing years and increasing infirmities 
finally compelled his retirement to private life. His withdrawal 
was honored with the laurels he has so well deserved. His 
mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of his sons, H. B. and J. S. 
Clark, whose records give evidence that they will wear it grace- 
fully and honorably. 
Dr. Henry C. Preston practiced here for several years with 
eminent success, but removed ten years ago to St. Johns, N. B. 
Dr. Charles G. McKnight practiced here for many years. 
Although gone out of practice he still remains a stanch and en- 
thusiastic supporter of homoeopathy. 
Dr. A. P. King, a graduate of Harvard University, practiced 
allopathy here for several years, but changed to homoeopathy 
through the influence of Dr. Okie. He was a fine, large-hearted 
man, an excellent scholar, and very successful practitioner. The 
profession mourn his loss. 
Dr. Isaac S. Crocker practiced in Providence for several years. 
He died in October, 1866. 
Dr. F. M. Cooke was in practice here for several years, but 
has moved to Chicago. 
Dr. Walter M. Jackson, a graduate of Harvard Medical 
School in 1868, practiced here for several years, but has gone out 
of practice. A genius for surgery is thus lost to the profession. 
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in 1856; attended hospital practice for one year, and in 1857 
settled in Providence. He is still in practice here. 
Dr. George L. Barnes commenced the study of medicine in 
1857 with Dr. Parsons, and attended two courses of lectures at 
Harvard Medical School, also lectures on mechanics and chem- 
istry at Brown University. After leaving Dr. Parsons he en- 
tered the office of Drs. Barrows and Hoppin and remained with 
them until 1862. He graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania in 1862. He practiced for some time in 
Smithfield, R. I., New York city, and Hudson, N. Y., until 
1870, when he settled in Providence. Pie is an earnest student 
and in good practice. 
Dr. Charles P. Loring, a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1858, 
studied medicine in the Maine Medical School, and at the Belle- 
vue Hospital Medical College, where he took his diploma in 
1863; came direct to Providence and has remained ever since in 
good practice. 
Dr. Robert Hall graduated, in 1856, at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, New York; practiced one year at Westerly, 
R. I., and fourteen years at Centreville. Since 1871 hehas removed 
to Providence. He is an earnest friend of homoeopathy. 
Dr. William Caldwell graduated at Harvard University in 
1869; practiced in Summerville, Mass., for two years, and since 
then has practiced in Providence. 
George B. Peck, A.M., M.D., born 1843 ; graduated at Brown 
University in 1864, and at Yale Medical School in 1871 ; spent 
a year at Sheffield Scientific School; was Assistant Chemist at the 
United States Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., from 1872- 
74 ; was in charge of the Chemical Department of the University 
of Vermont, during illness of its professor, in the fall of 1874, and 
commenced practice May, 1875. He is a promising young man. 
Dr. William Jay Smith graduated at New York Eclectic 
Medical College in 1865; practicedin Brooklyn, N. Y., from 
1867-74. Removed to Providence, November, 1874, where he 
still continues in practice. 
Dr. A. W. Brown graduated at the Cleveland Homoeopathic 
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two years, and then removed to Mystic Bridge, Conn., where he 
practiced until 1873, when he removed to Providence, and still 
engages in his profession. 
Dr. Frederick A. Bradbury, a graduate of the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons of New York in 1875, has since settled 
in Providence. 
Dr. E. B. Knight, a graduate of Harvard University in 1868, 
studied medicine with Dr. William von Gottschalk of Provi- 
dence, and is now in good practice. He is Assistant Physician to 
the Protestant Orphan Asylum. 
Mrs. Dr. Mathews, a graduate of Boston University, class of 
'75, has commenced practice here. 
Dr. William Bowen Greene graduated at the Berkshire Med- 
ical School, Pittsfield, Mass., in 1864, and was Assistant Surgeon 
at the hospital in Knoxville, Tenn., until the close of the war. 
In 1869 he commenced practicing homoeopathy, making special 
study of gynaecology; he practiced in Chicago in 1871-74; 
came to Providence in 1874. He was appointed Surgeon for Dis- 
eases of Women, at the Dispensary, in 1875. Dr. Greene conies 
of along line of physicians of Providence; his grandfather, Dr. 
Pardon Bowen, practiced fifty years, and his great-grandfather, 
more than sixty years in this city. 
Mrs. Dr. M. Mowry has practiced homoeopathy in Providence 
the last fifteen years. 
Dr. J. Lang Clark became a homoeopath in 1873. He has 
practiced here for several years. 
Pawtucket, P. I.-Dr. Charles F. Manchester adopted the 
homoeopathic practice in 1843, and began here, where he still re- 
mains. 
In 1847 Dr. James L. Wheaton graduated at Berkshire Med- 
ical College, and entered upon practice in this town, where he 
still continues, commanding the esteem of his compeers, and the 
confidence of the people. 
Dr. J. A. Chace, a graduate of Harvard University, in 1871, 
is in partnership with Dr. Wheaton at the present time. 
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Medical School, and in March of the same year opened an office 
in this place. 
Centreville, R. I.-In 1844 Dr. Peleg Clarke practiced here. 
In 1853 Drs. A. W. Brown and Robert Hall, both of whom 
removed to Providence. 
Dr. A. G. Sprague, a graduate of the Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia in 1859, settled here in 1866. He served 
in the army, as assistant surgeon, from 1862 until the close of 
the war. He commands a fine practice. 
Slatersville.-Dr. E.C. Knight practiced here in 1852, but has 
left for Waterbury, Conn. 
Coventry.-Dr. Allen Tillinghast graduated at Berkshire Med- 
ical College in 1843, and, after practicing the old system for 
eleven years, adopted homoeopathy in 1854. He is still in prac- 
tice. 
Phenix.-Dr. William H. Richards graduated at Harvard 
University in 1866 ; began practice here, but is now in Warren. 
Dr. J. B. Tillinghast studied medicine at the New York Ho- 
moeopathic College, and Bellevue Hospital College in 1870-71 ; 
graduated from the former in 1872; commenced practice at Sum- 
mit, R. I. ; was in partnership with his father one year, at the 
end of which time he move to Phenix; is still practicing. 
Scituate.-Dr. James E. Roberts commenced the study of med- 
icine with the late B. Nichols, M.D., of Centreville, R. I., in 
1839, and graduated at the University of New York in 1842; 
practiced after the fashion of his Alma Mater until 1855. In 
1856 he made an open confession of faith in homoeopathy, and 
has remained firm in that faith to this day. Although advanced 
in years, he attends quarterly meetings of the society promptly, 
and takes great interest in everything pertaining to homoeopathy. 
He has a large practice. 
Warren.-Dr. Gilbert Clark practiced here for several years, 
until his death in 1871. Since that time Dr. William II. Rich- 
ards occupies the field. 
Bristol.-Dr. Henry Boynton, a graduate of Bowdoin College, 
was in practice here, but has left for Massachusetts. The field 
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Newport.-Nath. Greene, M.D., studied at Brown University 
and Amherst College, and prepared himself for the practice of med- 
icine, under the guidance of an able practitioner of the old school. 
It was not until 1850, however, that he seriously engaged in his 
profession, and then as a homoeopath, at Newport, where, in the 
face of allopathy, he built up a large practice. In 1873 he with- 
drew from practice, leaving homoeopathy in good repute, in the 
hands of his partner, Dr. N. G. Stanton, a graduate of Harvard 
University in 1868. 
Dr. Squire, a graduate of the same class, is in partnership with 
Dr. Stanton. 
Dr. N. R. Chace, a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia in 1872, came directly here, and is in good practice. 
Woonsocket.-Homoeopathy was introduced here in 1858 by a 
most excellent young man, Dr. Rich. Garrique, who soon gained 
the esteem not only of the public, but also of his antagonistic 
compeers. He died in 1868. 
Drs. Boynton, Harris, anti Bruce, in succession, have settled 
here, but only for a short time. Now the field is occupied by 
Dr. E. P. White, a graduate of Boston University, 1876. 
East Greenwich.-Dr. D. H. Greene, an old-school practitioner, 
changed for the true faith in 1850, and has held fast ever since to 
Hahnemann's doctrine. He has a large practice, and has lately 
associated himself with Dr. E. G. Carpenter. 
Woodville.-Dr. J. H. Knowles, an old-school practitioner for 
thirty years, became a homoeopath in 1850, and has practiced it 
successfully ever since. He is an old man now, but full of life 
for the good work. 
Dr. Robert Sunderlin practiced here for a few months, but is 
now in Wickford in full practice. 
Wakefield.-Dr. W. H. Hazard, an old-school physician for 
many years, has practiced homoeopathy for the last fifteen years. 
Westerly.-Dr. L. A. Palmer, a graduate of the Shurtleff Med- 
ical College, Alton, Ill., in 1840, practiced the old system twenty- 
one years. His mind was first called to homoeopathy by a very 
highly esteemed and worthy physician, Dr. William Robinson, 
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converted to homoeopathy by his son-in-law, Dr. Horace Robin- 
son, of Auburn, N. Y., about 1856. In 1861 Dr. Palmer be- 
came a homoeopath. 
S. M. Fletcher practiced here for several years, but in 1868 
he left for Chicago, Ill. 
Dr. Lucy A. Babcock, a graduate of the New York Medical 
College and Hospital for Women in 1873, settled here and is in 
good practice. 
BLOCK ISLAND. 
New Shoreham.-Dr. Thomas H. Mann, graduated at the Al- 
bany Medical College about 1866. Attended dispensary and 
hospital practice in New York city for several years, and settled 
in 1870 at Block Island, New Shoreham. The island contains 
a population of about two thousand, and is situated about ten 
miles from Newport. At the time Dr. Mann arrived at the 
island an old-school practitioner held sway among the sick, but 
soon the new doctor, with the new system, gained favor among 
the people, and within a year the old-school physician had to 
quit the island for lack of patients. After five years undisputed 
control of the island by a homoeopathic physician, he finds him- 
self to-day in a most peculiar situation, that is to say, in the same 
position as the old-school practitioner-lack of patients. Disease 
has become scarce under the new treatment and rational hygiene, 
which Dr. Mann has introduced, so much so that he is unable to 
support his family by his practice. He intended to leave the 
island in 1876, but the town council, seeing the advantages de- 
rived to the people by the homoeopathic system, would not allow 
his departure, and voted a fixed salary of $1800 per annum for 
his support. Block Island is one of the spots on the face of the 
earth where to-day homoeopathy has undisputed domain. 
Centredale.-Dr. Isaac Sawin introduced homoeopathy in this 
place about 1858. His successor is Dr. John C. Budlong, a 
graduate of the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania in 
1862. After practicing in Philadelphia a short time he felt 
it his' duty to return to his' native State to take part in the 
military movements then being organized. In 1863 he was 
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and subsequently promoted to the rank of Surgeon. His regi- 
ment sailed at the close of December, 1863, for New Orleans, and 
took part in the Red River Campaign, during which he was ap- 
pointed Brigade Surgeon, which position he held with much 
credit till promoted to Division Surgeon in charge of the General 
Hospital. He remained with the army until 1865, when he was 
honorably discharged. Returning to his native State he imme- 
diately commenced practice in Centredale, where he still remains. 
In 1875 he was elected Surgeon-General of the State by the leg- 
islature. He is a great honor to the profession and a sound ho- 
moeopath. 
Hope.-Dr. Harding Fiske has been practicing here for ten 
years. 
According to statistics there have been, since the introduction 
of homoeopathy into this State, sixty-one practitioners in all, of 
whom seven have died, and four have been transient (meteors). 
The officers of the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Society for the 
year 1876 are Dr. J. L. Wheaton, President; Dr. AVilliam von 
Gottschalk, Vice-President; Dr. George D.AVilcox, Treasurer; 
Dr. George B. Peck, Secretary. 
Physicians in Rhode Island. 
PROVIDENCE COUNTY. 
Providence.-Drs. Ira Barrows, AV. E. Barrows, G. L. Barnes, 
F. A. Bradbury, A. W. Brown, William Caldwell, William Car- 
penter, J. J. De Wolf, A. B. Foster, William von Gottschalk, 
Courtland Hoppin, Robert Hall, W. M. Jackson, E. B. Knight, 
C. P. Loring, E. G. McKnight, Mrs. Mowry, Mrs. Matthews, 
A. H. Okie, H. A. Okie, George B. Peck, W. J. Smith, J. AV. 
Sawin, G. Stevens, George D. AVilcox. 
South Scituate.-Dr. J. E. Roberts. 
Pawtucket.-Drs. O. H. Arnold, F. Berry, C. F. Manchester, 
Charles Chace, James L. Wheaton. 
Hope.-Dr. Fiske Harding. 
Centredale.-Dr. J. C. Budlong. 
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Bristol- Warren.-Dr. W. H. Richards. 
BRISTOL COUNTY. 
Centreville.-Dr. Albert G. Sprague. 
Coventry.-Dr. Allen Tillinghast. 
East Greenwich.-Drs. D. H. Greene, E. G. Carpenter. 
Woodville.-Dr. J. H. Knowles. 
Phenix.-Dr. J. B. Tillinffhast. 
KENT COUNTY. 
Wakefield.-Dr. W. H. Hazard. 
Westerly.-Drs. L. A. Palmer, Mrs. L. A. Babcock 
Wickford.-Dr. Robert Sunderlin. 
WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
NEWPORT COUNTY, 
Newport.- Drs. N. R. Chace, Nath. Greene, Nath. Stanton, 
R. Squire. 
New Shoreham, Block Island.-Dr. T. H. Mann. 
Literature. 
In 1850 Mr. George W. Whitney published "An Address 
delivered before the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Medical Soci- 
ety, by A. H. Okie, M.D.," an octavo pamphlet of 28 pages. 
Also, by the same author, an excellent monograph on " Aconite." 
In 1852 the " Inaugural Address delivered before the Rhode 
Island Homoeopathic Medical Society, by Dr. Henry C. Pres- 
ton," was printed in pamphlet form by Sayles & Miller. "The 
Inaugural Address," 1875, before the same society, was ordered 
published by a unanimous vote. " Cholera, Treated Homoeo- 
pathically," by Dr. William Von Gottschalk, was published in 
Paris in 1854, in French. In the Transactions of the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy was published "The Diseases of the 
Lymphatic Glands and Vessels, and their Relations to other 
Diseases," by the same author. Also, a " Review of the Progress 
of Anatomy in the Last Decade." HOMEOPATHY IN DEL AW AREA 
The State of Delaware is small, containing only three coun- 
ties. It has a population of about 120,000. Wilmington, on 
the Delaware River, is the largest city, having about 40,000 
inhabitants. In August, 1839, Dr. J. C. Gosewisch, a graduate 
of the North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing 
Art at Allentown, Pa., settled in Wilmington. He was the first 
homoeopathic physician to locate in the State. At that time few 
of the people had any acquaintance with the workings of our 
system ; and, of course, the twenty resident allopathic physicians 
opposed the newcomer with slander and ridicule. The law of 
the State provides that no person not a practitioner prior to Feb- 
ruary 4th, 1802, shall practice medicine or surgery, and collect 
fees therefor, without having obtained a license from a Board of 
Examiners, which board consists of three members of the State 
Medical Society. Dr. Gosewisch asked for admission to the State 
Medical Society, and underwent the necessary examination, with 
which the board expressed entire satisfaction. The following day 
he received an official note refusing to grant his request. In 
consequence of this a petition, signed by many friends of homoe- 
opathy, was presented to the next legislature, by the influence 
of which an act was passed to exempt from the preceding law 
any physician who practiced medicine according to the Thom- 
sonian, botanic, or homoeopathic system. Dr. Gosewisch died in 
May, 1854. Since that time in Wilmington the physicians of 
our school have increased to nine. The total number in the State 
is about twenty. All are doing a fair and respectable practice. 
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List of Homoeopathic Physicians in the State. 
Wilmington.-Drs. J. M. Curtis, 1003 Washington Street; 
Isaac L. Devon, 301 West Twelfth Street ; Caleb Harlan, 708 
Market Street; L. Kittinger, 724 King Street; C. H. Lawton, 
316 West Seventh Street; W. B. Meloney, 708 French Street; 
August Negendank, 901 Washington Street; Joseph R. Tan- 
tum, 909 Market Street; William W. Thomas, 517 West Street; 
W. F. Quimby, 226 French Street. 
Dover.-Dr. E. S. Anderson. * 
Middletown.-Dr. J. C. Kennedy. 
Newport.-Dr. Isaiah Lukens. 
Newark.-Dr. Alexander R. Shaw. 
Smyrna.-Dr. J. S. Swinney. 
Milford.-Dr. Strong. 
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As early as 1836 the practice of homoeopathy was almost un- 
known in Northern Ohio. The men who commenced at an early 
date were mostly itinerant German physicians. The first one 
that we have any knowledge of was a Dr. Cope, who located near 
Plymouth, Huron County. He was a high dilutionist, and gave 
only a single pellet for a dose, to be repeated once in three to 
fourteen days, as the case required. He endeavored to mystify 
his practice by his strange doings and sayings. Nevertheless, we 
knew of some remarkable cures that he performed by adminis- 
tering only one or two doses of medicine. 
It was not until 1843 that we find physicians engaged in the 
practice of homoeopathy who were men calculated to inspire con- 
fidence among the educated and intelligent people. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Cleveland by R. E. W. 
Adams, M.D. Among the first patients treated by him was our 
fellow-townsman, B. F. Rouse, Esq., then a schoolboy, who had 
been pronounced by two of the leading allopathic physicians as 
being in the last stages of phthisis pulmonalis. 
In the year 1844 Daniel O. Hoyt, M.D., came to this city 
and became associated with Dr. Adams. This partnership con- 
tinued a few years, when Dr. Adams removed to Washington, 
D. C., and from there to Springfield, Ill., where he died about 
the year 1870. Dr. Hoyt continued in the practice of his pro- 
fession for over thirty years in Cleveland. He was prompt, kind, 
and courteous to his patients, gentlemanly to all he came in con- 
tact with, both in and out of the profession, and adhered at all 
times in his practice to the teachings of Hahnemann. He was 
a graduate of Dartmouth College, and practiced medicine as an 
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old-school physician for many years. He died August 10th, 
1874, aged eighty-six years. 
In Ravenna, in 1843, we find Dr. Casperi, an Italian by birth, 
engaged in an extensive practice. In a few years he removed to 
Louisville, Ky., where we had the pleasure of meeting him a few 
years since. 
Dr. Schlagel, a German, opened his office at Amherst, in 
1843 or '44, extending his practice to Oberlin j Elyria, and other 
small villages in the vicinity. 
About the same date Storm Rosa, M.D., of Painesville, be- 
came a convert to the doctrines of Hahnemann. So great was 
the confidence of his patrons in his ability that nearly all of them 
continued to employ him. Dr. Rosa died at Painesvile in 1866 
at an advanced age, having been engaged in the practice of 
homoeopathy nearly a quarter of a century. 
In the year 1845 David Shepherd, M.D., of Bainbridge, re- 
nounced his connection with the old school, and since that date 
has remained a practitioner of the new school of medicine. He 
is still living, and his numerous friends greatly appreciate his 
medical services. 
A. H. Burritt, M.D., located in Burton, Geauga County, at 
an early date (about 1844). I find no mention of his name in 
the journals until 1846, when he was in attendance at the Ameri- 
can Institute of Homoeopathy, which convened at Philadelphia 
that year. Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia, page 492, says 
that he came to Cleveland in 1849. He came, however, from 
Burton, and not from Pennsylvania, as stated in the Cyclopaedia. 
In 1854 he removed to New Orleans. A letter received a few 
days since from Dr. William H. Holcombe says that " Dr. Bur- 
ritt is still living in this city, aged seventy-one years, but perfectly 
helpless from paralysis." 
John Wheeler, M.D., commenced the practice of homoeopathy 
in this city in 1845. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 
1817. As a physician of the old school he ranked high, and 
received the honorary degree of Fellow of the Albany Medical 
College. He was the third homoeopathic physician who located 
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sion. He was truly a noble pioneer, and did much to make 
homoeopathy in this city what it is to-day. He loved his pro- 
fession and served it well. Death called him hence while he was 
still on duty. He died February, 1871, at the ripe old age of 
81. He was beloved by his patients, and respected and honored 
by the medical profession at large. 
Alpheus Morrill, M.D., located in Akron in the year 1845 or 
1846. In 1848 he removed to Columbus, and after remaining 
there a few months ill health obliged him to leave the West. He 
located in Concord, N. H., remaining there until his death, which 
occurred nearly two years ago. Dr. Morrill was a senior member 
of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, an organization that 
he loved and cherished. Dr. Crosby, a partner of Dr. Morrill 
while at Akron, left that place soon after the latter did, for a 
similar reason, and we find no trace of him through the journals 
or by personal inquiries. 
E. W. Cowles, M.D., a graduate of the Jefferson Medical 
College, in the year 1845 became a disciple of Hahnemann, and 
commenced the practice of homoeopathy in Cleveland. In 1847 
he removed to Ann Arbor, Mich. 
As illustrative of the courage and love for the profession which 
those physicians possessed in olden times I will cite one single 
incident: 
In 1832 the steamer Henry Clay arrived in Cleveland, at the 
public landing at the foot of Superior Street, from Buffalo. As 
usual in those days, when there were no railroads or telegraphy, 
a crowd assembled at the landing. As soon as the boat came up 
abreast of the landing the captain announced from the deck that 
the cholera had broken out on his boat; that some half dozen of 
his crew and passengers were dead ; and that " for God's sake to 
send a doctor aboard." Immediately the crowd were panic- 
stricken, and rushed up hill at breakneck speed, some fleeing out 
into the country on horseback. Word was brought to Dr. Cowles 
that his services were needed on the boat. He went aboard and 
took charge of the suffering victims of that dreaded scourge. At 
the request of the captain he went to Detroit on the boat, and did 
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or were at the gate of death. His friends never expected to see 
him again alive. But he came back safely a few days after, much 
to the surprise of all. 
B. W. Richmond, M.D., practiced at Chardon about 1845. 
A few yeai's after he removed to the South, where he died during 
the early part of the war. The same year A. H. Plympton, M.D., 
located at Painesville. We have not been able to ascertain whether 
he is still living, nor where he located after leaving Painesville. 
D. Stevens, M.D., settled in Windsor in 1845, where he is 
still engaged in practice. 
C. D. Williams, M.D., came to Cleveland in 1845, and re- 
mained here as one of the leading physicians until the fall of 
1860. In 1861 he selected St. Paul, Minnesota, as a future field 
of labor, where he has since been engaged in a large business. 
He has practiced homoeopathy thirty-six years, and has always 
followed the original precepts of Hahnemann, rarely prescribing 
lower than the 6th attenuation. Those of us who have seen 
much of his practice know him to be a very successful physician. 
In the American Journal of Homoeopathy we find a notice that 
the American Institute of Homoeopathy convened at Philadelphia, 
May 13th, 1846, and the members from Northern Ohio were 
Drs. R. E. W. Adams, D. O. Hoyt, and C. D. Williams, of 
Cleveland; Dr. Storm Rosa, of Painesville; Drs. Morrill and 
Crosby, of Akron; Dr. A. H. Burritt, of Burton, and Dr. David 
Shepherd, of Bainbridge. 
Thirty years ago we had three out of the five homoeopathic 
physicians of Cleveland in attendance at the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy. I have just received a letter from the only 
surviving one of the three, who says: "You see we old chaps 
attended the Institute promptly in those days." 
Dr. Snow read medicine with Dr. Wheeler, being the first 
medical student of homoeopathy in this city. After graduating 
he went to New York and associated himself with Kirby's Jour- 
nal of Homoeopathy. He died a few years afterwards. 
Henry Wigand, M.D., located at Ravenna in 1846, and at a 
later date went to Sandusky, and from there to Springfield, 
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In 1846 Dr. B. H. Bartlett opened in Cleveland the first ho- 
mceopathic pharmacy in Northern Ohio. 
In 1848 G. W. Barker, M.D., and Thomas Miller, M.D., 
located in Cleveland. Dr. Barker soon moved to Detroit, and 
Dr. Miller left Cleveland for Missouri, where he spent his last 
days. The same year a Dr, Gilman came to Cleveland and com- 
menced the publication of a journal to which I shall allude here- 
after. He only remained a short time and went to some other 
field of labor. 
Not until the year 1848 did the practitioners of the old school 
begin to realize that they had a powerful rival in the field of 
practice. Teachers, physicians, and professors of high repute, 
through the press and public lectures, criticised and denounced 
homoeopathy as "the greatest humbug of the age." Most of the 
physicians who were engaged in the practice of homoeopathy in 
this city at that time were men of high attainments, having 
graduated in the best allopathic colleges, and practiced the old 
school of.medicine successfully for several years. The stronger 
the opposition thq greater their success. The first series of lec- 
tures denunciatory of homoeopathy in Cleveland were delivered 
during the session of 1847 and 1848 at the Cleveland Medical 
College (on Erie Street) by the late lamented J. J. Delamater, 
M.D. Being a student of medicine at that time, I was led to 
inquire the reason why Professor Delamater should engage the 
time and attention, during his regular lecture hours, of two hun- 
dred and fifty students who were in attendance at the Erie Street 
School, if homoeopathy were so great a farce as he represented in 
his lectures. 
In the year 1849 the homoeopathic physicians of Northern 
Ohio began to discuss among themselves the propriety of estab- 
lishing a homoeopathic college. After much thought and delib- 
eration they came to the conclusion that they could not sustain 
one, or supply it with all the necessary apparatus which would 
be required to compete with colleges of the old school. 
A few weeks later the following proposition was received by 
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at Cincinnati, through their Dean, the noble and generous T. V. 
Morrow, M.D.: 
To the Homoeopathic Physicians of the United States : 
Resolved, That we invite the homoeopathic physicians of the United States, 
and of the West especially, to unite in recommending and nominating a 
Professor to fill the Chair of Homoeopathy in the Eclectic Medical Institute. 
(Signed) T. V. Morrow, M.D., 
Dean. 
Cincinnati, June 9th, 1849. 
At a convention of homoeopathic physicians of Northern Ohio, 
held in Cleveland, June 26th, to deliberate upon the duty of 
selecting a man to fill the Chair of Principles and Practice of 
Homoeopathy in the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, so 
liberally tendered to them by the professors of that institution, 
it was 
Resolved, That the friends of homoeopathy present in this convention re- 
turn their cordial thanks to the friends of medical reform in Cincinnati for 
their large-hearted liberality in extending to them the offer of a professor- 
ship in the Eclectic Medical Institute. ♦ 
Resolved, That this convention accept the offer of a Professorship of Ho- 
moeopathy in the Eclectic Medical Institute. 
Storm Rosa, M.D., was unanimously selected to take the Chair 
of the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy. 
It was also 
Resolved, That Dr. David Shepherd, of Bainbridge, Geauga County, O., 
act as editor of the Homoeopathic Department of the Eclectic Medical Jour- 
nal. 
(Signed) John Wheeler, M.D., 
President. 
B. W. Richmond, M.D.,* 
Secretary. 
Page 312, same journal, a call is made (dated Chardon, July 
1st, 1849, signed B. W. Richmond, M.D., John Wheeler, M.D., 
David Shepherd, M.D., C. D. Williams, M.D., A. H. Plymp- 
ton, M.D.), asking the homoeopathic physicians of the West 
to aid and sustain the Chair of Homoeopathy during the coming 
session. 
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On page 24, Eclectic Journal, commences " The History of 
Medical Science," an introductory lecture by Professor Storm 
Rosa. The address was highly complimented by the press of 
Cincinnati. The course of lectures given by Professor Rosa was 
systematic and practical. So thorough were his teachings that 
two of the professors of the eclectic school adopted the practice 
of homoeopathy. Many of the students of the class of 1849-50 
have since embraced the doctrines taught by Professor Rosa and 
are among the prominent homoeopathic physicians of the State. 
So popular were the lectures of Professor Rosa while in Cincin- 
nati that the eclectic faculty, in the spring of 1850, requested 
him to resign. At a meeting of the trustees, held August 22d, 
1850, the Chair of Homoeopathy was abolished. Among the va- 
rious reasons set forth, impelling the trustees to abolish the Chair 
of Homoeopathy, I find the following: " A special homoeopathic 
professorship is of no utility whatever at the present time, as the 
faculty of the institute understand thoroughly both the philoso- 
phy and the practical details of homoeopathy, and need no for- 
eign assistance to do the subject justice." Professor Rosa must 
have been an extraordinary teacher to have so enlightened the 
whole faculty by one course of lectures. The sixth annual an- 
nouncement says : " Professor Rosa's relations with the faculty 
and the class have been those of mutual kindness and courtesy, 
and the lectures of the institute were prosecuted in a harmo- 
nious spirit." 
About the same time that the Chair of Homoeopathy was abol- 
ished in Cincinnati, the physicians of Northern Ohio, through 
their leader, Dr. C. D. Williams, were obtaining a charter for 
the " Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine,"* and organ- 
izing a faculty for 'the course of lectures, to be delivered in 
1850-51, in Cleveland. In September, 1850, the announcement 
appeared with the following faculty : Professor Storm Rosa, 
M.D., Charles D. Williams, M.D., John Wheeler, M.D., Arthur 
T. Bissell, M.D., Lewis Dodge, M.D., Hamilton L. Smith, A.M., 
M.D., Horatio P. Gatchell, M.D., Edwin C. Witherell, M.D.X 
* For college reports see Section II. 528 
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and Jehu Brainard, M.D. Dr. Wheeler was chosen President, 
and Dr. Williams, Dean. 
The Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine was estab- 
lished under a special charter obtained from the Ohio Legis- 
lature at the session of 1848-49, chiefly through the personal 
efforts of Professor Benjamin L. Hill, M.D., who visited the 
legislature in person, and finally succeeded in securing the char- 
ter against very strong opposition from members of that body, 
who were either medical practitioners of the " regular school," 
as they pleased to term themselves, or who acted in the interest 
of that system of practice. 
In 1852 Dr. Hill occupied the Chair of Surgery, and held that 
position for several years. He died at Berlinville in 1861. He 
was the author of Hill's Homoeopathic Surgery. 
The practice of homoeopathy was introduced in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, November, 1839, by Dr. William Strum, who was born in 
Saxony June 26th, 1796. He received his literary education at 
Leipsic. In 1824 he entered the Halle University, where he 
received his medical education. In 1839 he removed to this 
country and commenced the practice of homoeopathy, having been 
converted by Dr. Hahnemann. For the last thirty-seven years 
he has been actively engaged in the practice, and is to-day a 
hearty, robust man, possessing the mental and physical activity 
of youth. 
The next pioneer was Dr. Pulte, whose reputation as an author 
and physician is too well-known to the profession to require com- 
ment. He, in the summer of 1840, opened a private dispensary 
in the city of Cincinnati for the treatment of the poor. His cures 
among the patients that visited the dispensary soon became known 
to others, and in a few weeks he was engaged in a large practice. 
In 1848 he formed a partnership with Dr. B. Ehrmann; and in 
1849 they treated 1100 cases of cholera with a loss of only about 
50. This success gave homoeopathy a glorious reputation through- 
out the whole country. In 1850 he published his Domestic Physi- 
cian, which has met with as large a sale as any book ever pub- 
lished by our school. He has reached a ripe old age, and has 
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of events he will be no more, he will leave after him monuments 
to perpetuate his memory. The most prominent of these is the 
"Pulte Medical College." 
Between the years 1840-46 almost every city in the State 
had one or more homoeopathic physicians. Among them were 
many prominent men, who have done much to further the in- 
terest of the cause, and the names of Drs. Rosa, Blair, Wheeler, 
Bosler, Tifft, Williams, Gatchell, Coulter, and others, will long 
be remembered by posterity as pioneers and fathers of homoe- 
opathy. The practice has now become general throughout every 
part of the State; and every village, as well as larger towns, 
have physicians of whose skill the people are very generally 
availing themselves. 
The physicians of Cincinnati, August 10th, 1846, established 
a local society known as the Cincinnati branch of the American 
Institute. 
Note.-It is to be regretted that a fuller report was not received from 
the Committee on Southern and Central Ohio. The satisfactory history of 
Northern Ohio was incorporated from Dr. D. H. Beckwith's pamphlet on 
the subject. 
J C, G, HOMEOPATHY IN KENTUCKY. 
Homoeopathy in Southern Kentucky.* 
The introduction of homoeopathy into Louisville was by J. G. 
Rosenstein, M.D., in 1839. But little is known of him prior to this 
date, excepting that he had been an allopathic physician. 
In 1840 Dr. Rosenstein published a small work of 288 pages, 
entitled Theory of the Practice of Homoeopathy, first part contain- 
ing a theory of homoeopathy, with dietetic rules; also, a corre- 
spondence between Dr. Rosenstein, on the one side, and Drs. 
William A. McDowell, W. N. Meriwether, and Sanford Bell, 
prominent allopathic physicians, on the other. 
This little work created quite an interest in homoeopathy, 
and Dr. Rosenstein was everywhere respected for his learning 
and scientific attainments. He left Louisville for the far South 
in 1842. He was followed in the same year by Dr. Logue, who 
continued in the practice until 1845, when taking into partner- 
ship Dr. Angell, who had been formerly a Methodist minister, 
Dr. Logue went to New Orleans. Dr. Angell continued the 
practice until 1848, when he removed to Alabama, leaving in 
his place Dr. Edward Caspari, who located in Louisville in 
1846. 
Homoeopathy now received an impetus which elevated it to 
the dignity of a profession, and new converts were added rapidly 
to its already large circle of friends. 
Homoeopathy next received a valuable acquisition in the ar- 
rival of Dr. H. W. Koehler in 1848. Dr. Koehler was a man 
of fine education, a fine surgeon, a man devoted to his profession. 
Soon others came. Dr. Armstrong in 1850, Dr. C. Ehrmann in 
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1857, Dr. Campbell in 1857, Dr. Clark in 1858, Dr. Van Buren 
in 1858, Dr. Keufner in 1859, Dr. Lewis Ehrmann in 1859, Dr. 
Swift in 1862, Dr. Bernard in 1867, Dr Charles W. Breyfogle 
in 1867, Dr. W. L. Breyfogle in 1869, Dr. R. W. Pearce in 
1871, Drs. J. W. Klein, R. D. Poole, Jno. R. Pirtle, in 1873. 
Of the above, there remain now in Louisville, Drs. Koehler, Van 
Buren, Ehrmann, Bernard, Breyfogle, Pearce, Pirtle, and Klein. 
Dr. E. Caspari practiced his profession from 1846 to 1870, or 
a little over twenty-four years. During the year 1867, he asso- 
ciated with him in practice Dr. C. W. Breyfogle, and in 1869 
disposed of his remaining interests to Dr. William L. Breyfogle. 
Shortly afterwards, or in March, 1870, Dr. Caspari died, leaving 
behind him a reputation without a stain. His loss was keenly 
felt by the profession and by the community; even the old-school 
physicians had /learned to respect him, and many were present, 
and assisted in paying him the last tribute of honor, when he 
was laid away to await the reward due to a true physician and a 
'Christian man. Drs. Armstrong, Campbell, Keufner, and Pool, 
also passed from their fields of active labor, leaving behind them 
noble works and reputations. 
Dr. C. W. Breyfogle was compelled, through failing health, in 
1872, to remove to San Jose, California. At this time Dr. Wk 
L. Breyfogle, the remaining partner, associated with him Dr. R. 
W. Pearce, a graduate of the Louisville University, and for 
twenty years a practitioner of the old school, but since 1871 a 
convert to homoeopathy. Dr. Clark left Louisville in 1860. 
Dr. Louis Ehrmann removed to St. Louis in 1870. 
There has been a steady and healthy growth in homoeopathy, 
in Louisville, notwithstanding the fact of its being the " hot-bed 
of allopathy." We now claim a fair proportion of the wealth 
and intelligence of the community, and the practice has a loot- 
hold, and occupies a position that is rapidly increasing our list of 
converts. In regard to the status of homoeopathy throughout 
the State but little can be said. The interior towns are as yet 
poorly supplied with physicians of our school. We have, how- 
ever, a few giant workers in the cause, and wherever it is known 
it is gaining ground. Prominent among the workers are: Drs. 532 
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Gish, Cayce, and Young, of Hopkinsville; Dr. Veneble, of Padu- 
cah ; R. H. McFarland, of Henderson ; W. H. Blakley, of Bowl- 
ing Green; Dr. Purcell, of Glascow; F. R. Hale, of Columbus, 
and others. 
In 1872the " Homoeopathic State Medical Society " was formed, 
with William L. Brey fogle as President. Regular meetings have 
taken place annually since that time, and have had a fair atten- 
dance. 
Homoeopathy in Eastern Kentucky.* 
Maysville may fairly be called the starting-point of homoeop- 
athy in that part of Kentucky east of Louisville. 
Dr. William M. Murphy, a graduate in its palmy days of the 
oldest medical school west of the Allegheny Mountains,-that of 
Transylvania University, at Lexington, in 1846,-after four years 
of successful practice of allopathy at Hanging Rock, Lawrence 
County, Ohio, returned to Maysville, his native city, and practiced 
homoeopathy from January, 1850, to March, 1853. The new 
system, decried and laughed at because of its " little sugar pills," 
which were sneered at as having no greater strength and efficacy 
than so many " bread pills," was a plant of slow growth in Mays- 
ville. 
* It was soon observable, however, that one after another of 
the most intelligent, influential, and wealthy families adopted 
the system, thereby provoking, to a painful extent, the jealousy 
and animadversions of the old-school physicians who suffered by 
the change. The deductions of reason and common sense were 
listened to, rather than the prejudices and the ridicule of those 
who were smarting under a loss of substantial and paying prac- 
tice. 
Dr. Murphy, tempted overmuch by the appointment by Presi- 
dent Pierce as " General Supervising Mail Agent" for the whole 
West in 1853, went into politics, and abandoned his new profes- 
sion. His successor was Dr. Jonathan R. Paddock, a graduate 
in 1827 of the Worthington Medical College, and one of its pro- 
fessors for some years. He is still a resident of Maysville, but 
* By William H. Hunt, M.D. HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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retired from practice on account of the utter prostration of his 
health, some twelve years ago. A student of his while engaged 
in the eclectic practice, William H. McGranaghan, a graduate 
of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati about 1851, after 
a few years' practice abandoned eclecticism and espoused homoe- 
opathy; he soon acquired, and maintains to the present time, the 
most lucrative practice ever enjoyed in that city. His son, Dr. 
William H. McGranaghan, Jr., of the Pulte Medical College, 
1875, and Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 1876, 
has just joined him in the practice. 
Dr. George W. Martin has been in active practice at Mays- 
ville, since about 1866 ; and Maurice H. Phister, a graduate of 
PulteCollege in 1874, also settled therein 1875. Homoeopathy 
is firmly fixed and well represented in Maysville. 
Covington received its first and favorable impression of the new 
system from Dr. George I. Bauer, who crossed the Ohio Biver 
from Cincinnati about 1847, and remained a few months. Dr. 
Robert R. Lynd followed soon after Bauer and remained for a 
time. 
About 1853 Dr. John W. Fox, a graduate of the Homoeopathic 
College of Philadelphia, began practice and continued the same 
until 1861. At that period he removed to San Francisco, Cal. 
In 1856 Dr. William H. Hunt, a graduate of Jefferson Medical 
College of Philadelphia, and Professor of Obstetrics in the Pulte 
Medical College since its foundation, settled in Covington; and 
since that time until 1872 has had almost entire control of the 
place; there being an interval of time when, save for short 
periods, the place could claim but one homoeopathic physician. 
His brother, Dr. L. J. Hunt, a graduate of Pulte Medical College 
in 1872, has assisted him since. In 1860 Dr. James T. 
Cushing, a graduate of the Ohio Medical College; in 1861 Dr. 
Jeremiah Haynes; and in 1867 Dr. J. Russ. Haynes remained 
for a short time a practitioner of the homoeopathic system. 
In 1869 Dr. E. S. Stuard, and in 1872 Dr. William M. Mur- 
phy (the pioneer at Maysville) resumed practice in Covington. 
Dr. F. von Kranenburg, a graduate in 1850 of the Medical Col- 
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been a resident of Covington for two or three years, but his chief 
practice is in Cincinnati. 
Since the close of the session of 1875 and '76 of the Pulte Col- 
lege we have added another practitioner to the list, Dr. E. M. 
Hunt. Covington is ably represented ; the physicians of our 
school, without an exception, are able to compete with those of the 
allopathic side of the house, and all are prosperous pecuniarily. 
Newport has had an able representative in the homoeopathic 
practice for some twenty years past in Dr. Henry Gunkel, a 
graduate of the Eclectic College of Cincinnati. Dr. J. Russ. 
Haynes settled there in 1866, and continued eight years; also 
Dr. E. W. Reany, of the Ohio Medical College, class of 1872. 
Lexington.-Dr. J. K. Morton has occupied the ground for 
twenty-two years, and has built up a fine reputation and a large 
and lucrative practice. Dr. L. N. Howard has been settled there 
for three years past. 
Other Points.-The following is believed to be a complete list, 
in addition to the foregoing, of all the practitioners of homoe- 
opathy in the east half of Kentucky : 
Ashland, Boyd County, Dr. M. H. Tonig. 
Augusta, Bracken County, Dr. R. L. Howard. 
Cabin Creek, Lewis County, Dr. T. R. M. Cline. 
Connersville, Harrison County, Dr. R. T. Manning. 
Cynthiana, Harrison County, Drs. John Y- Righter (Pulte 
Medical College), John H. Smiser. 
Danville, Boyle County, Dr. A. H. Flanders. 
Chatham, Bracken County, Dr. J. R. B. Barr. 
Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Dr. P. A. Gordon. 
Germantown, Bracken County, Dr. John H. Holton. 
Hedges, Clark County, Dr. I. T. Clark. 
Kentontown, Robertson County, Dr. L. Phillips. 
Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Dr. A. C. Post. 
Oxford, Scott County, Drs. F. M. Cameron, C. T. Hendricks, 
W. G. Moore. 
Paris, Bourbon County, Dr. O. H. Buck. 
Ruddell's Mills, Harrison County, Dr. George W. Righter. 
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Visalia, Kenton County, Dr. J. A. Francis. 
Warsaw, Gallatin Comity, John T. Robinson. 
A State Homoeopathic Society was organized at Louisville two 
or three years ago, but has held no sessions in this part of Ken- 
tucky. 
Homoeopathy in East Half of Kentucky. 
In giving the history, statistics, and growth of homoeopathy 
(actual and comparative), in that portion of Kentucky lying east 
of a line drawn south from the mouth of the Kentucky River (or 
what is generally called the east half of Kentucky), the situation 
will be more readily understood by an inspection of the popula- 
tion ordinarily accessible to this practice in the cities and towns. 
The following table gives the estimated population in 1876, 
and the ascertained population in 1850,1860, and 1870, as shown 
by the United States Census, of twenty-seven cities and towns, 
in the order of their size: 
1876. 
1870. 
I860. 
1850. 
1. 
Covington, 
. 30,000 
24,505 
16,471 
9,408 
2. 
Newport, 
. 20,000 
15,087 
10,046 
5,895 
3. 
Lexington, . 
. 18,000 
14,801 
9,321 
4. 
Frankfort, 
6,500 
5,396 
3,702 
3,308 
5. 
Maysville, 
. 5,500 
4,705 
3,499 
3,840 
6. 
Paris, 
. 3,500 
2,867 
1,440 
7. 
Danville, 
. 3,000 
2,542 
1,800 
8. 
Ashland, 
. 2,700 
1.459 
9. 
Harrodsburgh, 
2,500 
2,205 
1.668 
1,481 
10. 
Cynthiana, . 
. 2,300 
1,771 
1,237 
11. 
Winchester, . 
. 2,200 
1,616 
1,142 
12. 
Cattlesburg, . 
. 2,000 
1,019 
13. 
Richmond, . 
. 2,000 
1,629 
845 
14. 
Georgetown, . 
. 1,800 
1,570 
1,684 
15. 
Mt. Sterling, 
. 1,700 
1,040 
754 
733 
16. 
Ludlow, 
. 1,600 
817 
17. 
Versailles, 
. 1,500 
1,407 
1,142 
18. 
Carrollton, . 
. 1,300 
1,098 
19. 
Nicholasville, 
. 1,300 
1,089 
800 
20. 
Dayton, 
. 1,200 
618 
21. 
Falmouth, 
1,200 
614 
315 
22. 
West Covington, . 
1,200 
993 
554 
23. 
Carlisle, 
. 1,100 
606 
360 
24. 
Augusta, 
1,100 
960 
693 
25. 
Greenupsburg, 
1,000 
507 
26. 
Lancaster, 
. 1,000 
741 
721 
27. 
Stanford, 
. 1,000 
752 
118,200 
Add, .... 51,800 estimated country population sup-, 
plied by these town physicians. 
Total, .... 170,000 536 
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In these twenty-seven cities and towns the ratio of physicians 
of all schools, but mainly allopathic, varies from 1 in 300, as in 
Ashland (where there are 9), to 1 in 1000, as in Covington 
(where there are 30). In only nine of these,-Maysville, Coving- 
ton, Lexington, Newport, Cynthiana, Danville, Mt. Sterling, 
Augusta, and Paris,-are there representatives of the homoeopathic 
system; whereas all of them are so far centres of wealth, and 
intelligence, and liberality, as to give promise of a comfortable, 
if not handsome support of a homoeopathist. ' 
In Kentucky, as elsewhere in the United States, it is only in 
communities distinguished for these elements that this system 
has had marked success. 
It is as singular as it is unaccountable that so little disposition 
has been manifested to come in and possess this goodly land, on 
the part of our profession. In the whole State of Kentucky, with 
its one and two-third millions of inhabitants, there are less than 
seventy-five homoeopathists, while the number of allopathists, 
most of them in successful practice pecuniarily, exceeds sixteen 
hundred, or more than twenty times as many. 
It must be noted, however, as an encouraging fact, that while 
only nine out of twenty-seven eligible locations in cities and towns 
are occupied in the east half of Kentucky, there are found fifteen 
brave men whose faith in the noble system they have espoused, 
supplemented by faith in their own energy and patience, has led 
them to venture boldly into small towns and country neighbor- 
hoods. And yet we here place it upon record, for the encourage- 
ment of our profession, that openings equally as favorable and 
inviting as these can be reckoned by the hundreds in Kentucky, 
rather than by scores. 
List of Homoeopathic Physicians in Kentucky West 
of the Mouth of the Kentucky River. 
As the writer, in the considerable labor spent in gathering the 
foregoing statistics, obtained also a complete list of physicians in 
the west half of Kentucky, he here appends it, but without sug- 
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Barlow City, Ballard County, Dr. J. E. Bass. 
Bowling Green, Warren County, Dr. William H. Blakely. 
Cerulean Springs, Trigg County, Dr. Jno. J. Blakely. 
Columbus, Hickman County, Dr. Fred. R. Hale. 
Genevia, Henderson County, Dr. M. E. Sandifer. 
Glascow, Barren County, Dr. S. T. Purcell. 
Henderson, Henderson County, Dr. R. H. McFarland. 
Hickman, Fulton County, Dr. H. C. Catlett. 
Hopkinsville, Christian County, Drs. E. G. Cayace, D. T- 
Gish, W. M. Hill, Joseph A. Young. 
Jericho, Henry County, Drs. G. W. Blaydes, H. W. Glassock. 
Loretto, Madison County, Dr. G. D. Smock. 
Marrow-Bone, Cumberland County, Drs. John E. Alexander, 
J. R. Schooling. 
Murray, Calloway County, Dr. R. Boggs. 
New Haven, Nelson County, Dr. J. J. Barry. 
Paducah, McCracken County, Drs. Gustav. L. Schwick, J. 
Venable. 
Princeton, Caldwell County, Drs. H. Breed, M. L. Burchard, 
T. L. Burchard. 
Sanitarcum, Tar Springs, Breckenridge County, Drs. A. Bishop, 
James G. Hunt. 
Wallonia, Trigg County, Dr. Edward N. Amoss. 
Legislation. 
There has been no legislation, State or municipal, affecting 
practitioners of homoeopathy, except the general law of February 
23d, 1874, " To protect citizens from empiricism," which makes 
it unlawful for any person to practice medicine or surgery in 
Kentucky, who " has not graduated at some chartered school of 
medicine in this, or some foreign country, or who cannot pro- 
duce a certificate of qualification from some one of the boards 
of examiners provided for in this act, and is not a person of good 
moral character." 
" Any person who has been regularly and honorably engaged 
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ments, shall be deemed to.have complied with this act," and one 
so engaged for five years is allowed one year in which to com- 
ply with its provisions. 
The governor is to appoint a "board of medical examiners " 
of five, in each of the seventeen judicial districts, to serve four 
years, etc. 
The penalty for practicing without such qualifications is $50 
fine for the first conviction, and for every subsequent conviction 
$100 fine and thirty days' imprisonment, or either, or both, in 
the discretion of a jury. I have heard of no inconvenience to 
homoeopaths from its enforcement, and do not see why they 
should object to it. HOMOEOPATHY IN NEW JERSEY.' 
The date of introduction of homoeopathy into New Jersey is 
about the same of that of New York, 1825. 
This State lying between the two great cities, New York and 
Philadelphia, its territory being in close proximity to both, and 
the thoroughfare between the two being directly across it, the seeds 
of homoeopathy were sown here by the first practitioners located 
in these cities, and long before any homoeopathic physicians set- 
tled in the State; consequently, as the physicians established 
themselves here, one after another, first in Newark, and then in 
the other larger towns and cities, they found the people anxiously 
waiting to receive them. But with this desire for homoeopathy on 
the part of the people came also the vigorous efforts of the domi- 
nant school to crush it. The contest was both severe and pro- 
longed, and the contestants on the side of homoeopathy were few 
but courageous; they have now become numerous, and are very 
rapidly increasing. 
BURLINGTON COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into this county in 1840-41, by 
Dr. R. S. Middleton, a noble and energetic man, and a very 
skilful practitioner. He did most excellent work for homoeop- 
athy, and its influence has been lasting. He remained in the 
State about fifteen years, then removed to Philadelphia, where 
he died. Dr. Humphrey, an-early convert of homoeopathy, set- 
tled in Burlington city sometime after Dr. Middleton as aretired 
gentleman, and exerted an excellent influence for homoeopathy. 
Subsequently, Drs. Smith and Moore settled in Burlington city, 
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remained a few years, and then left the State, and also the prac- 
tice of medicine, to engage in agricultural pursuits. He was 
succeeded by Dr. Kirkpatrick. The latter (Dr. Moore) died 
quite suddenly, and his place was taken by Dr. Clough. 
In 1856 Dr. M. J. Rhees settled in Mount Holly. He re- 
mained only a short time, and then gave up his profession, and 
went to the gold-fields of California. He is now practicing 
successfully in Virginia. 
Dr. Walter Ward settled at Mount Holly in 1849, at the time 
when there was a legal penalty of $50 imposed upon all who 
practiced medicine in the county without a license from the old- 
school society. He was largely instrumental in securing from 
the legislature an independent charter for the practice of homoe- 
opathy throughout the State. He graduated from the Jefferson 
Medical College of Philadelphia in 1840, but was soon converted 
by the tuition of Dr. Jacob Jeanes. Dr. Ward joined the Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy at its first session in Philadelphia, has been 
President of the West Jersey Medical Society, and President of 
the State Homoeopathic Medical Society. 
About 1856 Dr. Wilkinson settled in Bordentown. Dr. Gar- 
diner succeeded him, and for years has nobly sustained thecause 
in that locality. 
At about the same time Dr. Daniel Gardiner located in 
Moorestown. He remained a few years, and then left for a bet- 
ter field. He was succeeded by Dr. Clay, who remains. Dr. 
Pusey Wilson located here a few years ago, and also remains. 
Each enjoys a fine reputation. 
In the year 1858 Dr. B. II. Shivers located in Marlton, but 
removed to Haddonfield, Camden Co., in 1864. 
In 1870 Dr. Thos. Peacock settled in Medford, and remained 
a year or two, and then moved to Philadelphia. Dr. Wilson, a 
young man, succeeded him, who soon died with consumption. 
Next came Dr. Vandeveer, who remains. 
Dr. Coy has recently settled in Pemberton. 
A homoeopathic physician has also recently located in Columbus. 
Homoeopathy is said to be well represented in Jacobstown by 
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The early history of homoeopathy in this county is indefinite. 
The efforts to introduce it, however, were intermittent. Prior 
to 1840, physicians from New York made incursions, sowing 
seed which has since produced an abundant harvest. Subsequent 
to 1840, Dr. Kirby, an eminent practitioner in New York city, 
established a regular practice in this county, to which he de- 
voted a portion of his time. 
The first resident homoeopathic physician of Passaic County 
was T. La Fon, M.D., who located in Paterson, but soon re- 
moved to Newark, N. J. 
He was followed in Paterson in 1845 by Dr. Petherbridge, who 
remained six months. In 1848 Dr. Belt, from Rhode Island, 
came to this place, and struggled manfully against the opposition 
until 1851, when he returned to his family. He was succeeded 
by John S. Basset, M.D. From this period onward the growth 
of homoeopathy was steady and vigorous. For ten years the 
situation was one of uncompromising hostility. The old-school 
physicians, who at first only scoffed, finally anathematized 
Hahnemann and his followers. In 1861 Dr. Basset was per- 
suaded to go to New York, and in his stead came Dr. E. Nott, 
who was shortly afterward followed by Dr. McPherson. 
In 1868 the towns of Passaic and Little Falls each had a resi- 
dent physician. The number gradually increased until at present 
there are eight homoeopathic physicians in the county. The 
spread of homoeopathy has been more rapid in comparison than 
the increase of the population. 
PASSAIC COUNTY. 
CAMDEN COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into this county by the physi- 
cians of Philadelphia. In 1838 The Family Adviser, translated 
and compiled by C. Hering, M.D., was published in Camden, 
which aided greatly in the spread of the knowledge of homoeop- 
athy, inducing many to test it. The way was th.us prepared for 
a resident physician; and in 1841 J. R. Andrews, M.D., a 
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Camden, located here as a homoeopathic physician. He was 
faithfully supported by a few warm friends; but being a young 
man, and the opposition being so very strong, after two years of 
struggle he became discouraged and removed to Wilmington, 
Delaware. He remained there only a short time, being induced 
to return by the earnest solicitations of former patrons. After 
his return his practice grew rapidly, and he continued in exten- 
sive business till his sudden death in February, 1864, from cere- 
bro-spinal meningitis. His loss was greatly lamented by a large 
portion of the community. 
H. F. Hunt, M.D., of Providence, K. I., succeeded him, and 
still continues to carry on the good work. 
In the year 1864 there were but two homoeopathic physicians 
in the city of Camden; at present, 1876, there are sixteen, and 
all in active practice. During the same period there has been 
but a small accession to the allopathic profession in the same 
place. Many of the wealthiest and most influential citizens are 
among the patrons ofjiomoeopathy. 
Dr. B. W. Blackwood, of Haddonfield, an old-school physi- 
cian, embraced homoeopathy about 1855, and practiced the same 
up to the time of his death in 1866. Dr. B. H. Shivers settled 
in Haddonfield in 1864, and has established a very large practice. 
In Berlin Drs. Johnson and Sharp are doing a good business. 
In Gloucester city there are two homoeopathic physicians, who 
have the larger share of the patronage of that place. 
Homoeopathy is justly appreciated in Camden County, having 
for its representatives, physicians whose lives are devoted to the 
cause. 
MERCER COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into this county by Joseph C. 
Board man, M.D., who settled in Trenton in April, 1845. Since 
that time its advancement has been steady throughout the county. 
The following is a list of the homoeopathic physicians with their 
respective locations: 
Trenton.-Drs. S. E. Allen, Joseph C. Board man, C. B. Comp- 
ton, Isaac Cooper, Lewis P. Grover, Boss M. Wilkinson, A. H. 
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Hightstown.-Drs. Joseph J. Currie and Joseph P. Johnson. 
Hopewell.-Dr. J. A. Meller. 
Princeton.-Dr. D. W. Sexton. 
Windsor.-Dr. Joseph J. Whittington. 
The following formerly practiced in Mercer County: 
Trenton. - Drs. O. B. Gause (removed to Philadelphia), 
Josephus Gunning (removed to New York State), Pratt (de- 
ceased), Pretch (deceased), J. B. Petherbridge (deceased), Recorde 
(removed), C. G. Rane (removed to Philadelphia), E. H. Trego 
(removed to Philadelphia'), T. J. Vastine (deceased). 
Hightstown.-Dr. Bartholomew (deceased). 
Hopewell.-Dr. D. Y. Hyde (deceased). 
HUDSON COUNTY. 
This county is that portion of New Jersey lying along the 
Hudson River and New York harbor, extending from Bergen 
Point and the "Kill von Kulls" on the south, to the Palisades 
and Bergen County on the north. It is directly opposite New 
York city, with which it is connected by numerous ferries. 
In 1847 homoeopathy was introduced into this county, which 
was then divided into several large towns and boroughs, Jersey 
City, Van Vorst, Hoboken, Bergen, etc., none of which were 
incorporate cities. Subsequently several of these towns were gath- 
ered into one municipality, Jersey City. 
Dr. William A. Durrie located in Jersey City in 1847, and 
almost immediately established a lucrative practice, in which he 
continues. 
Early in the spring of 1848 Dr. J. J. Youlin located in Van 
Vorst, and remains within two blocks from where he first started. 
Soon after Dr. McNeil settled near West Hoboken, where he 
yet remains, having educated a son, who is now associated with 
him in practice. Dr. McNeil was a surgeon in the army during 
the rebellion, and is now an honorable member of the " Grand 
Army of the Republic." 
Next Dr. Petherbridge located in Hoboken, and remained! 
until the beginning of the war, when he also entered the army.. 
He died shortly after its close. The vacancy was filled by Dr. 544 
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Frank Nichols, who continues, and is cheerfully accepted by the 
people. 
A little later Dr. O. F. Lund settled in what was then called 
South Bergen. He continued with honor to himself and to the 
profession until his death, in 1875, from diphtheria, contracted in 
the performance of professional duty, during one of the most se- 
vere epidemics that ever visited this country. 
By this time the seed sown by these pioneers began to pro- 
duce its harvest, and then there was an influx of homoeopathic 
physicians until at present there are seventeen, and each enjoys 
a large and lucrative practice. 
Early in the summer of 1870 a suit for malpractice was brought 
against Dr. O. F. Lund, through the influence of the old-school 
physicians, but which resulted in greatly promoting homoeopathy. 
The circumstances may be briefly summed up. 
Dr. Lund was called to see a patient, whom he had seen only 
a short time previous, and who was suffering great pain in the 
region of the liver and cystic-duct. Another case demanded his 
immediate attention, and, therefore, he sent a few powders of 
Morphia, with directions, to the former. The patient grew rap- 
idly worse, and Dr. Lund was again sent for, but was not found. 
An allopathic physician was then called, who found the patient 
comatose. He learned that in some way Morphia had been 
given, and immediately raised the cry, malpractice, poison, mur- 
der, etc. 
The patient died, and an autopsy was made by the allopathic 
physicians. Sufficient was found to secure an indictment for 
malpractice, and they predicted that the doctor would be speedily 
convicted. The trial began December 5th of the same year 
(1870), and lasted two weeks, with a great display of arrogance 
and bigotry on the part of the " regulars." After the charge 
to the jury by Judge B. E. Randolph, which was a master-piece 
of medical jurisprudence, the doctor was immediately acquitted. 
As an example of the effect of the trial, it may be mentioned 
that before the case had closed, the judge and six of the jurymen 
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Homoeopathy was introduced into this county in 1854, by 
Dr. W. S. Kimball, who located at Eatontown, and continues in 
a practice as extensive as that of any medical practitioner in the 
county. It embraces a radius of at least twelve miles. For 
many years he was the only homoeopathic physician at the Long 
Branch hotels. He had an office at the West End, and at the 
Ocean Hotel, which he still occupies, though, of course, he is 
now one of many. 
About 1860 Dr. E. B. Hall settled at Freehold, and remained 
several years. He then removed to another part of the county, 
but has recently returned to Freehold. 
Dr. C. C. Currie also practiced several years in Freehold, and 
then died. 
In 1864 Dr. W. A. Bevin located at Keyport, and has prac- 
ticed in that vicinity ever since very successfully. 
Dr. G. F. Marsden settled at Red Bank about the year 1870, 
and has acquired a fine practice with a reputation as both physi- 
cian and surgeon. 
There are now six or seven homoeopathic physicians in the 
county, exclusive of those who practice at Long Branch during 
the summer, and their influence is as great as that of any like 
number of physicians in the county. 
MONMOUTH COUNTY. 
GLOUCESTER COUNTY. 
The people of this county became acquainted with homoeopa- 
thy through the physicians,of Camden and Philadelphia, by 
whom many of them were treated. 
In the year 1855 Ellis Bentley Hall, M.D., a graduate of the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, at its first ses- 
sion, 1849, settled in Woodbury, the county seat. He was the first 
qualified homoeopathic physician that settled in the county. He 
came to Woodbury from Bridgeton, Cumberland County, where 
he had built up a nice practice, which he had sold to Dr. Joseph 
Moore. He was a fine, stirring man, but a great rover. He left 
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ticed in Hightstown, Mercer County, Camden, Freehold, and 
Beverly. He died in Beverly in 1875, leaving a son, who is now 
a homoeopathic practitioner in the State. 
Dr. Becorde is said to have succeeded Dr. Hall in Woodbury, 
remaining only a short time. He is now in Philadelphia, en- 
gaged in mercantile pursuits. 
Dr. Thomas Shearer next settled in Woodbury, but soon left 
and eventually settled in Baltimore, Md. 
About this time Dr. William A. Gardiner settled in this place. 
He had been Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and was a very fine 
anatomist and a skilful surgeon. He lectured frequently upon 
medical subjects in the court-house. ITe removed to Philadel- 
phia, where he died in 1863. 
The vacancy at Woodbury was filled in 1862 by Dr. Daniel 
R. Gardiner, brother of the last named, and a graduate of the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1849. He 
gave less attention to surgery than did his brother, but as a phy- 
sician he was remarkably successful, and soon built up a most 
extensive and lucrative practice. He was the first President of 
the West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical Society, and he has con- 
tributed many articles to homoeopathic journals. By his ability 
and skill he has placed homoeopathy on a solid footing in this 
place. In January, 1871, on account of failing health from 
overwork, he sold out to Dr. Wallace McGeorge, with whom he 
remained until the following November, when he removed to 
Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1875 he returned to Woodbury 
and again associated himself with Dr. McGeorge. 
Dr. Wallace McGeorge graduated at the Homoeopathic Med- 
ical College of Pennsylvania in 1868. He settled in Hightstown, 
and remained over two years; then went to Woodbury, where he 
remains, associated at present with Dr. Gardiner, and doing an 
extensive business. He has held various offices in the State and 
local societies, some of which he retains. He has frequently 
contributed to the homoeopathic journal literature, and has also 
made several provings, viz., of Hydrastis can., Rhus ver., Hara, 
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Dr. Charles Newton, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, 1867, located in Woodbury in 1869. 
He remained about one year and then went to Sharpstown, Salem 
County, where he remains. 
In November, 1872, Rev. William M. Whitehead, a graduate 
of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, settled in 
Woodbury. He was pastor of the Baptist Church and blended 
the duties of that position with those of a physician, but he was 
soon taken sick, and died in January, 1874, lamented by all. 
Dr. Alexander Kirkpatrick, a graduate of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1861; practiced in Swedes- 
boro about 1860, from where he went to Burlington and remains. 
Pie is an ex-President of the West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical 
Society. He was succeeded in Swedesboro by Dr. John F. 
Musgrave, who continues in successful practice. 
In 1868 Dr. Isaac Cooper, a graduate of the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, 1868, located in Mullica Hill. 
He left in 1870, and settled in Frenchtown, Hunterdon County, 
and subsequently went to Trenton, where he remains. 
Dr. Jacob Izard, a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia, 1870, immediately settled in Glass- 
boro, where he now has a good practice. He is the President of 
the West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical Society at the present 
time, and has contributed somewhat to the homoeopathic journal 
literature. 
Dr. Albert T. Beckett graduated from the Hahnemann Med- 
ical College of Philadelphia in 1873. He located at Mullica 
Hill in 1875, where a large and promising field lay open to him. 
Dr. Samuel E. Newton, a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia, 1873, settled in Paulsboro in 1873, and 
is the first homoeopathic physician that has located in that town. 
He is doing well. 
There are two or three other homoeopathic physicians prac- 
ticing in Gloucester County, but particulars are wanting. 
The prospects for homoeopathy in this district are very good. 
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trons. Every homoeopathic physician in the county has gradu- 
ated from some one of the homoeopathic colleges. 
The people generally are friendly, and physicians of the old 
school are tolerant and courteous. In Woodbury over one-half 
of the inhabitants employ homoeopathic physicians. 
The present position of homoeopathy in New Jersey is such 
that we are justified in expecting still greater advancement. 
Homoeopathic physicians arealready securing positions on boards 
of health, in hospitals, asylums, etc. 
There are at present (April, 1876) nearly, if not quite, two 
hundred homoeopathic physicians in the State. The exact num- 
ber is not easily obtained on account of the failure to register on 
the part of some. 
Cumberland County. 
Dr. M.B. Tuller has been in successful practice for many years. 
The following is a list of counties with the approximate 
number in each: 
Atlantic, .... 2 
Bergen, .... 5 
Burlington, . . .14 
Camden, . . . .18 
Cape May,. ... 2 
Cumberland, . . .15 
Essex, . . . .39 
Gloucester, ... 6 
Hudson, . . . .17 
Hunterdon, ... 4 
Mercer, . . . .12 
Monmouth, ... 6 
Middlesex,.... 5 
Morris, .... 5 
Passaic, .... 6 
Salem, .... 4 
Somerset, .... 3 
Sussex, .... 2 
Union, . . . .19 
Warren, .... 1 
Note.-I regret exceedingly to present so meagre an account of so impor- 
tant a State. But it is owing to the incomplete state of the MS. which 
came into my hands. I have built it up as far as compatible with my limited 
time. There are many notable and able physicians who well deserve special 
notice from the historian of New Jersey. 
J. C. G. HOMOEOPATHY IN MAINE* 
The introduction and permanent establishment of homoeopathy 
in the State of Maine occurred in the year 1840. Previous to 
this time it was practically unknown. 
Dr. William E. Payne, of Bath, Drs. Eliphalet Clark, Albus 
Bea, and John Merrill, of Portland, all graduates of allopathic 
colleges, had their attention turned towards the subject at about 
the same time. 
Dr. Payne was born in the town of Unity, Kennebec County, 
Me., in the year 1815, and graduated at the Bowdoin Medical 
College in the class of 1837. Immediately after his graduation 
he settled in Bath, where, in the course of three years, he ac- 
quired a good and rapidly increasing patronage; but the frequent 
failures of the dogmatically announced theories of the books to 
bring forth satisfactory and permanent results, especially in the 
treatment of chronic diseases, even when applied with the utmost 
painstaking, early led him to distrust their reliability, and sub- 
sequent observation and experience so far unsettled his confi- 
dence in medicine that he was thinking seriously of abandoning 
the practice for some pursuit promising more satisfactory re- 
sults. In this unsettled condition a copy of Hahnemann's Or- 
ganon came into his hands, which he read with great interest. 
In this he found a principle enunciated which seemed to him, if 
true in practice, would overturn all the theories of the schools, 
and settle medicine on a firm and enduring basis. With this 
newly awakened hope he determined to put the principle to the 
test of experience as soon as practicable, and accordingly secured 
the copy of the Organon, which he had previously had as a loan, 
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together with a copy of Hering's Jahr, and a few of the remedies 
prepared for homoeopathic use. His purpose was, however, to 
keep the matter secret, and proceed cautiously in the selection of 
his cases and the adaptation of his remedies, until he had fully 
satisfied himself as to the truth of the claims of homoeopathy, 
when he would make public his convictions, whatever they might 
be. It was not long, however, before a desperate case of infan- 
tile pneumonia came into his hands for treatment. The extent 
of tissue involved, the great vital depression, the frequent diar- 
rhoeic evacuations without relief to the pneumonic inflammation, 
the tender age of the child, and, above all, the doubtful agen- 
cies with which he had to deal in the treatment, presented the 
case in a despairing light; and the question forced itself upon 
him, recurring again and again, why not try homoeopathy ? 
Why not try the law of similars in this case? The result can 
be no worse, possibly better, and, yielding to the apparent exi- 
gency of the occasion, the case was hesitatingly submitted to an 
experiment with homoeopathy. Some twelve hours changed for 
the better the whole aspect of the case, and a rapid and perma- 
nent recovery was the result. The prompt and satisfactory result 
reached in this first experiment was very gratifying and assuring, 
and other cases were undertaken with less hesitation. A few 
months of continued experimentation settled the question in his 
mind in favor of homoeopathy; and in no instance since has Dr. 
Payne knowingly, departed from homoeopathic principles in 
selecting his remedies. Though not exclusively an advocate of 
high potencies, and allowing himself the latitude of the whole 
scale, from the lowest to the highest potencies in use, yet he leans 
strongly towards high potencies, and seldom finds it useful to go 
below the 30th. He accepts the law of similar as the universal 
law of cure, and inflexibly adheres to it in all his prescriptions. 
He is one of the remaining few of the original members of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
For about twenty years Dr. Payne stood alone in Bath with- 
out a professional ally, breasting the current of a strong profes- 
sional rivalry and the always easily excited popular prejudices 
against innovation, and without the moral support usually de- HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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rived from fraternal professional intercourse. At length Dr. M. 
S. Briry, also a graduate of the allopathic school, who had been 
languishing for several years under a poor patronage, made a 
profession of homoeopathy, and adopted it in his practice. 
In the beginning of 1866 Dr. Frederick W. Payne, eldest son 
of Dr. William E. Payne, took his first degree of Doctor of 
Medicine at the Harvard Medical College, and subsequently 
another at the Hahnemann Medical College of Pennsylvania, 
and, after spending a year at the Medical University of Vienna, 
settled in Bath in copartnership with his father, where he was 
very successful in acquiring a wealthy and extended patronage ; 
but desiring a larger field, in 1871. settled in Boston, where he 
is doing a good practice. Homoeopathy has always stood well 
in Bath, commanding the support of the wealthy and intelligent, 
as well as from time to time the favor of the municipal authori- 
ties, and at present is represented by Drs. Payne, Savage, and 
Briry. 
The three physicians of Portland, who embraced homoeopathy 
at this early period, stood foremost in the ranks of the profes- 
sion as to intellectual ability, competency in the profession, and 
moral integrity. They also stood high in public confidence, 
commanding the patronage of the intelligent and wealthy por- 
tion of the community, so that.no motive of expediency can be 
said to have influenced them in their course. 
Dr. Eliphalet Clark may be said, doubtless, to have had his 
attention turned favorably towards homoeopathy earlier than any 
other member of the profession in the State. He is a native of 
the State, born in the town of Strong in 1801, and graduated at 
the Maine Medical School in the class of 1824. The first six 
years of his practice was in the town of Wilton; from thence he 
removed to Portland in 1830, where he still resides. In the 
course of the first eight or nine years in Portland he acquired an 
extensive patronage, and attained to the foremost rank among 
his fellows, especially in surgery, for which he had an especial 
fondness. Dr. Clark possesses an active mind, is an acute ob- 
server, true to his convictions of right, and faithful in the per- 
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stricted by ill-health, from which he has suffered more or less 
all through his professional life. Having at all times a lively 
interest in whatever pertains to his profession he read everything 
upon the subject that came in his way, and embraced all oppor- 
tunities to converse with the ablest men of the profession, "but," 
as he says, " without obtaining much light." He read also what- 
ever he could find in those early days upon the subject of homoe- 
opathy without fully accepting the principles, much less the 
subject of small doses. In 1836 he began to make experiments 
with crude drugs upon the healthy human body, and obtained 
some valuable and suggestive symptoms from Veratrum viride, 
which, he says, were a perfect skeleton of the present proving of 
this drug as it now stands in the Materia Medica. From the 
time of these experiments he occasionally made observations 
privately upon the sick with homoeopathic medicines, and in 1839 
he accepted the principles laid down in the Organon, applying 
them in practice as best he could with the means at his command. 
But he was not publicly known to have any connection with 
homoeopathy till some time in the year 1840. 
Several physicians have been led to the investigation of ho- 
moeopathy through his agency. 
Dr. A Ibus Rea, another of the early converts to homoeopathy, 
was born in the town of Windham, Me., in 1795. His lineage 
was highly respectable on both the father's and mother's side, 
and he inherited a predilection for medicine through a long line 
of ancestry. Early in life he engaged in the study of medicine, 
attending lectures in Boston, and graduating in the year 1819. 
Soon after his graduation he settled in Portland (1820), ac- 
quiring in due time an extensive patronage, and at the end of 
twenty years stood in the front rank of the profession. At this 
period (1840), his attention was directed to the subject of homoe- 
opathy by Dr. Clark, and, after obtaining a general idea of the 
principles, he entered upon the study with much zeal. Pos- 
sessed of quick and strong perceptive powers, independent as a 
thinker, and ever true to his convictions of truth, as soon as he 
became fully satisfied of the truth of homoeopathy he was ready 
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But his numerous friends and patrons did not desert him. He 
was one of the earliest members of the Institute. From injuries 
received while in the discharge of his duties, and after a confine- 
ment to his house of only four weeks, he died October 14th, 1848. 
Dr. John Merrill of Portland, another of the early converts 
to homoeopathy, was a graduate of the allopathic school, and 
practiced in accordance with its precepts before leaving it for 
homoeopathy, for several years. He was one of the earliest 
members of the Institute, and died in Portland, June 7th, 1855, 
aged seven ty-1 h ree y ears. * 
Homoeopathy, ever since its introduction into Portland, has 
been growing in popular favor, enlisting in its support the intel- 
ligent and wealthy portion of the community, and is worthily 
represented at the present time by Drs. Eliphalet Clark, Charles 
H. Burr, J. M. Cummings, R. Slackford, Moses Dodge, J. C. 
Merrill, George A. Clark, R. L. Dodge, L. C. Sylvester, G. P. 
Thompson, and E. F. Vose, the latter having recently become 
associated with Dr. E. Clark. 
In the autumn of 1843 Dr. John Payne, a graduate of Bow- 
doin Medical College, then temporarily residing at Northport, 
became interested in homoeopathy through the agency of his 
brother, Dr. William E. Payne, of Bath. He made a successful 
trial of the remedies in accordance with the law of similars, and 
on removing from Northport to Belfast in February, 1844, he 
renounced the old practice in which he had been engaged for more 
than fifteen years, and thenceforth devoted himself exclusively 
to the study and practice of homoeopathy until his decease, which 
* A short biography of Dr. Merrill I give in the words of his own son, 
Dr. J. 0. Merrill: "John Merrill, born 1782; graduated at Harvard Uni ver- 
sify, 1804; studied medicine under Drs. John and John C. Warren, of 
Boston; M.B., Harvard, 1807; M.M. S.S.; M.D., Harvard, some years 
later. 
" In 1840 one Sandickey, a Polish homoeopathist, spent some time in Port- 
land, and by observing the results of his practice Dr. Merrill was led to in- 
vestigate and embrace the tenets of homoeopathy, which he continued to 
hold till his death. 
" Dr. Merrill was the first settled practitioner of that school in Portland, 
if not in the State of Maine." 554 
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occurred on the 8th day of October, 1857. His son, L. V. Payne, 
also a graduate of Bowdoin Medical College, and deceased in 
1853, was engaged with his father in the practice of homoeopathy 
from 1846 to 1849, and rendered efficient aid in extendinga knowl- 
edge of the system. Dr. John Payne was instrumental in inter- 
esting several allopathic physicians, who afterwards embraced 
homoeopathy, among whom was Dr. John Roberts, then of the 
town of Brooks, and subsequently of Vassal boro. Dr. Payne 
was a diligent student of homoeopathy, and always in effort to 
adapt his remedies strictly in accordance with the homoeopathic 
law, in which he firmly believed. He was one of the earliest 
members of the Institute, and entertained an abiding interest in 
its success to the latest moments of his life. Since his decease 
homoeopathy has been represented in Belfast by Dr. D. Flanders, 
no other physician of the school having entered the field. 
The same year (1843) Dr. Snell, then of Bangor, made an at- 
tempt, it is said, to practice homoeopathy in that city by the aid 
of a domestic book and box of medicine to match. All edu- 
cated homoeopathscan pretty accurately determine his measure 
of success, both as to himself and the interests of homoeopathy. 
In the month of July of the following year (1844), Dr. 
William Gallupe removed from Concord, Mass., to Bangor, and 
opened an office as a practitioner of homoeopathy. This was the 
beginning of homoeopathy in Bangor. Dr. Gallupe is a native 
of Connecticut, born in the town of Plainfield, and received his 
medical education at the medical schools of Woodstock, Vt., and 
Dartmouth, N. H., graduating at the latter school in 1830. He 
practiced allopathically for about fourteen years in ,'the town of 
Plainfield, N. H., and subsequently in the town of Concord, 
Mass. During his allopathic career he became a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, and after leaving that practice and 
embracing homoeopathy, was one of the original members of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy. In principle and practice 
he was a thorough-going Hahnemannian, battling manfully for 
principle through all the eclectic tendencies of the school down 
to the present moment. Dr. Gallupe was the sole representative 
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latter year Dr. J. II. Payne, at the suggestion of Dr. John Payne, 
of Belfast, removed from the town of Montville to Bangor, and 
became an ally of Dr. Gallupe. In that year an epidemic and 
fatal form of cholera made its appearance in that city, in the 
treatment of which homoeopathy proved so much superior to al- 
lopathy, that homoeopathy suddenly acquired great notoriety, and 
from that time took a prominent stand in public favor, which it has 
ever since maintained. The practice was represented in Bangor 
by Drs. Gallupe and Payne till the autumn of 1854, when Dr. 
J. H. P. Frost entered the field, and Dr. Kellogg in the autumn 
of 1855 ; the latter gentleman, after a practice of about two years, 
removed to the State of New York. Dr. J. P. Jeffords took the 
place of Dr. Payne in December, 1860, and in 1865 Dr. J. M. 
Blaisdell succeeded Dr. Frost, who removed to Philadelphia. 
At the present time homoeopathy is represented in Bangor by 
Drs. Gallupe, Jeffords, Blaisdell, and William Frank Shepard, 
all doing a good business. From the time of the introduction 
of homoeopathy into Bangor it has steadily gained in public con- 
fidence, the municipal authorities having occasionally elected the 
city physician from its ranks. 
In 1844 Dr. John Roberts, of the town of Brookes, who had 
been in allopathic practice for about forty years, became a con- 
vert to homoeopathy. He was induced to investigate the subject 
through the agency of Dr. John Payne of Belfast. At that time 
his grandson (Dr. F. A. Roberts, then a child) was suffering 
from whooping-cough, and, from all appearances, unless relieved 
must soon die. The good doctor and grandfather had exhausted 
his professional skill, and in his anxiety for the child and de- 
spair of his own ability to meet the exigencies of the case, he went 
to Dr. Payne of Belfast, giving him a history of the case, and 
asked him to prescribe. Dr. Payne did so, and in twenty-four 
hours the case presented a decidedly better aspect. From this 
time Dr. Roberts began diligently to investigate the subject, and 
after two years of study and practice in the town of Brooks, in 
1846 removed to Vassalboro, introducing the practice into that 
town, and there devoting himself to the profession till his decease, 
which occurred in March, 1856. Dr. Roberts was a firm be- 556 
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liever in homoeopathy, as taught by Hahnemann, and practiced 
in accordance with the rules laid down in the Organon. He was 
one of the original members of the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy, and a worthy representative of the cause. Many 
interesting anecdotes are related of him which characterize the 
man, the spirit of some of which it might be well for the profes- 
sion of the present time to emulate. His whole aim seemed to 
be cure rather than multiplicity of cases. He would often spend 
hours with a suffering patient, watching the symptoms and the 
effect of his remedies till relief came or until he was satisfied that 
he had control of the case. He was accustomed to visit his pa- 
tients on horseback, and on occasions like the above would often 
turn his horse loose to graze by the roadside until his object was 
accomplished, when he would hunt up his trusty animal and 
move on to the next case. Though he left the town of Brooks 
without a representative, and the field has ever since remained 
unoccupied, yet he inspired the people in that and the adjoining 
towns with an abiding confidence in homoeopathy; and in Vas- 
salboro, where he pursued the practice for ten years, he laid a firm 
foundation for the practice which was for some time sustained by 
Drs. J. H. Barrows and R. R. Williams, both of whom are now 
deceased, and later by Dr. F. W. Roberts, whose case first led him 
to the investigation of homoeopathy, and Dr. D. C. Perkins, the 
present Secretary of the Maine Homoeopathic Medical Society: 
Integra mens augustissima possessio. 
In the following year (1845) an important acquisition was 
made to the ranks of homoeopathy by the conversion of Dr. 
Richmond Bradford of Auburn. Dr. Bradford was a member 
of the so-called "Bowdoin Banner Class of 1825," distinguished 
for numbering among its members Henry W. Longfellow, Na- 
thaniel Hawthorne, J. S. C. Abbott, George B. Chever, Jonathan 
Cilley, Franklin Pierce, etc., and from the Bowdoin Medical 
School took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1829. After an 
extensive allopathic practice of some fifteen years, the results of 
which, he says, were very unsatisfactory to himself, and after be- 
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homoeopathy, he abandoned the old practice and thenceforward 
devoted himself to the practice of homoeopathy. 
In 1847 or 1848, at the suggestion of Dr. John Roberts, Dr 
W. B. Chamberlain introduced homoeopathy to the people of 
China. The field was not long occupied by him, however; but 
in 1861 Dr,. F. A. Roberts recommenced the practice in that 
town, which he prosecuted successfully for about four years, when 
he removed to Vassalboro, to occupy the place left vacant by his 
grandfather. At this time homoeopathy so far gained in public 
confidence in China that the inhabitants have ever since been 
desiring that a physician of the homoeopathic school should settle 
among them. 
Augusta has been a fruitful field for homoeopathy. In 1847 
a Dr. Green introducd the practice to its citizens, but, as I learn, 
with indifferent success. The real foundation for its present 
standing was laid in 1850 by Dr. S. M. Cate, now of Salem, 
Mass. Through his agency its popularity rapidly extended into 
the surrounding towns, so widening the field as to make the prac- 
tice very arduous. This Dr. Cate sustained till his health failed, 
when in 1860 he disposed of his good-will and practice to Dr. 
Whiting (since deceased), who had been his professional ally some 
two or three years. Dr. Whiting himself persevered until, by 
overwork, his health gave way, and he returned to his friends in 
Massachusetts, and Dr. W. L. Thompson, of Dover, N. II., in 
1865 assumed his practice. 
Dr. J. B. Bell, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania in the class of 1859, entered upon the prac- 
tice of homoeopathy in Augusta. After his graduation he went 
abroad to perfect himself in his chosen profession, spending a 
year at the Medical Department of the University of Vienna, and 
visiting the principal hospitals of Europe before his return to 
America. Prepossessed in favor of medicine, and availing him- 
self of the superior advantages opened to him, he was well pre- 
pared to enter upon its duties, and from the first took a foremost 
position, which he has ever since maintained. During the war 
he passed a successful examination before a board of allopathic 
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to the writer did not enter upon the active duties of the field. He 
discharged the duties of examining surgeon for the pension office 
from 1863 to 1869, and was city physician from 1867 to 1868. 
He is taking a high stand as a surgeon, having in the course of 
general surgery performed some successful operations in the re- 
moval of ovarian tumors, and is a strict Hahnemannian in the 
application of his remedies. Homoeopathy is now represented 
in Augusta by Drs. J. B. Bell, W. L. Thompson, and W. T. 
Dillingham, the latter a student of Dr. Bell, and now associated 
with him in practice. 
In the month of April, 1849, Dr. William F. Jackson, now of 
Boston Highlands, formally introduced homoeopathy to the citi- 
zens of Gardiner. Previous to this time, however, dating as far 
back, perhaps, as 1843, homoeopathy was practiced in Gardiner 
to a limited extent, and with some degree of success, by an ama- 
teur practitioner, a clergyman, by the name of Howard, so that, 
on entering the field, Dr. Jackson found a few persons prepared 
to give homoeopathy a favorable reception. By devotion to busi- 
ness and by marked ability, Dr. Jackson succeeded in making for 
homoeopathy a good name, and, at the end of four years when he 
removed to his present location, left behind him many firm sup- 
porters of homoeopathy, as well as a large number of warm per- 
sonal friends. Dr. F. N. Palmer, now of Boston, succeeded Dr. 
Jackson in 1853. Since that time the field has been successively 
occupied by Drs. J. D. Young, S. H. Worcester, H. H. Hamil- 
ton, J. H. Barrows, and R. R. Williams (the two latter now 
deceased), and one or two others, names not now remembered. 
Homoeopathy, at this time, is represented in Gardiner by Dr. J. 
D. Young, and a sister of Dr. R. R. Williams, who formerly re- 
sided here, and who, I believe, is a graduate of some medical 
college. 
The same year (1849) Dr. J. P. Jeffords, a graduate of the 
Bowdoin Medical School, introduced the practice of homoeop- 
athy into Kennebunkport, as did Dr. B. H. Batcheldor, an 
allopathic graduate, into the town of Montville; the latter 
continues the practice in the town of Liberty. Dr. Jeffords's 
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Hoffendahl of Boston, and after a successful practice of thirteen 
years in Kennebunkport removed to Bangor, where he still re- 
sides. The field at Kennebunkport is still vacant. 
We have now passed over a period of ten years of the history 
of homoeopathy in Maine, and find it had gained permanent foot- 
ing in but nine different towns in the State, though in the mean 
time two or three other places had been temporarily occupied. 
In 1850, the beginning of another decade, its sphere was con- 
siderably widened by the addition of Yarmouth, Ellsworth, Win- 
throp, and Calais. In the course of the year each of these towns 
was permanently occupied by a disciple of our school : Yar- 
mouth, by Dr. G. P. Thompson, now of Portland ; and Ells- 
worth, by Dr. M. R. Pulsifer, each of whom had been engaged in 
allopathic practice in their respective localities for several years. 
In going over to homoeopathy they took with them not only 
their old patrons, but in due time a large acquisition was made 
to their lists from the patrons of allopathy. In allusion to this 
fact Dr. Thompson remarks that many of the timid applicants 
for homoeopathic aid, li like Nicodemus of old, came to him by 
night." This remark well illustrates the want of manly inde- 
pendence of a large portion of mankind on the one hand, and the 
despotic influence exerted by leading spirits on the other, which 
many gentlemen of the homoeopathic profession have seen exhib- 
ited, doubtless in many ways, in the course of their professional 
career.* 
A Rev. Mr. Hill introduced homoeopathy to the citizens of 
Winthrop, followed by Dr. F. N. Palmer, who, after a short 
stay, removed to Gardiner. Winthrop, for a time, was left va- 
cant ; but in 1856 the field was again occupied by Dr. Charles 
A. Cochran, who raised homoeopathy to a respectable position. 
Dr. Cochran is a true Hahnemannian. 
The same year (1858) Dr. Mitchell carried homoeopathy into 
Calais, where he practiced with acknowledged success for about 
four years, when, in consequence of alleged failing health, he left 
Calais for a Southern residence, at the same time, it is said, aban- 
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doning homoeopathy. If this statement be true, we have 
another instance, in addition to the very few cases of apostasy 
in the whole history of homoeopathy. And herein is shown one 
of the marvels of human action. After establishing a name for 
homoeopathy among his patrons by his own successful practice, 
Dr. Mitchell took the back track, as since taken by the more 
noted Peters, who returned with a grand flourish to the renowned 
glories of allopathic drugging, "as the dog returns to his vomit, 
and the sow that is washed to her wallowing in the mire." Dur- 
ing the eight following years homoeopathy declined in Calais in 
public estimation, it is said, in consequence of incompetent prac- 
titioners. 
In 1862 Dr. E. D. Seymore entered the field, anol by energy, 
diligence, and an intelligent use of the homoeopathic law, raised 
homoeopathy to an honorable standing in popular estimation, and 
now conducts a large and increasing practice. 
The next reinforcements made to our ranks in Maine were in 
Waterville, Rockland, and Damariscotta, in 1862. In Water- 
ville Dr. N. G. H. Pulsifer was the pioneer; in Rockland Dr. 
J. M. Blaisdell, now of Bangor; and in Damariscotta Dr. J. P. 
Paine, now of Boston Highlands. Dr. Pulsifer still occupies his 
original position, panoplied for the fight, and has grown rich 
from the proceeds of his practice. Dr. J. C. Gannett has entered 
the same field as a competitor. 
From Rockland, after about two years, Dr. Blaisdell removed 
to Lynn, Mass., and from thence to Cincinnati, Ohio. The post 
at Rockland was occupied by a man by the name of Bryant, 
formerly a Methodist clergyman. I think he obtained a diploma 
at the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, and after a 
short and unsatisfactory career, both to himself and the profession, 
left for parts unknown to the writer. The field was worthily 
occupied for some time after 1864 by Dr. J. Esters, who subse- 
quently removed to San Francisco. Homoeopathy is now rep- 
resented in Rockland by Dr. S. H. Boynton and Dr. Wiggin; 
the latter, seeming never to have fully succeeded in homoeop- 
athy has practically abandoned it. 
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regarding the field too limited, removed to Dedham, Mass., where 
he secured a good patronage among the wealthy and intelligent 
people of the town, and, after a residence of ten years, removed 
to Boston Highlands, where he is conducting a large practice. 
Damariscotta has not since been occupied by a resident homoeo- 
pathic practitioner. 
Richmond and Rockport (Camden) were the only new points 
where homoeopathy was introduced in 1854. Dr. J. D. Young 
was the pioneer in Richmond, and Dr. H. B. Eaton in Rock- 
port. Dr. Young remained in Richmond about three years, and 
from thence went to Gardiner. In 1857 Dr. Richards occupied 
the field at Richmond. Homoeopathy has been gaining in the 
confidence of the people, and at the present time Dr. Richards 
is enjoying a successful practice. 
The conversion of Dr. Eaton I give in his own words: "I 
took my own degree," says Dr. Eaton, "as Doctor of Medicine 
at the Maine Medical School in 1845. While there I roomed 
with L. V. Payne, a student in the same class with myself. In 
the lectures the Professor of Anatomy (Peaslee) took special pains 
to ridicule homoeopathy, and, to refute the assertions of Professor 
Peaslee, young Payne would read at our room from homoeopathic 
authors. In this way I became acquainted with homoeopathic 
and allopathic disputations. On leaving college, however, this 
all passed out of my mind except the fact that homoeopathy 
claimed to cure diseases over which allopathy had no power. 
In 1852 Rockport was visited by scarlatina maligna. Among 
the victims of this epidemic was my only child. This death 
unfitted me for practice, and I visited the .schools and hospitals 
of New York and Philadelphia for the purpose of gaining addi- 
tional information in which I supposed myself deficient. On my 
return to practice, however, I determined, if myself or any of my 
own family were sick, to treat homoeopathically if possible. In 
September of 1854, two years later, I lost several patients with 
dysentery. My only child was down with it. I had counsel, 
but the child was evidently sinking under the disease. Allo- 
pathic skill seemed as impotent in this as in the scarlatina cases. 
My former resolution returned. A neighbor had a case of homoeo- 562 
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pathic medicines and book for domestic use. I went to him in 
the night, enjoined secrecy, took the book and medicines, and 
here, in the case of my own child, made my first experiment. In 
twelve hours the whole aspect of the case was changed for the 
better. My child recovered." 
Dr. Eaton from this time became a stanch homoeopath; and 
at this time is conducting, in conjunction with his son, Dr. H. 
B. Eaton, a lucrative practice among his old allopathic patrons. 
In 1856 homoeopathy was introduced to the citizens of Lewis- 
ton, Saco, and Kennebunk. Dr. H. C. Bradford commenced the 
practice in Lewiston, and has succeeded in establishing homoeop- 
athy in the affections of the people, and his practice is large. 
The same year Dr. J. O. Moor established himself in Saco and 
Biddeford, but in 1866 sold out his goodwill to Dr. Henry F. 
Morse, of Portsmouth, N. H. Dr. Morse remained in Saco about 
three months, then removed to Biddeford; from whence, after 
a residence of about eight months, he went West. Prior, how- 
ever, to this time, indeed as early as 1851 and 1852, homoeopathy 
was favorably known in Saco through the agency of Dr. E. Clark, 
of Portland. Since Dr. Morse left Biddeford homoeopathy had 
been represented and ably sustained in both Saco and Biddeford 
till about two years ago by Dr. Graves alone, when Dr. W. B. 
Whiting, of Melrose, Mass., settled in Biddeford; since early 
spring Dr. Lane has been added to the same place; while Dr. 
Graves, at this time unaided, occupies the field at Saco. 
Dr. Edw. W. Morton formally introduced homoeopathy to the 
people of Kennebunk the same year. I believe Dr. Morton is 
still at Kennebunk. 
Dr. T. S. Goodwin opened an office at Skowhegan in 1857, 
and the following year Dr. H. W. Hamilton entered the field as 
a competitor, After about two years Dr. Hamilton left the place, 
and, I believe, the State. Dr. Goodwin remained till 1865, when 
the field was left vacant for a time, but subsequently occupied by 
Dr. Sumner H. Boynton, now of Rockland. 
In March, 1869, Dr. T. L. Bradford settled in Skowhegan, 
where he has ever since remained, with the exception of two 
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continued by Dr. W. S. Wright. Dr. Bradford, I believe, is a 
true Hahnemannian, and under his professional labors, homoe- 
opathy stands well in and around Skowhegan. Dr. AV. E. Fel- 
lows is now settled at Solon, some fifteen miles above Skowhegan. 
In 1858 Dr. R. R. Williams carried homoeopathy into the 
town of Clintonj where for five years he maintained a successful 
practice, but in 1863 removed to North Vassalboro, where he 
remained several years, and from thence went to Gardiner, where 
his professional career ended by death in 1874, highly esteemed 
for his professional ability by his numerous patrons. Drs. J. B. 
Robinson and J. L. Babcock each occupied the field at Gardiner 
for a time; but the former left the State and the latter deceased, 
though I believe not at Gardiner. In 1858 an attempt was made 
by Dr. Cook to establish homoeopathy in the town of Unity; but 
failing in this he went to Dover in 1859, where he remained for 
a few years, but both places are now vacant. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Farmington in 1861 by Dr. 
H. W. Hamilton, who remained only a short time; but it has 
since been re-established by Dr. O. W. True. 
In Wiscasset and surrounding towns homoeopathy has ac- 
quired an extended popular recognition. As early as 1850 the 
people became interested in the subject, and frequently called in 
homoeopathic aid from an adjoining town. But not till 1862 was 
the field formally occupied. Dr. J. W. Savage opened an office 
at that time and entered upon the practice, which he sustained 
till within the last few months, when he removed to Bath, and 
Wiscasset is now without a physician of our school. Still, many 
of the best families cling to homoeopathy, and rely on the aid 
afforded by domestic books and boxes, and when hard pushed 
send to Bath for aid, generally for Dr. Savage. 
Dr. S. E. Hartwell settled in the town of Strong in 1867, and 
Dr. B. L. Dresser earlier than this in the town of Searsport. 
After a few years' residence Dr. Dresser removed from the State; 
but Searsport is now occupied by Dr. William R. Knowles, in 
whom homoeopathy is ably represented. 
At Newport Dr. W. R. Bayneem is successfully conducting a 
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graduate of the old school some ten years since, and ranking 
well in that fraternity and in public confidence, is giving his 
earnest attention to homoeopathy, and is preparing to publicly 
renounce the old practice and embrace the new. 
Homoeopathy has been represented in the town of Union, 
Knox County, for some fifteen or more years by Dr. Nathan 
Batchelder; and Hartland, Somerset County, by Dr. Weeks for 
the last ten years. Dr. Josiah B. Bolton has practiced homoe- 
opathy in the town of Patton, Penobscot County, for several 
years; and Dr. J. T. G. Emory in the town of Springvale, York 
County; and for several years-I am unable to say how long- 
Dexter, Penobscot County, has been occupied by Dr. Charles 
M. Foss. 
Dr. Edward S. Hincks was settled for a time in Thomaston, 
but he removed from the State, and in the last year the place 
has been occupied by Dr. Piper, and the town of Waldoboro by 
Dr. Calderwood. Several young men are now zealously prose- 
cuting the study of homoeopathy, and after graduation will, 
doubtless, settle in the State. Dr. William Waters is settled at 
Mechanic Falls, and is conducting a successful practice. While 
nearly all of the older members of the profession were graduates 
of allopathic colleges, most of the younger are graduates of 
homoeopathic colleges, and, being early instructed in homoeo- 
pathic therapeutics, have a decided advantage on entering the 
profession. HOMCEOPATHY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE* 
As nearly as can be ascertained homoeopathy was introduced 
into New Hampshire, in Francistown, in the year 1840, by Dr. 
Moses Atwood. In June, 1844, he removed to Nashua, where 
he remained till January, 1845, when ill-health caused him to go 
to Concord ; here he remained a year or so, and then joined his 
nephew, Dr. A. H. Atwood, in Manchester. Here he remained 
about two years, and then went to New Boston, where he died, 
greatly lamented, April 28th, 1850, aged forty-nine. His name 
is held in sweet remembrance as the pioneer of homoeopathy, in 
the State. 
Francistown.-In 1847 Dr. W. P. Gambell, now of Boston, 
Mass., began practice in this place. He was succeeded in 1857 
by Dr. Levi Pierce, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Philadelphia, who remained two years, then went to 
New London, and in 1864 removed to Massachusetts. Dr. 
Pierce was succeeded by Dr. Andrew J. Moulton, who after sev- 
eral years of successful practice enlisted as a private in the 
Union army, and was killed in one of the battles of the Wilder- 
ness. 
Nashua.-In 1844 Dr. J. F. Whittle, a graduate of Castleton 
Medical College, Vermont, located here and continues in exten- 
sive practice. 
In 1850 Dr. Oliver A. Woodbury began practice in Nashua. 
He continued till his death in March, 1875. 
Concord.-In 1844 homoeopathy was introduced into Concord 
by Dr. Augustus Frank, who removed to Manchester in 1846, 
and remained one year. 
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In 1849 Dr. Alpheus Morrill, a graduate of Dartmouth Col- 
lege in 1832, and a convert to homoeopathy in 1843, succeeded 
Dr. Moses Atwood (the State pioneer). He was an excellent man, 
and after a long, faithful, and successful service, he died May 7th, 
1874, aged sixty-five, greatly lamented by all who knew him. 
He is succeeded by his two sons, Drs. S. C. and E. Morrill, and 
each has a large practice. The former has an associate, Dr. E. 
H. Foster. 
Dr. J. H. Galli nger, having previously practiced allopathy, 
settled in Concord in April, 1862. He has now an extensive 
business, and is President of the State Homoeopathic Medical 
Society. 
In 1854 Dr. Isaac Colby, of Salem, Mass., came to Concord. 
He had practiced allopathy in Concord as early as 1839, and 
afterwards in several other places in the United States, and was 
converted to homoeopathy in Salem. He became a very success- 
ful practitioner. 
Manchester.-Homoeopathy was introduced into this place in 
1845 by Dr. Aaron FI. Atwood, an allopathic graduate. In 
1847 he received into partnership Dr. Emil Custer, and after a 
few years removed to Virginia, on account of ill-health, where 
he died. Dr. Custer remains. 
About 1847 Dr. Charles H. Walker, now of Chelsea, Mass., 
settled in Manchester. He remained several years and did good 
service for the cause. 
Weave.-In 1843 Dr. James Peterson of this place, a distin- 
guished allopathic physician, became an enthusiastic convert to 
homoeopathy, and, his services being sought from great distances, 
introduced it into many towns. 
In 1855 Dr. Freeman Horton of Nashua, an eclectic, adopted 
homoeopathy and associated himself with Dr. Peterson; he 
continued until his death, March 3d, 1861, aged forty-five. Dr. 
Peterson died April 8th, 1870, aged seventy. He was greatly 
esteemed and beloved by the people, and after his death a public 
meeting was called at which eulogies were delivered by some of 
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His place is now filled by his nephew, Dr. James P. Whittle, 
and homoeopathy is the leading practice in the town. 
Lyndeborough.-In 1844 Dr. Israel Herrick of this place, a 
leading mind in the old school, adopted homoeopathy, which he 
advocated and practiced with much enthusiasm. His practice 
became very extended, and he introduced it into many places. 
He died February 18th, 1866, aged seventy-one. 
Bedford.-Dr. Henry C. Parker introduced homoeopathy into 
Bedford in 1849. He continued till his death, December 8th, 
1861, aged forty-eight. 
Keene.-In 1850 Dr. D. White introduced homoeopathy into 
this place. He remained a comparatively short time. 
Dr. William B. Chamberlain was located here many years. 
He removed to Worcester, Mass., in 1866, and was succeeded by 
Dr. Henry H. Darling. The latter and Dr. G. W. Flagg now 
represent homoeopathy in this place. 
Drs. Francis Brick, now of Worcester, Mass., and J. H. 
Darling have likewise practiced here. The latter has also left 
the State. 
Portsmouth.-In 1850 Dr. Pitcher located in this place, and 
Dr. S. J. Donaldson about 1874. Both remain. 
Peterborough.-Homoeopathy was introduced by a layman, 
Mr. Seavey, who remained about two years. Next came Dr. O. 
L. Bradford, who moved to Andover, Mass., in 1867. He was 
succeeded by Dr. Levi Dodge, who remained till 1873, and went 
to Fall River, Mass. 
In April, 1870, Miss M. T. Kimball, M.D., located here, by 
whom the system is now ably represented. 
Dover.-The homoeopathic pioneer in this place was Dr. A. 
W. Pike. He was succeeded in December, 1853, by Dr. E. M. 
Jones, now of Taunton, Mass., who remained until September, 
1854, when he was succeeded by Dr. Jerome Harris. In 1856 
Dr. Harris exchanged places with Dr. William E. Thompson, 
of Newburyport, Mass. The latter remained in Dover until 
1865, and then removed to Augusta, Me., leaving in his place 
Dr. J. W. Drake, who still remains. In 1854 Dr. C. H. Horsch 
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Wilton.-Homoeopathy was known in this place, through the 
efforts of Dr. Israel Herrick, prior to 1854, when Dr. William 
A. Jones, a graduate of the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical 
College, began practice here. In 1857 he removed to Lynde- 
borough and remained until 1871, then returned to Wilton, 
where he remains. 
Milford.-Dr. Herrick also had introduced homoeopathy into 
Milford prior to the advent of Dr. O. O. Roberts, in 1854 or '55, 
and who is now in Northampton, Mass. He was the first resi- 
dent physician in Milford, and remained three or four years, and 
was succeeded by Dr. II. J. M. Cate, now of Amherst, Mass. 
Next came Dr. Marston, and later Dr. L. AV. AVilkins, who died 
in 1865. In the same year (1865) Dr. W. H. AV. Hinds located 
here, and remains in extensive practice. 
Lake Village.-In 1855 Dr. D. F. Moore located here, and 
has remained ever since; he is now assisted by his son, Dr. J. C. 
Moore, in an extensive business. 
Canterbury.-About 1855, possibly earlier, Dr. L. T. Weeks, 
of this place, an excellent old-school physician, adopted homoe- 
opathy. He left a few years ago and located in Laconia, where 
he now resides, greatly respected and largely employed. 
Laconia.-In 1856 Dr. Albert Lindsay, of Roxborough, Mass., 
on account of ill-health came to this place, and has remained ever 
since. 
Exeter.-In 1858 Dr. E. P. Cummings, now of Newburyport, 
Mass., introduced homoeopathy into this place; he remained 
several years. 
Antrim.-In the same year (1858) Dr. Levi J. Pierce, a grad- 
uate of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Philadelphia, lo- 
cated in this town, and remained until his death in 1863, aged 
twenty-eight. 
It is possible that the names of some of the early practitioners 
in the State have been omitted, but all have been mentioned 
concerning whom definite particulars could be obtained. 
The total number of practitioners in the State is about 40, as 
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Antrim, Dr. J. M. Christie. 
Colebrook, Dr. J. M. Hartwell. 
Concord, Drs. J. H. Gallinger, S. C. Morrill, E. Morrill, E. 
H. Foster. 
Dover, Drs. C. H. Horsch, J. W. Drake. 
Exeter, Dr. H. W. Boynton. 
Great Falls, Dr. J. Conant. 
Hillsborough, Dr. J. P. Chase. 
Keene, Drs. H. H. Darling, G. W. Flagg. 
Laconia, Drs. A. Lindsay, L. T. Weeks. 
Lake Village, Drs. D. F. Moore, J. C. Moore. 
Lancaster, Drs. D. L. Jones, C. E. Rowell. 
Lebanon, Dr. E. A. Knight. 
Littleton, Dr. T. E. Sauger. 
Manchester, Drs. E. Custer, A. D. Smith. 
Milford, Dr. W. H. W. Hinds. 
Nashua, Drs. J. F. Whittle, C. S. Collins. 
Peterborough, Miss M. T. Kimball, M.D. 
Portsmouth, Dr. S. J. Donaldson. 
Rochester, Dr. H. P. Andrews. 
Sandwich Centre, Dr. H. N. Hart. 
Stratford, Dr. Moses Whitcomb. 
Weave, Dr. J. P. Whittle. 
Wilton, Dr. W. A. Jones. 
Winchester, Dr. S. O. Gregory. 
Woodsville, Dr. Moses Smith. 
Whitesfield, Drs. G. E. Huntley, C. E. Snell. 
About the year 1S50 Dr. D. White, of Keene, published, for 
one year, a spirited and vigorous journal, The Homoeopathic 
Advocate, the only publication of the kind ever ventured in the 
State. The editor was greatly persecuted by the dominant school. 
The growth of homoeopathy in this State has been healthy and 
strong, and since 1860 it has been rapid, so that now most of the 
large towns are well supplied with qualified homoeopathic prac- 
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and intelligent people, and in every respect homoeopathy is on an 
equal footing with the old school. 
No hostile legislation has ever been attempted; on the con- 
trary, we are consulted upon all medical matters calling for 
legislative action. 
Our physicians are generally men of education and culture, 
in whose hands the interests of homoeopathy are entirely safe, 
and through whose instrumentality its future growth and pros- 
perity are fully assured. HOMCEOPATHY IN INDIANA* 
Homceopathy was first introduced into Indiana, in Indian- 
apolis, in the year 1840, by Dr. Isaac Coe, an allopathist, who, 
while on business to New York city, was converted to homoeop- 
athy by being cured of rheumatism, of several years' standing, 
by Dr. A. Gerard Hull. He returned to Indianapolis an ardent 
advocate of homceopathy, and brought with him a young man, 
Dr. Van Buren, whom he took as partner. He continued in 
successful practice and steadily increasing favor for seven or eight 
years, and then removed to Louisville, Ky. 
In 1855 Dr. Shard located in Indianapolis, and was soon fol- 
lowed by Dr. Wright. Homoeopathy now advanced slowly but 
firmly. Dr. Corliss settled in this city in 1856 ; Dr. Boyd, in 
1859; Dr. Burnham, in 1862; and Dr. Eggert, in 1865. The. 
two latter formed a copartnership, and in a short time, by cour- 
ageous and determined perseverance, established a lucrative prac- 
tice, and gave a considerable impetus to homoeopathy. 
In 1867 there were four homoeopathic physicians in Indianap- 
olis, who were sustained by many worthy patrons from the best 
classes of society. 
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Richmond.-Homoeopathy was introduced into this place in 
1847, by James Austin, Esq., formerly of Philadelphia, Pa., lat- 
terly of Cincinnati, Ohio. He did not pretend to be a physician, 
but put up a sign : " Diseases treated here according to Samuel 
Hahnemann." 
In the year 1848 Dr. Strumm located here, and remained dur- 
ing the cholera epidemic, had the cholera himself, and soon left 
for Piqua, Ohio, where he still practices. 
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On the 3d of September, 1849, Dr. O. P. Baer, formerly of 
Dayton, latterly of Vandalin, Ohio, located in Richmond. 
Cholera, fevers, etc., were prevailing at the time, and practice 
grew rapidly. Of course the opposition soon became very strong, 
and, as it always is with the pioneer oftany honest reformation, 
the way was hedged with numerous and diabolical obstacles, 
which, by patient, Christian fortitude, were all surmounted ; and 
all of these fierce efforts to suppress the truth operated inversely, 
for by means of them homoeopathy was thoroughly advertised and 
kept before the people. After a few years the opposing element 
calmed down to a sort of indifferent courtesy, which exists at the 
present time. For about six years Dr. Baer was the only rep- 
resentative in Richmond, when Dr. Cuscaden, a young man, 
came here; remained about two years , and then went to Leb- 
anon, Ohio, where he died in a few years. Next came Dr. 
Minier, direct from the college of New York city; he remained 
about six months, and then went to Rock Island, and has there 
made a reputation. Next came T. H. Davis, a first course stu- 
dent, from Cleveland. Dr. Baer introduced him, and he soon 
gained a lucrative practice, which he still retains. In 1861 came 
Dr. Joseph Garrettson ; he was soon induced to join his brother 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is still there. Dr. S. D. Jones prac- 
ticed here from 1865 to 1869, and then went to Indianapolis. 
Dr. Emmons, of Ohio, settled here in 1867; he remains. About 
1869 Miss Knowles, a graduate of Cleveland College, located 
here, stayed a short time, and went to Kansas. In 1870 Dr. 
Joseph Howells, of Bowling Green, Ohio, settled here, and still 
remains. Dr. J. C. Teagen, of this place, an eclectic, has recently 
adopted homoeopathy. Homoeopathy is represented in all its 
forms in Richmond, from the crudest to the purest. 
Cambridge.-Dr. Potter located here in 1862, staid a short 
time, and removed to Terre Haute, where he now resides. Dr. 
William Carnahan succeeded him, was very successful, and re- 
moved to Hamilton, Ohio, in the summer of 1875, where he now 
remains. Dr. Carnahan was succeeded by his student, Dr. Bur- 
ger, whose prospects are bright. 
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Hagerstown.-Dr. Canady has recently located here and is 
doing well. 
The advancement of homoeopathy in Wayne County has been 
steady, with never any reaction, and at the present time it seems 
to be more flourishing here than in any other county of the State. 
The county, with a population of twenty-five thousand, has eight 
homoeopathic physicians. 
Fort Wayne.-Dr. Collins practiced here awhile in 1847. 
Dr. Leonard began practice here in 1851 ; Dr. G. W. Bowen, 
in 1852. Both continue. 
Mimcic.-In 1865 Dr. Chase located here, but remained only 
a short time. In 1867 Dr. Compton, a graduate of Cleveland 
College, settled here ; he removed to Indianapolis in 1873, where 
he remains. Dr. E. Beckwith, of Minnesota, located here in 
1873, and remains. The country practice is very light, as many 
of the inhabitants, both in the town and surrounding country, are 
very poor, and consequently are poor material with which to 
build up a practice. The homoeopathic treatment is very suc- 
cessful, and is slowly gaining favor with the better and more 
intelligent classes. The place is encompassed by an extensive 
territory in which homoeopathy is not represented. 
FLOYD COUNTY. 
New Albany.-Homoeopathy was introduced into this city by 
Dr. D. G. Stewart, who, after nineteen years of allopathic prac- 
tice, adopted homoeopathy July 1st, 1843, and has been in active 
practice ever since. The opposing element made malevolent 
attacks upon him, which availed them nothing, and the opposi- 
tion has now, in a great measure, passed away. During the 
years from 1843 to 1846 some homoeopathists located here, but 
remained only a short time. In 1856 Theodore Menser, M.D., 
located here; he established himself slowly but firmly, and is 
still in active practice. In 1868 W. L. Breyfogle, M.D., settled 
here, and after two years of successful practice removed to Louis- 
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L. W. Carpenter, M.D., located in this place in July, 1868; A. 
McNeill, M.D., in February, 1875. Both remain. 
The city of New Albany is the capital of the county, in which 
it is the only town of importance. It has a population of 20,000, 
noted for their intelligence and enterprise, and until recently it 
has not had a sufficient number of homoeopathic physicians. 
Floyd County has no homoeopathic practitioners outside of New 
Albany. 
Jeffersonville.-Homoeopathy was introduced into this place in 
1859 by H. N. Holland, M.D., who, after practicing allopathy 
in this city about five years, was then converted to the new sys- 
tem. The remembrance of it had been brought by some families 
from the East, and he converted all of his former patrons but 
one family. He has been actively employed ever since, and is 
still patronized and appreciated by many of the best citizens. 
The total number of homoeopathic physicians in the State is 
120. The system is gaining ground in all populous places where 
intelligence prevails. 
The following is a list of cities which have from one to three 
homoeopathic practitioners: 
Anderson, . . .2 
Brookville, . . .1 
Bloomington, . . .1 
Connersville, . , . 1 
Crawfordsville, . . 2 
Evansville, . . .2 
Greensburg, . . .1 
Lawrenceburg, . . 1 
Lafayette, . . 2 or 3 
Laporte, . . . .2 
Liberty, . 1 
Logansport, . . .1 
Madison, . . . 1 
Michigan City, . 1 or 2 
New Harmony, . . 1 
Peru, . 1 
Parkersburg, . . 1 
Rushville, . . . 1 
South Bend, . . . 1 
Shelbyville, . . .2 
Terre Haute,. . .3 
Union City, . . . 1 
Vincennes, . . . 1 
Veroy, . . . 1 
In the year 1867, May 20th, "The Western Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy" (the first organized body of homoeopathic physicians 
that ever met in the State) convened at Indianapolis. All the 
homoeopathic physicians of that city joined the Institute, and 
also Dr. Carnahan, of Cambridge, Dr. Jennings, of Shelbyville, 
and Dr. O. P. Baer, of Richmond. At the close of this session HOMCEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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the physicians of Indiana organized " The Homoeopathic Insti- 
tute of Indiana," and elected Dr. O. P. Baer, President, and Dr. 
J. T. Boyd, Secretary. This organization continued, its member- 
ship never exceeding sixteen, till the 11th of May, 1870, when, 
on account of a little ill-feeling arising from a misunderstanding, 
a reorganization was effected, with seven members, an altered 
constitution, and a change of name to " Indiana Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy." The officers elect were: President, Dr. O. P. Baer; 
Secretary, Dr. William Eggert. It has now a membership of 
thirty-four, all good workers. The office of president was held 
by O. P. Baer, M.D., until 1872, when he declined renomination; 
since that time the corps of officers has changed each year, and 
is at present as follows: President, Wm. Eggert, M.D.; Vice- 
President, J. A. Compton, M.D.; Secretary, O. G. Runnels, 
M.D.; Treasurer, J. R. Haines, M.D. Hitherto the Institute has 
convened at Indianapolis, it being the largest and most accessible 
city and having the largest number of resident physicians, whose 
liberality and hospitality have made each session very pleasant as 
well as profitable. Formerly the meetings were held semi-annu- 
ally, in May and November, but the November session, not being 
well attended, has been suspended. HOMOEOPATHY IN MICHIGAN.* 
Some time between 1841 and 1843 Dr. S. S. Hall, many years 
an allopath, and then living in Detroit, Mich., became converted 
to homoeopathy. Dr. Hill's son was affected with a bronchial 
trouble for which he could find no relief. He, therefore, wrote 
to New York and got one hundred dollars worth of homoeopathic 
books and medicines (0 and 1st trituration). With these he 
studied, and his father giving the diagnosis, he prescribed the 
appropriate remedy. 
They continued this during 1843, during which time they 
treated one hundred and fifty difficult chronic cases, curing one 
hundred. 
Dr. C. A. Lamb about this time began to read homoeopathic 
books furnished him by Dr. Hall, and with him to test the truth 
of their theories. In 1843 Rev. G. D. Perry, whose health had 
been restored by homoeopathic treatment while East, went to 
Michigan. He visited Dr. Hall and by his experience strength- 
ened Dr. Hall's faith. 
Among Mr. Perry's friends was Dr. Thomas Blackwood, 
whom he persuaded into testing the homoeopathic practice. The 
doctor soon became a bold disciple of Hahnemann. 
Dr. Blackwood resided in Plymouth, Wayne County, and 
though opposed, soon got a very lucrative and extended practice 
under the new system. In one of his visits to a patient given 
up to die he met Dr. Lamb, and the result completed Dr. Lamb's 
conversion. 
Dr. Blackwood subsequentlyresided in Ypsilanti, then in Ann 
Arbor (about 1847), being the pioneer in both places. While 
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he lived in Plymouth he was challenged by Dr. Olds to a public 
debate on the subject of homoeopathy, and every night for a week 
these champions held forth in a crowded county school-house. 
People took sides, and finally Dr. Olds became a homoeopath. 
Dr. Olds went, in 1847, to Ann Arbor, and was invited by the 
allopathists to repeat his discussions against homoeopathy, which 
he refused to do, being half impressed with its truth. Dr. Black- 
wood, soon after associating himself with Dr. J. N. Eldridge, went 
to California, leaving Dr. Eldridge alone in Ann Arbor. Dr. El- 
dridge cured several cases that Dr. Olds had failed to benefit, and 
this completed Dr. Olds's conversion, and greatly to the disgust of 
his allopathic friends he avowed himself a homoeopath. Dr. J. N. 
Eldridge soon removed to Flint, Mich., where he still remains. 
Dr. Blackwood died in California in 1855. 
To Dr. Blackwood, therefore, and to Mr. Perry, are due the 
commencement of homoeopathy in Michigan. Dr. Perry was a 
great missionary of the cause, assisting young physicians and 
advocating the new doctrines among the people. He was also 
quite a skilful prescriber, though never boasting of his success. 
He now resides in Tecumseh, where he is a co-laborer with Dr. 
N. B. House. 
After a short association with Dr. Hall in Detriot, Dr. C. A. 
Lamb returned to his old home in Farmington, Oakland County, 
where he vigorously supported homoeopathy by popular lectures. 
His success soon became so great that intelligent allopaths 
ceased to ridicule him. He was now called to Pontiac to test 
homoeopathy. He went, successfully treating some very severe 
cases of erysipelas. He was asked to, and did settle there, but 
soon returned to Farmington, leaving in his place Dr. A. Walker, 
a convert of Dr. Blackwood's. 
Dr. Lamb was the pioneer in Eastern Michigan. He was 
first president of the first homoeopathic society in Michigan. 
He removed from Pontiac to Clinton County, retired from 
medicine, and commenced to preach the gospel. Although now 
very old, he still continues to preach. 
The pioneers cured intermittent fever with attenuated, properly 
selected, doses ! 578 
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In the early days many laymen embraced homoeopathy and 
practiced it. Among them were Rev. Mr. Kanosh, of Wash- 
tenaw County, Rev. J. N. Reed, Hon. H. C. Knight. 
About 1843 Dr. Lewis Dodge settled in Adrian, where he 
remained until 1850, gaining a widespread reputation in curing 
nursing sore-mouth, erysipelas, and dysentery, which diseases 
extensively prevailed. He often rode from thirty to fifty miles. 
In 1850 he became Professor of Materia Medica and Medical 
Jurisprudence in the Western College of Homoeopathy. He now 
lives in Chicago, Ill. 
In 1843 Dr. J. Ellis located at Grand Rapids, and began to 
test the principles of homoeopathy. With the help of homoeo- 
pathic remedies he ligated both common carotid arteries and the 
patient recovered. The history, omitting the homoeopathic 
treatment, is given in Dr. Mott's notes in Velpeau's Operative 
Surgery. Although not openly a homoeopath at Grand Rapids, 
the doctor was an ardent student of homoeopathy, and in two 
years visited New York to get more light. He visited hospitals, 
attended lectures, etc. Returning to Michigan in 1846, he set- 
tled in Detroit as a homoeopathic physician, forming a partner- 
ship with Dr. Wheaton, who had succeeded Dr. Hall. Dr. 
Ellis remained in Detroit about fifteen years, laboring constantly 
for the right of representation of homoeopathy in the Michigan 
University and in other public institutions. He, with Dr. Thayer 
and others, published the Michigan Journal of Homoeopathy for 
nearly two years, without aid, the object being to disseminate 
these new truths among the people. He was Professor of The- 
ory and Practice in the Western College of Homoeopathy at 
Cleveland, Ohio, during the last five years of his residence in 
Detroit. He then removed to New York city, where he yet 
lives. 
The partnership with Dr. Wheaton lasted two years. Then 
Dr. Wheaton went to Nashville, Tenn., and then to Cincinnati, 
where he died of cholera. 
Dr. S. B. Thayer, formerly of Battle Creek, took Dr. Wheat- 
on's place with Dr. Ellis in 1848. Dr. Thayer was convinced of 
homoeopathy by instructions given by Dr. E. A. Atlee, of Phila- 'homoeopathy in the united states. 
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delphia. Dr. Thayer was also an earnest worker for State recog- 
nition of homoeopathy for many years. He died within one year 
of its accomplishment. 
In 1861 Dr. Thayer was appointed Surgeon in the Second 
Missouri Cavalry, and was subsequently appointed Brigade Sur- 
geon and Medical District Director. Towards the close of the 
war he resigned on account of ill-health, and returned to Battle 
Creek, where he died in 1874. 
The first convention of homoeopathic physicians in Michigan 
was held at Ann Arbor, October, 1847. The minutes and pro- 
ceedings of this meeting are printed in pamphlet form. 
But seven physicians were present at this meeting, viz., C. A. 
Lamb, M.D., Pontiac, now preaching at Ypsilanti; John Ellis, 
M.D., Detroit, practicing in New York city; Thomas Black- 
wood, M.D., Ann Arbor, deceased; W. P. Meacham, M.D., 
Pontiac; A. Van Dusen, M.D., Birmingham; E. W. Cowles, 
M.D., Adrian; Lewis Dodge, M.D., Adrian. 
A full account of the societies and also of the special legislation 
regarding homoeopathy in Michigan will be given under the 
proper section of this book. 
In 1851 there were about fifteen homoeopathic practitioners. 
In 1851 Drs. F. Woodruff and H. C. Driggs were the first ho- 
moeopathic matriculants of the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan. HOMOEOPATHY IN GEORGIA* 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Savannah, Ga., in the 
year 1842, by Dr. Janies B. Gilbert, a graduate of the Univer- 
sity Medical College of New York city, and a student of the 
honored Dr. John F. Gray. He was a skilful physician and a 
gentleman of high culture. By means of his remarkable success 
in curing a number of cases which had been abandoned as in- 
curable by the "regulars," he established a large practice almost 
immediately, and gave to our system an impetus which has 
steadily increased ever since. Upon his arrival in Savannah he 
presented his diploma and joined "The Georgia Medical Society," 
which is the city local society. His success in practice soon at- 
tracted the attention of Dr. James M. Schley, a fellow member, 
who shortly afterward went to New York to learn the new sys- 
tem from Dr. Gray. When he returned he established himself as 
a homoeopathic physician, and quickly gained a widespread reputa- 
tion. Very soon Drs. Gilbert and Schley received official notice 
that the society would have a discussion as to the propriety of 
having homeeopathists retain membership. The result, of course, 
was their expulsion, as in the more recent case before the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society. This movement did not diminish the ardor 
of these heterodox enthusiasts, nor did it check the spread of the 
system, but they soon ranked among the most extensive practi- 
tioners of the city. In the spring of 1853 Dr. Gilbert died, 
greatly lamented, from overexertion in professional duty. He 
was a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy from 
the commencement of his professional life. Dr. Schley died in 
the spring of 1874, in the midst of a very large practice. 
There are at present in the State about twenty-five homoeo- 
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pathic practitioners, who are chiefly graduates of the allopathic 
school. Some of these mix the allopathic and the homoeopathic 
methods, and a few are of the homoeopathic school only. During 
the past few years but few young homoeopathists have settled in 
the South for the following reasons: Before the war, from. 1861 
to 1865, the slave population constituted at least one-half of the 
patronage of the medical profession. Many physicians were 
established on plantations, from which they received a sufficient 
remuneration for their services for support. With emancipation, 
even in the cities, one-half of the paying practice was eradicated. 
The country physicians could not subsist, and were forced to go 
to the cities, where the resident physicians were also suffering 
from diminished patronage. Expenses of living were increased, 
the people were impoverished, and would not employ a physician 
unless it was absolutely necessary, and many were unable to pay 
even the comparatively small fees that were demanded. 
Generally speaking the Southern cities have now an excess of 
physicians, e. g., Atlanta, with a population of 35,000, has sev- 
enty doctors. In view of these facts the resident physicians have 
not advised young men of promise to take up the study of medi- 
cine, and the field has not been inviting to those from distant 
places. 
The educated and gentlemanly homoeopathist is generally 
treated with respect by the allopathic fraternity, although of 
course the latter are debarred from consulting with one of a 
different medical philosophy. 
Our system is rapidly gaining ground from its partial adoption 
by the practitioners of other schools, which fact is sometimes 
acknowledged by them, but more often ignored. Since the in- 
troduction of homoeopathy their practice has been greatly modi- 
fied, which has, no doubt, been due, to a great extent, to the suc- 
cess of the homoeopathic practice. 
No societies, either State or local, have ever been organized, 
chiefly because the physicians are so widely separated. There 
are no homoeopathic institutions of any description in the State. 
Several of the old-school pharmacies have homoeopathic depart- 
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Many of the physicians, however, receive their supplies direct 
from the homoeopathic pharmacies in the large cities of the Union. 
The laws of the State are not illiberal to the homoeopathic prac- 
titioners. The statutes provide for the appointment of a Board 
of Examiners from the allopathic, and one from the eclectic 
school, each to examine the applicants for practice in its re- 
spective school. The code also provides that any physician of 
a school not represented by one of these boards, who has a 
diploma, shall be allowed to practice without examination; but 
no one can practice without a diploma or a license from one of 
these boards. 
Homoeopathy is represented in most of the larger cities and 
towns of the State, but there are several important places where 
it is not. Among these latter places are Rome, Cartersville, 
Griffin, La Grange, Milledgeville, Americus, Albany, and Bruns- 
wick. HOMOEOPATHY IN WISCONSIN* 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into Wisconsin, in Brown 
County, in 1842, by the wife of an Episcopal clergyman. 
In 1846 Drs. Tracy and Cator located in Milwaukee. In 1847 
Dr. Cator left, and Dr. J. S. Douglass took his place. 
In 1850 Drs. Douglass and Tracy published a monthly journal 
for one year, familiarly explaining and defending the doctrine 
and practice of homoeopathy. In 1860 Dr. Douglass published 
a similar journal, which also lasted one year. At present there 
are in the city and county of Milwaukee twenty-one homoeo- 
pathic physicians, several of whom are converts from the old 
school. About one-half of the desirable business of the city 
is in the hands of the homoeopathic practitioners. There 
is one large, elegant, and well-conducted pharmacy in the city, 
and homoeopathic medicines are sold by several druggists, and by 
some others. 
In the spring of 1846 Dr. J. W. Evans introduced homoeop- 
athy into Beloit, Rock County, where he continued practice till 
his death in 1867. 
In 1848 homoeopathy was introduced into Janesville, Rock 
County. This county has now eight homoeopathic practitioners, 
who are sustained by a large proportion of the intelligence and 
wealth of the county. 
Homoeopathy was represented at Monroe, Green County, about 
1850, by Dr. Porter, who remained there many years. Dr. 
Sherman began practice about the same time, and still continues. 
The county has now eight homoeopathic practitioners. 
In 1851 Dr. Crosby located in Green Bay, Brown County. He 
died in 1852. 
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In the year 1860 Dr. Henry Pearce, from London, England, 
located in Green Bay; he remained, with the exception of one 
year, till his death, in 1875. There are now in Brown County 
five homoeopathic physicians. 
Drs. Stringham and Pantilion introduced homoeopathy into 
Fond du Lac County in 1852. In 1855 Dr. T. J. Patchen lo- 
cated here. Fond du Lac has at present twelve homoeopathic 
physicians, among whose patrons is the larger portion of the 
thinking and educated people of the place. 
In 1855 homoeopathy was introduced into La Crosse city and 
county by Dr. P. P. Brooks, an allopathist. He adopted homoe- 
opathy to meet the demands of some of the families. He con- 
tinued till his death in 1865. 
In 1856 Dr. J. S. Pfouts located in La Crosse, and remained 
less than two years. 
Dr. L. E. Ober settled in La Crosse in the spring of 1857, and 
continues in active practice. There are now in La Crosse County 
three homoeopathic physicians. They have a good share of the 
desirable practice. 
Dr. John Davis introduced homoeopathy into Oshkosh, Win- 
nebago County, in 1856. He remained two years. He was suc- 
ceeded by Dr. E. P. Gaylord, who also remained two years. 
In 1860 Dr. H. B. Dale settled in Oshkosh, and still remains. 
At present Winnebago County has eight homoeopathic physicians, 
and they are patronized by at least a respectable minority. 
Homoeopathy has had a hard road in Manitowoc County, which 
has now only one homoeopathic physician. 
Rev. A. M. Iverson was the first homoeopathic practitioner in 
Door County. He began practice in 1858. Door County has 
now two practitioners. 
In 1861 Dr. William Crane introduced homoeopathy into 
Trempaleau County. This county has at present two homoeo- 
pathic practitioners. 
The following is a list of the counties, with the number of 
practitioners in each, into which the date of the introduction of 
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Adams, .... 1 
Buffalo, .... 1 
Clark, 1 
Chippewa, . . . . 1 
Columbia, .... 7 
Dodge, 9 
Dane, 7 
Dunn, ..... 2 
Eau Claire, .... 2 
Grant, ..... 2 
Green Lake, ... 2 
Iowa, ..... 1 
Juneau, .... 3 
Jefferson, .... 4 
Kenosha, . . . .10 
Kewaunee, .... 1 
Lafayette; 1 
Monroe, . . . .3 
Marathon, . . .2 
Outagmie, . . .8 
Pierce, .... 2 
Pepin, . . . . 1 
Portage, . . . 1 
Racine, .... 5 
Richland, . . . 1 
Sheboygan, . . .5 
St. Croix, . . .3 
Shawano, . . . 1 
Sauk, . . . . 1 
Vernon, . . . 1 
Walworth, . . .8 
Waukesha, . . .7 
Washington, . . 2 
Waupaca, . . .2 
There are in the State fourteen counties in which homoeopathy 
is not represented, or only by domestic practice. 
11 The Wisconsin State Homoeopathic Medical Society " was 
organized in 1858 ; re-organized in 1865. It is now in a thriving 
condition. 
The State legislature passed an act, in the spring of 1867, 
giving to this society the same rights as are given to others. HOMOEOPATHY IN ALABAMA* 
The history of homoeopathy in Alabama is very meagre. 
Homoeopathy has not made as rapid progress in the South gen- 
erally, as in the East, West, and North. This is by no means 
owing to the less successful treatment of disease, but partly to 
the existing prejudices, which are augmented and riveted by an 
influential and very jealous allopathic fraternity, who spare no 
effort to choke the giant in his infancy. These prejudices are 
such as cannot be easily removed. Some of the better informed 
and more independent people have employed homoeopathic treat- 
ment, and are firm advocates of it. Many more have heard favor- 
able reports of it, but the majority ridicule it, are afraid of it, 
and would scorn to use it. 
What they know is little and unfavorable, it having been 
learned from sources which would be apt to misrepresent the 
truth. Other grave obstacles, and the poverty of the South 
since the war, and the present depressed condition of business, 
many old-school practitioners who had partly retired and lived 
on their plantations have been forced again into practice. These 
have, as a rule, gone into the cities, and being generally related 
and identified with the most prominent families, their influence 
is great. Many are afraid of these influential practitioners and 
would not rouse their ire or hurt their feelings; nor do they 
wish to expose themselves to the odium inevitable in pursuing 
an independent course. In view of the above facts it is plain 
that as regards practitioners and patrons, homoeopathy is yet in 
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its infancy in Alabama, but it is slowly and steadily growing in 
favor with the people. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Alabama by a layman who 
practiced in Montgomery about 1843. In 1845 two German 
physicians, Drs. Ulrich and Schafer, began practice in Mont- 
gomery. The history of their success is said to be as follows : 
Their first experience was among the plantation hands, the white 
people probably being afraid to place themselves under their 
care. The typhoid fever was prevailing and every patient 
treated allopathically died ; but as soon as the treatment was 
changed to homoeopathic no more deaths occurred. This intro- 
duced the new system and gave the two homoeopathists a good 
start. 
In the year 1850 there were practicing in Montgomery, Drs. 
Ulrich, Albright, J. H. Henry, and McEntire. In 1856 Dr. 
Charles Geiger was added to the number. In 1857 Dr. J. H. 
Henry went to Selma, where he is still in practice. Dr. Ulrich 
left his practice to his nephew, Dr. Albright, and went to Texas, 
where he remained until his death. Dr. Albright continued in 
Montgomery until about a year ago, when he went to Florida 
and died soon after. He left his practice in Montgomery in the 
hands of Dr. E. S. Byron, who came to that city in 1859, and is 
at present the only homoeopathic practitioner in the city. He 
has a large practice, but it is unremunerative. 
In 1847 Dr. R. Angell began practice in Huntsville. In 
1853 he associated himself with Dr. A. R. Burritt; in 1855 he 
removed to New Orleans. Dr. Burritt still practices in Hunts- 
ville, where he is our only representative. 
The homoeopathic pioneer in Mobile was Dr. G. W. Belden, 
in 1846. He left in about a year for want of patronage and 
in search of a more congenial field of labor. In 1849 Dr. 
George Lingen, a German, located in Mobile. By patient per- 
severance and successful treatment of his cases he finally over- 
came the opposition and opprobrium and obtained a lucrative 
business. He died of yellow fever in 1868, leaving many friends 
and admirers. Of his contemporaries there remain Drs. J. Cragin 
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about twenty years ago and has practiced ever since; the latter, 
a native of this city, has practiced about ten years. One Dr. 
Mandeville practiced in Mobile a few years and returned to the 
North. 
Dr. Innerarity, a native of Scotland, and a physician of some 
celebrity, became converted to homoeopathy and practiced it 
several years in Mobile. He died about 1868-69. 
Dr. F. G. Hunt came to Mobile after the war, in 1867, and 
though an able physician, he met with a great deal of slander, 
even from his brother physicians, and he determined to quit; he 
left and died soon after in St. Louis. In the beginning of 1873 
Dr. F. F. de Derkey came to Mobile, which already had two 
representatives. 
Great credit is due to W. Rutherford, an amateur homoeopa- 
thist, who formerly resided in Mobile, for propagating homoeop- 
athy. He was cured by Dr. Mandeville of a disease which 
had baffled the skill of the most prominent allopathic practi- 
tioners. He became enthusiastic, read theory and praotice, 
studied our Materia Medica, practiced on animals, and gradually 
experimented on his friends with success. He finally obtained 
quite a respectable clientage. 
Within the last year a homoeopathic physician has settled in 
Opelika, a flourishing town in Central Alabama. 
There are, at present, in the State of Alabama, only seven 
practitioners of our school: Mobile has three ; Montgomery, 
one; Selma, one; Huntsville, one; and Opelika, one. Some of 
the flourishing towns and cities of the State seem to offei' fair 
openings for homoeopathic practitioners, e. g., Athens, Birming- 
ham, Rome, Decatur, Tuskaloosa, Tuskegee, Greenville, etc. 
The climate of the State is charming, the salubrity unexcep- 
tionable, generally free from prevailing epidemic diseases, with 
the exception of occasional visitations of yellow fever, which 
frightens and drives away newcomers who are not natives of 
the South. 
For the treatment of yellow fever the people have little faith 
in newcomers or in homoeopathy, alleging of the former inex- 
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not powerful enough. Of course the old-school practitioners do 
their best to foster these notions, although it is well known and 
even acknowledged by some of them that our treatment of this 
disease has been far more successful than theirs. 
In the year 1850 the State legislature passed an act authoriz- 
ing a State Homoeopathic Medical Society, which was accord- 
ingly formed by Drs. Lingen, Angell, Ulrich, Henry, and Al- 
bright. There have been no meetings for many years and the 
society is dead de facto if not de jure. HOMOEOPATHY IN ILL I NO IS A 
The homoeopathic pioneer was Dr. David S. Smith, who, in 
1838, learned something of homoeopathy and procured all the 
English literature then extant upon the subject. He also sup- 
plied himself with a suitable collection of homoeopathic remedies 
with which to test its claims. For four or five years he quietly 
embraced every opportunity to substitute the homoeopathic in 
place of the regular treatment of the sick committed to his care; 
and so satisfactory was his success that the truth of homoeopathy 
throned itself upon his convictions and presented, in his estima- 
tion, immensely superior advantages. He, therefore, proclaimed 
himself a disciple of Hahnemann in 1843, and was then the first 
and only practitioner in the State or even in the Northwest. It 
required a vast amount of courage, as well as a firm attachment 
to principle, to face the opposition he had to encounter. Never- 
theless he fearlessly stood his ground and successfully fought with 
pellets in defiance of the massive pills of his former brethren. 
Several months after Dr. Smith unfurled the banner Dr. R. 
E. W. Adams was induced to come to his assistance, and soon 
after Dr. Aaron Pitney. Both of these gentlemen are now de- 
ceased. They were a creditable acquisition to the homoeopathic 
school. The former was quite distinguished as a scholar and a 
physician. The latter was known as having served his country 
as surgeon in the late war with England. Dr. Smith also in- 
duced Dr. J. F. Temple, now of St. Louis, Dr. A. R. Bartlett, 
now of Aurora, and Dr. E. A. Guilbert, now of Dubuque, to give 
their attention to homoeopathy, and also our learned and talented 
friend Dr. J. S. P. Lord, then settled in Batavia. 
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In 1843 Chicago had less than 10,000 inhabitants; in 1850 
the population was 30,000; in 1860, 120,000; and in 1875, 
500,000 or more. The progress of homoeopathy was as rapid 
as the growth of the city. In 1843 there was but one homoeo- 
pathic physician ; in 1844, three; in 1850, nine; in 1860, fifteen, 
and in 1875, one hundred and fifteen or more. 
From the time that Dr. Smith first announced himself a prac- 
titioner of homoeopathy the secular press of Chicago did much to 
bring the system into notice. Z. Eastman, Esq., editor and pro- 
prietor of the Western Citizen, then one of the leading papers, 
exerted a widespread influence in favor of the cause. And also 
the talented scholar and writer, John L. Scrips, Esq., then editor 
of the Democratic Press, and later editor-in-chief of the Chicago 
Tribune, was ever zealous in supporting homoeopathy, as was, 
also, his co-laborer, Thomas A. Stewart, Esq. The columns of 
these papers were frequently tendered to the writers of the ho- 
moeopathic school, who at times felt themselves called upon to 
defend the faith against the misrepresentations of its opponents, 
and such defence rarely failed. 
Notwithstanding the claim of Chicago to have been the first 
to harbor a representative of homoeopathy in the State, she does 
not wish to eclipse that of other cities and towns to an early rep- 
resentation. More than thirty years ago Dr. Smith induced Dr. 
J. S. P. Lord, then a practitioner of allopathy in Batavia, to 
turn his attention to homoeopathy. He did so, and espoused the 
cause enthusiastically. He introduced the practice into Batavia, 
Geneva, and St. Charles, three very considerable towns on Fox 
River, aggregating more than 10,000 inhabitants. Homoeopathy 
at the present time appears to be in the ascendency in these 
towns, and also in all the region of country surrounding them. 
Dr. J. F. Temple, now of St. Louis, another convert, went to 
Galena, then the most important city in the State. The fruits 
of his faithful labors stand to-day as a monument to his credit. 
Dr. A. R. Bartlett went from Dr. Smith's office to the city of 
Aurora, and now he has four associates, who, with himself, 
monopolize the best practice of the place. And Dr. E. A. Guil- 
bert, now of Dubuque, went to Elgin, a place of 6000 inhabi- 592 
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tants, and quite ready to welcome the new practice, as may be 
inferred from the fact of its present popularity. Dr. Gaily now 
has the wealthiest, most refined, and intelligent classes in Geneva, 
for his patrons. Dr. Yeager has the same in Elgin; and this is 
the good fortune of nearly all the homoeopathic physicians in 
the State. 
In 1853 or 1854 Dr. R. E. W. Adams settled in Springfield, 
the capital of the State, which has a population of 25,000, and 
commenced the practice of homoeopathy. His labors soon began 
to be appreciated by many of the most wealthy and intelligent 
families. After a successful struggle homoeopathy began to gain 
its votaries so rapidly that Dr. Adams required an assistant 
partner. After a brief space another was added, and still an- 
other. Dr. Adams died a few years since, and the field is now 
occupied by four homoeopathic physicians, each in good practice, 
and continually advancing. The increase of homoeopathic patron- 
age in this city has been rapid, and its status to-day is pre-eminent. 
Among its most zealous advocates are the governor, his private 
secretary, the State treasurer, attorney-general, assistant State 
auditor, members of Congress, and several members of the Senate 
and House of Representatives. 
Dr. W. L. Anthony introduced homoeopathic practice into the 
city of Princeton, which has a population of 5000, in the spring 
of 1850. There was at this time but one homoeopathic family 
in the place who preferred this kind of practice, and it was the 
wife in this family who first called the attention of Dr. Anthony to 
her box of little pills, and offered him some to try on his patients. 
This trial convinced him of their superiority, and he abandoned 
allopathy ; and up to the present time he has been in the homoeo- 
pathic practice. He now has an assistant, and both are busily 
employed. 
The city of Peoria contains 30,000 inhabitants. Homoeopathy 
was introduced into this place by Dr. M. Troyer in 1847, after 
having been in allopathic practice for fourteen years. At first 
he found no believers in the system, but, after inducing some of 
his friends to try it, it began to spread. In 1849 or 1850 the 
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in its treatment that the intelligent and thinking portion of the 
people began to look upon the system with favor. There are 
now six practitioners, and all have good business and excellent 
success. 
The cities of Quincy, Freeport, Alton, Belvidere, and Rock- 
ford, have each witnessed a rapid increase in homoeopathic prac- 
tice for nearly a quarter of a century, and the same may be said 
of Bloomington, Lincoln, and many smaller towns, as well as 
of the country around all these places. There are in the State 
about 500 homoeopathic physicians, whose names are registered 
in Dr. T. S. Hoyne's State Directory. Most, if not all of them, 
are successfully employed ; and the present status of homoeopathy 
in the State, wholly attained in thirty-five years, is truly remark- 
able, and the cause is still advancing. 
The Illinois State Homoeopathic Association meets annually 
for the transaction of business relating to the various departments 
of medicine and surgery. It has about 200 members. In point 
of respectable standing and influence, as well as of learning, the 
homoeopathic school compares favorably with any other frater- 
nity. The season for strife and animosity between the old and 
new school has nearly passed away, and a spirit of greater toler- 
ation prevails. 
After the great fire of October, 1871, when Chicago was laid 
in ashes, the physicians of both schools seemed to find no diffi- 
culty in fraternizing for the public good, and shoulder to shoulder 
each worked together in harmony, looking after the sick among 
the homeless sufferers, while the homoeopathic school was fully 
represented in the Sanitary Board. Amidst the devastation, ruin, 
and distress, it was pleasant to find that old animosities had 
burned out, and that old school and new school could confer 
together and devise measures of relief for the needy and dis- 
tressed. This was as it should always be. The interests of 
science never can be promoted by other than liberal and kindly 
feelings by all, however conflicting may be their views of thera- 
peutics. HOMOEOPATHY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA* 
The first homoeopathic physician who settled in the District of 
Colombia was Dr. J. B. Piper, a student of Dr. McManus, of 
Baltimore. He came to Washington in 1844. 
In 1858 there were four homoeopathic physicians. 
In 1866 Dr. T. S. Verdi established the Homoeopathic Med- 
ical Dispensary of Washington, the first medical dispensary 
organized in the city. 
In 1870 the Washington Homoeopathic Medical Society was 
incorporated by a special act of Congress, granting it all the 
rights and privileges allowed to the Medical Society (allopathic) 
of the District of Columbia; the corporators named in said act 
being Drs. T. S. Verdi, Gustave W. Pope, C. W. Sonnenschmidt, 
E. S. Kimball, and Jehu Brainard. Dr. T. S. Verdi became the 
first President of that Society. 
In 1871 President U. S. Grant appointed Dr. T. S. Verdi a 
member of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia. 
This board appointed the same gentleman its secretary and 
health officer of the District of Columbia, in which capacity he 
served two years. In 1875 the Board of Health elected him its 
president, and in 1876 he was re-elected. 
In 1873 Henry D. Cooke, Governor of the Territory of the 
District of Columbia, appointed Dr. T. S. Verdi Special Sanitary 
Commissioner to the principal cities of Europe for the purpose of 
investigating their sanitary laws and regulations, with the view 
of obtaining information to assist in perfecting a sanitary system 
for the District of Columbia. 
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In 1879 President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed Dr. T. S. 
Verdi a member of the National Board of Health. 
Dr. T. S. Verdi was also appointed Medieal Examiner for 
Pensions, by General Baker, Commissioner of Pensions, which 
Dr. Verdi declined to accept on account of holding another com- 
mission from the General Government. 
There are now twenty-five homoeopathic physicians in the 
District of Columbia. 
Previous to the granting by Congress of the charter to the 
Washington Homoeopathic Medical Society, homoeopathic physi- 
cians were not recognized in the courts in suits for the collection 
of bills for medical services rendered. Now, homoeopathic phy- 
sicians enjoy all the rights and privileges of citizens. The strug- 
gle has been a severe one, but homoeopathy has conquered. HOMOEOPATHY IN TENNESSEE* 
The first practitioner of homoeopathy in the State, so far as we 
have any knowledge, was Dr. Philip Harsh, who removed from 
Cincinnati, where he had learned something of the new system 
from Dr. Pulte, and located in Nashville about the year 1844. 
He was a graduate of the University of Giessen, Germany, and 
emigrated to the United States about the year 1825. He resided 
for some years in Cincinnati. 
His practice in Nashville was not strictly homoeopathic, but 
considerably eclectic. He devoted the last years of his life to 
mercantile and agricultural pursuits, and died from injuries re- 
ceived by the overturning of his buggy at his home, near Nash- 
ville, in the year 1870. 
The next practitioner in the State was George Kellogg, M.D., 
originally from New York, who came to Nashville in 1853. 
During the year and a half which he spent in Tennessee he 
was quite successful in turning many intelligent and influential 
people to the new mode of practice. 
In 1855 Henry Sheffield, M.D., located in Nashville and J. 
A. Williams, M.D., in Memphis. 
The former has continued in the same field down to the present 
time, practicing with much success. The latter did a good work 
at Memphis down to the time of his death, a few years since. 
The pioneers of homoeopathy in East Tennessee were S. Salt- 
marsh, M.D., and J. H. Morgan, M.D., who located in Knox- 
ville, respectively, in the years 1867 and 1868, and E. H. Price, 
M.D., who located at Chattanooga in 1869. 
From the beginnings mentioned the new practice has spread, 
till it now flourishes in every important town in the State. 
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The better to show its growth a list of the practitioners now in 
the field is here submitted : 
Nashville.-Drs. J. P. Dake, W. C. Dake, C. R. Doran, T. E. 
Enloe, H. Falk, R. M. Lytle, H. Sheffield. 
Memphis.-Drs. J. R. Allen, S. Bell, W. A. Edmonds, W. D. 
Gentry, W. Hewitt, L. D. Morse, S. J. Quinsby. 
Chattanooga.-Drs. E. S. Fraer, D. G. Curtis, E. H. Price. 
Knoxville.-Drs. J. H. Morgan, S. Saltmarsh, H. Tydeman. 
Columbia.-Dr. E. R. Smith. 
Jackson.-Dr. J. W. Buddeke. 
Trenton.-Dr. R. A. Hicks. 
Sweetwater.-Dr. W. G. Mackenzie. 
Clarksville.-Dr. J. H. Billings. 
Hollow Rock.-Dr. H. B. Sashlee. 
Camden.-Dr. J. Hudson. 
An account of societies and legislation will be given under the 
proper headings. 
In conclusion it may be stated that the progress of homoeopa- 
thy in Tennessee is both rapid and sure. 
Its practitioners are educated men, comparing favorably with 
their associates abroad and their opponents at home. 
Its patrons, as elsewhere, are among the most enlightened and 
cultivated of the people. 
Its power is felt all over the State. HOMCEOPATHY IN MISSOURI* 
The pioneer of homoeopathy in the trans-Mississippi country 
.crossed the " father of waters" in 1844, and settled in St. Louis, 
then a city of 40,000 inhabitants, now a metropolis of half a 
million souls. 
The name of this well-known pioneer, long since a distin- 
guished college professor, and now almost an octogenarian, is John 
T. Temple, A.M., M.D., a Virginia gentleman of the old school, 
a truly good as well as great man, known among us here as the 
"Nestor of homoeopathy" and the "old man eloquent," and a 
native of King William County, Va., with a classical and col- 
legiate education obtained at Lexington, Va. He graduated in 
medicine in 1824 at the University of Maryland, having been a 
private student of Dr. George McClellan, of Philadelphia. 
He practiced medicine in Washington, D. C., till 1833, at 
which time he moved West, and located in Chicago, HL, then a 
frontier post called Fort Dearborn, merely a stockade, with one 
hundred men, Major Whistler in command. 
In 1843 Dr. Temple became a convert to homoeopathy, and in 
1844 he came to St. Louis via Galena, HL, and the Mississippi 
River. He is still in active office-practice, though enfeebled by 
age; has been Dean of the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Missouri since its origin, a flourishing institution, and assisted 
in founding it in 1857; has always been Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics in the same, and, during the annual 
-course of lectures, delivers three lectures per week on this most 
important branch. 
Homoeopathy was first embraced in St. Louis by the intelli- 
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gent and learned, and spread rapidly from one family, who were 
from Cincinnati, patients of the now venerable Dr. J. II. Pulte, 
of that city. 
At the close of the course of lectures of that year in the St. 
Louis Medical College (old school), the valedictorian on the part 
of the faculty, Dr. J. B. Johnson, Professor of Theory and 
Practice, took occasion to attack homoeopathy in his address and 
to vilify it fiercely, with the view of crushing it out at once 
while in its infancy in the West. The sequel shows that he 
succeeded about as well as Oliver Wendell Holmes did in Bos- 
ton about the same time, when he declared, in a public address, 
that he had slain and buried homoeopathy forever upon its arrival 
on our shores. 
Dr. Temple prepared an exhaustive article in answer to the 
learned professor of medicine, who still survives, and occupies 
the same chair in the same college. 
At that time there were two medical journals published in St. 
Louis, and both refused to publish Dr. Temple's article in answer 
to Professor Johnson. He then applied to the city papers, but 
such was the hostility of public sentiment at that time that they 
also refused him publication. But the doctor, determined on being 
heard and vindicated, then published his answer in pamphlet 
form at his own expense, and had it distributed gratuitously 
throughout the city. He now says: 
" I consider that publication the first grand impulse to the 
progress of homoeopathy in St. Louis. All classes then tried it. 
The chief obstacle, as everywhere, was prejudice, and that in- 
augurated by the profession, was kept alive by ridicule." 
In July, 1848, he established the Southwestern Homoeopathic 
Journal, and, single-handed and alone, kept it in existence for 
two years, at which time he went to California, where he re- 
mained two years. 
Since that time he has often contributed valuable articles to 
the current medical literature of the day, many of which have 
been copied into foreign journals. He has been a member of the 
American Institute for many years, and was always a willing and 
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tediousness of physical labor. Nevertheless his pen is never 
silent but a few months at a time even at this advanced age. 
In 1846 Dr. Spaulding moved to St. Louis from Flatbush, 
N. Y. He died in two years of consumption. He was a man 
of fine attainments and an excellent physician, a convert from 
allopathy. 
Same year (1846) Dr. Ira Vail came from Kentucky; a fine 
physician, but was obliged to leave suddenly ; he went to New 
Orleans, got a large practice, and died in a few years. 
In 1847 Dr. Granger came from New York; he only stayed 
a few years (two or three), made a good deal of money, went 
back to New York, and began loaning money. 
In the year 1849 came Dr. T. J. Vastine from Pennsylva- 
nia, near Harrisburg. He was an educated gentleman, a prac- 
tical, successful physician, made money and won friends to the 
system; became a professor in the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Missouri. He died in 1872, greatly mourned, respected, 
and honored. He left his family in fine circumstances; his son, 
Dr. Charles Vastine, succeeds him in his practice. 
In 1846 came Dr. J. D. Steinestel from Germany, a university 
graduate, an accomplished scholar and most excellent physician. 
He got directly into a large practice, but died in 1849 of cholera, 
universally mourned. 
In the same year also came Drs. Houghton and Hough, 
partners, from Tennessee. Hough died of consumption the fol- 
lowing year, and Houghton removed to New York city in 1853. 
Both were gentlemanly men of education. 
In this year, 1849, Dr. T. G. Comstock graduated at the St. 
Louis Medical College, old school. Soon after he attended lec- 
tures in Philadelphia, and then went abroad, to pursue his 
medical and surgical studies in France and Germany one or two 
years, and after his return to St. Louis began the practice of ho- 
moeopathy. Very soon he became a prominent and leading 
representative of our school, doing much by his practice and 
by his pen to keep up the good work begun, and to advance its 
respectability and popularity. He has long stood deservedly 
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a fortune and a national reputation, second to none in the land. 
He has occupied the different chairs of Obstetrics and Diseases of 
Women in the colleges here, and could do so now if he would 
accept the position. He has been, and is now, one of the chief 
workers in putting homoeopathy here on its present lofty pedestal; 
he is still in the prime of life, and daily engaged in the arduous 
practice of his chosen profession. In 1872 he made a second 
trip to Europe, accompanied by his wife, and every summer 
makes a trip to the seashore, the mountains, or the lakes, for 
recreation. He has probably the largest medical library and 
choicest selection of valuable books of any physician in the 
West. 
From 1849 to 1857 a steady growth was perceptible in ho- 
moeopathy. Still a period of comparative quiet prevailed. 
Dr. Temple returned from California; Drs. Peterson, and 
D. R. Louyters, and Fellerer,-all good men and splendid phy- 
sicians,-appeared as prominent actors in the homoeopathic 
drama, and pushed forward the dissemination of our truths. 
In 1857 Dr. John T. Temple and B. M. Peterson procured a 
charter from the legislature of Missouri for the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri, and the same year Dr. E. C. Frank- 
lin came here from Dubuque, Iowa, and settled in St. Louis. 
Dr. Franklin had made a good reputation in New York, in San 
Francisco, in Panama, and in Iowa, but nothing compared to 
what he has risen to since his arrival here. His fame is now co- 
extensive with the luminous rays of Hahnemann's brilliant discov- 
eries, as the chief founder, teacher, and acknowledged authority 
in homoeopathic surgery. As an educator, as an operator, as a 
scholar, as a lecturer on surgery, he is without a peer, and none 
have contributed more towards raising homoeopathic surgery to 
its present proud position, which is no less lofty and dazzling than 
it has stood for centuries among the faculties of the old school. 
His whole career illustrates the active brain of the true Amer- 
ican, born with lofty impulses in a free land. 
A native of Long Island, and of the best Revolutionary blood.,* 
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he entered college at Hartford, Conn., at the age of fifteen, and 
at twenty he entered the Medical Department of the University 
of New York, a private student of Dr. Valentine Mott, the 
greatest surgeon America ever produced. Receiving his degree 
in 1846, he commenced the practice of allopathy in Williams- 
burg, where he soon became engaged in a controversy with Dr. 
Cox, a homoeopathic physician. 
In 1849 Dr. Franklin went to California, and remained two 
years in San Francisco, and while there held the position of 
Deputy Health Officer of the State of California, and afterwards 
Surgeon in charge of the Marine Hospital. He then went to 
Panama and spent three years, during which time he was ap- 
pointed Surgeon of the Panama Railroad Company Hospital. 
His health failing from continued attacks of Panama fever, he 
returned to New York, and the fact of being cured by homoeo- 
pathic remedies after other medicines had failed, led him to the 
investigation, and then the adoption, of the system of homoeopa- 
thy. At the age of thirty-two he became a homoeopathist, and 
after a three years' sojourn in Iowa, landed in St. Louis in 1857. 
With such a ripe education and such a round of unexampled 
experience,-embracing a home upon both oceans, and finally in 
the heart of our great continent,-'tis no wonder that his pres- 
ence was early felt in St. Louis, where he still remains, robust in 
health, scarce passed the meridian of life, the ablest expounder of 
our faith and law, a polished genial gentleman, engaged in a 
very large and lucrative practice, and the consulting surgeon for 
all the neighboring towns and cities round about St. Louis. In 
1860 he became connected with the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Missouri, as Demonstrator of Anatomy, and the same year 
carried on a two months' newspaper discussion with Professor 
Linton, of the St. Louis Medical College, entitled " Medical Sci- 
ence and Common Sense," which did credit to his facile pen, and 
gained hosts of friends to .him and to homoeopathy. In 1861 he 
entered the United States Army as surgeon, and soon became 
brigade surgeon of volunteers. In 1862 he was appointed Profes- 
sor of Surgery in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, but 
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Chair of Surgery in the Homoeopathic College of Missouri, a 
position which he still holds. 
In 1867 he published his well-known work on The Science and 
Art of Surgery, which is now' a textbook in all our colleges. 
The same year he was offered the Chair of Surgery in the New 
York Homoeopathic College, but declined, preferring to remain 
at St. Louis and with the St. Louis College. In 1871 Dr. 
Franklin was appointed Surgeon of the Good Samaritan Hos- 
pital, a position he still holds. He is at present (1876) Presi- 
dent of the Western Academy of Homoeopathy, and Vice-Presi- 
dent of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
In 1858 Dr. William Tod Helmuth-another man who has 
since won a national reputation-came to St. Louis from Phila- 
delphia, where he was born, in 1833. At twenty years of age he 
graduated in medicine at the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, anol in two years thereafter was Professor of An- 
atomy in the same college, which position he held till he came 
West. In 1855 he published a work entitled Surgery, and its 
Adaptation to Homoeopathic Practice, a late new edition of which 
is a large, handsome volume, much improved, and is a textbook 
in all our homoeopathic colleges. In 1859, the St Louis Ho- 
moeopathic College organized under the charter of 1857, and Dr. 
Helmuth was appointed to the s^me chair (Anatomy) he had held 
in Philadelphia, and was also elected Registrar of the Faculty ; 
he held the same chair until 1865, at which time he took the Chair 
of Theory and Practice, and C. H. Nibdung, M.D., filled the 
anatomical chair during the year 1868. Having attained to the 
highest position in his profession here, he went to Europe, where 
he was cordially received by his transatlantic brethren. On 
his return to St. Louis there were disagreements in the Faculty 
of the College, and in 1869 he lent his name to aid in the estab- 
lishment of a new medical school, to be called " The St. Louis 
College of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons." In this new 
school he filled the Chair of Surgery till 1870, at which time he 
received and accepted a call to the Chair of Surgery in the New 
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that city, where he now resides, the occupant of the same surgical 
chair. 
He was by nature and education a physician, and by peculiar 
talents a surgeon of high order. By his pleasant address and 
suave manners, he made a greater and more lasting impression 
on this community than any of his contemporaries, and he has left 
a name that will never be forgotten. 
He was an active worker in the college and out, and, as a lec- 
turer, he possessed the rare faculty of imparting knowledge 
lucidly and forcibly, and was greatly beloved by the students. 
In 1864 he originated the Western Homoeopathic Observer, a 
monthly medical journal, and conducted it successfully for some 
years up to the time he went to New York. He was ah earnest 
writer, and his articles are found in various other journals be- 
sicfts his own. His pen was never idle, and his voice was ever 
ready to speak a good word for homoeopathy. His departure for 
New York was signalized by a banquet given him by his friends, 
and a gift of a set of solid silver service. He possessed many 
admirable qualities, personally and socially, which endeared him 
to his patients, and made him a warm friend, and he has left an 
imprint here we all feel to-day. 
The next important event in the history of homoeopathy in St. 
Louis occurred on the 15th of February, 1861, which consisted 
in the trial and expulsion of Dr. G. S. Walker from the St. Louis 
Medical Society (old school). This was done for the alleged 
heresy of practicing the quackery of homoeopathy. 
Dr. Walker lived in St. Louis, had practiced medicine nine 
years and had won a fair position for his scholarly attainments and 
scientific tastes. He was a native of Western Pennsylvania, at 
first a graduate of Jefferson College, Canonsburg, and afterwards, 
in 1852, of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He 
came here the same year well prepared to practice his profession. 
The story of his conversion to homoeopathy is like that of many 
others. Being a man of progress and a student of nature, in 
search of more light and truth, he in 1864 embraced homoeop- 
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and expelled from the St. Louis Medical Society by his former 
friends and associates. 
The trial was something bitter, fierce, and most unrelenting; 
the whole community became aroused, everybody taking sides 
-doctors and laymen-and there was a rocking to and fro of 
the opposing elements, and society felt it in every family. Dr. 
Walker made his own defence in a carefully prepared paper, 
which appeared in the daily prints at the time, and in the medical 
journals. In his defence he showed himself master of his pro- 
fession. He gave a graphic account of his own life, of how he 
came to abandon the teachings of the fathers and to wander after 
new gods until he came to homoeopathy, then a brief history of 
homoeopathy itself; he made a brilliant exposure of the absurdi- 
ties and crudities, the follies and failures of old physic, and dwelt 
upon its dark, doubtful and devious ways; he opened an enfilad- 
ing fire on all its superciliousness and empty pomposities that 
had almost disgraced the centuries, and finally closed his mem- 
orable defence with that surpassing fervor and power known 
only in the defence of Paul before King Agrippa. 
In JMay of the same year (1861) Dr. Walker went into the 
United States Army as surgeon of volunteers, where he re- 
mained two years. Returning in 1863 he went into private 
practice, and in 1864 was appointed Professor of Obstetrics in 
the Homoeopathic College, which position he filled faithfully and 
well for six years; since which time he has declined college 
honors, but is engaged in an extensive practice, second to none 
in the city. His memorable trial and defence made his reputa- 
tion and fortune, and added another laurel to the homoeopathic 
crown in Missouri. 
Upon the gifts and deeds of these five great men-four of 
whom are still in our midst-I have dwelt at length, viz., John 
T. Temple, T. G. Comstock, E. C. Franklin, W. T. Helmuth, 
and G. S. Walker, because they belong, par excellence, to the 
history of homoeopathy in its gigantic struggle in the West, and 
especially in the great State of Missouri. She is indebted to them 
for the proud position homoeopathy holds to-day within her wide 
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rect in facts that did not recount the labors and trials, the con- 
flicts and victories so valiantly won, and whose benefits we shall 
feel to the remotest posterity. 
There are now upwards of forty homoeopathic physicians in 
St. Louis in good standing, all graduates; there are some others 
who seem unable to cope with their chosen profession. 
Some of our physicians are devoting their skill to specialties, 
and already with marked success and flattering prospects. I 
allude to Drs. J. A. Campbell, oculist and aurist; J. Martin 
Kershaw, mental and nervous diseases; S. B. Parsons, surgery; 
D. R. Luyties, diseases of children; N. D. Tirrell, diseases of 
the chest. 
Dr. Parsons has been Professor of Anatomy in one of the 
homoeopathic colleges in St. Louis; is a graduate of the Chicago 
College; has many warm friends among the profession, who 
consider him good authority in surgery. He has just been elected 
President of the Western Academy of Homoeopathy, which holds 
its next annual session at Indianapolis, Ind. 
Dr. Kershaw is a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Missouri, and has held the Chair of Mental and Nervous 
Diseases for six years, and now, in addition thereto, has the Pro- 
fessorship of the Materia Medica of the New Remedies. He is 
a popular and forcible lecturer, and full of that enthusiasm which 
leads to success. He is Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the 
College and Secretary of the Western Academy of Homoeopathy. 
Pie has furnished several valuable and learned papers to the ho- 
moeopathic literature of the day touching his specialty, and his 
reputation in nervous complaints is gradually extending to the 
surrounding cities. 
Dr. J. A. Campbell is a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Missouri, class of 1868-69, and carried off the Valedic- 
tory and the Chemistry Silver Prize Medal. Was afterwards 
appointed Professor of Chemistry, which position he occupied two 
sessions. He soon conceived a desire for the specialty of eye and 
ear diseases, and accordingly embarked for Europe in the spring 
of 1872. He visited the hospitals of England, Ireland, and Scot- 
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to Berlin, where he spent six months with the Berlin Faculty; 
then went to Dresden, thence to Prague, and on to Vienna, where, 
in the great Allgemein Hospital, he spent five months under the 
most celebrated lecturers in all Germany. 
He then returned to Paris the second time and attended the 
cliniques of the great Wecker, then back to London, always re- 
ceiving instruction from the chief oculists and aurists in whatever 
city' he sojourned. After a year and a half's absence he returned 
to St. Louis, and immediately went to work on his specialty. 
He now holds the appointment of Oculist and Aurist to the 
Good Samaritan Hospital, is Chairman of the Bureau of Ophthal- 
mology and Otology in the.Western Academy of Homoeopathy, 
and is in charge of the eye and ear clinic at the hospital dispensary, 
lecturing twice a week to the students during the sessions. Up 
to the time of his adopting the specialty we were compelled to 
patronize the old-school specialists and submit to their tender 
mercies. 
The surpassing advantage which the homoeopathic specialists 
have over those of the old school, can only be appreciated by those 
who have had the opportunity of comparing the results obtained. 
Wherever the science of medicine is most highly developed, and 
the healing art most cultivated, there is the tendency to specialties 
the most pronounced; and there it is in keeping with this fact, 
that the principal support which a specialist receives is from the 
most scientific and best educated in our ranks. 
They recognize the fact that it is impossible for any one man 
to master the whole science of modern medicine and surgery in 
the short space of one lifetime, and hence it is that those of infe- 
rior attainments and skill continue, as of old, to be doctor and 
surgeon, oculist and aurist, dentist and druggist-ad infinitum 
et ad nauseam-all in one and nothing in either. 
Throughout the great Commonwealth of Missouri there are 
now settled nearly one hundred and fifty homoeopathic physi- 
cians, all doing good work. Thus in the short period from 1844 
to 1876 has the protecting banner of homoeopathy been success- 
fully carried to all parts of our State, and its benign influences 
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golden harvest is perpetually ripening, inviting and welcoming 
more reapers to the field. 
Hannibal.-The second place in Missouri to embrace homoeop- 
athy was Hannibal. 
It was introduced in 1856 by Dr. William Curran, a native 
of Kentucky. He was formerly a shoemaker, a man of strong 
natural endowments, but of no literary or scientific acquirements. 
By his strong common sense and clear judgment, through the 
study of some of the earlier works of our school, he was enabled 
to grasp in a degree the doctrines of Hahnemann, and in the 
course of his practice here, extending to 1865, he had built up a 
considerable business, and placed homoeopathy upon a substantial 
basis. His patronage was among all classes. " Since that time 
(I now quote from Dr. W. D. Foster, who furnished me these 
data) our practice has steadily progressed, until now we count 
amongst our patrons at least one-third of the tax-paying popula- 
tion. If all succeeding physicians had been as correct and care- 
ful prescribers as the whilom shoemaker, homoeopathy would 
have a more solid foundation than it at present possesses. 
Dr. Curran is at present living in St. Louis, and is, probably, 
hopelessly insane. He had a partner here-Dr. Arnold-a 
short time, who soon went away to some State north of us. 
In 1863 Dr. G. B. Birch, a graduate of the Cincinnati Eclectic 
Medical College, came here, and soon after began the use of ho- 
moeopathic remedies, finally becoming a Hahnemannian; he 
achieved a large success, travelled abroad, and died in India in 
1873, while on a tour around the world. 
In 1865 Dr. John Fee came from Quincy, Illinois, stayed a 
few months and left for Macon, Missouri. About the same time 
Dr. Joseph Lafon, an original allopath, moved into town from 
the country, and has since used our remedies to the great satisfac- 
tion of the community. He is now practically superannuated. 
In the same year came Dr. W. D. Foster from the army. He 
has built up a large practice, and shown the people that our 
ranks contain surgeons of ability as well as successful practi- 
tioners of medicine. He still remains and is one of the leading 
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ment of the faculty, he delivered a short course of lectures on 
the " Diseases of the Thorax," in the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Missouri, at St. Louis. Although engaged in general 
practice he devotes special attention to surgical diseases. 
Dr. E. F. M. Hurlburt moved to Hannibal from New York, 
but after a residence of two years went farther west, and is now 
in St. Joseph, Missouri. Another bird of passage was Dr. 
Patchen, and then afterwards Dr. Hansom. 
In 1872 Dr. William Collisson and Dr. C. Lowry, both good 
men, moved in ; the former from Illinois, the latter from New 
York. Both purchased property, and have established them- 
selves well, and are doing a nice business. 
Mrs. Schmidt, a very worthy German woman, came several 
years ago and still remains. 
The present condition and prospects of the system are very 
flattering. 
Our medical staff consists of Drs. Collisson, Lowry, Foster, 
and Mrs. Schmidt, and twenty-five of the old school. 
The Mississippi Valley Medical Association was established 
here December 17th, 1873, Dr. William Collisson, President, 
Dr. J. Moore, Quincy, Illinois, Vice-President, Dr. C. Lowry, 
Secretary and Treasurer; it is composed of Missouri and Illinois 
physicians, but not limited to any locality or State; meets semi- 
annually. Present officers: C. Lowry, President; O. H. Cran- 
dal, Vice-President; W. D. Foster, Secretary and Treasurer." 
St. Joseph.-In 1856, same year as in Hannibal, homoeopathy 
appeared in St. Joseph, brought by a German named Dr. Walk- 
enbarth. He had a fair education and a good reputation among 
the few who employed him, his patrons being of a good class, 
both of Germans and natives. He moved to St. Louis in 1868. 
In the year he left, Dr. Fleniken moved in and died during the 
year of typhoid fever. In the spring of 1859 Dr. Talcott, from 
Racine, Wisconsin, located here and stayed until 1861, when he 
went to Quincy, Illinois, and was succeeded by Dr. H. Bradley. 
Also in 1859 located here Dr. Dunham, who remained but one 
year. 
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owing principally, if not wholly, to the short stay of its expo- 
nents. 
Dr. Bradley is a graduate of the Cleveland Homoeopathic Col- 
lege, and has remained here since 1861, with the exception of 
one year's absence in Philadelphia, and has a large practice. 
Dr. W. G. Hall attended lectures in Philadelphia and Cleve- 
land, and graduated at the latter place in 1857. He moved here 
from Quincy, Illinois, in 1865, and has been in active practice 
since that time, his business increasing from year to year. 
In the spring of 1869 Dr. E. T. M. Hurlburt moved to St. 
Joseph from Hannibal, Missouri, and remained till the spring of 
1872 ; is now in California. 
In 1873 there came among us, from New York city, Dr. H. 
W. Westover, a graduate both of the Chicago and New York 
Homoeopathic Colleges, and is still here, with a fair prospect 
ahead. There are three of us here now, viz., H. Bradley, W. 
G. Hall, and H. W. Westover, and upwards of thirty old-school 
doctors to antagonize us. Prospects of the system are excellent, 
and we are all prospering and extending our business. 
As to specialties, Dr. Hall does something in the way of uter- 
ine diseases, and Dr. Westover hopes to do something as an 
oculist and aurist, but the field is not ripe for doing much in any 
special branch of the profession. 
Kansas City.-In 1859, three years after homoeopathy gained 
a foothold in Hannibal and St. Joseph, a young man came West, 
crossed the Mississippi River, traversed the entire width of our 
State, and " pitched his tent in the wilderness " of Kansas City, 
the largest frontier town of the Commonwealth, situated on the 
right bank of the Missouri River, and now containing a popula- 
tion of forty thousand, possessing all the appliances that wealth 
and culture bring to modern civilization. 
This young man's name was Dr. Joshua Thorn, an American 
by birth and education, having good attainments, literary and 
medical, a graduate of the Philadelphia Homoeopathic College, 
and a successful physician. Dr. Thorn still remains, though re- 
tired from the active practice of his profession. 
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duced, nevertheless the patronage increased slowly, by reason of 
the non-progressive character of the people. At present it has 
a very respectable position in this community. Our principal 
patronage, however, is amongst people of Northern and Eastern 
birth. It is a well-known fact, that natives of the Southern 
States have prejudices against homoeopathy that are very diffi- 
cult to overcome. They are eminently conservative and possess 
many admirable qualities in many ways, but they cling to old 
customs and to old ways, and hesitate long before embracing the 
new. All who have practiced homoeopathy in the South have 
witnessed it and felt it. During; the war Dr. Thorn had charge 
of an army hospital located for a time in Kansas City. 
Six years after Dr. Thorn's settling here Dr. J. Feld, a grad- 
uate of the University of Michigan, cast his lot here. Dr. Feld 
still remains, and has established a pharmacy in connection with 
his practice. In 1868 two more physicians arrived, Dr. P. 
Baker and Dr. Charles Baker. Both remain and are doing well, 
gradually breaking down the barriers of the opposition. 
In 1870 Dr. W. H. Jenney settled in Kansas City and is the 
most prominent and influential homoeopathic physician here. He 
is a thoroughgoing, active laborer in the vineyard and believes 
in organization to push forward the cause. He was elected Re- 
cording Secretary of the Missouri Institute of Homoeopathy, a 
State society, organized May 10th, 1876, at Sedalia. 
In 1873 Dr. James Lilly, a graduate of the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, New York, came to this city. He was an 
old gentleman of fine attainments-had been a clergyman-and 
died in 1875. Same year Dr. J. C. Cummings, an allopathic 
physician of prominence, embraced homoeopathy.. He is now in 
St. Louis, and has the Chair of Clinical Medicine in the Homoe- 
opathic Medical College of Missouri. He is a gentleman of 
talent and education. In 1874 Dr. McCallister joined us-a 
very worthy man. 
Dr. Feld makes diseases of women and obstetrics somewhat of 
a specialty, is very successful ; Dr. Jenney, surgical diseases and 
diseases of the eye and ear; he pursued the study of the latter in 
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used the very highest potencies, was very successful. None of the 
specialties, however, have been carried out to the full extent. 
The present condition of homceopathy in this Western metropo- 
lis of our State is good and prospects flattering. Number of old- 
school physicians about ninety. 
Hartford.-The fourth place that homoeopathy became known 
in Missouri was on its northern frontier, in Hartford, Putnam 
County, adjoining the State of Iowa. It was practiced in that 
region only one year and a half from 1860; and I here quote 
from a typical letter, written by a graduate of Albany Medical 
College, residing there, in order that all may know the status of 
allopathy in a large portion of our State, and the field of labor 
that awaits the coming homoeopath : 
" Captain Holt, a sea-captain, introduced homoeopathy here in 
1860. He commanded a packet ship from Liverpool to New 
York ; studied for his own fun while on board ship ; left the sea 
in 1860, and came West and began practice here. He was an 
American; character good; had good success. Remained about 
eighteen months. When he left, homoeopathy went down and 
no regular homoeopathist has been here since. All classes, gen- 
erally the better, employed him. Don't know of a homoeopathic 
physician in this or any of the adjoining counties. Dr. Holt 
returned to New York city ; graduated at the New York Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College; practiced in that city; made a fortune, 
retired, and settled in Centreville, Iowa, a gentleman of leisure. 
" I graduated twenty-two years ago; have studied homoeopathy 
five years; am training my boys to be homoeopaths, but am too 
old myself to learn new tricks. I treat chronic diseases with 
homoeopathic remedies ; success good. There are graduates of 
medicine here who can scarcely write their own name. First thing 
needed here is the schoolmaster; after that homoeopathy is the 
natural thing. The legions of doctors hereaway are making a fine 
harvest for some future homoeopath." 
Lexington.-This is one of the oldest and most delightful 
towns in our State; has about 10,000 inhabitants; is situated on 
the south bank of the Missouri River, 350 miles above its mouth, 
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The position of homoeopathy here I got from Dr. Peter Temple, 
brother to the venerable Professor Temple, of St. Lonis. I make 
the following extracts from his letter to me: 
"This was a large slaveholding district, and the first settlers 
were from Kentucky and Virginia, and they and their descend- 
ants are slow in breaking away from the old-school practice. 
Your circular is at hand, and I am sorry to say my answers will 
be very unsatisfactory, as I lived in the country when I first 
moved to this county. 
"The first homoeopathic medicine given in this county was by 
my wife in 1847, from a case given her by my brother, Dr. 
John T. Temple, with Epps's Practice. She being an uncom- 
promising advocate of the system practiced on our children when 
sick, and the neighbors seeing the good effect of her treatment 
soon got medicine for their children, and soon she had quite a 
celebrity for doctoring children and others. 
"I am a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. In 
1861 I graduated in the Homoeopathic Medical College of St. 
Louis, and moved into town same year. Between 1854 and 1860 
there had been several homoeopathic physicians, mostly Germans, 
located here, but none of them stayed long enough to make any 
impression on the community. When I came I found a Dr.Wil- 
liams practicing, but he was more frequently found elsewhere 
than in his office. He left very soon, and, notwithstanding the 
prejudice and opposition there was to homoeopathy, I got a very 
good practice before long. 
" Being favorably known by the citizens generally as an allo- 
pathic physician formerly, I gained access to many families whose 
doors would have been otherwise shut against me. In a few 
years I had as large a practice, if not the largest, in the place; 
in fact more than I could do justice to in my feeble state of 
health. 
" My son, Dr. J. R. Temple, a graduate of the St. Louis 
Homoeopathic College, became my partner in 1867, and con- 
tinued up to his death, in March, 1871. During his life we had 
a large practice, and put homoeopathy on a firm basis. The ad- 
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citizens. After the death of my son I associated with me Dr.G. 
W. Barker. The copartnership was dissolved in 1873, and since 
that time we have occupied separate offices, and are both still 
practicing, and have our share of the practice in this commu- 
nity, where there are eight representatives of the opposition 
school." 
Sedalia.-This is a thriving city of 10,000 inhabitants, situ- 
ated in the interior of our State, in the midst of beautiful, undu- 
lating prairies, so characteristic of Missouri. It is a railroad 
centre, and quite a manufacturing place. From this place Dr. 
D. T. Abell sends me the following report, of interest to our 
historical researches: 
" This is one of the many towns where our system has had a 
severe and trying struggle for ' dear life,' and, like many others, 
has suffered much at the hands of her friends. The fight has 
been a bitter one, every inch of ground being strongly contested 
by the enemy, among whom are some of the most intelligent 
physicians in the allopathic ranks. In June, 1863, Dr. Charles 
Hutawa, a Polander, moved from St. Louis here, and began the 
practice of homoeopathy, and although he had passed his three- 
score years and ten, and infirm from age, he was, nevertheless, an 
accomplished gentleman and a thorough scholar, a graduate of 
the University of Berlin. 
"He was a physician of vast experience, having served as sur- 
geon in the army, both in Europe and America, and, at one 
time, one of the ablest defenders of the dogmas of the old school. 
During his residence in Prussia, it is said of him, that he con- 
ducted a long and bitter controversy through the press with 
Hahnemann. It cannot be said that Dr. Hutawa succeeded in 
gaining a large practice, but he built well the foundation for us, 
who, stronger in body, yet weaker in mind, were to follow him. 
His practice was confined chiefly to the German-speaking popu- 
lation, and to some extent among the more intelligent Americans; 
although eighty-four years of age, he did not fail to gain the 
respect, confidence, and friendship of all who knew him. 
" He continued in active practice, visiting patients up to within 
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February, 1873, at the remarkable age of ninety-four years, 
probably the oldest practitioner on the American continent at 
the time of his death. In 1867 Dr. Daniel White came here from 
St. Louis, remained a few months, and went away. In 1873 he 
returned and made another short stay ; is now in St. Louis; 
would have done well here. In 1869 Dr. M. V. B. Shattock 
moved to Sedalia, and, although he failed to affiliate with Dr. 
Hutawa, not being a graduate of medicine, he was a successful phy- 
sician. In 1874 he exchanged his practice with Dr. A. C. Jones, 
and moved to Carthage, Mo., where he died the following year. 
il Dr. Jones proved to be incompetent, and left after a year's 
residence, to try some other community. In 1873 I moved to 
Sedalia from Darlington, Wis., and opened an office; am a gradu- 
ate of the Philadelphia Homoeopathic College, class of 1860; can't 
say that our physicians had any specialties worth mentioning. 
Homoeopathy to-day has a position in this city that can never 
be supplanted, notwithstanding there are sixteen strong men 
fighting on the other side. We are constantly adding converts 
to our ranks, and have the pleasure of selecting from the better 
class of society." 
Warrensburg.-In 1864 homoeopathy was introduced and 
practiced here by Dr. Tyson. He was a very estimable gentle- 
man, and for his chances, an excellent physician. His character 
was good, attainments and success fair under the circumstances 
of being an old man,-not a graduate,-moved into town from a 
farm in the country ; was formerly from Indiana, and originally a 
hydropath. He became a practitioner of medicine by force of 
circumstances during the war. 
The physicians all being gone, he was called in to see his 
neighbors, and thus gradually became regularly engaged in prac- 
tice. He still remains. The patrons of homoeopathy are gener- 
ally of the better class, and chiefly people from the East, who 
have moved in here since the war. 
The practice progressed slowly at first, owing to the fact that 
Dr. Tyson was not a regularly educated physician. 
At present fully one-half of the community are patrons of ho- 
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In 1868 or 1869, a German homoeopath moved here, but re- 
mained only a few months. In August, 1871, Dr. W. L. Hedges 
came here from Girard, Ill., and remains at the present time. 
He is an educated physician, a gentleman, and a good citizen. 
Has a large business, and is a very successful practitioner. He 
makes a specialty of gynaecology and paedology, and has many 
warm and influential friends among the best class. The future 
prospects of our system at this point are cheering. Number of 
old-school physicians, twelve; homoeopaths, Tyson and Hedges. 
Springfield.-Springfield is the principal city in Southwest 
Missouri; population, 7000; is a distributing depot for a large 
number of populous counties in that region. 
Homoeopathy was intrduced here in 1865, by a graduate of 
the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. W. A. 
Hyde, a gentleman of excellent attainments, and a fine physi- 
cian. He now has a fine large practice. He moved from 
Rochester, Minn., and is still the only representative of our 
school in Springfield. He practiced the old system ten years be- 
fore embracing homoeopathy. " The best class of society took 
hold of our practice here from the first, a fact proverbial all the 
world over. It progressed slowly but steadily, continuing to gain 
ground every year. The main barriers in the way were preju- 
dice on the part of the people, and opposition from allopathic 
doctors." Besides Dr. Hyde there have been but three others, 
Dr. Thompson, an old man, now dead, Dr. J. W. Weis, who 
practiced here a few years, and one other, now forgotten. Pres- 
ent condition and prospects of homoeopathy very good. The 
breastworks of the enemy having given way, there will be no 
trouble from this on in this community worth mentioning. The 
battle was long and hard fought, but a large amount of the preju- 
dice amongst the populace is now overcome, and there is fair 
sailing ahead. Ten years ago there were twenty old-school phy- 
sicians here; now only twelve, a fact speaking for itself. 
So far as I am able to learn, homoeopathy is growing and get- 
ting good hold in most of the towns in Southwestern Missouri, 
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immigration to this country is doing a great deal towards dissem- 
inating homoeopathy. 
Boonville.-This is a city of 5000 inhabitants, situated on the 
Missouri River, south bank, about the centre of the State, a rich 
old-settled town. 
Homoeopathy was introduced here by Dr. Moore, time when, 
not stated. In 1865 Dr. D. D. Miles settled here and met a rather 
cool reception. He has since made many friends for himself and 
for the cause, and is now reaping the rewards of merit through 
an extensive practice. He is a modest, retiring gentleman, but 
firm and forcible, and an excellent physician. 
He is Vice-President of the " Missouri Institute of Homoeop- 
athy." A State organization was effected this current year, May 
10th, at the city of Sedalia, which will hold annual meetings at 
different places throughout the State, as may be determined upon 
from time to time. 
In 1872 or 1873, Dr. C. J. Burgher moved to Boonville, and 
already ranks well, and is a prospering physician. The pros- 
pects of homoeopathy here are reported by Dr. Miles to be flat- 
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Homoeopathy was introduced into Texas in April, 1848, by 
Dr. Henry C. Parker, of Mississippi, who located in Houston. 
In the year 1853 Dr. E. H. Blake was converted to homceop- 
athy. He had practiced allopathy in Washington County since 
1846. In 1855 he removed to Houston, and formed a co-part- 
nership with Dr. Parker, who soon after, on account of declining 
health, retired from practice for a time. Dr. E. H. Blake was 
joined by his son, Dr. J. II. Blake, in 1870. 
The above named are all practicing in Houston at present. 
Galveston.-Homoeopathy was introduced into this city in the 
year 1850 by Dr. J. R. Brown, of New York. In 1852 he 
received into co-partnership Dr. Richard L. Bryan, a native of 
Brazil. Dr. Bryan died of yellow fever in 1853, and Dr. Brown 
of the same disease, in 1854. 
In December, 1854, Dr. James Angell, of Mississippi, began 
practice in Galveston. He had visited this city nine years previous, 
and had treated some patients, and was at the time investigat- 
ing homoeopathy, but had not yet adopted it. He was joined by 
his son, Dr. E. P. Angell, in July, 1867, who remained until 
January, 1876, when he removed to Chambers County, Texas. 
Dr. Royer came to Galveston from San Antonio in 1865, and 
died of sequelae of yellow fever in 1867. 
Dr. J. H. Koers has practiced in this city since 1865. 
Dr. Ulrich, of Alabama, came to Galveston in 1867, and died 
of yellow fever in the epidemic of the same year. 
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Dr. W. AI. Mercer located in Galveston in October, 1868, 
where he has practiced ever since. 
Dr. C. F. Springer, the latest accession in Galveston, removed 
hither from Washington County in April, 1873. 
San Antonio.-Dr. E. L. Beaumont of this place is one of the 
homoeopathic pioneers in this State. He received into co-part- 
nership Dr. C. E. Fisher, of Kansas, in 1875. 
Dr. G. R. Parsons, of Illinois, settled in San Antonio in Jan- 
uary, 1876. 
Dr. Slocum of this place has retired from practice. 
Lavaca County, Huntsville.-Dr. Friederick practiced in 
this place from about 1858 till his death, about three years ago. 
Austin.-Dr. P. P. Cluff, formerly of Hainsburgh, Texas, has 
practiced in this city several years. 
Dr. G. E. Routh, of Illinois, located in Austin in 1875. 
Brenham.-Dr. H. F. Pahl, who practiced in Washington 
County several years, is now in this place. 
Dr. C. T. Miller, of Illinois, settled in Brenham in 1875. 
Dallas.-D. Rivera has practiced here several years, and Dr. 
W. S. Lee since the beginning of 1874. 
Denison.-Dr. G. W. Williams has been in practice in this 
place several years. 
Sherman.-Dr. F. Mussina, of Illinois, located here in 1875. 
Waco.-Dr. Fountain Jones, from the West, settled in this 
place early in 1874. 
Palestine.-Dr. W. W. Wilson, of Mississippi, has recently 
located here. 
The State Homoeopathic Medical Association is the only ho- 
moeopathic society in the State. It was organized in 1874, and 
has fourteen members. We have no hospital, dispensary, 
pharmacy, college, or journal. 
The legal status is at present unsettled. A suit in which two 
homoeopathic physicians are the plaintiffs, is now pending in the 
Supreme Court. It was decided in favor of the homoeopathists 
in the lower court under the old law. In the meantime a new 
constitution has been adopted by the people, in which there is a 
clause as follows: 620 
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" The legislature may pass laws prescribing the qualifications 
of medical practitioners, and to punish persons for malpractice, 
but no preference shall ever be given by law to any schools of 
medicine." 
This clause was incorporated, no doubt, by the influence of 
the homoeopathic physicians in self-defence against the attempts 
of the allopathists to obtain exclusive privileges through the 
legislature. 
The homoeopathic practitioners throughout the State enjoy a 
good measure of public confidence for professional success. HOMOEOPATHY IN CALIFORNIAN 
Among the adventurers who went to California at the time of 
the discovery of gold, was Dr. Ober, who was the first homoeo- 
pathic physician who emigrated to California. 
He arrived in San Francisco July 3d, 1849, where he resided 
until his death, which occurred May 13th, 1867, aged sixty-one 
years. He was a graduate of the New York University, was 
highly respected, and was evidently in advance of the age in 
which he lived. 
Several other homoeopathic physicians soon emigrated to the 
State, and settled mostly in San Francisco and Sacramento. As 
they practiced singly and alone, each for himself, without any 
organization, whatever history might be written would be a his- 
tory of individuals only, and not of homoeopathy. 
At this date the number and distribution of homoeopathic 
practitioners in the State of California, with the population of 
the cities occupied by them, are approximately as follows: 
Population. 
No. of Practitioners. 
San Francisco, . 
. 275,000 
25 
Oakland, 
. 25,000 
8 
Sacramento, 
. 16,000 
2 
San Jose, 
15,000 
4 
Stockton, 
. 10,000 
2 
Los Angeles, 
10,000 
4 
Grass Valley, 
8,000 
2 
Santa Barbara, . 
4,500 
2 
San Diego, 
4,000 
1 
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Population. 
No. of Practitioners 
Petaluma, .... 
4,000 
1 
Watsonville, 
4,000 
1 
Napa, .... 
3,000 
1 
San Luis Obispo, 
. . . 
1 
Gilroy, 
2,500 
1 
San Bernardino, 
4,000 
1 
Santa Rosa, 
2,500 
2 
A full account of societies, institutions, legislation, etc., is 
given in their proper section. HOMCEOPATIIY IN MINNESOTA* 
The history of homoeopathy in Minnesota dates farther back 
than the history of the State itself. When still a territory of 
about six thousand inhabitants representatives of our school ap- 
peared upon the scene, and from that day to this We may recount 
a growth and development fully keeping pace With the rapid 
progress of the State. As might be truly said, in all America 
the centennial dawns upon no science or art which has made 
more remarkable progress than that of homoeopathy. So of our 
State, no gain has been more rapid and permanent than that of 
our cause. 
Against the opposing forces of ignorance, jealousy, hatred, 
professional stupidity, falsehood, "and all such uncharitable- 
ness," the simple truths of our system have steadily advanced, 
until our members feel their footing is secure, and until they 
stand recognized by the leading citizens of the State as the surest 
and safest guides in matters pertaining to physical health. 
So far as we can learn, the first practitioner of homoeopathy 
within the borders of the present State was a Dr. Sperry, who 
arrived in St. Paul in 1852. He remained but a few months, 
and we have no information as to his subsequent history. 
In 1854 Dr. George T. Hadfield settled in St. Paul, and con- 
tinued in practice until 1859, when he removed to Cincinnati, 
where, it is said, he still remains. 
In the same year Dr. E. A. Boyd, from the State of Maine, 
was in St. Paul for a few months, and afterwards settled in Little 
Canada, five miles to the north. In same year Dr. Nichols 
settled in Northfield. 
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In the following year Dr. H.Wedelstsedt opened an office in St. 
Paul, and has since that time devoted himself closely to his pro- 
fession, and, true to his conservatism, has remained in the same 
office until the present time. 
In this year also (1855) John C. Merrill, M.D., a nephew 
of Dr. Boyd, also settled in St. Paul, remaining for about two 
years, and then returned to his home in the East. He is spoken 
of as a man of unusual talent, and an accomplished surgeon. 
In 1856 T. C. Bunting, M.D., located in St. Paul, and prac- 
ticed about two years. In this year also William A. Penniman, 
M.D., commenced practice in St. Anthony, and two years later 
removed to the'west side (Minneapolis), where he remained in 
successful practice until 1870, when, health failing, he retired 
from business, and died in 1872. He was a graduate of Jeffer- 
son Medical College, Philadelphia, and practiced in Pittsburg, 
Pa., according to the tenets of the old school, until 1849, when 
he became a convert to homoeopathy, and soon afterward re- 
moved to the West. Through a successful practice and the rise 
in value of real estate he accumulated a handsome fortune, which 
it was his purpose should be partly used for the benefit of the 
cause of homoeopathy. His will, appropriating $30,000 for a 
homoeopathic hospital, was, through an informality, set aside, 
and thus his benevolent objects were defeated. He was highly 
respected by a large circle of friends, and was of great value to 
the cause of homoeopathy. 
Also in this year J. N. Wheat, M.D., settled in Austin, Mower 
County, where he has continued in successful practice until now, 
having seen the whole growth of the present flourishing town. 
In 1857 a Dr. Dunham came to St. Paul, and, after practicing 
two years, returned to the State of New York. 
In 1858 the State received P. L. Hatch, M.D., from Dubuque, 
Iowa, and Dr. A. G. Dornberg from Pennsylvania. 
The former settled in Minneapolis, where he has since been, 
except two years' absence in California, on account of the health 
of his family, engaged in extensive practice. 
The latter settled in Mankato, where he is still actively en- 
gaged, though in the seventy-sixth year of his age. HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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Dr. T. C. Schell, from New York, and William C. Caine, 
M.D., of Ohio, settled in St. Paul in 1859. Dr. Schell has since 
that time been constantly engaged in the practice of his profes- 
sion. Dr. Caine was a graduate of the Cleveland College, prac- 
ticed several years in Ravenna, Ohio, and in 1859 came to Min- 
nesota, on account of laryngeal and pulmonary disease. He soon 
commenced practice in St. Paul, and, though feeble in health, 
gained a large patronage, which he successfully maintained until 
overcome by disease. He died in 1868. 
In the same year William H. Leonard, M.D., commenced 
practice in Minneapolis, where he still remains one of the lead- 
ing practitioners of the place. 
In 1860 Dr. Adams, of St. Louis, took up his residence in St. 
Paul, but on account of ill-health remained but a few months. 
Dr. E. Lathrop settled in Farmington in the same year. 
In 1861 C. D. Williams, M.D., gave up his practice in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, and removed to St. Paul, entering into partnership 
with Dr. Caine. Fie is still engaged in his profession. 
Dr. C. S. Weber settled in St. Cloud in 1862, and has since 
been our principal representative in that portion of the State. 
He has also carried on a pharmacy in connection with his prac- 
tice. 
Dr. R. Whiteman and T. A. Pierce came to the State in 1863, 
the former settling in Anoka, and the latter in Winona. Both 
remain in their respective places. Dr. Nichols removed from 
Northfield to Faribault. 
In 1864 Dr. Messenger located in Owatonna, and a few years 
after left on account of ill-health. 
A. L. Dornberg, M.D., son of A. J. Dornberg, commenced 
practice with his father, in Mankato, in 1865. Both are still 
occupying the field. 
The following five physicians came to the State in 1866 : 
Dr. Beach settled in Faribault. 
Dr. J. M. Westfall in Rochester. 
Dr. J. G. Whittmore in Glenwood. 
J. G. Gilchrist, M.D., in Owatonna, from whence, in 1872, he 
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C. G. Higbee, M.D., settled in Red Wing, where he remained 
in successful practice until 1873. 
In 1867 came four others, as follows: 
John B. Hall, M.D., from Cleveland, Ohio, settled in Shako- 
pee, where he remained two years. 
D. M. Goodwin, M.D., of Vermont, and T. R. Huntington, 
M.D., of Michigan,settled in Minneapolis. Both engaged in suc- 
cessful practice, which the former continues, the latter having 
died in March, 1873. 
Dr. T. R. Huntington was also a graduate of Jefferson Med- 
ical College, Philadelphia. In 1867 he removed from Kala- 
mazoo, Mich., and settled in Minneapolis, where, through his 
excellent social qualities and his professional qualifications, he 
succeeded well. He was in the prime of life and success when 
he was seized with sudden illness, and died in March, 1873. As 
one of the leaders in all the enterprises connected with our pro- 
fession, Dr. Huntington was generally foremost. 
Dr. Skeels came to Minnesota in 1869, on account of advanced 
pulmonary disease. He rapidly improved in health, settled in 
Northfield, and for three years had a very extensive practice, 
which gradually impaired his health until he died, in May, 1872. 
He was an educated and skilful physician, and had great 
influence in making known and popularizing our system of prac- 
tice. 
James T. Alley, M.D., of New York city, settled in St. Paul, 
where he is still in practice. 
The following year A. E. Higbee, M.D., D. Beckwith, M.D., 
and J. M. De Witt, M.D., located in the State. The first settled 
in Red Wing, continuing there, in active practice, until 1875. 
The second went to Rochester, where he continued until 1871. 
In 1868 Dr. De Witt relinquished his extensive practice in St. 
Louis, Mo., and came to this State on account of his health. He 
remained in Minneapolis for about two years, long enough to 
secure the esteem and affection of all who knew him, when his 
pulmonary disease increased so rapidly that he left for his former 
home in Illinois, where he died in 1870. Through ill-health 
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outside of his adopted city, but his friends will long remember 
him, not only for his professional accomplishments, but for those 
moral qualities which are indispensable to the high standing of 
our profession. 
Also in this year Dr. Avery removed to Faribault. Now in 
Winona. Dr. Beach left Faribault; present location not known. 
In 1869 Dr. Haslam settled in Chatfield, Dr. J. S. Bell in 
Rochester, Dr. O. Bird in Duluth, where he remained two years, 
and Dr. Hall removed from Shakopee to St. Paul, where he 
continued in practice until the summer of 1875, when he was 
compelled to relinquish it on account of ill-health. 
The following settled in the State in 1870 : 
Robert Store, a student from Germany, in St. Paul, Dr. P. G. 
Denninger in Egota, Drs. Richter in Hastings, Timmons, 
in Winona, Cooley in Faribault, and G. N. Saunders, in 
Dodge Centre. 
Otis M. Humphrey, M.D., from Boston, settled in Minne- 
apolis, where he is still in extensive practice. 
E. W. Avery, M.D., an accomplished physician, settled in 
Mankato about this time, but as he has since left for the East 
the dates are not obtainable. 
In 1871 D. H. Roberts, M.D., settled in Owatonna, and Dr. 
Carl Wiegman and Dr. Edward Walther in St. Paul. Dr. 
Wiegman has since removed from the State. The others remain 
in their respective places of settlement. 
The following year six names were added to the roll. Audu- 
bon received Dr. C. A. Lampannis; Eitchfield, J. S. Bell, M.D.; 
Spring Valley, C. H. Wagoner, M.D.; and Minneapolis, C. W. 
Putnam, M.D., P. Nelson, M.D., and G. T. Flanders, M.D. 
Dr. Bell left Litchfield in 1873, and Dr. Flanders removed to 
Florida in 1875. Others are still found as recorded. 
In 1873 Dr. C. A. Wright located at Howard Lake, Dr. H. 
F. Kilgore at Pleasant Grove, and C. G. Higbee, M.D., removed 
from Red Wing to St. Paul. 
In 1874 Henry Hutchinson, M.D., settled in Northfield, 
Woodward, M.D., in Cannon Falls, C. E. May, M.D., and E. 
J. Foster, M.D., in Minneapolis, and C. L. Gates, an under- 
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For 1875 we have as follows : Dr. J. E. Hull in Unadilla, Dr 
L. J. Foster in Litchfield, Galen Allen, M.D., in Red Wing, E. 
H. Grannis, M.D., in Chatfield, and the removal of A. E. 
Higbee, M.D., from Red Wing to St. Paul. In this year, also, 
Dr. Hall, of Zumbrota, being convinced by facts, changed his 
practice from the old school to homoeopathy. 
This, so far as the committee are informed, completes our list 
as to the order of time. Several other physicians are practicing 
in the State who, though written to repeatedly, have made no 
response, and nothing is known of their qualifications. Added 
to these are quite a number of lay practitioners, who have been 
and still are using our remedies very extensively. Most prom- 
inent among these has been Rev. Father Clement Staub, of St. 
Paul; although, until the past year, occupying the highest posi- 
tion in the German Catholic Church, he has yet found time to 
prescribe for hundreds every year, mainly those who were in 
reduced circumstances, for whom he has labored gratuitously. 
The members of our school have not been officious in putting 
themselves forward for public positions. Quite a number in the 
State have held the office of city and county physicians, exam- 
iners for pensions, etc. Dr. William H. Leonard was, about a 
year since, appointed by Governor C. K. Davis as one of the 
members of the Board of Health, and Governor Austin, his pre- 
decessor, expressed a willingness to have given our school an 
equal representation with the old school, had the matter been 
brought to his attention sufficiently early. 
Finally, as to the general condition of homoeopathy in our 
State, your committee have pleasure in reporting a steady and 
rapid progress in the past, a healthy and honorable condition for 
the present, and a future full of bright promise that our cause 
will continue to occupy the position which its merits demand. 
Excepting a few who came to the State at an early day, most of 
our physicians are furnished with the best credentials of a med- 
ical education ; are at least equal in moral standing to those of 
the old school, and are daily better appreciating the advantages 
which arise from a broad general culture, as the foundation of 
their professional education. HOMOEOPATHY IN NEBRASKA* 
To Dr. A. S. Wright, now of Santa Rosa, California, belongs 
the honor of introducing homoeopathy into Nebraska, while it was 
yet a territory. He came to Omaha from Indianapolis, Indiana, 
where he had previously practiced, in the spring of 1862, and at 
once resumed his practice here, meeting, as usual, with strong 
opposition from the ever-opposing school of medicine. But 
being a perfect gentleman, possessed of character, and under- 
standing well the law of " similia similibus curantur," he soon 
commanded their respect and obtained some of the best and 
wealthiest citizens in Omaha for his patrons, and ere long had a 
good paying practice. He remained in Omaha until May, 1874, 
when, on account of ill-health, he moved to his present field of 
labor in California. 
Dr. Wright remained the sole representative of homoeopathy 
in the State until the spring of 1866, when Drs. J. H. Way and 
Hemingway located at Nebraska City as partners. They, too, 
soon rose above the strong opposition there, and advanced the 
standard of homoeopathy; but their partnership was of short du- 
ration, as in the following autumn Dr. Hemingway died. In 
the same autumn Dr. A. M. Smith also came to Nebraska City 
and opened an office; he still remains, but does not devote his 
entire time to the practice of medicine. 
Seward was next taken possession of by Dr. L. Walker, 
December 1st, 1867 ; he still holds the field, where he has suc- 
ceeded in building up a good practice which extends for miles 
into the country. 
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In May, 1868, Omaha gained another advocate in Dr. W. H. 
H. Sisson, and on June 28th, same year, Dr. O. S. Wood also 
settled here, where he still remains in practice, enjoying the 
fruits of hard labor. 
In the spring of 1869 Dr. W. A. Burr located in Lincoln, 
the capital of the State, and then a city only two years old. As 
a physician he was successful, but in the spring of 1875 his 
health so far failed him that he was compelled to abandon the 
field and move to one of the Western territories. 
Drs. Marsden and W. J. Earhart, as partners, came to Omaha 
in the fall of 1869 and opened an office, but in a few weeks the 
partnership was dissolved, and Dr. Earhart established himself 
in Fremont. Dr. Marsden remained in Omaha until the next 
spring, when he returned East and located in New Jersey. 
Dr. Saxenburger came in 1871 and located in Omaha, and 
practiced until the summer of 1874, when he left the State. 
In January, 1872, Dr. L. J. Bumstead became the colleague 
of Dr. Burr at Lincoln, where he still remains, and occupies 
the field alone. He has for his patrons the best citizens, and a 
majority of the professors of the State University. 
Dr. Fred. Churchill next located at Grand Island in the sum- 
mer of 1872. He found friends and patrons, and soon had a re- 
munerative practice. But in the early part of 1875 he broke up 
and moved to California, leaving the field unoccupied, greatly 
to the regret of the friends of homoeopathy there and elsewhere. 
In the spring of 1872 Dr. Emlin Lewis, a recent graduate of 
the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, and who had 
pursued his studies with Dr. Sisson, of Omaha, located at Pa- 
pillion. 
In the summer of 1872 Dr. G. D. Streeter came to Nebraska 
City and formed a partnership with Dr. J. H. Way. In the 
October following Dr. E. F. Hoyt came to Omaha and formed a 
partnership with Dr. O. S. Wood, which relation continued 
until February, 1874, when it was dissolved. Dr. Hoyt con- 
tinued in Omaha until the coming October, when he moved to 
New York city. 
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and settled at Palmyra, where we presume he is still, although 
he failed, like some others, to answer our call for statistics.* 
On June 25th, 1873, Dr. W. H. H. Sisson, of Omaha, died, 
and in the following month of February Dr. Emlin Lewis left 
Papillion, came to Omaha and took the doctor's office, fixtures, 
etc., and began practice. He remained in Omaha until Septem- 
ber, 1875, when he left and moved to Iowa. 
In the spring of 1873 Dr. A. C. Cowperthwait moved to Ne- 
braska, located at Nebraska City, and united in partnership with 
Drs. Way and Streeter. In the fall succeeding Dr. Streeter 
withdrew from the firm and moved to Quincy, Illinois. A few 
months later Dr. Way was compelled to relinquish practice on 
account of failing health. Subsequently he left Nebraska and 
moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, leaving Dr. Cowper- 
thwait alone to maintain the honor gained for homoeopathy. He 
still remains there, and has built for himself a good name and a 
successful practice. 
Dr. E. T. M. Hurlburt came to the State in the summer of 
1873, and settled in Lincoln, where he soon built up a good 
practice, which continued to grow as long as he remained, but 
in the spring of 1875 he concluded that Lincoln was too lim- 
ited a field for him, and left his good practice and moved to San 
Jose, California. 
Dr. Burglum, fresh from the college in St. Louis, opened his 
office in Omaha in the spring of 1874. 
In October, 1874, Dr. S. C. Case located in Syracuse. 
Dr. Lucy Robinson started in Lincoln in the spring of 1875, 
but remained for a short time only. Her present location is un- 
known to us. 
In March, 1875, Dr. W. J. Earhart left Fremont and re- 
turned to Omaha, and resumed his profession. At the same 
time, as per arrangement with Dr. Earhart, Dr. Burglum left 
Omaha and took Dr. Earhart's office and field of practice at Fre- 
mont, where he still continues. Dr. Earhart remained in Omaha 
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but a short time, and in early summer left the West and re- 
turned to his native city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Some time prior to July, 1875, Dr. F. Hullhorst located at 
Headland. We have had no communication from him, but pre- 
sume he is there yet. 
Some time in the summer of 1875 a German homoeopathic 
physician located at Seward. He is well spoken of, but we are 
unable at this time to learn his name. 
A Mrs. Fox-not a graduate, but quite a successful practi- 
tioner-living in Blair, has practiced there for two or three 
years. 
In April of 1875 Dr. H. C. Jessen came to Omaha and still 
remains. During the present month (December) Dr. W. A. 
Worley has likewise located here, and to him belongs the honor 
of being the last one added to the number of homoeopathic phy- 
sicians who have moved to and settled in Nebraska. 
The whole number of homoeopathic physicians that have set- 
tled in different parts of the State is twenty-six, and of that num- 
ber twelve remain to-day. 
While homoeopathy is not so strongly represented in Nebraska 
as we wish it was, yet it has a firm hold, and it counts among its 
patrons throughout the State very many of the most influential 
and wealthy classes. All through the State, in city and coun- 
try, in the families and with individual friends of homoeopathy, 
are found cases of homoeopathic medicine, and Domestic Homoeo- 
pathic Practice, ready for emergencies of all kinds when no 
homoeopathic physician can be had, and they astonish their allo- 
pathic neighbors with the success they have. 
What we want is good homoeopathic physicians in every town, 
who will remain firm to their post, and success will surely be 
their reward. The inquiry comes to us often from towns 
throughout the State, " Can't you send us a good homoeopathic 
physician to settle here?" HOMEOPATHY IN COLORADOP 
Colorado Territory has a population of about 100,000. 
Homoeopathy in Colorado, when in its infancy, had quite a hard 
struggle. The inhabitants were scattered, and composed almost 
exclusively of miners, among whom homoeopathy is not the pop- 
ular practice at the present time. As nearly as can be ascer- 
tained, homoeopathy was introduced into the territory in the year 
1863, by Dr. Ingersol, who practiced in Denver City five or six 
months. From this date homoeopathy had no representation in 
the territory till October, 1866, when M. L. Scott, M.D., of 
Vermont, located in Denver. He remained till 1868, when 
business relations compelled him to return to his former home. 
During his stay in Denver he established a very good practice. 
In the spring of 1869 Dr. Squires located in Denver, but re- 
mained only a few months. In the fall of the same year (1869) 
Professor A. O. Blair, M.D., of Cleveland, Ohio, came to Den- 
ver, seeking relief from the asthma. He opened an office in one 
of the hotels, and during his stay of three or four months, his ser- 
vices were sought by many. In 1870 M. M. Marix, M.D., from 
Europe, arrived in Denver, who sought relief from chronic bron- 
chitis. In a few days he was followed by A. Walker, M.D., of 
Lowell, Mass., and S. B. Fletcher, M.D., of Chicago, Ill. Dr. 
Fletcher remained in the territory over four years, and spent a 
part of his time in Denver and a part in Central. He returned 
East in June, 1875, and has since died. B. A. Wheeler, M.D., 
of Boone, Iowa, came to Denver in June, 1872; J. M. Walker, 
M.D., of Winchester, Ill., in March, 1873; U. S. Clark, M.D., 
of Iowa, in March, 1873 (now in Boulder, Col.); A. Miller, 
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M.D., of Chicago, Ill., in May, 1873 (returned to Chicago, July, 
1875); S. T. Bowne, M.D., of New York, in May, 1875. Un- 
til 1871 Denver was the only city in the territory in which ho- 
moeopathy was represented. Since that time it has been intro- 
duced by competent physicians into every town of importance in 
the territory. There are at present in the territory eighteen 
homoeopathic physicians, six of whom are in Denver, which has 
a population of 16,000. In 1871 a dispensary was established 
in Denver by Dr. Marix. It was supported by voluntary con- 
tributions from many of the most prominent citizens. It was 
not sustained. Several unsuccessful attempts have been made 
to create a territorial society. The territory has no homoeo- 
pathic literature of its own. The legal status of the two schools is 
the same. The only means for homoeopathic education is in the 
offices of the physicians. HOMOEOPATHY IN IOWA* 
The rise and progress of homoeopathy in Iowa, though, of 
course, subject to the vicissitudes incident to the settlement of a 
new country, has even outstripped the otherwise rapid develop- 
ment of the country. 
During the first decade after Iowa became a State, its success 
was not very marked. The ruling power belonged to the allo- 
pathic school, whose practitioners of course spared no efforts to 
crush the new heresy. They were aided by a people who had 
not yet fully emerged from the habits of a mining population, 
and were wedded to the old methods ; consequently, the homoeo- 
pathic pioneer met with many difficulties, and in many places the 
good seed was wellnigh destroyed by the opposition. 
About the year 1851 the attention of several homoeopathic phy- 
sicians was directed hither, and in due time Dr. Beck located in 
Dubuque, he being the first homoeopathic physician'who settled 
in Iowa. He was a very competent and worthy man, but the 
machinations and plots of the regnant school made it too hot for 
him, and after a trial of two years he left. 
The vacancy made by his exit was very soon filled by the in- 
gress of a number of homoeopathic physicians, among whom 
were not a few who were celebrated fortheir literary and scientific 
attainments, as, for example, Drs. P. L. Hatch and G. J. Wag- 
goner, of Dubuque, Isaac and Zebulon Hollingworth, of Keokuk, 
E. C. Franklin, and E. A. Guilbert. 
By means of such talent the standard of homoeopathy was soon 
elevated, and by rapid strides has now become the peer of the 
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arrogant " regular school." It is, perhaps, not too much to say, 
that at the present time fully one-half of the intelligent people 
of Iowa are devoted to homoeopathy. 
In the connties bordering on the Mississippi River, and nearly 
as far back as the centre of the State, the towns and cities are 
well supplied with good talent, but in the districts farther west, 
excepting a few of the larger cities, there is still a great need of 
courageous men who are willing to do mission work, educate the 
people to appreciate homoeopathy, and breast the difficulties and 
hardships of a country, though beautiful and sparsely settled. 
The following is a list of counties in which homoeopathy has 
not yet obtained a foothold : Audubon, Adair, Adams, Appa- 
noose, Clay, Calhoun, Crawford, Dickinson, Decatur, Davis, 
Emmet, Grundy, Hancock, Ida, Keokuk, Linn, Menona, Osce- 
ola, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Page, Ringgold, Sioux, Sac, Shelby, 
Union, and Winnebago. 
The following is a list of homoeopathic physicians practicing 
in the State of Iowa at the present date: 
Allamakee County.-Dr. J. W. Davis, Lansing; Drs. L. H. 
Barnes and S. Goodwin, Waukon. 
Adams County.-Dr. D. Pittman, Quincy. 
Benton County.-Drs. C. Farrington and W. K. Platt, Vin- 
ton ; Drs. A. H. Burt and A. J. Mund, Belle Plaine. 
Black dawk County.-Drs. J. S. Bell, A. M. Wade, W. 
H. Pettitt, Cedar Falls; Dr. E. P. Triem, LaPorte; Dr. B. 
Banton, Raymond; Drs. J. A. Burt, J. H. Crippen, and S. B. 
Williams, Waterloo. 
Boone County.-Dr. R. M. Huntington, Boone. 
Bremer County.-Dr. L. S. Boyce, Frederica; Drs. D. L. 
Bradford and J. Townsend, Janesville ; Dr. Z. Z. Bryant, Sum- 
ner ; Dr. A. Z. Bryant, Waverly. 
Buchanan County.-Dr. B. F. Taylor, Jessup ; Dr. J. M. 
Price, Buffalo Grove; Drs. E. Brewer, H. H. De Pug, Hobbie, 
and Mrs. Loomis, Independence; Drs. J. Conder and Hast- 
ings, Quasqueton. . 
Butler County.-Dr. G. B. Smith, Arlington ; Dr. S. B. En- 
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Buena Vista County.-Dr. O. L. Crammer, Newell. 
Clayton County.-Dr. A. Kludge, Elkport; Dr. Barthol, 
Guttenburg; Dr. J. Hunt, McGregor; Dr. H. T. Snyder, Mo- 
nona; Dr. W. C. Chase, Yankee. 
Clinton County.-Drs. C. H. Cogswell, Mrs. C. Cogswell, E. 
H. King, S. P. Yeomans, and Mrs. C. Yeomans, Clinton ; Dr. 
J. S. Anderson and M. S. Waggoner, DeWitt; Dr. Hill, Grand 
Mound; Drs. A. O. Blanding and D. A. Towner, Lyons; Dr. 
C. D. Bowers, Low Moor; Dr. L. Walker, Toronto. 
Cedar County.-Drs. S. L. Mix, I. Williams,S. M. Williams, 
Clarence; Drs. N. B. Homan and E. H. Ingraham, Tipton. 
Clark County.-Drs. L. Putnam and E. H. Wilson, Osceola. 
Chickasaw County.-Dr. L. M. Tucker, Nashua ; Dr. A. Bry- 
ant, Bradford; Dr. M. E. Arkills, Fredericksburg; Dr. B. M. 
Dewey, Nashua. 
Cerro Gordo County.-Dr. A. M. Tuttle, Clear Lake; Drs. 
Mrs. D. H. Palmer, G. S. Hill, and E. A. Goodhue, Mason 
City. 
Carroll County.-Dr. Tattee, Carroll. 
Cass County.-Drs. Barnwell, B. A. Wilder, and H. K. Mas- 
comber, Atlantic; Dr. G. W. Burrington, Atlanta; Dr. Rishel, 
Lewis. 
Cherokee County.-Dr. W. E. Bitchard, Cherokee. 
Dallas County.-Dr. C. R. Henderson, Adel; Dr. L. B. 
Hitchcock, Camandree. 
Des Moines County.-Drs. M. Kammamier, L. Hubbard, W. 
H. Parsons, S. E. Nixon, G. H. Patchen, T. Shaver, and W. 
T. Virgin, Burlington. 
Dubuque County.-Drs. R. S. Gee, E. A. Guilbert, S. H. 
Guilbert, R. L. Hill, E. R. Jackson, and S. M. Fowler, Du- 
buque ; Dr. E. Jackson, Epworth. 
Delaware County.-Dr. S. W. Green, Manchester. 
Fayette County.-Dr. F. Becker, Clermont; Dr. J. D. Rust, 
Fayette; Dr. I. J. Phillips, Iconium; Dr. E. A. Crepin, West 
Union. 
Franklin County.-Dr. W. H. Chappell, Hampton; Dr. S.R. 
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Floyd County.-Drs. William M. Palmer and D. E. Mason, 
Charles City ; Dr. T. M. Hubbard, Nova Springs; Dr. W. B. 
Arkills, Rudd. 
Fremont County.-Dr. H. T. Bragg, Hamburg. 
Guthrie County.-Dr. S. B. Kendall, Bear Grove. 
Green County.-Dr. S. C. Collins, Martin. 
Humboldt County.-Dr. A. J. Averill, Rutland. 
Hardin County.-Dr. S. Keshtiemer, Ackley; Dr. G. H. 
Hawes, Alden ; Dr. J. E. King, Eldora; Dr. L. E. Potter, Gil- 
man ; Drs. N. J. Depuy and J. H. Foster, Lower Falls; Dr. H. 
P. Cutler, New Providence; Drs. A. J. Hiserote and A. H. 
Pierson, Union. 
Henry County.-Drs. A. C. Pitcher and L. A. Simons, Mount 
Pleasant. 
Harrison County.-Dr. L. E. Kelley, Magnolia; Dr. A. M. 
Cross, Missouri Valley Junction. 
Howard County.-Drs. H. J. Bowers and Lydia G. Fravel, 
Cresco. 
Hamilton County.-Dr. William Born, Homer. 
Jones County.-Dr. P. B. Bowers, Anamosa. 
Jefferson County.-Drs. G. H. Blair, J. E. King, and Isaac 
Fellows, Fairfield. 
Jasper County.-Dr. J. Knox, Greencastle; Drs. I. Boyle, 
E. M. French, and M. Walker, Newton. 
Johnson County.-Drs. N. Adams, H. B. Button, C. Starr, 
James Blakesley, and Frank Smythe, Iowa City. 
Jackson County.-Dr. S. M. Fowler, La Motte; Drs. A. W. 
Blakesley and C. H. Center, Magnoketa; W. Ward, Monmouth. 
Jowa County.-Dr. G. A. Weber, Homestead ; Drs. H. C. 
Butler and W. M. Eddy, Marengo; Dr. H. O. Bates, Millers- 
burg. 
Kossuth County.-Drs. James Barr and James Eggert, Al- 
gonia. 
Lee County.-Drs. G. N. Seidlitz, W. Bancroft, E. H. Stilson, 
and G. E. Ehinger, Keokuk ; Dr. S. B. Parsons, Fort Madison; 
Dr. W. Whitlock, Franklin Centre; Dr. G. H. O. Halley, 
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Linn County.-Drs. G. E. Cogswell, Mrs. C. Hickcox, P. 
Moore, G. J. Waggoner, Mrs. Harris, and G. Stanley, Cedar 
Rapids; Hrs. J. H. Drake and Davis, Centre Point; Dr. G. 
U. D. White, Lisbon; Drs. H. R. Hindman and W. B. Lillis, 
Marion ; Dr. N. T. F. Peck, Springville. 
Lucas County.-Drs. William Wilson and G. D. Dresser, 
Chariton ; Dr. L. M. Trowbridge, La Grange. 
Monroe County.-Drs. S. M. King and A. Moore, Albia. 
Mahasca County.-'Drs. G. M. Drake, I. A. Lucy, M. Fuller, 
Oscaloosa ; Dr. J. H. Killough, Agricola. 
Mills County.-Dr. AV. W. Barker, Hastings; Dr. Eddy, 
Malvern. 
Marion County.-Drs. R. M. James, B. A. Wilder, and R. 
Kirkpatrick, Knoxville. 
Marshall County.-Drs. L. E. B. Holt and T. D. Rickey, Mar- 
shalltown ; Drs. Hobson and E. D. Whitacre, Liscomb; Dr. T. 
H. AVray, State Centre. 
Mitchell County.-Dr. C. M. Chefer, Mitchell; Dr. H. T. Sny- 
der, Monona; Dr. P. J. Montgomery, Osage; Dr. A. L. Turner, 
Otranto ; Dr. E. T. Atherton, Orchard. 
Muscatine County.-Dr. C. AV. Bennett, Wilton Junction ; Dr. 
L. A. Hallister, AVest Liberty; Drs. P. A. Austin, S. M. Call, 
and H. C. McAllister, Muscatine. 
Montgomery County.--Dr. S. R. Kidder, Red Oak Junction. 
Madison County.-Dr. L. Hillis, Winterset. 
Pottawatomie County.-Drs. AV. D. Hillman, AV. L. Patton, 
T. Jefferies, P. W. Poulson, and J. AV. Cunningham, Council 
Bluffs; Dr. H. S. Knowles, Avoca. 
Polk County.-Drs. AV. H. Dickinson, P. J. Connelly, Mrs. 
E. T. Fletcher, A. O. Hunter, R. Matter, R. M. Stone, and M. 
AV. Waterman, Des Moines. 
Powesheik County.-Dr. Mrs. R. H. Harris, Grinnell. 
Plymouth County.-Drs. S. J. Hill and G. Stanley, La Mars. 
Story County.-Dr. A.Wilson, Ames; Dr. A. J. Marshall, Iowa 
Centre. 
Scott County.-Drs. R. F. Baker, Mrs. AV. M. Porter, H. C. 640 
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Shouse, P. H. Worley, J. Worley, and A. Kuntze, Davenport; 
Dr. P. C. Fintel, Blue Grass. 
Taylor County.-Drs. L. M. Cox and A. H. Van Voorhies, 
Bedford ; Dr. G. W. Humphrey, Plattville; Dr. J. P. Rhodes, 
Siam; Dr. I. Derloth, St. Sebold; Dr. W. A. Miller, Silley. 
Tama County.-Drs. I. H. Fletcher and M. M. Gouster, 
Toledo. 
Van Buren County.-Dr. Steinmeyer, Bonaparte; Drs. T. W. 
Whitlock and S. Griffins, Farmington. 
Washington County.-Drs. Fuller, J. Marshall, and S. Rice, 
Washington ; Dr. A. Whittier, Valley. 
Woodbury County.-Drs. John Bailey, C. L. Hart, Squires, 
and M. Pinkerton, Sioux City. 
Webster County.-Dr. S. B. Olney, Fort Dodge; Dr. A. Flem- 
ing, Lyons's Mills. 
Wappello County.-Drs. W. Hubbard, W. H. Roberts, and 
S. S. Smith, Ottumwa; Dr. E. S. Ward, Dahlonega. 
County.-Dr. T. J. Hunt, Northwood. 
Wayne County.-Dr. A. Whitber, Brighton; Dr. T. W. 
Flowers, Corydon ; Dr. M. V. Loomis, Genoa. 
Winnesheik County.-Dr. J. C. Anderson, Burr Oak; Dr. E. 
Cartwright, Decorah; Dr. R. S. Strong, Hesper. 
Total, 250. HOMEOPATHY IN MASSACHUSETTS* 
The first homoeopathic practitioner in New England was 
Samuel Gregg, M.D. He was born in New Boston, N. H., in 
1799, and received his medical degree from Dartmouth College 
in 1825. He soon after settled in Medford, Mass., and gained a 
■widespread reputation and extensive (allopathic) practice. 
As early as 1833 some members of the family of Thatcher 
Magoun, Esq., of Medford, had experienced the benefits of ho- 
moeopathic treatment in New York. They were, so far as known, 
the first homoeopathic patients in New England. Through them 
the new system became so favorably known to their family phy- 
sician, Dr. Gregg, that in the spring of 1838 he went to New 
York with his oldest daughter, then in an advanced state of con- 
sumption, to consult Dr. F. Vanderburg. Though the patient 
was not cured, the relief was sufficient to warrant a careful investi- 
gation of the new therapeutics, which resulted, as it almost inva- 
riably does when fairly conducted, in their adoption, in April, 
1838. By this change he expected to lose patronage, yet greater 
success soon increased both his reputation and his practice. He 
removed to Boston in November, 1840, where he continued to 
reside, engaged in an extensive practice, till his death, which 
occurred October 24th, 1872, at the age of 73 years. 
Dr. Gregg was a man of unusually independent thought and 
firm convictions. When by actual observation he became con- 
vinced of the truth of homoeopathy, nothing could turn him from 
it, and the remainder of his life was devoted to its advancement. 
He was one of the original members of the homoeopathic fraternity 
* This sketch is prepared principally from the one by Dr. I. T. Talbot, 
and printed in the New England Medical Gazette, March, 1870. 642 
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in 1840, and one of the incorporators of the Massachusetts Ho- 
moeopathic Society in 1856. He was an original member of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy in 1844, and a constant 
attendant at its sessions. He was also one of the founders of the 
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, incorporated in 1855, and 
of the Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary in 1856. A man of 
indomitable energy and with great powers of endurance, he ac- 
complished a vast amount of work during his long life. By his 
many and successful cures he made an impression upon the com- 
munity and the-medical profession greatly to the benefit of ho- 
moeopathy in Massachusetts and New England. 
A few months after the adoption of homoeopathy by Dr. Gregg, 
Dr. Josiah Flagg, of Boston, a graduate of Harvard University, 
began to investigate the subject. He was a man of rarequalities 
of mind and heart. His few years' practice, which failing health 
obliged him to relinquish, was mostly confined to chronic cases, 
of which he had made a record of nearly three hundred cases. A 
dentist, also, by profession, he had made several important improve- 
ments in dental and surgical instruments, and during the ether 
controversy took an active part against the legality of patenting 
that discovery, and its being used as a patent medicine. He 
died suddenly, December 20th, 1853, aged 64 years. 
In 1840, through the influence of his friend, Dr. Flagg, Dr. 
Charles Wild, a graduate of Harvard College, then in active 
practice in Brookline, examined and adopted homoeopathy, which 
he continued to practice in that town with great success till near 
the time of his death, May 3d, 1864. 
In the same year Dr. J. P. Spooner, of Dorchester, became a 
convert, and labored earnestly for the cause. He is still prac- 
ticing in Dorchester. 
These four gentlemen, in December, 1840, came together and 
formed the Homoeopathic Fraternity, which held monthly meet- 
ings, for the instruction and improvement of its members. 
Dr. William W. Cutler, of Boston, joined the fraternity in 
February, 1841, and was its first secretary. He continued in 
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ests with his father, Hon. Pliny Cutler. He is still living, an 
earnest advocate of the cause. 
Dr. Luther Clarke, a graduate of Harvard in 1836, became 
a member of the fraternity at the same time with Dr. Cutler. 
He adopted homoeopathy in June, 1840, and for nearly thirty 
years he has been, and still is, in the active practice of it. 
Dr. William Wesselhoeft was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, in 
1794. He studied medicine at Berlin, Wiirzburg, and Jena, at 
which latter university he graduated in 1820. 
He, together with his brother, Robert Wesselhoeft, Charles 
Beck, Charles Pollen, and others, were prominently involved in the 
political agitations emanating from the German universities, under 
the name of " Burschenschaften." He was incarcerated in Berlin, 
but escaped after four months of imprisonment. He fled to Swit- 
zerland, where already Beck and Follen were teaching at the 
University of Basle. Here he became Demonstrator of Anatomy, 
and lectured on diseases of the eye until 1823, when the Swiss Gov- 
ernment was forced by Prussia to deliver up political offenders. 
He fled to America in 1824. His first place of residence was 
Siegersville, Pa., and in 1827 he removed to Bath, Northampton 
County, where, in 1828, he became convinced, by actual experi- 
ment, of the truth of Hahnemann's discovery.* It is an interest- 
ing fact that his father, a layman, had for several years previous 
importuned his son to experiment with Hahnemann's potencies, 
and had already sent him many books and all the then proved 
medicines; but he could not prevail upon him to have aught to 
do with such evident nonsense as homoeopathy. It was not until 
he heard of the conversion of Dr. Ernst Stapf, whom he esteemed 
as a man of uncommon attainments and purity of character, that 
he thought it worth while to make the experiment. 
The first three experiments proved convincing. He now gave 
all his energies to the study of the homoeopathic Materia Medica 
which, as he said, cost him more labor than all his previous med- 
ical and collateral studies. Through Dr. Stapf, he received sug- 
gestions how to pursue his new studies, which he entered into 
* See " Allentown Academy," Section II. 644 
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with rare enthusiasm ; and occasional cures of chronic maladies 
kept alive in him the hope of becoming a master in the new 
healing art. 
In 1833 Dr. Hering came from Surinam to Philadelphia. 
Two years later, 1835, the North American Academy of Ho- 
moeopathy was established at Allentown, Pa., where Dr. Wessel- 
hoeft taught anatomy, physiology, and surgery. The Academy 
was not, however, a self-sustaining institution; and the disas- 
trous year of 1837 brought ruin to many of its strongest sup- 
porters, so that the enterprise had to be abandoned. Dr. Hering 
removed to Philadelphia, ami in September, 1841, Dr. Wessel- 
hoeft came to Boston, where he continued in a large practice till 
his death, September 1st, 1858. 
About the time that Dr. William Wesselhoeft came to Boston, 
his brother, Dr. Robert Wesselhoeft, settled in Cambridge, where 
he practiced till 1845, when he removed to Boston. The next 
year he established an extensive watercure at Brattleboro, Vt. 
Two attacks of apoplexy compelled him to relinquish his estab- 
lishment in 1851, and he died in Leipzig, November 18th, 1852. 
In December, 1841, Dr. Charles Frederic Hoffendahl came to 
Boston. He was born in Meeklenburg-Strelitz, June 28th, 1798, 
and commenced his medical studies at Berlin, in 1829, having 
served several years on the medical staff of the Austrian army. He 
first learned homoeopathy in Italy from his chief of staff, Dr. 
Schmidt. In 1829 he became the physician to Hermann, Count 
Schwerin, in Mecklenburg. He emigrated to America in 1837, 
living in Philadelphia, and then in Albany, before coming to 
Boston. He continued in active practice till his death, April 
24th, 1862. 
In 1841 Dr. C. M. Weld, of Jamaica Plain, became interested 
in homoeopathy, and joined the fraternity, of which he was secre- 
tary for several years. He had a large and lucrative practice in 
this place until failing health compelled him to retire from it. 
Dr. William Ingalls was born in Newburyport, May 3d, 1769, 
and received his medical degree from Harvard University in 
1794. He was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in Brown 
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1834. Tn 1842 lie became interested in the new science of ho- 
moeopathy, which he investigated witli a zeal seldom found in 
one of his age. His interest continued unabated till his death, 
September 8th, 1851. 
Dr. John A. Tarbell was born in Boston, March 31st, 1810. 
He took the degree of A.B. at Cambridge in 1832, and that of 
M.D. at Bowdoin in 1836. He embraced homoeopathy in 1843. 
He was the author of the Pocket Homoeopathist and Homoeopathy 
Simplified. He edited Epps's Domestic Homoeopathist, and was 
associate editor of the Homoeopathic Quarterly. He died in Bos- 
ton, January 21st, 1864. 
Dr. David Osgood, a man of decided opinions, and belonging 
to a conservative family, adopted homoeopathy in 1846, and con- 
tinued an enthusiastic believer and practitioner till his death, 
February 23d, 1863. 
Dr. David Thayer graduated at Pittsfield in 1843, and at once 
commenced practice in Boston. He began his experiments with 
homoeopathy in 1845, with the usual result, and since 1846 he 
has been practicing it. 
Dr. Hiram L. Chase had his attention directed to homoeopathy in 
1846, soon after he had graduated from the MedicaTSchool of Har- 
vard University. He studied with Dr. Gregg for a time, and then 
settled in Cambridge, where he has since been in active practice. 
Dr. Joseph Birnstill, after having practiced in Worcester three 
years, came to Boston in 1817. He practiced here two years, 
and removed to Newton Corner in 1849, where he had an exten- 
sive practice till he died, February 16th, 1867, aged 56. 
Dr. J. Lloyd Martin practiced for nearly two years in Boston, 
with brilliant success, and then removed to Baltimore in 1849, 
where he has since resided. 
From this time the number of practitioners in and near Bos- 
ton rapidly increased. We find in 1852-. sixteen names of ho- 
moeopathic physicians in Boston; in 1856, nineteen; thirty, in 
1861 ; fifty-two in 1870, and seventy in 1876. 
Medford is the point in New England where homoeopathy first 
found foothold. Upon the removal of Dr. Gregg to Boston, in 
1840, he was succeeded by Dr. Milton Fuller, a graduate of Har- 646 
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vard. Dr. Fuller remained in practice there till 1855, when he 
removed to Boston, where he still resides. 
Dr. Daniel Swan, a graduate of Harvard in 1803, a promi- 
nent practitioner in Medford, adopted homoeopathic practice 
about 1842, and continued it till his death in 1864, at the age 
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of eighty-four. 
In 1855 Dr. A. B. Stone commenced practice here, with bril- 
liant prospects of success, which in a few weeks was suddenly 
and sadly terminated by death. 
Dr. James Hedenberg, of Troy, N. Y., a graduate of Castle- 
ton Medical College, succeeded him, and is still in active prac- 
tice there. 
Dr. Elwell Woodbury succeeded Dr. Fuller, on his removal 
to Boston. He afterwards removed to Chelsea, where failing 
health compelled him to abandon practice. 
Roxbury.-Dr. Horace D. Train graduated from Harvard in 
1846, and in February, 1847, commenced homoeopathic prac- 
tice in Roxbury, now a part of Boston. He continued here till 
1853, when he removed to Sheffield, in the western part of the 
State, where he has since been practicing. 
Dr. Albert Lindsay, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania in 1852, commenced practice here in 
that year. He remained till 1857, when he removed to Laconia, 
N. H., where he still resides. 
Dr. W. F. Jackson graduated from Jefferson Medical College 
iii 1849, and practiced homoeopathy in Gardiner, Me., till, in 
1853, he removed to Roxbury, where he has since been in exten- 
sive practice. 
Dr. J. P. Paine, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania in 1852, practiced a year at Damariscotta, 
Me., then removed to Dedham, where he practiced very success- 
fully ten years, and in 1863 removed to Roxbury, where he is 
still in active practice. 
Dr. J. T. Harris, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, after practicing a considerable time in 
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Andover.-Dr. Francis C. Clark, a graduate of Harvard Med- 
ical College in 1835, introduced the practice of homoeopathy in 
this place in 1840, having received his knowledge of it first from 
New York, and then from Dr. Gregg. He retired from practice 
in 1846, and died at Ballard vale, in 1848. 
Dr. Bruno de Gersdorff, born in Germany, was, at the age of 
four, a patient of Hahnemann, whose success in his case made an 
enthusiast of his father, but did not prevent the son from gradu- 
ating with allopathic opinions from the University of Jena, in 
1846. He came to America that same year. Here he met his 
former allopathic tutor, Dr. Lingen, who was then practicing 
homoeopathy in Mobile, Ala. Through his influence, and that 
of Dr. Hoffendahl, he became a homoeopath, and in 1847 settled 
at Andover. He removed to Salem in May, 1850, and to Bos- 
ton in 1868. 
Lynn.-In 1848 Dr. Daniel A. Johnson, then a recent gradu- 
ate of the Berkshire Medical College, studied with Dr. Gregg, 
and settled in this place, where he acquired an extensive prac- 
tice. In 1854 he removed to Chelsea, where he now resides. 
In 1850 Dr. E. P. Eastman adopted the homoeopathic practice, 
which he continued till 1855. Failing health compelled him to 
abandon practice. In 1854 Dr. J. M. Blaisdell succeeded Dr. 
Johnson. He remained about three years, and removed West, 
but is now practicing in Bangor, Me. In 1858 Dr. F. Horton 
removed hither, from Weare, N. H.; he died March 3d, 1861. 
Drs. B. F. Green and J. Brown practiced here for several years. 
In 1861 Dr. H. Ahlborn removed to Lynn from Marblehead, 
and continued in successful practice till, in 1867, he removed to 
Boston. Drs. A. M. Cushing', C. R. Brown and Martha J. 
Flanders are now in practice here. 
Salem.-One of the earliest practitioners in this city was Dr. 
J. H. Floto, a native of Germany. He graduated at Allentown, 
and after practicing in Pennsylvania for some time, he removed 
to Salem in 1843, and remained here till 1860. He is now prac- 
tising in San Francisco, Cal. 
In May, 1850, Dr. de Gersdorff removed from Andover, and 648 
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had an extensive practice till, in 1868, he removed to Boston, 
where he now resides. 
Dr. Isaac Colby came here in 1851, from Concord,N. H., and 
remained till just before his death, which occurred June 29th, 
1866. 
Dr. John G. Wood graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania in 1852, and came to Salem, where he 
remained in practice till a short time before his death, which oc- 
curred in Philadelphia, April 29th, 1859, in the thirtieth year 
of his age. 
In 1853 Dr. Henry C. Angell began practice here with Dr. 
Ploto. He afterwards engaged in general practice in Lynn, 
but in 1857 removed to Boston, where, since his return from 
Europe, in 1861, he has attended especially to diseases of the 
eye and ear. In 1860 Dr. Shadrach M. Cate, of Augusta, Me., 
succeeded Dr. Floto, and has continued in practice there. 
In 1866 Dr. N. R. Morse removed from Reading ; and in 1868 
Dr. S. H. Worcester came from Gloucester to this place. 
Newburyport.-In April, 1842, Dr. George W. Swazey, a grad- 
uate of the Maine Medical School, settled at Newburyport. He 
had experimented with homoeopathic medicines in Maine, and 
had become a confirmed homoeopathist. He remained here two 
and a half years, and in 1844 removed to Springfield. 
His place was filled for a short time by an Italian physician, 
named Bianchini, who subsequently resided in New Orleans, 
afterwards by lay practitioners. 
In 1850 Dr. Stephen M. Gale, a graduate of Harvard in 
1837, removed to this place from Methuen, where he had prac- 
ticed allopathy. 
In 1866 Dr. E. P. Cummings, and, in 1867, Dr. David Foss 
also came here ; and all of these have been very successful. It 
is estimated that about one-third of the whole practice of the 
city is homoeopathic. 
Lowell.-Homoeopathy was introduced into Lowell by Dr. 
Christian F. Geist, in 1843. Dr. Geist was born in Germany in 
1805. He came to this country in 1835. He was in Allentown 
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in Boston, two years previous to locating in Lowell. He re- 
turned to Boston in 1845, where he continued in active practice 
till his death. 
Dr. Geist was succeeded in Lowell by Dr. Rufus Shackford, 
who in about three years removed to Portland, Me., where he 
now is. 
Dr. Daniel-Holt, a graduate of Yale Medical School in 1835, 
came to Lowell in October, 1845, from Connecticut, where he 
had been practicing allopathy for about ten years. He had then 
just been expelled from the New Haven Medical Association for 
publishing a pamphlet advocating homoeopathy. His success in 
the severe epidemics in 1847-48-49 aided in giving homoeopa- 
thy its present footing in Lowell, where it has about one-third of 
the medical practice of the city. 
The associates of Dr. Holt are Drs. Hiram and Daniel Parker, 
Albert Buswell, A. Thompson, Edmund H. Packer, E. B. Holt, 
and E. B. Aldrich. 
Plymouth.-In 1842 Dr. Robert Capen went from Boston to 
Plymouth, where he practiced with considerable success. Ill 
health compelled him to leave, and Mrs. Mercy B. Jackson was 
frequently called upon to prescribe. She afterward studied and 
received a medical diploma from the New England Female Med- 
ical College. She removed to Boston in 1856, where she now 
resides. Rev. Mr. Tomlinson was in Plymouth for several 
years as a lay practitioner. Dr. Ferdinand Gustav Oehme, a 
graduate of Leipzig in 1852, came to this country in 1856, prac- 
ticed in Concord, N. H., for ten years, and moved to Plymouth 
in 1866. 
New Bedford.-Tn 1841 Dr. Manning B. Roche, a graduate 
of Allentown, Pa., settled in New Bedford. His successful ca- 
reer was closed by ill health in 1861, and he died at Riverside, 
N. J., July 5th, 1862, aged seventy-three. In 1847 Dr. Flem- 
ing, a clergyman, commenced practice, and, after considerable 
success, left in 1851. 
Dr. G. F. Matthes settled here in 1850. He graduated at 
Halle, and Wittenberg, Prussia, in 1836, and came to this 
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D. Daniel Wilder, a graduate of the Homoeopathic College 
of Pennsylvania, located here in 1851, and remained till 1869, 
when he removed to Greenfield, Mass. 
In 185'2 Dr. Henry B. Clarke, also a graduate of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, came here, and has done 
much to render the system popular. There are at present seven 
members of our school in practice at New Bedford, and perhaps 
in no town in the State is homoeopathy more esteemed by the 
educated classes. 
Fall River.-Dr. Isaac Fiske introduced homoeopathy into 
Fall Biver in 1845. He is now advanced in years, but still 
practices. 
Dr. John L. Clarke, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, came in 1854, and has since been in 
active practice here. There have been two other physicians here 
for a short time. 
Taunton.-Although there had been some domestic practice 
previously, Dr. George Barrows, a graduate of Pittsfield and of 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, was, in 1846, 
the first to locate here ; he lias since had an extensive practice. 
Dr. S. W. Graves and Dr. Charles Harris, and afterwards 
his father, Dr. Handy Harris, practiced here for a while. Dr. 
E. U. Jones, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Col- 
lege, came here in 1855, and in 1866 Dr. Joseph W. Hayward, 
a graduate of the Maine Medical School, and have added greatly 
to the strength of our cause in Taunton. 
Norton.-In 1842 Dr. Barrows, of this place, abandoned al- 
lopathy. His practice soon extended over an immense area. He 
ultimately removed to Providence, where he still prospers. 
Dr. Benjamin M. Rounds, who came to Norton in 1847, still 
remains there. 
Waltham.-Dr. George Russell, a graduate of Harvard, of the 
class of '20, commenced homoeopathic practice here in 1840, 
remained till 1848, and then removed to Boston, where he now 
resides. A Dr. Hebbard followed. Dr. T. B. Wales was there 
two or three years, and then removed to Randolph, where he 
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Adams was here four or five years, and removed to Rutland, 
Vt., in 1858, where he now resides. Dr. C. F. Saunders prac- 
ticed here for two or three years. Dr. Edward Worcester, a 
graduate of the University of New York in 1851, removed from 
St. Albans, Vt., to this place in 1860, and has since practiced 
here. Dr. Luther Clark, of Boston, has, with his family, resided 
in Waltham, and occasionally practiced here. 
Woburn.-Dr. Thomas S. Scales, a graduate of Woodstock 
Medical College, Vt., came to Woburn in September, 1848, and 
has since been in active practice here. 
Fitchburg.-In 1855 Dr. Chester J. Freeland, and his son, 
Dr. J. C. Freeland, removed from Hubbardston, Mass., to this 
place. The elder Dr. Freeland, after practicing homoeopathy 
six years, died in May, 1858. Dr. J. C. Freeland, a graduate 
of Cleveland, after practicing two years in Keene, N. H., returned 
to this place, January 1st, 1858, where he continued in active 
practice till near the time of his death. In 1861 Dr. Daniel B. 
Whittier removed from South Gardiner to this place, where he 
has since practiced. In 1863 Dr. W. B. Chamberlain, now of 
Worcester, practiced here. 
Worcester.-Rev. Aurin Bugbee, of Charlton, Mass., claims 
to have been the first to introduce homoeopathy into Worcester 
County, in 1840. He removed to Worcester in 1854, studied 
medicine and practiced, but afterwards removed to Warren, Vt., 
where he died in 1859. 
Dr. Joseph Birnstill practiced in Worcester from 1844 to 
1847. In 1849 Dr. J. K. Clark, just graduated from the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, settled here. He had 
an increasing practice till, in 1855, he removed to Elizabeth- 
town, Ohio, and thence to Louisville, Ky., where he now resides. 
Dr. L. B. Nichols graduated in Philadelphia, and in 1849 
began homoeopathic practice in this place, where he has had an 
extensive practice, and has done much to give this system the 
respect it has acquired. 
Dr. J. E. Linnell graduated at Dartmouth- in 1844, practiced 
allopathy ten years, and removed to Worcester in 1855, where 
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compelled him to relinquish his profession. He has since re- 
sided and practiced in Norwich, Conn. 
Dr. William B. Chamberlain, a graduate of Cleveland, prac- 
ticed in Keene, N. H., nine years. He was for a short time in 
Fitchburg and Middleboro, Mass., and came to Worcester in 
December, 1865, where he still resides. 
Dr. Mary G. Baker graduated in 1862, and practiced homoeop- 
athy in Middleboro in 1868, when she removed to Worcester, 
where she is in active practice. 
Dr. William Ingalls resided here several years, but was not 
in active practice. 
Westfield..-In 1844 Dr. Jehiel Abbott, for many years an 
allopathic practitioner, adopted homoeopathy. As an octogena- 
rian he continued hale and hearty, and as firm a friend of the 
cause as ever. 
Dr. C. W. Taylor practiced here for several years. In 1857 
he removed to Malen, and afterwards to Newtonville. 
Dr. Denton G. Woodvine succeeded Dr. Taylor, and remained 
here till 1866, when he removed to Boston, where he now prac- 
tices. 
Dr. Frank Mullen has practiced here since 1866. 
Springfield.-In 1844 Dr. G. W. Swazey removed from New- 
buryport to this place. He remained the sole practitioner of 
homoeopathy till 1854, when Dr. S. W. Graves came here from 
Taunton. Dr. Graves remained about two years0 then removed 
to Chicago, Ill., where he died. 
Dr. H. A. Collins removed from Conway, Mass., to Spring- 
field in 1852, and has since been in active practice here. 
Dr. Cornelius Jocelyn began practice in 1863. He was a man 
of excellent ability, but his health failed; he went to the West 
Indies, and died soon after his return. 
Dr. E. C. Allen and Dr. J. E. Lucas, though not graduates, 
have been in practice here for several years. 
Pittsfield.-Dr. Van Vleck, a graduate of the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, New York, commenced the practice of 
homoeopathy here in 1847, continued until 1851, when he re- 
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tice. He entered the army during the war, and died of typhoid 
fever at Fortress Monroe in 1862. 
Dr. Charles Bailey, a graduate of the Berkshire Medical Col- 
lege in 1843, was for four years associated in practice with Dr. 
J. G. Holland in Springfield. He adopted homoeopathy in 1848, 
and commenced its practice in this town in 1849. He has held 
a leading position in the profession in this part of the State. 
Dr. Harvey Cole, a graduate of the Berkshire Medical School, 
practiced here from 1850 until 1868, when he removed to Hart- 
ford, Conn., where he now resides. 
Dr. Lorenzo Waite, a graduate of the Berkshire Medical Col- 
lege, began practice here in 1857, and still remains. 
Dr. W. H. Wentworth, a graduate of the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, New York, in 1863, served in the medical corps of 
the navy until 1865, commenced the practice of homoeopathy the 
same year in Lenox, and, after remaining there a few months, 
went to Lee to occupy an old field left vacant by the death of 
Dr. Gifford, where he remained until 1868, when he removed to 
Pittsfield, and is now associated with Dr. Bailey. 
Egremont.-Dr. H. D. Chapman commenced the practice of 
homoeopathy here some time in 1846, and continued in practice 
until 1856, when he removed to Virginia. He was the pioneer 
of homoeopathy in Berkshire County, and was regarded by physi- 
cians of the old school as a man of high attainments. 
Stockbridge.-Dr. W. L. R. Perrine commenced practice here 
in 1850, and, staying nearly two years, went to Hudson, N. Y., 
and continued practice. He afterwards removed to Brooklyn, 
where he remains. 
Lee.-Dr. J. B. Gifford commenced practice here as a homoeop- 
athist about 1851, and continued until his death, March, 1866. 
He was one of the first to practice homoeopathy in Central Berk- 
shire, and had an extensive practice and an enviable reputation. 
Dr. C. W. Stratton now occupies the field, a graduate of the 
Albany Medical College, class of 1867. HOMCEOPATHY IN PENNSYLVANIA* 
As Dr. Gram, who settled in or near New York city about 
the year 1825, was the pioneer of homoeopathy in the United 
States, so Dr. Henry Detwiller, now of Easton, Northampton 
County, is the undoubted pioneer of homoeopathy in Pennsyl- 
vania, he having commenced its investigation in 1828, and having 
made the first prescription July 23d of that year. Dr. Detwiller 
was a native of Switzerland, and emigrated to this country 
in 1817. Acting under the advice of Joseph Bonaparte and 
other distinguished men of that day he located at Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, September 3d, 1817, as an assistant to one Dr. 
Martin. It was the discovery, by Dr. Detwiller, of the cause of 
a disease then existing there, that caused the young " German 
doctor," as he was called, to be very popular. That which, 
by physicians generally, had been diagnosed "bilious colic," was 
demonstrated by him to have been poisoning by the malate of 
lead, produced from the glazing with litharge of earthen pots in 
which apple-butter was kept. This discovery and its successful 
antidotal treatment, created for him an enviable reputation. 
Afterward he established himself at Hellertown, Northampton 
County, in 1818. About the year 1828 he commenced the inves- 
tigation of the doctrines promulgated by Samuel Hahnemann, and 
actively engaged in their practical application in connection with 
Dr. William Wesselhoeft.f 
In 1836 Dr. Detwiller visited Europe, to have interviews with 
the illustrious Hahnemann at Paris, and Professor Schoenlein 
and others, on scientific subjects, and in the interests of the Al- 
* By J. C. Guernsey, M.D. 
f For full particulars of this history the reader is referred to the " Allen- 
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lentown Academy. Returning to the United States he resumed 
his practice at Hellertown, and there continued until 1852, when 
he removed to Easton, Pa., where he introduced homoeopathy, 
and where he is still in active practice. 
He was elected a member of the faculty of the North Ameri- 
can Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art, located at Al- 
lentown, Pa., which was founded in 1835. 
In the further prosecution of this work, the history of homoeop- 
athy in Pennsylvania will be given not in chronological order, 
but by counties, alphabetically arranged. 
ADAMS COUNTY. 
In 1849 Dr. J. H. Marsden, of York Sulphur Springs, at 
that time a clergyman, but since a graduate of medicine, was 
the first to commence the practice of homoeopathy in this county. 
He faithfully tested the virtues of homoeopathy, and since com- 
mencing its practice has written extensively for our medical socie- 
ties and journals. He claims to be the first homoeopathic practi- 
tioner who used Apoc. can. in menorrhagia, Permanganate of 
potash in diphtheria, the fungus of wheat straw in relapsing 
fever, and Arseniate of copper in neurosis of sympathetic nerve. 
He still retains his ecclesiastical status. 
About the year 1845 a Dr. Ehrman, of Carlisle, treated a 
number of cases according to the new method, in this neighbor- 
hood, and a Jacob Bender, with box and book, practiced gratu- 
itously among his neighbors. 
The following homoeopathic physicians have practiced in 
Adams County, but all have removed: Drs. Jacob Bender, 
James, T. O. Smith, Arnold, and Jonathan Bender, de- 
ceased. Now Dr. Isaac E. Cook, near Menallen P. O., and Dr. 
Marsden remain in the county. 
ALLEGHENY COUNTY.* 
A young man, Gustavus Reichhelm, educated in medicine at the 
University of Halle, in Germany, moved by a spirit of enterprise 
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to .seek his field of labor in the New World, arrived in our country 
in the autumn of 1834. Making the acquaintance of his distin- 
guished countrymen, Drs. Hering and Wesselhceft, with the latter 
of whom he had an opportunity of testing more fully than he had 
before done, the truthfulness of the homoeopathic law of cure, he 
soon renounced fully and forever the old school, the school of 
guessing, and commenced to practice as a disciple of Hahne- 
mann. In the summer of 1837 Dr. Hering received a letter from 
a clergyman in Pittsburg, urging him to send a homoeopathic 
physician over the "mountains." The call was laid before the 
medical " Burschenschaft." The undertaking seemed hard and 
almost hazardous. To leave such a brotherhood, to labor alone 
amid strangers, and in the face of violent opposition, was indeed 
an enterprise that might challenge the resolution and courage of 
the bravest. At the pause caused by the magnitude of the un- 
dertaking, Reichhelm, being urged by Dr. Hering to accept the 
call, replied, "Give me five minutes to think of it." The fruits 
of that "five minutes'" reflection are to-day ripening all over 
the great Southwest. The spirit that enabled him to tear away 
from his fatherland, enabled him likewise to triumph over the 
fear of all contests and hardships, in promoting the cause to 
which the energies of his whole soul were devoted. The lapse 
of a few weeks saw him upon the summit of the Alleghenies, 
westward bound, and a few more found him settled in the " Iron 
City." 
Upon Dr. Reichhelm's arrival at his new location, the clergy- 
man who had written the letter to Dr. Hering, alone gave him a 
hearty welcome. Few men have ever engaged in so important 
an enterprise under circumstances so embarrassing. Advocating 
a system, with the superiority of which the people were entirely 
unacquainted,-a principle antagonistic to the notions and prac- 
tice of all other physicians around him, he was compelled to bear 
the insolence and professional abuse of ill-bred opponents, with- 
out the hand of sympathy, or even the cloak of charity, that are 
now so readily extended by an enlightened community to the 
reformer in any department of science. Unacquainted with the 
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which he was now drawn by the "natives/' seemed to him more 
like a "guerrilla warfare" than a scientific encounter. Very 
soon after his establishment, through the influence of his friend, 
the clergyman, he was employed as attending physician to the 
Pittsburg Orphan Asylum. The success of his practice there, 
for nearly twelve years, has been almost without a parallel, even 
in the history of homoeopathy. 
For a long time Dr. Reichhelm stood alone in Pittsburg. It 
is true physicians calling themselves homoeopathists, made their 
appearance around him from time to time, yet for nearly ten 
years, he found none in whom he could recognize a true and pure 
disciple of Hahnemann. To fraternize with such, to give them 
countenance, seemed to him alike inconsistent and injurious. 
Regarding the purity of homoeopathy of greater importance than 
its rapid and alloyed diffusion, he sternly refused his favor to 
any and all who, esteeming themselves far in advance of the old 
school, and even able to improve the new by correcting a law of 
nature, mixed the two systems in a wild and senseless practice. 
Adhering thus to fixed principles, he persevered; and persever- 
ing, he succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations. Year 
after year he had the satisfaction of seeing his cause progressing 
safely and rapidly. Learning and wealth, at first lending him 
their favor, at length gave him their strong support. 
Dr. Reichhelm was a strict homoeopathist, and used the single 
remedy in the 30th potency. He removed to Philadelphia, in 1853, 
where he soon established a large and select practice. His former 
patients never neglected to give him a call when visiting the "City 
of Brotherly Love." He died suddenly of apoplexy, in Phila- 
delphia, in the year 1864, mourned by a host of personal friends 
occupying high social positions, many of whom had been his 
former patients. 
Dr. C. Bayer, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, located in 
Allegheny City, in 1841 or 1842. He was retired in manners, 
and mingled but little with his brother practitioners. He bore 
the reputation of a careful and successful physician, and his great 
forte appears to have been the Materia Medica. He accumulated 
considerable property, and retained his large practice up to the 658 
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time of his last illness. His death occurred in the winter of 
1865. He was one of the original members of the "Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pa.," and took an 
active part in its organization. 
D. M. Dake, M.D., graduated at the Medical College of Ge- 
neva, New York, his native State. He practiced according to the 
teaching of the old school, for a period unknown to the writer. 
He located in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1846, as a homoeopathic physi- 
cian, and exhibited great energy of character and devotion to his 
calling. A comparatively short time secured to him a lucrative 
practice and a commanding influence. He wrote a series of arti- 
cles on homoeopathy, which were published in one of the city 
papers (probably in 1853), which attracted considerable attention 
at the time. Failing health compelled him to relinquish his 
large, remunerative, and eminently successful practice in 1863. 
He is located at Reading, Pa. 
Marcellin Cote, M.D., a native of Lower Canada, graduated 
at Bowdoin Medical College, Maine. While practicing the old 
school system in New York city, in 1845, he formed the ac- 
quaintance of Charles J. Hempel, M.D., who first called his 
attention to homoeopathy. He returned to his native place and 
remained there during the year 1846. In 1847 he selected 
Pittsburg, Pa., as a permanent residence, where his energy 
and industry have been rewarded by a large and lucrative 
practice. We are indebted to him for a translation from the 
French of Dr. C. Croserio's Homoeopathic Manual of Obstetrics, 
and the work of Dr. Augustus Rapou on Typhoid Fever, which 
appeared in their English dress in 1853. He is a member of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, and also of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania. Of the latter 
he served one term as president. He co-operated with a number 
of other physicians in the organization of the now flourishing 
Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg. Although 
he took no part in the formation of the Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, he afterwards joined 
it, and has been a member of its board of censors. His professional 
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years, which constitutes him the oldest practitioner of homoeopa- 
thy in Pittsburg, now living, and at this writing in active prac- 
tice. 
Charles Hoffman, M.D., was a native of Germany and com- 
pleted his medical curriculum at Dresden. lie came to this 
country and located in Pittsburg in 1848. About four years 
after he removed to Illinois, where he died in 1859. 
II. H. Hoffman, M.D., is a native of Germany, and a graduate 
of the University of Leipzig. In 1849 he emigrated to this 
country and joined his brother, Dr. C. Hoffman, in Pittsburg. 
He assisted in forming the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Alle- 
gheny County, and has always taken an active part in its pro- 
ceedings. He was one of the original movers in the establish- 
ment of the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pitts- 
burg, always has been one of its earnest supporters, and has 
served as a member of its medical board ever since its wards were 
opened for the reception of patients. He has a very large prac- 
tice and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his brother physi- 
cians. He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopa- 
thy, and of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
Pennsylvania. 
William Penniman, M.D., was an old-school practitioner, who 
adopted homoeopathy in 1849 or 1850. His practice in Pitts- 
burg extended over a period of seven or eight years, when he 
removed to Minnesota. His present location is unknown to the 
writer. 
J. P. Dake, M.D., pursued his literary studies at Union Col- 
lege, New York, his native State, and graduated at the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1851. He selected 
Pittsburg as the field of his enterprise, and at once engaged in 
active practice, and soon after entered into a professional partner- 
ship with Dr. Reichhelm, his former preceptor. In 1852 an 
article, containing some unjust criticisms on homoeopathy, ap- 
peared in one of the daily papers of Pittsburg, over the sig- 
nature of James King, M.D., an allopathic physician of consid- 
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Dake to meet the author, before a public assembly, for a free 
discussion of the following propositions, viz.: 
1st. That" Similia Similibus Curantur"-like cures like-is the 
fundamental law in medicine. 
2d. That the medicinal powers of matter can be correctly ascer- 
tained in no other way than by the vital test,-the trial of drugs on 
the healthy. 
3d. That the doses employed in homoeopathic practice are efficient. 
Dr. Dake to affirm. 
It seems almost superfluous to add that Dr. King adroitly 
avoided the discussion. The entire correspondence in reference 
to it may be found under the heading, " Homoeopathy and Al- 
lopathy," in the Philadelphia Journal of Homoeopathy, vol. ii. 
In 1855 he was elected Professor of " Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics" in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, and filled the responsible position with credit to him- 
self and the institution. In 1869 he removed to Nashville, 
Tennessee, where he continues the responsible and arduous duties 
of active professional life. 
J. F. Cooper, M.D., a native of Pennsylvania, received his 
degree of Medicine from the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania in 1853. Immediately after the well-merited 
honor was conferred he entered into a professional partnership 
with his late preceptor, Dr. C. Bayer, of Allegheny City, with 
whom he remained for several years. At the expiration of the 
partnership he opened an office by himself in the same city. He 
is devoted to his profession, and enjoys the largest patronage of 
any physician in the city. His moral and social qualities be- 
speak his praise, while his force of character inspires confidence. 
He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, of 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, 
and of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County. 
He served one term as president of the latter. He is a corpo- 
rator of the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pitts- 
burg, and served one year as a member of its medical staff. His 
individual contributions to its support have been liberal, while 
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written several articles on medical subjects, and many students 
have been transformed into accomplished M.D.'s by his skilful 
manipulations. 
Frederick Taudte, M.D., is a native of Germany, and a grad- 
uate of the University of Halle. He emigrated to this country 
in 1853, and located in Birmingham, Allegheny County, Penn- 
sylvania, where he has practiced ever since with commendable 
success. He stands well with the profession, and is highly es- 
teemed by his numerous patrons. Pie is a corporator of the 
Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, and served 
the first year of its operation with great acceptability as a mem- 
ber of its medical board. He is a member of the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy, of the Homoeopathic Medical Society 
of the State of Pennsylvania, and of the Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Allegheny County, Pa. 
F. R. Moore, M.D., received his title from the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1853. FTe practiced in 
Allegheny City and Pittsburg for some time previous to his 
graduation. He located in Pittsburg, after receiving his de- 
gree, until 1858, when he removed to St. Louis, Missouri. 
J. A. Blanchard, M.D., graduated at the Cleveland Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College in 1854. He soon after settled in Pitts- 
burg, Pa., where he practiced homoeopathy for three or four 
years. In 1857 or 1858 he turned his attention to speculating in 
" patent rights," and removed to Rochester, New York. 
J. C. Burgher, M.D., is a native of Ohio, and graduated at 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1854. He 
immediately after located in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and still 
holds forth at the " old stand." He was for three years in partner- 
ship with his former preceptor, Dr. J. P. Dake. He was one of 
the originators of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Alle- 
gheny County, of the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of 
Pittsburg, of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, 
and is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. He 
is very active and efficient in the promotion of the medical truths 
which he represents. 
James A. Herron, M.D., is a native of Pittsburg, Pa., and grad- 662 
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uate of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 
the class of 1856. He settled in Pittsburg, where he practiced 
his profession (with one or two intervals, during which his at- 
tention was directed to other pursuits) up to the time of his last 
illness. During his professional career he was for some time 
associated in practice with Dr. M. Cote. He was one of the 
original members of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Alle- 
gheny County, Pa., and served two years as its treasurer. He 
also took an active part in the organization of the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania. Ele died in 1868, 
after a very brief illness, jet. 35. 
F. W. Skiles, M.D., graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1852. He located in Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania, in 1858, where he practiced for about four years, 
a part of which time he was associated in practice with Dr. D. 
M. Dake; his professional reputation was good. In 1862 he 
removed to Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
J. S. Bankin, M.D., a native of Ohio, graduated at the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1858. Soon after 
receiving his degree, he located in Carlisle, Pa., where he prac- 
ticed about six months, when he was induced to remove to Alle- 
gheny City, Pa., where he remained about three years and a half. 
He next removed to Pittsburg, and was associated in practice with 
Dr. M. Cote, for one year, and then opened an office by himself 
in the latter city, where he is still engaged in active practice. 
Dr. Rankin is a member of the American Institute of Homoeop- 
athy, of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
Pennsylvania, and of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Al- 
legheny County. Pie is also a corporator of the Homoeopathic 
Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, and a valuable member 
of its medical staff. 
F. B. Cooper, M.D., a native of Pennsylvania, graduated at 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1859. 
He settled in Allegheny City, Pa., where he has practiced ever 
since. He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopa- 
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George S. Foster, M.D., is a native of Pittsburg, and graduate 
of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, in the 
class of 1859. The same year he commenced the practice of 
medicine in East Liberty, Allegheny County, Pa. In the spring 
of 1861 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Thirteenth 
Regiment of Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served for 
three months. On his return he located in Pittsburg, but soon 
after removed to Meadville, Pa., where he practiced until 1865, 
when he returned to Pittsburg until the completion of his first 
professional decade, 1869, when he removed to Dayton, Ohio. 
He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, and 
was one of the original members of the Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Pennsylvania. His present address is Xenia, Ohio. 
William J. Church, M.D., a native of Pittsburg, graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, in 1858. 
On his return, he entered into partnership with Dr. J. P. Dake, 
his brother-in-law and former preceptor, with whom he prac- 
ticed until his last illness. He died in October, 1862. During 
the three years which his health permitted him to practice his 
profession, he added many warm friends to the large and influ- 
ential circle by which he was previously surrounded, who will 
long lament his early demise. He was a member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Homoeopathy. 
W. C. Borland, M.D., a native of Allegheny City, graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1861. 
He settled in his native city, and practiced his profession for a 
short time; but owing to partial loss of hearing, was induced to 
abandon it and engage in mercantile pursuits. Although now a 
thriving business man of Pittsburg, he takes an interest in every- 
thing pertaining to homoeopathy. He is a corporator of the 
Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, and re- 
tains his membership in the American Institute of Homoeopathy, 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County. 
W. James Blakeley, M.D., a native of Pittsburg, Pa., gradu- 
ated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 
1861. He returned to his native city, where he practiced for a 664 
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short time, and then removed to Benezet, Elk County, Pa., 
where, by his industry and skill, he soon secured a liberal patron- 
age. He was appointed surgeon of a portion of the Philadel- 
phia and Erie Railroad Company, and served the company in 
that capacity until 1869, when he removed to Erie, Pa., his 
present location. 
C. Baelz, M.D., is a native of Germany, and a graduate of 
the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in the class of 1836, 
Schoenlein being at the time one of its professors. He practiced 
allopathy for a time in Europe before he came here, also after 
his arrival in this country. But not satisfied with it, and being 
familiar with all the details of hydropathic practice, he opened a 
"Water Cure" establishment, and while practicing hydropathy, 
he examined and to some extent tried homoeopathy, which re- 
sulted in its adoption as his mode of practice, after twenty-one 
years of allopathic and hydropathic treatment. Pie located per- 
manently in Pittsburg, in 1861. Heis a member of the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pa., and has 
contributed several articles to enhance the interest of its proceed- 
ings. 
Alexander Black, M.D., a native of Pittsburg, with an un- 
usually fine education, entered upon the study of medicine. 
He spent two years, 1835 and 1836, at the University of Edin- 
burgh, Scotland, and graduated at the Jefferson Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, in 1837. Plis graduating thesis was written 
in Latin. He located in his native city, and practiced allopathy 
until 1861, when, after a careful and even critical examination 
of homoeopathy, he was convinced of its superiority as a method 
of treatment, and adopted it, somewhat to the chagrin of his 
" old-school brethren." He is a skilful diagnostician and suc- 
cessful practitioner. He is a member of the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of Allegheny County, for which he has written 
many articles of interest. 
M. W. Wallace, M.D., is a native of Pennsylvania. He grad- 
uated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, 
in 1862, and immediately after entered into a professional part- 
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member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, one of the 
original members of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
State of Pennsylvania, and also a member of the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He has a 
fair record and a good practice. 
C. M. Dake, M.D., a native of the State of New York, re- 
ceived the degree of M.D. from the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania in 1856. He practiced medicine in his 
native State until 1863, when he removed to Pittsburg, Penn- 
sylvania. He practiced as successor to his brother, Dr. J. P. 
Dake, up to 1867, when he removed to St. Albans, New York. 
William R. Childs, M.D., is a native of Pittsburg, and grad- 
uate of Washington College, Pennsylvania. Soon after com- 
pleting his literary course, he directed his attention to the'study 
of medicine, and graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania in 1863. He immediately selected his 
native city for his field of professional labors, and has been 
rewarded by a fair degree of success. He has performed some 
critical and successful operations in surgery, is quite .at home 
in that department, anol does well as a general practitioner. He 
is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, anol 
took an active part in the formation of the Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal Society of the State of Pennsylvania, of which he is Necrolo- 
gist. He was one of the original movers in the initiatory meas- 
ures which led to the establishment of the Homoeopathic Hospi- 
tal and Dispensary of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and also took a 
prominent part in organizing the Homoeopathic Medical Society 
of Allegheny County. 
David Cowley, M.D., a native of Pittsburg, is a good Eng- 
lish and classical scholar, and also speaks the German language 
well. He graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania in 1853. He was associated with Dr. C. Neid- 
hard, of Philadelphia, for nearly eight years, and had charge of 
the dispensary connected with his alma mater for one year. His 
graduating thesis on " Ephelides " was published by request of 
the editor, W. A. Gardiner, in the second volume of the Phila- 
delphia Journal of Homoeopathy. For about five years he was 666 
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Recording Secretary of the American Provers' Union, and 
assisted in arranging its provings for publication ; he has written 
and translated much for the journals. He is a member of 
the American Institute of Homoeopathy ; was one of the origi- 
nal members of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State 
of' Pennsylvania, of which he was treasurer, for the term of 
one year. He was active in the organization of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society of Allegheny County, of which he served 
as secretary for two years. He is also a corporator of the Ho- 
moeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 
and has served on its medical board from its commencement. 
P. D. Liscomb, M.D., a native of Pennsylvania, graduated at 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867. He 
attended one course of lectures many years before, and was in 
active practice for several years prior to receiving his diploma, 
in Birmingham, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. In 1864 
he removed to Pittsburg, where he practiced until 1869, when 
he removed to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; is a good practitioner. 
He is a member of the State Society, and of the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 
L. M. Rousseau, M.D., a native of Lower Canada, graduated 
at Bowdoin Medical College, Maine, in 1845. He practiced 
allopathy in his native place for twenty years, notwithstanding 
he had been a pupil of Dr. William E. Payne, of Bath, Maine. 
He removed to Pittsburg in 1865, and entered into partnership 
with Dr. M. Cote. Dr. Rousseau is a good classical scholar, is well 
versed in homoeopathic literature, and is a careful and successful 
practitioner. He is a corporator of the Homoeopathic Hospital 
and Dispensary of Pittsburg, Pa., and served on its medical staff 
for three years, with credit to himself and the institution. He is 
a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, of the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, and of 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County. The 
latter he served one year as its treasurer. 
Charles H. Lee, M.D., is a native of Pennsylvania, and grad- 
uated in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 
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gheny County, Pa., where he remained until the spring of 1867, 
when he accepted the appointment of resident physician of the 
Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, Pa. In 
the fall of the same year he resigned the position and removed to 
Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pa., where he has built up a good 
practice. He is a member of the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy, of the State society, and of the Allegheny County 
society. 
J. P. Harvey, M.D., was born in Bucks County, Pa., Novem- 
ber 25th, 1836. He graduated in medicine at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1865. In 1866 he located 
in Allegheny city, as successor to the late Dr. Bayer, and soon 
became heir to a large practice, which his impaired health com- 
pelled him to relinquish early in 1866. He returned to his na- 
tive place to recruit his health, but died July 7th, 1866, leaving 
many sincere friends to mourn his early demise. He was a 
member of the Allegheny County society. He was the original 
prover of the Trombidium muscse domesticae, a record of which 
may be found in the first volume of the Mahnemannian Monthly. 
J. E. Barnaby, M.D., a native of England, emigrated to this 
country in 1842. He graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania in 1866. He located in Allegheny 
City, Pa., where he established a large practice. Feeble health 
compelled him to relinquish his professional labors early in the 
summer of 1864. In the autumn of the same year he started 
for St. Augustine, Fla., where he designed to spend the winter, 
in the hope of recruiting his health, but died on the journey. By 
devotion to his profession he won the confidence and esteem of 
his brother practitioners and a large circle of personal friends 
and grateful patients, who mourn his demise. He was a member 
of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and of 
the Allegheny County Medical Society. He was also a cor- 
porator of the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pitts- 
burg, Pa., and a member of its medical board. 
L. H. Willard, M.D., office student of Dr. H. N. Guernsey, is 
a native of Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the Homoeopathic 
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he filled the chair of surgery in his alma mater, which he resigned 
in July of the same year to accept the tendered position of resi- 
dent surgeon of the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of 
Pittsburg, Pa. Early in 1867 he resigned his position as resi- 
dent surgeon of the hospital, and entered into partnership with 
Drs. J. F. Cooper and M. W. Wallace, of Allegheny City. At 
the expiration of the partnership he opened an office by himself 
in the same city, where he is doing a thriving business. It 
should be stated that Dr. Willard served three years as assistant 
surgeon in the United States Army and Navy during the late 
rebellion. He has acquired considerable celebrity as a surgeon. 
He was for some time one of the editors of the Western Homoeo- 
pathic Observer, and is a member of the American Institute of 
Homoeopathy. He has contributed papers to the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and of Allegheny County, of 
both of which he is a member. The latter he has served both 
as vice-president and secretary. He is a corporator of the Ho- 
moeopathic Hospital and Dispensary and a member of its surgical 
staff. 
B. F. Dake, M.D., is a native of the State of New York, and 
an alumnus of Union College of that State. After receiving his 
literary honors he turned his attention to the study of medicine, 
and graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, in 1862. He settled in Mount Morris, Livingston 
County, N. Y., where he practiced his profession until 1866, 
when be removed to Pittsburg and entered into a professional 
partnership with Dr. Chauncy M. Dake, whom he succeeded in 
practice in 1867. He has a large and lucrative practice. He is 
a corporator of the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of 
Pittsburg and a member of its medical staff. He is a member 
of the American Institute of Homoeopathy,' of the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, and served one 
term as President of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Alle- 
gheny County. 
J. H. McClelland, M.D., is a native of Pittsburg, and prose- 
cuted his literary studies in the Western University of Pennsyl- 
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medicine, and graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania in 1867. Returning to his native city, he opened 
an office, and entered upon his professional labors, which have 
been rewarded by a fair share of public patronage. He takes a 
special interest in everything pertaining to surgery, has had a 
large experience in that department, and is well posted in all its 
details. He has capitally performed several capital operations, 
while cases of minor surgery are of almost daily occurrence in 
his practice. Pie is a member of the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy, and of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsyl- 
vania, serving one year as vice-president of the latter, and also 
as a member of the " Bureau of Surgery," to which he has con- 
tributed several valuable papers. He is a member of the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County, to which he has 
also contributed a number of well-written articles; has served 
three years as its secretary. He is a corporator and trustee of 
the Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, a mem- 
ber of its surgical staff, of its executive committee, one of its 
dispensary physicians, and secretary of its medical board. 
C. P. Seip, M.D., is a native of Pennsylvania, and a graduate 
of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, in the class 
of 1868. He located in Canton, Ohio, where he practiced with 
good success until 1870, when he removed to Pittsburg, and en- 
tered into partnership with Dr. H. H. Hoffman. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and of the State 
and County societies, is a corporator of the Homoeopathic 
Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, is a dispensary phy- 
sician, and a member of the surgical staff. 
J. P. Crooks, M.D., a native of Pennsylvania, graduated at 
the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1869. He 
settled in Pittsburg, with bright prospects and brilliant hopes 
but feeble health soon compelled him to relinquish his practice 
and go South, with a view of gaining strength. After a short 
absence he returned home and died on the 11th of October, 1870. 
During his short professional career his kind attentions endeared 
him to many grateful patients, and secured many warm friends. 
William Wilson, M.D., a native of Pennsylvania, received the 670 
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degree of M.D. at the Homoeopathic Medical College of St. 
Louis, Missouri, in 1870. He had practiced medicine in Alle- 
gheny City for about four years before graduating, and continued 
to practice there until his recent removal to Chariton, Lucas 
County, Iowa, his present address. 
D. L. Starr, M.D., a native of Connecticut, commenced the 
practice of medicine in 1833 as a licentiate of the Medical So- 
ciety of Massachusetts. He soon after located in Poughkeepsie, 
New York, where he practiced for twelve years, when he re- 
moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he practiced ten years. He 
served for a time, during the late rebellion, as regimental Surgeon 
of the Fifteenth Regiment of West, Virginia Volunters of the 
Union army. For many years past he has practiced homoe- 
opathy. He located in Allegheny City in 1870; is a member 
of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Allegheny County. 
W. H. Boardman, M.D., is a native of Pennsylvania, and a 
graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical College of St. Louis, 
Missouri, in the class of 1871. He has located in Pittsburg. 
T. C. Wallace, M.D., a native of Pennsylvania, graduated at 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1868. 
After receiving his degree he located in Rochester, Beaver 
County, Pennsylvania, where he practiced until quite recently, 
when he removed to Allegheny City, his present address. 
Hrs. McCreary and Burns practiced homoeopathy in Pittsburg 
and Allegheny cities for a short time. Their initials and present 
locations are both unknown to the writer. 
Dr. Shilling, a native of Denmark, and graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Copenhagen, is now practicing homoeopathy in Bir- 
mingham, Allegheny County. 
J. C. Kennedy, M.D., graduated in Philadelphia, at the 
Hahnemann Medical College, in 1871. Located in Birmingham, 
near Pittsburg. 
C. F. Bingaman, M.D., graduated at Hahnemann Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 1871. Since then he has been located 
in Pittsburg, practicing in partnership with Dr. M. Cote. 
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College of Philadelphia in 1871, began to practice in Baltimore, 
remaining eight months, then removed to Pittsburg. 
J. H. Buffum, M.D., graduated at the New York College of 
Homoeopathy in 1873; practicing in Pittsburg. 
R. E. Caruthers, M.D., graduated at Hahnemann Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 1873. Located in Allegheny City. 
J. B. Chantier, M.D., graduated at Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia in 1873; practiced one year in Allegheny 
City, and then removed to Sewickly, where he now is. 
H. W. Fulton, M.D., graduated at Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia in 1872, and has located in East Liberty, 
Pittsburg. 
C. D. Herron, M.D., graduate of Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia in 1871. Located in Pittsburg. 
R. L. McIntire, M.D., graduated at Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia, class of 1870, and located in Allegheny City. 
R. Ramage, M.D., graduated at Cleveland Hospital College 
in 1872; practiced in Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, for a 
year; and since then in Pittsburg and Allegheny City. 
J. G. Thompson, M.D., graduated at Cleveland Hospital Col- 
lege in 1871; practiced a year in Columbiana and a year in 
Allegheny City ; has returned to Columbiana. 
Millie J. Chapman, M.D., a graduate of the Cleveland Hos- 
pital College in 1874, is settled in Pittsburg. 
John C. King, M.D., graduated at the University of Nash- 
ville in 1874; practiced in Nashville from October, 1872, until 
July, 1874, when he removed to Allegheny City. 
O. R. Shannon, M.D., graduated at the Cleveland Hospital 
College in 1874, and settled in Allegheny City. 
Stephen Woods, M.D., graduated at the Hahnemann Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 1875, and has settled in Pittsburg. 
F. Morris Strong, M.D., graduated at the New York College 
of Homoeopathy in 1871; practiced in Flint, Mich., and Aurora, 
N. Y., until 1875, when he removed to Pittsburg. 
W. H. O'Keefe, M.D., a. graduate of the New York Homoeo- 
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W. H. Kern, M.D., graduated at Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege, Philadelphia, in 1874, is located at McKeesport. 
D. M. Graham, M.D., located at Braddock's Field, is a late 
convert to homoeopathy, having formerly practiced allopathy. 
E. W. Dean, M.D., a graduate of Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia, class of 1875, has opened an office in the 
east end of Pittsburg. 
We have a County Medical Society, organized in 1864, which 
holds stated meetings on the second Friday of every month, with 
a membership of thirty-five physicians. There is a chartered 
hospital, now in the tenth year of successful operation, and two 
homoeopathic dispensaries, doing a noble work. There is also an 
Anatomical Society of about twenty members, to which has been 
granted an act of incorporation. Also a " Materia Meclica Club," 
with a membership of eighteen, holding semi-monthly meetings. 
These societies and institutes are well organized, and actively 
accomplishing the various objects for which they wTere estab- 
lished. It was under the auspices of the Allegheny County 
Medical Society that the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Penn- 
sylvania was founded at Pittsburg in June, 1866. 
Dr. Edward Mansa, emigrating from Germany in 1832 or '33, 
settled in Buffalo Township, in this county, and began shortly 
afterwards the practice of homoeopathy, and continued to so 
practice until 1857, when he removed to Illinois, and from there 
to Missouri, where he died in 1870. 
Dr. S. Simpkins, an allopath, succeeded Dr. Mansa in 1859, 
locating at Slate Lick, and, through the demands of the people, 
was compelled to study homoeopathy to some extent, so that he 
could prescribe homoeopathic remedies. His practice was of a 
mixed kind, as he endeavored to deal out one or the other as 
desired. Dr. Simpkins died in 1871, and was succeeded by a 
student of his, Dr. A. D. Johnson, who graduated at Cleveland 
Homoeopathic College in 1868, and settled at Slate Lick. 
Dr. J. A. Hunter also practiced homoeopathy in Leechburg, 
in this county, for a year prior to his death in 1875. 
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Dr. W. W. Smith, born November 3d, 1816, in Chenango 
County, N. Y., commenced the study of medicine in the office of 
Dr. J. G. Loomis in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1846. In December, 
1849, he went to Fayette County, West Virginia, and began to 
practice homoeopathy. He remained there until 1862, when the 
Confederate forces destroyed all his property and took him pris- 
oner, on his refusal to serve in the rebel army as a surgeon. He 
was retaken by the Union army and sent into Ohio, where he 
began to practice, in 1865, in Preble County. He continued 
there until 1868, when he removed to Coshocton, Ohio, where 
he remained until 1873, when he removed to Kittanning, Pa., 
where he has succeeded in establishing a good business. 
Dr. A. M. Barnaby, at Brady's Bend, is also in this county. 
BEAVER COUNTY. 
Dr. Thomas Bryan introduced homoeopathy into Beaver 
County in 1853, after many previous attempts had been made 
by other parties. He had practiced allopathy from 1826 until 
1853, when he became a convert to homoeopathy. In 1866 he 
received a homoeopathic diploma from the Cleveland College. 
He was very successful in practice, and did much to spread the 
system until 1875, when, being in his sixty-ninth year, he retired 
and was succeeded by Dr. John S. Boyd, at New Sheffield. 
J. D. McCreary, M.D., practiced at Beaver, New Brighton, 
and Industry, for* a time, then removed to Saliensville, Ohio. 
T. A. Shane, M.D., also practiced in this county for a time, 
and then removed to Wellsville, Ohio. 
C. I. Wendt, M.D., born at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1839. At- 
tended lectures at Cleveland Homoeopathic College in 1862-63 ; 
entered into partnership with Dr. Thomas Bryan, of New Shef- 
field, Pa., in June, 1863, with whom he remained until May, 
1867, then removed to his present location, New Brighton; is a 
graduate of St. Louis College of Homoeopathy, class of 1870. 
P. D. Liscomb, M.D., formerly practiced in Pittsburg, and 
then removed to Beaver Falls in 1869, where he now remains. 
John Bryan, M.D., graduated at Cleveland Homoeopathic Col- 674 
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lege in 1866, but had practiced allopathy several years before. 
He located at Water Cure. 
G. W. Nippert, M.D., also practiced in this county at New 
Brighton. 
BEDFORD COUNTY. 
This district has but one representative of homoeopathic medi- 
cine within her limits in the person of Dr. F. O. Alleman, who 
resides at Saxton. 
BERKS COUNTY. 
As early as 1838 homoeopathy was first macle known to the 
people of Reading, the county town of Berks County, by Dr. 
Adolph Lippe, who spent a year or two in practice there, being 
followed by Dr. Moore, who remained two years or longer, and 
then moved to Philadelphia. Dr. John H. Behne located in 
the above city in 1845, where he still continues in practice. Dr. 
Caspari practiced in Reading a few months in 1843. In 1852 
Dr. G. R. Starkey began practice there, and succeeded in estab- 
lishing homoeopathy among the English-speaking residents of 
the place. He was followed by Dr. R. Sargent, who remained 
two years. Dr. B. R. Bratt, who graduated at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1858, succeeded Dr. Sar- 
gent; he died January 31st, 1872. 
E. H. Spooner, M.D., graduated at Amherst College in 1859, 
spent three years atthe Theological Seminary of Princeton, served 
in the army from 1862 to 1865, when he entered the office of 
T. F. Allen, M.D., of New York, as a student, and graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of New York in 1869. 
He located in Reading the same year, where success has crowned 
his efforts. He is a member of the Homoeopathic Medical So- 
ciety of Berks and Schuylkill counties, and has written several 
articles for the New England Medical Gazette. 
David L. Dreibelbis, M.D., born in 1842, was educated at the 
Union Seminary of New Berlin, Pa., taught school for four years, 
read medicine with Dr. J. Detwiller, of Reading, and attended 
lectures at the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia in 1865. 
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Pennsylvania, graduating in 1866. He settled in Reading, and 
soon enjoyed a large practice. His health begafi to fail in 1871, 
and during the epidemic of typhoid fever in the spring of 1872, 
when he was obliged to make special efforts to attend his prac- 
tice, he was taken with typhoid fever, and died after an illness 
of three weeks. Dr. S. L. Dreibelbis, a younger brother of the 
subject of the above sketch, and graduate of the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, class of 1871, has taken the 
practice, and is pursuing it very successfully. 
The other practitioners in Reading are Drs. E. Z. and F. R. 
Schmucker, E. R. Scholl, S. R. Rittenhouse, Theodore Pachali, 
and W. F. Marks. 
In Kutztown Dr. John H. Helfrich is the only practitioner. 
He is the son of Rev. John Helfrich, who was one of the pio- 
neers of homoeopathy in the county. 
In Hamburg Drs. R. F. Krebs and F. E. Harpel are in prac- 
tice ; Dr. L. R. Lentz is at Fleetwood. 
In Douglassville Elizabeth May, widow of Dr. Robert May, 
has taken up her husband's practice. 
Dr. Robert May graduated at the Pennsylvania College of 
Physicians, and for awhile practiced the old-school system. In 
1838 or 1840 he took up the study of homoeopathy, lectured 
upon it through Chester and Berks counties, near the border of 
which he resided, being the only homoeopathic physician in Ches- 
ter County, and the only one between Reading and Philadelphia. 
His wife studied medicine and practiced, to some extent, before 
they were married. He died in 1865, and notwithstanding a 
violent opposition, his wife succeeds admirably in the practice. 
There is a society known as the Homoeopathic Medical Society 
of Berks and Schuylkill Counties, of which almost all the ho- 
moeopathic physicians of these counties are members. It was 
founded in 1870. 
BLAIR COUNTY. 
Dr. Pretch, a native of Germany, was probably the first to 
practice homoeopathy in this county. He lived in Hollidays- 
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Dr. Lewis Busch located in Hollidaysburg as early as 1842, 
remained till 1859, when he removed to Huntingdon County, 
and is now located at Altoona. Dr. Busch was born in Gotha- 
Saxony in 1808, practiced the old-school system there from 1829 
to 1831, and homoeopathy from 1833 to 1836, when he left his 
native city and landed in Baltimore, Md.; finally settled in 
Adams County, Pennsylvania. 
Dr. Morgan J. Khees, a graduate of Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege, 1846, was a student of Dr. George H. Bute, of Nazareth, 
Pa. He settled first at Mount Holly, N. J., and practiced there 
till 1849, when he went to California. After a varied life, he 
returned to Mount Holly, remained there from 1855 to 1868, 
when he moved to Hollidaysburg, his present residence. This gen- 
tleman assisted Dr. B. F. Joslin in his proving of Rumex crispus, 
translated A. Savery's proving of Asclepias tuberosa, was a con- 
tributor to the American Homoeopathic Review, and established 
the first Homoeopathic Medical Society in New Jersey, which 
was composed of Drs. R. S. Middleton, of Burlington; J. R. 
Andrews of Camden, J. C. Boardman, of Trenton, and himself. 
Dr. J. Wesley Allen, born at Carlisle in 1840, graduated at the 
University of Pennsylvania, 1860, served in the One Hundred 
and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, as Assistant Surgeon, 
from 1861 to 1865, when he returned to Carlisle, and began the 
practice of homoeopathy. In 1866 he located in Altoona. 
Dr. James R. Humes now practices in Hollidaysburg. 
BRADFORD COUNTY 
Had its first homoeopathic physician in the person of Ezekiel 
Lovejoy, M.D., as early as 1841. Leonard Pratt, M.D., located 
at Towanda, prior to the year 1851, and was succeeded by his 
brother, David Sheppard Pratt, a graduate of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College in 1851. Also practicing in this county are 
Drs. L. G. Bradford, Sylvania; J. S. Corbin, Athens; 
Cowell, Smithfield; C. V- Dare, G. W. Ingham, S. Shepard, 
S. W. Shepard, Troy; Patchen, Granville Summit; N. 
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BUCKS COUNTY. 
The population of Bucks County, particularly in the lower 
half of it, is one of the most intelligent and thrifty that can be 
found anywhere. In the year 1873 the yield of bushels of wheat 
per acre was the greatest of any other county in the United 
States, which fact, with reports of many other successful crops 
by their agricultural society, is indicative of successful farming. 
Among such a people homoeopathy, properly represented, can- 
not do otherwise than obtain a stronghold. Where families are 
distant from physicians, we find works on domestic practice and 
boxes of our remedies resorted to, when an intelligent mother 
reads over the particular symptoms of the case and prescribes, 
rather than call in one of the old-school fraternity. In this way 
quite a local reputation is made, adding patients to the nearest 
homoeopathic physician. In 1858 Dr. R. J. McClatchey spent 
a summer in Doylestown, where Drs. S. R. Dubs and George 
W. Wright are located, both doing great credit to the cause. 
Dr. Dubs, born in Philadelphia, November 8th, 1811, was 
educated at the High School, and then placed in a drug store, 
where he very soon mastered the ponderous Materia Medica and 
Pharmacopoeia. In 1829 he entered the office of Charles D. 
Meigs, M.D., late Professor of Obstetrics in the Jefferson Medi- 
cal College, under whom he studied, and attended a partial 
course in the University of Pennsylvania. Thrown upon his own 
resources he bought a drug store upon credit, conducted it suc- 
cessfully, and was able to graduate in 1836 at the age of twenty- 
five. He practiced the old system three years, but being afflicted 
with haemoptysis and haematemesis he studied Hahnemann's 
Organon and Materia Medica, which were loaned him by Dr. 
Lentz. He found Nux vomica to be the most similar to his 
complaint, took a few doses, followed by Sulphur, effecting a 
complete cure. He pursued the new system of practice in Phila- 
delphia for nineteen years, doing much credit to himself and 
homoeopathy. In 1858, being again afflicted with haemoptysis, 
he withdrew from practice in the city and retired to his farm 
near Doylestown. Two years later he accepted the challenge of 678 
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an allopath to practice in that locality, and in seven years had 
converted nearly every family in the neighborhood. In 1839 
and 1840 Dr. Dubs was the first homoeopath to advise and use 
the preparation of medicine on the decimal scale, instead of 
Hahnemann's centesimal scale. 
He was one of the founders of the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy, and of the Philadelphia Provers' Union. He was 
one of the provers of Oxalic acid, Cucumis colocynthis, Lobelia 
cardinalis and Cannabis indica, and the first to prove Oimici- 
fuga racemosa. Pie read a paper upon the action of the last 
remedy before the Provers' Union, in which he showed its use- 
fulness in rheumatism of the joints, in diseases of the brain and 
spinal marrow, also in affections of the heart. lie was one of 
the corporators of the first homoeopathic college in the United 
States, in which he declined a professorship. 
Dr. George Wright graduated at the Hahnemann Medical 
College, Philadelphia, 1868, has a general practice in Doyles- 
town and the surrounding country, and sometimes is called into 
New Jersey. 
Dr. Abraham H. Clayton settled in Addisville in 1865, and is 
well known in the lower part of the county. 
G. J. W. Kirk, M.D., at Bristol, is establishing an excellent 
practice, having located there in 1871. 
In Hilltown Drs. M. Yeagei' and Waage attend to the ho- 
moeopathic portion of the community, and Dr. J. W. Thatcher 
practices at and around Quakertown. 
Dr. Rosenberger has recently settled in New Britain, near 
Doylestown. 
BUTLER COUNTY, 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Butler County about 1854, 
through the efforts of a Catholic priest, who was stationed at 
Saxonberg, and who seems to have had a fair knowledge of its 
principles. He eventually made many converts to the new 
school among his parishioners, and in the town of Butler. After 
his departure many of the families whom he had attended pro- 
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About 1864 a man calling himself Dr. Meyers, located in Butler 
as a homoeopathic practitioner, but did not meet with much suc- 
cess, and left after a few months. 
Dr. I. Stewart was the next pioneer in this county in 1855 ; 
he had practiced in the Eclectic school for several years, but 
about 1865 began to practice homoeopathy. In ten years he 
retired and was succeeded by Dr. R. C. McClelland. 
R. C. McClelland, M.D., a graduate of Cleveland Homoeo- 
pathic College in 1860, in 1865 succeeded Dr. Stewart in prac- 
tice at Glade Mills, where he remained in active practice until 
the time of his death, February 12th, 1876. 
P. S. Duff, M.D., graduated at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1870. 
Had practiced homoeopathy, however, since 1863. Located in 
Coylesville, but also visited in adjoining counties, as Arm- 
strong, Clarion, Westmoreland, and Butler. 
J. A. Hunter, M.D., located in Butler in the summer of 1873, 
and practiced there for a year, then removing to Leechburgh, 
Armstrong County, where he died. 
T. A. Kimmel, M.D., graduated an allopath in 1870, and 
located in Braddocks, Allegheny County. In 1871 he became 
a convert to homoeopathy, which he now practices. In 1875 he 
located in Butler, where he still remains with good prospects. 
CAMBRIA COUNTY. 
In 1864, Max J. Werder, M.D., then a medical student, a 
graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Philadelphia 
in 1866, located in Johnstown, and practiced there for four years, 
when he removed to San Francisco, Cal. 
J. K. Lee, M.D., born at Freeport, Armstrong County, Pa., 
in 1841; graduated at Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia in 1869, and located in Johnstown, where he still re- 
mains. J. E. Hutchinson, M.D., began to practice in Johns- 
town in 1870. In this county are also Drs. Alex. Tait and AI. 
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Dr. J. Crowley Bunting located at Mauch Chunk in 1855; 
consequently homoeopathy has been known there for some twenty 
years. It appears that he occupied the entire field of practice, 
with the exception of Dr. Newmiller, at Summit Hill. There 
are also Drs. T. C. Bunting, Mauch Chunk; William P. Christ, 
Parryville; James A. Osborn, Lehighton. 
CENTRE COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Centre County in the 
spring of 1849, by C. G. Reinhold, M.D., who located in 
Boalsburg. Dr. Reinhold was born November 8th, 1802, at 
Muhlhausen, and educated at Leipsic, Prussia. While a medi- 
cal student at Leipsic he became intimately acquainted with 
a disciple of Hahnemann, from whom he first heard of ho- 
moeopathy, which he eventually studied. Dr. Reinhold prac- 
ticed several years in Muhlhausen. About the year 1830 he 
emigrated to the United States, and commenced the practice of 
his profession in Philadelphia in 1831. He remained in Phila- 
delphia till 1834, when he removed to Lebanon. During his 
abode in Philadelphia he was for a time associated with Dr. 
Charles Ihm. He remained but two years in Lebanon, when 
he removed to Harrisburg, in 1836, where he entered into a co- 
partnership with Dr. Baker. They dissolved partnership in the 
spring of 1838, when Dr. Reinhold went to Mifflin, Juniata County, 
there remaining till the year 1840, when he again made a change, 
this time locating in Lewistown, Mifflin County. After having 
practiced with success nine years in Lewistown he came to Boals- 
burg. In all the above-mentioned places Dr. Reinhold was sub- 
ject to the ridicule, slurs, and jeers of the enemies of homoeopathy, 
who were numerous. During his stay in Centre County he con- 
trolled an immense practice throughout this and the adjoining 
counties. He was frequently called to visit the sick in Mifflin 
and Lewistown, his former places of residence. His practice 
also extended into Huntingdon, Perry, Montour, Union, and 
Northumberland counties, and his labors diol much towards 
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made many adherents to the cause among the first families of 
Bellefonte and throughout Centre County. He left Boalsburg 
in the autumn of 1858. Since Dr. Reinhold's removal from 
the county several homoeopathic physicians have located here, but 
none remained long. 
At present R. L. Dartt, M.D., a graduate of the Hahneman- 
nian Medical College of. Philadelphia, 1875, is established at 
Bellefonte, where he is doing: well. 
CHESTER COUNTY.* 
It is a current report that as early as the year 1835 one Dr. 
Caspari settled in Chester County, at a place then called Pres- 
tonville, now named West Grove. lie is said to have been well 
versed in the tenets of similia, and was the pioneer practitioner in 
this county, though he made but a short stay. Dr. Caspari now 
resides in Louisville, Ky. From the year 1835 to the year 1840 
we cannot discover that the great principle of homoeopathy had 
a single representative in the county. A few throughout the 
district had heard, from distant parts, especially the cities of 
Philadelphia and New York, of its wonderful cures of cases 
abandoned by other physicians as hopeless, and still fewer had 
secretly assayed its merits. Here and there, over the county, 
could be heard the wonders produced by the power of the little 
pills contained in a domestic medicine chest, but it was not until 
the year 1840 that a homoeopathic physician located permanently 
within the borders of Chester County. Dr. Robert May in that 
year settled in the extreme northern part of the county, in War- 
wick Township, near Warwick Furnace, where he had been a 
practitioner of allopathic medicine in former years, after his grad- 
uation at the University of Pennsylvania in 1822. Soon tiring 
of that mode of practice, he says: "I ceased to use calomel and 
the lancet, and finally gave it up altogether, being fully convinced 
of its absurdities. I used for a short time after this Thomso- 
nian or the botanic practice, but I also gave that up. I then 
took a trip to the West. After my return I heard of the system 
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of homoeopathy, and I determined to inquire into its truthful- 
ness. Accordingly I went to the city (Philadelphia) and vis- 
ited Dr. Williamson and others. I purchased books and medi- 
cines, and ever since have been an earnest advocate of its truths." 
This venerable disciple of Hahnemann lived to the good old age 
of seventy-two, dying on the 26th day of January, 1867. He 
was a successful practitioner. In the summer of 1853 an epi- 
demic of dysentery swept the whole country around him. He 
attended seventy-three cases, lost but two, both of them quite 
young children. At another time diphtheria raged so fearfully 
that out of five families, in as many miles, nineteen children and 
some adults died. He says: " I took the alarm and commenced 
prescribing the Iodide of mercury (as a prophylactic). Its effects 
were astonishing. I think I must have given it to two hundred 
children, only three of whom took diphtheria after taking the 
preventive, two of them very lightly; the other, under the in- 
fluence of strong medicine, died." He closes his interesting let- 
ter by saying, with emphasis: " I use no other than homoeopathic 
medicine, and that in small doses." Much honor is due to his 
memory. 
In the spring of the year 1841 J. Stuart Leech, after studying 
medicine in Pittsburg, graduated at the Jefferson Medical College 
in Philadelphia. He settled in the fall of the same year as a prac- 
titioner of allopathic medicine in the pleasant little village of 
Downingtown, located on the Pennsylvania Railroad, thirty 
miles from Philadelphia. During the first or second winter Dr. 
Leech was thrown into the society of Mr. William Downing, who 
had but recently been made a true friend to homoeopathy by the 
cure, under that system, of a much-loved daughter, after the local 
physicians had entirely failed. Through Mr. Downing's influ- 
ence, Dr. Leech became a homoeopathist, and this was the starting 
point of the practice of homoeopathy in Downingtown. Dr. Leech 
returned to Philadelphia, gaining all the information he possibly 
could on the subject, and returned to Downingtown in 1842, to 
use it in his daily rounds. He and the new system soon grew in 
favor. For many miles on either side he swept the practice of 
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education, intellect, and wealth, as are not usually found in agri- 
cultural districts. Homoeopathy in and around Downingtown is 
popular, and, in spite of tremendous difficulties surrounding it, 
has progressed rapidly. 
Until the year 1845 there was no further increase in the num- 
ber of homoeopathic practitioners. This year Dr. George C. Wil- 
liams settled as a pioneer in WestChester. He attempted and did 
eventually break up a stiff old allopathic sod. The ploughshare 
of medical truth entered slowly at first, but soon the mighty 
power of similia turned a deep and lasting furrow. Dr. George 
C. Williams was a student of homoeopathy under Dr. A. E. 
Small of Philadelphia, but never graduated in homoeopathy 
until the year 1850, doing so then at the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania. Shortly after his settlement in West 
Chester so rank became the growth of antagonism that it 
budded and brought forth a good-sized pamphlet against this 
mysterious innovation. Alas, for the weakness of the oppo- 
sition 1 By its own obesity it died the usual death of such 
monstrosities. Very few noticed it; but many looked into the 
new principle so constantly abused, tried it for themselves, and 
believed it from their experience. From that day the seed 
grew rapidly, and although it fell among thorns, it could not 
be choked, but brought forth fruit a hundredfold. Nothing 
changed the even tenor of the way of homoeopathy in its prog- 
ress, with Dr. Williams as its sole professional representative in 
WestChester, until the year 1854. About the year 1852 James 
B. Wood commenced the study of homoeopathic medicine with 
Dr. George C. Williams. Graduating in the spring of 1854 at 
the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania, he purchased the 
interest of Dr. George C. Williams and settled in his place, Dr. 
Williams having removed to Philadelphia. Dr. Wood's success 
was similar to that of Dr. Williams. His conversion' to ho- 
moeopathy was made while he was a layman from seeing the 
prompt effect of its remedies on one of his own family after a 
continued trial of several of the most distinguished allopathists 
had signally failed. He says: il The relief under our system 
was prompt and permanent." 684 
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In the spring of 1858 Dr. Joseph E. Jones settled as a prac- 
titioner of homoeopathy in West Chester. From the year 1853 
he had been the private student of Dr. Joseph Carson, Professor 
of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania, and 
graduated at that institution in the spring of 1856; he imme- 
diately received the appointment of resident physician to the 
Philadelphia General Hospital and Children's Asylum, after 
leaving which he devoted a year to the study and practice of ho- 
moeopathy, and soon accepted its tenets. In the spring of 1858, 
as before said, he settled in West Chester, and joined in the gen- 
eral success. In his conversion to homoeopathy, the cure of three 
diseases were prominent, namely, that of membranous croup, of 
hip disease, and the backening of quinsy, before it had prog- 
ressed to suppuration. They were convincing cases. 
There remained but two homoeopathic physicians in West 
Chester until March, 1863, when Dr. R. C. Smedley removed 
from Oxford to that place. He being the first occupant of the 
professional field at Oxford, his history will justly come when 
mentioning that district. About the same year, 1863, Dr. George 
C. Williams returned to West Chester, and essayed to establish 
himself again, after an absence of nine years; but not succeeding 
equal to his desires, he removed to Coatesville in 1866. In 1867 
Dr. Henry C. Wood, son of Dr. J. B. Wood, graduated at the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and settled with 
his father in West Chester. 
The next district in the chronological order of which we have 
positive data, is New London. Dr. Henry Duffield was its first 
practitioner in our faith. He graduated at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, in the year 1852, and settled 
in Philadelphia. In 1854 he removed from Philadelphia to 
New London, having just buried his wife. He did not desire 
to regularly practice, but would see those in his immediate neigh- 
borhood, when desired, which, in a short time, made him sought 
after by so many, that he entered into a general practice. The 
doctor remained in the vicinity of New London until the year 
1862, when, in the month of February, he removed to Oxford, to 
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remained until his death, which was on the 5th day of Decem- 
ber, 1865, at the age of sixty-five. A just tribute to his memory 
will be found in the Hahnemannian Monthly, page 429, vol. i. 
Homoeopathy lost a faithful and ardent disciple when he died. 
It was but a year after the occupation of New London by Dr. 
Duffield, that Dr. I. D. Johnson settled in Kennett Square. He 
graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl- 
vania, March 4th, 1852, and in April of 1855 commenced prac- 
tice. He has made no change in his location, and by diligence 
in business has built up a large and lucrative practice. He 
has been called many " hard names," and most grossly misrep- 
resented ; yet it has all conduced to his permanency and suc- 
cess. In 1861 he writes: "The progress of homoeopathy in 
this community has been rapid from the first, and everywhere I 
find a deep and abiding interest felt in the cause." 
It was about this same year, 1855, or the one following, that 
Dr. L. B. Hawley settled in Phoenixville, although it is said 
that T. J. Weed (during the late rebellion an officer on General 
Lane's staff, and now in Kansas), was located there, and made 
the first break for our great principle of similia. We cannot 
ascertain when it was, or how long he remained there. Dr. 
Hawley followed him, and remained in Phoenixville until the 
latter part of 1862, or the beginning of 1863, when he removed 
to Kinderhook, New York. Dr. Hawley's success in Phoenix- 
ville was decided. He was a graduate of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, of the year 1853. It was 
while Dr. Hawley was still at Phoenixville, that Dr. Orlando S. 
Wood settled there. Dr. Wood was a private student of Dr. 
Joseph E. Jones, of West Chester, and graduated in March, 
1860, at the Plomceopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 
and went directly to the above-named place in April, 1860, 
where he remained about a year, whence he moved in 1861, to 
Canandaigua, N. Y. At. the latter place Dr. Wood remained 
only till 1866, when, on account of his health giving way to the 
character of the climate, he removed to Philadelphia, in which 
city he resided until he removed to Omaha, Nebraska. The place 
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Williams located there in November, 1863. Dr. Williams now 
holds the territory, with a very successful practice, gaining influ- 
ence constantly. 
In the year 1854 Coatesville was made a homoeopathic colony 
under the leadership of Dr. D. R. Bardin, from whom we will 
receive his own account. He writes in 1861: li I graduated at 
the University of New York City, on the 8th of March, 1848, 
and settled here (in Coatesville) to practice medicine, in October 
following. I commenced with all confidence in the old school 
of medicine, and, thinking homoeopathy a great humbug, con- 
tinued to practice allopathic medicine for six years. During 
that time I learned, to my entire satisfaction, that there was no 
science in the old school; in fact, I had lost all confidence in it, 
as a system, and had concluded to abandon the profession, and 
turn my attention to some other business ; but, before doing so, 
I investigated the homoeopathic system of medicine. Soon be- 
coming interested therein, I introduced it into my practice; and 
fortunately, some of the first patients were treated with great 
success, thus confirming my belief in it as a science." 
Dr. Bardin remained in Coatesville until the fall of 1866, 
when he disposed of his interest to Dr. George C. Williams, and 
moved to West Philadelphia, where he is now practicing. About 
the year 1858 James L. Scott commenced the study of homoeo- 
pathic medicine with Dr. Bardin, in Coatesville. Graduating 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 
1860, he immediately located in Coatesville, where he still re- 
mains. In August, 1867, Harry E. Williams, M.D., settled in 
Coatesville as a practitioner of homoeopathy, having been the 
pupil of Dr. J. E. Kent, of Philadelphia. He graduated at the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 1866, 
locating himself as above noted, after he had remained about a 
year in Philadelphia. He joins the rest in the usual progress. 
It must have been between the year 1854 and 1857 (there are 
no specific dates) that Dr. William Downing changed his mode 
of practice from allopathy to homoeopathy. He has been located 
variously from Downingtown to Chester Springs, mostly at Lion- 
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allopathic brethren by his faith in "similia." Since his adoption 
of that principle there has been no cessation of his success. 
Dr. D. R. Hindman graduated at the Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal College of Pennsylvania, in March, 1857, and then located 
in the new field at Cochranville, where he remained, making 
many converts to his faith, until the year 1865, when he moved 
to the West, and entered upon an unusually successful practice 
in Marion, Iowa. 
Dr. P. E. Valentine was a practitioner in Cochranville 
for about six or eight weeks in the year 1846 or '47, but soon 
removed hence to Lexington, Ky. Also, Dr. Baker, now of 
Lancaster, Pa., was in the same place, for a short time, with good 
success. 
Following the order of time, in the settlements of homoeop- 
athy, Oxford comes next. Dr. R. C. Smedley was its pioneer at 
that place in the year 1860, having graduated at the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March of the same 
year. Dr. Smedley remained at Oxford two years and nine 
months, when he removed to West Chester in March, 1863, at 
which place he is doing a good share of business with the rest. 
As before noted, Dr. Duffield followed Dr. Smedley at Oxford, 
remaining there until he died, December, 1865. There was no 
practitioner of homoeopathy in the borough of Oxford until Feb- 
ruary, 1866, when Dr. J. F. Rose, a native of Philadelphia, 
removed thither from Media, Pa. 
Dr. Rose studied medicine with Dr. J. K. Lee, of West Phila- 
delphia, and graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania in March, 1865. In July of the same year he 
settled at Media, Pa., and, at the death of Dr. Duffield, succeeded 
him at Oxford, February 8th, 1866. The progress of homoeop- 
athy has been rapid and steady at that place ever since Dr. 
Smedley first settled there. 
After Oxford comes Marshallton. Dr. R. P. Mercer located 
here in the spring of 1861, having studied medicine with Dr. I. 
D. Johnson, of Kennett Square, Pa., and graduated at the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in the same year, 1861. 
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an extensive patronage, when circumstances combined to draw 
him away to other localities. He removed to Wilmington, Jan- 
uary, 1865. Remaining there but a short time, he changed to 
Chester, Delaware County, Pa., where he now is. 
In 1862 Dr. J. L. Sutton located in Penningtonville; but, 
before he had time to enter into practice to any extent, he was 
called away by the providence of God. He died in the latter 
part of 1862, or the early part of 1863. All that we can gather 
of the history of Dr. Sutton is, that he removed from Norris- 
town there, having practiced a short time at Unionville. He 
was about the age of thirty-five to thirty-eight when he died; 
was affable and easy in his address as a gentleman, but intensely 
aggressive as a disciple of Hahnemann. 
Dr. F. Marion Hawkins took a stand for homoeopathy in Jen- 
nerville, of this county, about April 1st, 1868. He studied 
medicine with James D. Warfield, M.D., and Milton Hammond, 
of Baltimore, Md., and graduated at the Eclectic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania in January, 1868. Now at Fallston, Har- 
ford County, Md. 
One other name had been mentioned as connected with homoe- 
opathy in Chester County-that of a Dr. Bradley-but we cannot 
locate him; more than the mere name is not known. 
Other homoeopathic physicians now practicing in this county 
are : Drs. Sarah Entriken, J. H. Way, West Chester; W. A. D. 
Pierce, Leopard; J. W. Pratt, Downingtown; E. B. Rossiter? 
Spring City; A. Williams, Phoenixville. 
On the 5th day of October, 1858, the Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Chester County, Pa., was organized by the meeting 
together of Drs. Duffield, of New London; Hawley, of Phoenix- 
ville ; Hindman, of Cochranville; Johnson, of Kennett Square; 
Wood and Jones, of West Chester. It has been in a prosperous 
condition ever since, having four meetings annually, which are 
held in January, April (Hahnemann's birthday), July, and Oc- 
tober. 
CLEARFIELD COUNTY. 
This county has but one homoeopathic physician, namely, Dr. 
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Homoeopathy was introduced into Clinton County by F. S. 
Smith, M.D., who located in Lock Haven in the year 1859. He 
is still there. 
J. C. Richards, M.D., commenced the practice of homoeopathy 
in Lock Haven in the year 1866, having previously practiced 
allopathy in the United States Hospital at Mobile, Alabama. 
He was a member of the Board of Health of Lock Haven for 
several years. Two allopathic physicians, serving on the same 
board, made strenuous objections, but without avail, as Dr. Rich- 
ards was retained as a member. This was quite a victory for 
homoeopathy, and Dr. Richards deserves credit for the deter- 
mined manner in which he fought the opposition. He now has 
a fine practice, marked with great success. 
Dr. Chandler was located at Lock Haven for a time, but is 
not there now. 
Dr. E. M. Veitz is also in the county. 
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COLUMBIA COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy appears to have been introduced into this county 
by Dr. J. C. Rutter, who located at Bloomsburg in 1855. 
CRAWFORD COUNTY. 
Dr. Alexander H. Burrett introduced homoeopathy in Craw- 
ford County at Guy's Mills in 1840. He practiced at Conneaut- 
ville for a number of years, finally moving to Cincinnati, and 
then to New Orleans, La., where he now is. While at Conneaut- 
ville he converted Dr. W. F. Owen to homoeopathy; when he 
went away, Dr. Owen succeeded to his practice, and continued 
there until his death, several years ago. 
H. M. Loger, M.D., born in Worcester County, Mass., in 
1834, graduated at Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College in 
1863, and located at Linesville, where he practiced for many 
years, until his removal to Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, a few 
years ago. 
Mrs. C. T. Canfield graduated at the Woman's Medical Col- 690 
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lege at Cleveland in 1871; began to practice at Fort Wayne, 
Ind., but remained there only six months, and then returned to 
Cleveland, and graduated from the Homoeopathic Hospital Col- 
lege of Cleveland in 1872; then removed to Titusville, and pur- 
chased the office and practice of Drs. H. D. and Sara B. Chase. 
The lady has been very successful in her treatment, and has a 
large practice. 
C. P. Graves, M.D., a graduate of Cleveland Homoeopathic 
Medical College in 1861, began practice in Clymer, N. Y., 
where he remained for four years, then removed to Corry, where 
he practiced two years, and then removed to Westfield, N. Y., 
where he now is. 
J. L. Dunn, M.D., of Titusville, J. B. Frazier, M.D., of Con- 
neautville, I. J. Mechem, M.D., of Titusville, Anson Parsons, 
M.D., of Springboro, I. P. Pond, M.D., and G. Newcomer, M.D., 
of Meadville, Susan Bose, M.D., and H. Smith, M.D., of Town- 
ville, and V. Smith, M.D., of Kingsley, are the other physicians 
practicing in this county. 
CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 
Francis Ehrmann, M.D., about the year 1835 gave homoe- 
opathy an impetus, which has since developed into a very suc- 
cessful career in this county. 
Dr. Ehrmann left Carlisle in 1844, and Dr. Ad. Lippe re- 
moved thither from Pottsville. By Dr. Lippe's labors in 
Carlisle and the neighboring counties where homoeopathy was 
unknown, he opened a large field for our school. An epi- 
demic of scarlet fever prevailed in the town, the mortality of 
which under strict homoeopathic treatment amounted to nil, 
while the allopathic physicians had a mortality of at least 90 
per cent. It was during the height of this epidemic that an allo- 
pathic physician, Dr. John Armstrong, asked Dr. Lippe for ho- 
moeopathic treatment in his own family. Four of his children 
were sick with the scarlet fever and he declared his unwilling- 
ness to attend them himself, as he had lost all the cases he had 
treated. The children made good recoveries, and Dr. Arm- 
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school, and being rather rudely called to answer to the allopathic 
society for his singular conduct, broke loose from his old asso- 
ciations and declared himself an adherent to the new school of 
medicine, which he practiced successfully for the rest of his life. 
Being a man of education and a former opponent of homoeopathy, 
that practice had encountered his strongest opposition, his wit, 
sarcasm, and argumentative powers to put it down ; but after he 
was convinced of its truth and excellence he continued until his 
death the warm and zealous advocate of its merits. Dr. Arm- 
strong died suddenly of heart disease, at Princeton, New Jersey, 
February 7th, 1870, aged seventy-one years, and was buried in 
the " Old Grave Yard " at Carlisle, with many of his family and 
ancestors. 
Homoeopathy became firmly established in that locality, and 
when Dr. Lippe removed to Philadelphia in 1850, Dr. C. Miller 
took his place. Dr. I. Smith had opened an office a year previous 
to Dr. Lippe's removal, and had taken charge of an increasing 
country practice. Dr. Lippe took with him to Philadelphia two 
gentlemen from this place who pursued the study of homoeop- 
athy in Philadelphia, and graduated in 1851 and 1852 in the 
homoeopathic college; these were Dr. T. C. Stevenson, who re- 
turned to Carlisle, and Dr. H. Duffield, who finally settled in 
Chester County ; both were highly educated men, and they be- 
came so thoroughly convinced of the superiority of the methods 
of Hahnemann that they became students again in their advanc- 
ing years. 
Dr. C. Miller left Carlisle in 1853. 
Dr. F. Ehrmann was here in 1845. 
Dr. William D. Hall graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania in 1867 ; located in Carlisle, where, 
after a few years, he suddenly absented himself, since which 
time his wife, Dr. Mary L. Hall, has continued the practice. 
Drs. W. II. Cook, T. C. Stevenson, J. S. Bender, and the 
others spoken of, are in Carlisle, while Dr. A. B. Sechrist is at 
Shepherdstown, Dr. B. C. Marshall, West Fairview, Dr. C. H. 
Gibson at Allen, Dr. J. D. Thorley at New Cumberland. 
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gent communities in the State, as elsewhere, has had a long and 
hard fight for supremacy, but has succeeded, and for some years 
has been the prevailing practice in the county. 
#Dr. H. R. Fetterhoff, formerly of Newville, now of Balti- 
more, commenced the practice of dentistry in Greencastle in 
1862, reading medicine in the meantime, and in 1867 he re- 
moved to Chambersburg. His wife being very ill under old- 
school treatment and not expected to recover, at the entreaties 
of a friend, Dr. B. Bowman, then the only homoeopathic practi- 
tioner in the place, was called in, who in a short time had her 
comparatively well. 
This led Dr. Fetterhoff to investigate homoeopathy. He grad- 
uated at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 
1869, and commenced practice at Newville, where he demon- 
strated the superiority of the system over that of his opponents. 
He found country practice too laborious and moved to Balti- 
more in 1874, where he is succeeding very well. He was suc- 
ceeded in Newville by Dr. W. B. Reynolds, who is sustaining 
the good character of his predecessor, thus doing a good work 
for homoeopathy. 
Dr. M. L. Hoover, now fifty-five years of age, has been prac- 
ticing homoeopathy over twenty-two years. He, with Dr. E. 
W. Garberech, have the practice in Mechanicsburg. 
Dr. Garberech graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1865, commenced practice in New Kingston, Cumberland 
County, and directed his attention to homoeopathy under the 
instructions of Dr. M. Friese, of Harrisburg, with whom he 
formed a partnership in 1865. A few months later Dr. Friese 
moved to Harrisburg, leaving his entire practice. With close 
study his most sanguine expectations for the success of homoe- 
opathy have been realized. 
Alvin I. Miller, M.D., of Shippensburg, read medicine with 
Dr. Isaac Lefever, of Harrisburg, and graduated at the Hahne- 
mann College of Philadelphia in 1872. He was the first to locate 
permanently in the quaint old town, although Dr. D. R. Stauffer 
w7as there a few months in 1871, and has had much to contend 
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branch of the profession and its friends. In 1874 and 1875 
an epidemic of pneumonia raged in Shippensburg, when the 
triumph of homoeopathy was so apparent that the system gained 
many firm and lasting friends. 
DAUPHIN COUNTY. 
About the year 1839 Dr. Ehrmann, now of Cincinnati, Ohio, 
opened an office in Harrisburg, the county seat, for the purpose 
of practicing the Hahnemannian system of medicine. This was 
the first effort, so far as we can learn, to establish homoeopathy 
in Central Pennsylvania. Dr. Ehrmann was succeeded by Dr. 
Whitehead, whose antecedents and subsequent history are alike 
unknown. Rev. Christian J. Becker also practiced homoeopathy 
here, about the year 1838 or 1840. 
These three physicians were the pioneers of the new school of 
medicine in this community. They shed a vast amount of light 
amid the general allopathic gloom, and the name of Dr. Ehr- 
mann is sufficient to indicate that a good work was done. 
The next actor in this homoeopathic arena was Dr. E. W. 
Roberts, now deceased. Pie was a man of rare attainments in 
the profession, and as an allopathic practitioner had accumu- 
lated a large practice among the intelligent citizens of this com- 
munity. When he took up the new system of practice, he 
carried with him all his former patients, and received many new 
ones. His success with homoeopathy was both satisfactory to 
himself and his numerous patients. 
About the time Dr. Roberts took up the new school of physic, 
Dr. John H. Eager, also an allopathic practitioner, likewise em- 
braced the tenets of homoeopathy. He was as successful as his 
contemporary, and died in 1872, full of honor and worth. 
Dr. S. T. Charlton, a member of this society, also commenced 
the practice of homoeopathy in this city many years ago. 
At the present time the number of regular homoeopathic prac- 
titioners is about ten, as follows : M. Friese, M.D., I. E. Cook, 
M.D., C. B. Eager, M.D., I. Lefever, M.D., J. G. Wiestling, 
M.D., S. T. Charlton, M.D., C. J. Carmany, M.D., J. Sorg, 
M.D., J. Wesley Bechtel, Jr., M.D., and J. Nelson Clark, M.D. 694 
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These have been here from three to twenty-five years. A number 
of others, we learn, give homoeopathic remedies to many patients. 
Homoeopathy in Harrisburg is not only an established practice, 
but is so far in the ascendency as to deny to its allopathic rival 
its heretofore proud title of " prevailing system of medicine." 
Dr. B. Bowman moved from here to Chambersburg, Pa. 
Dr. J. Nelson Clark became a convert to homoeopathy in 
1868, after studying its principles and workings for two years. 
He has been successful in practice, and has published some es- 
says on medical topics. He is trying to have established a 
State homoeopathic hospital for the treatment of the insane, which 
institution is to be under the entire control of the State. It is 
hoped that this project will eventually be carried into effect, 
though it can only be accomplished by the united effort of all 
our homoeopathic fraternity. 
Dr. Michael Friese, through the influence of Dr. Adolph 
Lippe, decided upon the study of medicine. lie became a student 
of Dr. John K. Smith, and afterwards of Dr. John Armstrong, 
both deceased, and graduated at the Homoeopathic College of 
Pennsylvania, I860. He commenced practice in Carlisle, moved 
to Mechanicsburg, and in 1866 to Harrisburg. He is an active 
member of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, 
of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, and enjoys the pat- 
ronage of a large part of the population of Harrisburg. 
Drs. D. C. Smith and Charles Delcamp are practicing homoe- 
opathy in Lykens. 
The Dauphin County Plomoeopathic Medical Society has been 
in existence for a number of years, and now embraces in its list 
of members all the practicing physicians in the county. 
DELAWARE COUNTY* 
Has the honor of being the birthplace of those veteran homoeo- 
pathic practitioners, Hrs. Walter Williamson, Richard Gardiner, 
and Gideon Humphreys, all espousing the cause at nearly the 
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same time, and last, though not least, of being the residence of 
Dr. A. E. Small, at the time of his conversion to homoeopathy. 
Walter Williamson, M.D., introduced homoeopathy into this 
county in the year 1836. He graduated at the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1833, and immediately settled in this district. 
In 1836 he embraced the tenets of homoeopathy, and began to 
practice it in the vicinity, where not even the name itself had 
ever been heard, except by one family, Mr. John Thomas's, of 
Upper Providence. He rapidly gained an immense practice, 
kept it up for two years, when, in 1838, he moved to Maryland, 
owing to seriously impaired health. (See Philadelphia County.) 
The second practitioner to unfurl the standard of homoeopathy 
in Delaware County was M. B. Eoche, M.D., a graduate of the 
Allentown school. He settled near Darby in 1839,and continued 
the practice for three years. Leaving in 1842, he was succeeded 
by Alvan E. Small, M.D., a native of the State of Maine, and a 
graduate of the Medical Department of the Pennsylvania College. 
He commenced practice in Upper Darby, Delaware County, as 
an allopathic physician, in 1840, and became a homoeopath in 
1842. Dr. Small continued to practice in the county until he 
moved to Philadelphia in 1845. 
James E. Gross, M.D., a native of New England, graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1850, 
and soon afterwards settled in Darby, Delaware County, to prac- 
tice, but remained there only a few months, and then moved to 
Lowell, Massachusetts. 
Stacey Jones, M.D., student of Henry N. Guernsey, M.D., 
graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania 
in March, 1853, and soon after that date settled in Upper Darby, 
Delaware County, and commenced the practice of medicine. He 
remained in his first location for three years, and then moved to 
the borough of Darby, where he continues to practice success- 
fully. 
Charles V. Dare, M.D., a native of New Jersey, graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 
1854, and very soon afterwards settled in the borough of Ches- 
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physician, who settled in Chester. He continued to practice 
there until he sold out to Coates Preston, M.D., in March, 1858. 
Coates Preston, M.D., a native of Pennsylvania, graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 
1853, and first settled at Scull Town, New Jersey. In the 
spring of 1854 he moved to Woodstown, New Jersey, where he 
continued to practice until he moved to Chester, succeeding 
Dr. C. V. Dare. In the course of seven years he built up quite 
a large circle of practice in Chester and the surrounding neigh- 
borhoods. On account of a serious spell of illness in the winter 
of 1865, and the consequent feebleness of health which con- 
tinued through the following spring months afterwards, Dr. 
Preston was induced to take into partnership Harvey Walter 
Farrington, M.D., but, after a few months' trial of the new re- 
lationship, the connection was dissolved. Dr. Preston continued 
his practice at the old stand, and Dr. Farrington took an office to 
himself at another place in Chester. 
Dr. Preston has outlived much of the prejudice and opposition 
against the new practice which existed among the people in his 
locality when he first settled in Chester, and has firmly estab- 
lished homoeopathy in the respect and confidence of the com- 
munity in which he lives, on a broad and firm foundation. 
Davis II. Pratt, M.D., a native of Newtown, Delaware County, 
graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania 
in March, 1861, and settled for practice in his native place soon 
afterwards. After living in Newtown for about two years he 
moved to Philadelphia in 1863, but in about six months after- 
wards he moved again, and located in the city of Trenton, N. J. 
Here he practiced until, on account of ill health, he was obliged 
to give it up, and moved to the State of Iowa in the summer of 
1867. Not being at all benefited by the change of residence, Dr. 
Pratt returned to Philadelphia, and died of bronchitis on the 28th 
of January, 1868. 
E. D. Miles, M.D., practiced medicine in Media, Delaware 
County, for a short time about the year 1863. 
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Immediately after the death of Henry Duffield, M.D., of Ox- 
ford, Chester County, Dr. Rose moved to that borough, in Febru- 
ary, 1866, and has continued to practice medicine there, from 
that time to the present. 
Homoeopathy, since its first introduction at Oxford by R. C. 
Smedley, M.D., has continued to advance, and its strongest 
advocates are found among the most intelligent and observing of 
the people. 
H. W. Farrington, M.D., a native, of Philadelphia, graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 
1864. After a residence of about a year in the city he moved 
to Chester, in 1865. After a few months' residence there, he 
moved to Beverly, New Jersey, but is now in California. 
Robert P. Mercer, M.D., graduated at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, in March, 1861, and in the 
following month (April) he located at Marshallton, Chester 
County, Pa. In January, 1863, he was appointed to the entire 
charge of the medical department of the Chester County Alms- 
house. After discharging the duties of that office on strictly ho- 
moeopathic principles for two years, to the entire satisfaction of 
the board of directors, he resigned, June, 1865, and removed to 
Wilmington, Delaware. In November of the same year (1865), 
at the solicitation of Dr. Coates Preston, Dr. Mercer moved to 
Chester, where he is still in successful practice. 
Henry. Minton Lewis, M.D., graduated at the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia in March, 1869, and settled in 
Chester soon after his graduation. 
Trimble Pratt, M.D., graduated at the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia in March, 1870, and settled in Media, 
Delaware County, in the following June. 
In addition to the above are Drs. C. W. Perkins, S. Starr, W. 
J. Urie, Chester. 
Through the long and successful labors of the above-named 
homoeopathic physicians in Delaware County, the inhabitants 
are pretty thoroughly indoctrinated in the science of homoeopa- 
thy, and a large portion of them gladly avail themselves of the 
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ERIE COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Erie County by Dr. S. 
Marvin, at a place called Springfield, in 1848. He remained 
there until 1852. 
P. Faulkner, M.D., commenced allopathic practice in 1813, 
and in 1848 adopted homoeopathy, and has practiced it in Erie 
up to the present time. 
R. Faulkner, M.D., born in Erie County in 1826, began the 
practice of allopathic medicine under the direction of his father, 
P. Faulkner, M.D., graduated from the Starling Medical Col- 
lege of Columbus, Ohio, in 1848. Practiced allopathy about 
a year, but on the adoption of homoeopathy by his father, he too 
became a homoeopath, and afterwards, in 1867, graduated from 
the New York Homoeopathic Medical College. Pie has been 
very successful, and has acquired an excellent reputation as a 
careful operator and conservative surgeon, possessing in a high 
degree the confidence and esteem of his patrons. He is a mem- 
ber of our State Society and American Institute. 
W. J. Blakely, M.D., removed from Pittsburg (see Allegheny 
County) to St. Mary's, Elk County, remaining there until 1869, 
when he removed to Erie, and entered into partnership with Dr. 
R. Faulkner, with whom he remained some eiffht months, then 
opened an office for himself, and has since remained in Erie. While 
at St. Mary's he was for eight years physician to St. Benedict's 
Academy for Young Ladies, to St. Joseph's Convent of Nuns, 
and to the Monastery of Benedictine Monks. He was also for 
several years surgeon to the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. 
While in Erie he has been physician to St. Joseph's Orphan 
Asylum and Convent. Was for two years city physician of 
Erie, until the office was merged into that of poorhouse physician. 
He has been successful in conducting a large surgical as well as 
general practice, and has contributed a number of papers to our 
homoeopathic literature. He was one of the original members of 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and has been 
its Vice-President, Orator, and Chairman of the Bureau of Materia 
Medica. Among the papers he has given to the profession are 
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tonin and Arsenite of Copper," "Caries of the Joints," and 
many others. lie is also a member of the American Institute. 
Anson Parsons, M.D., born in Sunderland, Bennington 
County, Vermont, in 1830, enlisted in the United States 
Army in 1861, and while Hospital Steward at the United States 
Army Hospital of Camden Street, Baltimore, he attended lec- 
tures and graduated at the University of Maryland. Began the 
practice of homoeopathy in 1866, at Albion, Erie County, and 
has since removed to Crawford County. 
Mary A. B. Woods, M.D., born in Crawford County, Pa., in 
1830. Followed the vocation of teaching from 18-46 to 1853, at 
which time she married. Having had a great taste for the 
medical profession, she devoted much of her leisure time, both 
before and after marriage, to the study of anatomy and physiol- 
ogy. In 1861, a favorable opportunity offering, she began active 
study with a view of entering the profession. Persevering, not- 
withstanding the many obstacles and discouragements which she 
met, she entered the Western Homoeopathic College of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, in 1862. Graduating in 1864, she returned to Erie, 
and began a limited practice, making a specialty of diseases of 
women and children. Her practice gradually increased, and 
among her patrons are many of the best people of the city. 
Drs. Julia A. Dunning, D. G. Alling, C. P. Graves, of Corry, 
J. S. Skeels, of Albion, C. N. Moore, of East Springfield, N. 
Seymour and E. Cranch, of Erie, are others of the homoeopathic 
profession in Erie County. 
FAYETTE COUNTY. 
To A. P. Bowie, M.D., of Uniontown, belongs the credit of 
the successful establishment of homoeopathy in Fayette County, 
although some years previous to his location at Uniontown two 
or three others had at times practiced homoeopathy there. B. 
F. Connell, M.D., practiced for a short time in Uniontown, in 
1858, but, not meeting with success, he soon removed to Canton, 
Ohio. Dr. C. Baelz also practiced homoeopathy at Brownsville 
in connection with his water cure. 
The other physicians practicing in this county are B. F. 700 
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Connell, M.D., Connellville; W. J. Hamilton, M.D., Dunbar; 
S. W. Hickman, M.D., Uniontown. 
FRANKLIN COUNTY. 
Many years ago Dr. Ehrmann practiced in Chambersburg, 
Franklin County, for a few months. In the latter part of 1849 
a highly educated homoeopathic physician, by the name of Proctor 
Lonis Schucking, directly from Germany, located in this town, 
where he practiced with varied success till 1851, when he sud- 
denly left. The field was then vacant till April, 1860, when A. 
R. Shaw, M.D., came and remained till 1864, when he left on 
account of the unsettled state of affairs which the " rebels" caused 
by their incursions. 
This vicinity was again without a practitioner of our school 
till 1866, when Dr. Benjamin Bowman settled there, who for 
several years was the only homceopathician in the county. He 
is a member of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsyl- 
vania and the American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
Dr. I. Y. Reed now divides the practice of Chambersburg 
with Dr. Bowman. 
Dr. C. E. Smith was for awhile in Greencastle, but has since 
removed; and now we find Dr. J. F. Nowell there. 
GREENE COUNTY 
Has but a single representative of the homoeopathic practice 
within her limits, namely, Dr. J. Gourhea, of Waynesburg. 
What success has attended his efforts we are unable to say. 
HUNTINGDON COUNTY. 
At different times several homoeopathicians have taken up 
their abode in Huntingdon, Huntingdon County; but now R. R. 
Wiestling, M.D., graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 
1859, is the sole practitioner in the county. 
Have each a single representative, Dr. W. Hunter, Blairsville, 
Indiana County ; Dr. R. S. Hunt, Brookville, Jefferson County. 
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At what period homoeopathic practice was introduced does not 
appear. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Mifflin in 1838 by Dr. C. 
G. Reinhold. Being called to see a child at Lewistown, twelve 
miles distant, who had been pronounced fatally sick by the 
"regulars," he made a brilliant cure. In consequence of this 
the inhabitants of the latter place prevailed on him to move 
thither, which he did in 1840, when his practice became very 
large. 
Dr. M. R. Garver is located at Thompsontown, and so also, 
we believe, is Dr. J. Sorg. 
Dr. D. C. Smith is reported to be at Mifflin. 
JUNIATA COUNTY. 
LANCASTER COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into this county by Dr. 
Ehrman, now of Louisville, Ky., about the year 1847 or '48. 
He located at Lancaster, the county seat, and remained several 
years. Dr. J. Mairs McAllister located here about 1851. 
In Lancaster we find four homceopathicians, Drs. W. D. 
Bollinger, Evans, Frank F. Frantz, and S. H. Metzger. 
Obadiah F. Huebener, M.D., of Litiz, obtained his education 
at Nazareth Hall, which institution he re-entered in 1858, at the 
age of twenty-three years, as teacher. While there he com- 
menced the study of homoeopathy under the instructions of Drs. 
G. H. Bute and Joseph Hark; graduated in 1867 ; located at 
his present home, where he enjoys a large practice. 
Dr. Hamilton Bing, now of the State of Ohio, located at 
Columbia in 1850, but remained only one year, when he was 
succeeded by Dr. Smith Armor, who still resides there. 
Smith Armor, M.D., located at Columbia in 1851, where 
Drs. W. G. Taylor, a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia in 1870, and J. H. Ceagy are also now 
practicing. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Lawrence County, at New 
Castle, about the year 1848, by Drs. Samuel Searles and David 
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C. Porter, who came at nearly the same time and practiced in 
company a few years. 
Samuel Searles, M.D., was born in Boston, Mass., in 1806, 
and was early thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood, 
and somewhat late in life entered the medical profession. Being 
a man of quick and clear perception and good judgment, he be- 
came a very successful practitioner. He died February 25th, 
1875, at the age of sixty-nine, having practiced most of his life 
at New Castle. 
Newell White, M.D., of New Castle, was born in Plainfield, 
Mass., in 1807 ; attended the Berkshire Medical College, from 
which he graduated in 1834. In 1847, having been thoroughly 
convinced that the theory and practice of homoeopathy was upon 
a true scientific basis, he began its practice in Windham, Portage 
County, Ohio, where he practiced with good success for some 
three years, and then removed to New Castle, Pa., 1850, and 
went into partnership with Dr. Porter. Three years afterward 
Dr. Porter removed to the West, and is now practicing in Re- 
nault, Monroe County, Illinois. 
Several other physicians have practiced there from time to 
time, but at present there are but two, Drs. Newell White and 
W. F. Hocking, both at New Castle. 
LEBANON COUNTY. 
In 1834 Mr. J. C. Reisner prescribed homoeopathic medicines 
for his neighbors and others who asked for them, before any 
homoeopathic physician had settled in Lebanon. 
Dr. B. Becker settled in this town in 1835, leaving in 1836, 
when Dr. C. G. Reinhold came, remained a short time and 
went to Lewistown, Mifflin County. Dr. Charles Haessler 
also located here in 1836, remained two years, when Dr. Jacob 
Bower came and stayed until 1840. Following the last-named 
gentleman two recent graduates spent six months, after which 
sojourns, the town was left without any homoeopathic representa- 
tive till 1856, when Dr. Reich tried six months' probation. He 
was followed by Dr. Sorg, who remained a year. 
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menced teaching school at the age of nineteen, which he con- 
tinned three years, having in the meantime entered the office of 
an old-school practitioner to prepare himself for college. His 
preceptor, in answer to this question, " How do you reconcile 
the difference between authors as to the action of the same remedy 
in a given disease?" would reply, " When you go to college you 
will hear the secrets of the ' Great Healing Art ' made plain and 
the discrepancies reconciled." In September, 1858, he matricu- 
lated at the old Pennsylvania College, which is now closed. The 
lectures on the " Practice of Medicine" were very learned and elab- 
orate; the etiology, diagnosis and prognosis of disease were accu- 
rately described, but the treatment taught was "confusion worse 
confounded." In the treatment of pneumonia, for instance, the 
professor gave careful comparisons between the Frenchman's 
bloodletting system, the Tartar emetic treatment, the Vienna 
expectant,. and even Fleischmann's homoeopathic treatment. 
All were brought forward, as Dr. Grumbein thought, to show that 
the expectant theory was best. Here the professor broke from 
his comparisons and reasonings and said : " Gentlemen, in the 
first stage of pneumonia bleed, and if necessary bleed again. In 
the second stage give Tartar emetic." 
An opportunity soon arrived for him to try the homoeopathic 
system upon himself. One night being taken with a severe attack 
of pleurodynia, his room-mate, a homoeopath, gave him a weak 
solution of Aconite, which he took with a few skeptical remarks 
sandwiched between the doses ; he experienced some relief but 
was very loath to acknowledge it. On his way to college next 
morning the pain returned, when he consulted the above pro- 
fessor, who advised " a grain of opium and a mustard plaster." 
Dr. Grumbein thought, " hell-fire is not so pleasant if heaven 
is within reach," so he returned to his room, hunted up the 
Aconite, took a good dose of it and was soon cured. 
The next autumn found him at the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1860. He set- 
tled in a small village, the only homoeopath in the county. After 
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bemarle, North Carolina, he settled in Anneville, Lebanon 
County, in 1875, where he is doing well. 
Dr. J. C. Johnston, of Lebanon, began the study of medi- 
cine with Dr. C. D. Gloniger, a celebrated oculist of the same 
town, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1872. He 
graduated at the end of his second course, was led to investigate 
homoeopathy, read some works on the subject, entered the Hahne- 
mann College of Philadelphia in 1874, and graduated in 1875. 
He settled in his present location, where, notwithstanding the 
many trials of earlier practitioners, he is meeting with encour- 
aging patronage. 
Dr. R. S. Hoffmeyer, from Manchester, Maryland, located in 
the village of Jonesville in the spring of 1876. 
LEHIGH COUNTY. 
This county being the seat of the " Allentown Academy," as 
it was familiarly called, has a large number of homoeopathic 
physicians. Drs. Henry Detwiller, John Romig, C. D. Martin, 
and E. Frey tag were the pioneers, and the system of medicine 
introduced by them, which was prognosticated by the old school 
as short-lived, has become deeply rooted in the community. 
(Fuller particulars of this county will be found in the "Allen- 
town Academy," Section II.) 
LUZERNE COUNTY. 
So far as we have been able to learn, Dr. A. P. Gardiner lo- 
cated at Carbondale, in this county, in the year 1851, removed 
to Scranton in 1855, and is now a resident of Moscow, in the same 
county. On the 27th of December, 1855, he organized the first 
homoeopathic medical association in this county. Dr. J. S. 
Pfouts located at Wilkesbarre in 1861, and Dr. C. A. Stevens 
at Scranton in 1862; Dr. Charles Arthur is also practicing with 
great success at Scranton. Thomas Adams Pierce, M.D., also 
opened an office at Wilkesbarre in 1854, and there remained 
until 1858. Other physicians, occupying the various localities of 
this thickly populated county, are Drs. O. H. Adams, A. E. Burr, 
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W. M. Ostrander, West Pittston; H. N. Dunnell, Scranton ; E. 
B. Evans, Hyde Park ; L. A. Snyder, Hazleton ; J. G. Sperling, 
Kingston. 
LYCOMING COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into Lycoming County by 
John Redman Coxe, Jr., M.D., who came to Williamsport in 
the spring of 1845, and remained until 1850, when he returned 
to Philadelphia, where he formerly resided. His father, John 
Redman Coxe, Sr., M.D., occupied the Chair of Materia Med- 
ica in the University of Pennsylvania for several years. 
During the abode of Dr. Coxe, Jr., in Williamsport, he prac- 
ticed with success among the best families of the town and sur- 
rounding country. 
C. G. Reinhold, M.D., and his son, Hahnemann E. Reinhold, 
came from Milton to Northumberland County in the autumn of 
1864. Dr. Reinhold, Sr., being sent for, frequently made pro- 
fessional visits to Williamsport several years previous to his lo- 
cating there. Homoeopathy grew in favor so rapidly, and his 
practice became so large, that he broke down his not very strong 
constitution, by overexertion in applying himself to his pro- 
fession. He died June 28th, 1865, in the sixty-third year of 
his age. 
M. J. Koenig, M.D., came to Williamsport in the autumn of 
1865. He had practiced allopathy in the capacity of Assistant 
Surgeon in the United States Army during the Rebellion. He 
practiced successfully in Williamsport several years, then re- 
moved to Warrensville, Lycoming County; next he removed to 
Salladesburg, where he controlled an immense country practice 
for three years, and then located at Jersey Shore, this county. He 
now has the largest practice of any physician in the town, and 
is the only homoeopathic doctor, while there are six allopaths. 
In January, 1868, AV. C. Doane, M.D., came from Washing- 
ton, D.C., to Williamsport, where he built up a large practice. 
He and Dr. H. E. Reinhold entered into a copartnership Octo- 
ber 25th, 1869, which lasted five years, during which time they 
held the leading practice of this part of the State. In July, 706 
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1875, Dr. Doane removed to Syracuse, New York, where he is 
now engaged in practice. 
William Willits, M.D., located in Williamsport, in August, 
1865, where he has since been practicing. 
C. M. Baker, M.D., previously an allopathic practitioner, 
came to Williamsport in the autumn of 1867. He remained but 
a few years, when he removed to West Virginia. 
George C. McDermott, M.D., located in Williamsport in July, 
1875; he made a specialty of eye and ear treatment, and con- 
templated establishing an eye and ear infirmary. He finally re- 
moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
Howard Cheyney, M.D., a graduate of the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, class of 1875, a promising 
young physician, located in Williamsport in May, 1875. Dr. 
R. D. Tipple is also in Williamsport. 
There are at present four homoeopath icians in the city, whose 
practice will compare favorably in extent, and in the class of 
people among which it is used, with that of the allopathic phy- 
sicians of the town. Williamsport can truly be considered one 
of the strongholds of homoeopathy. 
Dr. G. T. Monroe introduced homoeopathy in this county, at 
the county seat, Mercer, in 1865, and still remains. He gradu- 
ated at the Albany Medical College in 1842, practiced homoeop- 
athy, first at Greenville, two or three years, then moved to Mercer. 
C. W. Hoyt, M.D., graduated in 1870, and removed to Sharon, 
Mercer County, where he has remained. 
MERCER COUNTY. 
MIFFLIN- COUNTY. 
Our system of practice was introduced into this county, in July, 
1840, by Dr. C. G. Reinhold, who moved to Lewistown, and 
remained in active practice there nine years. Dr. George H. Cox, 
a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1865, afterwards 
converted to homoeopathy, located in Lewistown in 1867, where 
he spent two years. On account of deafness and an invalid 
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succeeded by Dr. Av illiani F. Speth, who enjoys an excellent 
practice, and is the only homceopathician in the county. 
Dr. Speth graduated in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1852, when 
he practiced the old system. He began homoeopathy in Phil- 
adelphia, in 1857, moved from Philadelphia to Pottsville in 
March, 1859, where he followed his professional calling till 
December, 1869, when he made Lewistown his permanent resi- 
dence. He is a member of the Homoeopathic Medical Society 
of Pennsylvania, of which body he has been first vice-presi- 
dent. 
MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 
Probably before the year 1840, Dr. Wauke located himself at 
the Trappe, in the northern part of the county, as a pioneer of 
homoeopathy. He was a much-esteemed and very successful 
practitioner, not only in his own county, but had quite a busi- 
ness in the adjoining county of Chester. 
About the year 1842 Dr. Ezra Fell commenced the practice 
of homoeopathy in Norristown. He was succeeded in 1848 or 
1849 by Dr. Thomas Pierce, who subsequently removed to 
Winona, Minnesota. Dr. Bloecle, now of Brooklyn, Long Island, 
located there for a short time. Dr. Sutton left Norristown about 
the commencement of the civil war, went into the army, and died 
of typhoid fever. Dr. Melville Casselbury, now of Morgantown, 
West Virginia, was there a short time in 1860 or 1861. Dr. 
William R. Power came about 1862, remained several years, and 
removed to Philadelphia. Dr. Rufus Sargent practiced here a 
short time, but entered the army in 1862. Dr. Mahlon Preston, 
a stanch homoeopath, a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, 1861, succeeded him, and enjoys a lucra- 
tive practice at the present time. He is an active member of the 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Chester, Delaware, and Mont- 
gomery counties, has been Vice-President of the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and has written good articles 
for our journals. Theodore L. Pratt, M.D., a graduate of the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1853, and Dr. 
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In Hatboro, Dr. Edward Reading has practiced over twenty 
years, covering largely Bucks and Montgomery counties. 
In the same town Evan and Lewis Davis, homoeopathic vet- 
erinary surgeons, have extensive practice in their line of pro- 
fessional duties. Dr. L. Hoopes has been a few years in Potts- 
town. Dr. S. C. Moyer is doing well at Lansdale. Dr. Reuben 
Owen was at Conshohocken, where he mingled the duties of a 
clergyman with those of a physician. He left Conshohocken in 
the spring of 1876, and was succeeded by Dr. George W. Dungan, 
of Germantown. In Collegeville Dr. George R. Knight located 
in 1873, where, he says, 11 Homoeopathy started on a successful 
career the next day after my arrival, and, notwithstanding the 
surrounding cloudy atmosphere of allopathy, it now appears as 
a bright star of the first magnitude." Dr. Knight graduated 
at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 1873, having 
Dr. John R. Reading, of Somerton, for preceptor. In his treat- 
ment he endeavors to carryout the doctrines of the great Hahne- 
mann. He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeop- 
athy, and has written articles published in the American Journal 
of Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Montour County several 
years before the rebellion broke out, by a Dr. Scott, who located 
in Danville. He was very successful and acquired a large prac- 
tice, which he retained until the beginning of the war, when he 
entered the army, and was never heard of afterwards. 
The next we have any account of is Dr. Ostrander, who settled 
in Danville about the year 1867; his stay was marked with 
success. He gained the confidence of a goodly number of people, 
and practiced among the leading families in town. 
J. H. P. Frost, M.D., came from Milton, Northumberland 
County, in September, 1870, and remained till his death, Jan- 
uary 21st, 1875. Dr. Frost was quite an eminent writer in the 
profession. He was Professor of Physiology in the Homoeop- 
athic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1865-67, and then he 
took the Chair of Pathology. He aided in the preparation of 
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the first edition of Guernsey's Obstetrics. He revised and made 
numerous additions to Bergau's work on Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, 
etc. He wrote a large work on Veterinary Medicine, and about 
two-thirds completed a work on Clinical Materia Medica. He 
also wrote numerous articles foi' medical journals. He was one 
of the founders of the Hahnemannian Monthly, and was its first 
editor. 
F. E. Harpel, M.D., came to Danville in March, 1873, and 
he now has an extensive practice. 
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY.* 
Dr. Detwiller, now of Easton, Pennsylvania, occupied the ad- 
vance ground, his first prescription in accordance with the law 
of similars having been made July 23d, 1828, while a resident of 
Hellertown, Pennsylvania. 
Dr. J. H. Pulte, of Cincinnati, Ohio, landed in New York in 
1834, and stopped awhile in this county, at Cherryville, and 
formed the acquaintance of Dr. William Wesselhoeft, residing a 
few miles distant. He joined the Northampton County Society 
of Homoeopathic Physicians, the first in this country, and after 
remaining six years, went to his present location at Cincinnati, 
as before stated. 
Drs. Bute, of Nazareth, and Jacobson, of Bethlehem, were 
early enlisted in the cause, and the county is well represented 
by the following able homoeopathic physicians: 
Drs. J. J. Detwiller, E. L. Hopkins, Charles Roseberry, G. 
B. Slough, Easton; J. R. Goodman, Bethlehem; James Hark, 
Nazareth. 
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY. 
C. G. Reinhold, M.D., was the first to introduce homoeopathy 
into Northumberland County, he having emigrated from Boals- 
burg, Centre County, to Milton, in the autumn of 1864. He 
built up and maintained an extensive practice till the time of his 
removal, which took place in the autumn of 1864. 
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J. H. P. Frost, M.D., located in Milton in 1868. He prac- 
ticed with success till 1870, when he removed to Danville. 
J. R. Ely, M.D., a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, 1865, settled in Milton in 1866, since 
which time he has been in full practice. 
In the spring of 1875, J. A. Osborn, M.D., a graduate of 
Hahnemann College of Philadelphia, came to Milton and opened 
an office; he has a fine and steadily increasing practice. 
We find, also, in Shamokin, Northumberland Comity, M. H. 
Harpel, M.D., a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, class of 1867, who has since been pursuing the 
practice of his profession with success. 
Charles Arthur, M.D., practiced in Sunbury, the county seat 
of Northumberland, from April, 1866, till October, 1871, when 
he removed to Baltimore. He is now engaged in successful prac- 
tice at Scranton, Luzerne County. Dr. J. B. Masser is now at 
Sunbury, and Dr. J. FI. Heinsling at Dalmatia. 
PERRY COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy is believed to have been introduced into this 
county by Dr. William H. Johnson, who settled in Marysville 
in 1860, and died in 1873. 
Dr. B. C. Grosch practices in Andersonburg. Dr. O. T. Ever- 
hart, of Marysville, studied medicine and graduated at the Univer- 
sity of Maryland in March, 1856, and began practice in the follow- 
ing autumn in Goldsboro, York County, where he remained ten 
and a half years. On the outbreak of the war he entered the United 
States Army as Assistant Surgeon. From arduous professional 
duties and exposure he contracted an attack of subacute inflam- 
mation of the spinal meninges, which resulted in complete paral- 
ysis. He was confined to his bed for four months, and then 
used a crutch and cane fourteen months. Having recovered suf- 
ficiently he resumed his practice in Goldsboro. In 1867, owing 
to ill health, arising from malaria, he was obliged to seek a 
healthier location, and moved to Shrewsbury, York County, 
Pennsylvania, where he recovered from the malarial trouble, but 
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ruse an introductory lecture of Professor William S. Helmuth's 
to the class of 1852, after which he was enabled to look with an 
unprejudiced mind into the principles of the new school. 
Procuring homoeopathic remedies, he tried them upon him- 
self, making a complete recovery. In 1869 he removed to 
Marysville, Perry County, and began the practice of homoeopa- 
thy. For three or more years he was Surgeon to the Northern 
Central Railway Company. 
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. 
In writing up this county, which embraces Philadelphia city, 
Germantown, Chestnut Hill, Manayunk, Frankford, Roxbor- 
ough, Foxchase, Bridesburg, Holmesburg, Somerton, etc., the 
historian is fain to pause awhile to reflect upon its galaxy of 
astra lumina of the first magnitude, who have adorned the pro- 
fession by their Herculean labors for the establishment of homoe- 
opathy, who have enriched it by their literary contributions, who 
in many cases sacrificed their health and personal comfort, and, 
as in the case of not a few, their very lives, in the exemplifica- 
tion and promulgation of Hahnemann's doctrines. 
Of course, in a work like this, anything like a comprehensive 
and exhaustive history of these representatives cannot be given. 
We will be content, therefore, with a hasty review of the chief 
actors who have in time past represented, and who still do rep- 
resent our cause in this county. 
Carl Ihm, M.D., a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and 
graduate of Wurtzburg, Bavaria, came to Philadelphia in 1829. 
Being instigated and encouraged by Mr. William Gcisse, a Phil- 
adelphia merchant, he studied homoeopathy, adopted its tenets, 
and at once began its practice. He was the first physician to 
practice homoeopathy in Philadelphia. 
Two years later, in 1831, he was succeeded by Dr. George H. 
Bute, whose conversion to homoeopathy occurred while a mis- 
sionary of the Moravian Church in Surinam, South America. 
In a letter concerning himself Dr. Bute said : 
I am a native of North Germany, and was born May 27th, 1792. In the 
year 1829 I received a special commission to proceed to Surinam (Dutch 712 
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Guiana), and, whilst in the city of Paramaribo, fortunately became ac- 
quainted with Dr. C. Hering, established there as a homoeopathic physician. 
This meeting was doubtless the most important event of my life, the turning- 
point as it were of my mind. He here cured me of spotted fever, a disease 
which in that climate is always death. I therefore craved a knowledge of 
that wonderful new medical system. Convinced of the soundness of Hahne- 
mann's doctrine, I placed myself under the tuition of my friend, Dr. Hering, 
studying arduously until I became a proficient in the theory and practice 
of homoeopathy. My constitution, however, being unable to withstand the 
insalubrious climate of Surinam, I was compelled to leave the country 
after a stay of nearly two years. With shattered health I sailed for Bos- 
ton in 1831, thence proceeding to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, where I settled 
and practiced. 
The Asiatic cholera having broken out in a virulent form in Philadel- 
phia, I considered it my duty to repair to that city immediately, both by 
my knowledge and skill to assist the thousands of sick and dying, and at 
the same time to demonstrate to the world the truth of Hahnemann's sys- 
tem, by proving beyond cavil that homoeopathy is the best, and indeed the 
only true practice for that fatal disease. My reputation became so widely 
spread, that, at the end of two years' practice in that city, I was so over- 
whelmed with patients that in spite of the utmost activity, I found it im- 
possible to properly attend to all. While in this strait I wrote to my 
friend, Dr. Hering, at Paramaribo, urging him to come to Philadelphia, and 
assuring him of a large field for his talents and labor. But as Dr. Hering 
found it difficult to leave his work in Paramaribo, he did not arrive until 
March, 1833, and then in ill health, with a fistula in the thigh. He soon 
after joined me in practice, we two establishing our office on Vine Street. 
After some years of active practice in Philadelphia, my own health became 
so impaired that I was obliged to withdraw to the country. I again selected 
the village of Nazareth as my abode, and since that period I have never 
flagged in my efforts by writing, experiment, and practice to advance the 
great cause of homoeopathy, and disseminate its truths among the people. 
Dr. Bute died February 13th, 1876, in his 84th year. Ilis 
old friend, Dr. Hering, kindly furnishes the following notes as 
to Dr. Bute's contributions direct to homoeopathy: 
He was the first prover of the indigenous plants, Sanguinaria 
Canadensis, Cistus Canadensis, Chimaphila umbellata, Chima- 
phila maculata, Rhus venenata, and Rhus glabra. He also 
proved Rhus tox. and Rhus radicans, and made comparisons of 
the different Rhus. He was the introducer of the West Indian 
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He proved Sarraeenia asimina and Ustilago maidis in 1840. 
He made provings of Cypripedium humile and Phallus im- 
pudicus. 
A lady whom he had cured with Daphne mezereum, on being 
told the remedy, handed him from her flower-pot a twig of the 
Daphne Indica, with the request that he would prove it. He 
did so, and it has been of great use in many cases. 
He contributed to the Allentown provings of Lachesis, Me- 
phitis, Calcarea phosphorica mixta, and basica. 
Some of his symptoms of Alum he sent to Hahnemann, who 
inserted them in his Chronic Diseases. (See vol. ii, p. 35.) 
He also observed valuable symptoms of Conium maculatum. 
A patient suffering from an old intermittent, applied to Dr. 
Bute for relief. Bute, remembering that his mother had always 
been in the habit of carefully pouring away the water in which 
she had boiled eggs, because, she said, " people get the fever 
from such water," and recollecting once having witnessed a cure 
of intermittent in a man who opened an egg and poured brandy 
into one-half of the shell and drank it off, now proceeded to 
make a tincture by breaking a newly laid egg, taking away the 
yolk and greater part of the white, and putting the rest in a 
bottle with alcohol. This albumen ovi, as it was called, made a 
complete cure of the man's intermittent, and has been found of 
great service in many desperate cases since. 
Dr. Charles F. Matlack graduated from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1820. In an autograph letter he writes: "I 
may here remark that I believe I was the first American physi- 
cian, in chronological order, who practiced in Philadelphia ac- 
cording to the homoeopathic method. I employed it, by way of 
experiment, as early as the winter of 1832-33." He practiced in 
Philadelphia for many years, and in 1851 located in German- 
town. He was a close student, and a successful practitioner of 
the Hahnemannian type. He never aspired to a large practice, 
contending that a homoeopathist could not do justice to a crowd 
of patients. He did much for the cause of homoeopathy by 
effecting permanent cures of chronic diseases. He died in 1874. 
The next homoeopathic physician in Philadelphia was Con- 714 
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stantine Hering, M.D., who was born in Oschatz, Saxony, on 
January 1st, 1800. It seemed particularly fitting that he who 
was to lend such a helping hand to the inauguration of a 
new and the true system of medical practice, should come upon 
the scene at the very opening of the century which was to 
witness so great a reform in medical science. From his earliest 
age he exhibited an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and spent 
many of the leisure hours of his boyhood in wandering about 
the country, from hill-top to vale, busily employed in explor- 
ing nature's secrets. While attending the classical school at 
Zittau, from 1811 to 1817, he made a large and valuable col- 
lection of minerals, plants, skulls, and bones of animals. He 
studied medicine at the Surgical Academy of Dresden and the 
University of Leipsic. While thus employed he was engaged 
to publish a work against homoeopathy, which was to be its 
deathblow. Having occasion to consult some works of Hahne- 
mann at this time, his attention was attracted by some statements 
which he found there. Deeply impressed by them, he stayed his 
hand in the demolishing work, and determined to investigate the 
matter and ascertain for himself its truth or falsity. The result 
of his research was a firm conviction of the truth of the law of 
cure as embodied in the formula similia similibus curantur. With 
undiminished ardor he kept up his study in this direction, and 
wrote as his thesis for graduation "De Medicina Futura," in 
which he ably and resolutely maintained the doctrines of Hahne- 
mann. On March 23d, 1826, he received his degree of Doctor 
of Medicine from the University of Wurzburg. Shortly after, 
in the May following, he was appointed instructor in Mathe- 
matics and the Natural Sciences in an academy, Bloch man's In- 
stitute, in Dresden. After remaining here for some months he 
was appointed to go to Surinam under favor of the king, to make 
researches and collections in zoology. He consented to do this 
and sailed for South America. While there he pursued the study 
of homoeopathy, practiced it to some extent, and wrote some 
articles for the Homoeopathic Archives. This latter proceeding 
was brought to the notice of the king in such a way as to cause 
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ment and to let outside matters alone. By return mail Hering 
sent in a report of his accounts in full, and, resigning his official 
position, he began to practice in Paramaribo. A few years later 
he sailed for home, and on his way thither landed in Philadel- 
phia in the January of 1833. 
To give a detailed account of Dr. Hering's life and labors 
would be simply to reiterate what is already well known to the 
profession throughout the world. W7e will, however, in a con- 
densed form merely make allusion to some of his principal works. 
An Account of Dr. Hering's Provings.* 
Stapf published his Archives about three times a year, and 
made it a rule to give a new proving with each number issued. 
The offer was made to Dr. Hering to take part in all the new 
provings. 
The first proving the doctor sent to Stapf was one of Meze- 
reum. It was inserted in his collection, printed years after, in 
1825. See the Archives, vol. 4, No. 2, p. 126, where Stapf says : 
"The signature H. and W. signify students of medicine in 
Leipsic. A few years later H. (Hering) was in South America, 
and W. (Wahle) in Rome." The next proving Stapf wanted was 
of Sabadilla. See the same volume of the Archives, No. 3, p. 
122, where the former students appear as young physicians. In 
the next number, vol. v, No. 1, Sabina appeared, in which Wahle 
figured alone, Hering's provings having arrived a few days too 
late for publication. The same thing occurred with Colchicum. 
A Prover's Society had been formed in 1824, and the plan made 
to publish in each number a drug from the mineral, vegetable, 
and animal kingdoms. For the first number were prepared 
Plumbum ac., Paris quad., and Cantharides. For the second, 
Jodium, Arum maculatum, and Oniscus asetlus. For the third, 
Selenium, Secale, and a German viper were proposed. 
All the provings which had only been commenced were 
handed to Dr. Trinks, of Dresden, for his friend, Dr. Hartlanb, 
who had employed Hering three years before as scribe. Hart- 
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laub completed the Plumbum and Cantharides, and commenced 
his Materia Medica. Of all the other provings, Hartlaub only 
published Sabina, vol. i, 323-326, and in the third volume, 
Paris, p. 149. 
The others, mostly fragments, Ant. tart., Argentum, Aristo- 
lochia, Clematis, Bellad., Caltha palustris, Dematium, Geum 
rivale, Nostoc, Opium, Ruta, Tanacetum, and Viola tricolor, were 
partly printed in after years, and part of them yet await com- 
pletion. 
While in Surinam Dr. Hering's main object was to get the 
poison of one of the largest snakes on the continent, the Trigono- 
cephalus lachesis. It was finally obtained on July 28th, 1828; 
preparations were made and provings commenced with the first 
and following triturations, and printed verbatim in the form of 
daybooks (but not until three years later) in Stapf's Archives, 
x, 2, p. 1, with additional remarks from January 18th, 1830. 
During the six full years of his stay in South America he 
added also to our Materia Medica the famous poison spider which 
he called Theridion curassavicum ; a lizard, the Ascalabotes, sup- 
posed to be poisonous; two noted vegetable poisons, Ccdadium 
seguinum, Jambos and Jatropha, and some observations on So- 
lanum mammosum, Spigelia anthelmintica, and Vanilla. The 
proving of the Selenium was continued, and additions collected 
to the symptoms of Alumina and Phos. ac., and the provings of 
Psorinum were commenced. 
After his departure from South America and arrival in Phila- 
delphia one of the first provings made was of Mephitis, the skunk, 
and the Ictodes foetida, skunk cabbage, and, as soon as obtain- 
able, the Crotalus was proved. 
Being lucky enough to secure possession of a mad dog he took 
the saliva while the animal was alive, and made the first proving 
thereof on himself, using the triturations. 
The provings of Lachesis and Crotalus were completed in Al- 
lentown, Pa. The provings of Calc. phos. acid (Lippe) were made 
there; likewise Calc.phos. basicayvas fully proved, and the proving 
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tional provings were also made of Kalmia, Nicandra, and Vi- 
burnum acerifolium. 
In the Correspondent-Blatt-a little paper started at Allentown 
to save the enormous postal charges-were published symptoms 
of Baryta muriatica, August 31st, 1836 ; a condensed collection 
of the provings of Lapis magneticus, overlooked by Jahr; Cistus 
Canadensis, or Helianthus caradupe, according to the provings of 
G. H. Bute, and Mephitis putorius, January 18th, 1837 ; Pothos, 
or Ictodes foetida, and Calc. phos. acida* (.Lippe), February 
3d, 1837; Sanguinaria Canadensis, by G. H. Bute, and Daphne 
Indica, January 22d, 1837, and Apocynum cannabinum from 
Gray's Journal. Many indigenous plants were also proved in 
Allentown, such as Phytolacca, Gelseminum, Gymnocladus, etc. 
Returning to Philadelphia in 1839 the chemical family of 
salt-formers, of which Iodine has since been fully proved, were 
selected by the doctor in preference to others, and Chlorine, Bro- 
mine* (Lippe), and Fluoric acid* (Lippe) were added to our 
Materia Medica. 
After the formation of a large Provers' Union he proposed a 
new proving of Ferrum metallicum, and was enabled to get its 
nearest relatives, Kobalt and Niccolum, in their purity, from one 
of our first chemists. To get an answer to the question : Can 
we draw conclusions from the constituents of a chemical composition 
as to the effects of the chemical unit? induced him to recommend 
to Dr. Neidhard the proving of Cinnabar; and, on account of the 
surprising effects of Calcarea oxalica, the proving of Oxalic acid. 
For the same reason Dr. Hering commenced the provings of 
Oxygen in 1841, to which he added in 1845, the year of his tour 
to Germany, the newly discovered Ozone. Schbnbein, the dis- 
coverer, considered it to be similar to Chlorine. Berzelius de- 
cided it to be an allotropic form of Oxygen. The symptoms 
could have decided this before if the analysis by proving had 
been developed enough. The same was the case with a proving 
the doctor made with the Thallia of Owen, a supposed new ele- 
ment between Magnesia and Calcarea. The careful provings had 
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shown its great similarity to both these, when a British chemist 
discovered that it was a, hitherto unknown, mixture of both. 
Dr. Hering considering it his duty to collect and translate the 
provings made in the United States, and to be the mediator be- 
tween the new and the old home of our art, had not only sent 
the experimental proving of the so-called Brucea to Stapf, but 
also Bute's Sanguinaria and the Mephitis of the Allentown 
provers, and later the Fluor ac., published in the first volume of 
the Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, by Dr. 
Jacob Jeanes. In 1849 and 1850 he sent to one of the best jour- 
nals we ever had in our school, Buchner and Nusser's Allgemeine 
Homoeopatische Zeitung, Augsburg, 8, the arrangement of the 
symptoms of Castor equi. proved at the Allentown Academy, 
and Dr. G. H. Bute's proving of Mancinella (Hippomanes man- 
cinella). Tellurium was proved as next to the Selenium, and 
Tetradymit as a crystal; Palladium as the next relation to Pla- 
tina ; Osmium as belonging to the same family; and Lithium as 
the next missing link to Potassa and Natrium. 
In 1851, being asked by a German publisher to do so, he com- 
menced his Amerikanische Arznei Prufungen. This work con- 
tained twelve provings of more or less importance. Of these rem- 
edies Glonoine (Lippe) is becoming of more and more importance 
every year. The provings of the Virus apium comprised also 
the full natural history of the insect; the provings of the New 
York Society, augmented by a large number of new provings 
with the pure poison; the observations of Rev. Longstreth, which 
are of the highest importance, and as many cases of the effects fol- 
lowing the-sting as could be obtained by daily observation within 
the course of a year. The reports of symptoms following the 
sting, and what symptoms had been cured, have settled one of 
the most important scientific questions, viz.: Can the symptoms 
from inoculation with animal poisons, the zymotic symptoms, be 
used in our Materia Medica, alongside of the symptoms observed 
from, our alcoholic preparations taken inwardly? The greatest of 
all critical objections, never made by any critic, but in the mind 
of the prover of Lachesis, since 1828, has been answered affirm- 
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The book further contained translations of the provings of 
Benzoic acid by Jeanes, and the Oxalic acid by Neidhard, both 
indispensable in heart disease; Joslin's masterly proving of 
Rumex crispus in translation ; the Allentown proving of Kalmia; 
a completed proving of Millefolium, and one of Jatropha curcas; 
new provings of the old polychrests Cepa and Aloes, the latter 
for the first time proved with the genuine Aloes soccotrina, 
brought here by the physician on the man-of-war sent by the 
United States to the Sultan of Muscat; the animal substances, 
the old and famous Hippomanes equorum, and the blue blood of 
the Limulus cyclops, or the Xiphosura Americana, in which a care- 
ful analysis had shown copper as a constituent of the blood, and 
but a trace of iron. The publisher, provided he got a second 
part like the first, without remuneration, sent postage free, was 
willing to publish a-second volume, but he died suddenly, and 
his heirs did not ask for a continuation. 
Lithium has been proved since, and Arsenic in the metallic 
state, particularly in the hydrogen combination; in 1851 the 
Ar seriate of lime, the Beryllium, the Calc, sulpjhurica, and the 
Mercur. sulph., together with additional provings of Arg. nit., 
Baryta, and Nux moschata. The proving of Formica wras an 
attempt to get something similar to the Apium virus, but it has 
not yet been used sufficiently to gain the importance of a poly- 
chrest. With a change of the genius epidemicus it may become 
of more importance. The possibility of a scientific Materia 
Medica has gained by every proving, but the next generation 
may have to establish it. 
During his residence in Philadelphia Dr. Hering.aided in the 
establishment of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl- 
vania, and has served as Professor of Materia Medica in this in- 
stitution several times. He was for some years one of the editors 
of the American Journal of Materia Medica. His Domestic 
Physician, published in 1834, has probably had the largest sale 
of any homoeopathic book ever produced, and ran through 
six editions in three years in this country alone, besides being 
translated into other languages. Of Dr. Hering's abilities as a 720 
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prescribe? it is needless to say more than that he has always 
ranked as a second Hahnemann. 
Ever since Dr. Hering became a receiver of the doctrines of 
Hahnemann, he has been a faithfid worker for their development 
and promulgation, that mankind might be benefited thereby. 
The vast amount of use he has been to the cause is inexpressible; 
the only conceivable manner of even forming an idea of the 
same would be to take away from homoeopathy all that has been 
done for it by every one else, Hahnemann excluded,-could such 
a thing be done. 
The following is a list of homoeopathic physicians, in ad- 
dition to those named, in Philadelphia, prior to 1840:* Drs. 
Jacob Jeanes, Jacob Lentz, Samuel Freedley, Caleb B. Matthews, 
G. S. F. Pfeiffer, Walter Williamson, Richard Gardiner, Jonas 
Green, James Kitchen, Gideon Humphreys, Charles Neidhard, 
George Lingen, J. G. Rosenstein, William Schmoele, Henry 
Schmoele, H. F. H. Hoffendahl, Samuel R. Dubs, Alvin E. Small, 
Matthew Anderson, Frederick Schaeffer, Dr. Aromada, a Bohe- 
mian. 
Also, prior to 1840, J. G. Wesselhoeft sold homoeopathic books 
and medicines at his store in Quarry Street. Mr. Kedderlin, in 
Fourth Street, also sold homoeopathic books. 
Jacob Lentz, M.D., began to practice homoeopathy in 1836, 
died in 1841. 
Richard Gardiner, M.D., was one of the oldest and most 
highly respected homoeopathic physicians in the United States. 
He was born February 21st, 1793, in Darby, Delaware County, 
Pa. For more than sixty years he has followed the vocation 
of a medical practitioner. Not only is he a notable example 
of the ideal type of the true physician, but he deserves honor- 
able mention for having given to the profession two sons and 
no less than five grandsons. He was the father of the late 
Professor William A. Gardiner, in his day one of the most able 
teachers of anatomy in the country, and also of our colleague, 
Dr. Daniel R. Gardiner, of Woodbury, N. J. He was him- 
* This list is taken from some MSS. prepared by the late Walter 
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self, also, the son of a prominent physician of his native place, 
who was his tutor and guide during his preparation for med- 
ical honors; he graduated as Doctor of Medicine at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, in 1814, the same year succeeding 
to his father's practice in Darby. While attending medical 
lectures in Philadelphia, he was in the habit of driving to 
the University from Darby, a distance of ten miles, every morn- 
ing, and back at night. He practiced in his native place for fif- 
teen or sixteen years, after which he removed to the neighboring 
city of Philadelphia, where he soon secured a firm foothold, and, 
ultimately, a large and remunerative practice. About a year after 
his settlement in Philadelphia, he announced his acceptance of, 
and belief in, the fundamental principles of homoeopathy, which 
he had begun to investigate before his removal from Darby. He 
was not at all obtrusive or noisy in his advocacy of the new sys- 
tem,-such demonstration being foreign to his nature,-but he 
was none the less clear and decided in his faith. He continued in 
active practice in Philadelphia till 1870, forty-two years, when he 
removed to Baltimore, which city seemed to offer a favorable open- 
ing for practice, with the intention of establishing himself there. 
The experiment appears not to have proved satisfactory, for, after 
a brief absence, we find him in his former location as diligently 
pursuing his accustomed duties as ever. And here he has stead- 
ily remained, keeping up his regular routine of daily work. 
Dr. Jacob Jeanes was born October 4th, 1800. His literary 
education was obtained in Philadelphia. His medical studies 
began under the preceptorship of the distinguished Dr. Joseph 
Parrish, and he received his degree ofM.D. from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1823. Dr. Jeanes practiced as an allopathic phy- 
sician for twelve years. He was for several years physician 
to the Almshouse and the Philadelphia Dispensary. In 1835 
he adopted the maxim of similia slmilibus curantur, and be- 
came a declared homoeopathist. In 1838 he published a work 
on practice, which unfortunately is now out of print. He gave 
much thought to the improvement of our Materia Medica, en- 
deavoring to condense or select only the most characteristic symp- 
toms, giving most attention to locality. He introduced the Rosa 722 
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damascena, Juglans cathartica, Mel cum sale, Amygdala Per- 
sica, Lobelia cerulea, Anisatum stellatum, Pix liquida, Ulmus 
rubrum, Cholos terrapini, Comptoria, Stramonium sem., Chenopo- 
dium sem., Arctium lappa, and many others, particularly Benzoic 
acid, the knowledge of which is chiefly due to the labors of Dr. 
Jeanes. 
He was one of the founders of the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania, in 1848, and was Professor of the Princi- 
ples and Practice of Medicine in the first faculty of that institu- 
tion in the years 1848 and 1849. He was one of the original 
members of the American Institute, a member of the Philadel- 
phia County Homoeopathic Medical Society, and an honored 
member of our State Medical Society. The death of Dr. Jeanes 
occurred on the 18th of December, 1877, and resulted from an 
apoplectic seizure. 
Dr. Samuel Freedley was born near Conshohocken, Pa., on 
the 2d of February, 1799. He studied medicine with Dr. Cleve, 
a physician and botanist of considerable prominence in the early 
part of the present century. He graduated from the Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1821, and soon 
after commenced the practice of medicine in this city. In 1836 
he first had his attention called to homoeopathy, and, as a result of 
his success in the treatment of several severe cases of disease by this 
method, in 1837 he fully abandoned "old physic," and adopted 
homoeopathy. While a student with Dr. Cleve, Dr. Freedley 
became much interested in the study of botany, and has always 
maintained a deep interest in that science. His herbarium con- 
tains about 10,000 specimens, and is carefully labelled and clas- 
sified. He has also collected a very large botanical library. 
Upon the organization of the Homoeopathic College of Penn- 
sylvania in 1848, Dr. Freedley was elected Professor of Botany 
in that institution, which position he held for three years, when 
botany was abolished, as a portion of the curriculum of study. 
In 1854 he was appointed to the Chair of Medical Botany, in 
the Penn Medical University, and resigned his position in 1859. 
Dr. Freedley moved into the house which he still occupies, at 
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is still in active practice, and enjoys the distinction of being the 
oldest homoeopathic physician in Philadelphia. 
Charles Neidhard, M.D., was born in Bremen, Germany, 1809. 
He came to this country and commenced the study of medicine 
at Reading, Pa., and continued it at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and Philadelphia Medical Institute; also took two courses 
of clinical instruction at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Being se- 
riously ill from over-study, he applied for medical aid to Dr. W. 
Wesselhoeft, his personal friend, then located at Bath, Pa. His 
own recovery and his physician's arguments, led him into homoe- 
opathy. Pie returned to Europe in 1835, graduated at Jena, and 
came back to America in 1836. He settled in Philadelphia at 
once, and began practicing homoeopathy. In 1837 he graduated 
from the Allentown Academy. He was one of the original mem- 
bers of the American Institute, and served for three years as Pro- 
fessor of Clinical Medicine in the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania. Pie has made some important provings, 
has been a valuable contributor to the medical literature of the 
country, and served as co-editor with Dr. Hering on the first 
Philadelphia journal of homoeopathy. His treatise on Diphtheria 
in the United States is favorably and widely known, as also is 
his essay, " Where do we stand? How can we best promote 
the scientific progress of homoeopathy ?" The doctor is still ac- 
tively engaged in attending to his large and lucrative practice. 
He is one of the pioneers of homoeopathy in Philadelphia, and 
witnesses with marked satisfaction its growth and prosperity. 
Walter Williamson, M.D., graduated at the University of 
Pennsylvania in March, 1833, and immediately afterwards set- 
tled in practice in Marple, Delaware County. 
He moved to Newtown, in the same county, in 1835, and in 
the spring of 1836 had his attention called to the new system of 
medical practice. At the earliest opportunity he obtained all 
the booksand pamphlets then published in the English language 
which had any bearing upon the subject, and commenced the 
study of its doctrines. On the 3d day of July, 1836, being de- 
tained at home all day by professional business, Dr. Williamson 
read Hahnemann's " Essay on Coffee," and was so fully con- 724 
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vinced of the truth of the new therapeutic law set forth in the 
essay, that he determined to further test its validity by actual 
experiments. Accordingly he proceeded at once to make ex- 
periments with medicines, homoeopathically prepared, on the sick, 
to see if they would cure the symptoms similar to those they 
had caused in the healthy human system. Having satisfied 
himself of the truth of Hahnemann's position in this respect, he 
took medicines for the purpose of seeing whether they would 
cause in the healthy, symptoms similar to those they were known 
to cure in the sick. 
These experiments were equally as convincing in the affirma- 
tive as were those made in the other direction, and there being 
no honorable course left to the experimenter but the adoption 
of the teachings of the new system of practice, the choice in 
favor of homoeopathy was cheerfully accepted, and a determina- 
tion made to follow the teachings of her precepts. The adop- 
tion of the new system involved the necessity of close application 
to study, and the renewal of a state of pupilage. As the ho- 
moeopathic literature in English was insufficient to guide and 
instruct a practitioner in the responsible duty of treating the 
sick, the further labor was imposed of studying the German 
language, in which most of the writings of homoeopathic authors 
were locked up. The proper steps were taken, and the new 
studies were entered upon, but the demand forknowledge of the 
new science was so strong that translations were carried rapidly 
forward and soon began to issue from the press, thus the 
English practitioner was supplied with the necessary works in 
his vernacular tongue, in less time than it would require to learn 
the German so as to read them in that language. 
Dr. Williamson entered immediately upon the difficult task 
of treating the sick, in a large circle of practice, on principles he 
had to study out and apply to every case as it appeared. 
About the middle of March, 1839, Dr. Williamson located in 
Philadelphia, although the eight physicians of the school already 
resident there appeared sufficient to transact all the business. 
One circumstance materially aided the doctor in introducing him 
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of the homoeopathic school did not attend to the practice of mid- 
wifery, and it was found a drawback to progress that its patrons 
were obliged to rely upon old-school physicians for accoucheurs. 
Happily, Dr. Williamson was particularly adapted for this posi- 
tion, both by previous large experience and his pleasing demeanor 
in the sick-room. His homoeopathic brethren recommended 
him widely ; the legitimate results followed, and he was speedily 
engaged in a large and lucrative practice. He took an active 
part in the organization of the American Institute, and was an 
active member up to the time of his decease. He was also one 
of the founders of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, was one of its first professors, and served in this capacity 
for many years. He was also one of the founders of the Penn- 
sylvania State Society, and one of its early presidents. In 1855 
he published a treatise on the Diseases of Women and Children, 
which remained as a textbook until superseded by larger and 
more comprehensive works. He was a constant contributor of 
valuable papers to medical societies and journals, and filled at 
different times the position of editor and sub-editor. 
As a teacher Dr. Williamson was always instructive and inter- 
esting. He was essentially a worker for the cause he so ardently 
espoused. By the result of his labors as a prover, he was enabled 
to make many valuable additions to the pathogenesis of our 
drugs, as well as to add some valuable remedies to our Materia 
Medica. Of these we may mention Triosteum perf., Phytolacca 
dec., and Podophyllum. His kind heart led him to visit an old 
friend and patient on a snowy winter's day. In feeble health at 
the time, the exposure that he was subjected to on that occasion, 
hastened the end of his useful and noble life. He gradually 
sank, and quietly died on December 19th, 1870. 
Caleb B. Matthews, M.D., was a member of the first faculty 
in the Homoeopathic College in this city, and filled the Chair of 
Materia Medica. He was devoted to homoeopathy, and had a 
distinguished reputation for his writings and acquirements in 
medical science, as well in Europe as at home. He was an earnest, 
hard-working man in a city renowned for the eminence of her 
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in the college, and that he might lead his classes to a thorough 
knowledge of the Materia Medica, he took almost incredible 
pains with his lectures, often spending the hours of night till 
three in the morning in their preparation, and that after his usual 
hard day's work attending the sick. Such a strain could not be 
borne with impunity. His emaciated form and hollow cough 
told what was soon to come, and on May 27th, 1851, he rested 
from his labors. 
James Kitchen, M.D., was born in Philadelphia March 8th, 
1800. He received the degree of A.B. from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1819; that of A.M. in 1822; and that of M.D. 
from the medical department the same year. He afterwards 
spent some time abroad, continuing his studies in Paris, Holland, 
England, and Scotland. Returning to Philadelphia he com- 
menced practice in 1824. For three years he held a position in 
the Southwark Dispensary, and served as Port Physician at the 
Quarantine Station from 1832 to 1836. 
Dr. Kitchen suffered for several years from a chronic affec- 
tion of the liver, for which he had consulted all the leading 
old-school physicians of that day without relief. He was finally 
induced by Dr. Green to try some of his homoeopathic powders, 
and a few doses of Bryonia effected a cure. This led him to try 
the system in his own practice, and in 1837 he came out a full 
and open advocate of the practice. He held the position of 
Professor of Clinical Medicine one year in the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania. He has contributed largely 
to the journals of the country, and in 1828 translated from the 
French Bouillard's Treatise, on Rheumatism, and in 1841 Jahr's 
Homoeopathic Pharmacy. He is still in vigorous health and in 
active practice. 
A. E. Small, M.D., removed from Delaware County to Phila- 
delphia in 1845, where he remained eleven years. He was a 
member of the first faculty in the Homoeopathic College, in 
which institution he remained nine consecutive years, filling the 
chairs, at different times, of first, physiology, and later practice 
of medicine. He had a large business, and was a successful prac- 
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Small's Domestic Practice, published while he was in Philadel- 
phia. He has done much to spread homoeopathy, and is still 
known as a zealous laborer in all that pertains to the advance- 
ment of our cause. His contributions to our medical literature 
are many and valuable. In 1857 he removed to Chicago, where 
he has since remained. 
S. R. Dubs, M.D., born in Philadelphia, November 11th, 1811, 
received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1836. In 1839 he adopted homoeopathy, and began its prac- 
tice. For nineteen years he labored at his profession in Phila- 
delphia, and in 1858 removed to Doylestown, Bucks County, 
to which county the reader is referred for further information. 
William S. Helmuth, M.D., one of the pioneers of homoe- 
opathy in Philadelphia, was born in this city in 1801. He 
graduated'from the Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1824. For fifteen years he practiced allopathy, 
when, about 1839, through the influence of Dr. James Kitchen, 
who had just commenced the practice of homoeopathy, he was 
induced to investigate the new system, and soon becoming 
convinced of its value, he adopted it fully in his practice. Dr. 
Helmuth was one of the founders of the Homoeopathic College 
of Pennsylvania, and was appointed to the Chair of Practice of 
Medicine in the first faculty, which position he held for five 
years. Dr. Helmuth has always been a careful student of the 
Materia Mediea, and a faithful adherent to the principles of 
homoeopathy. He has enjoyed a large and remunerative prac- 
tice, but retired from active business several years ago. 
Francis Sims, M.D., was born in Philadelphia about 1820. He 
graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1844. Mainly 
through the influence of Drs. James Kitchen and William S. 
Helmuth he was early induced to adopt the homoeopathic prac- 
tice. He aided in the organization of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, and held the Chair of Surgery in that 
institution for five years. He was one of the board of managers 
and surgeon to the first homoeopathic hospital in Philadelphia. 
Dr. Sims has enjoyed an extensive practice among the best por- 
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William Schmoele, M.D., a native of Germany, came to the 
United States previous to 1834, and became a student and assist- 
ant of G. Bute's, M.D., finally graduated at the Allentown 
Academy. In the early days of homoeopathy in Philadelphia he 
enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. About 1844 he returned 
to Germany and spent four years studying special branches of 
medicine, and particularly pathology and morbid anatomy, under 
Rokitansky and other eminent pathologists. Returning to Phila- 
delphia he assisted in the organization of the Penn Medical Uni- 
versity in 1854, and developed the graded course offered by that 
school, this being the first attempt to introduce this method of 
study into the United States. Dr. Schmoele was one of the first 
men in the country to advocate and earnestly labor to promul- 
gate the doctrine of the germ origin of disease. Since 1857 his 
time has been divided between various business operations and 
the practice of medicine. 
H. N. Guernsey, M.D., was born at Rochester, Vermont, 
February 10th, 1817. He commenced the study of medicine 
with Dr. A. E. Small, then practicing medicine in Upper Darby, 
in the year 1840. November 1st, 1842, he matriculated in the 
Medical Department of the Pennsylvania College at Philadel- 
phia; November 1st, 1843, he matriculated in the Medical De- 
partment of the University of New York, and graduated at that 
institution in the spring of 1844. In the summer of the same 
year he located in Frankford, Philadelphia, as a homoeopathic 
physician, obstetrician, and surgeon. He soon acquired an im- 
mense practice in all three of the above departments, and was 
the pioneer of our school throughout Frankford, Bridesburg, 
Whitehall, Holmesburg, Bustleton, Fox Chase, Milltown, Miles- 
town, Rowlandville, Nicetown, Olney, Rising Sun, Aramingo, 
and Richmond. He thoroughly established homoeopathy in all 
the above places, and now there are respectable practitioners of 
our school in all of them. 
Here he continued to labor single-handed, day and night, with 
the utmost zeal, caring for nothing else than the establishment 
and spread of his adopted profession, for ten years, when he as- 
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him. Three years later Dr. H. N. Guernsey moved into Phila- 
delphia proper, and in 1861 was elected Professor of Obstetrics 
in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, a position 
he held for eight consecutive years, and for three years he was 
Dean of the Faculty. So useful and so popular were his lec- 
tures that the students requested their publication; this gave 
origin to his first edition of Guernsey's Obstetrics in 1867. The 
Therapeutic portion of this work is translated into French and 
published in Paris. Meanwhile, his practice became enormous? 
and very many families were converted to homoeopathy through 
his success. He has written many useful papers for medical 
societies, both home and foreign, and for our journals, many of 
which have been reprinted in pamphlet form and widely circu- 
lated, and have been translated into different languages. He 
was elected Professor of Materia Medica in the Hahnemann Med- 
ical College of Philadelphia in 1871, and served for three years, 
during which he was again Dean of the Faculty. Again his lec- 
tures were requested for publication, which resulted in Guernsey's 
Materia Medica. 
A. W. Koch, M.D., is a native of Germany, and graduated at 
the Tubingen University in 1830. He has been in active prac- 
tice in Philadelphia for many years. 
G. Elliger, M.D., a native of Strasburg, Germany, introduced 
homoeopathy in Germantown about the year 1845. He travelled 
in the stage-coach from Philadelphia to Bethlehem, stopping 
at the towns on the way one day in each week. He made some 
brilliant cures of chronic diseases, which contributed largely to 
his practice; afterwards he located one-half of the year in 
Philadelphia, the other half in his native home. 
George C. Williams, M.D., was born in Brewer, Maine, Feb- 
ruary 26th, 1818; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1842. 
Tn 1845 he came to Philadelphia, and in 1847 located in West 
Chester as a homceopathic physician. He became successful in 
practice, particularly in surgery. He took his homoeopathic 
degree from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania 
in 1850. In 1854 he removed to Germantown, and remained 
in successful practice until 1863. He then returned to West 730 
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Chester, and later moved to Coatesville, Pa., where he died 
March, 1870. 
John M. Weick, M.D., was born in Rhodt, Rhenish Bavaria, 
January 6th, 1803. He attended the University of Heidelberg, 
and finally graduated from the surgical school at Bamberg in 
1828. About 1846 he adopted homoeopathy. In 1847 he re- 
moved to Philadelphia, where, with the exception of a brief 
season in the West, he has since remained. 
Owen B. Gause, M.D., born in Wilmington, Del., June, 1825. 
After reading medicine in a somewhat desultory way for several 
years, he entered the Plomoeopathic Medical College at Cleveland, 
Ohio, in 1855; but being called to Philadelphia he attended the 
balance of the session of 1855-56 in the Philadelphia school, and 
took his degree from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania in the spring of 1857. He located in Trenton, N. J., in 
April of the same year. In the summer of 1860 he was elected 
to the Chair of Physiology in the Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, which position he held for four years, and re- 
moved to Philadelphia in the spring of 1862. Dr. Gause was 
one of the most active promoters of the Homoeopathic County 
Medical Society, acting as Vice-President for three consecutive 
years. He also took an active part in the establishment of the 
Homoeopathic State Medical Society, and was elected President 
in the spring of 1869. He became a member of the American 
Institute in 1869. He was elected to the Chair of Obstetrics 
and Diseases of Women in the Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia in the fall of 1868, wdiich position he still holds. 
His writings are limited to his contributions to the different 
medical societies and the medical journals. 
David James, M.D., was born (March 14th, 1805, at Radnor, 
Montgomery County, Pa. He studied medicine under the tui- 
tion of his father and Professor George McClellan ; entered Jef- 
ferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1826, and graduated 
in 1828. After practicing one year in Philadelphia, he settled 
in Byberry, in the northern portion of the county, where he 
practiced until 1855, when he returned to Philadelphia. 
During Dr. James's residence in Byberry he was regarded as 
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him an immense praetice. About the year 1848 he became con- 
vinced of the superiority of homoeopathy as a scientific system of 
medical practice, and at once commenced to study and apply it. 
His patients had such confidence in his judgment and skill that 
all of them accepted the new method of practice simply on Dr. 
James's indorsement. His practice increased and his influence 
extended itself still more widely, so that in a comparatively short 
time homoeopathy had been firmly established over a vast extent 
of territory and among a highly intelligent population as the 
result of his labor and influence. In obstetrics and minor sur- 
gery he had few superiors, and his skill, particularly in the de- 
partment of obstetrics, gained for him a wide reputation and a 
large amount of consulting practice. 
On his return to the city business at once flowed in upon 
him, so that the partial release from labor, for which he had 
hoped as a result of the change of location, was not attained. 
He continued in active labor until April, 1873, when a cardiac 
disease, which for several years had interfered with his otherwise 
vigorous health, assumed a more serious and alarming type and 
prevented him from engaging in further physical labor. His 
malady rapidly increased, and June 6th, 1873, he passed away. 
W. R. Power, M.D., was born at Williamsport, Pa., in 1799; 
graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1819. He prac- 
ticed in his native place until 1840, when he came to Philadel- 
phia. He embraced homoeopathy, and began its practice in 1849. 
He proved Vaccinum in 1852, and published the results of his 
experiments in the Philadelphia Journal of Homoeopathy, vol. i, 
p. 493. He practiced for several years in Norristown, Pa., and 
again returned to Philadelphia, where he died in 1873. 
Dr. Theodore S. Williams graduated at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1850. He located in Ger- 
mantown, where, after a successful career, he sold out to Dr. 
George W. Malin. 
Ad. Lippe, M.D.,* in 1850, moved from Carlisle to Philadel- 
phia,and has been in active practice ever since. His special study 
* For earlier history see Cumberland County. 732 
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has been the Materia Medica department, in which he stands un- 
surpassed in the world. His Characteristic Symptoms of the Ma- 
teria Medica is used as a textbook by all our colleges. From 
1863 to 1868 he was Professor of Materia Medica in the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, a position, it is 
needless to say, in which he afforded general satisfaction. He 
has added largely to the literature of our school by his contribu- 
tions to journals, translations, essays, etc. He was one of the 
earliest editors of the Hahnemannian Monthly. 
Ad. Fellger, M.D., was born in Gmiird, Wurtemburg, June 
14th, 1821. He entered upon the study of medicine at a very 
early age, and soon after graduation entered the German army 
as surgeon. He was so situated as to see the old-school form of 
treatment administered by the most eminent physicians in almost 
every form of disease to be met with in life. But these very ex- 
periences so lowered his former high estimate of medical science, 
that had he not fortunately met with Hahnemann's Organon, 
and witnessed many remarkable cures wrought by applying the 
law of the "similars," he would likely have abandoned the pro- 
fession entirely. He gradually substituted the homoeopathic 
system in place of his former method, and finally, in 1847, came 
to this country. In 1869 he graduated from the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania. He has a large practice and 
is very successful therein. 
C. E. Toothaker, M.D., born in Dorchester, Mass., Nov. 30th, 
1805, moved to Philadelphia in 1842, and graduated from the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1851. Hecom- 
menced practice in Philadelphia, where he has remained. He 
claims to be the first physician who advocated the homoeopath- 
icity of hot applications to heated, inflamed surfaces, instead of 
cold, and explained his views in an article published in several 
journals about 1854-55. 
R. Sargent, M.D., born in Essex County, Mass., April 16th, 
1824, a former allopath, graduated from the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1852. After graduation he 
practiced for five years in Bordentown, N. J., but returned to 
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surgeon, and was on duty at several different posts. He is known 
throughout the profession as a zealous worker for homoeopathy. 
John G. Houard, M.D., was born in the city of Philadelphia, 
February 11th, 1812, of French parentage. When quite young 
the family removed to the island of Cuba. He received his edu- 
cation partly in Cuba, in France, where he was sent for a few 
years, and in the United States. In 1848, becoming interested 
in homoeopathy, he studied and graduated at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, in 1851. 
About 1850 he opened a homoeopathic pharmacy in Philadelphia, 
which he continued about seven years, when, on account of his 
increase of practice, he retired from the business. Dr. Houard 
introduced and proved several new remedies from the West In- 
dies, such as Guaco, Aranea diadema, Mygale avicularia, Como- 
cladia dentata, Cedron, Plantago, etc. He is an indefatigable 
student, translating and culling interesting articles from foreign 
works and journals, and contributing from time to time many 
short articles to various homoeopathic journals. During the 
whole of his medical life, he has resided and practiced in the city 
of Philadelphia. He is one of the curators of the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, director and visitor of the 
Children's Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia, member of 
the Hahnemann Medical Club of Philadelphia, of the American 
Institute, and of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsyl- 
vania. 
William F. Guernsey, M.D., born in Rochester, Vt., December 
12th, 1814 ; studied medicine under his brother, H. N. Guernsey, 
M.D.; graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania in 1852. He succeeded to the practice of his 
brother in Frankford upon the latter's removal to Philadelphia; 
is a most diligent and faithful worker, and has been actively 
engaged in keeping up the large practice ever since. 
D. M. Tindall, M.D., located in Germantown in 1852. He 
sold out to Dr. G. B. L. Clay and moved to Shoemakertown, in 
1854, and a few months later to Southwark, Philadelphia. Dr. 
Clay remained till 1858, when he moved to Moorestown, New 
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George H. Duhring, M.D., was one of the older homoeopathic 
physicians in Philadelphia. He was in practice for many years, 
was very successful, and had a large and lucrative business. He 
died January 23d, 1871. 
Walter M. Williamson, M.D., son of Walter Williamson, 
M.D , born in Newtown, Delaware County, Pa., July 3d, 1836, 
graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 
1857. He practiced in Wisconsin for three years, then returned 
to Philadelphia and practiced successfully until his death, April 
5th, 1874. He was an energetic member of the profession, and 
took a most active part in all its societies. 
Bushrod W. James, M.D., born in Philadelphia in 1836, 
graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1857. He has been a large contributor to our medical 
journals and has served on the editorial staff. He is actively 
engaged in all the departments of general medicine, and is much 
interested in hygiene and climatology; in the latter department 
he has made many observations which are of great use to the 
profession. 
Charles A. Leech, M.D., graduated at the Penn Medical 
University in 1856, and practiced in Philadelphia for some 
years. He was devoted to his profession and to the interests of 
science. So fully absorbed was he that, when fatigued with 
study and professional cares, and asked by his friends to rest and 
take some recreation, he would urge that there was so much for 
him to accomplish that he could not spare the time; that a life- 
time was too short for him to do all that he felt was required of 
him. Besides being an active member of the Philadelphia County 
Homoeopathic Medical Society, he was an active member of the 
Franklin Institute, of the Pennsylvania Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and a life member of the Wagner Institute 
of Science. The strain of mental labor broke him down, and 
he died April 19th, 1867, set. thirty-three years. 
W. H. Smith, M.D., born in England in 1811, studied medi- 
cine under Sir Astley Cooper and Abernethy in the Old World. 
After arriving in this country he studied under Dr. George 
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His fondness for the subject led him to study the veterinary art, 
and he was the first veterinary surgeon to apply homoeopathic 
treatment to animals. Later in life he became interested in gen- 
eral medicine, graduated from the Hahnemann Medical Collegb 
of Philadelphia, and has practiced for several years. 
F. E. Boericke, M.D., was born in Glauchau, Germany, June 
3d, 1826, He emigrated to this country, settled in Philadel- 
phia, and graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, in 1863. He never engaged in active practice, 
but devoted his energies and talents to establishing his phar- 
macy,* which, with its branches in many of the principal cities 
of the Union, is the largest and most influential in the country. 
Matthew Semple, M.D., was born in Philadelphia May 21st, 
1813. When a young man he studied for the Episcopal minis- 
try, and, after finishing his theological course, spent several years 
preaching in Harrisburg. He commenced the study of med- 
icine in 1830, and graduated from the University of Pennsylva- 
nia in 1838. His pupilage in homoeopathy w'as under the guid- 
ance of Dr. Jacob Jeanes. As a practitioner of the healing art 
he was eminently successful, being a careful follower of the great 
therapeutic law. At the very opening of the Homoeopathic Med- 
ical College of Pennsylvania, he entered the Faculty as Profes- 
sor of Chemistry and Toxicology, and continued in the institu- 
tion in that capacity for eight years. As a teacher he was highly 
esteemed, appearing to have a special gift of imparting knowl- 
edge to those who sat under his instruction. At the conclusion 
of his connection with this institution he occupied the same chair 
in the Homoeopathic College of New York for four years and a 
half. He died in Philadelphia, after a very short illness, of con- 
gestion of the brain, with effusion and paralytic manifestations, 
on May 17th, 1867. 
Joseph G. Loomis, M.D., was born in the town of East Had- 
dam, Connecticut, May 18th, 1811. He entered upon the study 
of medicine when twenty years of age, and became a student at 
Fairfield College, in Northern New York. He received the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in 1834, and 
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immediately began practice in the State of Michigan. Three years 
later he removed to Cazenovia, New York, where he gained great 
celebrity as an allopathic practitioner. In 1843, when the news 
of Dr. Hahnemann's death reached this country, he was induced, 
by reading some of Hahnemann's obituary notices, to investigate 
the claims of homoeopathy. This he did in the spirit of a true 
philosopher, and the result was his full conviction of the truth 
of homoeopathy, and of its entire adaptation to the requirements 
of suffering humanity. In this year he removed to Syracuse, 
where he pursued his practice in accordance with the principles 
of homoeopathy, until 1849, when he came to Philadelphia to 
take a course of lectures at the Homoeopathic College. Gradu- 
ating in 1850 he returned to Syracuse, but finally returned to 
Philadelphia. In the fall of 1851 he was elected to the Chair 
of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. For two 
years he filled this position with distinguished ability. 
Professor Loomis believed in his heart that, in similia similibus, 
there was power sufficient to regenerate the whole profession of 
medicine, and he was perfectly consistent in faith and practice. As 
a teacher and physician he was justly very highly esteemed. In 
July of 1853 he was attacked with pulmonary disease, and sank to 
rest, at his old home, in Syracuse, October 25th of the same year. 
Silas S. Brooks, M.D., graduated at the Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 1846. After practicing as an old-school 
physician for about ten years he adopted homoeopathy, and con- 
tinued in the active practice of this system of medicine until a 
short time before his death. In 1860 he was called to the Chair 
of Theory and Practice in the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, was elected Dean of the Faculty, and served in 
both positions for four years. He had a large practice, and was 
highly respected by his colleagues. He died of pulmonary 
heemorrhage, July 3d, 1871. 
William A. Gardiner, M.D., son of our revered pioneer, Dr. 
Richard Gardiner, was a member of the first faculty of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and filled the Chair of 
Anatomy for nine years. In 1860 he was elected to the Chair of 
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of energy and talents, devoted to the cause of science, an earnest 
and indefatigable student, an able and instructive teacher. But 
the sands of his earthly life ran rapidly out, and he passed away 
in the very pride of his early manhood. His high attainments 
but dimly showed forth the height he might have attained had 
his life been spared. 
F. Humphreys, M.D., was Professor in the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania for two years, filling the Chair 
of Homoeopathic Institutes, Pathology, and Practice of Medicine. 
William Tod Helmuth, M.D., was born in Philadelphia, Oc- 
tober 30th, 1833. In 1850 he commenced the study of medi- 
cine under the preceptorship of his uncle, Dr. William S. Hel- 
muth, of this city, and graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania in 1853. He immediately commenced 
practice in Philadelphia and remained until 1858, when he re- 
moved to St. Louis. He officiated as physician to the College 
Dispensary in 1854-55, and filled the Chair of Anatomy in his 
alma mater during the term of 1857-58. He has always main- 
tained a brilliant reputation as a surgeon, and as a teacher. The 
later scenes of his life have been enacted in St. Louis, and in the 
city of New York. (See St. Louis.) 
Thomas Moore, M.D., was born in Philadelphia, July 2d, 
1827. At the early age of sixteen he evinced a desire to study 
medicine, and with that purpose in view he entered an extensive 
drug house, where he acquired a practical knowledge of Materia 
Medica, and a thorough acquaintance with the sensible properties 
of drugs. In 1845 he matriculated at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and received his degree of M.D. from that institution 
in 1848. He was soon converted to homoeopathy by Dr. C. 
Hering, and has ever since been a faithful adherent to the law of 
the similars. He was a member of the faculty in the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania for three years, from 
1858 to 1860, filling the Chair of Anatomy the first two years, 
and that of Obstetrics the last year. Dr. Moore is an earnest 
and clear-headed thinker, and his contributions to our medical 
literature are justly held in high estimation. In 1860 he removed 738 
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to Germantown, where his large practice embraces the wealthiest 
and most highly cultured classes of society. 
Charles G. Rane, M.D., was born in the village of Nieder Cun- 
nersdorf, in Saxony, May 11th, 1820. In 1848 he removed to 
the United States, and began the study of medicine in the office 
of Dr. C. Hering, with whom he has been on terms of the 
warmest and closest intimacy ever since, at all times Dr. Hering's 
warmest friend, assisting him as far as possible as counsellor and 
physician. He graduated at the Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania in 1850, removed to Trenton, New Jersey, prac- 
ticed there till 1859, when he returned to Philadelphia, where he 
has remained ever since. He is one of the pillars of homoeopathy, 
has a large practice, and is ever engaged in deep study, that he 
may improve himself and the cause he has espoused. In 1864 
he was elected Professor of Pathology and Diagnosis in his alma 
mater, which position he uninterruptedly held until his resig- 
nation in 1870. His best-known work is Special Pathology and 
Diagnostics, with Therapeutical Hints, published in 1867. This 
is used as a textbook in all our colleges, and has justly had a very 
wide sale. For three successive years, 1870-72, he edited the 
Record of Homoeopathic Literature. This was a most valuable 
work, and we regret that the profession did not lend the support 
necessary to enable Dr. Raue to continue it. Dr. Rane's expe- 
rience is large, and his opinion and advice are frequently sought 
in consultation upon important cases. 
A. R. Thomas, M.D., was born in Watertown, N. Y., on the 
3d of October, 1827. He commenced the study of medicine in 
Syracuse, and graduated in the Syracuse Medical College in 1854. 
He came immediately to Philadelphia, where he became interested 
in the study of homoeopathy, and commenced the practice of that 
system in 1856. In 1854 he was appointed Demonstrator of 
Anatomy in the Penn Medical University, and Professor of 
Anatomy in 1855, which position he held for ten years. 
In October, 1856, he was appointed Lecturer on Artistic Anat- 
omy in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he gave 
annual courses of lectures to artists for twelve years. In 1863 
he was appointed lecturer on the same subject in the School of HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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Design for Women. This position he held for ten years. In 
1867 he was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy in the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia, a position he still holds. 
Dr. Thomas was elected Dean of the Faculty in March of the pres- 
ent year, and has acted as general editor of the American Jour- 
nal of Homoeopathic Materia Medica since 1872. He has con- 
tributed numerous articles to various medical journals, and in 
1873 published a work on Post-mortem Examinations and Mor- 
bid Anatomy. 
Isaac M. Ward, M.D., was born in Bloomfield, N. J., in 1806. 
He graduated from Rutgers Medical College, New Jersey, in 1829, 
and has practiced most of his life in New Jersey and New York; 
but from November, 1853, to 1860 he resided during the fall and 
winter months in Philadelphia, during which time he was Pro- 
fessor of Obstetrics in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania. 
Walter Ward, M.D , came to Philadelphia in 1838, moved to 
New Jersey in 1819, was elected to the Chair of Physiology in 
the first faculty of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania. (See Mount Holly, N. J.) 
J. P. Dake, M.D. (see Allegheny County), served for two 
seasons, 1855-56 and 1857-58, as Professor of Materia Medica 
in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and prac- 
ticed to some extent during his sojourn in Philadelphia. 
Charles J. Hempel, M.D., was born in Solingen, Prussia, Sep- 
tember 5th, 1811. After receiving a liberal education at home 
and in Paris, he emigrated to this country, landing in New York, 
September 5th, 1835. He attended the medical lectures of the 
University of New York, then recently organized, and became 
one of its earliest graduates. His intimate associates were Drs. 
Gram, Channing, Gray, Hall, tiering, and others, so he quickly 
espoused homoeopathy. Soon after his graduation he began 
translating into English the leading works on homoeopathy. 
His labors in this direction are too well known throughout the 
world to require recapitulation. In 1857 he accepted the 
Chair of Materia Medica in the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, which position he continued to hold for three sue- 740 
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cessive years. He remained in Philadelphia for a number of 
years, engaged in practice and literary labors, and then removed 
to Grand Rapids, Mich. 
John Redman Coxe, Jr., M.D., was born in Philadelphia. He 
was the son of John Redman Coxe, Sr., M.D., a distinguished 
old-school physician and eminent Professor of Materia Medica in 
the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1850. He was 
elected a member of the faculty of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania for the course of 1857-58, and occupied 
the Chair of Homoeopathic Institutes, Pathology, and the Prac- 
tice of Medicine for three successive years. He was a successful 
practitioner, but was removed from his useful life by the sum- 
mons of death, May 11th, 1863. 
John K. Lee, M.D., born in Allegheny County, Pa., May 
2d, 1824, received his collegiate education at Allegheny College, 
Meadville, Pa., and graduated from there in 1849. He imme- 
diately began the study of medicine under Walter Williamson, 
M.D., and graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania in 1851. He began practice in Philadelphia, 
where he has remained ever since. He was elected to the Chair 
of Materia Medica in his alma mater in 1861, a position he filled 
with great success for two years. He is an earnest and success- 
ful practitioner, and has done very much to aid the cause of 
homoeopathy. ' 
Peter S. Hitchens, M.D., graduated at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 1858. He filled 
the Chair of Anatomy in that institution during the sessions of 
1862-63 and 1863-64. 
J. H. P. Frost, M.D., accepting in 1865 the Professorship of 
Physiology in his alma mater, removed from Maine to Philadel- 
phia, where he remained three years, for two of which he filled 
the Chair of Physiology, and the last year the Chair of Pathology. 
In 1870 Dr. Frost removed to Danville, Montour County, where 
a fuller account of his life and works will be found. 
A. R. Morgan, M.D., a native of New York State, graduated 
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and held the Chair of Pathology and Diagnostics, during the 
session of 1867-68. He then removed to New York. 
T. Dwight Stow, M.D., born at Elbridge, Onondaga County, 
N. Y., September 16th, 1829, graduated from the Cleveland Ho- 
moeopathic College in 1854. During the session of 1867-68 he 
held the Chair of Institutes of Medicine, General and Special Pa- 
thology in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania- 
He removed to Fall River, Mass., in 1872. 
William A. Reed, M.D., a native of Philadelphia, graduated 
from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1852, 
and has practiced in Philadelphia ever since. He occupied the 
Chair of Physiology, as a member of the faculty of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, from 1855-56 for five 
consecutive years. He is still engaged in the active duties of his 
large practice. 
Dr. Jacob Beakley occupied the Chair of Surgery in the col- 
lege from 1853 to 1860. 
A. H. Flanders, M.D., occupied the Chair of Chemistry in the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1858-59. 
Richard Koch, M.D., graduated from the University of Penn- 
sylvania in 1863. He became a homoeopath and served in the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania as Professor of 
Physiology from 1867 to 1873. He was an able teacher and 
demonstrated his subject well. 
Drs. Charles Heerman, W. L. Arrowsmith, G. F. Foote, and 
G. G. Percival, during the decade 1860 to 1870, practiced in 
Philadelphia for a short time while occupying professorships in 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. 
The following physicians, in addition to those already named, 
practiced in Philadelphia city or county, between 1840 and 1869, 
but have since located elsewhere, or have been removed by death : 
J. H. Aldey, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1856. 
C. B. Barrett, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1867. 
H. Bascom, M.D. 
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0. P. Bird, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1869. 
Gustavus Bloede, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1852. 
R. A. Boyd, M.D. 
J. II. A. Bridge, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1857. 
John Brown, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1861. Deceased. 
J. Kemper Bryant, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1851. 
John Buck, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1865. Deceased. 
John C. Budlong, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1863. 
Thomas C. Bunting, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1855. 
George W. Burroughs, M.D. 
Carroll, M.D. 
William C. Chambers, M.D. 
C. B. Compton, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1854. 
Thomas Conway, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1838. Deceased. 
David Cowley, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1853. 
Lewis Coxe, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1858. Died November 28th, 1866. 
C. C. Cresson, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1856. 
Alfred R. Davies, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1857. Deceased. 
Henry Duffield, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1852. Deceased. 
William P. Esrey, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1844. 
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C. H. Evans, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1869. 
R. T. Evans, M.D., Deceased. 
Harvey W. Farrington, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
leo;e of Pennsvlvania, 1864. 
George W. Fetterman, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania, 1857. 
J. Flowers, M.D. 
Joseph H. Gallagher, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1855. Deceased. 
John Gantenbein, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia. 1868. 
John F. Geary, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1855. 
William Geib, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1854. 
J. B. Gillman, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1844. 
J. R. Goodman, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1857. 
J. S. Greenbank, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1853. Deceased. 
John M. Habel, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1867. 
William C. Harbinson, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania, 1860. 
M. P. Harley, M.D. 
Horace Hatch, M.D. 
Milo G. Houghton, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1856. 
Frederick Husmann, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 
1843. Died February, 1846, set. 28 years. 
Ross Ihrie, M.D. 
Daniel Janney, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1850. Deceased. 
J. P. Johnson, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1867. 
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L. Knabe, M.D. 
K. W. Kneass, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phil- 
adelphia, 1868. 
G. H. Kreeger, M.D. 
Henry S. Lentz, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1854. 
James M. McAllister, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania, 1856. 
William Murphy, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1854. 
John F. Musgrave, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1853. 
J. G. Pehrson, M.D. Deceased. 
J. B. Petherbiidge, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1847. 
Deceased. 
G. S. F. Pfeiffer, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1856. 
Minna E. Piersol, M.D. 
Frederick M. Porr, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1860. Deceased. 
W. R. Powers, M.D. 
Davis R. Pratt, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1861. Deceased. 
H. C. Pratt, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1863. 
John M. Randall, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1852. 
E. J. Records, M.D., Philadelphia Medical College, 1846. 
G. Reichhelm, M.D. (See Allegheny County.) 
W. M. Reynolds, M.D. 
J. H. Ridings, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1868. 
Charles B. Riehle, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1861. 
G. Schwartz, M.D. Died April 28th, 1863. 
Alexander R. Shaw, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
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Jacob F. Sheek, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1850. Died January 31st, 1858. 
John H. Steck, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1852. 
J. Straube, M.D. 
H. Reidel Thayer, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1855. 
B. F. Underwood, M.D. Hahnemann Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1868. 
C. H. von Tagen, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1858. 
Joseph S. Walter, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1855. 
E. Rufus Ward, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1864. 
Coburn Whitehead, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 
1831. Died January 29th, 1858. 
L. H. Willard, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1866. 
George C. Williams, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1851. Died March 10th, 1870. 
John Henry Williams, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania, 1856. 
Theodore S. Williams, M.D. 
Samuel J. Withey, M.D. Deceased. 
George Wolfe, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1855. Deceased. 
L. Younghusband, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1866. 
Alfred Zantzinger, M.D., graduated from the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1861, died August 16th, 
1873. 
A. E. Zeitler, M.D. 
H. N. Martin, M.D., born in Albion, New York, October 
20th, 1829, graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, 1865. In the spring of 1867 he settled perma- 746 
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nently in Philadelphia, and was elected to a professorship in 
Physiology in his alma mater soon after. Resigning this posi- 
tion, he entered the faculty of the Hahnemann Medical College, 
where for nine years he held the Chairs of Clinical Medicine 
and Practice. He was at one time co-editor of the American 
Journal of Materia Medica. 
R. J. McClatchey, M.D., born in Philadelphia April 6th, 
1836, was an office student of William S. Helmuth, and a 
graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 
1856 ; has practiced in Philadelphia ever since, excepting a brief 
season at Bethlehem, Pa. In 1867 he accepted the Chair of An- 
atomy in his alma mater, and in 1868 became editor of the 
Hahnemannian Monthly, a position which he still holds. He 
was elected General Secretary of the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy in 1871, and has been a faithful and most efficient 
officer. He was also Secretary of the Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Philadelphia County from its commencement for seve- 
ral succeeding years. He edited Laurie's Homoeopathic Domestic 
Physician. 
John C. Morgan, M.D., born in Philadelphia 1831, graduated 
from the Pennsylvania Medical College in 1852. In 1854 
he was appointed to the Chair of Materia Medica and Pharmacy 
in the Penn Medical University. In 1856 he began to practice 
homoeopathy, and moved out West, where he located. He served 
through the late war as surgeon in the army, and in 1865 re- 
turned to Philadelphia, where he accepted and occupied for 
two years the Chair of Anatomy in the Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal College of Pennsylvania, and finally accepted the Chair of 
Surgery in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 
which he held for nine years. He is a large contributor to the 
medical periodicals of our school, and an active member in the 
National, State, and local medical societies. 
C. Carleton Smith, M.D., born in Philadelphia, September 
27th, 1833, graduated from the New York Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal College in 1861. He spent some years practicing in Stam- 
ford, Conn., and Chicago, returning to locate in his native city 
in 1870. While in Chicago he was elected a member of the HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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faculty of the Hahnemann Medical College in that city, to 
fill the Chair of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. On his 
return to Philadelphia he was elected to fill the Chair of Special 
Pathology and Diagnosis in the Hahnemann Medical College 
of Philadelphia. He is a strict follower of Hahnemann's rules, 
and is a most successful practitioner. 
G. R. Starkey, M.D., born in Vassalboro', Maine, June 2d, 
1823, graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania in 1855. He practiced for two years in Reading, 
Pa., then returned to Philadelphia, where he has since remained. 
In 1860 he was called to fill the Chair of Anatomy in his alma 
mater and two years later was elected to the Chair of Surgery 
in the same institution, a position he held for three consecutive 
years. 
Pemberton Dudley, M.D., was born in Philadelphia in 1837. 
Before commencing the study of medicine he was engaged in 
teaching school in Montgomery County. He attended his first 
course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in 1859. His 
second course was taken at the Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, where he took his degree in March, 1861. He 
settled in practice at Fox Chase, but moved to Philadelphia in 
1861. In 1868 he was appointed to fill the position of Professor 
of Chemistry and Toxicology, made vacant by the resignation of 
Dr. G. G. Percival, in the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania. In May, 1876, he was appointed Professor 
of Physiology and Microscopic Anatomy in the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia. He is a large contributor to 
our journals, and is an active member of all our societies. 
Malcolm Macfarlan, M.D., born in Scotland, June 8th, 1841, 
came to New York city in his fifth year. He attended lec- 
tures at the New York Medical College in 1861, and entered 
the United States service as medical cadet. He passed two years 
in military hospitals, attended lectures at Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College in 1863, and while on duty at New Haven 
Hospital graduated at Medical Department of Yale, taking the 
prize for the best examination. He received his appointment as 
Assistant Surgeon, and was ordered South for active duty in the 748 
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field, and was present during many engagements, resigning in 
1867. He was appointed Professor of Surgery in the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and in 1869 Professor 
of Clinical Surgery in the Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, which position he resigned in May of the present year. 
Dr. Macfarlan is a member of our National, State, and County 
societies, has had a large experience in surgery, and furnished 
many valuable reports of his cases of ovariotomy, cataract, lith- 
otomy, and the major operations in surgery. 
Augustus Korndoerfer, M.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
October, 1843. He graduated in medicine at the Hahne- 
mann Medical College in 1868, and engaged immediately in 
practice in this city. In 1869 he gave a course of lectures on 
minor surgery in the summer course of his alma mater, and the 
present year has been appointed Professor of Clinical Medicine in 
the same institution. He is a member of our National, State, and 
County societies, and is a liberal contributor to several journals. 
E. A. Farrington, M.D., was born at Williamsburg, L. I., 
January 1st, 1847. He received his education and graduated 
at the High School, Philadelphia, in 1866. He commenced the 
study of medicine and took his first course of lectures in the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1866-67, and his 
second course in the Hahnemann College, graduating in March, 
1868. In 1870 he was appointed lecturer on Forensic Medicine 
in the Hahnemann Medical College, which position he held for 
three years, and in 1873 was appointed Professor of General and 
Special Pathology and Diagnosis. In 1874, upon the retirement 
of Professor H. N. Guernsey from the Chair of Materia Medica, 
he was elected to fill the vacancy, and still occupies that po- 
sition. Dr. Farrington is an active member of all our societies, 
National, State and County. He has contributed liberally to 
our serial literature, and in 187-5 published a volume of Mate- 
ria Medica as a supplement to Gross's Comparative Materia 
Medica. 
B. F. Betts, M.D., born in Warminster, Bucks County, Penn- 
sylvania, December 1st, 1845, graduated from the Hahnemann 
Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1868. After receiving his HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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diploma he went to Europe, spent some time in study at Vienna 
and other places, then returned to Philadelphia and entered upon 
the duties of his profession, and has thus been actively engaged 
ever since. In 1873 he was elected to the chair of Physiology 
in the faculty of his alma mater, and was transferred to that of 
Gynaecology the present year. 
C. B. Knerr, M.D., is a native of Pennsylvania, and graduated 
at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. 
He then entered the office of Dr. C. Hering as assistant, a position 
he has since held. In 1872 he went to Europe, remained a year 
in medical study, then returned to Philadelphia, married one of 
Dr. C. Hering's daughters, Miss Melita P., and resumed his for- 
mer duties. 
Charles M. Thomas, M.D., son of Dr. A. R. Thomas, graduated 
at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1871. He 
continued his studies for one year in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and in March of 1872 went to Europe, where he made a 
special study of surgery and diseases of the eye and ear for two 
years and a half, in the schools of Germany, Austria, and Scot- 
land. Returning to Philadelphia, he was appointed Demon- 
strator of Surgery, in the fall of 1874, in his alma mater, and 
Lecturer on Operative Surgery in 1876. He is rapidly rising to 
eminence in his profession, and promises, ere long, to rank as 
one of the leading homoeopathic surgeons in this country. 
Matthew S. Williamson, M.D., son of Dr. Walter Williamson, 
graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia in 1872. He has succeeded to the practice of his father 
and brother, and is actively engaged in his profession. 
J. C. Guernsey,* M.D., son of Henry N. Guernsey, M.D., 
born in Frankford, March 25th, 1849, received his literary 
education at Princeton College, New Jersey, graduating there- 
from in 1870. In 1872 he graduated from the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, and was valedictorian of his 
class. In 1875 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and in 1876, 
* Present editor of the Transactions of the World's Homceopathic 
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at the World's Homoeopathic Convention, was elected Pro- 
visional Secretary of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
The following completes the list, it is believed, of homoeo- 
pathic physicians practicing in Philadelphia to date, many of 
whom are well worthy of special mention did space permit: 
R. C. Allen, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1868, Frankford. 
G. B. Armbruster, M.D., Philadelphia. 
A. H. Ashton, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1852, Philadelphia. 
J. O. H. Banks, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1873, Philadelphia. 
D. R. Bardin, M.D., Philadelphia. 
A. M. Barnes, M.D., Penn Medical University, 1857, Phila- 
delphia. 
Benjamin Barr, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1855, Philadelphia. 
G. R. Bartholomew, M.D., Philadelphia. 
W. H. Bigler, M.D., Hahenemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1871, Philadelphia. 
John P. Birch, M.D., Philadelphia. 
S. A. Brown, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
Samuel Brown, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1858, Philadelphia. 
William Brown, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1852, Philadelphia. 
S. Hastings Brown., M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, 1869, Philadelphia. 
William K. Brown, M.D., Philadelphia. 
H. S. Campbell, M.D., Philadelphia. 
J. L. Capen, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
David M. Castle, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phil- 
adelphia, 1873, Philadelphia. 
G. II. Clarke, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
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S. M. Cleveland, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phil- 
adelphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
R. W. Cornelius, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phil- 
adelphia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
W. B. Davis, M.D., Penn Medical University, 1861, Phila- 
delphia. 
T. S. Dunning, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phil- 
adelphia, 1870, Philadelphia. 
J. R. Earhart, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1855, Philadelphia. 
William J. Earhart, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1864, Philadelphia. 
J. B. S. Egee, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
George A. Evans, M.D., graduated at the Hahnemann Medi- 
cal College of Philadelphia in 1875. Deceased. 
M. B. Fegely, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
Harriet S. French, M.D., Penn Medical University, 1862, 
Philadelphia. 
J. Frishmuth, M.D., Pennsylvania Medical College, 1861, 
Philadelphia. 
J. J. Garvin, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1864, Philadelphia. 
A. S. Gaskill, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1870, Philadelphia. 
J. M. Gerhart, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1868, Philadelphia. 
C. W. Gessler, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1867, 
Philadelphia. 
F. B. Gilbert, M.D., Philadelphia University, 1868, Phila- 
delphia. 
W. B. Gillman, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1865, Philadelphia. 
F. Goersen, M.D., Philadelphia. 
W. C. Goodno, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
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G. E. Gramm, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1867, Philadelphia. 
J. J. Griffith, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1856, Manayunk. 
S. Griffith, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1866, Philadelphia. 
W. M. Griffith, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1872, Philadelphia. 
W. O. Griggs, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1866, Phila- 
delphia. 
W. J. Guernsey, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phil- 
adelphia, 1875, Frankford. 
B. B. Gumpert, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1853, Philadelphia. 
C. H. Haeseler, M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
New York, 1857, Philadelphia. 
F. T. Haines, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1867, Philadelphia. 
E. A. Hambright, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
J. H. Hamer, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
W. C. Hamilton, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1861, Germantown. 
H. Heller, M.D., Augsburg, Bavaria, 1843, Philadelphia. 
I. W. Heysinger, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1867, 
Philadelphia. 
J. R. Holcombe, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1871, 
Philadelphia. 
George Hosfeld, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phil- 
adelphia, 1871, Philadelphia. 
J. E. Houard, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1842, Phila- 
delphia. 
L. J. Houard, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1858, Philadelphia. 
J. H. Houghton, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1858, Philadelphia. 
Marie Hungerbuehler, M.D., Philadelphia. HOMOEOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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John E. James, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- 
phia. 
Walter M. James, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1869, Philadelphia. 
N. T. Jerman, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1873, Holmesburg. 
Mrs. M. N. Johnson, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Chicago, 1872, Philadelphia. 
C. Karsner, M.D., Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, 
1859, Germantown. 
C. W. Karsner, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
W. H. Keim, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1871, Philadelphia. 
J. E. Kent, M.D., Philadelphia. 
E. W. Kirby, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
J. D. Lechner, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1873, Philadelphia. 
II. S. Lentz, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1854, Chestnut Hill. 
J. C. Lewis, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1875, Frankford. 
R. Lewis, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl- 
vania, 1861, Frankford. 
J. A. MacCormac, M.D., Philadelphia. 
D. Macfarlan, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
G. W. Malin, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, Germantown. 
John Malin, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1860, Germantown. 
W. H. Malin, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1858, Chestnut Hill. 
Newton May, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1831, 
Holmesburg. 
G. I. McLeod, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1857, 
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C. S. Middleton, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1862, Philadelphia. 
J. N. Mitchell, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1873, Philadelphia. 
C. Mohr, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 
1875, Philadelphia. 
J. F. Monell, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1862, Philadelphia. 
C. A. R. Moore, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1870, Philadelphia. 
W. II. H. Neville, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1865, Philadelphia. 
S. Pancoast, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1852, Phila- 
delphia. 
G. W. Parker, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1870, Philadelphia. 
T. H. Peacock, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1868, Philadelphia. 
J. E. Peters, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1875, Frankford. 
J. M. Piersol, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1857, Philadelphia. 
Eliza F. Pettingill, M.D., Woman's Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1864, Philadelphia. 
Sarah B. Pettingill, M.D., Penn Medical University, 1859, 
Philadelphia. 
D. R. Posey, M.D., Philadelphia. 
W. C. Powell, M.D., Penn Medical University, Bustleton. 
J. J. Pusey, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1871, Philadelphia. 
J. R. Reading, M.D., Jefferson Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1847, Somerton. 
A. C. Rembaugh, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1869, Philadelphia. 
H. Reynolds, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1865, Bridesburg. 
C. W. Robbins, M.D., Penn Medical University, 1859, Phila- 
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Emily R. Robbins, M.D., Penn Medical University, Phila- 
delphia, 1859, Philadelphia. 
W. L. Robinson, M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1848, 
Philadelphia. 
Sarah T. Rogers, M.D., Philadelphia University, 1872, Phila- 
delphia. 
A. B. C. Rupp, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1872, Philadelphia. 
S. Y. Rush, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
Harriet J. Sartain, M.D., Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincin- 
nati, 1856, Philadelphia. 
AV. J. Savage, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1864, Philadelphia. 
W. R. Scott, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1869, Philadelphia. 
J. G. Sharp, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
W. J. Simon, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1853, Philadelphia. 
E. P. Small, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1866, Philadelphia. 
L. F. Smiley, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
E. M. Smith, M.D., Philadelphia. 
R. C. Smith, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1869, Philadelphia. 
T. H. Smith, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1866, Philadelphia. 
J. H. Spencer, M.D., Jefferson Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1847, Philadelphia. 
D. T. Starkey, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1863, Philadelphia. 
E. B. Stephens, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1873. 
L. Stephens, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, Philadelphia. 
W. Stiles, M.D., Philadelphia. 756 
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W. Stiles, Jr., M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
W. Taylor, M.D., Philadelphia. 
A. Tegtmeier, M.D., Philadelphia. 
J. W. Thatcher, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, 1871, Philadelphia. 
E. Tietze, M.D., Philadelphia. 
Van R. Tindall, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1864, Philadelphia. 
W. H. Tomlinson, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, 1875, Philadelphia. 
E. S. Trego, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1866, Philadelphia. 
S. M. Trinkle, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1872, Philadelphia. 
D. T. Trites, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1842, Manayunk. 
AV. B. Trites, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1869, Manayunk. 
R. S. Trowbridge, M.D., Philadelphia. 
C. Vanartsdalen, Jr., M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
L. G. Vinal, M.D., Philadelphia Medical College, 1848, 
Philadelphia. 
M. M. Walker, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1867, Germantown. 
J. Wandell, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1873, Philadelphia. 
G. H. Waters, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1845, Phila- 
delphia. 
R. B. Weaver, M. D., Philadelphia University, 1866, Phila- 
delphia. 
R. D. Weeks, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, 1861, Philadelphia. 
T. C. Williams, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1853, Philadelphia. 
W. K. Williams, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1871, Philadelphia. 
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C. J. Wiltbank, M.D., Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, 1868, Philadelphia. 
T. F. Wood, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, 1872, Philadelphia. 
Albert S. Wright, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, 1874, Philadelphia. 
J. I. Wright, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1852, Phila- 
delphia. 
W. M. Zerns, M.D., Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, 1872, Philadelphia. 
Adolph Lippe, M.D., in 1841, was among the first to practice 
in Pottsville, the county town, where he, with Dr. C. Haeseler, 
resided for a time. 
Benjamin Becker, M.D., commenced practicing homoeopathy 
in Pottsville, in 1845. He was born in Sumneytown, Mont- 
gomery County, March 22d, 1796. His father, Dr. J. J. Becker, 
a German, located in the above town in 1795, and died in 1813. 
When fifteen years old, young Becker assisted his father in pre- 
paring medicines, and a few years later accompanied him among 
his patients. In 1819 he attended lectures at the University of 
Pennsylvania. In 1820 he located in Lynnville, Lehigh County. 
In 1824 he moved to Hamburg, near the line of the Schuylkill 
canal, where he had a large practice among the miners and labor- 
ers, in consequence of the accidents and intermittent fevers which 
abounded. In 1825 an epidemic of dysentery prevailed, when 
Dr. Becker, although at the time practicing under the old school, 
differed from the treatment of his colleagues, and proved more suc- 
cessful than they. In 1833 the Board of Directors of the Schuyl- 
kill County Poorhouse appointed him steward, physician, and 
clerk. In 1835 he moved to Orwigsburg, where some remarka- 
ble homoeopathic cures came to his notice, when becoming inter- 
ested, he studied, and finally adopted the practice. Opposition 
from his former associates now began, but he fought them man- 
fully, and succeeded in establishing a large practice. Owing to 
many calls from Lebanon and vicinity, he moved thither, and 
introduced homoeopathy in that county, as well as in Dauphin, 
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Lancaster, York, Cumberland, Perry, Snyder, Juniata, Northum- 
berland, and Luzerne. In 1839 he moved his family to Or- 
wigsburg, transferred his practice to an associate, and during 
the next seven years travelled in the West; in five successive 
journeys he practiced homoeopathy in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, 
Iowa, Nebraska, California, Colorado, and Utah, everywhere 
with credit to himself, and honor to the cause. In 1866 he re- 
ceived his well-merited degree from the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania. 
Francis W. Boyer, M.D., is located at Pottsville. He studied 
with Dr. C. H. Haeseler, then of Pottsville, and attended lec- 
tures at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated 
in 1868. In 1869 he attended lectures, and graduated at the 
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He spent a sum- 
mer at the Baltimore Eye and Ear Hospital. Drs. J. Koehl, a 
former old-school practitioner, of Reading, Pa., and II. P. Mera, 
formerly of Rochester, N. Y,, share the practice with Dr. Boyer 
in Pottsville. 
Henry Haeseler, M.D., who met a martyr's death at Belleview, 
Nebraska, about 1856, while introducing the practice in that 
State, and Dr. Charles H. Haeseler, now of Philadelphia, sons 
of Dr. Charles Haeseler, did much to make homoeopathy popu- 
lar in the estimation of the Pottsville people. 
Homoeopathy has a stronghold in Pottsville, and numbers 
among its patrons the most intelligent and refined of the com- 
munity; surgery is equally divided between the two schools of 
practitioners. 
G. M. Miller, M.D., of Mahanoy City, Pa., graduated at the 
Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery in 1855, practiced den- 
tistry a few years, then commenced the study of medicine, and 
graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia in 
1866. He was in the army from May, 1864, to May, 1865 ; has 
written a work on Anaesthetics ; is now a practitioner of homoe- 
opathy. 
Edward N. Harpel, M.D., of Shenandoah, settled there in 
1870, and has a fine practice. In 1872 he attended eighty-five 
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Drs. Samuel Starr and Howard Campbell were for a time 
loeated in Ashland. 
Charles B. Dreher, M.D., of Tamaqua, deserves the credit of 
being the first physician to put homoeopathy on a permanent 
basis in his locality, where he has an enviable reputation. 
W. F. Kistler, M.D., is doing well in Minersville. 
W. II. Deitz, M.D., who graduated at the Hahnemann Med- 
ical College of Philadelphia in 1875, is at Schuylkill Haven, 
where he fully sustains the reputation of homoeopathy. 
The rise and progress of homoeopathy in this county has been 
rapid, the results very satisfactory, and gives every sign of per- 
manence. 
The Berks and Schuylkill County Homoeopathic Medical 
Society was organized in Hamburg, in 1870, mainly through the 
exertions of Drs. Charles Haeseler and B. R. Bratt, of Beading, 
since deceased. Nearly all the practitioners of these counties 
are members. 
SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY. 
Henry Augustus Kiley, M.D., commenced the practice of ho- 
moeopathy in this county in 1865, soon after resigning his mis- 
sion in the ministry. Drs. H. D. Baldwin and J. D. Vail have 
also aided in introducing homoeopathy in this county. All the 
above are located at Montrose. 
Homoeopathy was first introduced into Tioga County about 
the year 1832 by a German, Lewis Saynisch, M.D. Dr. Say- 
nisch, a highly educated man, having graduated as an allo- 
pathic physician at a university in Germany, afterwards met 
Dr. Hahnemann, and during a controversy with him was con- 
verted to homoeopathy. He came from New York city to Bloss- 
burg, Tioga County, in the year 1832, where he practiced and 
taught homoeopathy till the time of his death, which occurred in 
the autumn of 1857. According to our informant-Dr. J. P. 
Morris, of Mansfield-Dr. Saynisch was for a time associated with 
Dr. Charles Ihm, who went to Cuba for the benefit of his health. 
Amidst bitter prejudice and strong opposition, he gained an en- 
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viable reputation, being considered the best physician in this 
part of the State. His practice extended into New York State, 
and he was frequently called to visit the sick in Buffalo, Albany, 
Utica, Syracuse, and other places throughout New York and 
Northern Pennsylvania. 
Joseph P. Morris, M.D., now of Mansfield, Tioga County, 
commenced the study of homoeopathy in the office of Dr. Say- 
nisch in the year 1835. He remained there till the year 1840, 
when he located in Mansfield and commenced the practice of 
homoeopathy, not as a remunerative profession, but through love, 
and for the purpose of advancing this new and unexcelled method 
of cure. He was the first homoeopathic physician to establish 
himself in Mansfield, where he continued to practice till the 
autumn of 1851. He attended lectures at the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania during the session of 1851-52, 
with Dr. Charles Neidhard as preceptor. His eyesight failing 
him, he was unable to graduate. 
William M. Barden, M.D., settled in Mansfield about the 
year 1850, since which time he has acquired and maintained a 
large and successful practice in Tioga and adjoining counties. 
Previous to his locating in Mansfield he was an allopathic prac- 
titioner at Pen Yau, New York, but from observation and ex- 
perimenting was converted to, and adopted, homoeopathy. 
John H. Shearer, M.D., a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal College of Pennsylvania, class of 1852, located in Wells- 
borough, Tioga County, early in that same year. He was the 
first homoeopathic physician established there, and now has a 
large and remunerative practice among the best families of the 
town and surrounding country. During a temporary absence in 
the West, his place was supplied by Ira Foote, M.D., of New 
York State, since deceased, and afterwards by Benjamin Barr, 
M.D., now of Philadelphia. 
A. M. Ingham, M.D., located in Lawrenceville in the year 
1856, he being the first local homoeopathic practitioner in the 
town. In the face of severe persecution he built up and pre- 
served an extensive practice. He removed to Blossburg in the 
year 1863, where he has since been practicing. His labor has 
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E. R. Van Horn, M.D., commenced the practice of homoeop- 
athy in Knoxville, Tioga County, in the year 1865, he being the 
first to establish this system of medicine in the town. He re- 
mained till 1868, when he removed to Lawrenceville, where he 
now enjoys a lucrative practice among the best families of the 
town ; his practice also extends to Knoxville, his former place of 
residence. Dr. Van Horn formerly practiced allopathy in the 
South and West. He is a graduate of the Botanical Medical 
College of Cincinnati, Ohio, class of 1847, also of the Central 
Medical College (Eclectic), class of 1852. It was during his so- 
journ at this latter institution that he was induced to embrace 
homoeopathy, which system he has since practiced. 
There are also located in Tioga County, at Elkland, William 
E. Hathaway, M.D.; at Tioga, O. P. Barden, M.D., graduate of 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1869; at Rut- 
land, John M. Barden, M.D., graduate of the Homoeopathic Med- 
ical College of Pennsylvania, class of 1869. All these physicians 
are doing well. The two latter are sons of William M. Barden, 
M.D., of Mansfield, making three successful homoeopathic prac- 
titioners of one family. There is also a very successful lady 
practitioner in Mansfield, Eliza J. Beach, M.D., graduate of a 
college in Michigan. 
UNION COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was first practiced in Union County by Ignatius 
Brugger, M.D., who located in New Berlin in the year 1838. 
Dr. Brugger graduated at a university in Europe. He practiced 
allopathy for several years in a hospital. He commenced the 
practice of homoeopathy with Dr. H. Detwiller at Hellertown, 
Northampton County, in the year 1835. He then removed to 
Quakertown, Bucks County, thence to SheppardsviUe, Mont- 
gomery County, and then to Philadelphia. From there he came 
to New Berlin, where he remained till the year 1856, when he 
removed to Lewisburg, Union County, and was the first to 
establish homoeopathy in that town. Dr. Brugger, now quite 
an elderly gentleman, is still at Lewisburg. During his expe- 
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of homoeopathy against the bitter opposition of the bigoted, and 
has lived to see it sought and appreciated by people of intelli- 
gence, culture, and position throughout the county. 
Dr. Dornberg practiced homoeopathy in Mifflinburg from 
1844 to 1858, when he emigrated to Minnesota. 
Joseph F. Harvey, M.D., located in Lewisburg in 1856, and 
entered into copartnership with Dr. Ignatius Brugger. They 
dissolved by mutual consent in 1858, when Dr. Harvey left Lew- 
isburg and located in Smithfield, Bradford County. After an 
absence of two years Dr. Harvey returned to Lewisburg, where 
he remained about two years, when he again took his departure, 
this time for Chester, Delaware County. He again returned to 
Union County, locating in Farmersville, where he remained only 
two years, when he left for Hamburg, Clinton County, where he 
remained till the time of his death, in 1873. 
A. J. Clark, M.D., located in Lewisburg in 1874, where he is 
now practicing with success. 
Rev. A. B. Casper, a non-graduate, of New Berlin, who read 
homoeopathy with Dr. Brugger, of Lewisburg, has successfully 
practiced homoeopathy among his parishioners in Union and 
Snyder counties for the last twenty years. 
VENANGO COUNTY. 
There are a number of physicians practicing homoeopathy in 
this county, but no information relating to them has been for- 
warded. 
I. W. Pond, M.D., born at Springtown in 1836, began the 
practice of homoeopathy at Springboro', April 1st, 1867, re- 
moved to Rouseville in 1870, where he is now supposed to be. 
He is a graduate of the New York College of Homoeopathy. 
Hrs. S. J. Hill, Franklin; Anna S. Hill, Franklin; W. H. 
H. Jackson, Oil City; H. Pond, Petroleum Centre; and W. 
Whitely, Oil City, are credited to this county. 
Samuel Adams Robinson, M.D., was the pioneer of homoeop- 
athy in this county, but in what year is not known. He began 
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practice at Warren, Pa., and afterwards practiced at Girard, 
Erie County. 
George Christopher McDermott, M.D., succeeded Dr. I. A. 
Partridge at Warren ; Dr. J. G. Gilchrist commenced practice 
at Tidioute in 1870, since when he has removed to Detroit, 
Mich. 
WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into Washington County at 
Claysville by Dr. George Inglis, where he is still practicing. 
WAYNE COUNTY. 
Edwin West, M.D., commenced the homoeopathic practice at 
Honesdale in the year 1849. J. X. Jones, M.D., is at the same 
place. 
WESTMORELAND COUNTY. 
F. X. Spranger, M.D., introduced homoeopathy into West- 
moreland County, at Greensburg, about 1861, but remained 
there for a short time only, removing to Detroit, Mich. 
E. W. Townsend, M.D., born in Washington County in 1827, 
graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati in 1851, 
practiced for four years, when, by the investigation of the merits 
of homoeopathy, he became convinced of its truth. In 1852 he 
attended a course of lectures at the Cleveland Homoeopathic Col- 
lege, graduated from that institution the following year, and 
located in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, where he introduced 
and successfully established homoeopathy against a strong oppo- 
sition. After laboring there for nine years, overwork and 
ill-health compelled him to relinquish his practice. After two 
years of recuperation he began to practice in Greensburg, suc- 
ceeding Dr. E. W. Townsend in 1863. In 1864 he was ap- 
pointed examining surgeon for pensions, which office he filled 
acceptably for nearly two years. 
J. P. Johnson, M.D., a graduate of the Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal College of Pennsylvania in 1867, practiced at Latrobe for a 
time, but soon removed to the eastern part of the State. 
G. W. Kistner, M.D., practiced at Crabtree for several years, 
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J. K. Lee, M.D., practiced a few months at Irwin's Station in 
1868, afterwards removing to Johnstown. 
J. S. Crawford, M.D., a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia, class 1875, located for a time at Pitts- 
burg, and then removed to Greensburg, where he is rapidly get- 
ting into practice and gaining the esteem of the community. 
YORK COUNTY. 
Homoeopathy was introduced into York County by one Dr. 
Ehrman, who came here with his family from Germany in 1823. 
For over thirty years he followed the old-school system, both 
in Germany and in this country. About 1839 he was finally 
persuaded of the great truths of homoeopathy, and induced to ac- 
cept them. His son, Dr. Ernest J. Ehrman, studied medicine 
under his father. In 1844 he located himself at Liverpool, 
where he was the first homoeopathic practitioner, as he was also 
in Reitzville and Evansville. 
P. Scheurer, M.D., located at Hanover in 1839, established 
the system of homoeopathy, and still practices in the same place. 
George Brick ley, M.D., began practicing homoeopathy in York 
in 1846, and placed it on a secure footing. In this year Dr. 
Brickley, having witnessed the beneficial effects of homoeopathic 
medicine upon a member of his family after the best allopathic 
physicians of Baltimore had failed, became a convert. He con- 
tinues to practice in York. 
0. C. Brickley, M.D., son of Dr. George Brickley, graduate 
of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in the 
spring of 1855, located in York, where he is an active and suc- 
cessful practitioner. 
Another son, J. W. Brickley, M.D., graduated at the same 
college in 1863, located in the same town, and has a large 
practice. 
B. T. Reich, M.D., also practices in York. 
E. A. Wareheim, M.D., is doing well at Glen Rock. 
Homoeopathy is rapidly on the increase in this vicinity. 
The total number of Homoeopathic physicians in Pennsyl- 
vania is about 500. HOMCEOPATHY IN VIRGINIA* 
Homoeopathy has made very slow progress in this State. 
It was first introduced at Norfolk by a lay practitioner, whose 
name was pronounced Kuper, about 1830. He remained a year 
or two, and was followed by two brothers Caspari, who appear 
not to have been educated physicians, and made little impres- 
sion. 
About 1838 F. T. Campos, M.D., arrived in Norfolk, and 
about 1839 commenced the practice of homoeopathy. He is 
reported to have graduated in medicine at Lisbon, in Portugal, 
and to have practiced several years in Brazil. Though not 
trained to homoeopathy, he proved to be a very skilful practi- 
tioner. He made some splendid cures and enjoyed an enviable 
reputation, both as a man and physician, and was actively en- 
gaged in the treatment of epidemic yellow fever in Norfolk during 
the summer and autumn of 1855. I have been unable to obtain 
any statistics of his success in the treatment of this fatal disease. 
He died in 1857. 
Contemporary with Dr. Campos was Dr. Thomas Hardy, who 
graduated in homoeopathy in 1853. He is still resident in 
Norfolk, and has a large practice. He is reported to have 
been very successful in the treatment of yellow fever, but thus 
far he has not been prevailed upon to furnish his statistics to the 
profession. 
Dr. R. T. Perkins graduated at the Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia in 1872, and immediately commenced prac- 
tice in Norfolk, where he is now located and is doing a good 
business. 
This is the history of the new school of medicine in Norfolk 
to this date, April 10th, 1876. 
In Richmond the first homoeopathic practitioner made his de- 
but about 1857. He was not to the manor born, and remained 
a year or two, but made a fair impression. He was followed by 
Drs. Walthall and Gardner, both of whom were graduates of our 
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school and made a good impression, but after several years be- 
came discouraged and retired from practice. 
Dr. Joseph V. Hobson was born in Cumberland County, Va., 
in the year 1810; acquired his collegiate education at William 
and Mary College, where he received the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts in 1828. He graduated in medicine in the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1832, and till 1839 pursued the practice of his 
profession in the interior of this State. In the beginning of 1839 
he visited Europe, and was a diligent attendant at the clinics of 
Velpeau, Chomel, Bouillaud, Andral, Ricord, and others. Re- 
turning to Virginia in 1840, he settled in Lynchburg, and was 
actively engaged in practice as an allopath for twelve years. At 
the end of this time the ill-health of his wife drove him to the 
country, and necessitated his retiring from active labor for sev- 
eral years. It was during this interval a friend placed in his 
hands a copy of Henderson's Trial Cases, which so impressed 
him as to lead to a diligent examination of the claims of the new 
school and to his adopting it as the eureka of therapeutics. In 
1858 he removed to Richmond, Va., where he has been engaged 
in active practice till now, with the exception of the four years 
of war. He became a member of the American Institute of 
Homoeopathy, June, 1859. 
Dr. Walthall also settled in this city; likewise Dr. Arcoli, a 
native of Italy. 
During the war Dr. Alfred Hughes removed from Wheeling 
to Richmond, and at the close of the war he removed to Balti- 
more, where he died during the past year. 
In the year 1868 Dr. J. H. Patton commenced practice here. 
He is a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- 
phia, and is at this time in active practice. 
In conclusion I will state that I think there is a very hopeful 
outlook for the future of our school in this State, but thus far we 
have felt that we are engaged in pioneer work. 
No Reports were received from the following States. 
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Arkan- 
sas, Oregon, Kansas, Dakota Territory, Wyoming Territory, 
Nevada, Utah, New Mexico. SECTION II. 
INSTITUTIONS. 
CHAPTER I. COLLEGES. CONTENTS. 
Introductory Chapter, A. R. Thomas, M.D. 
North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art, 1836, . J. C. Guernsey, M.D. 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1848, . . . A. R. Thomas, M.D. 
Homoeopathic Hospital College, Cleveland, Ohio, 1849, . . . D. H. Beckwith, M.D, 
Penn Medical University, 1853, A. R. Thomas, M.D. 
Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Chicago, 1855, . . A. E. Small, M.D. 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, St. Louis, 1857, . . P. G. Valentine, M.D. 
New York Homoeopathic Medical College, 1860, H. M. Smith, M.D. 
Boston University School of Medicine, 1869, I. T. Talbot, M.D. 
New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, I860,* 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Detroit, 1871. 
Detroit Homoeopathic Medical College, 1872. 
Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, 1872. 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1875, J. C. Morgan, M.D. 
Missouri School of Midwifery, 1875 P. G. Valentine, M.D, 
Chicago Homoeopathic College, 1876. 
Note.-The dates indicate when incorporated. 
* No report received.-J. C. G MEDICAL EDUCATION AND HOMOEOPATHIC MED- 
ICAL COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES A 
The existing medical schools of the country, at the time of the 
introduction of homoeopathy into the United States, looked upon 
the new doctrine as a species of medical delusion ; they were un- 
willing to accept the formula " similia similibus curanturv as an 
expression of a law of cure, refused to investigate the efficiency 
of potentized drugs, and hence offered no facilities for the study 
of homoeopathy. 
While the first promulgators of the doctrine were men who 
had received a thorough medical education, there soon appeared in 
different parts of the country practitioners of homoeopathy who 
had received either no medical education whatever, or a very 
meagre one, and who naturally attracted the ridicule and anath- 
emas of members of the old-school profession. 
Not content with this condition of things, as early as 1835, the 
pioneers in Pennsylvania organized the North American Acad- 
emy of Homoeopathic Medicine, and located the same at Allen- 
town, the capital of Lehigh County, about fifty miles northwest 
from Philadelphia. As the instruction in this institution was 
given wholly in the German language, it was not patronized as it 
otherwise would have been, and for this, among other reasons, 
after a few years the enterprise was abandoned. 
During the next decade homoeopathy made rapid progress 
throughout the Northern and Middle States. Many converts 
were made from the ranks of the old school, and an increased 
number of laymen engaged in the practice. 
The existing medical schools still declining to embrace ho- 
moeopathy in their curriculum of study, and the necessity for 
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giving medical students who might have selected this system 
an opportunity for acquiring a more thorough familiarity with 
its principles and practice, than could be gained through pri- 
vate instruction, becoming every year more and more imperative, 
in 1848 a few earnest workers in Philadelphia obtained a charter 
from the legislature, and organized the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, the doors of which were opened for its 
first course of lectures in October of the same year. 
The success of this enterprise soon led to the organization of other 
colleges, as follows : Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital Medical 
College, in 1849; Penn Medical University, in 1853; Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Chicago, in 1855; Homoeopathic Med- 
ical College of St. Louis, in 1857; New York Homoeopathic 
Medical College, in 1860; New York Homoeopathic Medical 
College for Women, in 1860; Boston University, in 1869; 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Detroit, 1871; Detroit Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College, in 1872; Pulte Medical College, in 1872; 
Homoeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, 
in 1875; Chicago Homoeopathic College, in 1876. 
The plan of instruction in all of these institutions at their 
organization, with two exceptions, was the same as that employed 
by all the old-school medical colleges of the country, viz., a non- 
graded course of lectures, in which all the branches of study were 
pursued at the same time, and all completed, in one term of 
from four to live months, the same being repeated from year to 
year, two courses only being obligatory as a preparation for 
graduation. While three years of study was generally required 
before graduation, one of these might be spent with a preceptor, 
either before entering a medical school for the first course of lec- 
tures, or between the two courses. 
In the meantime there was a general demand for improve- 
ment in the system of medical education. The absurdity of the 
raw student pursuing all the branches at the same time-on the 
same day commencing the elements of anatomy and study of 
the practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics-was so evident 
as to attract the attention of medical societies and conventions, 
and to lead to urgent demands of the schools for a more thorough INSTITUTIONS. 
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and more rational system of instruction. No change, however, 
followed; the older colleges were afraid of losing their classes; 
the smaller ones could not afford to take the lead, hence things 
continued as before. 
In 1853, however, appeared a new medical institution in 
Philadelphia, the Penn Medical University. This school was 
independent in its principles, providing in its curriculum of 
study for the consideration of homoeopathic as well as the old- 
school system of therapeutics; it opened its doors to both sexes, 
and inaugurated an additional innovation upon the methods of 
study in the past, by offering a graded course of four sessions as 
follows: 
"Progressive System of Medical Education of the Penn 
Medical University of Philadelphia. 
" I. First or Philosophical Course, from October Pith to February 
10th.-1. Descriptive Anatomy; 2. Microscopical Anatomy; 3. 
Inorganic Chemistry; 4. Natural Philosophy; 5. General Bot- 
any ; 6. Mental Philosophy, Practical Anatomy, Practical Chem- 
istry, and Practical Botany. 
"II. Second or Physiological Course, from March ls^ to July 
ls^.-7. Surgical Anatomy; 8. Physiology; 9. Organic Chem- 
istry ; 10. Medical Chemistry; 11. Medical Botany; 12. His- 
tory of Medicine, Practical Anatomy, Practical Chemistry, and 
Practical Botany. 
"III. Third, or Pathological Course,from October 10th to Feb- 
ruary 10th.-13. General and Special Pathology; 14. Materia 
Medica; 15. Institutes of Medicine; 16. Surgical Pathology and 
Minor Surgery; 17. Obstetrical Anatomy, Physiology, and 
Pathology; 18. Medical Jurisprudence, Clinics, and Hospitals. 
"IV. Fourth or Practical Course, from March ls^ to July ls^.- 
19. Morbid Anatomy and Chemistry; Diagnostics; 20. Phar- 
macy (Theoretical and Practical); 21. Practice of Medicine; 22. 
Operative Surgery and Surgical Specialties ; 23. Operative Ob- 
stetrics and Treatment of Women and Children; 24. Public 
Hygiene ; Clinics and Hospitals." 
To Dr. William Schmoele, Dean of the Faculty and Professor 772 
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of Pathology, is due the credit of having first suggested, and to 
the Penn Medical University of first offering to the medical 
student a graded course of medical instruction. 
In 1864, from the influence of the war upon its classes, this 
institution closed its doors. 
No further movement in this direction was made until 1869, 
when the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia an- 
nounced an optional three years' graded course in these words: 
" It is proposed to institute an optional three years' 
course of instruction, so that those who prefer to divide their 
studies into three years, instead of two, can do so, and at the 
same time receive additional instruction in other collateral 
branches of medical science. 
" The course will embrace three classes: First, the 
Philosophical Class; second, the Theoretical Class; third, the 
Practical Class; and will commence on the second Monday in 
October. 
" The branches to be taught will be divided as follows: 
" First Session. Philosophical Class.-Anatomy, general and 
descriptive; Natural Philosophy and Chemistry; Physiology 
and Microscopic Anatomy ; Pharmacy and Botany. 
"Fees for this session, $75. 
" Second Session. Theoretical Class.-Comparative Anatomy; 
Topographical and Surgical Anatomy, including Dissecting; In- 
stitutes of Homoeopathy ; General Pathology; first part of Prac- 
tice of Medicine, etc.; first part of Materia Medica; Clinical 
Medicine; Clinical Surgery. 
" Fees for this session, $85. 
" Third Session. Practical Class.-Second part of Practice 
of Medicine, special Pathology, and Diagnosis ; second part of 
Materia Medica; Surgery; Clinical Surgery; Clinical Medicine; 
Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children; Toxicology 
and Medical Jurisprudence. 
" Tickets for this class will be $90." 
This institution has since persistently urged such a course of 
study upon the profession and medical students, until now a large 
proportion of the class select this plan. INSTITUTIONS. 
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In 1870 the Homoeopathic Medical College of Cleveland an- 
nounced a graded course of study; and in 1872 the New York 
Homoeopathic Medical College did the same. Since this time 
other homoeopathic colleges, with Harvard University, the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, and other old-school colleges, have 
adopted a similar plan. 
It is thus seen that the homoeopathic medical colleges of this 
country are fairly entitled to the credit of having inaugurated 
this much-needed reform in medical education. 
Of the fourteen colleges in this country, organized up to the 
present time, all are now in active operation, except the Allen- 
town Academy, the Penn Medical University, and the Detroit 
College. A more extended history of each of these institutions 
will be found in the following pages: 
A Brief Sketch of the Allentown Academy.* 
As nearly as can be ascertained, it was in the year 1834, at a 
meeting of Drs. William Wesselhoeft, Henry Detwiller, John 
Romig, and Eberhard Freytag, held in Bethlehem, Pennsyl- 
vania, that the idea was conceived of founding a homoeopathic 
medical college, or school of learning, at Allentown, Pennsyl- 
vania, and which was incorporated by an Act of Legislature of 
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, June 17th, 1836. 
To gain a more complete account of this famous undertaking 
it is necessary to review the history of some years previous. 
In the year 1828, William Wesselhoeft, M.D., and Henry 
Detwiller, M.D., at that time old-school physicians, were prac- 
ticing near each other; Dr. Wesselhoeft at Bath, Pennsylvania, 
and Dr. Detwiller at Hellertown, twelve miles south of Bath. 
* By Joseph C. Guernsey, M.D., 1923 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
I would feel deeply indebted to any one, who, after reading this narra- 
tive, can furnish any reliable information in regard to students or gradu- 
ates, transactions of the academy, incidents connected with its history, 
etc. Also for the correction of any misstatement I may have inadvertently 
made. It is my intention to re-write and publish a full and complete history 
of the "Allentown Academy " as soon as sufficient reliable data are ob- 
tained. J. C. G. 774 
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They met frequently in social life and in professional consulta- 
tion. At one of their meetings Dr. Wesselhceft mentioned that 
he had received from his father and Dr. Stapf, in Germany, 
some books on homoeopathy and a box of homoeopathic medi- 
cines. He asked Dr. Detwiller to examine with him the new 
system of medicine. Dr. Detwiller complied by studying up a 
case he then had on hand of retarded menstruation, with severe 
colic, and found Pulsatilla indicated; he administered it, the first 
homoeopathic dose in Pennsylvania, July 24th, 1828, and was 
rewarded by a speedy and complete cure. 
This was the initiatory step towards the Allentown Academy. 
Drs. Wesselhceft and Detwiller were encouraged to investigate 
further the theory and application of the Materia Medica ac- 
cording to the law of the similars. Rev. Christian J. Becker, 
of Kridersville, Pennsylvania, who in his younger years had at- 
tended medical lectures in Baltimore, impressed by the obser- 
vation of cases cured by the new system which had long baffled 
the old, took a lively interest in the study and practice of homoe- 
opathy. He became a successful practitioner, and an active 
member of the Medical Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of 
Northampton County. Dr. Eberhard Freytag, then a sexage- 
narian, of Bethlehem, took up the new doctrine, which he prac- 
ticed successfully, and became an earnest worker in the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society, and finally in the Allentown Academy. 
For the sake of mutual improvement and to facilitate the new 
form of practice the above physicians held weekly meetings at 
the house of Dr. Freytag, in Bethlehem. Here they inter- 
changed their experiences and prepared a repertory for their own 
use. In 1830 Dr. John Romig, then a young allopathic phy- 
sician, with an extensive practice and an enviable popularity, 
fell into line and became a faithful and zealous partisan in the 
new cause and a member of this association. 
In 1829 an epidemic of dysentery breaking out, Dr. Wessel- 
hceft was so deeply imbued with admiration at the success at- 
tending the new form of treatment that he abandoned entirely 
the allopathic practice and devoted himself wholly to homoeop- 
athy. He gave up a remunerative practice, which entailed a INSTITUTIONS. 
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heavy loss upon him in the main, though he continued his sur- 
gical practice, which was his specialty. For about a year he 
treated all cases that came to him, free of charge, wishing to 
learn the new Institutes and Materia Medica. He was firmly 
convinced of their infallible truth, and determined to master 
them. He began his practice anew, adhering rigidly to pure 
homoeopathy. Owing to his remarkable cures his practice rapidly 
increased and he now inaugurated a method of his own. He es- 
tablished offices in Bath and surrounding places, where he invited 
all the sick to come for treatment. He devoted a part of each 
day in the week to these different places where he held his 
clinics. He labored extensively with the clergymen, instruct- 
ing them in the new art, both that they might act in his absence, 
and for the sake of their influence among the laity. Many were 
converted by witnessing his cures, and the clergy and many old- 
school physicians began practicing throughout the country, spread- 
ing abroad the new system until it embraced Lehigh and North- 
ampton counties. Up to the year 1830 Dr. William Wesselhceft 
furnished the medicines and books which he had obtained from 
Dr. Stapf in Germany. In 1830 Dr. II. Detwiller received the 
then complete extant library on subjects pertaining to homoeopa- 
thy, together with the Archive of the Homoeopathic Method of 
Curing,* from its first appearance in 1821, and the medicines, 
through the kindness of his college friend, Dr. Siegrist, of Basel, 
Switzerland. 
On the 23d of August, 1834, the " Homoeopathic Society 
of Northampton and Counties Adjacent" was organized 
in a convention of Drs. W7. Wesselhceft, E. Freytag, J. Bomig, 
H. Detwiller, Chr. J. Becker, Joseph H. Pulte, A. Bauer, J. 
C. Gosewitsch, who was an assistant of Dr. Wesselhceft, Rev. 
Wohlfarth, Gustav Reich helm, Rev. John Helfrich, and 
Waage. 4 The object of the association was for the advancement 
of homoeopathy among the members of the society by interchange 
of experience; also for mutual improvement and encourage- 
ment in the study and introduction of the doctrines and prac- 
tice of the homoeopathic healing art. 
* See page 16. 776 
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In 1833 Dr. C. Hering came from Paramaribo, Surinam, 
South America, and settled in Philadelphia. This physician is 
so widely and so favorably known that no further biography is 
necessary than the mere mention of his name. In the Allen- 
town Academy enterprise, he who had compelled the molecule, 
the planet, and the lightning to stand and deliver their valuable 
secrets to his inquiring mind, became the corner-stone around 
and upon which his associates and co-laborers clustered and 
leaned for support. His fame had preceded him, and had opened 
the way into the new fields of labor upon which he was to enter. 
The principal members of the Northampton society had recog- 
nized the necessity of a school in which to teach pupils the new 
science and to fit them for its practice. A committee from the 
society, consisting of Drs. W. Wesselhoeft, II. Detwiller, and J. 
Romig, was appointed to confer with Dr. Hering on the estab- 
lishment of such a school. 
On December 30th, 1833, they met at the house of Dr. Hering, 
who then resided at 111 Vine Street, Philadelphia, and on Jan- 
uary 1st, 1834, Dr. Hering's thirty-fifth birthday anniversary, was 
proposed and adopted a plan, the result of which was the institu- 
tion of the " North American Academy of the Homoeopa- 
thic Healing Art," to be located at Allentown, with Dr. C. 
Hering as President and principal instructor. Dr. Hering prom- 
ised to remove to Allentown and to assume his new charge "as 
soon as they would guarantee him a salary equal to that of a first- 
class Allentown clergyman." The original plan was to obtain a 
charter through the influence of the converts to the new system in 
the two counties of Northampton and Lehigh. Dr. Wesselhoeft 
proposed to invite medical students to come to Allentown during 
the summer, there being no summer course anywhere in the 
country at that time, when only the science and application of 
pure homoeopathy should be taught. No opposition to such a 
scheme was imagined, as there was to be no interference with 
the regular course of instruction in other medical colleges, and 
such violent opposition and persecution as ultimately arose was 
entirely unlooked for. It was intended during the winter to 
write books to promulgate homoeopathy, and to prepare a com- INSTITUTIONS. 
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plete stock of genuine homoeopathic remedies. The intention 
was to pledge all the students to study in allopathic colleges ex- 
cepting those who came directly from thence. They also intended 
to translate into English as soon as possible all the standard 
homoeopathic works. 
A stock company was formed for the purpose of raising a fund 
to purchase a lot and building, and to support the institution. 
About one hundred subscribers from Allentown, Bethlehem, 
Philadelphia, and New York, and in various parts of the 
country, raised a fund sufficient to buy a tract of land comprising 
a square or block of ground in the centre of Allentown lying 
north on Hamilton Street, south on Walnut Street, east on 
Fourth Street, and west on Penn Street. A large proportion of 
this fund was raised in Philadelphia, that city which is never 
backward when the question is to promote the welfare of the 
community; and we must not here omit to make honorable 
mention of the hearty co-operation of Mr. William Geisse, the 
introducer of the new doctrine in Philadelphia; also of Dr. 
George H. Bute, who brought all the influence of his extensive 
practice to bear in favor of the new institution. 
Two wings, of 60 by 40 feet each, three stories high, were im- 
mediately put under contract and erected in a substantial manner 
of red bricks, and another two-story brick building was erected 
on Hamilton Street to serve for a chemical laboratory, anatomical, 
and dissecting rooms. A botanical garden, as large as the unoc- 
cupied ground for buildings permitted, was laid out and stocked 
principally with officinal plants. 
The Academy was founded on April 10th, 1835, Samuel Hahne- 
mann's birthday. 
On May 27th, 1835, the corner-stone was laid for the two 
wings of the main building,* in the presence of a large concourse 
of people and friends of the undertaking. At the same time Dr. 
Hering delivered in the court-house the inaugural address, in the 
German language, entitled " A Few Words Concerning the Ne- 
cessity and Usefulness of Homoeopathy," his text, so to speak, 
* Owing to a want of funds the main building itself was never erected. 778 
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being, " There is but the one right way: to seek the truth and 
steadily to pursue it."-Washington A 
The following are exact copies of the heading of the petition 
papers, which were largely circulated and signed, and the act of 
incorporation: 
To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
in General Assembly met. 
The Petition of the Subscribers, Citizens of , in 
the State of Pennsylvania, Respectfully represents: 
That the members of a Society formed to promote the Medical 
Science of Homoeopathia, and who have in the borough of North- 
ampton, in the County of Lehigh, erected suitable buildings with 
a view to give instruction in the science aforesaid, on the success 
of which in a great measure depends that the newly discovered 
science be properly promulgated and empiricism in the same 
prevented, have applied to the Honorable the Legislature for an 
Act of incorporation ; your petitioners respectfully solicit that the 
prayer of said company be granted. 
And they will ever pray, etc. 
* In the corner-stone the following articles were placed and sealed up: 
1st. Organoh of the Medical Art, by Hahnemann, his likeness, and the book 
of the main doctrine of the newly discovered science. 
2d The constitution of the Academy in the German and English languages. 
3d. The list of names of all members and stockholders of the Academy. 
4th. The words spoken at the opening of the Academy about the necessity 
and usefulness of homoeopathy. 
5th. The latest of the Philadelphia newspapers, " The Old and the New 
World," telling of the spread of homoeopathy in Ohio. 
6th. The latest number of the Friedensbote. 
7th. Homoeopathic medicine. 
8th. Names of the State and city officers. 
9th. Programme of the celebration. INSTITUTIONS. 
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No. 209. 
SENATE FILE. 
Mr. Read.-Corporations. 
Read February 25tb, 1836. Daniel K. Callender, Printer. 
An Act to incorporate the "North American Academy of 
the Homoeopathic Healing Art." 
Whereas, A number of persons have associated themselves 
and established an academy in the borough of Northampton, in 
the County of Lehigh, for instruction in the homoeopathic art of 
healing and its kindred sciences, who pray to be incorporated, 
therefore, 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As- 
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, 
That Constantine Hering, the present President, John Romig, Jr., 
the present Vice-President, William Wesselhoeft, Eberhard Frey- 
tag, Henry Detwiller, Christian J. Becker, John Rice, Christian 
Pretz, Joseph Saeger, George Keck, the present Directors, Adol- 
phus Bauer, the present Treasurer, and Philip H. Goepp, Henry 
Ebner, J. V. R. Hunter, William Eckert, and John J. Krause, 
together with all such other persons as are at present stock- 
holders, and such as shall hereafter become stockholders, agree- 
ably to the constitution and fundamental articles thereof, be, and 
they hereby are incorporated in a society by the name, style, and 
title of the " North American Academy of the Homoeopathic 
Healing Art," and by that name shall have all the rights, powers, 
and privileges incident by law to a corporation. 
Section 2. The said corporation and their successors, by the 
name, style, and title aforesaid, for a term of twenty (20) years, 
shall be able and capable in law to purchase, have, receive, take, 
hold, and enjoy in fee simple, or for a less estate oi' estates, any 
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, liberties, franchises, and other 
hereditaments, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, alienation, en- 780 
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feoffment, release, confirmation, or devise of any person or persons, 
bodies politic and corporate, capable and able to make the same; 
and further, that the said corporation and their successors may 
take and receive any sum or sums of money, goods, and chattels, 
that have been or hereafter shall be given or bequeathed to them 
by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, able and 
capable to make a bequest or gift thereof; Provided, That no 
misnomer of the said corporation and successors shall defeat or 
annul any gift, grant, devise, or bequest to the said corporation, 
if the intent of the donor shall sufficiently appear upon the face 
of the gift, testament or other writing, whereby any estate or 
interest was intended to pass to the said corporation. 
Section 3. The said corporation and their successors shall 
have full power and authority to make, have, and use one com- 
mon seal, with such device and inscription as they shall think 
proper, and the same to break, alter and renew, at their pleasure. 
Section 4. The said society shall have power to make by- 
laws, as well as to carry into effect the provisions herein con- 
tained, as for the effectual and convenient conduct of the affairs 
of the society. 
Section 5. Provided, That the lands, tenements, rents, annui- 
ties, and other property, held by the said corporation, shall at 
no time exceed the clear yearly value of two thousand dollars ; 
And provided, That the legislature may alter or repeal this act 
at any time, when the public interests may require the same, and 
that the said corporation shall not have or exercise any other 
privileges than such as may be necessary for the education of 
medical practitioners. 
By an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, at an extra ses- 
sion, June 17th, 1836, the "North American Academy of the 
Homoeopathic Healing Art" was incorporated. 
The faculty consisted of Drs. C. tiering, Freeses, William 
Wesselhceft, H. Detwiller, E. Frey tag, and John Bomig, who 
met on the 29th of June, 1835 (?), at Bethlehem, for the first 
time. A little later, Dr. J. H. Pulte became a member of the 
faculty. The course of instruction, given entirely in the Ger- 
man language, was from the 1st of November to the 31st of INSTITUTIONS. 
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August. To show what a high standard, what a comprehen- 
sive education, and what a course of instruction was aspired 
to, we quote from the " Constitution of the North Ameri- 
can Academy of Homoeopathic Medicine," the whole of Article 
XXIX. "The literary institution, according to the express de- 
sign of its foundation, shall be as comprehensive in its operations 
as possible, and will embrace the following branches of study, as 
indispensable to the complete education of the physician, viz., 
clinical instruction, examination of the sick and semeiotics; 
pharmacodynamics and materia medica; pharmaceutics and 
medical botany; dietetics ; special therapeutics, surgery, and ob- 
stetrics; medical jurisprudence; general therapeutics; symp- 
tomatology and human pathology; physiology and anatomy; 
comparative anatomy and comparative physiology ; zoology, 
phytology, and mineralogy ; chemistry, physics, geology, astron- 
omy,and mathematics; historyofmedicine and ofnatural sciences; 
the Greek, Latin, and German languages, as preparatory studies." 
The first students admitted were Adolph Bauer, A. G. Schmidt, 
J. W. Baker, L. Ziegler, J. C. Gosewitsch, and H. Okie. Pre- 
liminary examinations of the students, before matriculation, were 
held by a committee. Candidates for diplomas were obliged to 
pass an examination, or colloquium, present a curriculum vitce, 
and a dissertation on medical subjects. Those only who had at- 
tended full courses, and passed a meritorious examination in 
anatomy, physiology, pathology, Materia Medica homoeopathia, 
homoeopathic therapeutics, surgery and obstetrics, were entitled 
to a diploma. The form and reading of the diploma was on one 
parchment, in the three languages, Latin, English, and German. 
The German form occupied the centre of the sheet, flanked on 
the left by the Latin reading, and on the right by the English 
version. The following is a copy of the English : 
VOL. II. 782 
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the 
of 
THE AMERIGANACADEMY OF HOMffiOPATHlA 
incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, June 17, 1836, 
cm. 
after his having complied with the rules of the faculty, as well for the 
safety of the public as for a proof of his being possessed of the requisite 
medical knowledge, and having presented a dissertation of 
this 
diploma 
as 
mA,y 
which is according to our firmest conviction, given as a testimony of his 
admission among the number of Homoeopathic 
Physicians. 
Allentown, Lehigh C^, Pa. 
In testimony whereof, witness the Academical Seal and 
our signature hereunto affixed. 
In the year of American Independence. INSTITUTIONS. 
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In the latter part of 1836 Hahnemann's Organon and Jahr's 
Manual were translated into English, and published. A weekly 
periodical in the German language was published by the Academy 
on medical, surgical, and obstetrical subjects, embracing obser- 
vations in and experiences from practice, etc., under the title, 
Correspondenzblatt der Nord Americanischen Academy der Ho- 
mceopatischen Heillcunst, also, Archiv Zettel. Also, a very elab- 
orate monograph of snake-poison, in the German language. 
All the above literary labors were principally the work of the 
indefatigable Dr. Hering, the heart and soul of the institution. 
In 1836 Dr. Henry Detwiller sailed to Europe, objectively in 
the interest of the Academy, had several interviews with Dr. 
Samuel Hahnemann, but was not successful enough to obtain 
material aid for the Academy, other than advice. At a soiree, at 
the house of Dr. Hahnemann, the leading and prominent Pa- 
risian homoeopathists assembled, but there seemed no disposi- 
tion to take a material interest in support of this, the first and 
only institution where the principles of homoeopathy were taught. 
Not discouraged, and hopeful of ultimate success, he left Paris, 
and went to Zurich in Switzerland, to meet Professor Schoenlein, 
who intended to publish a natural history of diseases. Recogniz- 
ing the importance and value of such a work, Dr. Detwiller ob- 
tained a promise from Dr. Schoenlein, to furnish the Academy 
with the sheets as printed, for translation into English. Dr. 
Schoenlein, then Professor at the University of Zurich, was fully 
apprised of the fact that the benefit to be derived from the trans- 
lation was for the homoeopathic institution at Allentown. Un- 
fortunately, being called to be physician-extraordinary to the 
King of Prussia, the work did not appear. 
The " North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing 
Art," generally known as the " Allentown Academy," was des- 
tined to be short-lived. The great undertaking, supported by 
such valiant and earnest workers as the first faculty, was never 
carried out. The funds of the Academy were placed in the Al- 
lentown Bank, which was undermined and destroyed by its head 
man (who was a secret but determined enemy of homoeopathy), 
and everything was swept away. The academical buildings and 784 
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lot were sold to satisfy a mortgage of $9000. Dr. William Wes- 
selhoeft strove for several years to sustain the enterprise, but in 
1842 he removed to Boston whereupon the faculty ceased their 
labors. The last stockholders' meeting was held June 14th, 1843, 
for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors, at which the 
following board was elected : President, C. Tiering, M.D., Phila- 
delphia (whither he had some time before returned, the Academy 
being unable to support him); Vice-President, John Romig, M.D.; 
Secretary, J. Chr. Becker, M.D.; Treasurer, Peter Huber, M.D.; 
Corresponding Secretary, H. Detwiller, M.D.; Directors, Drs. 
Philip H. Goepp, John Rice, Henry Ebner, Joseph Saeger, Henry 
Floto, John Helfrich, and William Wesselhceft in Boston. The 
first honorary member elected was Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, elected 
April 10th, 1835. The students of the Academy were Adolph 
Bauer, J. G. Schmidt, G. Reichhelm, J. C. Gosewitsch, Charles 
Haeseler, Major Fehrenthal, J. Geist, Edward Caspari, Adolph 
Caspari, Adolph Lippe, and H. Okie. The examinations by the 
faculty before granting diplomas were most searching and strin- 
gent. The Professors were graduates from the German Univer- 
sities and examined the candidates as rigidly as they had been 
themselves examined at home. Two of its graduates, Drs. Charles 
Neidhard and Ad. Lippe, have said to the author, " The pos- 
session of an Allentown diploma is an honor to its holder, as it 
was only obtained by worthy applicants. Many who tried to pass 
were rejected as incapable." The graduating fees were five dollars 
to each examiner. Those receiving diplomas* were C. Hering, 
William Wesselhoeft, John Romig, Henry Detwiller, Charles 
Neidhard, George H. Bute, Manning B. Roche, Adolph Lippe, 
Wilhelm Schmoele, J. C. Gosewitsch, Adolph Bauer, F. M. 
Wahle (honorary), George H. G. Jahr, Henry Floto, Charles 
Haeseler, H. Okie, and a special diploma to Madame Hahnemann. 
Owing to the loss of important records of the Academy it is 
impossible to vouch for the correctness or completeness of the 
list of students and graduates given above. Search is still being 
made for important documents, which may throw enough light 
* Louis Philippe of France and the late Pope Pio Nono acknowledged 
the validity of the Allentown diplomas. INSTITUTIONS. 
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to dissipate the dark cloud that overshadows many points in the 
history of the Academy. 
Dr. Hering's Publications at Allentown. 
Nothwendigkeit und Nutzen der Homobpathie. 
Hom. Hausarzt (Dom. Phys.). 
Preface to Organon. 
Introduction to Jahr's Handbuch. 
Correspondenzblatt, 1835-1836, 4to., 15 numbers. 
Das Schl augen gift. 
Introduction to Study of Materia Medica (translated in British 
Journal). 
Calcarea Phosphorica (not printed till 1872, N. A. J.). 
We cannot close without reference to Samuel Hahnemann, 
who was the earthly source whence sprang the Allentown Acad- 
emy, by discovering and promulgating the only true law of cure, 
that of similia similibus curantur, the world has ever received,-the 
law which must forever continue to hold its sway. Founded as it is 
on that irrefrangible rock, truth, it is " constant as the Northern 
star, of whose true, fixed, and resting quality there is no fellow 
in the firmament." There is no law in the science of healing 
that can be compared with this, for none has the " true, fixed, 
and resting quality " of similia similibus curantur. 
We may say in truth of Hahnemann, as has been said of 
Bacon ; we may, with yet more justice, compare Hahnemann, 
when at the zenith of his success and glory, with Moses* stand- 
ing on Mount Pisgah. There we see the great lawgiver look- 
ing round from his lonely elevation on an infinite expanse; be- 
hind him a wilderness of dreary sands and bitter waters, in which 
successive generations have sojourned, always moving, yet never 
advancing, reaping no harvest, and building no abiding city; 
before him a goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with 
* Dr C. Hering declares that Moses first of all announced the principles 
of the law of similars by erecting a brazen serpent in the wilderness for the 
children of Israel, that all who were bitten by a serpent might look thereon 
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milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat, 
sterile desert, in which they had so long wandered, bounded on 
every side by a near horizon, or diversified only by some deceit- 
ful mirage, he was gazing from a far higher stand on a far love- 
lier country, following with his eye the long course of fertilizing 
rivers, through ample pastures, and under the bridges of great 
capitals, measuring the distances of marts and havens, and por- 
tioning out all those wealthy regions from Dan to Beersheba. 
How forcibly does this bring before us the unprofitable realm 
of medicine before Hahnemann's time, and the goodly change he 
was to inaugurate. Homoeopathy first dawned and then broke 
upon the world's sicknesses in full splendor, lighting with dazzling 
brilliancy the arcana medica, lifting on every side the narrow 
confines of ignorance and empiricism, and clearing away each 
ignis fatuus, to replace it with a steady and trusty beacon light. 
Hahnemann, too, from a "far higher stand" than any of his 
predecessors, could overlook the now curable domains of disease 
through which in the hereafter the long course of healing streams, 
springing from his beneficent hand, would flow on through dark- 
ness into light, washing away popular prejudices and errors, lim- 
iting the duration of fell disorders, and pointing out all those 
healthy regions from the date of birth till the end of life. 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania.* 
At the meetings of the Central Bureau of the American In- 
stitute of Homoeopathy the question of establishing a homoeo- 
pathic college in Philadelphia was frequently discussed, and at 
a meeting held at the house of Dr. Jeanes, in February of 1848, 
it was resolved by the members present, Drs. Hering, Jeanes, 
and Williamson, to petition the legislature, then in session, for a 
charter. 
In compliance with this petition, on the 8th of April, 1848, a 
charter was passed by the legislature, granting all the powers 
and privileges of other medical colleges in the State. 
* By A. R. Thomas, M.D. INSTITUTIONS. 
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The first board of officers was composed of the following gen- 
tlemen : 
President, Hon. Anson V. Parsons; Managers, Stilwell S. 
Bishop, Henry J. Boiler, Edward M. Davis, Daniel Deal, Law- 
rence Johnson, John M. Kennedy, Francis King, Henry P. 
Lloyd, Benjamin R. Miller, John Sartain, Isaac S. Waterman, 
Haworth Wetherald; Recording Secretary, Francis Sims; Cor- 
responding Secretary, Walter Williamson; Treasurer, William 
Rhoads. 
The faculty consisted of the following gentlemen : 
Faculty.-Jacob Jeanes, M.D., Professor of the Principles and 
Practice of Medicine; Caleb B. Matthews, M.D., Professor of 
Materia Medica; Walter Williamson, M.D., Dean, Professor of 
Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children ; Francis Sims, 
M.D., Professor of Surgery; Samuel Freedley, M.D., Professor 
of Botany; Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry; 
William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; Alvan E. 
Small, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Pathology;* John F. 
Foley, Janitor. 
A dispensary was also organized in connection with the col- 
lege, of which an account will be given in Chapter IV. 
The first course of lectures began October 16th, 1848, in a 
building in the rear of 627 Arch Street (old number 229), and 
which for several years subsequently was occupied by the 
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. 
The fees were as follows, and still remain the same : Matric- 
ulation, $5; one course lectures, $100; practical anatomy, $10; 
graduation, $30. 
The number of students in attendance was fifteen, of whom the 
following received diplomas: Joseph K. Clark, of Massachusetts; 
Henry F. Davis, of Ohio ; Nathan S. Engle, of New Jersey ; 
Daniel R. Gardiner, of Pennsylvania; E. Bently Hall, of New 
Jersey, and Samuel OyScudder, of New York. 
Of the members of the first faculty, there are still living and 
in active practice in this city, Drs. Jeanes, Freedley, and Sims. 
* Walter Ward, M.D., examined on Physiology and signed the diplomas 
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Dr. Small is in Chicago, and an active member of the Hahne- 
mann College of that city. 
In 1849 the college was removed to Filbert Street, above 
Eleventh Street, and located in a stone building which was 
formerly occupied by the Pennsylvania Medical College, where 
it has remained up to the present time. 
This building occupies the Filbert Street front of a lot which 
extends north to Cuthbert Street. It is four stories high with 
a basement. In the latter is a large room for practical surgery, 
besides rooms for the preparation and storage of anatomical ma- 
terial, heating apparatus, etc. 
The first floor contains a large lecture-room, with laboratory. 
Here are given lectures on chemistry, physiology, materia med- 
ica, and practice of medicine. 
The second story is devoted wholly to the museum. The 
room is large, being fifty-two feet in length by forty-five in 
width, with high ceiling, and with every convenience of light and 
heat. 
The third story contains dispensary rooms, and an amphi- 
theatre. The latter is well arranged for lectures which require 
illustration by means of models, specimens, and demonstrations. 
Anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics are taught in this room, in ad- 
dition to the several clinics held here daily. 
In the fourth story is the dissecting-room, which is supplied 
with every convenience for the operations of this department. 
The following list shows the changes in the medical faculty 
from year to year : 
Session of 1849 and 1850. 
Faculty.-Caleb B. Matthews, M.D., Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics; William S. Helmuth, M.D., Professor 
of Homoeopathic Institutes and the Practice of Medicine; Sam- 
uel Freedley, M.D., Professor of Botany and Medical Jurispru- 
dence ; Charles Neidhard, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine; 
Walter Williamson, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and the Dis- 
eases of Women and Children ; Alvan E. Small, M.D., Professor 
of Physiology and Pathology; Matthew Semple, M.D., Profes- INSTITUTIONS. 
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sor of Chemistry and Toxicology; Francis Sims, M.D., Profes- 
sor of Surgery; William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy. 
Session of 1850 and 1851. 
Faculty.-Caleb B. Matthews, M.D., Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics; William S. Helmuth, M.D., Profes- 
sor of Homoeopathic Institutes and the Practice of Medicine ; 
Samuel Freedley, M.D., Professor of Botany and Medical Juris- 
prudence ; Charles Neidhard, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medi- 
cine; Walter Williamson, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and the 
Diseases of Women and Children ; Alvan E. Small, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology and Pathology; Matthew Semple, M.D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; Francis Sims, M.D., 
Professor of Surgery; William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy. 
Session of 1851 a,nd 1852. 
Faculty.-Caleb B. Matthews, M.D., Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics; William S. Helmuth, M.D., Profes- 
sor of Homoeopathic Institutes and the Practice of Medicine; 
Samuel Freedley, M.D., Professor of Botany and Medical Juris- 
prudence; Charles Neidhard, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medi- 
cine; Walter Williamson, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and the 
Diseases of Women and Children; Alvan E. Small, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology and Pathology ; Matthew Semple, M.D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; Francis Sims, M.D., 
Professor of Surgery ; William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy. 
Session of 1852 and 1853. 
Faculty.-W. S. Helmuth, M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic 
Institutes, Pathology, and Practice of Medicine; W. William- 
son, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; J. G. 
Loomis, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women 
and Children ; A. E. Small, M.D., Professor of Physiology and 
Medical Jurisprudence; Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of 
Chemistry and Toxicology ; Francis Sims, M.D., Professor of 
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Session of 1853 and 1854. 
Faculty.-AV. Williamson, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica 
and Therapeutics ; Joseph G. Loomis, M.D.,* Professor of Ob- 
stetrics and Diseases of Women and Children ; Alvan E. Small, 
M.D., Professor of Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence; 
Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; 
Frederick Humphrey, M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic Insti- 
tutes, Pathology, and Practice of Medicine ; Jacob Beakley, M.D., 
Professor of Surgery ; William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy* 
Session of 1854 and 1855. 
Faculty.-Walter Williamson, M.D., Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics; Frederick Humphrey, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Homoeopathic Institutes, Pathology, and Practice of 
Medicine ; Isaac M. Ward, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and 
Diseases of Women and Children; Alvan E. Small, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence; Matthew Sem- 
ple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; Jacob 
Beakley, M.D., Professor of Surgery ; William A. Gardiner, 
M.D., Professor of Anatomy. 
Session of 1855 and 1856. 
Faculty.-Walter Williamson, M.D., Emeritus Professor of 
Clinical Medicine; J. P. Dake, M.D., Professor of Materia Med- 
ica and Therapeutics ; Alvan E. Small, M.D., Professor of Ho- 
moeopathic Institutes, Pathology, and Practice of Medicine; 
Isaac M. Ward, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of 
Women and Children ; William A. Reed, M.D., Professor of 
Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence; Matthew Semple, M.D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology ; Jacob Beakley, M.D., 
Professor of Surgery ; William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy. 
Session of 1856 and 1857. 
Faculty.-Walter Williamson, M.D., Emeritus Professor of 
Clinical Medicine; J. P. Dake, M.D., Professor of Materia 
* Professor Loomis died October 25th, 1853, and Isaac M. Ward was 
elected Professor of Obstetrics. INSTITUTIONS. 
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Medica and Therapeutics ; Isaac M. Ward, M.D., Professor of 
Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence; Alvan E. Small, M.D., 
Professor of Homoeopathic Institutes, Pathology, and Practice of 
Medicine; William A. Reed, MD., Professor of Physiology; 
Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology ; 
Jacob Beakley, M.D., Professor of Surgery ; William A. Gardi- 
ner, M.D.,* Professor of Anatomy. 
Faculty.-C. J. Hempie, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica 
and Therapeutics; J. R. Coxe, Jr., M.D., Professor of Homoeo- 
pathic Institutes, Pathology, and the Practice of Medicine; W. 
Williamson, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, Diseases of Women 
and Children, and Medical Jurisprudence; M. Semple, M.D., 
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology ; J. Beakley, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Surgery ; W. A. Reed, M.D., Professor of Physiology ; 
W. Tod Helmuth, M.D., Professor of Anatomy. 
Session of 1857 and 1858. 
Session of 1858 and 1859. 
Faculty.-Walter Williamson, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, 
Diseases of Women and Children, and Medical Jurisprudence; 
Jacob Beakley, M.D., Professor of Surgery ; William A. Reed, 
M.D., Professor of Physiology; Charles Julius Hempel, M.D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; John Redman 
Coxe, Jr., M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic Institutes, Pathol- 
ogy, and Practice of Medicine; Thomas Moore, M.D., Professor 
of Anatomy ; A. H. Flanders, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and 
Toxicology. 
Session of 1859 and 1860. 
Faculty.-Charles Julius Hempel, M.D., Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics; Thomas Moore, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy; Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and 
Toxicology ; AV. A. Reed, M.D., Professor of Physiology ; John 
Redman Coxe, Jr., M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic Institutes, 
* Dr. Gardiner resigned, and W. Tod Helmuth, M.D., was elected to the 
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Pathology, and Practice of Medicine; Isaac M. Ward, M.D., 
Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; 
Jacob Beakley, M.D., Professor of Surgery. 
About the close of this session occurred the first serious trouble 
that had taken place in the college. The trustees, immediately 
after the annual commencement, declared all the chairs vacant, 
Dr. W. Williamson having previously resigned. 
One result of this, was the establishment of the New York 
College, by Dr. Beakley and others. The trustees proceeded 
to fill the chairs with new men, as follows: 
Session of 1860 and 1861 
Faculty.-Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and 
Toxicology; William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of Surgery ; 
Silas S. Brooks, M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic Institutes and 
Practice of Medicine; George R. Starkey, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy; A. H. Ashton, M.D.,* Professor of Obstetrics and 
Diseases of Women and Children; J. K. Lee, M.D., Professor 
of Materia Medica and Therapeutics: O. B. Gause, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology and Pathology. 
Session of 1861 and 1862 
Faculty.-Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and 
Toxicology ; William A. Gardiner, M.D., Professor of Surgery ; 
Silas S. Brooks, M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic Institutes and 
Practice of Medicine; George R. Starkey, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy ; H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and 
Diseases of Women and Children; J. K. Lee, M.D., Professor 
of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; O. B. Gause, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology and Pathology. 
Session of 1862 and 1863 
Faculty.-Matthew Semple, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and 
Toxicology; Silas S. Brooks, M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic 
* Dr. Ashton resigned before the lecture season, and Thomas Moore, M.D., 
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Institutesand Practice of Medicine; J. K. Lee, M.D., Professor 
of Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Therapeutics; O. B. Gause, 
M.D., Professor of Physiology and Pathology ; George R. Star- 
key, M.D., Professor of Surgery; H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children ; P. S. 
Hitchens, M.D., Professor of Anatomy. 
Session of 1863 and 1864. 
Faculty.-Silas S. Brooks, M.D., Professor of Homoeopathic 
Institutes and Practice of Medicine; 0. B. Gause, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology and Pathology; George R. Starkey, M.D., 
Professor of Surgery; H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Professor of Mid- 
wifery and Diseases of Women and Children; Peter S. Hitch- 
ens, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; Charles Heerman, M.D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Lemuel Ste- 
phens, Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
During this session new difficulties arose, but as they did not 
extend beyond the circle of the faculty the lectures were deliv- 
ered until the close of the session, and the annual commencement 
held as usual. The students dispersed to their homes without 
any suspicion of intestine trouble in their alma mater. 
The crisis soon came, and the college was again without a 
faculty. 
A new charter was obtained in 1865, thus radically reorgan- 
izing the entire institution. By this charter a stock company 
was formed, with permission to increase the capital $60,000, 
for hospital purposes. A sale of the college property was effected 
and organized upon the stock plan. Heretofore the trustees were 
elected by the corporators; upon the new plan the stockholders 
were to elect, at their annual meeting, a board of trustees, to 
serve one year, and these trustees elected a faculty to serve one 
year. 
It will be seen that the controlling power resided in the stock- 
holders, and if by chance the majority of stock should be owned 
by one individual, he could govern the affairs according to his, 
individual dictum. This really became the case, and, as a matter 794 
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of course, the prosperity and usefulness of the college at once 
began to decline. 
The new college organized with the following faculty: 
Session of 1864 and 1865. 
Faculty.-Constantine Hering, M.D., Professor of Homoeo- 
pathic Institutes and Practice of Medicine; Ad. Lippe, M.D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Charles G. 
Raue, M.D., Professor of Special Pathology and Diagnosis; II. 
N. Guernsey, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of 
Women and Children; George R. Starkey, M.D., Professor of 
Surgery; Pusey Wilson, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; Charles 
Heerman, M.D., Professor of Physiology; Lemuel Stephens, 
M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
Session of 1865 and 1866. 
Faculty.-Constantine Hering, M.D., Professor of Homoeo- 
pathic Institutes and Practice of Medicine; Ad. Lippe, M.D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; H. N. Guern- 
sey, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and 
Children ; Charles G. Raue, M.D., Professor of Diagnosis and 
Special Pathology ; Pusey Wilson, M.D., Professor of Surgery ; 
John C. Morgan, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; J. H. P. Frost, 
M.D., Professor of Physiology ; Lemuel Stephens, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry and Toxicology. 
Session of 1866 and 1867. 
Faculty.-Constantine Hering, M.D., Professor of Institutes 
and Practice; Ad. Lippe, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica; 
H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of 
Women and Children; Charles G. Raue, M.D., Professor of 
Special Pathology and Diagnostics; George F. Foote, M.D., 
Professor of Surgery ; John C. Morgan, M.D., Professor of 
Anatomy; J. H. P. Frost, M.D., Professor of Physiology; 
Lemuel Stephens, M.D., Professor of Chemistry. INSTITUTIONS. 
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Session of 1867 and 1868. 
Faculty.-Constantine Hering, M.D.,* Professor of Institutes 
and Practice; Ad. Lippe, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica ; 
H. N. Guernsey, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of 
Women and Children ; George F. Foote, M.D., Professor of 
Snrgeryjf Lemuel Stephens, M.D., Professor of Chemistry; 
W. L. Arrowsmith, M.D., Professor of Anatomy ;$ Henry Noah 
Martin, M.D., Professor of Physiology. 
After the close of the session of 1866 and 1867 there was a 
manifestation of an individual dictum upon the part of the con- 
troller of the stocks, which did not meet the views of the ma- 
jority of the faculty. When this reached the point of abolishing 
the Chair of Diagnosis and Special Pathology, then Dr. Hering 
resigned, and refused to remain in the service of the college. 
We make this explicit statement so that the profession may 
know exactly the cause of the last rupture,-the result of which 
was the establishment of The Hahnemann Medical College. 
After the resignation of Dr. Hering, there had to be a new 
organization, which was as follows: 
A. R. Morgan, M.D., Professor of Institutes and Practice of 
Medicine, Pathology, and Diagnostics ; Ad. Lippe, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Materia Medica; 11. N. Guernsey, M.D., Professor of 
Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; George F. 
Foote, M.D., Professor of Surgery; W. L. Arrowsmith, M.D., 
Professor of Anatomy ;> J. H. P. Frost, M.D., Professor of Phys- 
iology ; George G. Percival, M.D., Professor of Chemistry. 
During the summer, however, other changes took place, and 
the faculty w7as again reorganized as follows, viz.: 
In place of George F. Foote, M.D., Malcolm Macfarlan, 
M.D. ; in place of W. L. Arrowsmith, M.D., R. J. McClatchey, 
* Dr. Hering declined to accept. 
j- Before the session commenced, Drs. Morgan, Arrowsmith, and Percival 
resigned, and Dr. T. Dwight Stow was elected in place of Dr. Morgan, Dr. 
E. G. Dalton in place of Dr. Arrowsmith, and Dr. Pemberton Dudley in 
place of Dr. Percival. 
J Drs. Stephens and Martin resigned before the commencement of the 
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M.D.; in place of J. H. P. Frost, M.D., W. L. Arrowsmith, 
M.D.; and Dr. Frost was elected Professor of General Pa- 
thology. 
Session of 1868 and 1869. 
Faculty.-Adolph Lippe, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica 
and Therapeutics; A. R. Morgan, M.D., Professor of Homoeo- 
pathic Institutes, Special Pathology, and Practice of Medicine; 
Henry N. Guernsey, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and the Dis- 
eases of Women and Children; William L, Arrowsmith, M.D., 
Professor of Physiology and General Pathology ; Malcolm Mac- 
farlan, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Surgical Pathology ; 
Robert J. McClatchey, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; George 
G. Percival, A.M., M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxi- 
cology. 
Under this faculty was given the last course of lectures of the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. Thirty-one 
degrees were conferred at the end of the course. 
In the meantime, during the summer of 1867, the seceders 
from the old college secured the charter of the Washington Med- 
ical College of Philadelphia, under which no organization had 
ever been effected, and by act of the Court of Quarter Sessions 
of Philadelphia, July 17th, 1867, the name was changed to the 
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. 
Under this charter was organized the following faculty: 
Constantine Hering, M.D., Professor of Institutes and Mate- 
ria Medica; Charles G. Raue, M.D., Professor of Practice of 
Medicine, Special Pathology, and Diagnosis; John C. Morgan, 
M.D., Professor of Surgery ; Henry Noah Martin, M.D.,* Pro- 
fessoi' of Midwifery, Diseases of Women and Children, and 
Lecturer on Clinical Medicine ; Richard Koch, M.D., Professor 
of Physiology, General Pathology, and Microscopic Anatomy; 
A. R. Thomas, M.D., Professor of Anatomy; Lemuel Ste- 
phens, M.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and 
Toxicology. 
* During the session Dr. Martin resigned the Chair of Midwifery, etc., 
and was elected Professor of Clinical Medicine. Dr. 0. B. Gause was 
elected to fill the vacancy. INSTITUTIONS. 
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The board of corporation trustees was composed as follows: 
Jason L. Fennimore, President; John A. Marshall, Secre- 
tary; John W. Sexton, Treasurer; Edward S. Lawrence, George 
W. Troutman, John T. Midnight, Augustus W. Koch, M.D., 
F. E. Boericke, M.D., Howard Malcom, D.D., Byron Wood- 
ward, James B. Read, and T. Guilford Smith. 
The first course of lectures was given at 1307 Chestnut Street, 
the second and third stories of which were specially prepared for 
that purpose. During the spring of 1868 the college was re- 
moved to 18 North Tenth Street, southwest corner of Hunter 
Street, this building being much better adapted to the require- 
ments of a medical school. 
In the spring of 1869 the trustees of the Hahnemann Medical 
College effected an arrangement by which was secured the build- 
ing and charter of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania, and by act of the legislature, April 2d, 1869, the char- 
ters of the two colleges were merged and consolidated into one 
corporation, under the name of The Hahnemann Medical College 
of Philadelphia. 
The changes in the faculty of the new college have been as 
follows : 
1869.-Dr. Malcolm Macfarlan elected Professor of Clinical 
Surgery. 
1871.-Drs. Hering and Raue retire, and Drs. H. N. Guern- 
sey and Charles H. Haeseler are appointed in their places. 
1872.-Dr. Haeseler retires, and Dr. H. N. Martin takes his 
place. Dr. C. C. Smith appointed to Clinical Medicine. 
1873.-Dr. Koch, Professor of Physiology, retires, and is suc- 
ceeded by Dr. B. F. Betts. Dr. E. A. Farrington appointed to 
Chair of Pathology and Diagnosis. 
1874.-Professor Guernsey retires, and Dr. E. A. Farrington 
transferred to Materia Medica. 
1876.-Drs. Morgan, Martin, Macfarlan, and Smith retire, 
and the faculty now stands as follows : 
C. Hering, M.D., Emeritus; A. R. Thomas, M.D., Dean, Pro- 
fessor of Anatomy; Lemuel Stephens, M.D., Professor of Chem- 
istry; O. B. Gause, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics; E. A. Earring- 798 
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ton, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica; B. F. Betts, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Gynaecology ; J. P. Dake, M.D., Professor of Pathology 
and Practice; August Korndoerfer, M.D., Professor of Clinical 
Medicine; Pemberton Dudley, M.D., Professor of Physiology; 
J. H. McClelland, M.D., Professor of Surgery. 
Since the consolidation, the history of the Hahnemann Medi- 
cal College has been one of continued prosperity. The members 
of the faculty are elected for life, thus removing one great occa- 
sion for annual disagreements and changes. The curriculum of 
study has been greatly extended, and graduation made more 
difficult. 
In 1869 was organized a three years' graded course of instruc- 
tion, optional for the student, which has been annually increasing 
in popularity with the class, and must soon be made obligatory 
upon all. 
During the twenty-one years of the existence of the old college, 
the graduates numbered six hundred and thirty-seven, while 
three hundred and fifty-two have taken diplomas from the new, 
making a total of nine hundred and eighty-nine. 
An interesting incident in the history of the college, and one 
that should be noted here, has been the acquisition of a bust of 
Samuel Hahnemann, presented by his widow, Madam Hahne- 
mann, and received in Philadelphia in June of the present year 
(1876). This bust is of colossal size, and was modelled by the 
celebrated French sculptor, David. It was placed upon a high 
pedestal, properly draped, and occupied a prominent position, by 
the side of the president's chair, in the church where were held 
the meetings of the World's Convention, and has since been 
placed in the Museum of the Hahnemann Medical College. 
Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital College.* 
In May, 1849, at a meeting held in Cleveland of the homoeo- 
pathic physicians of Northern Ohio, the propriety of establish- 
ing a medical college was freely discussed, but it was finally 
unanimously agreed that the time had not arrived for founding 
* By D. H. Beckwith, M.D. INSTITUTIONS. 
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a homoeopathic college in the West. On the 26th of June fol- 
lowing, the physicians again assembled, this time to consider a 
proposition received from the Eclectic Medical College in Cin- 
cinnati.* 
In September, 1850, the announcement appeared for the 
" Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine." The first ses- 
sion the class was much larger than the faculty anticipated, and 
fifteen candidates received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
The second course of lectures commenced November 3d, 1851, 
with an increase in the number of students. In the following 
February, without any provocation, except an imaginary one, 
the college was attacked by a mob bent on demolishing the 
building and putting the faculty and students to a disgraceful 
rout. Professors Williams, Witherell, Bissell, and Hill, aided 
by about seventy students, barricaded the doors and windows, 
and held the fort for forty-eight hours in spite of a bombard- 
ment of stones and clubs. The mayor of the city believed he 
could control the mob if the building were vacated, and upon 
his assurance that the property should not be molested, the be- 
sieged beat a hasty retreat. The police, however, were unable 
to restrain the crowd, which had increased to several thousand; 
after forcing an entrance the mob fired the building and de- 
stroyed the cabinet and library, which cost over $5000. Dr. 
Brainerd's private collection was also destroyed, and the build- 
ing itself damaged to the amount of $3000. 
While this havoc was going on Governor Wood ordered out 
two military companies with instructions to fire low if the rabble 
did not at once disperse. They dispersed. But strangely enough 
not a dollar was ever given by the city to reimburse the college 
for its losses. The destruction of the building, museum, and 
library was a heavy blow, but did not dishearten the friends of 
the institution, who worked with renewed zeal and had the satis- 
faction of seeing the college rise up, Phoenix-like, from the ashes 
of its destruction, and saw it enjoy a large and constantly in- 
creasing amount of prosperity. 
* For full particulars examine carefully pp. 525-528, inclusive. 800 
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In 1857 the name was changed to Western Homoeopathic 
College. A few years later, two other homoeopathic colleges 
having sprung up in the West, it was deemed advisable to again 
change the name of the institution, and accordingly it became 
known as the Cleveland Homoeopathic College. So prosperous 
was the college that in 18G8 the faculty purchased the Cleveland 
University and devoted its spacious halls to college and hospital 
purposes. 
During the years 1867-68 the faculty discussed freely the ques- 
tion of admitting female students to the courses of instruction. 
The proposition to accord the same advantages to female as to 
male students not being favored by the entire corps of instruc- 
tors, it was decided to obtain a charter for a Homoeopathic Col- 
lege for Women. This was done, and two courses of lectures 
were delivered to classes composed exclusively of female students. 
At the expiration of the second course an affiliation of the two 
colleges was secured, since which time the present college has 
extended the same courtesies and honors to women as to men. 
In 1870 the college and hospital became so identified that it 
was thought the interests of each would be subserved by giving 
the college a more comprehensive title. It was, therefore, 
changed to Homoeopathic Hospital College, the name it now 
bears. 
In 1872 the faculty purchased a more central building for 
college use, and a property consisting of a building and grounds 
for hospital accommodations. The latter was soon found to be 
inadequate to meet the demand, and a movement is afoot by the 
college and the friends of the school to secure a more commo- 
dious hospital structure.* 
But a history of this institution, however brief, cannot be re- 
garded impartial without a record at least of the names of the 
various other veterans of homoeopathy, aside from its founders, 
who have in years past been connected with the college as the 
most efficient of instructors. Prominent among them are to be 
mentioned Professors Joseph H. Pulte, J. S. Douglass, E. A. 
* A new hospital has since been erected, a full description of which ap- 
pears in the Transactions of the American Institute for 1879. INSTITUTIONS. 
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Guilbert, J. Ellis, A. O. Blair, G. W. Barnes, S. R. Beckwith, 
G. T. Turrill, T. P. Wilson, and J. D. Buck. 
The whole number of graduates since 1851 to the present, 
1876, is 1000. The college at this time is in a most prosperous 
condition, and the profession which has patronized it so liberally 
can rest assured that its curriculum of study, its clinical and 
other advantages, shall be fully in accord with the advances in 
the science and art of medicine. 
College Fees.-1General lecture ticket, $60; general lecture 
ticket, graded course, $ 10 ; general lecture ticket for the two 
years' course, or three years' graded course, in one advance pay- 
ment, $100; to graduates of other accredited colleges, $30; to 
graduates of this college, free ; graduation fee, $30; matricula- 
tion and anatomical tickets, each (to be paid but once), $5. 
The Penn Medical University.* 
This institution was organized under a charter obtained from 
the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1853. The distinctive fea- 
tures of the school were as follows: 1st. A graded course of in- 
struction. 2d. Teaching of homoeopathy, as well as the old 
system of practice. 3d. The admission of both sexes to its 
classes. 
Here was the first offer of a graded course of medical instruc- 
tioiT made by any medical school in the United States. The 
curriculum of studies extended through four progressive courses, 
each of four months' duration, of which two courses were given 
each year-one in the winter and one in the spring. The first 
course was designated the philosophical course, the second the 
physiological, the third as the pathological, and the fourth the 
practical course. This plan of study was fully elaborated in the 
announcement of 1854. 
The faculty of the college was composed as follows : A. R. 
Thomas, M.D., Professor, Adjunct, of Descriptive and Surgical 
Anatomy; S. Pancoast, M.D., Professor of Microscopical An- 
atomy and Physiology; J. M. Macomber, M.D., Professor of 
* By A. R. Thomas, M.D. 802 
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Inorganic and Organic Chemistry ; J. E. Kent, M.D., Professor 
of Natural Philosophy and Medical Chemistry; S. Freed ley > 
M.D., Professor of General and Medical Botany ; J. M. Ma- 
comber, M.D., Professor pro tem. of Mental Philosophy and 
History of Medicine; Mrm. Schmoele, M.D., Professor of Gene- 
ral and Specific Pathology, and Morbid Anatomy ; J. C. Morgan, 
M.D., Professor of Materia Medina and Pharmacy ; J. Herzka, 
M.D., Professor of Institutes and Practice of Medicine; J. C* 
Snodgrass, M.D., Professor, Adjunct, of Institutes and Practice 
of Surgery ; Joseph S. Longshore, M.D., Professor of Institutes 
and Practice of Obstetrics; Furman Sheppard, Esq., Professor 
of Medical Jurisprudence and Public Hygiene; A. R. Thomas, 
M.D., and Joseph Koerper, M.D., Demonstrators of Anatomy; 
Benjamin Dowling, Demonstrator of Chemistry. 
Its first course of lectures was given at the northeast corner 
of Ninth and Arch streets. In the fall of 1854 it opened in a 
large building on the present site of the Farmers' Market, at 
Twelfth and Market streets. In 1857 it moved to 910 Arch 
Street. Its last course of lectures was given in the winter of 
1863-64. The influence of the war, which was seriously felt by 
all the medical schools of the country, led to the closing of its 
doors at that time. 
During the ten years of its existence its graduates numbered 
about 125, of whom 80 were men and 45 women. A large pro- 
portion of these are now practicing homoeopathy in different parts 
of the country. 
Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of 
Chicago.* 
This institution was incorporated by an act of the legislature 
of the State of Illinois, and a special charter was granted in 
1855. It was obtained through the instrumentality of Dr. D. S. 
Smith, who was the earliest homoeopathic practitioner in the 
State. 
It was organized and opened for instruction in 1859, under a 
* By A. E. Small, M.D. INSTITUTIONS. 
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board of ten trustees, who appointed the following members of 
the faculty, viz., D. S. Smith, M.D., President; G. E. Ship- 
man, M.D., A. E. Small, M.D., H. K. AV. Boardman, M.D., 
I. L. Kellogg, M.D , Reuben Ludlam, M.D., N. F. Cooke, 
M.D., and G. D. Beebe, M.D. 
The college has educated about twelve hundred students and 
sent out about five hundred graduates. Early in its history it 
was beset by peculiar difficulties and had much to contend with; 
but it surmounted them all, and at present its status is excellent 
and the outlook is very promising. Many of its alumni are 
members of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
Its curriculum of studies embraces as wide a range as that of 
any medical college in the United States. It affords an annual 
winter term of twenty-one weeks, and an optional spring term of 
eight weeks. 
The unusual prominence given to clinical instruction consti- 
tutes a chief characteristic of the school. The following is the 
list of the present 
Faculty.-A. E. Small, M.D., Professor of the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine; R. Ludlam, M.D., Professor of the Med- 
ical and Surgical Diseases of Women, Obstetrics, and Clinical 
Midwifery ; Temple S. Hoyne, M.D., Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics, and Clinical Lecturer on Venereal and 
Skin Diseases ; George A. Hall, M.D., Professor of the Principles 
and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery ; Harlan P. Cole, 
M.D., Professor of General and Surgical Anatomy and Minor 
Surgery; AV. J. Hawkes, M.D., Professor of Physiology and 
Clinical Medicine; C. H. Vilas, M.D., Professor of Diseases of 
the Eye and Ear; C. Gilbert Wheeler, M.D., Professor of 
Chemistry and Toxicology. 
Auxiliary Corps.-S. Leavitt, M.D., Adjunct Professor of 
Obstetrics; H. N. Baldwin, M.D., Professor of Hygiene and 
Sanitary Science; H. B. Fellows, M.D., Professor of the Phys- 
iology and Pathology of the Nervous System ; C. E. Laning, 
M.D., Adjunct Professor of Physiology, and Demonstrator of 
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Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, St. Louis.* 
On the 23d of November, 1857, the General Assembly of the 
State of Missouri passed an act to incorporate the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri, located at St. Louis, and appointed 
the following trustees for said college, viz.: John M. Wimer, 
George R. Taylor, Robert Renick, Samuel C. Davis, and General 
Bernard Pratt. This charter was proposed and drawn up by Dr. 
John C. Morgan, and after revision was enacted through the com- 
bined influence of Drs. John T. Temple and B. H. Peterson, who 
were at that time leading homoeopathic physicians in St. Louis. 
In 1859 an invitation was extended by the leading homoeopathic 
physicians of St. Louis io several of the most prominent repre- 
sentatives of homoeopathy in the West to meet in St. Louis, and 
to make arrangements for the establishment of a homoeopathic 
medical college, under the recent charter of the State authoriz- 
ing the same. In accordance therewith the following named 
persons were appointed professors in the first faculty of the col- 
lege: R. E. W. Adams, M.D., of Springfield, Ill., Professor of 
Theory and Practice of Medicine; B. L. Hill, M.D., of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, Professor of Institutes and Practice of Surgery; J. 
Brainerd, M.D., of Cleveland, Ohio, Professor of Chemistry and 
Medical Botany; A. R. Bartlett, M.D., of Aurora, Ill., Professor 
of Physiology and General Pathology; E. A. Guilbert, M.D., of 
Dubuque, Iowa, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women 
and Children; John T. Temple, M.D., of St. Louis, Mo., Pro- 
fessor of Materia Medica; and William Tod Helmuth, M.D., of 
St. Louis, Mo., Professor of Anatomy. 
The officers of the Faculty were John T. Temple, Dean, and 
William Tod Helmuth, Registrar. 
To show the interest taken in this subject by Western homoeo- 
pathic physicians at that time, and especially of the Illinois State 
Medical Association, held in Chicago, December 1st, 1858, the 
following resolution was unanimously carried : 
Resolved, That this Association regards with decided favor, and will sup- 
port the medical men of St. Louis in, the effort they are making to establish 
a college in that city. 
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An effort had been made at Chicago, about this time, to locate 
a medical college, but it was deemed advisable to abandon that 
project, and use their combined influence for the establishment 
and success of the St. Louis enterprise; and the physicians up- 
holding our science in Chicago and other portions of the State of 
Illinois, pledged their influence and support in behalf of the 
Missouri Medical College. In accordance with this spirit, mani- 
fested by the Illinois physicians, two of their best and most 
prominent men were appointed to fill professorships in its fac- 
ulty. 
In 1860 E. C. Franklin, M.D., was appointed Demonstrator 
of Anatomy, who, in addition to his labors as Demonstrator, was 
also appointed to deliver the course on Obstetrics and Diseases 
of Women and Children, this chair having been made vacant 
by the absence of Professor Guilbert. 
The calamity of civil war, which threatened to prostrate 
all our institutions and to engender sectional animosity and 
strife, determined the Board of Trustees to close the doors of 
the college during the years 1861, 1862, and 1863. In 1864, 
lectures were renewed under more favorable auspices than any of 
the foregoing sessions, and an entire change of organization was 
effected in the faculty by the appointment of resident Professors. 
Among the changes made, were the appointment of G. S. Walker, 
M.D., to the Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women ; E. C. 
Franklin, M.D., to the Chair of Civil and Military Surgery; T. 
J. Vastine, M.D., to the Chair of Clinical Medicine; John 
Hartman, M.D., to the Chair of Physiology; G. B. L. Clay, 
M.D., to the Chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine. 
The Good Samaritan Hospital, founded by the Rev. Louis E. 
Nollau,and containing one hundred beds, controlled and managed 
by a thoroughly homoeopathic directory, was opened for the 
benefit of the students in attendance upon the college. T. G. 
Comstock, M.D., its attending physician, whose professional 
labors were mainly instrumental in establishing this excellent 
charity, took especial pains in teaching the students, and thor- 
oughly indoctrinating them in this important branch of clinical 
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during this and succeeding courses to instruct and improve the 
hospital classes in the art of prescribing at the bedside-a fact 
all the more creditable to him, when it is stated that his services 
were altogether gratuitous. In 1865, three changes were made: 
William Tod Helmuth was appointed to the Chair of Theory and 
Practice ; C. H. Nibelung, M.D., to the Chair of Anatomy, and 
Charles Vastine, M.D., to the Chair of Physiology; all of them 
retained their positions from year to year, and little or no changes 
were made in the principal chairs, until the fall of 1869, when 
Dr. Helmuth organized the " St. Louis College of Physicians 
and Surgeons," with almost an entirely new faculty. 
The Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri still main- 
tained its prestige and popularity, with a few changes in the 
teaching body, and though the classes in each were small, both 
colleges labored with determined zeal and vigor to be foremost 
in the race for educational preferment. After the close of the 
second year, in 1871, the St. Louis College of Physicians and 
Surgeons succumbed to the pressure of the times, and closed its 
doors, and the scenes that knew it once, now know it no more. 
In the spring of 1872 another homoeopathic college of consider- 
able pretensions, but of mushroom growth, sprang into existence, 
styled the "St. Louis Homoeopathic College of Medicine and 
Surgery;" but it met with such feeble encouragement from the 
profession that the enterprise was abandoned before the lecture 
season opened. 
Numerous changes now became necessary in the faculty of the 
old Missouri College, from the fact that so many of the leading 
homoeopathic practitioners of the city had been ingulfed in the 
great maelstrom that had wrecked the two colleges mentioned, 
and were, therefore, no longer available for college purposes. 
But the vast field opening in St. Louis for homoeopathy was 
continually inviting new and vigorous men into our midst, fur- 
nishing fresh and valuable material for a teaching body. This 
material was carefully selected and appropriated, and some of 
the younger men who had shown themselves capable, by foreign 
and home education, were given positions; and the result was, 
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embrace a more thorough corps of professors than have presided 
over its destinies since 1872. 
It has been the aim and design of the present Board of Trus- 
tees to continue the good work, eliminating incompetent men 
and adding competent ones to its faculty from time to time, un- 
til there shall be a corps of professors equal to the best-teaching 
body in America. A few of the faculty who were connected 
with the College from its beginning have followed its varied 
fortunes, are still numbered among its professors, and stand at 
the very pinnacle of the profession in the departments of medi- 
cine they have so long and so ably taught. With these great 
lights as rallying-points, and surrounded by competent and pro- 
gressive associates, all opposition has been quieted for a number 
of years, and the old institution that has withstood the shock and 
tempest of adverse elements stands to-day erect and unscathed, 
on a firmer and stronger foundation than ever. 
The New York Homoeopathic Medical College.* 
"The Homoeopathic Medical College of the State of New 
York, in the City of New York," was the title under which the 
college was incorporated by special act of the legislature of New 
York, April 12th, I860. The first session was opened October 
15th, of the same year, with a class of 59 matriculants. In 
1869 the legislature authorized the change of name to "The 
New York Homoeopathic Medical College." 
In 1870 it was entirely reorganized, fourteen professors com- 
posed the faculty, and the College adopted the graduated course 
of study as recommended by the American Institute of Homoe- 
opathy. It was not expected that such an innovation on the 
long-established system of instruction could be immediately 
maintained, but the plan rapidly grew in favor. The students 
are arranged in a junior, middle, and senior class. • The junior 
class is required to attend lectures on chemistry, descriptive an- 
atomy, physiology, hygiene, institutes of medicine, elementary 
and minor surgery, and histology, with attendance on the med- 
ical and surgical clinics. The senior class is instructed in sur- 
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gery, practice of medicine, materia medica, obstetrics, diseases of 
women and children, history of medicine, mental diseases, med- 
ical jurisprudence, and clinical medicine. The middle class will 
attend such lectures of the other two classes as prescribed by the 
faculty. 
The faculty from the beginning has been composed as follows : 
Surgery.-Dr. Jacob Beakley, from 1860 to 1869; Dr. Wil- 
liam Tod Helmuth, from 1870 to date. 
Obstetrics.-Dr. Isaac M. Ward, from 1860 to 1864; Dr. D. 
D. Smith, from 1865 to 1869; Dr. E. M. Kellogg, 1868; Dr. 
S. P. Burdick, from 1870 to date. 
Principles and Practice of Medicine.-Dr. William E. Payne, 
1860; Dr. John Ellis, from 1861 to 1862; Dr. E. Guernsey, 
from 1863 to 1865; Dr. F. W. Hunt, 1866; Dr. P. P. Wells, 
from 1867 to 1868 ; Dr. A. R. Morgan, from 1868 to 1870; 
Dr. James H. Ward, 1869; Dr. John W. Dowling, from 1870 
to date; Dr. F. S. Bradford, from 1870 to date. 
Clinical Medicine.-Dr. F. W. Hunt, 1860; Dr. Henry D. 
Paine, 1866; Dr. Carroll Dunham, 1867; Dr. S. Lilienthal, 
from 1870 to date. 
Chemistry.-Dr. M. Semple, 1860; Dr. D. D. Smith, from 
1861 to 1864; Dr. M. Semple, from 1865 to 1866; Dr. John 
J. Mitchell, from 1867 to 1868; Dr. I. Remsen, 1869; Dr. F. 
A. Rockwith, 1870; Dr. C. Avery, from 1871 to 1873; Dr. J. 
T. O'Connor, from 1874 to date. 
Materia Medica.-Dr. S. R. Kirby, 1860; Dr. F. W. Hunt, 
1861 ; Dr. E. Guernsey, 1862; Dr. F. S. Bradford, 1863; Dr. 
Samuel B. Barlow, from 1864 to 1869 ; Dr. Carroll Dunham, 
1868; Dr. Carroll Dunham, from 1870 to 1873; Dr. T. F. Al- 
len, from 1870 to date. 
Anatomy.-Dr. J. de la Montagnie, 1860; Dr. James A. Car- 
michael, from 1861 to 1865; Dr. T. F. Allen, from 1866 to 
1868; Dr. A. H. Laidlaw, 1869; Dr. William O. McDonald, 
from 1870 to 1871 ; Dr. James A. Carmichael, from 1872 to 
1875; Dr. F. E. Doughty, 1876. 
Physiology.-Dr. William W. Rodman, 1860; Dr. D. D. 
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1865; Dr. Henry M. Smith, from 1866 to 1868; Dr. Henry 
N. Avery, 1869; Dr. Henry R. Stiles, 1870; Dr. Henry C. 
Houghton, from 1871 to 1872; Dr. A. J. Ebell, from 1873 to 
date. 
Medical Jurisprudence.-Dr. S. R. Kirby, from 1861 to 1867 ; 
Dr. F. W. Hunt, from 1868 to 1869; D. B. Penfield, 1870; R. 
H. Lyon, from 1871 to date. 
Special Pathology.-Dr. F. W. Hunt, 1867. 
Clinical Surgery.-Dr. J. C. Minor, 1870. 
Ophthalmic Surgery.-Dr. C. T. Liebold, from 1870 to date. 
Diseases of Women and Children.-Dr. E. M. Kellogg, from 
1870 to date; Dr. W. O. McDonald, from 1872 to date. 
Institutes and History of Medicine.-Dr. Henry D. Paine, 
from 1870 to date. 
Histology.-Dr. Samuel A. Jones, 1870; Dr. Charles A. Ba- 
con, from 1871 to date; George S. Allen, from 1874 to 1875. 
There are 529 alumni of the college. In 1861 the number 
of graduates was 27; in 1862, 23; in 1863, 22; in 1864, 26; 
in 1865, 38; in 1866, 39; in 1867, 40; in 1868, 41; in 1869, 
31 ; in 1870, 43; in 1871, 17; in 1872, 35; in 1873, 37; in 
1874, 32; in 1875, 38 ; in 1876, 40. 
The fees are as follows: Full lecture course, $100; matricu- 
lation, $5; practical anatomy, $5; graduation, $30. 
In 1872 the college was removed to a building on Third Ave- 
nue and Twenty-third Street, and was called The New York 
Medical College and Ophthalmic Hospital. 
Boston University School of Medicine.* 
The succession of events which established this school was rapid 
and remarkable. Some years previous, 1869, a charter had been 
granted for a homoeopathic school, but its friends had not thought 
it probable that a good school could be established for many 
years. Hardly had the first skirmish in the contest with the 
Massachusetts Medical Society! passed before the grand fair for 
the hospital was organized, and its brilliant success attracted the 
* By 1. T. Talbot, M.D. 
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attention of the trustees of Boston University. At the same 
time the trustees of the New England Female Medical College, 
which had then been in existence twenty-two years, appealed to 
the trustees of the homoeopathic hospital to take the college 
under their protection, paying its debts and assuming the prop- 
erty and its responsibilities. This proposition was referred to 
Boston University, and while negotiations were pending with 
that institution they were suddenly interrupted by an offer from 
Harvard University to take the property and conduct the col- 
lege. The great fire in Boston crippled the resources of Har- 
vard, which declined to assume any new responsibilities, and an 
appeal was again made to Boston University. 
By the united efforts of the trustees and friends of the Uni- 
versity and the physicians and friends of homoeopathy a suffi- 
cient sum was raised to pay off the debts, increase the size of the 
building, and obtain all the necessary means and apparatus for 
suitably conducting a medical school. As the homoeopaths of 
Massachusetts were the first to admit women to their medical 
societies, so they had determined to admit them to their medical 
school when it should be established. It became the more im- 
portant that this should be done in this school as it was the suc- 
cessor of the Female Medical College; in no other school have 
women been more equally and advantageously situated than in 
this. Preliminary examinations were required from the first. 
The three years' graded course was established, in which the 
student must complete and pass his examination in the studies 
of one year before entering upon those of the next. It was not 
expected that there would be a large number of students, yet 
the first year, 1875, there were several, the second, still more, and 
last year 172. The number of graduates at the commencement 
in March, 1876, was 31. 
The following is the 
Faculty.-William F. Warren, LL.D., President; I. Tis- 
dale Talbot, M.D., Dean, Professor of Surgery and Surgical 
Pathology; John II. Woodbury, M.D , Registrar, Professor of 
Obstetrics and Diseases of Women; William E. Payne, M.D., 
Bath, Maine, Professor of Institutes of Medicine ; Conrad Wes- INSTITUTIONS. 
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selhoeft, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; 
J. Heber Smith, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Thera- 
peutics ; David Thayer, M.D., Professor of Practice of Medicine; 
E. Bruno de Gersdorff, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Diag- 
nosis ; Henry B. Clarke, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine; 
Holmes M. Jernegan, M.D., Professor of Operative and Clinical 
Surgery ; Henry C. Angell, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology ; 
Mary Safford Blake, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Women ; 
Nathan R. Morse, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Children; 
Mercy B. Jackson, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Children ; 
Walter Wesselhoeft, M.D., Professor of Physiology; Henry C. 
Ahlborn, M.D., Professor of Pathological Anatomy ; Edward P. 
Colby, M.D., Professor of Medical Chemistry ; James F. Bab- 
cock, Professor of Chemistry; William P. Wesselhoeft, M.D., 
Lecturer on Chronic Diseases; Frederick W. Payne, M.D., Lec- 
turer on Diseases of the Ear and Eye; T. Dwight Stow, M.D., 
Fall River, Mass., Lecturer on Mental Diseases and Insanity; 
, Lecturer on Microscopy and Histology; Denton G. 
Woodvine, M.D., Librarian and Lecturer on Laryngoscopy; 
Alonzo Boothby, M.D., Instructor in Anatomy ; Caroline E. 
Hastings, M.D., Demonstrator and Lecturer on Embryology; 
Hon. Edwin Wright, Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence. 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Detroit. 
The long struggle upon the University question, which at 
times seemed interminable, led to the establishment of a private 
homoeopathic medical college at Lansing in 1871, which was 
called the " Central Michigan' Homoeopathic Medical 
Institute." 
A circular was issued to the homoeopathic physicians of Mich- 
igan, giving the names of the faculty, with the reasons for or- 
ganizing the college at Lansing. It was hoped that it would 
ultimately constitute the homoeopathic branch of the Michigan 
University. 
The faculty was as follows: Charles J. Hempel, M.D., Emer- 
itus Professor of Materia Medica; R. AV. Nelson, M.D., 
M.R.C.S., England, Professor of Obstetrics; De Forrest Hunt, 812 
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M.D., Professor of Diseases of Women and Children ; E. R. Ellis, 
M.D., Professor of Special Surgery ; H. B. Bagley, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery ; C. P. Burch, 
M.D., Professor of Operative and Clinical Surgery ; Isaac Parks, 
M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Histology; Joseph Hooper, 
M.D., Professor of Physiology and Pathology; Everett W. 
Fish, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; F. B. 
Smith, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Science of Medi- 
cine; A. McNeil, A.M., Assistant on Materia Medica; B. F. 
Bailey, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medi- 
cine; J. H. Cowell, M.D., Professor of Theory and Practice; 
E. W. Fish, M.D., Professor of Botany; B. J. Brown, M.D., 
Professor of Ophthalmology; E. D. Burr, M.D., Professor of 
Medical Jurisprudence; * Professor of Dental 
Surgery and Theory and Practice of Dentistry ; J. P. Fuller and 
Mrs. M. J. Bailey, Demonstrators of Anatomy; J. J. Tyler, 
Janitor. 
Officers of the Faculty.-E. D. Burr, M.D., Dean ; A. F. 
Weller, Registrar. 
The fees for a full course of lectures, including matriculation 
and anatomical tickets, were $50; for partial course, each ticket, 
$10; graduation fee, $25. 
It graduated at its first session (1871-72) sixteen students. 
Detroit Homceopathic College. 
In March, April, May, June, and July, 1872, the first session 
of a new school, called the J)etroit Homoeopathic College, was 
held at Detroit, and its faculty was as follows : L. Younghusband, 
M.D., LL.D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine; 
C. H. B. Kellogg, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Ther- 
apeutics; Erastus R. Ellis, M.D., Professor of Principles and 
Practice of Surgery and Operative Surgery; Cornelius Ormes, 
M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Uterine Surgery ; Lucy M. 
Arnold, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Women and Children, 
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and Special Lecturer to Women ; Andrew B. Spinney, M.D., 
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology; Francis X. Spranger, 
M.D., Professor of Pathology and Diagnosis ; George H. Palmer, 
M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Botany ; G. II. Penniman, 
Esq., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence ; (lady lecturer), Special 
Lecturer to Women on Anatomy and Physiology. 
The College held four sessions, and graduated eighty-four 
students. 
Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati. 
This held its first session commencing September, 1872, in a 
building at the corner of Seventh and Mound streets. It is one 
of the largest college buildings in the country, having an amphi- 
theatre capable of seating nearly 500 students, besides a smaller 
amphitheatre, two large lecture-rooms, libraries, museum, and 
dissecting-room. 
The following was the first 
Faculty.--J. H. Pulte, M.D., Professor of the Science of Clin- 
ical Medicine; Charles Cropper, M.D., Professor of Materia 
Medica; M. II. Slosson, M.D., Professor of the Institutes and 
Practice of Medicine; William H. Hunt, M.D., of Covington, 
Kentucky, Professor of Obstetrics ; T. C. Bradford, M.D., Pro- 
fessor of Gynaecology; D. II. Beckwith, M.D., Professor of Dis- 
eases of Children; C. C. Bronson, M.D., Professor of the Prin- 
ciples of Surgery and Surgical Pathology ; S. R. Beckwith, 
M.D., Professor of Operative Surgery ; D. W. Hartshorne, M.D.^ 
Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Orthopedic Surgery; Wil- 
liam Owens, M.D., Professor of Anatomy ; J. D. Buck, M.D., 
Professor of Physiology, Pathology, and Microscopy ; G. Saal, 
M.D., Professor of Toxicology and Hygiene; Emil Loescher, 
Lecturer on Chemistry; George R. Sage, Esq., Professor of 
Medical Jurisprudence; N. F. Cooke, M.D., Professor of Special 
Pathology and Diagnosis. 
The graded system was from the first pursued, and all who 
graduated in accordance with this plan received the honorary 
degree of F.P.C. (Fellow Pulte College). 
The fees were: Matriculation, $5; hospital ticket, $5; de- 
monstration, $5; general lecture ticket, $60; for the two 814 
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graded courses, in advance, $125 (graduates of other homoeo- 
pathic colleges required to matriculate only); graduates of other 
accredited colleges, $40 ; graduation fee, $30. 
At the session of 1872-73 ten graduated; in 1874, sixteen; 
in 1875, ; 1876, twenty-seven. 
The University of Michigan ; The Homoeopathic 
Medical College.* 
In the early days of Michigan the Congress of the United 
States set apart for the use of this State, as a university endow- 
ment, a vast aggregate of swamp lands, the sale of which has 
produced a capital whose annual interest is about $30,000. 
At a later date (1867) the State legislature provided for an 
annual tax of one-twentieth of a mill per dollar of taxable prop- 
erty as a further source of revenue. 
Furthermore, on direct application of the Board of Regents, 
from time to time the legislature has appropriated large suras 
for buildings, apparatus, and current expenses; from all of which 
sources the total income is about $130,000 per year, besides the 
fees from students, viz.: for residents of the State, matricula- 
tion, $10; non-residents, $25; annual dues, residents, $20; non- 
residents, $25. 
The fees are alike in all departments; the total of students 
being upwards of eleven hundred, about ten per cent, of whom 
are women. 
This is the climax of an effective public school system, which 
includes many State high schools, tributary to and supervised by 
the University. It is, hence, not surprising that its growth and 
usefulness are the glory of the State, and that it holds a high 
place in the affections of the people. It is the expression of the 
happy balance of the principles of radicalism and conservatism 
which everywhere else marks this Commonwealth. 
So distinctively popular an institution could be no fit harbor 
for any sort of exclusive or prescriptive rights. As in theology, 
the people of the State have ever been jealous of the supremacy 
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of any one denomination, so in medicine they were equally 
watchful from the very first. 
In the year 1855 the Board of Regents was clothed with full 
powers of administration by legislative enactment. One sentence 
of the law read thus: "Provided, that there shall always be at 
least one professor of homoeopathy in the department of medi- 
cine." 
The alarm was at once sounded in the allopathic camp, and 
the same year the American Medical Association, in session in 
Philadelphia, passed a resolution (offered by Dr. John L. Atlee, 
of Lancaster, Pa.), setting forth that a medical faculty being in 
place for the teaching of " practical precepts," the admixture of 
foreign and unscientific theories would be fatal to the work de- 
signed ; and pledging for any school so violating the allopathic 
proprieties, the repudiation of that body. 
The alarm was thus spread in conservative quarters in Michi- 
gan; and as this new department had early sprung into prosper- 
ity, it was successfully urged (fallaciously, no doubt) that this 
prosperity and the revenue of students' fees, etc., would be sacri- 
ficed by obedience to this proviso. The theory of the Regents of 
the University being somehow independent of the legislature, 
also gained currency and has been pressed to considerable 
lengths, in and out of the courts,* and even in the form of 
amendment to the State Constitution. 
At the various subsequent sessions of the legislature the pop- 
ular demand for fair play found voice in successive enactments, 
insisting on obedience by the Board of Regents to this proviso, 
even to the extent of making the money appropriations so liber- 
ally granted contingent thereupon. But the magnanimity of the 
friends of homoeopathy forbade the effective use of this weapon, 
to the possible injury of the University; and on being appealed 
to by the president, Rev. (now Bishop) E. O. Haven, and other 
officers and Regents, as well as by the friends of the Uni- 
versity in the legislature, the homoeopathic physicians, through 
Dr. A. I. Sawyer, the president of the State Society, whose spe- 
* See Legislation, Section IV, of this volume. 816 
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cial duty it was to push on the conflict, counselled the relaxation 
of this law, and permitted the payment of the appropriations, 
under promise that their desires should be fulfilled by the Board 
of Regents without further delay. Indeed, in the year 1867, 
Professor C. J. Hempel was actually appointed to a chair largely 
through the efforts of Drs. E. II. Drake and E. A. Lodge, of 
Detroit. In this the Regents acted ostensibly in pursuance of 
the law establishing the tax ; but in point of fact, violated it by 
providing for a " School of Homoeopathy " elsewhere than in 
the "Department of Medicine" at Ann Arbor; establishing two 
professorships therein, and fixing the salary at only $1000 per 
annum. These acts, the State Auditor held to be a non-fulfil- 
ment of the law, and refused to draw his warrant on the State 
Treasurer in favor of the Regents for the money raised through 
its provisions. The appointment had been duly accepted, how- 
ever, by Professor Hempel. The Regents sued in the Supreme 
Court for a mandamus to compel the Auditor to act, but the 
court emphatically sustained him. Thus, as might have been 
foretold, the appointment was made ineffective by its conditions. 
Other suits were entered from time to time to compel obedi- 
ence by the Regents to the numerous statutes enacted in this direc- 
tion. Thus in 1856 by Dr. Drake, of Detroit, and in 1873 by 
Drs. T. F. Pomeroy, of the same city, and F. Woodruff, of Ann 
Arbor, in behalf of the " Board of Education." 
During a full score of years this controversy was maintained 
by the people and the legislature against the Board of Regents, 
and vice versa. The courts of the State were, as we have seen, 
repeatedly invoked to settle it, and the sovereign people, some- 
how, were always worsted. (See Section IV.) One cannot but 
be impressed, in this connection, by a perusal of the old United 
States law assigning lands to the State for the benefit of a uni- 
versity. We here find this proviso, viz.: "Provided, that the 
said university shall always be under the control of the legisla- 
ture of said State." That a serious atttack would some day have 
come from this quarter does not seem at all unlikely, and the 
contingency can scarcely have escaped the attention of the far- 
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made of it, probably because it must have involved a blow at the 
endowment of the much-loved State university itself. 
In military phrase, the lines were now (1875) drawn very tight 
by the besieging party. All debatable questions had been 
thoroughly canvassed, and something must be done. Dr. S. B. 
Thayer, of Battle Creek, one of the most indomitable of the 
homoeopathic corps, who after freely giving both time and money 
for years, had just died ; and his coadjutor, Dr. A. I. Sawyer, of 
Monroe, President of the State Homoeopathic Society, aided by 
Dr. I. N. Eldridge, of Flint, Secretary, Dr. F. Woodruff, of Ann 
Arbor, Dr. W. C. Calvert, of Jackson, Dr. T. F. Pomeroy, of De- 
troit, Dr. L. M. Jones, of Brooklyn, and many others, less known 
to the writer in this connection, maintained the struggle, with 
great personal, social, and political influence. The first-named, 
with several of the others, also officers of the State Society, 
constituted its "Board of Education" above mentioned, thus 
adding an official force to their acts. 
It will be necessary here to digress, in order to refer to the in- 
ternal complications which had arisen in the homoeopathic ranks, 
and interfered somewhat with the work. It was thought by 
many that a separate school, located in Detroit or elsewhere, as 
an integral part of the University, was for many reasons prefera- 
ble to a single professorship, or even two, as later enacted, in a 
hostile faculty. The Regents favored this cordially, but the men 
who had fought for the original law regarded this plan as a 
virtual surrender of the rights of the homoeopathic people, now 
become very numerous, and always highly respectable; this, 
however, gave the more force to the demand for a whole college. 
Thus went this internal struggle for years, simultaneously with 
the other. The original State society, called the " Michigan Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy," came to its death, and on its ruins was 
founded the present "State Homoeopathic Society," with the 
aforesaid officers. 
Pursuant to the separate college plan, an institution was 
chartered at Lansing,* and later another at Detroit, with the 
expectation of future recognition by the Regents of one or the 
* See page 811. 818 
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other, as the Homoeopathic Department of the University. 
But both of these failed to secure unanimous acceptance by the 
homoeopathic profession ; moreover, it was found that the Uni- 
versity was legally bound to locate all its departments at Ann 
Arbor, even upon its very campus. 
Thus, from every internal and external consideration, it became 
apparent, during the legislative session of 1875, that the spirit 
of the old law must be at once obeyed. The personnel of the 
Board of Regents (eight in number), had changed also, and one 
of their number, an allopathic physician, Charles Rynd, M.D., 
was present at this session, as their plenipotentiary. The Uni- 
versity was asking for a large additional money appropriation, 
and the support of the homoeopaths, in both political parties, was 
essential. 
Dr. Rynd proposed a separate college organization at Ann 
Arbor, and a separate building on the University campus, with 
the proviso that but two homoeopathic professors should be ap- 
pointed, viz., those of Materia Medica, and Theory and Practice; 
students to attend all other lectures in the ably manned Allo- 
pathic Department of Medicine and Surgery. 
This proposition was taken into consideration by the State 
Society's Board of Education, above-mentioned, and was duly 
accepted. The legislature enacted it; all parties united in secur- 
ing needed funds for the purposes of the Board of Regents; 
and, this controversy ended, the University received a great im- 
pulse. 
Attempts were made to raise a hue and cry in the allopathic 
ranks, to compel the resignation of the old-school professors, 
rather than join in teaching homoeopathic students, even as guests. 
Two professors did resign ; but the remainder stood their ground. 
Independent of the profession, employed, commanded and sala- 
ried by the State,* and actuated by better sense and greater lib- 
erality than their colleagues of the (allopathic) State Society, they 
even went so far, in individual cases, joining Regent Rynd, as to 
* The annual term of service, at this time, was six months ; salary, $1800 
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defy, denounce, and resign their membership in that body which 
thus endeavored to coerce them, but only earned thereby univer- 
sal contempt and a mortifying showing of impotence. Certain 
of the faculty went yet farther, honoring themselves by calling 
in a most friendly and polite manner on the two gentlemen 
elected to fill the homoeopathic chairs, immediately upon their 
arrival in Ann Arbor (the seat of the University). 
The State Homoeopathic Society assembled as usual in May 
following this settlement (1875); and in view of the bitter 
feuds which had grown out of the questions involved, decided 
to ask the appointment of men of other States whose names 
were unknown in that warfare, hoping that the homoeopathic 
profession would rally to the support of the work, furnishing 
incumbents, nationally as well as locally acceptable, and worthy 
of the noble opportunity thus set before our school. 
To this end the Board of Education were instructed to lay the 
subject before the American Institute of Homoeopathy at its en- 
suing session at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie, in June, and ask for the 
nomination of suitable men. They did so, and the subject was 
referred by the Institute to its Intercollegiate Committee, which 
was composed of delegates from all the college faculties repre- 
sented in that body. 
The said Committee unanimously agreed to recommend for 
nomination to the Board of Regents as follows: For the Chair 
of Materia Medica, Samuel A. Jones, M.D., of Englewood, N. J.; 
Theory and Practice, John C. Morgan, M.D., of Philadelphia, 
Pa. 
This report, being presented in due course to the Institute, was 
unanimously approved by that body. Drs. A. I. Sawyer and 
I. N. Eldridge on behalf of the Board of Education, and in 
accordance with their instructions, at once met the Board of 
Regents at Ann Arbor, presented these names, and they were 
promptly elected. Their acceptance was as promptly given, 
with the conviction that the cause of homoeopathy here demanded 
their personal service as nowhere and never before. 
The first "faculty meeting" was held at the request of the 
President of the University, James B. Angell, LTj.D., at the 820 
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office of Dr. S. Lilienthal, in New York, where (tres faciunt col- 
legium), on motion of Dr. Morgan, the honor of the deanship was 
laid upon the Professor of Materia Medica, S. A. Jones, M.D. 
The first announcement, already prepared by President Angell, 
was agreed upon and duly published by the University. 
The newly appointed professors met again at the opening of 
the university year, in October following, superintended the 
entrance examinations of candidates, and, in accordance with the 
laws of the institution, admitted twenty-four, including several 
women. 
The course of lectures opened immediately after, in conformity 
with the plan agreed upon between Regent Rynd and the "Board 
of Education;" the lectures on Materia Medica and Theory and 
Practice being delivered in the commodious homoeopathic build- 
ing at the same hours when the allopathic professors of those 
branches were on duty; the students crossing and recrossing the 
campus at the ringing of the bell; the women's classes, in both 
departments, attending the same lectures during the hour follow- 
ing their delivery to the male students. 
The success of this course has been all that could be desired. 
The close of the session was signalized by the class in their 
unanimous adoption of a series of resolutions recognizing the 
action of the legislature and the Board of Regents as a true and 
thankworthy exercise of just powers; also setting forth the suc- 
cessful and satisfactory completion of the course of lectures, and 
expressing thanks to the several professors, etc. 
This first class, although composed largely of beginners, num- 
bers some advanced students; nevertheless, it has furnished no 
candidates for graduation as yet, 1876,-a fact which, we think, 
is unique in the history of American medical colleges, and of 
which it would seem no sin to be proud. Thorough education, 
rather than a factitious show of numbers, is the object we hold 
steadily in view, as the proper and only way of honoring our 
profession and the name of its greatest modern light, Samuel 
Hahnemann; of benefiting the student, and, above all, of 
securing to the sick the blessings of our noble science and art. 
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University question is the healing of the divisions heretofore 
disturbing the homoeopathic profession of Michigan. A self- 
imposed visit by one of the faculty to the western portion of the 
State, in the interest of harmony, afforded agreeable proofs 
of goodwill, expressed in the exercise of the most cordial of 
Western hospitality by all, especially by Professor C. J. Hempel 
and his honorable colleagues of Grand Rapids. 
The heroic part borne by Drs. Drake, Thayer, Sawyer, Pome- 
roy, Woodruff, Eldridge, and their companions, in the great work 
of thus establishing homoeopathy among the institutions of civ- 
ilized government in America is such as few, if any other men, 
have realized. Let their well-doing be never forgotten ! 
Missouri School of Midwifery.* 
This obstetrical school, the first of its kind in the United 
States, was organized and chartered in 1875. It holds two ses- 
sions yearly, each of twelve weeks' duration, and has already had 
twenty-eight female students and a large number of graduates. 
It has a lying-in hospital attached, and a special course for phy- 
sicians desiring to pursue this specialty. 
The President is Alfred E. Ricss, M.D. He occupies the 
Chair of Obstetrics, and the same chair in the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri. He graduated in the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri in 1868, and went to Europe, 
where he spent three years in the Obstetrical Department of the 
University at Vienna, taking the highest honor. He went into 
the Prussian army as Assistant Surgeon in the Franco-German 
war, was promoted to Surgeon, and had charge of the general 
hospital at Sedan, for the management of which he received 
acknowledgment and thanks from the eminent Dr. Bilroth. As 
a lecturer he has a good command of language, a fine delivery, 
and pleasing address, and is altogether an excellent instructor in 
oral teaching. 
Dr. William C. Richardson is Secretary of the above institu- 
tion, and also Professor of Diseases of Women and Children. He 
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occupies the same chair in the Homoeopathic College of Missouri. 
He graduated in the same class with Professor Riess. He has 
been for several years the editor of the obstetrical department of 
the Western Homoeopathic Observer, is author of a monograph on 
cholera infantum, and has performed several new and unique 
operations in gynaecological surgery. He is a fine, free, and 
ready speaker, and a very successful lecturer. 
Chicago Homoeopathic College. 
This, the youngest of the homoeopathic colleges in the country, 
presents its first announcement this present year (1876). The 
school is an outgrowth of the Hahnemann Medical College of 
that city. No explanation is given of any necessity for a second 
homoeopathic medical college in Chicago. Women are admitted 
upon the same terms with men. 
Officers of the College.-J. S. Mitchell, A.M., M.D., Presi- 
dent; Charles Adams, M.D., Secretary and Treasurer; Albert 
G. Beebe, A.M., M.D., Business Manager. 
Faculty.-J. S. Mitchell, A.M., M.D., Professor of Clinical 
Medicine and Diseases of the Throat and Chest; S. P. Hedges, 
M.D., Professor of Institutes and Practice of Medicine; Albert 
G. Beebe, A.M., M.D., and Charles Adams, M.D., Professors of 
Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery; Willis 
Danforth, M.D., Professor of Gynaecological Surgery; John W. 
Streeter, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Women and Children; 
R. N. Foster, A.M., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics; W. H. Wood- 
yatt, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology; E. M. 
Hale, M.D., and A. W. Woodward, M.D., Professors of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics; E. H. Pratt, A.M., M.D., Professor 
of Anatomy; John R. Kippax. LL.B., M.D., Professor of Der- 
matology and Medical Jurisprudence; R. N. Tooker, M.D., 
Professor of Physiology; Romeyn Hitchcock, Professor of Chem- 
istry and Toxicology; N. B. Delamater, M.D., Special Lecturer 
on Electro-Therapeutics and Provings. CHAPTER II. SOCIETIES. CONTENTS. 
Homoeopathic Medical Societies of the State of Pennsylvania, . R. J. McClatchey, M.D. 
" " " New York, . Henry M. Smith, M.D. 
" " " Rhode Island. 
" " " Delaware. 
" " " Ohio, . . . . D. H. Beckwith, M.D. 
" " " New Jersey, . Wallace McGeorge, M.D. 
" " " Maine. 
" " " New Hampshire. 
" " " Michigan. 
" " " Illinois, . . . A. E. Small, M.D. 
" " " Tennessee. 
" " " California, . . C. W. Breyfogle, M.D. 
" " " Minnesota. 
" " " Nebraska. 
" " " Iowa. 
" " " Massachusetts, . I. T. Talbot, M.D. 
The Western Institute of Homoeopathy. 
The Western Academy of Homoeopathy J. Martin Kershaw, M.D. 
History of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, with ref- 
erence to Transactions Henry M. Smith, M.D. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 
Introduction. 
In this chapter the same order of States will be observed as 
in Section I, excepting Pennsylvania, which having had the first 
homoeopathic society in the country, will be placed first. States 
unmentioned either have no societies or else have forwarded no 
reports. In each case the first homoeopathic organization in the 
State will be given, then the State society, then the county and 
local societies in chronological order. 
State of Pennsylvania 
Early Societies.*-The first organization in this State-and 
probably the first in America-of the practitioners and supporters 
of homoeopathy was effected in Philadelphia at a very early 
period in the history of homoeopathy in that city. On the 10th 
of April, 1833, the physicians, Drs. Ihm, Bute, Matlack, Her- 
ing, and Wesselhoeft, together with several " laymen,"-personal 
friends of Dr. Hering, who were favorable to the new school,- 
met together and formed the Hahnemannian Society. The prin- 
cipal design of this association seems to have been to disseminate 
among the people some knowledge of the history and leading 
doctrines of homoeopathy, and its advantages over other methods 
of medical treatment. In pursuance of this design, Dr. Hering 
prepared an interesting address,! an English version of which, 
furnished by Dr. Charles F. Matlack, was read before the society 
* By R. J. McClatchey, MD. 
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on the 18th of April, 1833, and shortly afterwards published 
under the title of " A Concise View of the Rise and Progress 
of Homoeopathic Medicine." This address, and notices of it by 
the public press, were the means of promoting to a considerable 
extent the design contemplated by its publication. 
The society having issued this brochure, and addressed a letter 
to Hahnemann, informing him of its formation in the anniver- 
sary of his birth, and bearing his name, and giving him some ac- 
count of the progress of homoeopathy in the New World, was 
succeeded by another, from which " laymen " were excluded. 
In 1838 the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Philadelphia was 
formed, with a membership of physicians only. This was the 
first regularly constituted homoeopathic medical society in the 
city (laymen being excluded from membership), and held monthly 
meetings at first in the old Academy of Natural Sciences, on the 
north side of Arch, between Front and Second streets, but sub- 
sequently at the residences of the members. The original mem- 
bers of this organization were Drs. C. Hering, Jacob Jeanes, 
Charles F. Matlack, Charles Neidhard, Jacob Lentz, Caleb B. 
Matthews, Jonas Green, Gideon Humphrey, George Lingen, 
Samuel Freedley, G. S. F. Pfeiffer, Matthew Anderson, and Casper 
Schaeffer. The following were subsequently added : Drs. James 
Kitchen, Walter Williamson, Richard Gardiner, J. G. Rosenstein, 
William Schmoele, Henry Schmoele, II. J. Hoffendahl, Samuel R. 
Dubs, Alvin E. Small, and a few others. Some of these, however, 
never joined in formal membership, or attended the meetings of 
the society. One of the first acts of the society, after its foun- 
dation, was the preparation of directions for the regimen of the 
sick during homoeopathic treatment, or diet-card, which was 
very similar to that now in use. The organization continued in 
good condition for some time, and its meetings doubtless tended 
to the progress of homoeopathy ; but the doors of admission were 
so widely opened that any one claiming to be a practitioner of 
homoeopathy, whether a physician or not, could obtrude himself 
into membership. This resulted in retarding rather than ad- 
vancing the interests of the association ; for the properly qual- 
ified members would not descend from their high and hard- SOCIETIES. 
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earned positions to the level of the pretenders, nor were the former 
willing to elevate the latter to the platform, upon which they 
themselves stood, without having been previously subjected to a 
regular curriculum of studies. In consequence of this state of 
affairs the society languished. In 1841 it was strengthened by 
the addition to its list of members of some new recruits from 
the old school, and its meetings were made very interesting by 
the introduction of subjects bearing upon clinical experience and 
the Materia Medica. It continued in existence for some time 
longer, but finally ceased from active operations. 
On the 10th of April, 1814, the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy was organized in the city of New York. 
On the 6th of June, 1846, a number of the homoeopathic 
practitioners of Philadelphia met for the purpose of " organizing 
an association for the promotion of medical science." Walter 
Williamson, M.D., was President of the meeting, and Alvin E 
Small, M.D., acted as Secretary. The organization was accordingly 
perfected, and made tributary to the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy, under the name of the " Philadelphia Branch of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy." The meetings of the so- 
ciety were held quarterly, on the first Tuesday of January, April, 
July, and October, at the residences of members. The officers 
consisted of a chairman, who was appointed at each meeting, two 
secretaries, a treasurer, a committee on elections, a bureau of 
materia medica, and a bureau of pathology. Thirty-three phy- 
sicians became members of this society, which made several re- 
ports to the American Institute, but finally died out, owing to a 
want of attendance on the part of its members. 
On July 7th, 1852, the Philadelphia Homoeopathic Medical 
Society was formed. The officers consisted of a president, vice- 
president, secretary, and treasurer, and committees on materia 
medica and pathology. This society required that its members 
should be grad nates in medicine. Its meetings were held on 
the third Monday of each month, and were, for some time after 
the organization of the society, well attended and interesting. 
Papers of an improving nature were read, and subjects were 
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held thereon. A want of interest, however, was not long- in 
manifesting itself, and the attendance finally became so insig- 
nificant that, in February, 1854, the last meeting was held. 
Thirty-eight physicians attached themselves to this society, as 
follows : Drs. J. R. Coxe, Jr., Samuel R. Dubs, Joseph G. Loomis, 
William Brown, Ross Ihrie, Walter Williamson, William S. 
Helmuth, William Ashton Reed, William Stiles, Matthew Sem- 
ple, Alvin E. Small, William A. Gardiner, John Massey Ran- 
del, A. II. Ashton, John G. Houard, Richard Gardiner, Wil- 
liam P. Esrey, Francis Sims, William R. Power, John K. Lee, 
Jabob F. Sheek, John B. Gilman, Adolph Lippe, Constantine 
Hering, Robert T. Evans, Charles E. Toothaker, Samuel 
Freedley, Daniel R. Gardiner, James Kitchen, W. B. Riehle, 
T. S. Williams, R. S. Middleton, Ross M. Wilkinson, William 
Tod Helmuth, Henry Duffield, Edward R. Johnston, G. B. L. 
Clay, and Jos6 M. Aragon. 
Homceopathic Medical State Society.* 
Pursuant to a call issued by the Alleghany County Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society, indorsed by many prominent 
homoeopathic physicians throughout the State, a convention 
assembled at Pittsburg, in the Homoeopathic Hospital Building, 
at 10J o'clock, A.M., June 5th, 1866. The meeting was called 
to order by J. C. Burgher, M.D., of Pittsburg, who stated the 
object of the convention. J. H. P. Frost, M.D., of Philadelphia, 
was chosen temporary chairman, with Bushrod W. James, M.D., 
of Philadelphia, as secretary pro tem. In accordance with a 
motion to that effect, a committee was appointed, one from each 
county represented, to prepare a constitution and by-laws for the 
government of a State society. This committee, in due time, 
reported and submitted for approval the draft of a constitution 
and by-laws, which, after some amendment, was accepted, and 
the convention was thereupon resolved into the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania. 
* By J. C. Guernsey, M.D. SOCIETIES. 
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The following were elected as officers of the new organization : 
President, J. B. Wood, M.D., West Chester; Vice-Presidents, 
J. H. P. Frost, M.D., Philadelphia, and J. C. Burgher, M.D., 
Pittsburg; Recording Secretary, Bushrod W. James, M.D., 
Philadelphia; Corresponding Secretary, R. J. McClatchey, 
M.D., Philadelphia; Treasurer, D. Cowley, M.D., Pittsburg; 
Censors, C. Preston, M.D., West Chester, R. Faulkner, M.D., 
Erie, H. Hofmann, M.D., Pittsburg. 
The constitution was then signed by the delegates present, 
eligible to membership, numbering thirty in all. 
Reports were submitted from various county societies, and 
papers presented on medical topics. Delegates to other State so- 
cieties, and the necessary bureaus and committees were appointed, 
including one on charter.* The Mahnemannian Monthly was 
unanimously voted to be the organ of the society, and it has so 
continued. Adjournment followed, to meet the ensuing May in 
Philadelphia. 
The society has continued to hold regular annual meetings 
ever since, as will be seen from the following very brief resume: 
The second annual session was held at Philadelphia, in the 
Homoeopathic Medical College building, June 3d and 4th, 1867, 
at which the first annual address was delivered by the President 
of the society, J. B. Wood, M.D. Reports were submitted from 
several homoeopathic medical societies and the bureaus, which in- 
cluded a Proving of Hydrastis can., by Walter Williamson, M.D.; 
Drug: Provings and New Remedies, by W. J. Blakelv, M.D.; 
Anatomy and Physiology, Surgery, Obstetrics, Chemistry, Chol- 
era, Medical Diagnosis; also, from the committees previously 
appointed. Drs. Bushrod W. James and R. J. McClatchey, 
Secretaries. Number of active members, 71. 
The third annual session was held at Harrisburg, May 12th 
and 13th, 1868, Walter Williamson, M.D., President. The 
usual routine was pursued, and among the many noteworthy 
bureau papers presented were a Proving of Cupri arsenicum, by 
W. J. Blakely, M.D., Report on Epidemics and Endemics, by 
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Jacob Jeanes, M.D., and Report on Obstetrics, by Henry N. 
Guernsey, M.D. Drs. Bushrod W. James and R. J. McClatchey, 
Secretaries; J. H. P. Prost, M.D., Annual Orator. Number of 
active members, 98. 
The fourth annual session was held at Wilkesbarre, May 18th 
and 19th, 1869, Walter Williamson, M.D., in the chair, the 
President, Coates Preston, M.D., and Vice-Presidents being ab- 
sent. Among the many interesting bureau papers presented 
were an instructive summary of New Remedies, by Walter Wil- 
liamson, M.D.; Practical Therapeutic Hints, by C. G. Rane, 
M.D.; Report on Partially Proved Remedies, by W. J. Blakely, 
M.D.; Surgical Cases, by Malcolm Macfarlan, M.D. Drs. 
Bushrod W. James and R. J. McClatchey, Secretaries. J. C. 
Burgher, M.D., Annual Orator. Number of active members, 97. 
The fifth annual session, held at Erie, June 3d and 4th, 1870, 
was called to order by the President, 0. B. Gause, M.D. The 
meeting was well attended, and full reports from the bureaus 
submitted. Among these was a collection of New Provings 
and Characteristics of Nux mos., Oleum cajuputi, Hydrastis, 
Gelseminum, Stilling, sylv., Carbolic acid, compiled by H. N. 
Martin, M.D.; Medical and Surgical Items-Secondary am- 
putation of the thigh, Amputation for carious knee-joint, Sero- 
cystic tumor, Treatment of fractures, Prolapsus ani, Chronic 
diarrhoea and Prolapsus uteri, etc.,-by J. H. McClelland, 
M.D. Drs. Bushrod W. James and R. J, McClatchey, Secre- 
taries. R. J. McClatchey, M.D., Annual Orator. 
The sixth annual session, held at Harrisburg, February 1st 
and 2d, 1871, was called to order by the President, Marcellin 
Cote, M.D. Among the other valuable papers presented were 
partial Provings of Phytolacca decandra and Carbolic acid, Clini- 
cal observations on certain remedies, by W. M. Williamson, 
M.D.; The Genius of our remedies and the genius of Disease 
compared, by Henry N. Guernsey, M.D.; History of Homoeop- 
athy in Allegheny County, by J. C. Burgher, M.D., etc. Secre- 
taries, Drs. Bushrod W. James and R. J. McClatchey. W. C. 
Doane, M.D., Annual Orator. Number of active members, 135. 
The seventh annual meeting was called to order by the Presi- SOCIETIES. 
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dentj J. H. Marsden, M.D., at Harrisburg, February 7th and 
8th, 1872. As usual, the meeting was well attended and the 
customary number of valuable papers were presented. Drs. 
Bushrod W. James and R. J. McClatchey, Secretaries. W. J. 
Blakely, M.D., Annual Orator. The interest taken in the State 
society at this time will be appreciated by stating that the roll 
of active members now numbered 144. 
The eighth annual meeting was held at Harrisburg, February 
5th and 6th, 1873, and was presided over by the President, 
Bushrod W. James, M.D. At this meeting a paper on Diseases 
of the bones, by the Allegheny County Homoeopathic Medical 
Society, was, by vote of the State society, ordered to be presented 
to the American Institute of Homoeopathy. This paper in- 
cluded Caries, by C. P. Seip, M.D.; Necrosis, by L. H. Wil- 
lard, M.D., and Regeneration of Bone, by J. H. McClelland, 
M.D. Secretaries, Drs. M. M. Walker and P. Dudley. Annual 
Orator, Thomas Moore, M.D. 
The ninth annual session was held at Harrisburg, October 1st 
and 2d, 1873, with J. F. Cooper, M.D., President. Secretaries, 
Drs. M. M. Walker and P. Dudley. Annual Orator, L. H. 
Willard, M.D. Active members, 107. 
The tenth annual session was held at Philadelphia, October 
7th and 8th, 1874, and was called to order by William F. Speth, 
M.D., Vice-President, in the absence of Charles A. Stevens, M.D., 
President. At this meeting an interesting and able paper on 
Sciatica, was presented by the Allegheny County Homoeopathic 
Medical Society. The authors were Drs. C. P. Seip, J. H. Buf- 
fum, F. R. Schmucker, C. F. Bingaman, W. F. Edmundson, and 
R. E. Caruthers. Also, a carefully tabulated report of 204 con- 
secutive cases of labor, with complete summaries, by A. R. 
Thomas, M.D., of Philadelphia. Secretaries, Drs. M. M. Wal- 
ker and P. Dudley. Annual Orator, J. H. Marsden, M.D. 
The eleventh annual session, held at Pittsburg, October 13th 
and 14th, 1875, was called to order by Vice-President Joseph 
E. Jones, M.D., the President, R. J. McClatchey, M.D., being 
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valuable papers presented at this meeting may be mentioned 
Calcarea carb, and Silicea compared as Nutrition Remedies, by 
E. A. Farrington, M.D.; Proving of Arseniate of soda, by the 
Allegheny County Materia Medica Club, directed by J. F. 
Cooper, M.D.; Foreign bodies in the Air-passages, by C. M. 
Thomas, M.D. Drs. M. M. Walker and P. Dudley, Secretaries. 
J. H. McClelland, M.D., Annual Orator. 
The twelfth annual session was held at Harrisburg, September 
27th and 28th, 1876, Joseph E. Jones, M.D., President. The 
meeting was well attended and many instructive papers were 
offered. Among these were Proving of Amorphous phosphorus, 
arranged by H. N. Martin, M.D.; continuation of Arseniate of 
soda, by the Allegheny County Materia Medica Club, directed 
by J. F. Cooper, M.D ; Dementia Paralytica, presented by S. 
Lilienthal, M.D., New York; A Case of Abdominal Dropsy, by 
W. R. Childs, M.D., Pittsburg; Extraction of the Foetus with 
the Obstetric Forceps, by J. H. Marsden, M.D. Drs. Joseph C. 
Guernsey and M. M. Walker, Secretaries. E. A. Farrington, 
M.D., Annual Orator. 
The above hasty sketch does not give anything like a full 
history of the society, as the character of this volume would not 
warrant it. The members generally take an active interest in 
the society's welfare and its meetings are well attended. The 
Transactions are regularly published, and to them we refer for 
full information. Since its formation the society has from time 
to time lost members by the customary causes of removals to 
other States, resignations, deaths, etc. At present there is a roll 
of 136 active, besides a number of honorary and corresponding, 
members. 
Philadelphia. County Homoeopathic Medical Society.* 
The want of an active, living medical society, one that should 
be organized in such a manner as to insure prolonged vitality, had 
long been felt in Philadelphia. The effort to form a county society 
was informally made February 10th, 1859, at the office of Dr. 
* By C. Mohr, M.D. SOCIETIES. 
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Richard Gardiner, beside whom Drs. J. R. Coxe, Jr., S. R. Dubs, 
J. G. Houard, C. E. Toothaker, J. K. Lee, G. R. Starkey, D. Cow- 
ley, C. B. Compton, and G. Wolf were present. These gentlemen 
organized with Dr. Coxe as chairman, and appointed a commit- 
tee to draft a constitution and by-laws for a county medical so- 
ciety. Dr. Compton was the secretary of this meeting. At the 
next meeting, held on March 10th, 1859, a constitution and by- 
laws were duly adopted. Regular graduates practicing homoe- 
opathy were admitted to membership, the roll numbering 29 
members. The meetings were regular until October, 1860, 
when, for lack of attention, they were discontinued until Novem- 
ber 22d, 1865, when one meeting was held. Another meeting 
was held February 22d, 1866, when the by-laws were suspended, 
and ten new members elected. A committee was appointed to 
take measures for the organization of the society as at present 
constituted. This committee issued circulars to all the homoeo- 
pathic physicians of Philadelphia and vicinity, calling a conven- 
tion " to devise some acceptable plan of organization whereby all 
might co-operate in the furtherance of the cause of homoeopathy," 
to meet on the evening of March 8th, 1866, at the Dental Col- 
lege building, Tenth and Arch streets. On that evening a large 
and enthusiastic meeting was held, Dr. Jacob Jeanes acting as 
chairman, and Dr. O. B. Gause was appointed secretary. The 
object of the meeting being duly stated, Drs. W. Williamson, 
Ad. Lippe, S. S. Brooks, J. H. P. Frost, and J. K. Lee were 
appointed a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws of an 
organization that should endure. This these gentlemen did, and 
reported. The name adopted was "The Homoeopathic Aledical 
Society of the County of Philadelphia," and its object was stated 
to be " the advancement of medical science." All persons who 
assisted in the organization of the society wrere declared members, 
and a constitution, providing that all persons who have obtained 
the degree of doctor of medicine, and practice according to the 
formula similia similibus curantur, shall be eligible for member- 
ship, was adopted. The meeting then adjourned to meet March 
15th, 1866, at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl- 
vania, Dr. Frost, on behalf of the faculty, having offered the use 834 
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of the college for the future meetings. At the first regular stated 
meeting, March 15th, a large number of physicians were present, 
Dr. Jeanes presiding. Nominations were made for the various 
officers to be elected at the ensuing annual meeting in April. 
The first annual meeting was held April 19th, 1866, and the 
election resulted in the choice of Dr. Richard Gardiner for Presi- 
dent, and Dr. Robert J. McClatchey for Secretary. A code of 
ethics, based on a paper presented by Dr. W. Williamson, was 
adopted. Among others, the following physicians were present 
at the preliminary and subsequent meetings, and took an active 
part in the formation of the society, viz., Drs. Jacob Jeanes, R. 
Gardiner, W. Williamson, J. G. Gilchrist, David James, J. 0. 
Morgan, William H. Smith, J. H. P. Frost, Charles G. Raue, 
Ad. Lippe, L. H. Willard, W. H. H. Neville, P. Dudley, J. G. 
Howard, O. B. Gause, W. M. Williamson, H. N. Guernsey, S. 
Brown, B. W. James, H. C. Pratt, C. B. Compton, C. E. Tooth- 
aker, C. A. Leech, S. S. Brooks, Thomas Moore, R. J. Mc- 
Clatchey, Richard Koch, C. H. von Tagen, A. H. Ashton, G. 
R. Starkey, A. R. Morgan, J. K. Lee, G. R. Bartholomew. 
These gentlemen furnished valuable papers, and were often 
heard in the discussions. 
Soon after the permanent organization effective measures were 
taken by the society to erect the Homoeopathic Hospital of Phil- 
adelphia, and in all matters concerning homoeopathy in the State 
of Pennsylvania it has wielded a powerful influence. 
The presiding officers of the society have been: Dr. R. Gardi- 
ner, 1866-1870; Dr. W. Williamson, 1870-1871; Dr. Jacob 
Jeanes, 1871-1873; Dr. P. Dudley, 1873-1874; Dr. A. R. 
Thomas, 1874-1876 ; the latter being the presiding officer at the 
present time, the secretary being Dr. W. H. Bigler. 
To enumerate all the papers this society has produced would 
,be quite a task, and the value of many of them cannot be over- 
estimated. Most of these articles have been published in the 
Hahnemannian Monthly, and thus have been the means of in- 
structing many outside the city and State in the doctrines of 
Hahnemann. 
At present the society numbers fifty-five members. The regu- SOCIETIES. 
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lar meetings are held on the second Thursday evening of every 
month, save July and August; the annual meeting is in April. 
The American Trovers' Union, was organized in Philadelphia 
August 15th, 1853. Tins society had a large membership, and 
at times was in a flourishing condition. Owing to various cir- 
cumstances, however, it was finally disbanded. 
Allegheny County Homoeopathic Medical Society. 
The first successful effort at associated action of the homoeo- 
pathic physicians of this locality was consummated in December, 
1864, by the permanent organization of the " Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of Allegheny County," pursuant to a call issued 
by Dr. J. C. Burgher. The first organization consisted of the 
following, viz.: President, J. C. Burgher, M.D.; Vice-Presi- 
dent, H. Hofmann, M.D.; Secretary, D. Cowley, M.D.; 
Treasurer, J. A. Herron, M.D. This society has held stated 
monthly meetings for nearly twelve years with steadily increas- 
ing numerical strength, now having a roll of thirty-six mem- 
bers. Its meetings are held at the Homoeopathic Hospital 
of Pittsburg on the second Friday of every month, and are well 
attended. At each meeting a carefully prepared essay on some 
medical subject is read by a member appointed for the purpose 
two months previously. The subject of the essay is thoroughly 
discussed by the members present. A resume of the prevailing 
diseases of the month and their treatment is also submitted for 
discussion, thus bringing out the views and experiences of those, 
not only residing in the city but also in the suburban and 
country districts. While the members of the society have aimed 
at self-improvement, they have not been unmindful of their obli- 
gations to the profession at large. Their best endeavors have 
been employed to promote the interests of homoeopathy, and to 
elevate the standard of professional requirements in all that per- 
tains not alone to medical science but to mental culture, moral 
worth, and social obligations as well. 
A prerequisite to entering on the study of medicine under the 
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is required to undergo a preliminary examination by the execu- 
tive committee of the society. This committee consists of five 
members, who are elected annually. The applicant must have a 
good moral character, and be possessed of a good physique, must 
make written application, and submit an original thesis in his 
own handwriting. The examinations are both oral and written. 
If not a graduate of some accredited literary institution, he is 
examined in grammar, history, geography, mathematics, physics, 
and Latin. In 1866 this society issued a call to the physicians 
of Pennsylvania for the formation of a State medical society, 
which met with a hearty response, and resulted in the organiza- 
tion of our present State society. The society has also made 
liberal donations to the Pittsburg Homoeopathic Hospital, and 
has not been outdone by any other organization in advancing the 
interests of the State society and the " American Institute of 
Homoeopathy." 
The Allegheny County Anatomical Society was organized at the 
suggestion of J. H. McClelland, M.D., October 19th, 1874, as 
the " Anatomical Club." Its object was to secure better facilities 
for the practical study of anatomy and pathology, and the per- 
formance of surgical operations upon the cadaver. The member- 
ship rapidly increased to about thirty. On December 4th, 1875, 
an act of incorporation was granted under the title of "The Ana- 
tomical Society of Allegheny County." The officers are elected 
annually, and consist of a president, demonstrator, secretary, 
treasurer, and an executive committee of five. Stated meetings 
are held monthly, when an essay is read by one of its members 
(previously appointed) on some subject pertaining to anatomy or 
pathology, followed by a discussion. Special meetings are fre- 
quently held for the examination of specimens obtained from re- 
cent autopsies. The meetings are well attended and instructive. 
The society has convenient and well-located rooms, provided 
with amplefacilities for conducting investigations on the cadaver. 
Since the laws of the State legalize the use, for scientific pur- 
poses, of the bodies of deceased persons requiring burial at the 
public expense, material is readily obtained. Every member SOCIETIES. 
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takes an active interest in the affairs of the society, and contri- 
butions of anatomical preparations and pathological specimens 
are rapidly accumulating. The members are all homoeopathic 
physicians and medical students. 
The Allegheny County Materia Medica Club was founded May 
3d, 1875, pursuant to a call extended to the members of the pro- 
fession by J. H. Buffum, M.D. A permanent organization was 
at once effected, and C. F. Bingaman, M.D., elected President, 
and R. E. Caruthers, M.D., Secretary. It has now fifteen active 
and four associate members, and an honorary membership includ- 
ing some of the most prominent physicians of our school. Bi- 
monthly meetings are regularly held at the Homoeopathic Hospi- 
tal, Pittsburg, at which papers relating to Materia Medica are 
presented for discussion by members of the club. During the past 
year the club has made provings of Arseniate of soda, which may 
be found in the Transactions of the State society for 1874-78. 
Though yet quite young it gives token of future usefulness. 
Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties organized a joint 
homoeopathic medical society in October, 1858, and at first held 
meetings semiannually; during the last four years it has held 
quarterly meetings. Its first president was Henry Duffield, M.D., 
now deceased. The meetings of this organization are interesting 
and well attended. 
Dauphin County.-In this county a homoeopathic medical 
society was formed in 1866, and a homoeopathic dispensary estab- 
lished. 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Cumberland Valley was 
founded May 8th, 1866, at the office of W. H. Cook, M.D., 
Carlisle. Officers at organization : President, J. H. Marsden, 
M.D., Adams County; Vice-President, John Armstrong, M.D., 
Cumberland County; Secretary, W. II. Cook, M.D., Carlisle; 
Treasurer, J. J. Bender, M.D., Carlisle. 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Luzerne County was organ- 
ized in 1868. The following officers were elected: President, 838 
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Charles A. Stevens, M.D.; Vice-President, A. P. Gardiner, 
M.D.; Secretary, W. Brisbane, M.D. 
Berks and Schuylkill Counties Homoeopathic Medical Society 
holds its meetings semiannually, and has a membership of twenty. 
It was organized in 1870, and its sessions are well attended, quite 
an interest being taken in its proceedings. 
STATE OF NEW YORK.* 
Homoeopathic Medical Societies Organized in the State of New 
York. 
1834, September 23d. New York Homoeopathic Physicians' 
Society, composed of physicians and laymen in New York city. 
1841, November. New York Homoeopathic Physicians' Soci- 
ety. New York city. 
1846, November 7th. Homoeopathic Society of New York and 
Branch of American Institute of Homoeopathy. New York city. 
1849, September 13th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of Cen- 
tral New York and Branch of American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
1849, November 28th. Hahnemann Academy of Medicine. 
New York city. 
1850, May 15th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York, organized as the Academy of Medicine of the State of 
New York, the title being changed February 19th, 1851. Re- 
organized to conform to an act of the legislature incorporating 
it, July 6th, 1861. Meetings of this society have been held as 
follows: 
First meeting, at Albany, May 15th, 1850. 
Special meeting, at Syracuse, August 10th, 1850. 
Second annual meeting, at Albany, February 19th, 1851. 
Third annual meeting, at Albany, February 17th, 1852. 
Semiannual meeting, at Syracuse, June 1st, 1852. 
Fourth annual meeting, at Albany, February 8th, 1853. 
Semiannual meeting, at Utica, June 3d, 1853. 
Fifth annual meeting, at Albany, February 14th, 1854. 
* By Henry M. Smith, M.D. SOCIETIES. 
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Sixth annual meeting, at Albany, February 13th, 1855. 
Semiannual meeting, at Syracuse, June 5th, 1855. 
Seventh annual meeting, at Albany, February 12th, 1856. 
Semiannual meeting, at New York, September 10th, 1856. 
Eighth annual meeting, at Albany, May 2d, 1857. 
Ninth (special) annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 28th, 1861. 
Tenth annual meeting, at Albany, February 18th, 1862. 
Eleventh annual meeting, at Albany, May 6th, 1862. 
Semiannual meeting, at Albany, February 10th, 1863. 
Twelfth annual meeting, at Albany, May 12th, 1863. 
Semiannual meeting, at Brooklyn, October 13th, 1863. 
Thirteenth annual meeting, at Albany, May 10th, 1864. 
Fourteenth annual meeting, at Albany, February 14th, 1865. 
Fifteenth annual meeting, at Albany, February 13th, 1866. 
Sixteenth annual meeting, at Albany, February 12th, 1867. 
Seventeenth annual meeting, at Albany, February 11th, 1868. 
Eighteenth annual meeting, at Albany, February 9th, 1869. 
Semiannual meeting, at New York, September 14th, 1869. 
Nineteenth annual meeting, at Albany, February 8th, 1870. 
Semiannual meeting, at Rochester, September 13th, 1870. 
Twentieth annual meeting, at Albany, February 14th, 1871. 
Semiannual meeting, at Saratoga, August 10th, 1871. 
Twenty-first annual meeting, at Albany, February 13th, 1872, 
Semiannual meeting, at Binghamton, August 10th, 1872. 
Twenty-second annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 11th, 1873. 
Semiannual meeting, at Brooklyn, September 9th, 1873. 
Twenty-third annual meeting, at Albany, February 10th, 1874. 
Semiannual meeting, at Syracuse, September 8th, 1874. 
Twenty-fourth annual meeting, at Albany, February 8th, 1875. 
Special meeting, at New York, September 21st, 1875. 
Semiannual meeting, at New York, September 22d, 1875. 
Twenty-fifth annual meeting, at Albany, February 1st, 1876. 
1850. Homoeopathic Medical Society of Northern New York, 
embracing the counties of Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rens- 
selaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, and Washington. 840 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Central New York.* 
A number of homoeopathic physicians of Central New York 
met in Syracuse, September 13th, 1849, for the purpose of pro- 
moting the interests of homoeopathy. Dr. A. L. Kellogg, of 
Bridgewater, was called to the chair, and Dr. Augustus Pool, of 
Oswego, was appointed secretary. Drs. S. AV. Stewart and Fred- 
erick Humphreys, of Utica, and E. A. Munger, of Waterville, 
were appointed a committee to correspond with the homoeo- 
pathicians of Central New York, and to call a meeting to perfect 
a plan of organization. In response to the call a number of 
homoeopathic physicians convened at the National Hotel, in the 
city of Utica, N. Y., January 16th, A.D. 1850. A. L. Kellogg, 
M.D., was appointed chairman, and E. A. Munger, M.D., secre- 
tary. The convention then proceeded to organize a Homoeopathic 
Society of Central New York, auxiliary to the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, and 
officers were elected for the year ensuing, viz.: President, A. L. 
Kellogg, M.D.; Vice-President, E. B. Wells, M.D.; Corre- 
sponding Secretary, F. Humphreys, M.D.; Recording Secretary, 
E. A. Munger, M.D. 
Committees were appointed to report at next meeting upon 
the remedial powers of water, and upon potencies and repetitions. 
At 7.30 p.m. D. S. Kimball, M.D., delivered an address in 
Mechanics' Hall before a respectable audience. The society then 
discussed a variety of subjects, and adjourned to meet in Syra- 
cuse the first Tuesday of June, 1850. 
Twenty-nine names were signed to the constitution and by- 
laws. The creed of the society appears in the preamble to the 
constitution. The undersigned firmly believe, First, in the uni- 
versality of the therapeutic law, " Similia Similibus Carantur." 
Secondly. In the superior efficiency and safety of pure ho- 
moeopathic practice in contradistinction to every other system or 
combination of systems. 
Thirdly. In the great therapeutic power and value of those 
preparations denominated potentized medicines. 
* By C. W. Boyce, AI D. SOCIETIES. 
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See a printed tract entitled: "Minutes of the Syracuse and 
Utica Conventions of Homoeopathic Physicians, and Constitu- 
tion and By-Laws of the Central New York Homoeopathic So- 
ciety, 1850." The society, comprising members from the coun- 
ties of Oneida, Madison, Jefferson, Otsego, Cayuga, Onondaga, 
Seneca, and Cortland produced provings of Apis mel. and Plan- 
tago major. 
From a variety of causes this organization died away. 
Central New York Homoeopathic Medical Society reorganized. 
The first Tuesday in May, 1866, after the adjournment of the 
Onondaga County Medical Society, several homoeopathic physi- 
cians from different portions of Central New York held a meet- 
ing for the purpose of organizing a society. The inception of 
it was in this wise: Drs. T. D. Stow, A. R. Morgan, and C. W. 
Boyce while returning from the annual meeting of the State 
society in February, 1866, thought it would be pleasant and 
beneficial for the physicians of Central New York to come together 
for mutual improvement. Thereupon Dr. Morgan published a 
notice of time and place for a meeting of those who were favorable 
to the forming of a society. At the preliminary meeting C. W. 
Boyce, M.D., was called to the chair, and William Henry Hoyt, 
M.D., was made secretary. A resolution was offered by William 
A. Hawley, M.D., declaring it expedient to organize a society 
embracing the central counties of New York, and Drs. Clary, 
Robinson, Jr., and Stow were appointed a committee to digest a 
plan of organization. Said committee reported as follows : 1st. 
The organization to be denominated "The Central New York 
Homoeopathic Medical Society." 2d. Its officers to consist of a 
president, vice-president, and a secretary and treasurer. 3d. 
That each county society be invited to send one-half of their 
number as delegates. 4th. That the society embrace the coun- 
ties of Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Jefferson, Madison, Oneida, 
Onondaga, Ontario, Oswego, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates. 5th. 
The officers to be elected now, and that the annual meeting be 
held June 26th, 1866, at 10 A.M., in Syracuse. 6th. A com- 842 
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mittee to be raised who shall prepare a constitution and by-laws 
to be presented at that meeting. This plan was adopted. 
Lyman Clary, M.D., of Syracuse, was chosen President, and 
E. R. Heath, M.D., of Palmyra, Secretary. Drs. Clary, Hoyt, 
and Hawley were made the committee on constitution and by- 
laws. The first annual meeting was held in the office of Seward 
and Miller, in Syracuse, June 26th, 1866, about twenty-five 
being present. A constitution and by-laws were presented by 
the committee, discussed and adopted, the by-laws providing that 
the society should hold at least four meetings in each year, that 
persons to be eligible *to membership must be graduates or licen- 
tiates in medicine (and members of their county medical society 
where such exists), in good standing in the profession, and that 
each member be required to read an article or report a case in 
writing at least once a year. 
L. Clary, M.D., was chosen President of the new society, E. 
A. Potter, M.D., Vice-President, William H. Hoyt, M.D., Sec- 
retary and Treasurer. Various communications were read, and 
the society by resolution approved the organization of Life insur- 
ance companies which distinguish in favor of the patrons of 
homoeopathy by lower rates of premium, and pledged to such 
companies a cordial support. After discussion upon the appoint- 
ment of physicians to the public charities, it was resolved "that, 
upon the principle of ' no taxation without representation,' the 
homoeopathic physicians present unanimously and sternly protest 
against taxation in any form for defraying expenses growing out 
of the support of any public charity from which they are ex- 
cluded, since by legislation we are coequal with the allopathic 
school." Up to June, 1876, eighty-two physicians have sub- 
scribed to the constitution and become members. 
At its meeting September 13th, 1866, the society recognized 
by resolution the high claims of the American Homceopathic 
Revieiv, because of the invaluable aid it had given to science, 
and the very great impetus it had communicated to a thorough 
and correct representation of homoeopathy. June 13th, 1867, 
Dr. E. A. Potter was elected President, Dr. W. H. Hoyt, Vice- SOCIETIES. 
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President, Dr. C. W. Boyce, Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. Pot- 
ter died while in office. 
December 12th, 1867. Dr. P. O. Benson reported a proving 
of Petroleum, with clinical cases wherein this drug had been 
used successfully. Papers were read from Drs. Adolph Lippe 
and Lord on the proving of drugs, and from Dr. Boyce on 
"The Fanlike Motion of the Nostrils," as characteristic of Ly- 
copodium. The Secretary was requested to furnish each member 
with an unnamed drug for proving during the interim between 
this and the next meeting. The society concurred with the Al- 
bany County Society in a petition to the State legislature, to 
create and endow in the southern tier of counties an asylum for 
the homoeopathic treatment of the insane. 
March 12th, 1868. The Secretary reported having sent to sev- 
eral members for proving a drug in the 2d centesimal dilu- 
tion. Only Dr. Stow and wife had proved it. Dr. Stow's report 
was presented. The 1st centesimal dilution of the same drug 
was administered to all present. All obtained very decided 
symptoms. It was required that the symptoms be written out 
and the papers handed to the Secretary to be arranged by him 
for reference. The drug was Glonoin. It was ordered that 
Glonoin30 be prepared by the Secretary from the drug used by 
the members, and furnished to the members present. 
June 18th, 1868, Drs. Benson, Hawley, Stout and Fisk read 
provings of Glonoin. A resolution was passed to sustain the 
State society. Tight-lacing was condemned, as a sure and alarm- 
ing cause of pulmonary and inter-pelvic diseases. A resolution 
was passed, declaring that " this society pledges to the extent of 
its powers to sustain and perpetuate pure homoeopathy by the 
strict observance of the great and eternal laws which constitute 
the same, and we individually promise to use our influence at 
home and abroad in disseminating the same, taking the Organon 
of Samuel Hahnemann for our guide." Dr. William H. Hoyt 
was chosen President, Dr. T. D. Stow, Vice-President, Dr. C. 
AV. Boyce, Secretary and Treasurer. 
September 17th, 1868. Papers on leucorrhoea were contribu- 
ted by Drs. Wells, of Utica, Benson, and Stow; and a paper by 844 
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Dr. Boyce on chronic skin diseases and on catarrh. A commit- 
tee was appointed to correspond with physicians in order to gather 
up facts and clinical observations on leucorrhcea. 
December 17th, 1868. Papers on leucorrhcea were contribu- 
ted by Drs. R. R. Gregg, H. N. Guernsey, Belding, Gardner, 
also papers by several others. The society decided to give spe- 
cial attention to the study of the Materia Medica, and selected 
Phosphorus as the subject of discussion at next meeting. 
March 18th, 1869. The society met in Utica. Papers on 
Phosphorus were contributed by Drs. C. W. Boyce, Kitchen, of 
Philadelphia, and Carroll Dunham, of New York. It was re- 
solved, "That the members of this society will hereafter decline 
to fill certificates of health as attending physicians for such Life 
insurance companies as refuse in all cases to appoint homoeopathic 
physicians as medical examiners." 
June 17th, 1869. Aconite was the study. Papers thereon 
were contributed by Drs. Hawley, Belding, Miller, Dada; and 
articles from Drs. Carroll Dunham and Adolph Lippe. Oh mo- 
tion of Dr. Hawley it was resolved, " That qualification, not sex, 
constitutes fitness for membership in this society." Dr. Stow was 
elected President; Dr. Sumner, Vice-President; Dr. Boyce, Sec- 
retary and Treasurer. 
September 16th, 1869. Nux vom. was the study, papers were 
contributed by Drs. Wells and Dada. 
December 16th, 1869. Bryonia was the subject. Papers were 
contributed thereon by Drs. Miller, Spooner, Boyce, Belding, 
Wells, and J. H. P. Frost. Provings of Bryonia upon them- 
selves were read by Drs. Boyce, Stow, and Sheldon. 
June 16th, 1870. The President reported the action of the 
legislature in appropriating for an asylum for the insane, under 
homoeopathic care, at Middletown, N. Y., $150,000, on condition 
that a like sum shall be raised by subscription. Belladonna was 
the study. Provings were reported by Drs. Schenck and Wells. 
Dr. Dada read a comparison between Belladonna and Lachesis; 
and Dr. Sumner on cases treated with Belladonna. Many mem- 
bers condemned a too frequent repetition of doses. It was re- 
solved, "That copies of all provings made by the members of this SOCIETIES. 
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society, or clinical records confirming previous provings, be fur- 
nished to Dr. Carroll Dunham, Chairman of the Bureau of 
Materia Medica of the Homoeopathic State Medical Society of 
New York, said provings to be made according to the rules speci- 
fied in Hahnemann's Organon." Dr. Sumner was chosen Presi- 
dent; Dr. Spooner, Vice-President; Dr. Benson, Secretary and 
Treasurer. 
September 15th, 1870. A paper was contributed by Dr. J. 
H. P. Frost on precision in prescribing; by Dr. Adolph Lippe 
on Apis mel. in scarlet fever, diphtheria, and dentition ; and, 
by the same author, on i( Liberty in Medical Opinion and Action." 
December 15th, 1870. Non-ligation of the funis was discussed, 
and it was resolved, "That the members of this society, when- 
ever they deem it practicable and safe, gather experience by 
practicing non-ligation of the funis." Bandaging after partu- 
rition was discussed, and the dispensing with it was advocated 
strongly by those who had tried it. A number of members took 
radical ground against the use of alcoholic stimulants and of 
tobacco. 
March 16th, 1871. Dr. Spooner, of Oneida, having been re- 
moved from the office of Examining Surgeon for Pensions in 
the Twenty-second Congressional District of this State on ac- 
count of his homoeopathic profession and practice, this action of 
Dr. Van Arnam, Commissioner of Pensions, was indignantly 
condemned as being at variance with the genius of republican 
institutions; and the administration of President Grant was 
asked to remove said commissioner from his office, and to re- 
instate Dr. Spooner, that justice may be done. There being a 
movement on foot to establish a national university in Washing- 
ton, D.C., the society approved the petition, now widely circu- 
lating and numerously signed, that Congress would create a 
permanent professorship of homoeopathy in such institution. 
June 15th, 1871. Dr. Miller read a paper on the hygienic 
importance of ventilation, recommending the Ruttan system as 
the best. Dr. Clary advocated the old-fashioned fireplace as the 
best. Dr. Miller thought the two substantially the same. On 
motion of Dr. Stow it was resolved unanimously, " That the 846 
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empirical use of all alcoholic spirits is disastrous in the extreme 
and unscientific, and, when used, they must be used in accord- 
ance with homoeopathic principles." Dr. S. Spooner was chosen 
President, Dr. L. B. Wells, Vice-President, Dr. H. V. Miller, 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
September 21st, 1871. Papers were contributed by Drs. Miller 
and Frost. The question having been asked whether it is right 
to consult with irregular homoeopathic physicians, Dr. Clary an- 
swered that he consulted with such for the sake of the patient, 
but never called them in counsel. 
December 21st, 1871. Professor Frost contributed a paper 
on the "Treatment of Tubercular Meningitis." Dr. Boyce read 
three provings of Baptisia^, made by Dr. Wallace, Dr. Wallace 
not knowing the name of the drug. Uterine diseases being the 
appointed subject of discussion, Dr. Dada read a paper on the 
prevention of such complaints, and Dr. Boyce a paper on their 
pathology. Drs. Seward, Hawley, Benson, Wallace, and Miller 
testified that women in childbed made generally a better re- 
covery without the bandage than with it. 
March 21st, 1872. Dr. Miller read a paper on " Celluloid as 
a Substitute for Rubber Dental Plates;" also, a paper on "The 
Tobacco Disease." The regular subject for discussion was dis- 
eases of the mucous membranes of the uterus and vagina. 
June 20th, 1872. Rubber dental plates were condemned by 
many members as poisonous, sometimes producing intractable 
diseases of the mouth and throat. Professor Frost contributed 
a report of a fatal case of cerebro-spinal meningitis; Dr. J. F. 
Baker a report on an epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis in 
Western New York; and Dr. J. P. Truman a report of poison- 
ing by Veratrum viride. A number of gentlemen contributed 
clinical papers. Diseases of females were discussed at length. 
Dr. L. B. Wells was chosen President, Dr. P. O. C. Benson, 
Vice-President, Dr. H. V. Miller, Secretary and Treasurer. 
September 19th, 1872. Many members condemned the use 
of white rubber nipples and tubes, as rendering children espe- 
cially liable to sore mouth and bowel complaints. The rubber 
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bleaching process. Dr. Miller read a paper on cholera in- 
fantum. 
December 19th, 1872. The appointed subject being bron- 
chitis and pneumonia, a paper was presented to the society by 
Professor S. Lilienthal on the differential diagnosis of these dis- 
eases; also a paper on the same subject and the treatment, and 
clinical cases, by Dr. Miller.; also a paper by Dr. T. C. Duncan 
on a branch of the same subject. Many papers were contrib- 
uted. Dr. Miller called attention to a new base used by dentists 
as a substitute for celluloid: Coralline, unliable to shrink or warp. 
March 20th, 1873. Papers were contributed by Dr. Green- 
leaf and Professor C. C. Smith on Baptisia; also many other 
papers. Certain counties were added to the area of the society, 
to wit: Chemung, Genesee, Hamilton, Herkimer, Monroe, 
Tioga, and Tompkins. The society discussed typhus and 
typhoid diseases, medical union, and the question of sustaining 
the State society. 
June 19th, 1873. Much dissatisfaction with the State society 
led this Central Society to take action looking to the sustain- 
ing the State society upon a homoeopathic basis, and upon that 
only. A paper was read by Dr. Hawley on the differential di- 
agnosis of typhus and typhoid fevers. Dr. Gregg was intro- 
duced, and proceeded to address the society on "Pulmonary 
Consumption," affirming the loss of albumen to be the cause of 
the disease. Dr. B. 0. C. Benson was chosen President, Dr. B. 
B. Schenck, Vice-President, Dr. H. V. Miller, Secretary and 
Treasurer. 
September 18th, 1873. Papers were presented, one from Pro- 
fessor C. C. Smith, on phthisis pulmon.; other papers by Dr. 
Miller, on dysentery, diarrhoea, and bolting food. 
December 18th, 1873. Drs. Greenleaf and Miller presented 
papers on rheumatism. 
March 19th, 1874. Styptics and the suppression of catarrhal 
discharges were discussed; also galvanism and electricity. 
June 18th, 1874. Dr. B. B. Schenck was chosen President, 
Dr. W. M. Gwynn, Vice-President, Dr. H. V. Miller, Secretary 848 
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and Treasurer. Characteristics were discussed, and clinical cases 
reported. 
December 17th, 1874. Papers were read by Dr. Nash, on the 
treatment of typhoid fever; by Dr. L. B. Wells, on characteris- 
tics; by Dr. Parsell, on independence in medicine. 
March 18th, 1875. Drs. Parsell and W. H. Brown presented 
papers on diphtheria. 
June 17th, 1875. Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, and Stramonium 
were taken up as studies. A comparison of them was read by 
Dr. T. M. Strong. Dr. Greenleaf read a paper on the relations 
of these remedies. Dr. William M. Gwynn was elected Presi- 
dent, Dr. A. J. Brewster, Vice-President, Dr. H. V. Miller, 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
September 16th, 1875. Drs. Boyer, Wells, and Miller were 
appointed a committee to write a history of this society for the 
Philadelphia homoeopathic Centennial celebration. 
December 16th, 1875. Dr. Miller read a paper entitled "Spi- 
nal Remedies analyzed and compared." Dr. L. B. Wells was 
unanimously nominated a candidate for the reconstructed Board 
of Trustees of the Middle Asylum for the Insane. 
March 16 th, 1876. Papers were read; one'by Dr. Greenleaf, 
on " Spinal Remedies," and one by Dr. Miller on " Aconite as a 
Febrile Remedy." A resolution was passed, recommending 
Congress to adopt the metric system of weights and measures. 
June 15th, 1876. Dr. Miller read a sketch of the Central So- 
ciety, entitled " Retrospective and Prospective;" also, a paper on 
" Baptisia and Gelseminum." Dr. Greenleaf contributed a paper 
on these drugs. The papers gave rise to animated discussion. 
Dr. Brewster was chosen President, Dr. Swift, Vice-President, 
Dr. Miller, Secretary and Treasurer. 
This in brief brings the history down to July, 1876. At 
nearly every meeting numerous clinical reports were given, writ- 
ten and oral, many of which are of great interest and value. 
Through all vicissitudes this society has adhered firmly to the 
fundamental principles of homoeopathy, viz.: The similimum, 
the single remedy, and the minimum dose. SOCIETIES. 
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Local Societies of Central New York A 
1852, October 16th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
Counties of Washington and Saratoga. 
1852, November 12th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Orange. 
1857, August 13th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of New York. 
1857, October 20th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Oneida. 
1857, November 12th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of King's. 
1857, December 1st. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Livingston, embracing Wyoming County. 
1859. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Cayuga. 
1859. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Erie. 
1860. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Albany. 
1860. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Otsego. 
1860. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Rens- 
selaer. 
1861, October 1st. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County 
of Columbia. 
1861, October 16th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
Counties of Ontario and Yates. 
1861, November 29th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Dutchess. 
1861. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Oswego. 
1862, February 9th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Wayne. 
1862. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Onon- 
daga, embracing Cortland County. 
1863. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Broome. 
1863. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Chautau- 
qua. 
1863. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Madison. 
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1863. Homoeopath ic Medical Society of the County of Saratoga. 
1864. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Colum- 
bia, embracing Greene County. 
1865, February 1st. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Westchester. 
1865, May 10th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County 
of Ulster. 
1866. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Che- 
mung, embracing Schuyler County. 
1866. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Monroe. 
1866, May 1st. Central Nero York Homoeopathic Medical 
Society, embracing the counties of Broome, Cayuga, Cortland, 
Jefferson, Madison, Ontario, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Seneca, 
Wayne. 
1867, May 25th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County 
of Steuben. 
1869, February 4th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Montgomery, embracing Fulton County. 
1869. Hudson Hirer Medical Society, embracing the counties 
of Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester. 
1870, July 29th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County 
of Tioga. 
1871, September 20th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of 
the County of Chenango. 
1871, October 3d. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County 
of Niagara. 
1871, October 4th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County 
of St. Lawrence. 
1872, June 9th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County 
of Schuyler. 
1872, September 26th. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Seneca. 
1873, June. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of 
Queen's. 
1874, September 23d. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
Counties of Tompkins, Cortland, and Tioga. SOCIETIES. 
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1875, September 1st. Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
County of Rockland. 
The New York City Medical Club. 
This was originated by Drs. Kellogg and Allen in 1865, to fill 
a want so largely felt in the profession, viz., greater social inter- 
course among physicians. It meets twice a month for the free 
and informal discussion of medical topics, and its membership 
is limited to twenty-five, all of whom must be residents of the 
city of New York. Its first meeting was held December 13th, 
1865, at which were present Drs. T. F. Allen, A. S. Ball, S. B. 
Barlow, G. E. Belcher, F. S. Bradford, Carroll Dunham, L. 
Hallock, W. Horwitz, E. M. Kellogg, R. McMurray, H. M. 
Smith, D. D. Smith, and J. McE. Wetmore; it has continued 
in active and useful operation to the present time, with a full 
membership, amply fulfilling the objects of its organization. 
The Homoeopathic Mutual Life Insurance Company of 
New York. 
This company was organized and began business in 1868, and 
was based upon the proposition that " homoeopathic practice in 
medicine can be safely relied upon to lengthen life, and thus 
diminish the amount necessary to be charged for insuring a life 
at a given age." This proposition was at first demonstrated by 
a large mass of facts gathered from hospital and dispensary 
reports, and has, more lately, been confirmed by a careful analysis 
and comparison of the mortality occurring under the two systems 
of medicine, in private practice, in several of our largest cities. 
These results have been tabulated and published by the com- 
pany, and gratuitously distributed in large numbers throughout 
the whole country, thus greatly aiding in the medical education 
of the people, and the popularization of homoeopathy. 
The mortuary experience of the company itself up to this date, 
eight and a half years, corroborates the soundness of its funda- 
mental principle of granting lower rates of insurance to the 
adherents of homoeopathy; for, thus far, the death-rate of its 852 
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homoeopathic risks has been less than half as great as of its non- 
homoeopathic, in a total of over 9000 policies issued up to date. 
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. 
The Rhode Island Homoeopathic Medical Society 
Was organized in 1847, and a charter obtained from the legisla- 
ture of the State. Quarterly meetings were held until 1862, 
when they were suspended until revived by Dr. Gottschalk in 
1872. Since that time the interest in the cause has been una- 
bated, and quarterly meetings are held with good attendance. 
A dispensary was established in 1873, through the efforts of Dr. 
Gottschalk, which, after much up-hill work, is doing a creditable 
business, and as a natural result has led to a higher aim, viz., 
a homoeopathic hospital. 
The Ladies' Homoeopathic Hospital Aid Association was founded 
in 1874, and is doing splendid work for the good cause. 
The Hahnemann Medical Society of Rhode Island was or- 
ganized in 18$4, and received a charter from the State, but soon 
died of general debility. 
STATE OF DELAWARE 
The Delaware State Homoeopathic Medical Society 
Was organized during: the winter of 1874-75. Its officers are 
as follows: President, Isaiah Lukens, M.D. ; Vice-President, 
L. Kittinger, M.D.; General Secretary and Treasurer, J. M. 
Curtis, M.D. ; Corresponding Secretary, C. H. Lawton, M.D. 
If the society be properly represented it will aid the cause 
greatly, which already stands well with the intelligent classes of 
this State. 
STATE OF OHIO * 
Ohio College of Homoeopathic Physicians. 
Pursuant to previous notice, a convention of the homoeopathic 
physicians of Ohio assembled at Dr. Coulter's office, in Columbus, 
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the 23d day of September, 1851, for the purpose of forming a 
permanent organization. 
Dr. A. O. Blair was chosen President, and G. W. Barnes, 
M.D., Secretary. 
A committee of Drs. Coulter, Hussey, Tifft, Wright, and 
Prowell was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, which 
in due time were presented and adopted. * 
Among the resolutions adopted by this committee was the fol- 
lowing: 
" Resolved, That we entirely discountenance, as homoeopathists, those phy- 
sicians who pretend to employ homoeopathic medication merely at the desire 
of particular patients, and not from a disposition to investigate or from a 
conviction of its utility, regarding such as unworthy of confidence, deficient 
alike in knowledge and integrity." 
Drs. Gatchell, Rosa, Hill, Dodge, and Blair were constituted 
a bureau of materia medica. 
Dr. Blair was appointed to prepare a code of medical ethics, 
and report at next meeting. 
Drs. Smith, Brainard, and Barnes were appointed a commit- 
tee on publication and engraving certificates for membership. 
Drs. Gatchell, Bigler, and Coulter a committee to report, in 
1852, on the use of water as a therapeutic agent. 
The officers for the ensuing year are: A. 0. Blair, M.D., Presi- 
dent; J. H. Coulter, M.D., First Vice-President; John Tifft, 
M.D., Second Vice-President; C. A. Leuthstrom, M.D., Record- 
ing Secretary ; G. St. C. Hussey, M.D., Corresponding Secretary. 
Dr. Gatchell delivered at the Methodist Church an able and 
interesting lecture upon the reasonableness of homoeopathy, for 
which he received the thanks of the convention, and a copy of 
his address was requested for publication. 
Meeting adjourned to convene in Dayton, Ohio, on the third 
Wednesday in October, 1852. 
" It is rare that any assembly, religious, political, or scientific, assembled 
from various and remote points, for the most part unacquainted, where ex- 
isted so much harmony of sentiment, so much unity of action displayed, as 
were witnessed in this convention. From the commencement of Wednesday 
morning session until Thursday evening not a dissenting voice was heard > 
good order and kind feeling reigned uninterruptedly. The convention owes 
not a little to the kindly influence exerted by Dr. Storm Rosa and the ami- 
able President, Dr. A. 0. Blair."-From the American Magazine, page 55. 854 
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Names of Members.-Drs. A. O. Blair, G. St. C. Hussey, Ger- 
hard Saal, W. C. Leech, Jacob Bosler, Aaron Pitney, J. M. Parks, 
L. K. Rosa, George W. Bigler, D. C. Keys, H. S. Hoyt, J. W. 
Prowell, A. S. Wright, E. H. Bacon, Calvin Starr, G. W. 
Barnes, J. H. Coulter; Professors B. L. Hill, M.D., C. D. 
Williams, M.D., H. L. Smith, M.D., J. Brainerd, M.D., L. 
Dodge, M.D., S. Rosa, M.D., H. P. Gatchell, M.D., A. F. Bis- 
sell, M.D., E. C. Witherill, M.D.; Drs. J. H. Pulte, D. O. Hoyt, 
Thomas Miller, John Wheeler, A. H. Burritt, N. H. Manter, 
E. W. Cowles, B. Erhman, C. A. Leuthstrom, Jesse Garretson, 
George H. Blair, T. Cramer, William Cain, D. H. Beckwith, 
F. H. Rehwinkel, J. W. Dennis, A. Bauer, T. F. Fall, W. 
Sturm, George W. Storm, John Tifft, Jacob Myers, A. Plymp- 
ton, G. M. Barker. 
Junior Members.-Drs. J. M. Evans, J. L. Drake, E. D. Gil- 
son, W. W. Gray, George W. Dorsey, R. Kinsel. 
So great are the changes in just a quarter of a century that 
only three of the twenty-five pioneers who attended the first 
meeting of the State Medical Society of Northern Ohio are now 
engaged in the practice of medicine in that State, their field of 
labor having been left to younger men. Death has removed 
many of our early associates in the practice of medicine, and 
not one of the above-named physicians from Cleveland is now 
engaged in the practice of medicine in that city. 
On the 7th of June, 1852, the Ohio College of Homoeopathic 
Physicians met at the National Hall, in Cleveland, by a special 
request of the President, the meeting taking place in that city 
instead of Dayton, as was appointed. 
Several resolutions of importance were passed; the time of 
their meeting was changed, and its place permanently fixed at 
Columbus, Ohio. 
The older members of the profession in the State were present 
in goodly numbers, a circumstance which rendered the sessions 
of the college dignified and the deliberations interesting. 
The second annual meeting adjourned to meet in the City 
Hall, at Columbus, May 30th, 1853. 
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of the leading physicians of the State were in the hall, ready to 
transact business. Nothing occurred of any special importance 
until Dr. Barnes read an extract from the American Journal of 
Homoeopathy, as follows: 
"And inasmuch as our college in Philadelphia is the only one where the 
student has the opportunity of learning a true science and art in medicine, 
or, in other words, pure homoeopathy, so as to distinguish it from the spu- 
rious and pernicious-" 
Dr. Barnes then offered the following preamble and resolution, 
which were adopted: 
"And whereas, we regard the above language eitber'as untrue and full of 
intrigue, or as unaccountably and inexcusably stupid, 
" Resolved, That we hereby declare any attempt of a public body to localize 
the important anti widespread interests of our science as pernicious and fac- 
tious in the extreme, holding, as we do, that true science has there its only 
favored home, where its votaries are the most devoted and free from preju- 
dice." 
Meeting adjourned to meet in May, 1854, at Columbus. A. 
O. Blair, M.D., President; J. H. Pulte, M.D., Secretary. 
The fourth annual meeting convened at Columbus, as ad- 
journed. There were only a few members present, and not one 
from Cleveland or Cincinnati) the physicians in Central Ohio 
being the only members in attendance. The meeting was ad- 
journed, after one day's session, to await the call of the Secretary. 
That call was never made, and the College of Homoeopathic Phy- 
sicians closed its career in May, 1854. 
After a lapse of nine years the physicians of Ohio met in Co- 
lumbus, and organized the 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Ohio. 
This society meets in May, annually, in different locations 
throughout the State. The meetings are well attended, and pa- 
pers for the different bureaus are prepared with care, and are of 
great interest to the medical profession throughout the State. 
The society has about two hundred members, and has been 
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Local Societies of Northern Ohio. 
The first homoeopathic medical society in the State was held 
in Cleveland, Joly, 1846, but was not long continued. A notice 
will be found of the proceedings in Kirby's American Journal, 
page 66. 
In 1865 the Cuyahoga County Medical Society was formed, 
and since that date medical sessions have been held every two 
months. Most of the meetings have been well attended, and 
but little discord has existed among the members of the society. 
In 1872 its name was changed to the "Cleveland Academy of 
Medicine and Surgery." Various other local societies were 
formed throughout the northern part of the State, which served 
to keep alive a certain degree of public medical spirit, and to 
aid in giving a prestige and popularity to the growing forces 
of the school. Cleveland has alwavs sent larger delegations 
to our National and State Conventions than any other city 
in the West, and the members that have been selected to fill 
positions on the different bureaus have done their work well. 
The members of this society are liberal and generous to the pro- 
fession. We realize the fact that our future success lies in a 
practical willingness to liberally sustain our institutions, and 
to work together in a spirit of toleration as regards individual 
advancement, but in a spirit of determination and conquest as 
regards the progress of homoeopathy as a school. Emphatically, 
in union is our strength, and the profession at large may safely 
rely upon the physicians of Northern Ohio to do their whole 
duty in sustaining and forwarding the interests of the new dis- 
pensation as bequeathed to us by the immortal Hahnemann. SOCIETIES. 
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.* 
New Jersey State Homoeopathic Medical Society. 
The first State homoeopathic medical society was organized 
about the year 1846 at Burlington, by Drs. J. R. Andrews, of 
Camden, R. S. Middleton, of Burlington, J. C. Boardman, of 
Trenton, and several others. Dr. Andrews was elected Presi- 
dent, and from the known energy and character of the man 
must have made an efficient and useful officer. Who acted as 
Secretary, and the names of the other officers, we are unable to 
say, as the records of the society at this early day have not been 
transmitted, and for the same reason we cannot tell who were 
members at this time, and how often, and at what place or places? 
the society held its subsequent meetings. The probability is the 
meetings were discontinued a year or two later. 
On June 8th, 1854, according to previous appointment, a num- 
ber of homoeopathic physicians met at Newark for the purpose 
of permanently organizing a State medical society. Dr. J. D. 
Annin, of Newark, was called to the Chair, and Dr. L. AV. Shep- 
pard was chosen Secretary. A society was organized, and the 
following officers chosen for the ensuing year: Professor Isaac 
M. Ward, M.D., President, P. E. Vastine, M.D., of Trenton, 
Vice-President; L. W. Sheppard, M.D., Secretary. At this 
meeting the following resolution was unanimously adopted : 
" Resolved, That the thanks of this convention, in behalf of the homoeopathic 
physicians of this State, be presented to Hon. Moses A. Bramhall, of the 
Senate, and lion. Martin A. Howell, of the Assembly, and other members 
of the Legislature, for their able and efficient efforts in procuring the enact- 
ment of the present law, by which justice is secured to the homoeopathic phy- 
sicians of this State." 
It was in reference to this law, and its signature by the gov- 
ernor, that the following extract from Dr. Ward's address, in 
1873, refers : " The early efforts of our physicians to secure their 
legal rights in the gubernatorial contest in 1853, when Dr. Fort 
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was a candidate, were graphically described. The doctor, though 
a bitter opponent of homoeopathy, gave his pledges to a commit- 
tee of homoeopathic physicians, that waited on him, to sign the 
bill to be presented to the legislature the coming winter, if it 
passed, on'condition of their supporting him through the can- 
vass. The doctor was elected, the bill* passed, and the gover- 
nor, true to his promises, signed the bill. Thus was secured the 
first legal recognition of our rights." 
The next meeting of the society was held February 13th, 1853, 
in the Assembly Chamber at the State House, Trenton, the Pres- 
ident, Professor Isaac M. Ward, in the chair, and R. M. Wil- 
kinson, M.D., of Trenton, acting as Secretary. 
At this time, in the evening, an address on "The Rise and 
Progress of Homoeopathy " was delivered by the President to a 
large and appreciative audience. At the business session, held 
during the day, many physicians joined the society. A. fee bill was 
presented and adopted, and the following officers chosen : Presi- 
dent, Thomas Lapu, M.D., Newark ; First Vice-President, Wil- 
liam A. Durrie, M.D., Jersey City; Second Vice-President, J. 
R. Andrews, M.D., Camden ; Third Vice-President, J. C. Board- 
man, M.D., Trenton; Recording Secretary, J. B. Petherbridge, 
M.D., Hoboken ; Provisional Secretary, John J. Youlin, M.D., 
Jersey City ; Corresponding Secretary, J. B. Scott, M.D., New 
Brunswick; Treasurer, J. E. Vastine, M.D., Trenton. A board 
of censors was elected, and a bureau of materia medica appointed. 
A committee of three was appointed to prepare a remonstrance 
against the passage of a bill then before the legislature, repeal- 
ing the law passed the previous year. Drs. Petherbridge, 
Boardman, and Vastine were the committee, and they must have 
done their work effectually, as the law has never been repealed 
and is still found upon the statute-book. Dr. Petherbridge, who 
was also the Recording Secretary of the society, seems to have 
been the right man in the right place, for his minutes are com- 
plete in detail, and clearly and carefully written. From a pe- 
* The bill referred to may be found in Section IV, Legislation. SOCIETIES. 
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rusal of these minutes it is easily seen that the society, at this 
time, was possessed of considerable vitality. This is the first 
year in which Dr. Voulin's name appears. From that date till 
the present time he has been active and useful in many ways to 
the society. 
At this meeting the President called attention to the forth- 
coming celebration of the centennial anniversary of the birth of 
Hahnemann in April, at Philadelphia, and extended a cordial 
invitation to the members to attend the celebration. 
In 1856 Dr. William A. Durrie, of Jersey City, was chosen 
President, and a committee appointed to secure a charter. 
In 1857 Dr. J. R. Andrews, of Camden, was again elected 
President, and a committee of five was appointed to draft and 
secure the passage of a charter, and the members assessed $5 
each to meet the expenses incurred. It seems that considerable 
opposition was expected, and influential men could only be ob- 
tained to advocate the measure when paid for their services. 
But, at this time, they were unsuccessful. 
In 1858 Dr. J. J. Youlin, of Jersey City, was elected Presi- 
dent, and Dr. Petherbridge was again elected Secretary ; but he 
entered the army or navy as surgeon shortly afterward, and 
from this time no history of the society is to be found, and no 
evidence of any meetings for the next decade. 
In February, 1868, in pursuance of a call issued by Dr. J. J. 
Youlin, many homoeopathic physicians of the State met in Jer- 
sey City. Dr. Youlin was called to the chair, and Dr. L. B. 
Tompkins, of Newark, chosen Secretary. In reference to this 
meeting the minutes say : 
" After some debate it was Resolved, That we proceed to organize a State 
homoeopathic medical association." 
In pursuance of this action, Dr. J. J. Youlin was again elected 
President; Dr. N. Kirkpatrick, of Burlington, First Vice-Presi- 
dent; Dr. F. Nichols, of Hoboken, Second Vice-President; Dr. 
O. Bingham, of Washington, Third Vice-President; Dr. L. B. 
Tompkins, of Newark, Recording Secretary; Dr. L. Dennis, of 860 
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Newark, Corresponding Secretary ; and Dr. C. F. Fish, of 
Newark, Treasurer. 
The society then adjourned to meet in Newark on Wednes- 
day, April 15th, and a committee was appointed to invite ho- 
moeopathic physicians living in the State to join the society. 
In April the society convened again, and the following gen- 
tlemen were found qualified, and elected to membership: Drs 
S. Hasbrouck, Passaic ; J. Dennis, Newark ; George W. Tibbles, 
Hudson City ; E. R. Laine, Newark ; O. F. Lund, Bergen ; W. 
McGeorge, Hightstown ; J. Younglove, Elizabeth ; G. W. Bailey, 
Elizabeth; F. B. Mandeville, Newark ; F. N. Rockwith, Newark ; 
L. Y. Kinne, Paterson; E. Cook Webb, Orange; E. Nott, Pa- 
terson; and Walter Ward, of Mount Holly. The addition of 
these members gave new life to the society, and for the first time 
bureaus on surgery, practice, and obstetrics were appointed, in 
addition to one on materia medica, up to this time the only 
bureau appointed. The bureaus were as follows : Surgery, Drs. 
Webb, Kinne, and Younglove; Materia Medica, Drs. Annin, 
McGeorge, and Lund ; Practice, Drs. Kirkpatrick, Rockwith, and 
Mandeville; Obstetrics, Drs. McNeil, Fish, and Bailey; and a 
committee was also appointed to confer with the President in 
devising means to secure a charter. 
In 18G9 Dr. Youlin was again elected President, and Drs, 
Nichols, Wilkinson, and Mandeville, Vice-Presidents, L. Den- 
nis, Secretary, and F. N. Rockwith, Treasurer. A full board 
of censors and bureaus were appointed, and for the first time del- 
egates were appointed to the American Institute, and to State so- 
cieties. Six new members were also received. Quite a number of 
papers were read at this meeting, and the discussions were very 
interesting. During the meeting Dr. Youlin delivered an ad- 
dress on " The History of Medicine, having especial reference tp 
the Rise and Progress of Homoeopathy." This address was well 
received, ordered to be printed, and had a wide circulation. 
The great interest taken in the State society at this time cul- 
minated in the formation of the Eastern and Western District 
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At the semiannual meeting of the State society, held in Jer- 
sey City, in September, on motion of F. B. Mandeville, M.D., 
of Newark, the following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved, That we appoint a committee of nine, with power to obtain a 
charter for this society at the next meeting of the legislature. 
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The following members were appointed : Drs. F. B. Mande- 
ville, Newark; F. A. Rock with, Newark ; R. M. Wilkinson, 
Trenton; Wallace McGeorge, Hightstown; Frank Nichols, Ho- 
boken ; A. C. Worthington, Trenton ; George W. Bailey, Eliza- 
beth ; T. T. Kinne, Paterson ; and A. P. Macomber, of Hacken- 
sack, and the President, Dr. Youlin, was also added to the 
committee. The committee met in Trenton, and approved of a 
bill which had been carefully drawn by Drs. Youlin and Man- 
deville, and legal friends, and committed to Hon. William H. 
Barton, of Trenton, a member of the Assembly, for presentation 
in the houses. The society met at Trenton after the bill was 
introduced, and at a dinner the President introduced Mr. Barton 
and other members of the House to the society. Considerable 
feeling was manifested, but we stood by our guns, and the bill 
passed the Assembly and Senate without a dissenting vote, and 
was approved by Governor Randolph, February 9th, 1870. 
On Tuesday, April 12th, 1870, the society met at Newark and 
proceeded to reorganize under the provisions of the charter and 
had a harmonious and gladsome session. Dr. Youlin, the Pres- 
ident, delivered an enthusiastic address, in which he " congrat- 
ulated the homoeopathic profession on their recognition by the 
legislature. He stated that within the last twenty years homoe- 
opathy had increased 1000 per cent. Our duty is now to justify 
our promises that once legalized it should grow as never before." 
At this meeting twenty new members were elected, and a 
pleasant and social time was had until the society took a recess 
for dinner. The officers elected at this time, the first under the 
charter, are as follows : 
J. J. Youlin, M.D., President; Drs. F. B. Mandeville, Frank 
Nichols, R. M. Wilkinson, First, Second, and Third Vice-Presi- 862 
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dents; L. Dennis, Recording Secretary; F. N. Rockwith, Corre- 
sponding Secretary; E. Cook Webb, Treasurer; Drs. Nott, 
Bailey, Mandeville, Hunt, and Tuller, Censors. 
In 1871, after occupying the chair for several years, Dr. You- 
lin declined a re-election, and Dr. F. B. Mandeville, a promi- 
nent physician of Newark, was elected in his place. Drs. AVil- 
kinson, Hunt, and Richards, Vice-Presidents; L. Dennis, Re- 
cording Secretary; J. Younglove, Corresponding Secretary; 
George W. Bailey, Treasurer. Full bureaus were appointed, and 
132 homoeopathic physicians were reported in the State. Eleven 
new members were added during the year. In 1872 ten mem- 
bers were elected, and Dr. Walter Ward, of Mount Holly, was 
elected President. In 1873 eight new members were elected at 
the annual meeting, Dr. Frank Nichols, of Hoboken elected 
President, and Dr. William J. Andrews, of Newark, Secretary. 
The retiring President, Dr. Ward, in his address, gave a history 
of the early workers in homoeopathy. 
In 1874 the annual meeting lasted two days, two members 
were elected, and Dr. R. M. Wilkinson, of Trenton, elected 
President. Dr. Wilkinson had long been connected with the 
society, and was a genial, pleasant man, but is now deceased. 
At this meeting Dr. L. Dennis, at present a member (and the 
only Homoeopath on the board) of the State Board of Health, 
read a very able paper entitled, "Is the Use of Alcohol in Dis- 
ease Stimulant or Homoeopathic ?" He took the ground that it 
was homoeopathic. After this paper was read and discussed, 
Dr. W. McGeorge, then and for several years chairman of the 
Bureau of Materia Medica, read an interesting paper on "Alco- 
hol in Disease," which was full of quotations from eminent phy- 
sicians and physiologists, taking the opposite view of the case. 
After the discussion on this paper had ceased, on motion of Dr. 
McGeorge, the meeting affirmed, as the sense of the society, the 
resolution adopted by the American Institute on this question. 
In 1875 Henry F. Hunt, M.D., of Camden, was chosen Presi- 
dent, Dr. Andrews being continued as Secretary. Six members 
were elected during the year, and many interesting papers read. 
In 1876 Dr. George W. Richards, of Orange, was chosen SOCIETIES. 
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President; Drs. A. P. Macomber, J. Younglove, L. K. Brown, 
Vice-Presidents; W. J. Andrews, Recording Secretary; George 
Ockford, Corresponding Secretary; and Dr. G. M. Bailey, Treas- 
urer. The meeting was a very interesting one, and many 
papers were read and discussed, many visitors being present from 
New York. The delegates chosen to represent the society at the 
Institute this year were Drs. W. McGeorge, H. F. Hunt, J. J. 
Youlin, and F. B. Mandeville. 
The society is quite prosperous; there are about 150 homoeo- 
pathic physicians in the State, and the outlook is very favorable 
for the cause. 
The Newark Dispensary has been opened and maintained by 
Dr. F. B. Mandeville, and the local societies are in a healthy 
working condition. 
The Eastern District Homoeopathic Medical Society of New 
Jersey 
Organized with F. B. Mandeville, M.D., of Newark, President, 
George AV. Richards, M.D., of Orange, Vice-President, and E. 
R. Laine, M.D., of Caldwell, Secretary and Treasurer. Drs. J. 
J. Youlin, F. A. Rockwith, and E. Cook Webb were elected 
Censors, and the following bureaus appointed : Obstetrics, George 
AV. Richards, M.D.; Surgery, J. Younglove, M.D., E. C. AVebb, 
M.D.; Practice, J. D. Annin, M.D., F. B. Mandeville, M.D.; 
Materia Medica, F. A. Rockwith, M.D., F. Nichols, M.D. The 
society met on the first AVednesday of each month in Newark, 
but in a few years was merged into the Newark, Union, and 
Hudson County Society. AVho were elected officers the author 
is not able to ascertain. 
West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical Society. 
Pursuant to a call issued by Wallace McGeorge, M.D., of 
Hightstown, Henry F. Hunt, M.D., of Camden, N. Kirkpatrick, 
M.D., of Burlington, R. M. Wilkinson, M.D., of Trenton, and 
AV. Ward, M.D., of Mount Holly, the homoeopathic physicians 
of South and West Jersey met in Camden on May 19th, 1869, 
and organized The Western District Homoeopathic Medical So- 864 
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ciety of New Jersey. The following officers were elected, and 
bureaus appointed : President, D. R. Gardiner, M.D., Woodbury; 
Vice-President, R. M. Wilkinson, M.D., Trenton; Secretary, 
Wallace McGeorge, M.D., Hightstown; and Treasurer, J. G. 
Streets, M.D., Bridgeton; Censors, Drs. Hunt, Malin, and 
Cooper; Bureau of Obstetrics, Drs. Wilkinson, Malin, and Ban- 
croft; Surgery, Drs. Middleton, Cooper, and Austin; Practice, 
Drs. Hunt, Brown, and Streets; Materia Medica, Drs. Kirkpat- 
rick, Allen, and Phillips. The society met quarterly, and dur- 
ing the second year changed its name to West Jersey Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society, under which name it still works. 
The West Jersey Society has been a useful adjunct to the 
State society, and has held its meetings regularly since its organ- 
ization. Dr. McGeorge has been the secretary of the society 
since its organization up to this date, excepting a few months 
while he was out of the State. Drs. D. R. Gardiner, R. M. 
Wilkinson, H. F. Hunt, D. E. Gardiner, E. R. Tuller, N. Kirk- 
patrick, and C. J. Cooper have been presidents at different times, 
and not a meeting has elapsed in all this time in which one or 
more papers have not been presented and read before the society. 
STATE OF MAINE. 
Homceopathic Medical Society of Maine. 
The first society organization in the State occurred in August, 
1866, and embraced the physicians then located in the Valley of 
the Kennebec. This society was called the " Maine Central 
Homoeopathic Association," and was organized on the 22d of 
August. Its first officers were Dr. William E. Payne, President; 
Drs. H. C. Bradford and N. G. H. Pulsifer, Vice-Presidents ; 
and Dr. James B. Bell, Secretary. The meetings, held semi- 
annually, were always entered into with much spirit and it is 
believed with profit to its members, until some time after the for- 
mation of the State society, when, in consequence of the identity 
of purpose and interest of the two societies, and the enlarged 
field which the State society offered, the " Maine Central Asso- SOCIETIES. 
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ciation " adjourned subject to the call of the Secretary, still main- 
taining its organization. In pursuance of a call issued by the 
" Maine Central Association " the homoeopathic physicians of the 
State met in convention at Augusta on the 15th of January, 
1867, to organize a State society. There was a full attendance 
of the physicians of the State. The convention was called to 
order by Dr. Pulsifer, Jr., of Waterville, and Dr. Pulsifer, Sr., 
of Ellsworth, was chosen temporary chairman, and Dr. Bell, of 
Augusta, secretary. A permanent society organization was ef- 
fected under the name of the " Homoeopathic Medical Society of 
Maine," and Dr. W. E. Payne was chosen President; Dr. James 
B. Bell, Corresponding Secretary; and Dr. N. G. H. Pulsifer, 
Recording Secretary; after which the society adjourned to meet 
in Portland on the 23d of the following May. In the mean- 
time a society charter was procured from the legislature then in 
session, and at this first meeting in Portland was formally ac- 
cepted, and the society organization completed under authority 
of the State. At this meeting thirty-one (31) names were entered 
on the roll of membership. Regular and spirited meetings of 
the society have been held ever since the organization, and its 
growth, though slow, has been steady. At the present time fifty- 
two (52) names are on the roll of membership. 
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
In the year 1853 the State legislature, by means of the active 
exertions of Dr. J. F. Whittle, of Nashua, chartered " The New 
Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical Society," and gave to it the 
same'privileges as are given to the society of the old school. 
The society has held regular annual meetings ever since in the 
city of Concord, and its members have manifested a commend- 
able degree of interest. Unfortunately many physicians who 
would add strength and character have not yet become associated 
with it, but special efforts are now being made which cannot fail 
to increase both its membership and usefulness. 
In 1874 the physicians in the region of the White Mountains 
organized a local society, " The Homoeopathic Medical Society 866 
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of Northern New Hampshire," intending, it is said, to hold 
meetings quarterly. This is the only local society in the State (?). 
STATE OF MICHIGAN. 
The first convention of homoeopathic physicians in the State 
was held at Ann Arbor, October 20th, 1847, when an address 
was delivered by Hon. H. C. Knight, of Detroit. The minutes 
are printed in a pamphlet of 31 pages. This association was 
called " The Michigan Institute of Homoeopathy." Drs. C. A. 
Lamb, John Ellis, Thomas Blackwood, W. P. Meacham, A. 
Van Dusen, E. W. Cowels, and Lewis Dodge were present. 
Twenty additional names were afterwards added to the rolls of 
the society. 
Dr. C. A. Lamb was the first President. The different views 
held by homoeopathists on the University question had much to 
do with disbanding this society. A new society was afterwards 
organized bearing the same name, which had a large member- 
ship and was very successful. 
When the two homoeopathic colleges were established the party 
favoring the establishing of homoeopathy at Ann Arbor in the 
University grounds withdrew and organized in 1869 the present 
(i Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of Michigan." 
At the meeting of the State society in Detroit in 1876 the 
" Institute " was formally merged into the former body and sur- 
rendered its books and charter. 
There is now a large, flourishing, and harmonious State society, 
whose meetings are held semiannually. There are but three 
local societies, viz., " Grand Rapids Society," organized in 1875 
with a membership of eleven (11), meeting monthly; the Per- 
manent President is C. J. Hempel, M.D.; " The Jackson County 
Society," organized in 1876 with 17 members, meeting quarterly; 
"The Detroit Institute of Homoeopathy," organized April 19th, 
1876, with a membership of 14, meeting monthly. 
In 1871 an attempt was made to organize a society in Detroit, 
but only a few meetings were held. SOCIETIES. 
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STATE OF ILLINOIS.* 
The Homoeopathic Medical Association of Illinois 
Was organized in 1855. It was then composed of fifty mem- 
bers. It has held annual sessions until the present time, and the 
number of members has increased from year to year. There 
is not a city, town, or village in the State where homoeopathy 
is not represented by one or more well-educated, intelligent, 
and successful practitioners. 
There are about four hundred homoeopathic physicians in the 
State, and a very large proportion of these are members of the 
" Homoeopathic Medical Association of Illinois." 
Other Societies. 
" The Central Homoeopathic Medical Society " is composed 
of the physicians who reside in the central counties of the State. 
There is also a "Military Tract Society," under the auspices of 
physicians in southern and southwestern counties. These societies 
have been, and are still, in a flourishing condition. The number 
of members belonging to each is unknown. 
"The Chicago Academy of Homoeopathic Physicians and 
Surgeons " is composed of members of the profession in Cook 
County, and numbers about fifty or sixty members, and holds 
monthly meetings for the discussion of clinical subjects and 
other matters connected with the interests of the profession. 
This association is the outgrowth of several societies that have 
sprung up and flourished at different times, viz., " The Cook 
County Society," " The Chicago Academy of Medicine," etc. 
STATE OF TENNESSEE. 
The first organization among the practitioners of the State 
was at Nashville, in 1870, called " The Davidson County Ho- 
moeopathic Society," H. Sheffield, M.D., President; J. P. Dake, 
M.D., Secretary. 
* By A. E. Small, M.D. 868 
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This society continued for only one year, being afterwards 
merged into a larger organization, 
The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Middle Tennessee. 
J. P. Dake, M.D., President; E. R. Smith, M.D., Secretary. 
This society is in good working order, holding quarterly meet- 
ings for the reading of essays and clinical reports, and for discus- 
sions thereupon. 
In November, 1875, a convention of all the homoeopathic 
physicians in the State was called by order of the society at 
Nashville to effect a State organization. 
The convention was held in the Federal court-rooms, Decem- 
ber 1st, and resulted in the formation of 
The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Tennessee. 
The officers for 1876 are as follows : J. P. Dake, M.D., Presi- 
dent; L. D. Morse, M.D., E. H. Price, M.D., Vice-Presidents ; 
E. R. Smith, M.D., Secretary; T. E. Enloe, M.D., Treasurer. 
Committees on special subjects were appointed to report at the 
next annual meeting. The Code of Ethics of the " American In- 
stitute of Homoeopathy " was adopted for the government of the 
society. Delegates were duly appointed to represent the society 
in the "World's Homoeopathic Convention " at Philadelphia, 
June, 1876. 
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.* 
Prior to March 4th, 1871, no organization of homoeopathic 
physicians within the State had been attempted. At that date 
the first meeting was held at the pharmacy of Boericke & Tafel 
for the purpose of forming a State medical society. At this and 
at subsequent meetings, held on the 11th, 18th, and 25th of 
March, 1871, there were present Drs. J. J. Cushing, J. A. Al- 
bertson, F. Hiller, Sr., W. N. Griswold, A. A. Thirse, E. J. 
Fraser, J. F. Geary, J. Esten, J. P. Dinsmore, and J. S. Beak- 
ley, of San Francisco, and J. M. Selfridge and S. F. Rudolph, 
of Oakland. 
* By C. W. Breyfogle, M.D. SOCIETIES. 
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During the meetings subsequent to the first Drs. J. S. Shep- 
herd, of Petaluma, F. 0. Coxhead, of Oakland, J. K. Clark 
and W. R. Rend, of Sacramento, and D. M. Brown, of Vallejo, 
united with the society prior to its permanent organization and 
assisted in its formation. . 
Drs. J. P. Dinsmore was elected President, and J. S. Beak- 
ley, Secretary, pro tern. Drs. E. J. Fraser, J. J. Cushing, and 
J. F. Geary were appointed a committee on constitution and by- 
laws. On the 24th of March, 1871, the organization of the 
" California State Medical Society of Homoeopathic Practitioners " 
was completed, and the constitution and by-laws presented by 
the committee were adopted, and an election was held for officers 
for the ensuing year, which resulted in the choice of: J. J. Cush- 
ing, M.D., President; F. Hiller, Sr., M.D., First Vice-President; 
J. A. Albertson, M.D., Second Vice-President; J. S. Beakley, 
M.D., Recording Secretary; E. J. Fraser, M.D., Corresponding 
Secretary; M. J. Werder, M.D., Treasurer; J. M. Selfridge, 
M.D., J. S. Shepherd, M.D., J. P. Dinsmore, M.D., Censors. 
On the 16th of April, 1871, the first meeting was held under 
the permanent organization, when the committees were appointed 
by the President. On the 4th of May, 1871, a meeting was 
held, when Dr. Stephen Porter was elected a member. An in- 
vitation was also extended to the " American Institute of Homoe- 
opathy " to hold its next meeting in San Francisco. At a special 
meeting held July, 1871, officers were elected to fill vacancies, 
caused by resignations at the last meeting, as follows : Dr. J. S. 
Shepherd, President; Dr. W. N. Griswold, Recording Secretary. 
On April 10th and 11th, 1872, the regular annual meeting was 
held, at which it was voted to incorporate the society in due form 
under the laws of the State, which was accordingly done. 
The election of officers resulted in the choice of J. S. Shepherd, 
M.D., of Petaluma, President, and Drs. W. N. Griswold and E. J. 
Fraser, Secretaries. In the evening Hahnemann's birthday was 
celebrated by a concert, by recitations by Mrs. Lippincott (Grace 
Greenwood), and addresses by President Shepherd and Dr. 
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April 9th, 1873, third regular annual meeting. Drs. C. W. 
Breyfogle, of San Jose, G. E. Davis, M. T. Wilson, and F. Hil- 
ler, Jr., of San Francisco, admitted to membership. 
An election of officers resulted in the choice of J. Esten, M.D., 
President; Drs. W. N. Griswold and G. E. Davis, Secretaries. 
April 9th, 1874, fourth regular annual meeting. Officers 
elected : Dr. C. W. Breyfogle, of San Jose, President; Drs. W. N. 
Griswold and G. E. Davis, Secretaries. As the office of Corre- 
sponding Secretary was left vacant by the resignation of Dr. 
Davis, a new election resulted in the choice of Dr. E. J. Fraser 
for the position. Some time in 1875 a society styled the " Pa- 
cific Homoeopathic Medical Society" was formed, and on March 
3d, 1876, incorporated under the name of " The Pacific Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society of the State of California." 
On the 11th and 12th days of April, 187G, the California 
State Medical Society of Homoeopathic Practitioners held its 
regular annual meeting in the city of San Francisco. Officers 
elected : C. W. Breyfogle, President; Drs. W. N. Griswold and 
E. J. Fraser, Secretaries. The President appointed Drs. J. 
Murray Moore, M. J. Werder, E. J. Fraser, W. N. Griswold, 
of San Francisco, J. K. Clark, of San Rafael, E. L. Breyfogle, 
of San Jose, and T. C. Coxhead, of Oakland, a Board of Exam- 
iners, and Drs. J. H. Floto, Sidney Worth, and Stephen Porter 
as alternates. Drs. E. J. Fraser and C. W. Breyfogle were ap- 
pointed delegates to represent the society at the World's Homoeo- 
pathic Convention, to meet the ensuing summer in Philadelphia. 
On the third day of March, 1876, " The Pacific Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of the State of California" was incorporated, 
with J. M. Selfridge, H. H. Ingerson, J. J. Cushing, J. A. Al- 
bertson, and G. M. Pease as Trustees. At a meeting held May 
10th, 1876j " The Pacific Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
State of California" also appointed a Board of Medical Examiners, 
which consisted of Drs. J. F. Geary, J. M. Selfridge, G. M. 
Pease, J. A. Albertson, J. J. Cushing, W. C. Hughson, and A. 
Liliencranz, and G. E. Davis and W. E. Ledyard as alternates, 
to carry out the provisions of the lately enacted medical law.* 
* See Legislation, Section IV. SOCIETIES. 
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STATE OF MINNESOTA. 
The first medical society formed in the State in the interest of 
our cause was the Minnesota Institute of Homoeopathy, organized 
at St. Paul in 1867. Among those who were most active in 
effecting this organization were T. R. Huntington, M.D., W. A. 
Penniman, M.D., W. H. Leonard, M.D., C. D. Williams, M.D., 
J.T.Alley, M.D., Drs. Wedelstredt, Nicols, and others whose names 
are not now accessible. Dr. Penniman was elected first Presi- 
dent, and the society has since that time held regular annual 
meetings, which have been of general interest and profit. Ac- 
cording to the charter granted- by the legislature, this society has 
all the rights and powers of a medical college, with authority to 
confer diplomas, degrees, etc. In October, 1871, was organized, 
at Owatonna, a Southern Minnesota Homoeopathic Medical So- 
ciety. Members present: Drs. Westfall, Saunders, Gilchrist, 
Cooley, Beckwith, N. T. Williams, A. Williams, Denninger, 
Casner, Roberts, Stacey. Dr. Westfall was elected President, and 
Dr. Gilchrist, Secretary. A second meeting was held at Roch- 
ester, at which Dr. Pierce, of Winona, was elected President. 
At the third annual meeting it was found unwise to carry on a 
separate organization, and it was unanimously resolved to disband 
and lend all their efforts in aid of the regular State society. 
The Ramsey County Homoeopathic Medical Society was or- 
ganized at St. Paul in 1872. Dr. Thomas C. Schell served the 
first year as President. The society has held monthly meetings, 
with an occasional interim, since its first organization. The fol- 
lowing are its present members: James T. Alley, M.D., Presi- 
dent / C. G. Higbee, M.D., A. E. Higbee, M.D., T. C. Schell, 
M.D., C. D. Williams, M.D., E. Walther, M.D., H. Wedel- 
stsedt, M.D., C. Wiegman, M.D., J. B. Hall, M.D. 
The Hahnemann Medical Society of Hennepin County was 
organized in Minneapolis in 1871. Drs. Leonard, Huntington, 
and Goodwin were mainly instrumental in its formation, and 
Dr. Leonard served as first President. Present members, D. M. 
Goodwin, M.D., President; W. H. Leonard, M.D., P. L. Hatch, 
M.D., P. Nelson, M.D., C. W. Putnam, M.D., C. E. May, M.D., 
E. J. Foster, M.D. 872 
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STATE OF NEBRASKA. 
The only society organized is the 11 Nebraska State Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Association," which was instituted at Lincoln, 
September 2d, 1873, and included amongst its members homoeo- 
pathic physicians from Western Iowa. The officers were, Presi- 
dent, Dr. E. T. M. Hurlbut; Vice-President, Dr. J. H. Way; 
Secretary, Dr. A. C. Cowperthwaite; Provisional Secretary, Dr. 
L. J. Bumstead; Treasurer, Dr. O. S. Wood. The present of- 
ficers are, President, Dr. O. S. Wood; Vice-President, Dr. W. 
D. Stillman, of Iowa; Secretary, Dr. A. C. Cowperthwaite; Pro- 
visional Secretary, Dr. L. J. Bumstead; Treasurer, Dr. E. Lewis. 
The association meets annually, and the next place of meeting is 
at Omaha. 
While homoeopathy was yet in its dawn a State society was 
organized, but owing to many causes, especially the very long 
distances and want of proper conveyances, it soon became defunct. 
In the spring of 1870 Dr. E. A. Guilbert, of Dubuque, Dr. W. 
H. Dickinson, and Dr. G. N. Seidlitz, of Keokuk, invited by 
letter (circular) the homoeopathic physicians of the State to a 
meeting to be held at Des Moines, May 31st, 1870. There were 
assembled about twenty physicians, and after a thorough inter- 
change of ideas they resolved to ignore the former organization 
and start anew as (l The Society of the Homoeopathic Physicians 
of Iowa-." The officers elect for the first year were, President, 
W. H. Dickinson, M.D., of Des Moines; Secretary and Treasurer, 
G. N. Seidlitz, M.D., of Keokuk. From this time forward the 
membership has steadily increased, and now numbers over sixty. 
STATE OF IOWA. 
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.* 
State Society of Massachusetts. 
The first organization of homoeopathic physicians was formed 
with a membership of four under the name of " The Homoeo- 
pathic Fraternity." 
* Rewritten from printed transactions of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic 
Medical Society, vol. i, by J. T. Talbot, M.D. SOCIETIES. 
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Its first meeting, having in view the formation of an associa- 
tion for mutual improvement in the science and practice of ho- 
moeopathy, was held at the house of Dr. J. P. Spooner in Dor- 
chester, December 25th, 1840, at seven in the evening. Present: 
Drs. Wild, of Brookline, Flagg, of Boston, and Spooner, of 
Dorchester. Dr. Samuel Gregg intended to be present, but was 
prevented by professional engagements. 
Several monthly meetings were held at the houses of the mem- 
bers, when the doctrines of the new law of cure were discussed. 
At the third meeting, held February 2d, 1841, at Dr. Flagg's 
house, a committee was appointed to draft a constitution and 
by-laws. These were adopted at a meeting, held in Dr. Cut- 
ler's house, March 2d, 1841, and signed by the following phy- 
sicians : Drs. Gregg, Flagg, Spooner, Wild, Cutler, and Clark. 
These meetings were continued each month or oftener, at the 
different houses of members, until May 21st, 1850, when, at a 
meeting at the Pemberton House, the Secretary was instructed 
to procure a room in which to hold the meetings of the society. 
Up to this date the time of meeting was occupied in informal 
discussion, and in reading papers on various medical topics. 
The membership had in the meanwhile gradually increased. 
After meeting for a few times at No. 22 Bromfield Street, 
Boston, a room was permanently engaged at the Montgomery 
House. 
In 1852 the name of the organization was changed to the 
" Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society," in consequence 
of an attempt on the part of the Massachusetts Medical Society 
(allopathic) to crush the " Fraternity." 
Meetings were thus continued until 1856, when, in accord- 
ance with an act which had passed the legislature June 3d, 1856, 
Drs. Samuel Gregg, William Wesselhoeft, Luther Clark, George 
Russell, Milton Fuller, John A. Tarbell, and David Thayer, 
whose names are mentioned in said act, met at Chapman Hall, 
Boston, at 3 o'clock, p.m. 
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Gregg, who was ap- 
pointed Chairman, and Dr. David Thayer, Secretary. 874 
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The act of incorporation* was read and adopted. Forty-four 
persons were elected members. 
At a meeting held September 10th by-laws were adopted, 
and on September 24th the following officers were elected : 
President, Samuel Gregg, M.D.; Vice-Presidents, Charles Wild, 
M.D., and William Wesselhoeft, M.D. ; Corresponding Secretary, 
G. W. Swazey, M.D.; Recording Secretary, David Thayer, 
M.D.; Treasurer, William F. Jackson, M.D. 
This was the organization of the present society, and since this 
time meetings have been held annually. 
In 1871 the first volume of proceedings was published. It is 
a handsome volume of 410 pages, and contains much of interest 
relating to the early history of homoeopathy, not only in Massa- 
chusetts, but also in the United States. It covers the first twenty- 
years of the society, from 1840 to 1860. Volume II contains 
571 pages, and embraces the Transactions from 1861 to 1866, 
inclusive. Volume III has .530 pages, with the reports of the 
society work for the years 1867 and 1868. 
The society at present (1876) numbers 163 active members. 
The annual meeting is held on the second Wednesday of April, 
and the semiannual on the second Wednesday of October. 
They are usually well attended, and valuable papers are pre- 
sented, and discussions held. The following is the list of offi- 
cers for 1876-1877 : President, E. U. Jones, M.D.; Vice-Pres- 
idents, O. S. Sanders, M.D., and William H. Longee, M.D.; 
Corresponding Secretary, D. G. Woodvine, M.D.; Recording 
Secretary, E. P. Colby, M.D.; Treasurer, T. S. Scales, M.D.; 
Librarian, F. H. Underwood, M.D.; Censors, H. P. Hemen- 
way, M.D., A. M. Cushing, M.D., E. B. Holt, M.D., Lewis 
Whiting, M.D., and J. Heber Smith, M.D. 
Local or County Societies. 
Boston Academy of Homoeopathic Medicine.-After the monthly 
meeting of the Fraternity gave place to the annual meetings of 
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the State society, the physicians of Boston and vicinity formed 
the above society in 1859. 
It met on the second and fourth Monday evenings in' each 
month, at the rooms of the Homoeopathic Dispensary. The 
meetings were of both a social and scientific character; papers 
were read, cases reported, and views interchanged in discussion. 
The number of members was about fifty. The President is 
elected for four meetings only. The principal executive officer 
was the Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Boston Homoeopathic Society was organized in 1868 on the 
plan of the Boston Academy. It held its meetings on the second 
and fourth Thursday evenings in each month. The number of 
members was twelve. 
The Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society.-In the autumn of 
1871 the two societies above named were united and its meet- 
ings held on the second Thursday evenings of each month. The 
membership embraces sixty physicians. The meetings are usually 
well attended. One or more essays are read and their discus- 
sion follows. The President serves for four months ; the Secre- 
tary and the Treasurer for one year. 
The Bristol County Homoeopathic Medical Society was organ- 
ized in October, 1866. Itembraces the homoeopathic physicians 
of the southeastern section of the State. The meetings are held 
quarterly. The present number of members is twelve. G. 
Felix Matthes, M.D., of New Bedford, is President, and J. W. 
Hayward, M.D., of Taunton, Secretary. 
The Worcester County Homoeopathic Medical Society was organ- 
ized in 1866. It holds its meetings quarterly. E. F. Hincks, 
M.D., of Marlboro', is President, and J. M. Barton, M.D., of 
Worcester, Recording Secretary and Treasurer. It has nineteen 
members. Its proceedings have been published in the New 
England Medical Gazette. 
The Essex County Homoeopathic Medical Society was organized 
June 5th, 1872. It meets on the fourth Wednesday of each 
month, usually in the daytime, for the convenience of its mem- 
bers. It has thirty-two members. A. J. French, M.D., of 876 
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Lawrence, is President, and N. R. Morse, M.D., of Salem, Sec- 
retary. This society holds its July meeting as field-day and 
basket picnic. Physicians and their families are invited from 
all parts of the State and adjoining States, and as many as two 
or three hundred people assemble to enjoy this reunion. 
The Western Institute of Homoeopathy. 
This was organized in 1863 by the physicians of the Western 
and Northwestern States to fill a want felt by the failure of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy to hold meetings from 1860 
to 1864. 
The first meeting was held at the Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege of Chicago, during a session of the Homoeopathic Medical 
Association of Illinois, when a delegate from each State repre- 
sented was appointed to prepare and present a plan fora Western 
homoeopathic congress. The committee thus appointed met 
during the afternoon of May 20th, 1863, and reported a consti- 
tution and by-laws for the new organization, which was to be 
called "The Western Institute of Homoeopathy." An election 
of officers resulted in the choice of Dr. C. J. Hempel as Presi- 
dent; First Vice-President, Dr. A. O. Blair; Second Vice- 
President, Dr. J. T. Temple; Recording Secretary, Dr. R. Lud- 
lam ; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. E. M. Hale; Treasurer, Dr. 
L. Pratt. Dr. Hempel delivered an ably written lecture on 
medical education in the evening. After adjournment a social 
reunion and dinner was held at the Adams House. On May 
21st the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Association re- 
sumed its session in the forenoon, but in the afternoon the West- 
ern Institute held its first formal session, Dr. Hempel being in 
the chair. Committees were named on Homoeopathy, Drug 
Provings, Clinics and Pathology, Surgery, Anatomy, Physi- 
ology, Obstetrics, and Chemistry. Dr. Helmuth then delivered 
a lecture, which was followed by one from Dr. Temple. 
The second annual session was held in Chicago, May 19th and 
20th, 1864. The convention was called to order by the Presi- 
dent, Dr. C. J. Hempel, eighteen members being present. Papers 
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bers were elected. In the evening of May 19th a banquet was 
given at the Sherman House by the homoeopathic physicians of 
Chicago, after which a levee was held in one of the parlors of 
the Sherman House. Reports, were presented at the meeting 
held May 20th, by the chairmen of the bureaus, on Orthopaedic 
and Plastic Surgery, Treatment of Dislocations, Pathology of 
Spotted Fever, Typhoid Fever, Skin Diseases, Diphtheria, Can- 
cer, Prolapsus and Retroversions, Hysteria, Ramollissement, 
Contingencies of Labor. 
The following officers were elected to serve the next year: 
Dr. J. T. Temple, President; Dr. W. T. Helmuth, Recording 
Secretary; Dr. L. Pratt, Treasurer. Bureaus were announced 
on Homoeopathy, Drug Provings, Surgery, Anatomy, Physi- 
ology, Obstetrics, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, and Pathology. 
The third session was held in Chicago, May 19th, 1865, Dr. 
Temple in the chair. The Secretary, Dr. AV. T. Helmuth, read 
an address, and the convention then adjourned until afternoon, 
when some interesting papers were presented. A banquet was 
held in the evening of May 19th by the members of the St. 
Louis Homoeopathic Medical Society. Dr. A. O. Blair was 
chosen President, Dr. L. E. Ober, Recording Secretary, and Dr. 
W. T. Helmuth, Treasurer, for the ensuing year. The proceed- 
ings of these first three meetings were published in the various 
medical journals, and also in yearly pamphlets. 
The fourth annual meeting was held at Cleveland, May 23d 
and 24th, 1866, Dr. A. O. Blair, President, in the chair. Dr. 
S. R. Beckwith delivered the address of welcome. Twenty-five 
new members were elected. It was decided that the boundaries 
of the Western Institute included all the States west of the Al- 
leghany Mountains. In the evening the members of the Insti- 
tute partook of a supper provided by the homoeopathic physicians 
of Cleveland. The usual committees were appointed during the 
second day's session, and the following officers were elected : Dr. 
E. C. Franklin, President; Dr. T. P. Wilson, Recording Secre- 
tary; Dr. G. W. Barnes, Treasurer. 
The fifth annual meeting was held at Indianapolis, May 23d 
and 24th, 1867, with Dr. E. C. Franklin in the chair. Dr. O. 878 
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P. Baer delivered the address of welcome. Eleven new mem- 
bers were elected. At the meeting on May 24th the following 
officers were elected : President, Dr. R. Ludlam ; Recording 
Secretary, Dr.W. T. Helmuth; Treasurer, Dr. S. P. Cole. A prize 
of $100 was offered by Dr. Franklin for the best paper on dis- 
eases of the bones and their homoeopathic treatment, by Dr. Hel- 
muth for the best paper on syphilis, and by Dr. Ludlam for 
the best paper on dysmenorrhoea. In the evening a banquet 
was held at the Bates House. 
The sixth annual meeting was held at Milwaukee, May 21st 
and 22d, 1868. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Lud- 
lam, the President, Eighteen new members were elected. Dr. 
Douglas delivered an address of welcome. The meeting was, as 
usual, devoted to the presentation of various papers and discus- 
sions thereon. Dr. J. P. Dake was elected President; Dr. E. A. 
Lodge, Corresponding Secretary; Dr. E. W. Perrine, Treasurer, 
for the ensuing year. The proceedings of this and of the pre- 
ceding year were published in pamphlet form. 
The seventh annual meeting was held at Ann Arbor, May 20th 
and 21st, 1869. The meeting was called to order by the Secre- 
tary, Dr. T. C. Duncan. Various reports were presented. Dr. L. 
E. Ober was elected President; Dr. T. C. Duncan, Recording 
Secretary; Dr. G. W. Perrine, Treasurer. The usual bureaus 
were also appointed, and the Institute then adjourned. 
The eighth annual meeting was held at Chicago, May 19th, 
1870, but as there was scarcely a quorum present it was decided 
to merge the Western Institute into the American Institute of 
Homoeopathy, which was done at a meeting of the American 
Institute, held June 9th, 1870, at Chicago. For a full account 
see the history of the American Institute. 
When the Western Institute surrendered its papers it was free 
from debt, had a fund of $73.00, and a membership of 149. 
The Western Academy of Homoeopathy.* 
At the regular annual meeting of the Kansas and Missouri 
Valley Medical Society, held early in the year 1874, the ques- 
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tion of having an organization for the especial benefit of Western 
physicians was agitated, and so far met with the approval of the 
assembled physicians that a committee was appointed, whose duty 
it was to see what could be done toward the formation of such a 
society as the one proposed. This committee, composed of Drs. 
James Lillie, of Kansas City, E. C. Franklin, of St. Louis, and 
W. A. Parsons, of Atchison, Kansas, set to work, and in a short 
time issued a circular to the physicians of the West, offering 
many good reasons for the organization of such a society. 
On the evening of September 14th, 1874, a preliminary meet- 
ing was held in St. Louis at the office of Dr. Franklin, that all 
arrangements might be completed for the next day's work of the 
convention. There were present Drs. W. A. Parsons, of Atchi- 
son, Kansas; M. Mayer Marix, of Denver City, and Franklin 
Griveaud, Goodman, Stevens, P. G. Valentine, F. C. Valentine, 
and Kershaw, of St. Louis. On completing their work the 
meeting adjourned to convene the next day (loth) at the college 
building, 1007 Locust Street. 
The organizing convention was opened on the morning of Sep- 
tember 15th at 10 o'clock. On motion, Dr. M. Mayer Marix 
was elected temporary chairman, and Dr. Ferd. C. Valentine, of 
St. Louis, temporary secretary. 
The chairman, on taking his seat, expressed the sentiments of 
those assembled as felt at that time and ever since the birth of 
the Academy.- He said : (i Inasmuch as the to-be-born society 
was intended as an auxiliary, and not competitive to the Ameri- 
can Institute of Homoeopathy, we would sound unto all, East 
and West, the Macedonian cry, ' Come over and help us !' " 
About fifty physicians were present during the two days' ses- 
sion. The names of those present being obtained, Dr. E, C. 
Franklin, of St. Louis, was called upon and delivered the open- 
ing address of welcome. It proved an excellent effort, and fully 
explained the position of Western physicians and the great need, 
of the society contemplated. 
A committee of three was appointed to prepare a constitution 
and by-laws, which, on being presented, were duly accepted. 
It was generally understood that those who attended the meet- 880 
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ing of organization were members and in full sympathy with 
the projects. This, however, was not wholly true, although at 
present it cannot be positively determined who signed the con- 
stitution at the first meeting. In addition to those present, six- 
teen were elected to membership. 
The officers elected were: President, Dr. M. Mayer Marix, 
Denver, Col.; Vice-President, Dr. George H. Blair, Fairfield, 
Iowa; General Secretary, Dr. Ferd. C. Valentine, St. Louis, 
Mo.; Provisional Secretary, Dr. W. C. F. Hemstead, Edwards- 
ville, Ill.; Treasurer, Dr. R. H. McFarland, Henderson, Ky. 
Dr. E. C. Franklin was selected orator for the next meeting, 
to be held at Davenport, Iowa, in October, 1875. 
Thus closed one of the most harmonious and successful medi- 
cal conventions ever held in the West, from which incalculable 
good resulted, not only to those present, but to the cause of 
homoeopathy throughout the*entire Mississippi Valley. 
The second regular meeting of the Academy was held at 
Davenport, Iowa, in Burtis's Opera House, and continued two 
days, October 6th and 7th, 1875. The President, Dr. M. M. 
Marix, was unable to attend, but sent his annual address, which 
was read by Dr. B. II. Worley, of Davenport, chairman of the 
meeting pro tem. It transpired at the meeting that Dr. F. C. 
Valentine had resigned the position of General Secretary, anol 
that the President had appointed Dr. J. Martin Kershaw, of 
St. Louis, Secretary pro tem., who read the minutes of the pre- 
vious meeting, and acted as Secretary during the sessions of the 
Academy. Quite a number of physicians from the surrounding 
country were in attendance, as also several from Chicago. The 
first day's meeting was excellent. In the evening an address of 
welcome was delivered to the assembled physicians by the Hon. 
Hiram Price, of Dubuque, Iowa. This was responded to by Dr. 
E. C. Franklin, his subject being a The Press, the Platform, and 
the Pulpit, in the Development of Medicine, Literature, and 
Science." The subject was well handled, and was a credit to 
the orator and to the Academy, of which he was a member. In- 
teresting and instructive papers were read on the following day, 
which with those of the first day, may be found in the Trans- SOCIETIES. 
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actions of the Western Academy of Homoeopathy, published in pam- 
phlet form in 1876. Fifteen new members were elected at this 
meeting. 
The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as fol- 
lows : President, E. C. Franklin, M.D., St. Louis, Mo.; Vice- 
President, P. A. Worley, M.D., Davenport, Iowa; General Sec- 
retary, J. Martin Kershaw, M.D., St. Louis, Mo.; Provisional 
Secretary, J. Harts Miller, M.D., Abingdon, Ill.; Treasurer, 
R. H. Macfarlan, M.D,, Henderson, Ky. 
This session of the Academy was another success for homoe- 
opathy and for Western physicians, and Davenport proved a good 
place for the meeting. 
The third regular session of the Western Academy was held 
at Galesburg, Ill., June 6th and 7th, 1876. The Military Tract 
Society and the Western Academy met in joint convention on 
this occasion in the Masonic Hall of Galesburg. The President 
being absent, Dr. S. W. Foote, of Galesburg, presided. The papers 
were good, and the discussions excellent. There was a settled 
feeling of assured permanence and stability experienced by the 
members at this meeting that was not felt at any previous gath- 
ering of the Academy; and, as a consequence, the true ring was 
heard and felt in everything said and done. Seven new mem- 
bers were elected. 
As neither of the presiding officers were present at the open- 
ing of the convention, it was resolved to increase the number of 
Vice-Presidents to three. 
Officers elected for the ensuing year were: President, S. B. 
Parsons, M.D., St. Louis, Mo.; First Vice-President, J. Harts 
Miller, M.D., Abingdon, Ill.; Second Vice-President, G. W. 
Bowen, M.D., Fort Wayne, Ind.; Third Vice-President, G. H. 
Patchen, M.D., Burlington, Iowa; General Secretary, J. Martin 
Kershaw, M.D., St. Louis, Mo.; Provisional Secretary, J. Harts 
Miller, M.D., Abingdon, Ill.; Treasurer, R. H. Macfarlan, 
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HOMOEOPATHY* 
In July, 1843, "The New York Homoeopathic Physicians' 
Society" appointed a committee to invite the homoeopathic physi- 
cians throughout the United States to meet in convention, which 
they did on the succeeding anniversary of the birth of Hahne- 
mann, April 10th, 1844. Dr. Constantine Hering, of Phila- 
delphia, was elected President, Dr. Josiah F. Flagg, of Boston, 
and Dr. William Channing, of New York, Vice-Presidents, and 
Dr. Henry G. Dunnel, Secretary. 
The following preamble and resolutions were adopted: 
'Whereas, A majority of the allopathic physicians continue to deride and 
oppose the contributions to the Materia Medica that have been made by the 
homoeopathic school ; and 
WH ereas, The state of the Materia Medica in both schools is such, as im- 
peratively to demand a more satisfactory arrangement and greater purity of 
observation, which can only be obtained by associate action on the part of 
those who seek diligently for truth alone; and, inasmuch as the state of the 
public information, respecting the principles and practice of homoeopathy, 
is so defective as to make it easy for mere pretenders to this very difficult 
branch of the healing art, to acquire credit as proficients in the same ; there- 
fore 
Resolved, That it is deemed expedient to establish a society, entitled " The 
American Institute of Homoeopathy," and the following are declared to be 
the essential purposes of said Institute: First, the reformation and augmen- 
tation of the Materia Medica. Second, the restraining of physicians from 
pretending to be competent to practice homoeopathy, who have not studied 
it in a careful and skilful manner. 
The convention adjourned, and immediately after was held the 
First Session of the " American Institute of Homoeopathy," 
April 10th, 1844. 
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Dr. Josiah Flagg, of Boston, was elected Chairman, Dr. John 
F. Gray, of New York, General Secretary, and Dr. A. G. Hull, 
of New York, Provisional Secretary. Corresponding and pub- 
lishing committees were appointed. Drs. C. Hering, G. Lingen, 
J. Jeanes, C. Neidhard, and W. Williamson were constituted the 
" Bureau for the Augmentation and Improvement of the Mate- 
ria Medica." Six boards of censors for the examination of can- 
didates for membership were appointed, for Maine, Boston, New 
York city, Western New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and 
Washington. 
Dr. A. G. Hull read a paper, by Dr. G. W. Cook, on " Homoe- 
opathy and Allopathy Contrasted." Dr. Williamson presented 
a paper on "Podophyllum peltatum." Dr. H. D. Paine offered 
a resolution, commending the Homoeopathic Examiner. 
The Second Session was held in New York, May 14th, 1845. 
Dr. J. Jeanes, of Philadelphia, was elected Chairman, Dr. Ed- 
ward Bayard, of New York, General Secretary, and Dr. R. A. 
Snow, Provisional Secretary. Committees were appointed to 
draft a constitution and by-laws ; on publication of the Trans- 
actions; to procure certificates of membership, and on posology. 
It was resolved not to admit as a member of the Institute any 
person who had not pursued a regular course of medical studies, 
etc., and sustained an examination before the censors on the 
theory and practice of homoeopathy. The Bureau for the Aug- 
mentation and Improvement of the Materia Medica reported 
that it had addressed a circular to all the homoeopathic physi- 
cians of the country, asking for: First. Effects observed from 
remedies not mentioned in Jahr's Manual; whether in health, 
or disease ; the localities of the symptoms; time of day ; attend- 
ing circumstances, etc. Second. New symptoms, pathogenetic 
or curative, from remedies in Jahr's Manual. Third. Symptoms 
confirmed in practice. Also proposing for trial, Oxalic acid, 
Podophyllum peltatum, and Kalmia latifolia. No new arrange- 
ment of the Materia Medica had been attempted, as the means 
for doing so were insufficient. The following remedies were 
reported : 
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Lingen ; Eupatorium perfoliatum, by Drs. Walter Williamson 
and Neidhard; Fluoric acid, by Drs. Hering, Campos, Lippe, 
Jeanes, Neidhard, Williamson, Husman, Pehrson, Freytag, Gose- 
wisch, Smith, and Behlert; Kalmia latifolia, by Drs. Hering, 
Freytag, Bauer, Schmidt, Williamson, Fairchild, E. Clark, and 
Behlert; Lobelia cardinalis, by Dr. Dubs; Lobelia inflata, by 
Drs. Jeanes, Williamson, Geist, and Gosewisch ; Oxalic acid,by 
Drs. C. Neidhard, Hering, Floto, Smith, Dubs, Kitchen, and 
Williamson ; Podophyllum peltatum, by Drs. Williamson, Jeanes, 
Ward, Husman, Hering, and Fairchild; Sanguinaria canadensis, 
by Drs. Bute, Hering, Husman, Jeanes, Neidhard, and Behlert; 
Triosteum perfoliatum, by Drs. Williamson and Neidhard. The 
proceedings of the convention, the minutes of the first and 
second sessions of the Institute, the pathogeneses of the above- 
mentioned ten drugs, together with a Repertory, compiled by 
Dr. William P. Esrey, were published in a 12mo. volume, of 
300 pages, by C. L. Rademacher, of Philadelphia, in 1846, un- 
der the title of Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeop- 
athy, Vol. I. Several years later a new title-page was printed, 
and it appeared as Materia Medica of American Provings. 
The Third Session of the Institute was held in Philadelphia, 
May 13th and 14th, 1846, with Dr. S. R. Kirby, as Chairman, 
Dr. Edward Bayard, General Secretary, and Dr. R. A. Snow, 
Provisional Secretary. 
A new committee was appointed to draft a constitution and 
by-laws, whose report was adopted. The constitution provided 
that " this association shall be styled The American Institute 
of Homoeopathy;" the object to be " the improvement of the 
science of medicine." The by-laws provided there should 
11 be a central bureau for the augmentation and the improvement 
of the Materia Medica, consisting of five members, to be ap- 
pointed by the chairman." Resolutions were adopted, recom- 
mending the formation of local homoeopathic medical societies, 
on the basis of the Institute ; that each local society appoint a 
bureau on Materia Medica, to report to the bureau of the Institute. 
A committee was appointed to prepare an address to homoeo- 
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actions, as were also the constitution and by-laws, list of mem- 
bers, amounting to 137 names, making a 12mo. pamphlet of 
12 pages, printed by J. H. Tobitt, of New York. 
The Fourth Session of the Institute was held in Boston, June 
9th, 10th, and 11th, 1847. Dr. F. R. McManus, Chairman, 
Drs. Edward Bayard and R. A. Snow, Secretaries, Dr. S. R. 
Kirby, Treasurer. Thirteen States and Upper Canada were 
represented. The " Central Bureau " presented a report which 
does not appear in the volume of Transactions. Thirty-three 
physicians were elected members. 
Communications were received from several branch societies: 
the Homoeopathic Society of Albany and vicinity, New Jersey 
branch of the Institute, Cincinnati branch of the Institute, 
Philadelphia branch of the Institute, New York Homoeopathic 
Society and branch of the Institute, Massachusetts Fraternity 
of Homoeopathic Physicians. 
Committees were appointed to report on various scientific sub- 
jects, as Incompatibility of Bloodletting with Homoeopathic 
Practice; the Use of Emetics and Cathartics; External Irritants; 
Employment of Water as an Adjuvant; Subject of Doses; Use 
and Abuse of Surgical and Chemical Means. 
A committee appointed to report on the expediency of pub- 
lishing the Materia Medica under the authority and supervision 
of the Institute, reported favorably. 
A committee was also appointed to report on improvement in 
medical education, by affording medical students instruction in 
homoeopathy. 
An address to the branches of the Institute, and to the ho- 
moeopathic physicians, and the address delivered before the Insti- 
tute by Dr. Bayard, are published in the Transactions, which 
first appeared in the columns of the American Journal of Homoeop- 
athy, and afterward reprinted by C. G. Dean, New York, in 
pamphlet form of 16 pages, 8vo. 
The Fifth Session was held in New York, June 14th and 
15th, 1848. Dr. W. Williamson, Chairman, Drs. E. Bayard and 
R. A. Snow, Secretaries, Dr. S. R. Kirby, Treasurer. Twenty- 
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Reports were presented from the committees on Posology, 
Anatomical Nomenclature, Bloodletting, Emetics and Cathar- 
tics, Water as a Therapeutic Agent, Surgical Means, Blistersand 
other External Irritants. 
The Central Bureau on Materia Medica made its report. 
A committee of three was appointed to translate and publish 
the Materia Medica. 
Communications were received from the Homoeopathic Society 
of Northern New York, and several physicians. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. Jacob Jeanes. 
The Transactions, with the names of 220 members, were 
printed from the American Journal of Homoeopathy, in pam- 
phlet form of 28 octavo pages, by C. G. Dean, New York. 
The Sixth Session was held in Philadelphia, June 13th and 
14th, 1849. Dr. S.Gregg was elected Chairman, Drs. A. E. Small 
and W. P. Esrey, Secretaries, and Dr. S. R. Kirby, Treasurer. 
Fifty members were present. Six new members were elected. 
The Central Bureau on Materia Medica made its report. 
A report was received from the Massachusetts Homoeopathic 
Fraternity. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. B. F. Joslin. The 
Transactions were published in the Quarterly Homoeopathic 
Journal, and afterwards in pamphlet form, octavo, pp. 24, 
by Otis Clapp, Boston. The list of members embraced 231 
names. 
The Seventh Session was held in Albany, June 12th and 
13th, 1850. Dr. Edward Bayard was elected Chairman, Drs. A. E. 
Small and G. W. Swazey, Secretaries, and Dr. S. R. Kirby, 
Treasurer. Seventeen new members were elected. Eighty mem- 
bers were present. 
The committees on Anatomical Nomenclature, Cholera, and 
Medical Education made partial reports. 
Reports on cholera were received from the Philadelphia 
branch, New Jersey branch, and the Massachusetts Fraternity. 
The Committee on the Translation of the Materia Medica 
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lation into the English language without holding the Institute 
responsible for the expense. 
A committee was appointed to revise the rules of order. 
It was resolved that members having a diploma from some 
regularly established medical college, should have the title M.D. 
affixed to their names in the publications of the Institute, and 
all who have not such degree, should have prefixed the title 
of Dr. 
It was resolved, " That in the opinion of this Institute, all 
methods of arriving at the curative properties of a drug, except 
by means of its pathogenetic effects, are uncertain." 
The deaths of Drs. R. A. Snow, J. Taylor, A. Read, M. At- 
wood, and G. W. Cook, were announced. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. A. E. Small. 
The Transactions were published in the Quarterly Homoeopathic 
Journal, and reprinted in a pamphlet of 99 octavo pages, by Otis 
Clapp, Boston. The list of members embraced 228 names. 
The Eighth Session was held in New Haven, June 11th and 
12th, 1851. Dr. W. E. Payne was elected Chairman, Drs. G. 
Swazey and C. C. Foote, Secretaries, and Dr. S. R. Kirby, Treas- 
urer. The rules of order were revised. Fifty physicians were 
present. Fourteen new members were elected. 
The New York branch reported the publication of the Patho- 
genesis of Phus radicans ; that trials had been made of Rumex 
crispus, and that the reports on cholera were very meagre. 
The Philadelphia branch reported the progress of homoeop- 
athy, and a sketch of the late Dr. C. B. Matthews. 
The Central Bureau on Materia Medica reported that a com- 
mittee was appointed to address the homoeopathic physicians in 
the United States, urging the formation of branch societies. 
A resolution was adopted favoring the proposition of Dr. H. 
D. Paine to publish annually a Yearbook of Homoeopathy. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. G. W. Swazey. 
The Transactions were published, with the list of members, 
240 in number, by G. W. Wilson, Springfield. Octavo, pp. 64. 
The Ninth Session was held in Baltimore, May 19th, 1852. 
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elected Chairman, Drs. Wm. A. Gardiner and S. S. Guy, Secre- 
taries, and S. R. Kirby, Treasurer. Twenty new members were 
elected. 
The Central Bureau on Materia Medica reported a plan it had 
adopted for collecting the individual contributions of members,- 
the frequent circulation of a portfolio. 
The committee to address the homoeopathic physicians reported, 
presenting a copy of their address. 
The Philadelphia branch reported sixty homoeopathic physi- 
cians with a population of 450,000 persons, and on the prevalent 
diseases the past year. The Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal Society (formerly the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Frater- 
nity) reported a sketch of the society, and an attempt of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society (allopathic) to brand homoeopathy 
as quackery. The Rhode Island Homoeopathic Society reported 
and requested recognition as a branch of the Institute. The 
request was granted. 
Cases of croup were reported by Dr. W. E. Payne, and a case 
of poisoning by Chloroform, by Dr. E. T. Foote. 
The thanks of the Institute were expressed to Dr. F. R. 
McManus for the punctual discharge of his duties as chairman of 
the Committee on Elections for a number of years. 
A board of five censors, to report on the credentials of candi- 
dates for membership, was constituted, to take the place of the 
Committee on Elections. 
The deaths of Drs. William Ingalls and R. M. Stansbury were 
announced. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. S. R. Kirby. 
The Transactions, with the constitution, by-laws, etc., with 
list of 258 members, were published in pamphlet form, an octavo 
of 60 pages, by Angell, Engel & Hewitt, New York. 
The Tenth Session was held in Cleveland, June 8th and 9th, 
1853. Fifty physicians were present. Dr. R. Gardiner was 
elected Chairman, Drs. W. A. Gardiner and S. S. Guy, Secretaries, 
and Dr. S. R. Kirby, Treasurer. Thirty-three new members 
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The Committee on the Translation of the Materia Medica was 
discharged. 
The Central Bureau of Materia Medica reported on Rumex 
crispus and Rhus laurina. 
The New York Homoeopathic Society reported on the progress 
of homoeopathy. The Philadelphia Homoeopathic Medical Society 
reported its organization, and requested recognition as an aux- 
iliary society, which was granted. The Cincinnati Homoeopathic 
Society made a report. 
Communications were received : from Dr. Colby, On the Use of 
Water; Dr. Power, On Vaccinin and Variolin; Dr. Guy, Clinical 
Care; Dr. Neidhard, On Provings. Mr. Alexis Eustaphrieve 
offered to furnish the members with Hydrophobin for provings. 
The Committee on Small-pox presented its report. 
It.was resolved that members of the Institute who shall sign 
the certificate of an applicant for membership shall state the 
name of the college whence applicant graduated. 
The by-laws were amended, providing for the election of the 
censors instead of their appointment. 
It was resolved, "That the American Institute of Homoeop- 
athy, appreciating the friendly relations which should exist 
between all physicians who advocate the essential doctrine of 
homoeopathy, and especially between societies and all bodies or- 
ganized for the progress of true medical science, does now extend 
the right hand of fellowship to this whole Western valley ; to all 
educated physicians who are coming to our standard of medical 
science in the East and West." 
It was resolved that inquiries be made of milkers of cows of 
the appearance of any disease on the udder of the cows, and, 
when found to be genuine cow-pox, such to be used in the way 
of human vaccination, and that physicians thus obtaining matter 
shall report their success at the next meeting of the Institute. 
Dr. Loomis exhibited a new invention of ovum and bullet 
forceps. 
The committee to inquire into the cause of erasure of Dr. Jacob 
Schmidt's name from the roll of members reported that his di- 890 
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ploma was valid, the name being erased by some one unknown 
to them. The name was restored. 
Committees were appointed to ascertain the names and ad- 
dresses of all homoeopathic physicians in the United States; to 
draft a plan for establishing a central homoeopathic pharmacy 
under the control of the Institute ; to procure a stone from Hah- 
nemann's native place, to be placed, with a suitable inscription, 
in the Washington Monument; to consider the propriety of pre- 
senting Dr. Constantine Hering with an appropriate testimonial 
of its consideration for the discoveries he has made in enriching 
the Materia Medica, and his exertions in promoting the spread 
of homoeopathy. 
The list of members this year comprised 287 names. 
The Transactions were published, with constitution, etc., in 
octavo form of 94 pages, by King & Baird, Philadelphia. 
The Eleventh Session was held in Albany, June 5th and 6th, 
1854. Fifty members answered the roll-call. Dr. L. Clary was 
elected Chairman, Drs. S. S. Guy and J. R. Coxe, Jr., Secretaries, 
and Dr. A. S. Ball, Treasurer. Thirty-three new members were 
elected. 
The Committees, on the Establishment of a Homoeopathic 
Pharmacy wras discharged ; on Testimonial to Dr. C. Hering 
was discontinued. 
Reports were received from the American Provers' Union, 
organized in Philadelphia, August 10th, 1853; last year Fer- 
rum metallicum was proved, and this year Mercurios iodatus. 
Also from the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Society, giving account 
of the progress of homoeopathy in Rhode Island, history of cases 
reported, etc. Also from the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal Society ; its members were engaged in proving Crotalus hor- 
ridus, Asterias rubens, and Guaco. The Central Bureau on 
Materia Medica reported its doings the past year. The Connec- 
ticut Homoeopathic Medical Society, and the Homoeopathic So- 
ciety of New York (city), reported the progress of homoeopathy 
and statistics of treatment. An interesting report on Hydro- 
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A letter was read from Dr. M. J. Rhees, giving an account of 
diseases peculiar to California. 
The following resolutions were adopted : 
Resolved, That we regard the homoeopathic law as coextensive with dis- 
ease, and that a resort to any other medicinal means than those pointed out 
by the law, similia similibus, is the result, in part, of the incompleteness of 
our Materia Medica, but mainly the result of a want of sufficient knowledge 
on the part of the physician of those remedies already possessed by our school, 
and not an insufficiency of the homoeopathic law. 
Resolved, That the pharmaceutists of the homoeopathic school be recom- 
mended to use, in the preparation of drugs by trituration, the proportion of 
ten grains of the drug to ninety grains of the sugar of milk, and, for the 
sake of uniformity, to retain the numerical designation adopted by Hahne- 
mann, and continued by the majority of homoeopathic physicians. 
The committee to procure a stone for the Washington Monu- 
ment, commemorative of Hahnemann, reported that, through the 
labors of Dr. Paul Wolfe, of Dresden, a stone had been obtained. 
Dr. John T. S. Smith exhibited specimens of expressed juice 
of medicinal plants triturated with milk-sugar. 
Necrological notices were read of the following deceased mem- 
bers : Drs. Joseph G. Loomis, Josiah F. Flagg, Lycurgus V. 
Payne, Lemuel K. Rosa, and John C. Gosewisch. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. William E. Payne. 
The volume of Transactions, with constitution, by-laws, reso- 
lutions, etc., list of 316 members, made an octavo volume of 95 
pages, which was printed by Callahan, New York. 
The Twelfth Session was held in Buffalo, June 6th and 7th, 
1855. Dr. C. H. Skiff was elected Chairman, Drs. J. P. Dake 
and A. H. Beers, Secretaries, Dr. S. S. Guy, Treasurer. Fourteen 
new members were elected. 
Reports were received from the Committee on the Value 
of Clinical Experience, and reports from the Half Orphan 
Asylum of New York, from the Hahnemann Society of Cincin- 
nati, the Provincial Homoeopathic Medical Society of Canada, 
and the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society. 
A letter was received from Dr. B. F. Joslin on " The Advance- 
ment of Medical Science, and especially on Homoeopathy con- 
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The American Provers' Union reported that it was making 
provings of Asterias rubens, Anagallis arvensis, Agrostemma 
githago, Elaps corail inns, Hydrophobinum, Mygale aviculare, 
Rhodium, Osmium, Hippomanes, and Glonoin. 
The report of the Central Bureau on Materia Medica was re- 
ceived, but not being given to the secretary was not published. 
Dr. F. Humphreys was expelled from membership. 
The annual address by Dr. J. H. Pulte, " On Civilization and 
its Heroes," was read by Dr. G. F. Foote. 
The membership numbered three hundred and twenty-two. 
The volume of Transactions was printed by Haven, Pittsburg; 
8vo, pp. 92. 
The Thirteenth Session was held in Washington, June 4th 
and Sth, 1856. Dr. George W. Swazey was elected Chairman, 
Drs. F. R. McManus and J. D. Middleton, Secretaries, and Dr. 
S. S. Guy, Treasurer. The proceedings were phonographically 
reported. Twelve new members were elected. 
Reports were received from the Massachusetts Homoeopathic 
Society, American Provers' Union, and Rhode Island Homoeo- 
pathic Society. 
Dr. Dioclesian Lewis was expelled from membership. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. D. M. Dake. 
The names of three hundred and twenty-seven members were 
published, several having resigned, or been dropped from the 
list. The Transactions were printed by Sherwood & Co., Balti- 
more ; an octavo of 80 pages. 
The Fourteenth Session was held in Chicago, June 3d and 
4th. Dr. J. P. Dake was elected Chairman, Drs. D. S. Smith 
and G. E. Shipman, Secretaries, and Dr. S. S. Guy, Treasurer. 
Twenty-seven new members were elected. 
The Committee on the Repetition of Medicines made an elabo- 
rate report, concluding that no remedy should be repeated, as 
long as improvement is obviou ;. 
Reports were received from Committees on Ethics, Cholera, 
Medical Education, and Water as a Therapeutic Agent. Dr. 
Peck's death was announced. 
Proceedings were received of the Illinois State Homoeopathic HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATIIY. 
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Medical Association, Chicago Homoeopathic Medical Society, 
and Northern Illinois Medical Association. 
It was resolved that members in good standing who, from ad- 
vanced age, retire from the practice of medicine, may hold hon- 
orary membership, and be exempt from annual dues. 
The Central Bureau of Materia Medica reported on the pres- 
ent state of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, with a plan for 
its improvement. 
Reports were printed of Committees on " Mechanical Means 
as Aids in Homoeopathic Practice," and "Medical Education." 
The names of three hundred and fifty-one members are pub- 
lished. The Transactions make an octavo volume of 132 pages, 
printed at the Democrat office, Chicago. 
The Fifteenth Session was held in Brooklyn, June 2d and 
3d, 1858. Dr. D. S. Smith was elected Chairman, Drs. William 
E. Payne and E. T. Richardson, Secretaries, and Dr. S. S. Guy, 
Treasurer. Thirty-eight new members were elected. 
Most of the committees on scientific subjects made partial, or 
full reports, the discussion of which was phonograpically reported, 
making the volume of Transactions the best so far issued. 
Reports were received from the American Provers' Union, 
Chicago Homoeopathic Society, Illinois Homoeopathic Medical 
Association, and New Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical Society. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. J. P. Dake. 
With the Transactions were printed the following papers: 
Report of the Central Bureau, containing provings of Rumex 
crispus and Calcarca phosphorica; on Small-pox; Epidemic 
Cholera; Intermittents; Alternation of Remedies; The Scale 
for Preparing Medicine, etc.; Evacuants ; Scarlet Fever ; Impu- 
rities in an Attenuating Liquid ; Epidemics of Illinois and the 
Northwest; Cases of Epilepsy ; making a volume of 208 octavo 
pages, printed by the Eastern Times Press, Bath, Me. The names 
of three hundred and seventy-eight members are published. 
The Sixteenth Session was held in Boston, June 1st and 2d, 
1859. Dr. P. P. Wells was elected Chairman, Drs. Henry D. 
Paine and I. T. Talbot, Secretaries, and Dr. C. H. Skiff, Treas- 
urer. Fifty-five members were elected. 894 
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A memorial was presented from some of the physicians of 
New York, suggesting the establishment of a quarterly journal. 
The matter was referred to a committee, whose report, in favor 
of publishing the papers of the Institute in the American Ho- 
moeopathic Review, was accepted. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. S. S. Guy. 
The following papers were published with the Transactions.: 
Report of the Central Bureau of the Materia Medica, containing 
provings of Rumex crispus, and Polygonum punctatum; Cold 
as a Therapeutic Agent; Water as a Therapeutic Agent; Com- 
bination of Potencies ; Secondary Syphilis; Suggestions on one 
form of Inflammation of the Stomach ; Report of the Chicago 
Homoeopathic Medical Society; Report of the Massachusetts 
Homoeopathic Medical Society; Report of the Philadelphia 
Northern Home for Friendless Children ; Diphtheria; Report 
of the Committee on Deceased Members, with notices of Drs. 
A. G. Hull, William Wesselhoeft, John M. Randel, and J. G. 
Wood. An account was published of the dinner and levee, given 
by the Massachusetts societies, making a volume, with the four 
hundred and twenty-two names of members, officers to date, etc., 
of 215 octavo pages, printed by Munsell & Rowland, Albany. 
The Seventeenth Session was held in Philadelphia, June 2d 
and 3d, 1860. Dr. E. C. Witherill was elected Chairman, Drs. 
Jacob Beakley and Henry M. Smith, Secretaries, and Dr. C. H. 
Skiff' Treasurer. Forty-seven new members were elected. 
A design for a certificate of membership was adopted. 
The constitution was amended to provide for officers as fol- 
lows : A president, one vice-president, a general secretary, a 
provisional secretary, and a treasurer. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. F. R. McManus. 
The following papers were published with the Transactions: 
Report of the Central Bureau on Materia Medica, embracing 
provings of Glonoin, Inula helenium, Chinaria canadensis, Ru- 
mex crispus ; M.edical Education; Stomatitis Materna; Medical 
Ethics; Apis in Albuminuria; Homoeopathic Notation; Gelsem- 
ium sempervirens; the Dose in Drug Proving; Report on Cases 
of Diphtheria; Report of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
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Chester County, Pa.; Report of the Homoeopathic Medical So- 
ciety of Philadelphia; Sixth Annual Report of the Central Ho- 
moeopathic Dispensary, New York; Report of the Philadelphia 
Northern Home for Friendless Children ; Report of the Homoeo- 
pathic Dispensary of the southeast portion of Philadelphia; Re- 
port of the Homoeopathic Infirmary, Philadelphia; Sixth Annual 
Report of the American Provers' Union; Report of the Com- 
mittee on Deceased Members, containing notices of Drs. Richard 
S. Bryan, Robert Rosman, Ferdinand L. Wilsey, Isaac E. Kirk. 
The names of 462 members were published. The Transac- 
tions made an octavo volume of 206 pages, printed by the Ameri- 
can Homoeopathic Review Press. 
The Eighteenth Session was held in Cincinnati, June 7th 
and 8th, 1865.* Dr. S. S. Guy was elected President, Drs. I. T. 
Talbot, Vice-President, G. D. Beebe and W. T. Helmuth, Secre- 
taries, D. S. Smith, Treasurer. Forty-four new members elected. 
The question of reorganizing the Institute, making it a dele- 
gated bodyj was discussed and referred to a committee, whose 
report, with some modifications, was adopted. It provided for 
the election of officers, defined their duties, provided for a Bu- 
reau of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Provings, 
one of Clinical Medicine and Zymoses, one of Surgery, and one of 
Organization, Registration, and Statistics, each one to consist of 
five members, appointed by the president. 
Delegates were received from the following: Western Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy, German National Homoeop. Medical As- 
sociation,New York Homoeop. Medical Society, IllinoisHomoeop. 
Medical Society, Homoeop. Medical College of Pennsylvania. 
A report of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, 
embodying a paper upon the method of conducting the business 
of homoeopathic pharmacy, aroused considerable discussion. 
A memorial was read, embodying a protest of the German 
homoeopathic press against a spurious edition of Hahnemann's 
Organon, recently issued. Also, a protest of the faculty of the 
* Owing to the Civil War, no meetings of the Institute were held between 
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Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania against its trans- 
lation or publication. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. W. W. Rodman. 
The published papers embraced the report of the Central Bu- 
reau of Materia Medica, with a proving of Saponaria officinalis; 
Report on Whooping-cough; Report on Compound Dislocation 
of the Long Bones ; A Medico-botanical Study; Memorial Pro- 
tests, etc., in regard to the alleged new edition of the Organon; 
Report of the Connecticut Homoeopathic-Medical Society; Re- 
port of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Alleghany County, 
Pa.; Report of the Northern Home for Friendless Children, 
Philadelphia; Report of the Homoeopathic Infirmary, Phila- 
delphia; Obituary Notices of Drs. Wm. A. Gardiner, Wm. I. 
Church, G.. Reichhelm, and Benjamin C. Macy; the Treasurer's 
Report; Amended Constitution and By-laws; Resolutions, etc.? 
and List of Members, numbering four hundred and eighty-five. 
The Transactions, an octavo volume of 142 pages, were printed 
by Jameson & Morse, Chicago. 
The Nineteenth Session was held in Pittsburg, June 6th and 
7th, 1866. Forty-three members answered the roll call. Dr. 
J. S. Douglas was elected President, Dr. S. R. Beckwith, Vice- 
President, Drs. I. T. Talbot and H. B. Clarke, Secretaries, and 
Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. Forty-pine new members elected. 
Mrs. Mercy B. Jackson, M.D., applied for membership. Her 
application was laid on the table. 
No report was received from the Bureau bf Materia Medica. 
Reports were received from the Bureau of Clinical Medicine 
and Zymoses, Surgery, and of Organization, Registration, and 
Statistics. The report of the last bureau elicited considerable 
discussion, but was adopted. Among the recommendations was 
one defining the number of delegates the State and county socie- 
ties, colleges, hospitals, dispensaries, and medical journals should 
be entitled to send. There were represented by delegates, 7 
State societies, 11 county or local societies, 5 colleges, 10 hospi- 
tals and dispensaries, and 6 medical journals. 
It was resolved that the American Institute of Homoeopathy 
invites the homoeopathic physicians of Europe to form in each 
respective country a national institute, similar to the American HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
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Institute, and that these institutes communicate with each other, 
and exchange,as far as possible, homoeopathic publications. Also, 
that once in five or ten years, these various institutes shall assem- 
ble by delegates in some large city, to hold a general congress 
to promote the interests of homoeopathy. 
By-laws were amended, providing for a Bureau of Obstetrics. 
Annual address was delivered by Dr. William Tod Helmuth. 
The following were published with the Transactions: Report 
of the Bureau of Clinical Medicine and Zymoses ; Report of 
Provings and Observations ofCamphora and Cuprum metallicum; 
Report of the Bureau of Surgery ; Aural Surgery, Artificial Mem- 
brana Tympani; Report of the Bureau of Organization, Registra- 
tion, and Statistics; Reports of Medical Societies: Western Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy; Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical 
Society ; New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society ; Penn- 
sylvania State Homoeopathic Medical Society; Boston Acad- 
emy of Homoeopathic Medicine ; New York County Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society; Albany County (N. Y.) Homoeopathic 
Medical Society; Cayuga County (N. Y.) Homoeopathic 
Medical Society'; Kings County (N. Y,) Homoeopathic Med- 
ical Society; Philadelphia County Homoeopathic Medical So- 
ciety ; Homoeopathic Medical Society of Cumberland Valley; 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of Alleghany County ; Lachesis 
in one form of Uterine Inflammation ; Cases treated by Mercurius 
proto-iodatus; The Spectroscope; Epidemic Cholera; Instruc- 
tions in regard to Cholera; Obituary Notices of Drs. John A. 
Tarbell, Charles Wild, Daniel Swan, Joshua B. Stretch, and 
Henry Duffield. List of members gives the names and addresses 
of five hundred and thirty-five. With each one's name is the 
date of joining the Institute. The volume of Transactions con- 
tains 189 octavo pages, printed by Rand & Avery, Boston. 
The Twentieth Session was held in New York, June 4th, 
5th, 6th, and 7th, 1867. Dr. W. T. Helmuth was elected Presi- 
dent, Dr. P. P. Wells, Vice-President,- Drs. I. T. Talbot and 
II. M. Paine, Secretaries, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. 
There were representatives from 12 State societies, 25 local 
and county societies, 23 hospitals and dispensaries, 6 colleges, and 898 
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6 medical journals. One hundred and fifty-six new members 
were elected. 
The Committee on Medical Ethics reported a code, which was 
fully discussed and adopted. 
The Bureau of Organization, Registration, and Statistics pre- 
sented a full report, giving sketches of the various State and 
local societies, hospitals, dispensaries, colleges, journals, etc. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica reported a paper on " Observa- 
tions during Drug-proving ; Provings of Pulsatilla nuttalliana, 
Hydrastis canadensis, and Lilium tigrinum." 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine reported its doings the past 
year, and presented papers on The Alleged Change of Type in 
Diseases, On Diphtheria, and Experience in the late Epidemic 
of Cholera in St. Louis. 
The Bureau of Surgery presented a report of surgical cases, a 
paper on the use of external medicines in homoeopathic surgery, 
one on the treatment of fracture of the femur without the aid of 
splints, one on bandaging, one on astringents, and one on post- 
mortem examinations ; also exhibited an apparatus for the treat- 
ment of the transverse fracture of the patella, new instruments for 
use in cases of ectropion, and an appliance for umbilical hernia, 
a new form of eye syringe, also a remarkable bone taken, post- 
mortem, from an ovarian tumor. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics presented a report, also a paper on 
Puerperal Convulsions, and report of a case of Procidentia Uteri. 
Obituary notices were presented of Drs. Benjamin F. Joslin, 
Edwin C. Witherill, Hunting Sherrill, and Richard Bloss. 
The by-laws were amended, providing for bureaus of Physi- 
ology, Anatomy, and Hygiene, and that the presidents and record- 
ing secretaries of State societies should be ex-officiis vice-presidents 
and ex-officii s corresponding secretaries of the Institute. 
Dr. Fincke was asked his method of preparing his potencies, 
but did not state it. 
The Censors having reported the name of Mercy B. Jackson, 
M.D., for membership, considerable discussion was aroused, and 
it was voted that women should not be admitted to the Institute. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. N. F. Cooke. HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
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This volume of Transactions, the first under the new organiza- 
tion, appeared as Vol. I, No. 1, new series. The discussions on 
the various subjects were very fully published, being phono- 
graphically reported. The first section, embracing the Proceed- 
ings and Miscellaneous Papers, Code of Ethics, Constitution, etc., 
List of Members, 541 in number, is of 160 pages. The second 
section, Report of Bureau of Materia Medica, has 98 pages. The 
third section, the Report of the Bureau of Clinical Medicine and 
Zymoses, contains 50 pages. The fourth section, Report of the 
Bureau of Obstetrics, has 30 pages. The fifth section, Report of 
the Bureau of Surgery, has 40 pages. The sixth section contains 
the Report of the Bureau of Organization, etc., and the obituary 
notices, 66 pages. Mudge & Son, Boston, were the printers. 
The Twenty-first Session was held in St. Louis, June 2d, 
3d, 4th, and 5th, 1868. Dr. Henry D. Paine was elected Presi- 
dent, Dr. T. G. Comstock, Vice-President, Drs. I. T. Talbot and 
H. H. L. Chase, Secretaries, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. 
Representatives were present from 13 State societies, 22 local 
and county societies, 15 hospitals, 18 dispensaries, 9 colleges, 10 
medical journals. Sixty-three new members were elected. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica presented provings of Lilium 
tigrinum, Iris versicolor, Ptelea trifoliata, papers on Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics, History of the Materia Medica. 
The Bureau of Organization recommended the formation of 
bureaus of medical jurisprudence, necrology, and correspondence, 
and presented a register of homoeopathic physicians. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine and Zymoses presented 
Some Suggestions upon Hydrothorax, a paper on the Epidemic 
of Yellow Fever at New Orleans in 1867, one on Tuberculosis 
with Sound Lungs, one on Thermometrical Phenomena in Dis- 
ease, and a Case of Obstruction of the Bowels. 
The Bureau of Surgery presented papers on Strangulated 
Hernia, Ligature of the External Iliac Artery, Acupressure and 
other Cases, Imperforate Anus, Cases from Practice, Pittsburg 
Hospital Cases, Surgical Experiences, Caries of the Ankle-Joint, 
Rupture of the Thoracic Artery in a New-born Infant. 
The Bureaus of Anatomy and Physiology presented reports. 900 
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The report of the Delegate to the International Convention, 
held at Paris in 1867, was presented. 
The Bureau of Hygiene presented papers on The Province 
and Medical Application of Hygiene, Atmosphere and Water, 
Alcohol as a Hygienic Agent, Formation of Sound Teeth, and 
the Shedding of Deciduous Teeth. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics presented its report, and a paper 
entitled Obstetric Notes, one on Spasm and Rigidity of the Os 
Uteri, and Case of Rupture of Thoracic Aorta in an Infant. 
The Committee on Michigan University presented a report, 
giving a sketch of the introduction of homoeopathy therein. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. H. B. Clarke. 
The list of members embraces 571 names, which were pub- 
lished, as arranged by Bureau of Registration, according to States, 
thus showing the membership from Alabama to be 1; from Cali- 
fornia, 6 ; Connecticut, 19; Delaware, 1 ; District of Columbia, 
5; Georgia, 3; Illinois, 39; Indiana, 6; Iowa, 6; Kansas, 1; 
Kentucky, 4; Louisiana, 4; Maine, 16; Maryland, 9; Massa- 
chusetts, 79 ; Minnesota, 2; Mississippi, 1; Michigan, 11 ; Mis- 
souri, 18; Nebraska, 2; Nevada, 1; New Hampshire, 7 ; New 
Jersey, 28; New York, 163; North Carolina,! ; Ohio, 38; Penn- 
sylvania, 83; Rhode Island, 7 ; Tennessee, 1; Texas, 1; Ver- 
mont, 3; Wisconsin, 3; Nova Scotia, 1 ; Germany, 2 ; England, 1. 
The Transactions were published in sections. The first con- 
tains the Miscellaneous Papers, Annual Address, Constitution, 
By-laws, Resolutions, etc., and List of Members, being of the new 
series, No. 2, of Vol. I, and paged from 161 to 288. Section II 
contained the Report of the Bureau of Materia Medica, paged 
from 99 to 258. Section III contained the Report of the Bureau 
of Clinical Medicine, paged from 51 to 144. Section IV con- 
tained the Report of the Bureau of Obstetrics, pages 31 to 64. 
Section V contained the Report of the Bureau of Surgery, pages 
41 to 80. Section VI contained Report of the Bureau of Organi- 
zation, Report of Committee of Foreign Correspondence, Report 
of the Delegate to the Homoeopathic Congress, held in Paris, 
August, 1867, pages 67 to 126. Section VII contained the Re- 
port of the Bureaus of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene. HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
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The Twenty-second Session was held in Boston, June 8th, 
9th, 10th, and 11th, 1869. Dr. R. Ludlam was elected President, 
Dr. D. H. Beckwith, Vice-President, Drs. I. T. Talbot and T. 
F. Allen, Secretaries, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. Two 
hundred and forty members were in attendance. Two hundred 
and twelve new members were elected. 16 State societies, 47 
local and county societies, 18 hospitals and asylums, 29 dispensa- 
ries and infirmaries, 7 colleges, and 12 medical journals were 
represented. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine presented a general report. 
Also papers on: Homoeopathic Treatment of Measles ; Thera- 
peutics ; Sciatica from Gold Poisoning; Cerebral Disease Cured 
by Lachesis200; Hydrocephalus Cured by Morphium ; Case of 
Biliary Concretion in the Duct; Case of Biliary Calculi. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica presented a general report and 
papers on: Our Materia Medica; Stillingia Sylvatica; Report 
on Nomenclature of Drugs. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics presented a report and papers on : 
Operations for Imperforate Vagina; Flexions of the Uterus; 
Anteflexion of the Uterus; Case of Ovarian Dropsy; Ovarian 
Tumors Cured by Podophyllum. 
The Bureau on Surgery presented the following papers: Ex- 
tirpation of the Inferior Maxillary Bone; Ovariotomy; The 
Modified Linear Extraction of Cataract; Clinical Notes on 
Surgery; Operation for Radical Cure of Inguinal Hernia; In- 
ternal Use of Monsell's Solution in Haemorrhage; Contribution 
to Orthopaedic Surgery; Ophthalmic Surgery; Antiseptics in 
Surgery ; Strangulated Femoral Hernia. 
The Report of the Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hy- 
giene, embraced papers on : Physiology, Hygiene, Alcohol, Ven- 
tilation. 
The Bureau of Organization, etc., presented a report of homoeo- 
pathic societies and institutions in the United States, arranged 
according to States. With the report were published the Report 
of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence; Report on Homoe- 
opathy in Germany ; Homoeopathy in Great Britain. 
The Committee on a Homoeopathic Dispensatory recommended 902 
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that a committee be appointed to report a plan for a homoeopathic 
dispensatory, which was adopted. 
The Western Institute of Homoeopathy, represented by its 
President, desired to unite with the American Institute of Homoe- 
opathy. The report of a committee appointed to arrange details 
was adopted, whereby the former closed its career and its mem- 
bers became members of the latter. 
The Committee on the Publication of a Journal by the Institute 
reported adversely. 
The Necrological Report was presented ; no deaths were noted. 
The Committee on Medical Education presented two reports. 
A committee was appointed to confer with representatives 
from each college to devise a plan of medical education. 
The formation of the American Institute of Homoeopathic 
Pharmacy was announced. 
It was resolved that women were eligible to membership in 
the Institute. 
The order of business having been amended, the election for 
officers for the following year was held. 
The annual address was delivered by Dr. R. Ludlam. 
The list of members embraced 721 names. With the Pro- 
ceedings was published an account of the entertainments offered 
by the various societies, the city of Boston, etc., making in all 
178 pages, octavo. Section II. Bureau of Materia Medica, con- 
tains 154 pages. Section III. Clinical Medicine, 46 pages. 
Section IV. Obstetrics, 154 pages. Section V. Surgery, 68 
pages. Section VI. Organization, etc., 92 pages. Section VII. 
Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, 60 pages. 
The Twenty-third Session was held in Chicago, June 7th, 
8th, 9th, 10th, 1870. The officers were Dr. David Thayer, 
President, Dr. J. J. Youlin, Vice-President, Drs. R. Ludlam 
and T. C. Duncan, Secretaries, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. 
There was an attendance of one hundred and eighteen, of 
whom eighty-five were members. One hundred and forty-one 
societies, hospitals, colleges, journals, otc., were represented by 
delegates. Ninety-five new members were elected. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine presented the following HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
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papers: Relapsing Fever; Pathological Anatomy as Related to 
Therapeutics; Climatology and its Relation to Pulmonary Dis- 
eases; Diseases of the Optic Nerve, from Cerebral Affections; 
Hecla lava in Certain Diseases of the Bones; Rana bufo in Epi- 
lepsy ; Cyanide of Potassium in Vomiting and Hydrocephalus; 
Chloroform in Eclampsia; Cases of Nasal Polypi; Case of Fur- 
unculi; Mechanical Constriction in Bronchocele ; Electro Thera- 
peutics ; Typhoid Fever in Buffalo in 1869-70. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica presented the following papers : 
Fragmentary Proving of Ptelea trifoliata ; Provings of Lilium 
tigrinum ; Confirmed Symptoms of the Materia Medica ; Prov- 
ings of Bromide of Potassium; Proving of Chloral hydrate; 
Doses in making Provings; Proving of Sanguinaria canadensis; 
Proving of Bromide of Ammonium. 
The Bureau on Obstetrics presented the following papers : 
Uterine Haemorrhage Treated by Internal Remedies; Uterine 
Polypi; Cholera Infantum ; Spontaneous Separation of the 
Ossa Pubis in Labor; Atrophy of the Mammary Glands and 
Sore Nipples the Result of Injudicious Toilet; Injuries of the 
Nipples a result of the so-called hardening process ; Case of 
Ovariotomy; Tumor of Uterus cured by Ustilago; Clinical Case. 
The Bureau of Surgery reported the following papers: For- 
cible Flexion of the Extremities as a Means of Arresting Ar- 
terial Haemorrhage, and as a Cure for Aneurism ; Congenital 
Talipes ; Stilling's Operation for Occlusion of Lachrymal Canal; 
Injuries of Scalp and Cranial Arch ; Surgical Cases. 
The Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene presented 
the following reports : On Anatomy; On Physiology ; On Op- 
tical Hygiene; General Hygiene; Moral Hygiene; Alcohol. 
The Bureau of Organization, Registration, and Statistics re- 
ported a partial list of physicians and the history of homoe- 
opathy in some of the States, and recommended an amendment 
to the by-laws providing for a Bureau of Psychological Medi- 
cine, which was adopted. 
The Committee on Medical Education reported, recommend- 
ing a graded course of study in the colleges. The committee on 
conference with professors of medical colleges reported. 904 
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The following resolutions were adopted : 
That the censors be required to state in what college and year 
candidates for membership graduated ; the reading of reports of 
committees limited to fifteen minutes; each new bureau to be ap- 
pointed immediately after the discussion of the report; ordering 
the preparation of a homceopathic dispensatory ; appointing a 
standing committee on legislation to look after all legislation in 
the General Government or any of the States or cities affecting 
the interests of homoeopaths ; recommending the Insane Asylum 
at Middletown ; that the present session of the Institute be 
known as the twenty-seventh anniversary ; that members be 
careful that the students received into their offices possess the 
necessary preliminary education ; that the resolutions relating 
to qualification apply to all students whose term of pupilage 
commences subsequent to 1870; that candidates for membership 
in the Institute who shall have graduated later than 1873 shall 
be required to present evidence of having attained the standard 
of qualifications adopted by this Institute; that in all applica- 
tions for membership the full name of applicant shall be given, 
and at least one of the signers shall' be personally acquainted 
with the applicant; that a committee of three be appointed to 
examine and revise the resolutions passed since the formation 
of the Institute and report at the next session. 
Committee on a Homoeopathic Dispensatory reported a plan. 
The annual address was given by Dr. Carroll Dunham, on 
"Freedom of Medical Opinion and Action; a Vital Necessity 
and a Great Responsibility." 
The Committee on Foreign Correspondence presented reports 
from Great Britain and her colonies, France, Spain, Italy, and 
Germany, and recommended the election of six physicians as 
corresponding members. 
In the report of the necrologist was given a list of one hun- 
dred and thirty deceased members, and of eighty-four physicians 
who were not members. Biographical sketches were presented 
of Drs. Joel R. Andrews, Henry W Bell, Hilem Bennett, Rich- 
ard M. Bolles, Josiah Brown, Charles G. Bryant, J. G. Burchard, 
William Channing, George W. Cook, Zina II. Harris, J. B. HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
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Holtby, A. Cooke Hull, A. Gerald Hull, George Lingen, Moses 
M. Mathews, John D. Moore, R. G. Perkins, James M. Quin, 
Manning B. Roche, Storm Rosa, C. M. Samson, Hunting Sher- 
rill, Ferdinand L. Wilsey, Abraham D. Wilson, Clark Wright. 
The list of members numbered seven hundred and thirty-six. 
The Proceedings, Constitution, account of the banquet, etc., 
is an octavo volume of 242 pages. Section II. Materia Medica 
contains 140 pages. Section III. Clinical Medicine, 82 pages. 
Section IV. Obstetrics, 52 pages. Section V. Surgery, 64 pages. 
Section VII. Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, 30 pages. 
The Twenty-fourth Session was held in Philadelphia, June 
6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th,1871. The following officers wereelected 
at the last session: Dr. D. H. Beckwith, President, Dr. J. T. 
Temple, Vice-President, Drs. R. Ludlam and T. C. Duncan, 
Secretaries, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. 
Delegates were present from 15 State societies, 41 county and 
local societies, 20 hospitals and asylums, 22 dispensaries, 8 col- 
leges, and 8 journals. Ninety-nine new members were elected. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine reported the following pa- 
pers: Catarrhal Fever; Scrofulosis; Prevailing Diseases of Ohio, 
from June, 1870, to June, 1871; Diarrhoea; Shall we Vacci- 
nate; Medical Maxims; New Kind of Parasite. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica reported the following papers: 
Confirmed Indications of Ustilago maidis and Secale cornutum; 
Fragmentary Proving of Aqua marina; Retrospect of Materia 
Medica Work ; Analysis of the Symptoms of Diarrhoea and Dys- 
entery ; Fragmentary Proving of Cimicifuga racemosa; Proving 
of Laccaninum; Provings of Odo-magnetic Sugar. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics reported the following papers: 
Topical Uterine Applications; Use of the Obstetric Forceps; 
Violent After-pains, with Haemorrhage arising from Irregular 
Contractions of the Uterus. 
The Bureau of Surgery reported on : Ovariotomy; Strabismus ; 
Recent Surgical Improvements; Ovarian Tumors; Removal of 
Ovarian Tumor; Resection of Joints; Fractures; Mechanical 
Obstructions of the Bowels; Hemeralopia; Polypus conjunc- 
tivae; Clinical Surgery; Clinical Aural Surgery. 906 
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The Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene reported a 
paper on the Physiological Properties of a Cell. 
The Bureau of Organization, Registration, and Statistics pro- 
posed an amendment to the by-laws, avoiding the use of the 
word "he," and providing for a Bureau of Medical Literature. 
The by-laws were amended, raising the annual dues from $3 
to $5; also, avoiding the use of the word " he " in Article IX, 
and providing for a Bureau of Medical Literature. 
It was resolved to limit the time of speakers to ten minutes; 
that reports and papers shall be handed to the secretary within 
thirty days from the close of the session; that the exclusion of 
medical men from positions of honor and trust on account of 
medical opinions is an abuse of power not to be tolerated ; to 
have the papers of the Bureau of Materia Medica published at 
once; to be inexpedient to have a public oration delivered at the 
meeting of the Institute, and that the President shall make an 
address at the opening of each session of the Institute, giving a 
general review of the progress of medicine and homoeopathy 
during the past year, with such suggestions as he may deem 
necessary for the Institute to act on. Dr. Pemberton Dudley 
presented resolutions looking to an International Homoeopathic 
Congress, to be held in Philadelphia, in the year 1876, which 
were unanimously adopted. Three lady physicians were admitted 
to membership. The annual address was delivered by Dr. T. P. 
Wilson. 
The Report of the Committee on Legislation embraced an 
account of the removal of the Commissioner of Pensions for 
displacing examiners because they were homoeopathists. 
The Committee of Dispensatory reported what they had done. 
The Committee of Foreign Correspondence presented a letter 
from Dr. A. C. Pope giving an account of homoeopathy in Eng- 
land, and one from Dr. Kafka, of Prague. 
The Necrological Report embraced notices of Drs. Walter Wil- 
liamson, W. Stewart, Taxil, E. Vail,F. Vanderburgh, Annie C. 
O. Van Ness, C. C. Waggoner, John Wheeler,and M.J. Whiton. 
Resolutions of respect to the memory of Dr. Williamson were 
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The Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathic 
Pharmacy and the Reunion of the founders of the Institute were 
published with the Proceedings of the Institute, phonographically 
reported, Constitution, etc., making a volume of 168 pages. The 
names of 851 members were published. Section IT, Materia Med- 
ina, consisted of 36 pages; Section III, Clinical Medicine, of 30 
pages; Section IV, Obstetrics, of 24 pages; Section V, Surgery, of 
158 pages; Section VI, Organization, Registration, and Statistics, 
of 52 pages; Section VII, Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, of 
20 pages, and Section VIII, Psychological Medicine, of 4 pages. 
The Twenty-fifth Session was held in Washington, May 
21st, 22d, 23d, and 24th, 1872. The officers elected at the last 
session were Dr. I. T. Talbot, President, Dr. J. J. Youlin, Vice- 
President, Drs. R. J. McClatchey and B. W. James, Secretaries, 
Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. The president's annual address, 
reviewing the progress of homoeopathy the past year, was referred 
to a special committee. Seventy new members were elected. 
The Committee of Publication reported the delay in issuing 
the Transactions of the session of 1871 as caused by the great 
fire in Chicago the following fall. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica presented the following 
papers: Fragmentary Proving of Cimicifuga racemosa; Clinical 
Report of the Action of Ustilago maidis; Provings of Ustilago 
maidis; Fragmentary Provings of Podophyllum peltatum; 
Study of Hepar sulphur calcareum; Accidental Proving of 
Hepar 55m; Electro-Magnetism in Relation to Homoeopathy; 
An Appeal for the Publication of a Complete Materia Medica; 
Certain Admissible Generalizations in the Study of .Materia 
Medica; Report on Resolution concerning Alcoholic Beverages. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine presented the following 
papers: Typhoid Fever; Meningitis Cerebro-Spinalis; Ulcera- 
tion of the Stomach ; Cerebral Congestion; Clinical Report; 
Case of Inguinal Hernia; The Practical Results of Homoeopathic 
Treatment; Hints for the Propagation of Cow-pox Virus; Rad- 
ical Cure of Colic from Gallstone and other Causes. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics reported the following papers : Puer- 
peral Eclampsia and Catalepsy; Auxiliary Treatment of Uterine 
Haemorrhage; Case of Puerperal Convulsions; Corroding Ulcer 908 
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of the Womb; Uterine and Ovarian Tumors; Puerperal Con- 
vulsions; Puerperal Mania; Inversion of the Uterus; Retro- 
version of the Uterus in a Girl Eleven Years of Age. 
The Bureau of Surgery presented the following papers: Lith- 
otomy; Syphilis; Tumor of the Ethmoid Bone; Strangulated 
Hernia; Ovariotomy; Clinical Surgery; Cancer; Surgical Im- 
provements. 
The Bureau of Ophthalmology and Etiology reported the fol- 
lowing papers: General Observations on Ophthalmic Surgery; 
Report of the Ophthalmic Department of Cleveland Homoeo- 
pathic Hospital College; Aural Surgery. 
The Bureau of Organization, Registration, and Statistics pre- 
sented the reports of institutions. The Committee on Foreign 
Correspondence reported the British Homoeopathic Congress as 
holding profitable sessions; the reorganization of the German 
Central Verein on a plan similar to this Institute, and the 
establishment of associations in Italy and Switzerland. The 
Committee on Homoeopathic Dispensatory reported. The Com- 
mittee on Homoeopathic Colleges reported, giving a sketch of 
the State University of Michigan. The Committee on a World's 
Convention of Homoeopathic Physicians made a report recom- 
mending the holding of such convention, and suggested a rough 
plan of operations. The by-laws, Article X, were amended to 
provide for the selection of subjects for the bureau to report on. 
The Bureau of Organization, Registration, and Statistics was 
instructed to prepare and present at the next meeting a new con- 
stitution and by-laws, which should include the valuable por- 
tions of the standing resolutions. A Bureau of Gynaecological 
Surgery was authorized as a subbureau of the Bureau of Obstet- 
rics. Certain discrepancies in the by-laws, as adopted and 
printed, were pointed out and discussed. 
The following resolutions were adopted: Instructing the 
Bureau of Materia Medica to report a plan for a thorough prov- 
ing of remedies; to hold a convention, to be called the World's 
Homoeopathic Convention, in Philadelphia in 1876, giving full 
power, etc., to the Committee of Arrangements; asking that the 
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the electrical states of the atmosphere and prevalence of epidemics 
and contagions in various places at different times ; in regard to 
contributing books, etc., to the National Medical Library; recog- 
nizing the organization of the founders of the Institute as 
"seniors;" granting certificates of membership and official letters 
of introduction to members attending foreign homoeopathic na- 
tional societies; certain by-laws declared null and void, as having 
been printed without the sanction of the Institute; no paper to 
be received from a member in an unfinished condition. 
The Committee on Credentials reported 191 members present, 
representing forty-three societies, twenty-four institutions, six 
colleges, and eight journals. The names of 864 members were 
published. An account of the festivities was published with the 
proceedings, making a volume of 196 pages; Section II, Materia 
Medica, contained 66 pages; Section III, Clinical Medicine, 56 
pages ; Section IV, Obstetrics, 52 pages; Section V, Surgery. 32 
pages; Section VI, Organization, Registration, 48 pages; Sec- 
tion VII, Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, 12 pages; Sec- 
tion IX, Ophthalmology and Otology, 18 pages. 
The Twenty-sixth Session was held in Cleveland, June 3d, 
4th, 5th, 6th, 1873. The officers were Dr. A. E. Small, Presi- 
dent, Dr. J. C. Burgher, Vice-President, Drs. R. J. McClatchey 
and B. W. James, Secretaries, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica reported the following papers: 
Special Plan for the More Thorough and Proper Proving of 
Remedies and Notation of Symptoms; Is the Reproving of the 
Materia Medica Possible under Existing Circumstances? the 
Purification of the Materia Medica; Provings of Fagopyrum 
esculentum; Provings and a Resume of Calcium sulphite; 
Proving of Eucalyptus globulus ; Report and Conclusions from 
a Physiological Proving of Vaccine on Sheep; Sulphur in 
Acute Diseases; Verified Symptoms. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine reported papers as follows:. 
Practical Remarks on Pulmonary Consumption ; Hints on the 
Management of Phthisis Pulmonalis ; Ferrum v. Phthisis ; Reem- 
lar and Systematic Respiration of Pure Air as a Prophylaxis of 
Phthisis; an Examination of the Apparent Causes and Results 910 
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of Treatment in One Hundred Cases of Phthisis; Statistics of 
the Comparative Mortality in the Cities of New York, Boston, 
and Philadelphia, under Homoeopathic and Allopathic Treat- 
ment; Alcohol in Disease; Three Cases Cured byNatrum mur.; 
Small-pox and its Prophylactics; Anal and Rectal Fissure. 
The Bureau of Organization presented a draft of a new con- 
stitution and by-laws, which was accepted, to be acted on at the 
next meeting ; and presented a paper on Statistics of Compara- 
tive Mortality under Homoeopathic and Allopathic Treatment in 
Special Diseases in Philadelphia during the Year 1872. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics reported the following papers : Leu- 
corrhoea in its Relation to Menstruation ; Leucorrhoea as a Con- 
servator ; Leucorrhoea as Modified by the Different Dyscrasise; 
Leucorrhoea from Vaginal Catarrh; a Condystocia, followed by 
Puerperal Mania; Case of Prolapsus Uteri, with Adhesions; 
Inversion of the Uterus; Case of Encephalocele. 
The sub-Bureau of Gynaecological Surgery reported papers 
on: Cervical Endometritis; Clinical Cases; Electrolysis in 
Ovarian Tumor. 
The Bureau of Surgery reported on: Rachitis; Tumors of 
Bone, Benign and Malignant; Suppuration and Abscess of 
Bone; Caries; Necrosis; Reproduction and Repair of Bone; 
Therapeutics of Bone Diseases; Case of Strangulated Umbilical 
Hernia, with Removal of Six Inches of the Intestine. 
The Bureau of Ophthalmology and Otology presented the 
following papers: Clinical Cases; an Account of Thirty-five 
Operations for Cataract; On the Use of Spectacles; Asthenopia. 
The Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene reported 
the following papers: Diet for the Sick; Diet of Infants and 
Young Children ; the Hygiene of Infants; the Nervous System. 
The Bureau of Psychological Medicine reported on : Vital 
Dynamics; Importance of Mental Symptoms in our Provings 
and Prescriptions ; Non-restraint in the Treatment of the Insane. 
The Bureau of Medical Literature reported two papers: The 
Present Need of Homoeopathic Literature in America, a Pub- 
lishing Society ; The Medical Literature of 1,872. 
The subject of a provers' college was discussed, and the whole HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
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matter was referred to a special committee, who reported to have 
the subject further discussed at the next meeting. 
The committee appointed to investigate certain alleged "un- 
authorized changes in the by-laws," reported the published un- 
authorized alterations the result of a "peculiar chain of acci- 
dents, not of evil purposes." 
Bureaus of Gynaecology and Paedology were established. The 
action of the Massachusetts Medical Society, in expelling seven 
of its members for practicing homoeopathy, was detailed. A Com- 
mittee on Climatology was appointed. The Committee on Ho- 
moeopathic Dispensatory made a short report. The Committee 
on Legislation presented a communication from the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society of Michigan, giving an account of the 
University of that State. The Committee on the World's Ho- 
moeopathic Convention reported the work it was doing. The 
Committee on Homoeopathic Colleges made a report, which 
caused discussion, on a proposed plan to unite the Homoeopathic 
Medical Colleges in the West into one Medical University, and 
a special committee on this subject was appointed. Drs. Tom- 
maso Cigliano and Sambhul Mukhopadhyaya were elected cor- 
responding members of the Institute. A communication was 
received from the latter. 
The report on Necrology embraced biographical notes of Drs. 
Samuel Gregg, Charles C. Foote, Alvin Shattuck, Jehiel Abbott, 
Henry Bsethig, William H. H. Sisson, Ezekiel Lovejoy, and 
Ephraim S. Willard. 
Resolutions were adopted, placing on the honorary roll, and 
exempting from payment of dues, all who have been members 
in good standing for twenty-five years; protesting against the 
action of the Massachusetts Medical Society in expelling members 
for practicing homoeopathy ; that no papers previously published 
shall be received or published by the Institute; approving the 
action of the legislature of Michigan in creating Chairs of Ho- 
moeopathy in the University of that State. 
The by-laws were amended, allowing the Bureau of Surgery 
to have nine or more members. 
One hundred and forty-one members and ten visitors were re- 912 
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ported in attendance, representing 12 State societies, 22 local 
and county societies, 22 institutions, 10 colleges, and 8 jour- 
nals. Seventy-one new members were elected. Eight hundred 
and forty-four names appear in the list of members. As an 
appendix, was published an account of the banquet given by 
the physicians of Ohio. Section I of the Transactions, the 
Proceedings, and Miscellaneous Papers, makes a volume of 230 
pages; Section II, Materia Medica, 74 pages; Section III, 
Clinical Medicine, 76 pages; Section IV, Obstetrics, 46 pages; 
Section V, Surgery, 106 pages; Section VI, Organization, Re- 
gistration, and Statistics, 10 pages; Section VII, Anatomy, 
Physiology, and Hygiene, 42 pages; Section VIII, Psycho- 
logical Medicine, 42 pages ; Section IX, Ophthalmology and 
Otology, 26 pages; Section X, Medical Literature, 11 pages. 
The Twenty-seventh Session was held at Niagara Falls, 
June 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, 1874, with Dr. J. J. Youlin, 
President, Dr. N. Schneider,Vice-President, Drs. R. J. McClatchey 
and B. W. James, Secretaries, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, Treasurer. 
The president's annual address reviewed the growth of our 
school the past year, and made some recommendations. 
The Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, reported 
the following papers : Observations on the Lymphatics; The 
Functions of the Lymphatic Glands; Diseases of the Lymphatic 
Glands and Vessels, and their Relations to other Diseases; The 
Functions and Disorders of the Lymphatics. 
The Bureau of Materia Medica submitted the following pa- 
pers : A Vindication of the Bureau of Materia Medica; Verifi- 
cations of Lilium tigrinum ; A College of Drug Provers for the 
Cultivation of Materia Medica ; On the Significance of Primary 
and Secondary Symptoms; Provings of Physostigma veneno- 
sum, Hamamelis virginica, Tanacetum vulgare, Lactic acid, Az- 
tec flower, and Fresh Eo-P'shell with the Membrane on. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine reported the following pa- 
pers : Diagnosis, Pathology, and Prognosis of Meningitis Cere- 
bro-spinalis ; Cases of Meningitis Cerebro-spinalis; The Effects 
of Meningitis upon the Heart; History of Meningitis; A Case 
of Spontaneous Hydrophobia; (Enothera biennis, a new rem- HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
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edy for Eruptive Fevers ; On Reporting Clinical Cases ; Lunar 
Influence; Hausmann on the Causesand Conditions of Disease; 
Which Medical Practice. 
The Committee on Climatology offered : Climate of Colorado, 
with Special Reference to Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; 
Report on the Climate of California, and its Sanitary Condi- 
tions, with Meteorological Observations; Reporton Climatology. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics reported that it had selected puer- 
peral fever as the subject for discussion, and presented the fol- 
lowing papers thereon: Clinical History; Etiology and Infec- 
tiousness; The Differential Diagnosis and Prognosis ; Regimenal 
Management; The Treatment. 
The Bureau of Gynaecology presented the following papers: 
Post-partum Uterine Haemorrhage ; Uterine Haemorrhage ; Uter- 
ine Haemorrhage after Labor ; The Homoeopathic Treatment of 
Uterine Haemorrhage; The Sequelae of Post-partum Haemor- 
rhage; Menorrhagia and its Treatment; Treatment of Menor- 
rhagia; A Case of Menorrhagia; Vaginal Hernia. 
The Bureau of Paedology stated cholera infantum as its sub- 
ject and reported the following papers: Nature and Etiology ; 
Pathology; Hygienic Management and Diet; Therapeutics; 
Suggestions Respecting the Influence of Functional Activity of 
the Reproductive System in Lactation and the Nutrition of Infants. 
The Bureau of Surgery reported: Fractures of Cranium; 
Dislocations and Fractures of Pelvis; Dislocations of Shoulder, 
Elbow, Wrist, and Phalanges ; Fractures of the Leg ; Fractures 
of the Bones of the Face; Fractures and Dislocation of the 
Ankle; Ununited Fractures and Delayed Union; Seventy-four 
Cases of Fracture; Hydrarthrosis of the Knee-joint. 
The Bureau of Ophthalmology and Otology presented: Hard 
Cataract; Traumatic Cataract; Congenital Cataract; Catarrhal 
Inflammation of Middle Ear; the Abuses of Politzer's Method 
in Treatment of Catarrhal Inflammation of the Middle Ear; 
Retinitis from Bright's Disease; Secondary Glaucoma from 
Riband-shaped Opacities of Cornea; Physiological Action of 
Iridectomy in Glaucoma; Aqua chlorinii and Baryta iodata in 
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The Bureau of Psychological Medicine reported the following 
papers : Mental Diseases in Relation to Homoeopathy ; Psychical 
Nosology ; the Retentive Power of the Sensorial Faculties; Mind 
Influence in the Cure of Disease; Popular Psychology. 
The Bureau of Medical Literature reported recent publications. 
The Bureau of Organization, etc., reported statistics of the 
homoeopathic physicians in the various States, the proportion of 
the homoeopathic to the old school, and their proportion to the 
inhabitants. 
A botanical committee was appointed, who reported finding 
Plantago major, Taraxacum, Arctium lappa, Rhus radicans, 
Verbascum thapsus, Hyoscyamus niger, Cynoglossum officinale, 
Rumex crispus, Abies canadensis, Thuja occidental is, Podophyl- 
lum peltatum, Arum triphyllum, Sambucus, Euphorbia, Juni- 
peris communis, Uva ursi, Asclepias cornuti, Apocynum, Poly- 
gala senega, Zizia aurea. 
The Committee on Foreign Correspondence gave a sketch of 
homoeopathy in Italy. 
Reports were received from the Committees on Homoeopathic 
Dispensatory, and New Constitution and By-laws, which were 
adopted, incorporating many of the standing resolutions; on the 
World's Homoeopathic Convention. 
On the recommendation of the president, it was resolved that 
the names of the senior members be printed separately; that 
members of the Institute travelling abroad should be considered 
members of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence; to es- 
tablish a bureau of Microscopy. 
The Committee on Legislation reported that it would be well- 
nigh impossible to obtain a charter for the Institute from the 
United States Government; it might be proper to obtain it from 
some State, properly New York. The committee had been un- 
able to get a full account of all legislation in the different States 
affecting homoeopathy. 
The Intercollegiate Committee reported that it had organized 
to secure, among other things, a uniform system of medical edu- 
cation in all the homoeopathic colleges of the country. 
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Drs. David James, Isaac James, Alpheus Morrill, C. F. Geist, 
John A. Paine, Simeon A. Cook, Walter M. Williamson, Henry 
E. Morrill, William E. Bulkley, George W. Perrine, Edgar B. 
Cole, Eugene Biteley, Alfred Zantzinger, M. W. Wallens, D. R. 
Stouffer, T. B. Benedict, J. H. Austin, T. J. Vastine. 
The Committee on Credentials reported two hundred and six 
members present. 16 State societies, 41 local societies, 36 insti- 
tutions, 10 colleges, and 11 journals were represented. Fifty- 
seven new members were elected. The list of members contained 
858 names. 
The proceedings and miscellaneous papers filled 154 pages. 
The discussion following the reading of the reports of bureaus was 
published with such reports in the separate sections, thus greatly 
increasing their size. Section II, Materia Mediea, contains 168 
pages; Section III, Clinical Medicine, 48 pages; Section IV, 
Obstetrics, 66 pages; Section V, Surgery, 156 pages; Section 
VI, Organization, Registration, and Statistics, 8 pages; Section 
VII, Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, 50 pages; Section 
VIII, Psychological Medicine, 70 pages; Section IX, Ophthal- 
mology and Otology, 76 pages; Section X, Medical Literature, 
12 pages; Section XI, Gynaecology, 38 pages; Section XII, 
Paedology, 32 pages. 
The Twenty-eighth Session was held at Put-in Bay, Ohio, 
June 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th, 1875. The officers were Dr. 
William H. Holcombe, President, Dr. L. E.Ober, Vice-President, 
Drs. R. J. McClatchey and B. W. James, Secretaries, Dr. E. M. 
Kellogg, Treasurer. 
In the absence of the President his address was read by the 
Vice-President. 
The Bureau of Materia Mediea reported the following papers : 
The General Report of the Bureau ; Provings of Sepia ; Observa- 
tions on Sepia; Primary and Secondary Symptoms of Drugs- 
a, defined and distinguished; 6, as guides in the selection of 
remedies in practice; c, as guides in determining the dose. 
The Bureau of General Sanitary Science and Climatology 
reported : On the Construction of Hospitals; Hot Springs of 
Arkansas; Notes on Climatology of Consumption and some 916 
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Malarial Diseases; Climatology of South Atlantic States, espe- 
cially with Reference to Life Insurance; Bearings of Climate on 
Choice of the Remedy; Epidemics in New York State ; On Ven- 
tilation; General Report on Sanitary Science and Climatology. 
The Bureau of Clinical Medicine presented : Pathology and 
Diagnosis of Diabetes; Therapeutics of Diabetes; Pathology 
and Diagnosis of Morbus Brightii; The Treatment of Bright's 
Disease; Case of Chronic Bright's Disease; Cases of Bright's 
Disease compiled from Various Journals; The Cause of Hydro- 
phobia; a Patient Alternately Blind, Deaf and Dumb; Clinical 
Cases. 
The Bureau of Surgery reported the following papers : Con- 
cussion and Compression ; Dislocation of the Hip ; Dislocation 
of the Knee; Compound Dislocations; Fractures of the Humerus; 
Fractures of the Femur; Fractures of the Foot; A Famous Case 
of Gunshot Wound ; Surgical Diseases of the Prostate. 
The Bureau of Obstetrics reported the following papers : The 
Third Stage of Labor, its Duties and Management; Reflex Gas- 
tric Derangements- during Pregnancy ; Menial Influences on 
Maternity; On Malprescntations of the Foetus in Utero ; Child- 
bearing, or Remarks on Some of the Influences which Promote 
and Help to Determine Healthy Procreation. 
The Bureau of Paedology reported : History and Statistics of 
Scarlet Fever; Nature and Diagnosis of Scarlet Fever; Eti- 
ology and Prophylaxis of Scarlet Fever; Clinical Successes 
in, and Peculiarities of, Scarlet Fever; Complications and Se- 
quelae of Scarlet Fever; The Therapeutics of Cholera Infantum. 
The Bureau of Microscopy reported the following papers: 
The Relation of the Microscope to Therapeutics; On the Struc- 
ture of the Synovial Membranes. 
The Bureau of Organization, etc., presented a report, giving 
statistics of some of the Eastern and Southern States. 
The Bureau of Gynaecology reported: Relative frequency and 
violence of Diseases peculiar toWomen in Northern and South- 
ern Latitudes; Uterine Tumors; Case of Uterine Tumor; Re- 
mote and Reflex Symptoms Dependent upon Diseases of the HISTORY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
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Uterus; Dysmenorrhcea; Formation of Ovarian Cysts; On 
Deviations of the Uterus ; Case of Successful Caesarean Section. 
The Bureau of Ophthalmology, Otology, and Laryngology pre- 
sented : Retinitis Albuminurica; Inflammation and Atrophy of 
Optic Nerve; Acute Suppurative Inflammation of Middle Ear; 
Chronic Suppuration of Middle Ear; Therapeutics of Suppura- 
tive Inflammation of Middle Ear ; Consequences of Chronic 
Suppuration of Middle Ear; Alumen exsiccatum in Ophthalmic 
Practice ; Subacute Laryngitis and CEdema of Larynx. 
The Bureau of Psychological Medicine presented the follow- 
ing papers: Where the Many Ways may Meet; The Old and 
New in Medicine; Health in Thought. 
The Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene presented 
the following papers : Biology and Definitions of Disease, Ac- 
cording to Authorities, Ancient and Modern; The Darwinian 
Theory of the Descent of Man, as Explanatory of the Anomalies 
of Human Anatomy; On Ventilation. 
The Committee on Homoeopathic Colleges reported on the 
thoroughness of the courses of instruction at the various colleges, 
and that in many of them the graded course of instruction had 
been adopted. 
The Intercollegiate Committee, composed of representatives 
from all the colleges, reported a system of collegiate education in 
medicine, recommended a graded course, extending through a 
period of three years, and suggested the curriculum of studies. 
The by-laws were amended, providing for the election of chair- 
men of bureaus; regarding- the subjects to be reported upon ; 
the presentation of all papers through an appropriate bureau or 
committee; transferring the department of Hygiene from the 
Bureau of Anatomy, Physiology, etc., to the Bureau of General 
Sanitary Science and Climatology, and providing that no person 
shall be chairman of more than one bureau or standing committee. 
Resolutions were adopted in regard to obtaining mortuary 
reports; against action of State legislatures regarding medical 
orthodoxy. 
The Committee on Credentials reported one hundred and 
twenty-six physicians present, 12 State and 29 local societies, 28 918 
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institutions, 9 colleges, and 9 journals represented. Seventy-seven 
new members were elected. The names of eight hundred and 
seventy-seven members are published. 
The Necrological Report embraced notices of Drs. Peleg Clark, 
Benjamin F. Bowers, Richmond Bradford, Albert Wright, 
James H. P. Frost, James C. Neilson, Charles F. Fish, Elijah 
H. Drake, N. D. Beebe, N. F. Prentice, and Henry Walters. 
Many valuable papers presented to the Institute are omitted 
from the volume of Transactions, as the Publication Committee 
was restricted to papers relating to the 11 special subjects " selected 
by each bureau. Much matter, principally the discussions, was 
also omitted, as the small amount of money in the treasury ne- 
cessitated the printing of a small volume. The proceedings and 
miscellaneous papers occupy 152 pages. Section II, Materia 
Medica, occupies 94 pages; Section III, Clinical Medicine, 58 
pages; Section IV, Obstetrics, 36 pages; Section V, Surgery, 
124 pages; Section VIII, Psychological Medicine, 14 pages; 
Section IX, Ophthalmology, 38 pages; Section XI, Gynaecology, 
18 pages; Section XII, Paedology, 44 pages; Section XIII, 
General Sanitary Science, 48 pages. REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
[* Refers to the bottom of the page, f Mentioned by title; article not published.] 
Address to the homoeopathic physicians of the United States, 1846, p. 9 ; 
1852, p. 4; 27. 
Address, Edward Bayard, M.D., 1847, p. 3; 6, 18.53, p. 12. 
George E. Belcher, M.D., 1867, p. 8. 
Henry B. Clarke, M.D., 1868, pp. 193, 237. 
Thomas G. Comstock, M.D., 1868, p. 168. 
N. F. Cooke, M.D., 1867, p. 88. 
D. M. Dake, M.D., 1856, p. 33. 
J. P. Dake, M.D., 1858, p. 32. 
J, S. Douglass, M.D., 1857, p. 15. 
Carroll Dunham, M.D., 1870, p. 107.* 
Samuel S. Guy, M.D., 1859, p. 31. 
W. T. Helmuth, M.D., 1866, p. 31 ; 1867, p. 8. 
William H. Holcombe, M.D., 1875, p. 16.* 
Jacob Jeanes, M.D., 1848, p. 5. 
Benjamin F. Joslin, M.D., 1849, p. 9. 
S. R. Kirby, M.D., 1852, p. 9. 
R. Ludlam, M.D., 1869, p. 77.* 
F. R. McManus, M.D., 1860, p. 29. 
John Moore, M.D., 1868, p. 173. 
William E. Payne, M.D., 1854, p. 17. 
J. H. Pulte, M.D., 1855, p. 17. 
W. W. Rodman, M.D., 1865, p. 27. 
A. E. Small, M.D., 1850, p. 1 ; 1873, p. 17. 
George W. Swazey, M.D., 1851, pp. 6, 17. 
I. T. Talbot, M.D., 1872, p. 18* 
David Thayer, M.D , 1869, p. 11.* 
T. P. Wilson, M.D.,f 1871, p. 34* 
J. J. Youlin, M.D., 1874, p. 16.* 
After-pains, E. C. Beckwith, M.D., 1871, pp. 43,* 262.* 
Albuminuria, Apis in, B. F. Joslin, M.D , 1860, p. 106. 
Alcohol, C. W. Boyce, M.D., 1869, pp. 54,* 531.* 
discussion on, 1872, p. 36.* 
as a hygienic agent, C. W. Boyce, M.D., 1868, p. 216; £ 7, p. 65. 
in disease, D. Holt, M.D., 1873, pp. 63,* 457.* 
predisposing to syphilis and gonorrhoea, J. Hornby, M.D.,f 1869, 
p. 54* 
report on, C. Pearson, M.D., 1870, pp. 80,* 605.* 920 
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Alternation of remedies, William E. Payne, M.D , 1858, pp. 9, 128. 
American Homoeopat'iic Review, 1859, pp. 23, 25. 
American Institute of Homoeopathic Pharmacy, 1869, p. 60;* 1870, p. 57 ;* 
1871, p. 89* 
Anatomical anomalies, N. F. Cooke, M.D., 1867, p. 58; § 5, p. 29. 
nomenclature, J. F. Flagg, M.D., 1846, p. 6; 1848, p. 3 ;f 
1850, p. 26. 
Anesthetics, C. M. Dake, M.D.,f 1858, p. 7. 
Anatomy, report of bureau of, T. F. Allen, M.D., 1868, p. 211 ; §7, p. 3. 
pathological, as related to therapeutics, S. M. Cate, M.D., 1870, 
pp. 22,* 393 * 
report on, S. B. Parsons, M.D ,f 1870, p. 80. 
Animal poisons, S. B. Barlow, M.D., 1870, pp. 33,* 378.* 
Antiseptics in surgery, A. G. Beebe, M.D., 1869, pp. 51,* 388.* 
Arkansas, hot springs of, L. D. Morse, M.D.,-j- 1875, p 35.* 
Asthenopia, T. P. Wilson, M.D., 1873, pp. 110,* 729 * 
Astringents, C. T. Liebold, M .D., 1867, p. 58 ; § 5, 32. 
Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1866, p. 22. 
Atmosphere and water, N. D. Tirrell, M.D., 1868, p. 216 ; § 7, p. 50. 
Attenuations, scale for preparing, J. Ellis, M.D., 1858, pp. 10, 135. 
Aural surgery, B. W. James, M.D., 1866, p. 86. 
T. P. Wilson, M.D., 1872, pp. 106,* 473 * 
Asylums, Hospitals, Infirmaries, etc. 
Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, 1867, 6, 47 ; 1869, 
431 ;* 1871, 439;* 1872, 415 * 
Brooklyn Homoeopathic Lying-in Asylum, 1871, 459.* 
Chicago Half-Orphan Asylum, 1869, 419 ;* 1871, 432;* 1872, 407 * 
Children's Friend Society, Providence, 1869, 489;* 1871, 473 ;* 1872, 449.* 
Cincinnati Sanitarium, 1874, 53.* 
Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital, 1868, § 6, 109. 
Cleveland Protestant Hospital, 1869, 476.* 
Consumptive's Home, Boston, 1867, £ 6, 49; 1868, § 6, 102; 1869, 430;* 
1871, 438;* 1872, 415 * 
Eye and Ear Infirmary of the Homoeop. College of Penna., 1868, § 6, 116. 
Five Points House of Industry, 1867, § 6, 53; 1868, § 6, 104 ; 1869, 461 ;* 
1871, 452;* 1872, 430.* 
Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis, 1867, § 6, 56; 1869, 440;* 1871, 442;* 
1872, 417 * 
Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New York, 1872, 421.* 
Hahnemann Hospital of New York, 1871, 454;* 1872, 430.* 
Home for Aged Women, Jersey City, 1871, 444.* 
Home for Little Wanderers, Philadelphia, 1867, 6, 55; 1868, § 6, 108; 
1869, 481 ;* 1871, 470;* 1872, 446 * 
Home for the Friendless, Chicago, 1869, 419 ;* 1871, 432;* 1872, 408.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Home for the Friendless, New York, 1869, 462;* 1871, 454 ;* 1872, 430.* 
Homoeopathic Infirmary of Philadelphia, 1860,109 ; 1865, 102. 
Homoeopathic Medical and Surgical Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, 
Pa., 1867, § 6, 55 ; 1868, g 6, 109; 1869, 482;* 1871, 468;* 1872, 445 * 
Hospital of the Hom. Med. Coll, of Penna., Philadelphia, 1868, § 6, 108. 
Hospital of the Hahn. Med. Coll, of Philadelphia, 1871, 467;* 1872, 446.* 
House of the Angel Guardian, Boston, 1867, £ 6, 49; 1868, § 6, 102; 1869, 
431 ;* 1871, 438; 1872, 415 * 
Insane Asylum, Margarettville, New York, 1869, 70,* 462.* 
Middletown, N. Y., 1870, 82 ;* 1871,44,* 451 ;* 1872, 429 * 
Ingleside Home, Buffalo, New York, 1869, 463 ;* 1871, 456.* 
Institute for the Aged, Washington, D. C., 1871, 431 ;* 1872, 406.* 
Marine Hospital, Cleveland, 1871, 464.* 
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, Boston, 1871, 438;* 1872, 413.* 
Methodist Episcopal Home, Philadelphia, 1871, 470;* 1872, 446.* 
Newark Orphan Asylum, Nwk.,N. J., 1867, § 6, 54 ; 1868, g 6, 108 ; 1869, 447 * 
New York Homoeopathic Hospital, New York, 1868, g 6, 106. 
New York Infirmary for Women, New York city, 1867, § 6, 51. 
New York Ophthalmic Hospital, New York city, 1868,188, § 6 ; 106, 1869, 
463 ;* 1871, 454 ;* 1872, 431 * 
Northern Home for Friendless Children, Philadelphia, 1859,146; 1860, 
167; 1865, 95, 18 
Old Ladies' Home, Newark, N. J., 1869, 447 ;* 1871, 444.* 
Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum, New York, 1868, § 6, 107; 1871, 456.* 
Sacramento (California) Protestant Orphan Asylum, 1871, 429.* 
Scammon Hospital, Chicago, Ill., 1871, 432;* 1872, 408.* 
School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Children, Boston, 1869, 432.* 
Bandages, J. T. Hotchkiss, MD., 1867, p. 58 ; § 5, p. 25. 
Biliary calculi, E. W. Kellogg, M.D., 1869, pp. 33,* 277.* 
concretion, T. C. Fanning, M.D., 1869, pp. 33,* 275.* 
Biology and definition of disease, F. F. de Derkey, M.D., 1875, p. 63.* 
Blind and deaf and dumb alternating, E. C. Beckwith, M.D.,j- 1875, p. 39.* 
Bloodletting, J. Jeanes, M.D., 1848, pp. 4, 15. 
Board of Medical Examiners in N. Y., 1872, p. 95.* 
Bone, discussion of diseases of, 1873, p. 98.* 
therapeutics of disease of, J. C. Morgan, M.D., 1873, pp. 97,* 622.* 
in the eye, C. T. Liebold, M.D , 1870, p. 67.* 
reproduction and repair, J. II. McClelland, M.D., 1873, 97,* 604.* 
suppuration and abscess, M. W. Wallens, M.D., 1873, pp. 97,* 577.* 
Botanical committee, report of, 1874, pp. 40,* 48.* 
Bowels, obstruction of, George E Belcher, M.D., 1868, p. 205 ; § 3, p. 121. 
mechanical obstructions, A. R. Thomas, M.D., 1871, pp. 57,* 395.* 
Bright's disease, case of chronic, A. L. Fisher, M.D., 1875, p. 39.* 
cases compiled from journals, G. Shephard, M.D.,f 1875, p. 
39.* 922 
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Bright's disease, pathology and diag., H. N. Martin, M.D., 1875, pp.39,*287.* 
treatment of, W. H". Holcombe, M.D., 1875, pp. 39,* 294.* 
Bronchocele, mechanical construction, T. R. Nute, M.D , 1870, pp. 22,*457.* 
By-laws, bureaus to select one subject for discussion, 1872, p. 90.* 
Bureau of Gynaecology established, 1872, p. 111.* 
Paedology established, 1873, p. 149.* 
Obstetrics established, 1866, p. 29. 
Censors elected instead of being appointed, 1853, p. 5. 
Committee on Clinical Experience established, 1855, p. 12. . 
delegates admitted to certain privileges, 1868, p. 228. 
dues increased to $5, 1871, p. 28.* 
election of chairmen of bureaus, 1875, p. 51.* 
Hygiene Department of Bureau of Sanitary Science, 1875, p. 65.* 
insane asylums to be represented, 1874, p. 53.* 
no one chairman of two bureaus or standing committees, 1875, p. 71.* 
papers must be presented through bureau or committee, 1875, p. 63.* 
revised, 1851, pp. 4, 9. 
spurious, 1872, pp. 103,* 109,* 114.* 
subject for bureaus to report upon, 1875, p. 63.* 
unauthorized changes in, 1873, p. 73.* 
Bureau of Materia Medica, vindication of, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1874, pp. 34,* 
36,* 157 * 
Caesarean section, case of, S. S. Lungren, M.D.,f 1875, p. 56.* 
California, diseases peculiar to, M. J. Rhees, M.D., 1854, p. 60. 
Cancer, G. M. Pease, M.D., 1872, pp. 94,* 389 * 
Cancer of the brain, S. J. Pearsall, M.D.,j- 1869, p. 51.* 
Cancer of the breast, William Gallupe, M.D., 1857, 7, 78. 
Caries, C. P. Seip, M.D., 1873, 97,* 580* 
of the ankle-joint, J. H. McClelland, M.D., 1868, 210; § 5, 78. 
Case, E. A. Ballard, M.D., 1870, 46* 510* 
Cataract, congenital, T. P. Wilson, M.D., 1874, 54,* 733.* 
hard, M. Macfarlan, M.D , 1874, 54,* 723.* 
modified linear extraction of, C. T. Liebold, M.D., 1869, 51,* 358.* 
thirty-five operations for, M. Macfarlan, M.D , 1873, 110,* 733.* 
traumatic, C. H. von Tagen, M.D., 1874, 54,* 727.* 
Catarrhal fever, O. P. Baer, M.D., 1871, 26,* 213.* 
Cathartics, committee to report on, 1847, 3. 
Censors, Board of established, 1852, 6. 
Cerebral congestion, G. S. Norton, M.D., 1872, 45,* 296.* 
diseasecured by Lachesis, William P. Wesselhoeft, M.D., 1869,33,* 
269 * 
Certificate of membership adopted, 1846, 6. 
Cervical endometritis, S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 1873, 78,* 513.* 
Change of type in disease, H. D. Paine, M.D., 1867, 56 ; £ 3, 6. 
Childbearing, influences promoting healthy, J. T. Alley, M.D.,f 1875, 44.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Chloroform in eclampsia, W. H. Holcombe, M.D., 1871, 22,* 441.* 
poisoning by, E. T. Foote, M.D., 1852, 4, 39. 
Cholera, H. M Paine, M.D., 1866, 126. 
Committee on, 1849, 5. 
instructions regarding, 1866, 142. 
report on, N. H. Warner, M.D., 1857, 6 ; 1858, 102. 
W. Williamson, M.D., 1850, 26. 
statistics, 1850, 31. 
in St. Louis, Thomas G. Comstock, M.D., 1867, 56; $ 3, 34. 
Cholera infantum, A. E. Small, M.D., 1870, 46,* 497.* 
management and diet, E. Scott, M.D.,f 1874, 45.* 
nature and etiology, T. C. Duncan, M.D., 1874, 45,* 849.* 
pathology of, N. R. Morse, M.D., 1874, 45,* 855 * 
therapeutics of, A. Lippe, M.D., 1875, 45,* 752. 
H. N. Martin, M.D., 1874, 45,* 862* 
Climate, bearings of, on choice of remedy, L. D. Morse, M.D., 1875, 85,* 
608* 
Climatology and its relation to pulmonary diseases, D. H. Beckwith, M.D., 
1870, 22,* 418 * 
Climatology of consumption and some malarial diseases, A. R.Wright, M.D., 
1875, 35,* 597 * 
report on, A. R. Wright, M.D.,f 1874, 41*. 
of Alabama and the Gulf coast,W. J. Murrell, M.D.,f 1875, 35*. 
of California, F. Hiller, M.D.,f 1874,41*. 
of Colorado, M. M. Marix, M.D.,f 1874,41*. 
of theSouth Atlantic States, F. H. Orme, M.D., 1875, 35,* 612.* 
Clinical cases, reporting, L. E. Ober, M.D., 1874, 38,* 325.* 
experience, value of, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1855, 51. 
report, A. Berghaus, M.D., 1872, 45,* 298.* 
C. D. Fairbanks, M.D.,f 1875, 39* 
William Gallupe, M.D.,f 1872, 45 * 
S. S. Guy, M.D., 1853, 52. 
William Hause, M.D., 1867, g 3, 49. 
S. S. Lungren, M.D., 1871, 45 * 
C. S. Ormes, M.D., 1873, 79,* 522 * 
Clinical medicine, report of bureau, H. D. Paine, M.D., 1866, 56; 1867, 
56, g 3, 3; 1868, 204; 1869, 32,* 235 * 
Cold, a therapeutic agent, I. Colby, M.D., 1859, 92. 
Cold water, I. Colby, M.D., 1853, 49. 
Colic, radical cure of, D. Thayer, M.D., 1872, 46,* 313.* 
Colleges, 1875, 65;* 1873, 138,* 171 * 
conference, 1870, 142.* 
consolidation of committee appointed on, 1873, 142.* 
Hahnemann Medical, laying of corner-stone, 1870, 39.* 
reports of H. M. Smith, M.D., 1867, 82, g 6, 57. 
report on, D. Thayer, M.D., 1874, 56 * 101 * 924 
world's homceopathic convention. 
Colleges, suggestions of uniform systems of tuition, 1875, 66.* 
union of the, 1873, 139;* 1875, 67 * 
of drug provers, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1874, 34,* 36,* 160.* 
Combination of potencies, D. M Dake, M.D., 1859, 123*. 
Concussion and compression, E. C. Franklin, M.D., 1875, 42,* 343.* 
Constitution and by-laws adopted, 1846, 1,5. . 
amended, providing for a president, 1860, 27. 
adoption of a new, 1874, 47.* 
Correspondence, committee on, appointed, 1843, 4. 
foreign, 1868, § 6, 74; 1869, 56*, 406*; 1870, 150*. 
C. Dunham, M.D., 1871, 73;* 1872, 87,* 131,* 
1875, 41,* 101 * 
Corroding ulcer of the womb, S. S. Lungren, M.D.,-]- 1872, 65.* 
Cow-pox virus, propagation of, B. W. James, M D., 1872, 46,* 309.* 
Croup, discussion on, 1860, 22. 
Colleges. 
Committee on, 1872, 112.* 
Cleveland Homoeopathic, 1867, g 6, 59; 1869, 477.* 
Hahn. Med., Chicago, 1868, §6,121 ; 1869, 420 ;* 1871,432 * 433;* 1872, 408 * 
Hahnemana Medical, of Philadelphia, 1867, § 6, 58; 1868, § 6, 120; 1869, 
484;* 1871, 473; 1872, 447.* 
Homoeopathic Hospital, at Cleveland, 1871, 464;* 1872, 441.* 
Homoeopathic Medical, of Missouri, St. Louis, 1867, § 6, 59; 1868, § 6, 122; 
1869, 441 ;* 1871, 442* 
Homoeopathic Medical, of Penna, Phila., 1867, § 6, 57; 1868, § 6, 121. 
Medical Department of Michigan University, 1868, 190-194; 1869, 438.* 
National, of Drug Provers, 1873, 135. 
New England Med., Boston, 1867, § 6, 57 ; 1869,433;* 1871, 439 ;* 1872, 416.* 
New York Hom. Med., 1868, § 6, 119; 1869, 467;* 1871, 461 ;* 1872, 436.* 
New York Medical, and Hospital for Women, 1872, 440.* 
Pulte Medical, Cincinnati, 1872, 442.* 
St. Louis Homoeopathic, of Medicine and Surgery, 1872, 418.* 
Women's Medical, New York, 1871, 462.* 
Darwinian theory, explaining anatomical anomalies, A. R. Thomas, M.D., 
1875, 64* 
Delinquent members, 1868, 171. 
Diabetes, pathology and diagnosis of, J. Pettet, M.D., 1875, 39*, 249.* 
therapeutics of, S. Lilienthal, M.D., 1875, 39,* 254.* 
Diarrhoea, J. C. Burgher, M.D., 1871, 26,* 235.* 
Diarrhoea and dysentery, J. J. Mitchell, M.D., 1871, 36*, 189.* 
Diet for the sick, A. R. Thomas, M.D., 1873, 115,* 645.* 
of infantsand young children, J. C. Morgan, M.D., 1873, 115,* 659.* 
and washing of infants, discussion on, 1873, 115.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Diphtheria, D. H. Beckwith, M.D., 1867, 56, § 3, 22. 
C. Henry, M.D., 1860, 158. 
H. D. Paine, M.D., 1859, 150. 
Diseases of Ohio, D. H. Beckwith, M.D., 1871, 26,* 232.* 
Discoloration by nitrate of silver, H. S. Chase, M.D., 1868, 211. 
Dislocations, compound, J. G. Gilchrist, M.D., 1875, 42,* 438.* 
of the hip, L. H. Willard, M.D., 1875, 42,* 391 * 
knee, J. H. Buffum, M.D., 1875, 43,* 431 * 
long bones, S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 1865, 53. 
shoulder, elbow, wrist, and phalanges, L. H. Willard, 
M.D., 1874, 51,* 539 * 
and fractures of pelvis, W. T. Helmuth, M.D., 1874, 51,* 465.* 
Dispensatory, homoeopathic, 1868, 232; 1869, 43*, 113 ;* 1870, 44* 146 ;* 1871, 
73 ;* 1872, 88 ;* 1873, 131,* 155 ;* 1874, 47,* 72 ;* 1875, 41,* 75* 
Doses in provings to be of combined attenuations, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1870, 
33,* 369*. 
in drug proving, C. Dunham, M.D., 1860, 140. 
Drug proving, observations during, C. Wesselhoeft, M.D., 1867, 28, § 2, 3. 
Dry-earth treatment of ulcers, J. Beakley, M.D.,-|- 1869, 51.* 
Dues, $1, 1847, 3, $3; 1866, 20; 1868, 226. 
Dysmenorrhoea,f 1875, 56.* 
Dystocia, case of, W. McGeorge, M.D., 1873, 76,* 494.* 
Dispensaries. 
Albany (New York), 1869, 467 ;* 1871, 461.* 
Bond Street (New York city) Homoeopathic, 1867, § 6, 57; 1868, § 6, 
111 ; 1869, 463 ;* 1871, 457 ;* 1872, 434 * 
Brooklyn (New York) Homoeopathic, 1867, g 6, 53 ; 1868, § 6, 114; 1869, 
465;* 1871,460* 1872, 435 * 
Buffalo (New York) Homoeopathic, 1868, g 6, 115; 1869, 466;* 1871, 460.* 
Central Homoeopathic, New York, 1860, 165. 
Cincinnati Homoeopathic, 1869, 476 ;* 1871, 464.* 
Consumptive's Home, Boston, 1868, § 6, 110; 1869, 432;* 1871, 439.* 
Denver City, Colorado, 1872, 406.* 
Dispensary of the Home for Little Wanderers, Philadelphia, 1871, 471.* 
Dispensary of the Hom. Med. Coll, of Penna., 1867, g 6, 54 ; 1868, £ 6, 116. 
Eye and Ear, of the Hahnemann College of-Philadelphia, 1869, 483.* 
Gates Avenue Homoeopathic, Brooklyn, New York, 1867, g 6, 54; 1868, § 6, 
114; 1869, 466;* 1871, 461;* 1872, 435 * 
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 1867, g 6, 55; 1868, § 6, 117 ; 
1869, 484;* 1871, 471 ;* 1872, 446 * 
Hahn. Med. Coll. Chicago, 1868, g 6, 118; 1869, 420 ;* 1871, 432 ;* 1872, 408 * 
Harlem Homoeopathic, New York, 1871, 458;* 1872, 434.* 
Harrisburg, Pa., 1869, 484 ;* 1871, 471.* 
Homoeopathic, Chicago, 1871, 432.* 926 
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Homoeopathic, of Germantown, Pa., 1871, 472 ;* 1872, 446.* 
Homoeopathic, of southeast portion of Philadelphia, 1860, 168. 
Homoeopathic, of Virginia City, Nevada, 1869, 443.* 
Homoeopathic, Free, of Leavenworth, Kansas, 1867, g 6, 56 ; 1868, g 6, 119 ;* 
1869, 425;* 1871, 435;* 1872, 411 * 
Homoeopathic Medical College, St. Louis, 1869, 441.* 
Homoeopathic Medical, Boston, 1867, g 6, 47 ; 1868, § 6, 110; 1869, 432;* 
1871, 439;* 1872, 415.* 
Metropolitan Homoeopathic, New York, 1869, 464;* 1871, 458* 
Morrisania, N. Y , Homoeopathic Med. and Surg., 1869, 466;* 1871, 460.* 
Newark, N. J., Homoeopathic, 1868, g 6, 116; 1869, 447.* 
New York Homoeopathic College, 1869, 464;* 1871, 459* 462;* 1872, 436.* 
New York Homoeopathic, 1867, g 6,50; 1868, g 6, 113; 1869, 463;* 1871, 
456;* 1872, 433.* 
Northeastern Homoeop. Med. and Surg., New York, 1869, 464 ;* 1871, 459.* 
Northwestern, of Philadelphia, 1872, 446.* 
Poughkeepsie Homoeopathic Medical and Surgical, 1867, g 6, 50 ; 1868, g 6, 
115; 1869, 466;* 1871, 460.* 
San Francisco Homoeopathic, 1871, 429.* 
Southwestern Homoeopathic, Philadelphia, 1869, 484.* 
Southern Homoeopathic, of Philadelphia, 1871, 471.* 
St. Louis Homoeopathic, 1868, g 6, 119; 1869, 441 ;* 1871, 442;* 1872, 418 * 
Tompkins Square Homoeopathic, New York, 1869, 464;* 1871, 459.* 
Washington (D. C.) Homoeopathic, 1868, g 6, 117; 1869, 416;* 1871, 430;* 
1872, 406 * 
Western Division Homoeopathic, Chicago, 1868, g 6, 118; 1869, 420.* 
Western Homoeopathic, New York, 1869, 465;* 1871, 459 ;* 1872, 434.* 
Eclampsia, H. N. Guernsey, M.D., 1871, 43.* 
Editorial Association, 1870, 55 * 
Education, medical, committee appointed, 1867, 84. 
'discussion, 1851, 5; 1869, 57;* 1870, 89.* 
G. D. Beebe, M.D., 1869, 57,* 103 ;* 1870, 129 * 
H. B. Clarke, M.D., 1870, 85,* 136.* 
D. M. Dake, M.D., 1860, 62. 
C. J. Hempel, M.D., 1869, 57,* 93.* 
C. Hering, M.D., 1857, 7, 100. 
D. S. Smith, M.D., 1869, 57,* 103 * 
Electrolysis in ovarian tumors, W. Danforth, M.D.,f 1873, 79.* 
Electro-magnetism in relation to homoeopathy, J. H. P. Frost, M.D., 1872, 
32,* 231.* 
Electro-therapeutics, J. C. Burgher, M.D., 1870, 22,* 454.* 
Emetics and cathartics, William E. Payne, M.D.,f 1848, 4; 1850, 72. 
Encephalocele, case of, W. K. Williams, M.D., 1873, 76, 508. 
Endemics of Illinois, R. Ludlam, M.D.,1858, 174. 
Engorged papilla, W. H. Woodyatt, M.D., 1874, 55,* 770.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Epidemics of New York State, A. R.Wright, M.D.,f 1875, 36.* 
Epilepsy, William Gallupe, M.D., 1858, 181. 
Evacuants, D. M. Dake, M.D., 1858, 10, 138. 
Exanthematous disease, case of, Z. Clements, M.D., 1857, 8, 114. 
Executive committee proposed, 1868, 217. 
Excision of lower jaw, 1870, 77.* 
External irritants, E. Bayard, M.D.,f 1848, 4. 
External medicines in homoeopathic surgery, George F. Foote, M.D.,f 1867, 
57, g 5. 
Extirpation of inferior maxillary,W. T. Helmuth, M.D., 1869, 36,* 335.* 
Ferrum v. Phthisis, E. C. Beckwith, M.D , 1873, 62,* 420.* 
Festivities in Boston, 1859, 197; 1869, 159.* 
Brooklyn, 1858, 12. 
Chicago, 1870, 231 * 
Cleveland, 1873, 221.* 
New York, 1867, 6. 
Philadelphia, 1871, 76 * 
St. Louis, 1868, 216. 
Washington, 1872, 184. 
Fever, relapsing, H. D. Paine, M.D., 1870, 22,* 385.* 
Finance, 1868, 175; 1869, 120*; Dues $3 to $5; 1871, 27.* 
Fissure, anal and rectal, W. Eggert, M.D., 1873, 63,* 468.* 
Foetus, mal-presentations in utero, Mercy B. Jackson, M.D., 1875, 44,* 336.* 
Formation of sound teeth, H. S. Chase, M.D., 1868, 217, g 7, 71. 
Founders, organization of the, 1872, 102.* 
Fractures, N. Schneider, M.D., 1871, 57,* 390.* 
of the bones of the face, J. G. Gilchrist, M.D., 1874, 51,* 505.* 
cranium, E. C. Franklin, M.D , 1874, 51,* 439 * 
femur, J. H. McClelland, M.D., 1875, 42,* 450.* 
L. H. Willard, M.D , 1867, 58, g 5, 20. 
foot, J. H. McClelland, M.D., 1875, 42,* 460* 
humerus, M. Macfarlan, M.D., 1875, 42,* 444.* 
leg, J. H. McClelland, M.D., 1874, 51,* 476.* 
patella, B.W. James, M.D., 1867, 57, g 5, 13. 
seventy-four cases of, M. Macfarlan, M.D., 1874, 51,* 530.* 
ununited, H. F. Biggar, M.D., 1874, 51,* 519.* 
and dislocations of ankle, S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 1874, 51,* 581.* 
Funis, ligating the, discussion on, 1870, 61.* 
Furunculi, case of, William Gallupe, M.D., 1870, 22,* 448.* 
Gallstones, discussion on, 1869, 35. 
Glaucoma, iridectomy in, S. J. Bumstead, M.D., 1874, 55,* 756.* 
secondary, G. S. Norton, M.D., 1874, 55,* 751.* 
Gold-poisoning, discussion on, 1869, 33.* 
Gunshot wound, famous case of, J. C. Morgan, M.D., 1875,f 42.* 
Gynaecology, discussion on, 1873, 79.* 928 
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Haemorrhage after labor,William H. Hunt, M.D., 1874, 43,* 827.* 
arrested by flexion of extremities, C. T. Liebold, M.D., 187(1, 
66,* 519.* 
treatment of uterine, Mercy B. Jackson, M.D., 1874, 43,* 833 * 
Monsel's solution in, M. Macfarlan, M.D., 1869, 51,* 376.* 
post-partum uterine, M. Friese, M.D., 1874, 43,* 811.* 
sequelae of post-partum, S. Lilienthal, M.D.,-|- 1874, 43.* 
uterine, C. Ormes, M.D., 1874, 43,* 822.* 
H. N Guernsey, M.D., 1870, 46,* 507.* 
Hahnemann's Materia Medica, translation, 1850, 29. 
Organon, spurious edition, 1865, 24. 
protest against, 1865, 77. 
Hausman on disease, F. F. de Derkey, M.D.,f 1874, 38.* 
Health in thought, T. L Brown, M.D., 1875, 61,* 467.* 
Hemeralopia, T. F. Allen, M.D., 1871. 57,*408.* 
Hering, Constantine, testimonial to, 1853, 10; 1854 , 7. 
Hering's Materia Medica, discussion on, 1869, 71.* 
Hernia, G. D. Beebe, M.D., 1870, 72.* 
case of inguinal, 8. H. Worcester, M.D., 1872, 45,* 301.* 
strangulated umbilical, H. F. Biggar, M.D.,f 1873, 97.* 
cure of inguinal, M. Macfarlan, M.D , 1869, 51,* 373.* 
strangulated, J. Beakley, M.D., 1868, 209, § 5, 43. 
N. Schneider, M.D., 1872, 94*, 375.* 
' femoral, G. M. Pease, M.D., 1869, 51,* 398.* 
High potencies, Fincke's, 1867 , 39. 
History of homoeopathy, Henry M. Smith, M.D.,f 1870, 81.* 
medicine, F. H. Krebs, M.D., 1867, 82, g 6, 8. 
Homoeopathy, fiftieth anniversary of its introduction into America, Henry 
M Smith, M.D., 1875, 49.* 
and allopathy contrasted, A. G. Hull, M.D.,f 1843, 5. 
in Calcutta, 1873, 145.* 
England, 1869, 411.* 
Germany, 1869, 407.* 
Michigan, 1873, 131.* 
Naples, 1873, 145;* C. Dunham, M.D., 1874, 46*119* 
Homoeopathic Examiner approved, 1843, 5. 
Homoeopathic Editorial Association, 1871, 86.* 
notation, B. Fincke, M.D., 1860, 117.* 
pharmacy, establishment of an official central, 1853, 9; 
1857, 7. 
business of, 1865, 16. 
physicians, committee to obtain list of, 1853, 9. 
Honorary roll of members, 1873, 32.* 
Hospitals, see Asylums. 
Hospitals, their construction, D. H. Beckwith, M.D., 1875, 583.* 
Humphreys, expelled, 1855, 63. REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Hydrathrosis of knee-joint, R. E. Caruthers, M.D., 1874, 57,* 589.* 
Hydrocephalus cured by Morphia, J. Hartman, M.D., 1869, 33,* 273.* 
Hydrophobia, case of spontaneous, O. P. Baer, M D , 1874, 38,* 349.* 
cause of, G. W. Bowen, M.D.,t 1875, 39.* 
Hydrophobin, 1853-4. 
Hydrothorax, S. M. Cate, M.D., 1868, 204, g 3, 71. 
Hygiene, medical, mental and moral, J. H. P. Frost, M.D.,f 1849, 5. 
province of, Carroll Dunham, M.D., 1868, 216, $ 7, 23. 
general reporton, Carroll Dunham, M.D., 1869, 54,* 522.* 
J. J. Mitchell, M.D.,f 1870, 80* 
report on moral, Carroll Dunham, M.D.,j- 1870, 80.* 
optical, T. P. Wilson, M.D., 1870, 80,* 583 * 
of infants, Emma Scott, M.D.,j- 1873, 115. 
Imperforate anus, E. C. Franklin, M.D., 1868, 209, § 5, 55. 
Impurities of an attenuating liquid, B. F. Joslin, M.D., 1858, 13, 165. 
Infirmaries, see Asylums. 
Inflammation of the stomach, S. M. Cate, M.D., 1859, 136 * 
Inoculation, 1853, 55. 
Inorganic phosphorus as food, A. J. Bellows, M.D.,f 1869, 54.* 
Insane, non-restraint in treatment of, S. Worcester, M.D , 1873, 121,* 718.* 
Intercollegiate committee appointed, 1874, 56.* 
report, I. T. Talbot, M.D., 1874, 63.* 
International convention at Paris, B. W. James, M.D., 1868, 211, § 6, 81. 
Intermittent fever, A. R. Bartlett, M.D., 1858, 7, 119. 
discussion, 1858, 14. 
Journal, report of committee on publishing, 1869, 56.* 
Journals, reports of, Henry M. Smith, M.D., 1867, 82, § 6, 60. 
American Homoeopathist, 1868, § 6, 124. 
American Homoeopathic Observer, 1867, § 6,61; 1869, 438;* 1871,441;* 
1872, 416* 
American Journal of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1868, | 6, 123; 1869, 
485;* 1871,473;* 1872, 448 * 
Hahnemannian Monthly, 1867, | 6, 60; 1868, § 6,123; 1869, 485;* 1871, 
473 ;* 1872, 449 * 
Homoeopathic Independent, 1869, 442.* 
Homoeopathic Sun, 1869, 468.* 
Medical Investigator, 1868, § 6, 125. 
Medical Times, 1869, 421 ;* 1871, 433;* 1872, 410* 
New England Medical Gazette, 1867, § 6, 60; 1868, | 6, 122; 1869, 433;* 
1871, 439;* 1872, 416 * 
North American Journal of Homoeopathy, 1867, | 6, 60; 1868, g 6, 123; 
1869, 468;* 1871, 462;* 1872, 440.* 
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Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, 6, 64; 1868, § 6, 124; 1869, 
477;* 1871, 465;* 1872, 442 * 
United States Medical and Surgical, 1868, § 6, 124; 1869, 421;* 1871, 432;* 
1872, 409 * 
Western Homoeopathic Observer, 1868, g 6, 125; 1869, 442;* 1871, 442.* 
Labor, third stage of, J. C. Sanders, M.D , 1875, 43,* 307.* 
Lachrymal canal, operations on, T. F. Allen, M.D.,f 1869, 51.* 
Stilling's operation, T. F. Allen, M.D., 1870, 66,* 529.* 
Lactation, G. H. Wilson, M D., 1874, 45,* 872 * 
Laryngitis, E. J. Whitney, M.D., 1875, 58,* 510.* 
Legislation, committee on, 1871, 28.* 
report of committee, I. T. Talbot, M.D., 1874, 61.* 
discussion, 1871, 28.* 
Lentz's potencies, 1856, 15.* 
Letter to homoeopathic physicians, B. F. Joslin, M.D., 1855, 45. 
Leucorrhoea as a conservator, J. C Sanders, M.D., 1873, 76,* 490.* 
O. B Gause, M.D., 1873, 76 * 483 * 
R. Ludlam, M.D.J 1873, 76.* 
J. J. Youlin, M.D.,f 1873, 76 * 
discussion of, 1873, 76 * 
Literature, need of a publishing society, S. A. Jones, M.D., 1873, 125,* 760.* 
S. Lilienthal, M.D., 1873, 126,* 755 ;* 1874, 59,* 799 ;* 1875, 40.* 
Ligature of the external iliac artery, J. Beakley, M.D., 1868, 209, g 5, 47. 
Lithotomy, J. J. Detwiller, M D., 1872, 93,* 373.* 
Lymphatic glands, diseases of, W. von Gottschalk, M.D., 1874, 33,* 612.* 
functions of, F. F. de Derkey, M.D., 1874, 33,* 610.* 
disorders of, J. D. Buck, M.D., 1874, 33,* 636.* 
observations on, A. R. Thomas, M.D., 1874, 33,* 603.* 
origin of, T. F. Allen, M D.,f 1869, 53.* 
Lunar influence, W. Eggert, M.D.,f 1874, 38.* 
Mamma, inflammation and induration of, J. B. Wood, M.D., 1857, 7. 
Mammary glands, atrophy from injudicious toilet, J. C. Sanders, M.D., 
1870, 46,* 489 * 
Materia Medica, an appeal for a complete, William E. Payne, M.D., 1872, 
32,* 256 * 
arrangement of, B. F. Joslin, M.D., 1857, 67. 
J. P. Dake, M.D., 1871, 36 * 
bureau of, appointed, 1843, 4. 
report of, 1844,f 6; 1845, 9; 1846,f 3; 1847, 5; 
1848 (Williamson), 4, 25 ; 1849 (Jeanes), 3 ; 1851 
(Jeanes),|6; 1852,1,26; 1853,29; 1854(Humph- 
reys), 9, 49 ; 1855 (Humphreys),j- 6 ; 1857 (Dake), 
5, 48; 1858 (Joslin), 9, 47; (Payne), 9, 52; 1859 
(Payne), 14, 52 ; (Hempel), 54 ; (Joslin), 14, 52 ; 
1860, 51; 1865 (Payne), 15, 45; 1867 (Wessel- REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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hoeft), 28, g 2, 3 ; 1868,186, g 2, 101 ; 1869 (Wes- 
selhceft), 37,*181;* 1870 (Wesselhceft), 33 *245;* 
1871 (Wesselhceft), 36,* 175*; 1872, 197* (Dun- 
ham), 31;* 1873, 33,* 231;* 1874 (Allen), 36* 
155;* 1875 (Dunham), 33,* 155 * 
Materia Medica, confirmed symptoms, C. Wesselhceft, MD., 1870, 33,*249.* 
discussion on, 1867, 29; 1868, 186; 1871, 37;* 1873, 34 * 
generalization in the study of, 0. Dunham, M.D , 1872, 33.* 
history of, S. B. Barlow, M.D., 1868, 186, g 2, 240. 
plan for improving, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1857, 50. 
Pura, committee appointed to translate and publish, 1848, 4. 
the purification of, C. Cropper, M.D , 1873, 33,* 251.* 
and therapeutics, W. "Williamson, M.D., 1868, 186, g 2,253. 
Remedies : Agrostemma githago, mention, 1855, 57. 
Allium cepa, mention, 1848, 25. 
Alumen exsiccatum, ophthalmic practice, 0. 
T. Liebold, M.D., 1875, 58,* 499.* 
Ammonium bromatum, proving, M. D. Lynn, 
M.D.,f 1870, 33:* 
Anagallis arvensis, mention, 1855, 57. 
Aqua marina, proving, C. Wesselhceft, M.D., 
1871, 36,* 178.* 
Asterias rubens, mention, 1855, 57. 
Aztec flowers, proving, Emma Scott, M.D.,f 
1874, 36* 
Benzoic acid, pathogenesis, J. Jeanes, M.D., 
1845, 13. 
Calcarea phosphorica, proving, W. E. Payne, 
M.D., 1858, 9, 54. 
Calcium sulphide, proving, C. M. Conant, 
M.D., 1873, 33* 332.* 
Camphor, proving, B. Fincke, M D., 1866, 60. 
Chelidonium majus, clinical, C. Neidhard, 
M.D., 1853,65. 
Chinaria canadensis, proving, 1860, 61. 
Chloral hydrate, proving, W. Eggert, M.D., 
1870, 33,* 372 * 
Cimicifuga racemosa, proving, Theo. Bac- 
meister, M.D., 1871, 36,* 209.* 
Cimicifuga racemosa, proving, A. C. Cow- 
perthwaite, M.D., 1872, 32,* 199.* 
Cinnabaris, C. Neidhard, M.D., 1853, 68. 
mention, 1848, 25. 
Colchicum autumnale, mention, 1855, 57. 
Cundurango, mention, Carroll Dunham, 
M.D., 1871, 37 * 932 
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Materia Medica. Remedies: Cuprum metallicum, proving and observa- 
tions, B. Fincke, M.D., 1866, 62. 
Elaps corallinus, mention, 1855, 57. 
Elaterium, pathogenesis, C. B. Matthews, 
M.D., 1845, 124. 
Eucalyptus globulus, proving, E. M. Hale, 
M.D., 1873, 33,* 367 * 
Eupatorium perfoliatum, pathogenesis, W. 
Williamson, M.D., 1843, 135. 
Fagopyrum esculentum, proving, D. Hitch- 
cock, M.D., 1873, 33,* 258 * 
Ferrum metallicum, mention, 1855, 57. 
Fluoric acid, pathogenesis, C. Hering, M.D., 
1845, 26. 
Fresh eggshell proving, Caroline B. Win- 
slow, M.D.J 1874, 36 * 
Gelsemium, 1860, 17. 
L. M. Kenyon, M.D., 1860, 138. 
Glonoine mention, 1848, 25, 1855, 57. 
proving, William E. Payne, M.D., 
1860, 52. 
Hamamelis virginica, proving,W. McGeorge, 
M.D , 1874, 36,* 250 * 
Hecla lava, W. H. Holcombe, M.D., 1870, 22* 
441* 
Hepar sulphur calcarea, A. K. Hills, M.D., 
1872, 32,* 290 * 
55" proving, W> 
Gallupe, M.D.,f 
1872, 32* 
Hippomanes, mention of, 1855, 57. 
Hydrastis canadensis, proving, W. William- 
son, M.D., 1867, 28, g 2, 58. 
Hydrophobin, J. R. Coxe, Jr., M.D., 1854, 57. 
Inula helenium, proving, 1860, 58. 
Iris versie., C. Wesselhoeft, M.D., 1868, 186, 
g 2, 113. 
Kalmia latifolia, pathogenesis, C. Hering, 
M.D., 1845, 154. 
Lac defloratum, proving, S. Swan, M.D.,f 
1871, 36 * 
Lachesis, proving, cmth, B. Fincke, M.D.,f 
1867, 29. 
clin. rep., S. M.Cate, M.D.,1866,106. 
Lactic acid, A. K. Hills, M.D.,f 1874, 36.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Materia Medica. Remedies: Lilium tig., W. E. Payne, M.D., 1867. 28, § 2, 
93; 1868, 186, g 2, 107; 1870, 
33,* 260.* 
verifications, H. H. Baxter,M.D.,f 
1874, 34,* 36 * 
Lithium carbonicum, mention, 1848, 25. 
Lobelia cardinalis, proving, Samuel R. Dubsj 
M.D., 1845, 201. 
cerulia, mention, 1848, 25. 
inflata, pathogenesis, J. Jeanes, M.D., 
1845, 171. 
Mercur. prot., clin. rep.,W. J. Blakely, M.D., 
1866, 110. 
mention, 1855, 57. 
sulphuric, mention, 1845, 28. 
Mygalc aviculare, mention, 1855, 57. 
Natrum muriaticum, clin. rep., W. Gallupe, 
M.D., 1873, 63,* 461 * 
Odo-magnetic sugar, proving, S.Swan,M.D.,f 
1871, 36 * 
(Enothera biennis, T. R. Nute, M.D.,f 1874, 
38*. 
Osmium, mention, 1855, 57. 
Oxalic acid, pathogenesis, C. Neidhard, M.D., 
1845, 70.' 
Pareira brava, S. M. Cate, M.D., 1860, 11. 
Physostigma venenosum, proving, T. F. Al- 
len, M.D., 1874, 36* 173 * 
Podophyllum peltatum, S. A. Moore, M.D., 
1872, 32,* 207 * 
pathogenesis,W. Wil- 
liam son, M.D., 1845, 
204. 
proving,W.William- 
son, M.D.,f 1843, 5. 
Polygonum punc,W. E. Payne, M D.,1859,82. 
Potassium, bromide of, proving, E. M. Hale, 
M.D., 1870,33,* 299* 
cyanide of, clin. rep., W. H. Hol- 
combe, M.D., 1870, 22,* 441 * 
Ptelea trifoliata, mention, E. M. Hale, M.D., 
1867, 28; 1868, g 2, 157. 
proving, W. Williamson, 
M.D., 1870,33 * 381 * 
Pulsatilla nuttailiana, proving, C. Wessel- 
hoeft, M.D., 1867, 28, g.2, 7. 934 
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Materia Medica. Remedies : Ranabufo, clin. rep., W. H. Holcombe, M.D., 
1860, 22* 441 * 
Rhodium, mention, 185-5, 57. 
Rhus laurina, M. J. Rhees, M.D., 1853, 70. 
Rumex crisp., E. Bayard, M.D., 1859, 55. 
B. F. Joslin, M.D., 1858,9, 47. 
W. E. Payne, M.D., 1858, 9, 
52. 
proving, 1860, 60. 
Sabbatia angularis, mention, 1848, 25. 
Sanguin. can., pathogen., G. H. Bute, M.D., 
1845, 219. 
proving, A. M. Tin- 
ker, M.D., 1870, 
33,* 340 * 
Saponar. offi., prbving, W. E. Payne, M.D., 
1865, 15, 47. 
Secale corn,, C. Wesselhceft, M.D.,1871, 36,* 
177* 
Sepia, proving, Carroll Dunham, M.D., 1875, 
33,* 157.* 
obs. on, Mercy B. Jackson, M.D., 1875, 
33,* 245 * 
Stillingia sylvatica, E. M. Hale, M.D., 1869, 
39,* 193 * 
Tanacet. vulg., A. K. Hills, M.D.,f 1874, 36.* 
Triosteum perfoliatum, pathogenesis, W. Wil- 
liamson, M.D., 1845, 249. 
Ustilago maidis, T. Bacmeister, M.D., 1872, 
32,* 206.* 
Vaccine, proving on sheep, J. Pettit, M.D., 
1873,33 *376 * 
Xanthoxylon fraxinum, mention, 1848, 25. 
Zincum cyanidum, mention, 1848, 25. 
Measles, discussion on, 1869, 34. 
treatment of, W. H. Holcombe, M.D., 1869, 32,* 243.* 
Mechanical means, report on, D. M. Dake, M.D., 1857, 84. 
Medical ethics, 1856, 18; 1857, 5 ; 1868, 211. 
W. Williamson, M.D., 1860, 95. 
.code of, Carroll Dunham, M.D., 1867, 20, 106. 
discussion of, 1867, 20, 58. 
Medical maxims, H. V. Miller, M.D.,f 1871, 26.* 
register, 1872, 102.* 
schools, relation of the Inst, to, J. P. Dake, M.D.,1873, 138,* 174.* 
Medico-botanical study, E. M. Hale, M.D., 1865, 62. 
Members, correspondence of when travelling abroad, 1874, 52.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Membranous croup and Kali bichromicum, W. E. Payne, M.D., 1852, 4,* 37.* 
Memorial from New York physicians relative to a journal, 1859, 20.- 
Meningitis, cerebro-spinalis, S. Lilienthal, M.D., 1872, 45,* 287.* 
cases of, George A. Hall, M.D., 1874, 38,* 331.* 
diagnosis, pathology, and prognosis, W. H. 
Watson, M.D., 1874, 38,* 327 * 
effects upon the heart, B. W. James, M.D., 
1874, 38* 337 * 
history of, M. Friese, M.D.,f 1874, 38.* 
Menorrhagia and its treatment, E. G. Cooke, M.D., 1874, 43,* 836.* 
case of, L. A. Rendell, M.D.,f 1874, 43.* 
treatment of, Caroline B. Winslow, M.D.,j- 1874, 43.* 
Mental diseases in relation to homoeop., J. H. P. Frost, M.D., 1874, 57,* 653.* 
influence on maternity, 0. B. Gause, M.D , 1875, 44,* 329.* 
symptoms, importance of, C. Pearson, M.D., 1873, 121,* 708.* 
Microscopy, bureau of established, 1874, 53.* 
Microscope, relation to therapeutics, J. D. Buck, M.D.,j- 1875, 48.* 
Middle ear, abuses of Politzer's method, William N. Guernsey, M.D., 1874, 
54,* 744 * 
acute suppurative inflam, of, T. P. Wilson, M.D., 1875, 58,*502.* 
catarrhal inflam, of, H. C. Houghton, M D., 1874, 54, *736.* 
consequences of chronic suppuration, W. H. Woodyatt, M.D., 
1875, 58* 494* 
chronic suppuration of, W. L. Breyfogle, M.D.,f 1875, 58.* 
therapeutics of suppurative inflammation, H. C. Houghton, 
M D.,f 1875, 58 * 
Mind, influence in cure of disease, T. L. Brown, M.D., 1874, 57,* 699.* 
Mortality, comparative, P. Dudley, M.D., 1873, 128,* 635.* 
comparison under homoeopathic and allopathic treatment, E. M. 
Kellogg, M.D., 1873,63 * 454.* 
Nasal polypi, case of, W. Gallupe, M.D., 1870, 22,* 448.* 
National Medical Library, 1872, 101.* 
Necrology, list of deceased members, S. B. Barlow, M D., 1870, 163.* 
non-members, S. B. Barlow, M.D., 1870, 168.* 
report on, S. B. Barlow, M.D., 1869, 56* 115;* 1870, 81 * 156;* 
1871, 71* 
H. D. Paine, M.D., 1868, 173 ; 1874, 49 ;* 1875, 32* 
Abbott, Jehiel, M.D., 1873, 164.* 
Andrews, Joel R., M.D., 1870, 171,* 633.* 
Austin, James H., M.D., 1874, 96.* 
Baethig, Henry, M.D., 1873, 164.* 
Beebe, Nelson D., M.D., 1875, 89.* 
Bell, Henry W., M.D., 1870, 172,* 634 * 
Benedict, Thomas B., M.D., 1874, 95.* 
Bennett, Hilem, M.D., 1870, 173,* 635.* 936 
world's homceopatiiic convention. 
Necrology, Bitely, Eugene, M.D., 1874, 91.* 
Bloss, Richard, M.D., 1867, g 6, 66. 
Bolles, Richard M., M.D., 1870, 175,* 637 * 
Bowers, Benjamin F., M.D., 1875, 78.* 
Bradford, Richmond, M.D., 1875, 81.* 
Brown, Josiah, M. D., 1870, 183.* 
Bryan, Richard S., M.D., 1860, 171. 
Bryant, Charles G., M.D., 1870, 183,* 645.* 
Bulkley, William E„ MD., 1874, 88 * 
Burchard, Jefferson G , M.D., 1870,183,* 645 * 
Channing, William, M.D., 1870, 184 * 646 * 
Church, William I., M.D., 1865, 108. 
Clark, Peleg, M.D., 1875, 76 * 
Cole, Edgar B., M.D., 1874, 90.* 
Cook, Simeon A., M.D , 1874, 83 * 
Cook, George W., M.D., 1870, 184,* 646 * 
Drake, Elijah H., M.D.,1875, 88.* 
Duffield, Henry, M.D., 1866, 155. 
Fish, Charles F., M.D., 1875, 87.* 
Flagg, Josiah T., M.D., 1854, 70. 
Foote, Charles C., M.D., 1873, 161.* 
Frost, James H. P., M.D., 1875, 85.* 
Gardiner, William A., M.D., 1865, 108. 
Geist, Christian F., M.D., 1874, 79.* 
Grosewisch, John Charles, M.D., 1854, 74. 
Gregg, Samuel, M.D., 1873, 156.* 
Harris, Zina H., M.D., 1870, 185,* 647.* 
Holtby, Jabez Bunting, M.D., 1870, 185,* 647.* 
Hull, A. Cooke, M.D., 1870, 186,* 648.* 
Hull, Amos Gerald, M.D., 1859, 163; 1870, 187,* 649.* 
Ingalls, William, M.D., 185'2, 44. 
James, David, M.D., 1874, 73.* 
James, Isaac, M.D., 1874, 75.* 
Joslin, Benjamin Franklin, M.D., 1867, § 6, 62. 
Kirk, Isaac E., M.D., 1860, 177. 
Lingen, George, M.D., 1870, 188,* 650.* 
Loomis, Joseph G., M.D.,1854, 66. 
Lovejoy, Ezekiel, M.D., 1873, 166.* 
Macy, Benjamin Clasby, M D., 1865, 109. 
Matthews, Caleb Bentley, M.D., 1851, 14. 
Matthews, Moses M., M.D., 1870, 189,* 651.* 
Moore, John D., M.D., 1870, 190,* 652.* 
Morrill, Alpheus, M.D., 1874, 77.* 
Morrill, Henry E., M.D., 1874, 86.* 
Neilson, James C., M.D., 1875, 87.* 
Paine, John Alsop, M.D., 1874, 81.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Necrology, Payne, Lycurgus, M.D., 1854,* 72.* 
Perkins, Roger G., M.D., 1870, 191,* 653 * 
Perrine, George W., M.D , 1874, 89.* 
Prentice, Nathan F., M.D., 1875, 91.* 
Quin, James M., M.D., 1870, 192,* 654.* 
Randell, John M., M.D., 1859, 166. 
Reiehhelm, Gustavus, MD., 1865, 109. 
Roche, Manning B., M.D , 1870, 194,* 656.* 
Rosa, Lemuel R., M.D., 1854, 78. 
Rosa. Storm, M.D., 1870, 194,* 656.* 
Roseman, Robert, M.D., 1860, 174. 
Samson, C. M., M.D., 1870, 194,* 656.* 
Shattuck, Alvin, M.D , 1873, 163.* 
Sherrill, Hunting, M.D., 1867, g 6, 65; 1870, 195,* 657.* 
Sisson, William H. IL, M.D., 1873, 165.* 
Stansbury, Robert M., M.D., 1852, 43. 
Stewart, Walter, M.D., 1871, 127.* 
Stouffer, David R., M.D., 1874, 95.* 
Stretch, Joshua B., M.D., 1866, 154. 
Swan, Daniel, M.D., 1866, 153. 
Tarbell, John A., M D., 1866, 150. 
Taxil, Dr., 1871, 127 * 
Vail, Edward. M.D., 1871, 127 * 
Vanderburgh, Federal, M.D., 1871, 128.* 
Van Ness, Annie C. O., M.D., 1871, 129.* 
Vastine, Thomas J., M.D., 1874, 97.* 
Waggoner, Calvin C., M.D., 1871, 130.* 
Wallens, Miles W., M.D., 1874, 94.* 
Watters, Henry, M.D , 1875, 91.* 
Wesselhoeft, William, M.D., 1859, 164.* 
Wheeler, John, M.D., 1871, 124,* 130 * 
Whiton, Milo, J., M.D., 1871, 124,* 130.* 
Wild, Charles, M.D., 1866, 152. 
Willard, Ephraim S., M.D., 1873, 167.* 
Williamson, Walter, M.D., 1871, 122.* 
Williamson, Walter M., M D., 1874, 85.* 
Wilsey, Ferdinand L., M.D., 1860, 175, 196 ; 1870, 658.* 
Wilson, Abraham D., M.D., 1870, 197,* 659.* 
Witherill, Edwin C., M.D , 1867, § 6, 64. 
Wood, John G., M.D., 1859, 166. 
Wright, Albert, M.D., 1875, 83.* 
Wright, Clark, M.D., 1870, 197,* 659.* 
Zantzinger, Alfred, M.D., 1874, 93.* 
Necrosis, L. H. Willard, M.D., 1873, 97,* 592.* 
Nervous system, J. D. Buck, M.D., 1873, 115,* 676.* 
New splint, B. W. James, M.D., 1870, 70.* 938 
world's HOMOEOPATHIC CONVENTION-. 
Nipples, iniuries of, resulting from "hardening" process, J. C. Sanders, 
M.D., 1870, 46* 494.* 
Nomenclature, W. Williamson, M.D., 1869, 42,* 213 ;* 1870, 55;* 1871,42.* 
Obstetric forceps, 0. B. Gause, M.D., 1873, 43,* 253.* 
notes, J. H. Woodbury, M.D., 1868, 217 ; £ 4, 38. 
Obstetrics, report of bureau on, H. N. Guernsey, M.D., 1867, 81, | 4, 3 ; 
1868, 217, § 4, 33; 1869, 44* 281 * 
discussion on, 1869, 44;* 1871, 47.* 
Old and new in medicine, Julia Ford, M.D.,f 1875, 61.* 
Ophthalmic department Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital College, T. P. 
Wilson, M.D., 1872, 106,* 468 * 
practice, Aqua chlorinii and Baryta iodata in, C. T. Liebold, 
M.D., surgery, J. B. Bell, M.D., 1869, 51,* 383 ;* 1874, 55,* 
763 * 
practice, general observations on, T. P. Wilson, M.D., 1872, 
106,* 465.* 
Ophthalmology, clinical cases in, C. H. Von Tagen, M.D., 1873, 110,* 744.* 
discussion on, 1873, 110.* 
Optic nerve, diseases of, S. Lilienthal, M.D., 1870, 22,* 430. 
inflam, and atrophy, W. H. Woodyatt, M.D., 1875, 58,* 494.* 
Organization, report, bureau of, I. T. Talbot, M.D., 1866, 91 ; Henry M. 
Smith, M.D., 1867,82, f 6, 3 ; 1868, 188, §6,69; 
1869, 55*403;* 1871, 425;* 1875, 49;*W. M. 
Williamson, M.D., 1872, 403;* 1874, 60,* 595 * 
in Alabama, 1869, 414 ;* 1871, 429 * 
California, 1869, 414;* 1871, 429;* 1872, 405* 
Colorado, 1872, 406.* 
Connecticut, 1869, 414;* 1871, 430;* 1872, 406.* 
Delaware, 1869, 416;* 1871, 430.* 
District of Columbia, 1869, 416;* 1871, 430;* 1872, 406 * 
Florida, 1869, 417;* 1871, 431.* 
Georgia, 1869, 417;* 1871, 431 * 
Illinois, 1869, 417;* 1871,431 ;* 1872,407 * 
Indiana, 1869, 423;* 1871, 434;* 1872, 410 * 
Iowa, 1869, 424;* 1871, 434;* 1872, 411 * 
Kansas, 1869, 424;* 1871,435;* 1872,411 * 
Kentucky, 1869, 425;* 1871, 435 * 
Louisiana, 1869, 425;* 1871, 435.* 
Maine, 1869, 425;* 1871, 435;* 1872, 41L* 
Maryland, 1869, 427;* 1871,436 * 
Massachusetts, 1869, 428;* 1871, 436;* 1872, 412.* 
Michigan, 1869, 437;* 1871, 439;* 1872, 416 * 
Minnesota, 1869, 438;* 1871,441;* 1872, 417 * 
Mississippi, 1869, 439 ;* 1871, 441 * 
Missouri, 1869, 439;* 1871, 441;* 1872, 417 * 
Nebraska, 1869, 443 ;* 1871, 443 * REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Organization in Nevada, 1869, 443;* 1871,443.* 
New Hampshire, 1869, 444;* 1871, 443;* 1872, 418* 
New Jersey, 1869, 445 ;* 1871, 443;* 1872, 419.* 
New York, 1869, 449;* 1871, 444;* 1872, 420 * 
North Carolina, 1869, 473 ;* 1871, 462 * 
Ohio, 1869, 473;* 1871, 462;* 1872, 440* 
Pennsylvania, 1869, 476;* 1871, 465;* 1872, 442 * 
Rhode Island, 1869, 488;* 1871, 473 ; 1872, 449 * 
South Carolina, 1869, 489;* 1871, 473 * 
Tennessee, 1869, 489;* 1871, 474 * 
Texas, 1869, 489;* 1871, 474* 
Vermont, 1869, 490;* 1871, 474;* 1872, 450.* 
Virginia, 1869, 491 ;* 1871, 474 * 
Wisconsin, 1869,491;* 1871, 474;* 1872, 450* 
Orthopaedic surgery, L. H. Willard, M.D., 1869, 51,* 378.* 
Ossa-pubis, separation in labor, J. C. Sanders, M.D., 1870, 46,* 486.* 
Ovarian cysts, C. Ormes, M.D.,f 1875, 56.* 
dropsy, J. Hartmann, M.D., 1869, 50,* 321.* 
tumor, cure of, William Gallupe, M.D., 1869, 50,* 328.* 
removal of, C. H. Von Tagen, M.D., 1871, 57,* 347.* 
G. D. Beebe, M D., 1871, 57 *322* 
Ovariotomy, G. D. Beebe, M.D., 1870, 71.* 
B. W. James, M.D., 1869, 51,* 350 * 
William E. Saunders, M.D., 1870, 46,* 479 * 
N. Schneider, M.D., 1872, 94,* 379 * 
I. T. Talbot, M.D , 1871, 57,* 269 * 
Parasite, new kind of, E. H. Beckwith, M.D.,f 1871, 26.* 
Pathological anatomy, discussion of, 1868, 207; 1870, 25.* 
Pharmacy, W. Williamson, M.D., 1868, £ 2, 256. 
Pittsburg hospital cases, L. H. Willard, M.D., 1868, 209, £ 5, 71. 
Phthisis, causes and results of treatment, H. B. Clarke, M D., 1873, 62,* 
442 * 
discussion on, 1873, 63.* 
management of, G. A. Hall, M.D., 1873, 62,* 413.* 
pure air as a prophylaxis, J. C. Burgher, M.D., 1873, 62,* 423.* 
Physiology, report of bureau, J. H. P. Frost, M.D., 1868, 211, 7 and 8; 
1869, 54,* 495;* 1870, 80,* 595 * 
Pittsburg Hospital Cases, L. H. Willard, M.D , 1868-209, §5, 71. 
Polypus conjunctivae, T. F. Allen, M.D., 1871, 57,* 412 * 
Pope, A. C., M.D., letter from, 1871, 116.* 
Posology, report on, P. P. Wells, M.D., 1848, 3, 13. 
Post-mortem examinations, W. J. Blakeley, M.D., 1867, 58, § 5, 34. 
Practical results of bom. treatment, E. M. Kellogg, M.D., 1872, 45,* 304.* 
Primary and secondary symptoms defined, T. F. Allen, M.D ,f 1875, 33.* 
J. P. Dake, M.D.,f 1875, 33 * 940 
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Primary and secondary symptoms guides to the dose, Carroll Dunham, 
M.D.,f 1875, 34 * 
E. M. Hale, M.D.J 1875, 34.* 
remedy, W. McGeorge, M.D.,f 1875, 34.* 
C. Wesselhoeft, M.D.,f 1875, 34.* 
Procidentia uteri, E. G. Cook, M.D., 1867, § 4, 28. 
Prostate, surgical diseases of, H. F. Biggar, M.D.,j- 1875, 42.* 
Provers, college of, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1873, 43.* 
Provings, discussion of, 1869, 38 * 
recording and collecting, Wm. E. Payne, M.D., 1869, 37,* 187.* 
plan for a more thorough, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1873, 33,* 233.* 
Psychical nosology, George F. Foote, M.D., 1874, 57,* 689.* 
Psychology, discussion on, 1873, 121.* 
popular, George W. Swazey, M.D., 1874, 57,* 703.* 
Puerperal convulsions, O. P. Baer, M.D., 1872,65,* 345.* 
R. B. Rush, M.D., 1872, 65,* 332.* 
J. C. Sanders, M.D., 1867, 81, g 4, 10. 
and catalepsy, O. B. Gause, M.D., 1872, 65,*, 321.* 
fever, clinical history of, J. F. Cooper, M.D., 1874, 42,* 373.* 
differential diagnosis and prognosis, R. Ludlam, M.D., 
1874, 42,* 384.* 
etiol. and infect, of, J. S. Blake, M.D., 1874, 42, *379.* 
regimenal management of, J. C. Sanders, M.D., 1874, 42,* 
398 * 
treatment of, O. B. Gause, M.D., 1874, 42,* 412.* 
mania, J. C. Burgher, M.D., 1872, 66,* 353.* 
Pulmonary consumption, practical remarks on, W. H. Holcombe, M.D., 
1873, 62,* 407 * 
Rachitis, N. Schneider, M.D., 1873, 97,* 529.* 
Reflex derangements in pregnancy, J. H. Woodbury, M.D., 1875, 44,* 325.* 
Registration, Henry M. Smith, M.D., 1869, 55,* 404.* 
Relative frequency of diseases North and South, W. H. Edmonds, M.D.,f 
1875, 56* 
Reorganization, discussion on, 1866, 19. 
I. T. Talbot, M.D., 1865, 11, 21. 
Repetition of medicine, William E. Payne, M.D., 1857, 33. 
Repertory, William P. Esrey, M.D., 1845, 355. 
Reproving of the Materia Medica, William E. Payne, M.D., 1873, 33,* 244.* 
Resection of joints, E. C. Franklin, M.D., 1871, 57,* 359.* 
Resolutions, addresses, annual, 1868, 212. 
advertising, against, 1856, 9. 
alcohol, 1871, 69.* 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, organizing, 1843, 3. 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, relative to its incorpora- 
tion, 1873, 133 * REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Resolutions, Bureau of Climatology, to secure reports of diseases, 1874, 41.* 
bureaus appointed just after reporting, and to be called to- 
gether at once, 1870, 37.* 
bureaus, reports of, to precede miscellaneous business, 1868, 231. 
by-laws to exclude resolutions, 1851, 7. 
spurious, declared void, 1872, 116.* 
centesimal scale implied, 1859, 27. 
cholera, 1866, 18, 25. 
Climatology, Committee on, 1873, 79.* 
clinical facts solicited, 1859, 29. 
colleges, 1857, 9. 
committees not reporting to be discontinued, 1854, 11. 
communications should be made by every member, 1851, 6. 
Congress memorialized regarding homoeopathy in army and 
navy, 1868, 233. 
petitioned regarding medical and surgical history of 
the war, 1873, 147.* 
constitution to be signed by members, 1851, 7. 
delegates invited from societies, 1865, 13. 
discussion and reports of bureaus printed together, 1874, 59. 
dispensatory ordered prepared, 1870, 45.* 
drugs, their curative properties, how ascertained, 1850, 29. 
education, medical, 1847, 4; 1869, 58. 
Frey tag, death of Dr. E., 1846, 4. 
governmental standard of medical orthodoxy condemned, 1875, 
50* 
Gray, condolence with Dr. J. F., 1868, 173. 
Hahnemann's Materia Medica, translation of, 1848, 4. 
health boards and homoeopathy, 1868, 201. 
Hering, Dr., delegate to German Congress, 1845, 8. 
homoeopathic law coextensive with disease, 1854, 12; 1860, 27. 
homoeopathic life insurance companies, 1836, 22 ; 1867, 86. 
Humphreys, Dr., expulsion, 1855, 10. 
Hydrophobin, 1853, 5. 
James, death of Dr. David, 1873, 148* 
Legislation, Committee on, 1870, 81.* 
legislative action regarding insane, 1874, 60.* 
Lewis, Dr., expulsion, 1856, 16. 
life insurance companies, 1866, 22; 1867, 86. 
Loomis's forceps, 1853, 9. , 
Massachusetts Medical Society, action in expelling homoeo- 
pathic members condemned, 1873, 32.* 
Materia Medica Bureau, plan for proving, 1872, 33.* 
papers be published at once, 1871,40 * 
its improvement and augmentation the 
object of the Institute, 1846, 5. 942 
world's homceopathic convention. 
Resolutions, meeting, preliminary, 1867, 85. 
members in arrearages, 1856, 20, 22; 1859, 27. 
honorary, 1857, 8. 
membership, applicants for, 1853, 5; 1870, 21,* 104. 
eligibility to, 1869, 348. 
certificates, 1845, 7. 
requirement for, 1845, 7. 
Michigan, University of, 1868, 189, 194; 1873, 126.* 
Moore, Dr., expulsion, 1857, 9. 
nostrums, against, 1855, 12. 
officers enter upon their duties, 1869, 357. 
officers ineligible to re-election rescinded, 1866, 25. 
oration, public, dispensed with, 1871, 56.* 
order of business, 1868, 231. 
papers, disposition of, 1858, 30. 
previously published not to be received, 1873, 110.* 
to be abbreviated, 1859, 24. 
to be handed to Secretary within thirty days,1871, 63.* 
published elsewhere than in Transactions an offence 
1874, 60 * 
pathological anatomy, 1868, 205. 
pharmaceutists requested to retain Hahnemann's designation 
while using the decimal scale, 1853, 12. 
president's address to contain review of progress of medicine, 
1871, 56* 
proceedings to be published in newspapers, 1845, 7. 
provings, 1859, 13. 
reports, reading of, limited to fifteen minutes, 1870, 22.* 
not responsible for teaching of, 1857, 11. 
residence, secretary to be advised of change, 1851, 7. 
to be revised, 1870, 104.* 
seal, providing for a, 1845, 7. 
signal service of the array, 1872, 65.* 
Smithsonian Institute, Transactions to be presented, 1856, 19. 
societies recommended to be formed, 1846, 5. 
in Europe, 1866, 25. 
speakers limited to ten minutes, 1871, 25.* 
statistics, journal of, to be published, 1867, 81. 
students to have a sufficient preliminary education, 1870, 91.* 
symptoms verified, 1869, 37.* 
titles, regarding medical, 1850, 28. 
tri-monthly magazine, 1868, 231. 
vaccine virus, reliability of, 1853, 8. 
"Williamson, death of Dr Walter, 1871, 73.* 
Wolfe, thanks to Dr. Paul, 1854, 14. 
death of Dr. Paul, 1856, 8. REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
943 
Resolutions, women admitted to membership, 1869, 64.* 
World's Homoeopathic Convention, 1874, 62.* 
Respiratory organs, diseases of, I. T. Talbot, M D.,j- 1856, 13. 
Retinitis albuminurica, G. S. Norton, M.D., 1875, 58,* 481.* 
from Bright's disease, T. P. Wilson, M.D., 1874, 54,* 747.* 
Retrospect of materia medica work, Carroll Dunham, M.D., 1871, 36,* 181.* 
Rigidity of the os uteri, R. Ludlam, M.D., 1868, 211, | 4, 45. 
Rupture of thoracic artery, H. H. Hoffman,'M.D., 1868, 210, § 4, 63. 
Sanitary Science and Climatol., report, B. W. James, M.D.,1875, 36.* 581.* 
Scalp and cranial arch, injuries to, E. C. Franklin, M.D., 1870, 66,* 534.* 
Scarlet fever, S. M. Cate, M.D., 1858, 11, 150. 
complications and sequel®, E P. Cummings, M D.,f 1875, 45.* 
etiology and prophylaxis, N. R. Morse. M D., 1875, 45,* 543.* 
history and statistics, C. W. Sonnenschmidt,M.D.,f 1875, 45.* 
nature and diagnosis, L. M. Kenyon, M.D., 1875, 45,* 537.* 
successes in, T. C. Duncan, M.D., 1875, 45,* 564.* 
Sciatica from gold-poisoning, J. Heber Smith, M D., 1869, 33,* 262.* 
Scrofulosis, S. M. Cate, M.D., 1871, 26,* 220 * 
Seal adopted, 1846, 3. 
Seniors, 1871, 89;* 1872, 102 * 
names to be placed at head of list, 1874, 52.* 
Sensorial faculties, retentive power of, C. G. Raue, M.D., 1874, 57,* 694.* 
Secretary, report, 1858, 205. 
Skimmed milk, discussion on, 1871, 38.* 
Small-pox, R. Gardiner, M.D., 1858, 11, 61. 
W. R. Power, M.D., 1853, 51. 
report of committee on, 1853, 54. 
and its prophylactics, J. Pettet, M.D., 1873, 63,* 465.* 
Spectacles, use of, T. P. Wilson, M D., 1873, 110,* 740.* 
Spectroscope, J. H. Pulte, M.D., 1866, 118. 
Stomatitis materna, R. Ludlam, M D., 1860, 78. 
Strabismus, James B. Bell, M.D., 1871, 57,* 288.* 
Surgery, aural, H. C. Houghton, M D., 1871, 57,* 418.* 
clinical, M. Macfarlan, M.D., 1871, 57 * 413;* 1872,94,* 381.* 
Surgical cases, G. D. Beebe, M.D., 1868, 209, £ 5, 51. 
James B. Bell, M D , 1870, 67,* 557.* 
W. T. Helmuth, M.D., 1867, 57, $ 5, 3. 
M. Macfarlan, M.D., 1870, 67,* 579.* 
J. C. Morgan, M.D., 1868, 209, 5, 64. 
N. Schneider, M.D , 1870, 67,* 571.* 
experiences, T. G. Comstock, M.D , 1868, 209, 5, 74. 
improvements, B. W. James, M.D., 1871, 57,* 300 ;* 1872, 94,* 
392 * 
means, report on, B. F. Joslin, M.D., 1848, 4, 19. 
operation, W. T. Helmuth, M.D., 1868, 210. 944 
world's homceopathic convention. 
Surgical, report of bureau, W. T. Helmuth, M.D., 1866, 74. 
J. C. Morgan, M.D., 1869, 51,* 364.* 
and clinical means, 1847, 3. 
Sulphur in acute diseases, C. Wesselhoeft, M.D., 1873, 34,* 380.* 
Symptoms dependent upon diseases of uterus, S. R. Beckwith, M.D.,f 1875 
56* 
significance of, E. M. Hale, M.D., 1874, 36,* 168 * 
Synovial membranes, structure of, T. F. Alien, M.D.,f 1875, 48.* 
Syphilis, S. R. Beckwith, M.D.,f 1872, 93.* 
case of secondary, William E. Payne, M.D., 1859, 131. 
Albany (N. Y.) County, 1866, 102; 1867, § 6, 41; 1869, 450;* 1871, 445;* 
1872, 421 * 
Allegheny (Pa.) County, 1865, 92; 1866, 104; 1867, g 6, 45; 1868, g 6, 99 ; 
1869,206;* 1871,466;* 1872, 444 * 
American Institute of Homoeopathic Pharmacy, 1871, 428;* 1872, 405.* 
American Provers' Union, 1854, 42; 1855, 56; 1856, 58; 1860,,170. 
Berks and Schuylkill Counties, Pa., 1871, 467 ;* 1872, 445.* 
Boston Academy of Homoeopathic Medicine, 1866, 102; 1867, g 6, 40; 1868, 
§6,96; 1869, 429 ;* 1871, 437 ;* 1872, 414 * 
Boston Homoeopathic, 1869, 430;* 1871, 437; 1872, 414. 
Bristol (Mass.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, § 6, 41; 1868, g 6, 90; 
1869, 430;* 1871, 438;* 1872, 414.* 
Broome (N. Y.) County, 1869, 451;* 1871, 445;* 1872, 422* 
Buffalo Hahnemannian, 1871, 445.* 
California State, 1872, 405.* 
Canadian, 1855, 62. 
Cayuga (N. Y.) County, 1866, 103; 1867, § 6, 41; 1869, 451;* 1871, 446;* 
1872, 422 * 
Central Homoeopathic Medical Association of Maine, 1867, § 6, 40; 1868, g 
6,96; 1869, 426;* 1872, 436 * 
Central New York, 1867, § 6, 43; 1868, g 6, 97; 1869, 450;* 1871, 445;* 
1872, 421 * 
Chautauqua (N. Y.) County, 1869, 451 ;* 1871, 446;* 1872, 422 * 
Chemung (N. Y.) County, 1869, 452;* 1871, 446;* 1872, 422. 
Chenango (N. Y.) County, 1872, 423.* 
Chester (Pa.) County, 1860, 161 ; 1867, g 6, 44; 1868, g 6, 99 ; 1869, 480;* 
1871, 467 ;* 1872, 444 * 
Chicago Academy of Medicine, 1869, 418 ;* 1871, 431.* 
Chicago Homoeopathic Medical, 1857, 7 ; 1859, 140. 
Cincinnati Homoeopathic Medical, 1853, 48; 1868, g 6, 100; 1869, 474;* 
1871, 463;* 1872, 440 * 
Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical Association, 1871, 463 ;* 1872, 441.* 
Columbia and Greene (N. Y.) Counties, 1869, 452;* 1871, 446;* 1872, 423.* 
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Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical, 1854, 53; 1865, 87; 1867, g 6, 35; 1868, 
g 6, 86; 1869, 415;* 1871, 430;* 1872, 406 * 
Connecticut Valley Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 474.* 
Cook (Ill.) County Homoeop., Medical, 1868, g 6,101 ; 1869, 419 ;* 1871, 431 * 
Cumberland Valley (Pa.) Homoeopathic Medical, 1866, 104; 1867, g 6, 45; 
1868, g 6, 100; 1869, 480;* 1871,467;* 1872, 444* 
Cuyahoga (Ohio) County Medical Association, 1867, g 6, 46; 1868, g 6, 101 ; 
1869, 475;* 1871, 463 * 
Dutchess (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, g 6, 42 ; 1868, g 6, 
97; 1869, 453;* 1871, 446 ;* 1872, 423.* 
Dutchess (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical Society Mutual Improve- 
ment Association, 1868, g 6, 98. 
Eastern New Jersey Homoeopathic Medical, 1868, g 6,99; 1869,446;* 1871, 
443;* 1872, 419. 
Erie (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1868, g 6; 1869, 453;* 1871, 
447;* 1872, 423 * 
Essex (Mass.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1872, 415.* 
Hahnemann (N. Y.) Acad, of Med., 1867, g 6, 43; 1869, 450;* 1871, 445.* 
Hahnemann Medical, of Michigan University, 1871, 441.* 
Hahnemann, of Cincinnati, 1855, 60. 
Hahnemann, of the Cleveland Homoeopathic College, 1867, g 6,45; 1868, 
g 6, 101 ;* 1869,475;* 1871,463 * 
Hudson (N. J.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 443;* 1872, 420.* 
Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Association, 1867, g 6, 39 ; 1868, g 6, 
95; 1869,418;* 1871,431;* 1872,407 * 
Indiana Homoeopathic Institute, 1867, g 6, 39; 1868, g 6, 94; 1869, 423;* 
1871, 434;* 1872,410* 
Iowa, of Homoeopathic Physicians, 1871,434;* 1872, 411.* 
Kansas Homoeopathic Medical, 1869, 424;* 1871, 435;* 1872, 411.* 
King's (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1866, 103; 1868, g 6, 98 ; 1869, 
454;* 1871,447;* 1872,424 * 
Livingston (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, g 6, 42; 1869, 
454;* 1871, 447;* 1872, 424 * 
Madison (N. Y.) County Hom. Medical, 1869, 454; 1871, 448;* 1872, 424.* 
Maine Hom. Med., 1867, g 6, 32 ; 1868, g 6, 83 ; 1869, 426 ;* 1871, 435 ;* 1872, 
411*. 
Marion (Ind.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1872, 411.* 
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical, 1852, 35; 1854,48; 1855, 62; 1856, 
57; 1859, 143; 1866,98; 1867, g 6,34; 1868, g 6,85; 1869,428;* 1871, 
436;* 1872, 412;* 1873, 90. 
Materia Medica, Chicago, 1872. 407.* 
Medical and Surgical Academy of the Hom. Coll., Cleveland, 1871, 463.* 
Miami Homoeopathic Medical, Ohio, 1867, g 6, 45. 
Michigan Hom. Inst., 1867, g 6, 38 ; 1868, g 6, 90 ; 1869, 437;* 1871, 439.* 
Michigan State Homoeopathic, 1871, 440;* 1872, 416.* 
Minnesota Homoeopathic Institute, 1869, 438;* 1871, 441;* 1872, 417.* 946 
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Missouri Homoeopathic Medical, 1869, 439;* 1871, 442,* 
Montgomery (N.Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 455 ;* 1871,448; *1872, 425.* 
Monroe (N. Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 455;* 1871, 448; *1872, 424.* 
Muskingum Valley Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 464.* 
New Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, 6,33; 1868, g 6,84; 1869, 
444;* 1871,443;* 1872, 418 * 
New Jersey Branch of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, 1850, 27. 
New Jersey State Hom. Med., 1868, g 6, 88; 1869, 415 ;* 1871, 443; * 1872, 419 * 
New York Branch of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, 1851, 11. 
New York County Homoeopathic Medical, 1866, 102 ; 1868, § 6, 98; 1869, 
456;* 1871, 448;* 1872, 425 * 
New York State Homoeopathic, 1853, 30; 1854, 54; 1866, 99; 1867, g 6, 36; 
1868, g 6, 87; 1869, 449;* 1871,444;* 1872, 420 * 
Niagara (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1872, 425.* 
Northern Illinois Medical Association, 1857, 7. 
Northern New York Hom. Med., 1869, 450 ;* 1871, 445;* 1872, 421.* 
Ohio Hom. Med., 1868, g 6, 90; 1869, 474;* 1871, 462;* 1872, 440 * 
Oneida (N. Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 456;* 1871, 448 ;* 1872, 426.* 
Onondaga (N. Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 456;* 1871, 419;*1872, 426.* 
Ontario and Yates (N. Y.) Counties Homoeopathic Medical, 1869, 457 ;* 
1871, 449;* 1872, 426 * 
Orange (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 449;* 1872, 426,* 
Oswego (N. Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 457 ;* 1871, 449;* 1872, 427.* 
Otsego (N.Y.) Co. Hom. Med., 1867, g 6, 42; 1869, 458; 1871, 449 ;* 1872, 427 * 
Pennsylvania State Homoeopathic Medical, 1866,101; 1867, g 6,37; 1868, 
g 6, 89 ; 1869, 478; 1871, 465;* 1872, 442 * 
Perry (Ohio) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 464.* 
Philadelphia Branch of American Institute of Homoeopathy, 1850, 26-31; 
1851, 12; 1852, 31; 1853, 46. 
Philadelphia Homoeopathic Medical, 1860, 163; 1866, 103; 1867, § 6,44; 
1868, g 6, 100; 1869,481; 1871, 467 ;* 1872, 445 * 
Ramsey (Minn.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1872, 417.* 
Rensselaer (N. Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 458 ;* 1871, 450 ;* 1872, 427.* 
Rhode Island Homoeopathic, 1852, 36; 1854, 45; 1856, 59. 
San Francisco Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 429.* 
Saratoga (N. Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 458 ;* 1871, 450 ;* 1872, 427 * 
Seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, £ 6, 
46; 1868, § 6, 101; 1869, 475 ;* 1871, 464 ;* 1872, 441 * 
Steuben (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, $ 6, 42; 1869, 459;* 
1871,450;* 1872,428 * 
St. Lawrence (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1872, 428. 
St. Louis Homoeopathic Medical, 1868, g 6, 102; 1869, 440;* 1871, 442* 
Tioga (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 450;* 1872, 428.* 
Ulster (N. Y.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, g 6, 43; 1868, $ 6, 99, 
1869,459;* 1871,450;* 1872,428.* REFERENCE TO TRANSACTIONS. 
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Vermont Homoeopathic Medical, 1867, g 6, 34; 1868, § 6, 85; 1869, 490;* 
1871, 474;* 1872, 450 * 
Washington (D. C.) Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 430;* 1872, 406.* 
Washington and Warren (N. Y.) Counties Homoeopathic Medical, 1869; 
460;* 1871,451;* 1872,429 * 
Wayne (N. Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869, 460;* 1871, 451 ;* 1872, 429 * 
Westchester (N.Y.) County Hom. Med., 1869,460;* 1871, 451 ;* 1872, 429 * 
Western District of New Jersey Homoeopathic Medical, 1869, 446;* 1871, 
444;* 1872,420* 
Western Institute of Homoeopathy, 1866, 97; 1867, § 6, 32 ; 1868, § 6, 83 ; 
1869, 59-69; 1870, 60; 1871, 428.* 
Wisconsin State Homoeopathic Medical, 1871, 474;* 1872, 450.* 
Worcester (Mass.) County Homoeopathic Medical, 1868, §6,97; 1869, 430 ;* 
1871, 438;* 1872, 414.* 
Tobacco, J. B. Wood. M.D., 1874, 58.* 
Therapeutics, related to pathological anatomy, P. P. Wells, M.D., 1868, 
g 3, 53. 
J. C. Burgher, M.D., 1869, 33,* 257 * 
Thermometer in disease, J. J. Mitchell, M.D., 1838, 205, § 3, 132. 
Thyroid gland, hypertrophy of, Jacob Beakley, M.D.,f 1869, 51.* 
Topical uterine applications, J. H. Woodbury, M.D., 1871, 43,* 243.* 
Triturations of expressed juice of plants, John T. S. Smith, M.D., 1854, 15. 
Tuberculosis with sound lungs, D. Cowley, M.D., 1868, 205, $ 3, 125. 
Tumors of bone, E. C. Franklin, M.D., 1873, 97,* 536.* 
the ethmoid bone, N. Schneider, M.D , 1872,j- 94.* 
Typhoid fever, S. M. Cate, M.D., 1872, 45,* 265.* 
in Buffalo, 1869-70, L. M. Kenyon, M.D.,f 1870, 22.* 
Ulceration of the stomach, A.K. Hills, M.D., 1872, 45,* 293.* 
University of Michigan, homceopathy in, 1868, 190, 194. 
the State of New York, J. P. Dake, M.D., 1873, 138,* 176.* 
Urinary organs, diseases of, S. Gregg, M.D., 1855, 50. 
Ustilago m., confirmed indications, C. Wesselhoeft, M.D., 1871, 36, 178.* 
Uterus, anteflexion, J. C. Sanders, MD., 1869, 50,* 306.* 
deviations of, J. C. Burgher, M.D., 1875, 56,* 519.* 
flexions of the, T. G. Comstock, M.D., 1869, 50,* 298.* 
haemorrhage of, auxiliary treatment, J. H. Woodbury, M.D., 1872, 
65,* 326.* 
inversion of, Mary J. S. Blake, M.D., 1873, 76,* 503.* 
A. R. Thomas, M.D., 1872, 66,* 368 * 
polypus of, J. H. Woodbury, M.D., 1870, 46,* 467.* 
prolapsus of, Mercy B. Jackson, M.D., 1873, 76,* 500.* 
tumor of, cured by Ustilago, E. M. Hale, M.D., 1870, 46,* 475.* 
T. Y. Kinne, M.D.,f 1875, 56 * 
I. W. Sawin, M.D.,f 1875, 56.* 
A. B. Smith, M.D., 1872, 65,* 335.* 948 
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Vaccinate, shall we? F. B. Mandeville, M.D.,j- 1871, 26.* 
Vaccination, 1853, 55. 
discussion on, 1852, 5. 
Vagina, operation for imperforate, J. H. Woodbury, M.D., 1869, 50,* 293.* 
Vaginal hernia, W. Danforth, M. D., 1874, 43,* 839.* 
Varioloid, 1853, 58. 
Ventilation, A. R. Morgan, M.D., 1869, 54,* 539.* 
H. B. Van Norman, M.D.,f 1875, 36,* 64* 
Verified symptoms, W. McGeorge, M.D , 1873, 34,* 400.* 
Vital dynamics, J. H. P. Frost, M.D., 1873, 121,* 687.* 
Washington Medical Society, right to license physicians, 1870, 20.* 
monument, stone from Hahnemann's birthplace, 1853, 9. 
obtained, 1854, 13. 
Water as an adjuvant, 1847, 3. 
a therapeutic agent, J. P. Dake, M.D.,f 1858, 7 ; 1859, 116. 
J. H. Pulte, M.D., 1857, 7. 
R. M. Snow, M.D , 1850, 54. 
Where the many ways may meet, G. W. Swazey, M.D., 1875, 61,* 473.* 
Whooping-cough, C. Neidhard, M.D., 1865, 14, 52. 
Women, admission of, to membership, discussion, 1867, 40; 1869, 61.* 
postponed, 1868, 234. 
admitted, 1871, 58.* 
World's Homoeopathic Congress, report of committee, 1849, 134. 
Convention proposed, P. Dudley, M.D., 1871, 70.* 
1872, 88,* 113;* 1873, 134,* 169;* 1874, 
62,* 100;* 1875, 69. 
Yearbook suggested, Henry D. Paine, M.D., 1851, 7. 
Yellow fever at New Orleans in 1867, W. H. Holcombe, M.D., 1868, 204, 
g 3, 101. CHAPTER III. 
HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, PHARMACIES. HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, 
PHARMACIES. 
Homoeopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania.* 
A charter for the Homceopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania 
was obtained at the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia 
County, April 20th, 1850. A large building on Chestnut 
Street, near the Schuylkill River, now used as a hotel, was 
rented, and, after being fully organized, the hospital was opened 
in 1852 for the reception of patients. It continued in opera- 
tion about two years. In the fall of 1853 a fair was held in the 
Chinese Museum, 9th and Sansom streets, for the benefit of the 
hospital, at which about $2800 was raised. At the close of its 
active operations there was some money in the treasury, and 
also a considerable amount of furniture on hand, together with 
surgical appliances. All of these were given to the Soldiers' 
Hospital during the war of the rebellion. 
The first official board was as follows : President, R. Gardiner, 
M.D.; Vice-Presidents, C. B. Matthews, M.D., and W. S. Hel- 
muth, M.D.; Secretary, William A. Gardiner, M.D.; Treasurer, 
W. Williamson, M.D.; Managers, Drs. C. Heid hard, F. Sims, 
S. Freedley, James Kitchen, A. E. Small, J. R. Coxe, Jr., Mat- 
thew Semple. There were medical, surgical, and lying-in wards. 
The first elected attending physicians were Drs. W. S. Helmuth, 
J. Kitchen, C. Neidhard. Surgeons, Drs. F. Sims, W. A. Gardi- 
ner. Obstetricians, Drs. W. Williamson, R. Gardiner. The 
attending physicians served on alternate three months, attending 
daily. There was a resident physician and superintendent. Charity 
patients required a certificate from the attending physician pre- 
vious to admission, but accident cases were received at any hour. 
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No infectious or contagious diseases were admitted. No incura- 
ble cases were admitted without payment. The enterprise was 
pecuniarily embarrassed, and though there were plenty of pa- 
tients, for want of interest on the part of the physicians it 
became defunct. 
On the 9th of September, 1862, a meeting of ladies was held 
at the Homoeopathic College in Philadelphia, to organize an as- 
sociation for the management of a hospital. The board of 
managers of the college had fitted up suitable rooms in a 
building belonging to the corporation, and in the rear of the 
college, for the reception of sick and wounded soldiers. The 
upper story of this building was connected with the amphithe- 
atre of the college by a covered passage, thus enabling patients 
to be brought before the class in the clinical lectures. Govern- 
ment would not allow soldiers who preferred homoeopathic treat- 
ment to become its inmates, and, therefore, only such soldiers as 
had been discharged from the United States Army hospitals 
could come. A considerable number of patients were received 
and much good was done. Very many contributions were do- 
nated by charitable ladies for its support. Soon after the war 
this hospital was closed. 
In the summer of 1869 the faculty of the Hahnemann Medi- 
cal College, feeling the necessity for a hospital for the purpose 
of increasing the facilities for clinical instruction, originated a 
movement for holding a lar^e fair, and thus raised funds for 
reopening the Homoeopathic Hospital. Extensive preparations 
were made during the summer and fall, and in the month of 
November the fair was opened at Horticultural Hall. From 
the active co-operation of a large number of physicians of the 
city, and the indefatigable efforts of the many ladies and gen- 
tlemen interested in the enterprise, the fair, which continued for 
two weeks, was a great success, and resulted in raising the sum 
of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000). In 1870 the money 
thus secured was invested by the trustees of the hospital, 
who were also trustees of the college, in the purchase of the 
college property on Filbert Street, above 11th Street. On 
the Cuthbert Street end of this property were two dwell- HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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ings, the same that had been used as a soldiers' hospital during 
the war. These buildings were removed, and on the lot was 
erected a five-storied brick hospital building. The main struc- 
ture was 80 feet in length, with a wing of 30 feet. The capacity 
of the building was fifty beds. It contained two large public 
wards,-male and female,-besides several private wards, resi- 
dents' rooms, etc. Each floor of the hospital communicated with 
the college, and patients were easily passed to and from the clin- 
ical amphitheatre of the latter. This hospital was formally 
opened on the 9th of January, 1871. Since that time over 
18,000 medical and surgical cases have received treatment in 
its wards and dispensary department. This hospital is still in 
active operation. 
The present Board of Managersis composed as follows : Chair- 
man, W. Hobart Brown ; Secretary, D. T. Pratt; Treasurer, 
John W. Sexton; William C. Keehmle, A. R. Thomas, M.D., 
Oliver Evans, B. F. Betts, M.D. 
Medical and Surgical Staff: Physician, E. A. Farrington, 
M.D.; Surgeon, M. Macfarlan, M.D.; Resident Physician and 
Surgeon, L. F. Smiley, M.D. 
/The following physicians have served as residents since the 
opening of the hospital: Henry Baethig, M.D., J. A. Bullard, 
M.D., Dr. Sheppard, L. F. Smiley, M.D. 
The hospital is supported by voluntary contributions, board 
of patients, rents, etc., all of which are sufficient to place it upon 
a permanent basis. The clinics of the Hahnemann College, since 
the opening of this hospital, have been vastly improved, its beds 
being always open to such cases as required hospital treatment. 
The Philadelphia Homoeopathic Infirmary was organized in 
April, 1859, and first opened at the corner of 15th and Ogden 
streets. Two years later it was removed to 1106 Coates Street 
(now Fairmount Avenue). At that time there were but two public 
institutions in which homoeopathy was practiced,-The Northern 
Home for Friendless Children and the College Dispensary. 
This infirmary was organized with a Board of Managers, and 
the following Medical Staff: Consulting Physicians, Drs. C. Her- 952 
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ing, D. James, Richard Gardiner, A. Lippe; Attending Phy- 
sicians, Drs. B. W. James, D. R. Posey, L. L. Coxe. 
The object of the institution was to afford a place where all 
kinds of surgical operations could be performed, and medical 
cases could be treated homoeopath ically. It was divided into 
surgical, medical, and obstetrical departments. The obstetrical 
department was never put into active operation. A few beds 
were provided, and both surgical and medical cases were fre- 
quently placed in the same. 
After the death of Dr. Coxe, Drs. P. Dudley and J. C. Gil- 
christ held positions on the staff. 
The institution was supported by voluntary contributions. It 
was open every day in the week except Sunday, and through it 
was accomplished a vast amount of good. The institution was 
closed in 1870. During its existence a branch was opened in 
Manayunk, and continued for one year. 
There have been very many dispensaries started, at different 
times, in various parts of the State which have accomplished 
much good in bringing homoeopathy to the notice of the people. 
The principal one in Philadelphia is 
The Dispensary of the Homoeopathic Hospital.-Upon the open- 
ing of the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania in 1848, a 
dispensary was also organized, both for the purpose of afford- 
ing the poor of the city an opportunity for homoeopathic treat- 
ment, and for furnishing the clinics of the college with materials 
for lectures. This was the first homoeopathic dispensary or- 
ganized in Philadelphia. 
Eighteen physicians were appointed to serve on the first staff: 
Drs. S. R. Dubs, W. P. Esrey, Samuel Freedley, Richard Gar- 
diner, Augustus Koch, W. S. Helmuth, James Kitchen, C. B. 
Matthews, J. G. Pehrson, Walter Ward, C. Neidhard, Walter 
Williamson, A. E. Small, Matthew Semple, Francis Sims, W. A. 
Gardiner, E. M. Smith, W. B. Riehle. 
When the college took possession of its present building in 
Filbert Street, in 1849 (its first course having been held in the 
rear of 229 Arch Street, old number), the dispensary was placed HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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in the basement of this building, where it remained for many 
years. In 1875, for the greater convenience of the clinics, rooms 
were provided in the third story, the dispensary placed in the 
same, and practical surgery removed to the basement. 
Upon the organization of the Hahnemann Medical College in 
1867, a dispensary was opened with the college at 1307 Chest- 
nut Street, afterwards removed to 18 North 10th Street; upon 
the consolidation of the two colleges this was united with the 
dispensary of the old college. 
Upon the opening of the present hospital in 1871, the college 
dispensary was transferred to the hospital organization, though 
still held in the college building. The annual reports are now 
made as a part of the hospital reports, and appear on the first of 
May of each year. The attending physicians arc elected an- 
nually by the board of hospital managers, and do service on 
alternate days, at least six being always present. The central 
location of this dispensary has secured a very large attendance 
of patients, more than 150,000 cases having been treated since 
the opening of the institution. A large proportion of the ho- 
moeopathic physicians of the city have served at some time on its 
staff, and the college clinics, through the same, have been richly 
supplied with material of all kinds. 
The following homes have been, or now are, under homoeo- 
pathic treatment: Little Wanderer's Home, Methodist Episco- 
pal Old Folks' Home, Presbyterian Home, Northern Home 
for Friendless Children. 
The Philadelphia Northern Home for Friendless Children, 
which was originally under allopathic, then came under homoeo- 
pathic treatment, and in a few years returned to the allopathic 
treatment, presents the following summary of statistics of the 
rival modes of treatment, as compiled by Bushrod W. James, 
M.D., formerly surgeon of the institution : 
Summary: Total inmates of Northern Home while under ho- 
moeopathic service, 1599; deaths, 16. Total inmates of Northern 
Home while under allopathic service, 964; deaths, 18. Homoeo- 
pathic term of service, 7| years. Allopathic term, 5J years. 954 
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Hospital and Dispensary op Pittsburg.* 
In the autumn of 1865 Drs. J. C. Burgher, M. Cote, and H. H. 
Hoffman purchased, on their individual responsibility, the present 
hospital site. Application was made to the legislature for an 
act of incorporation, under the name of the "Homoeopathic Hecti- 
cal and Surgical Hospital and Dispensary of Pittsburg, Pa.," 
which was granted, and approved by the governor on the 4th 
day of April, 1866. In the meantime the efforts of the pro- 
jectors were seconded by Drs. D. Cowley, L. M. Rousseau, J. 
F. Cooper, F. Taudte; thirty-five lay corporators were also 
enlisted in the good work, who contributed from one hundred to 
one thousand dollars each. A meeting of the corporators was 
held on the 9th day of April, 1866, and proceeded to elect a 
board of trustees. The trustees organized by electing for Presi- 
dent, Hon. Wilson McCandless; First Vice-President, Major 
William Fowler; Second Vice-President, James B. Murray; 
Secretary, J. C. Burgher, M.D.; Treasurer, George Bingham. 
The real estate was transferred to the corporation ; plans and 
specifications for remodelling the building and putting it in com- 
plete repair were adopted, and the following committee appointed 
on hospital furniture and supplies: J. C. Burgher, M.D., M. 
Cote, M.D., and Edwin Miles, Esq. 
The hospital, provided with forty beds, and complete in all 
its appointments, was opened for the reception and cure of 
patients on the 1st day of August, 1866, with Dr. L. H. Willard 
as Resident Physician and Surgeon, and the following medical 
staff: Drs. H. H. Hoffman,D. Cowley, J. F. Cooper, G. S. Foster, 
L. M. Rousseau. 
From its inception the hospital has grown in favor, and the 
necessity of larger buildings, which will soon be erected, has 
long been felt. Since its opening to the 1st of August, 1876, 
there were two thousand three hundred and seventy-one medical 
and surgical cases that received care and attention within its walls. 
The percentage of cured in that number has averaged sixty- 
seven per cent., while the highest death-rate has been seven and 
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four-tenths per cent., and the average death-rate but five and 
eight-tenths per cent. During the past year there were one 
hundred and eighty-five medical cases, ninety-eight surgical, 
twenty-one obstetrical, and fourteen births, making a total of 
three hundred and eighteen cases treated. The charity patients 
numbered two hundred and forty-eight, and the pay patients but 
seventy. The daily average of patients maintained was twenty- 
three and eight-tenths, and the average time of patients in the 
hospital was twenty-seven days. The current yearly expenses 
are about eight thousand dollars ($8000). Annual reports are 
published. 
In the dispensary department there were 13,067 prescriptions 
issued and filled during the last year; also 1624 visits made by 
the dispensary staff to out-patients. Since the dispensary opened 
there have been 58,823 prescriptions filled. 
New York Ophthalmic Hospital.* 
Incorporated April 21st, 1852; located on the northeast 
corner of Third Avenue and Twenty-third Street, New York 
city. Open for the reception of patients every day at 2 o'clock, 
Sundays excepted. This institution, now in the twenty-fifth 
year of its existence, is a monument to homoeopathy of which 
we are all proud. Its struggles in its early history, while under 
the control of a system of medicine not satisfactory to the ma- 
jority of its board of directors, have now passed away, so that at 
present there is no other institution that stands on a firmer 
basis, or whose inner workings move on more smoothly than 
this Ophthalmic hospital. Started in 1852, under the auspices 
and in the interest of the allopathic school of medicine, an able 
surgical staff was selected from prominent oculists, who attended 
until 1867 (a period of fifteen years) to the medical and surgical 
requirements of the institution. During this time there were 
not 15,000 patients treated, averaging less than 1000 per year. 
This was sufficiently7 discouraging to induce the directors to 
change the method of treatment; consequently in June, 1867, 
the attending board of surgeons were given a permanent leave 
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of absence, and a resolution was passed that the homoeopathic 
method of treatment be adopted; and Drs. T. F. Allen and C. 
Th. Liebold were called upon to take charge. 
The New York Ophthalmic Hospital, as its name indicates, 
was first chartered to treat diseases of the eye only; but as time 
advanced, and the relative importance of that long-neglected 
organ, the ear, became apparent, it was thought best to enlarge the 
sphere of usefulness; therefore, in 1869, the certificate of incor- 
poration was amended to the eye and ear. As practice still further 
taught that the throat was intimately connected with aural 
troubles, within the past year a throat department has been 
added. It was first located at No. 6 Stuyvesant Place, but 
six years after was removed to 63 Third Avenue, where it re- 
mained two years. It was next removed to the corner of Fourth 
Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street; and thence, in June, 1872, to 
the large building erected for it on the corner of Third Avenue 
and Twenty-third Street. The corner-stone for this building, 
now owned and occupied by the,Ophthalmic Hospital, was laid 
October 5th, 1871. 
The Ophthalmic Hospital building is an ornament to New 
York city, while its large, well-ventilated wards, and spacious 
reception-rooms for out-door patients serve to gladden the hearts 
of all true believers in the law of " similia." Ample provision 
is made for the accommodation of fifty resident patients and an 
unlimited number of daily applicants. The board of directors are 
in full sympathy with the present surgical staff, and perfectly satis- 
fied with the success of the homoeopathic mode of treatment, as 
shown in the constantly increasing numbers which daily apply for 
relief from threatening blindness or impending deafness. During 
the last ten years, while under homoeopathic control, over 25,000 pa- 
tients have been treated, beingan average ofover 2500 per year; and, 
in order to show the increase in the number of applicants, it may 
be stated that over 5000 have been treated during the past year, 
with a daily average ofover 130, some days even reaching 200. 
It will thus be seen that this institution is in a most prosperous 
condition in the homoeopathic treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, 
.and throat. It is also upon a firm financial basis, being entirely HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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free from debt, thanks to the munificent gift of Mrs. Emma A. 
Keys, who, when this hospital was in process of erection and nearly 
completed, came to its aid with the noble endowment of one hun- 
dred thousand dollars. Its running expenses are constantly increas- 
ing with the swelling crowds that flock to it daily for treatment; 
expenses for board of indigent patients ; for medicines, which are 
given without charge; for surgical instruments; for furniture, 
and many other things which have to be provided or renewed. 
The library furnished the surgical staff' contains all the recent 
additions to our literature pertaining to the specialties treated in 
this hospital. 
The upper floor of the building is occupied by the New York 
Homoeopathic Medical College, which, being under the same 
roof, affords an excellent opportunity of study for all the 
students. This opportunity is improved, as is shown by the 
large numbers that attend the daily clinics. In the act of 
incorporation a clause is found stating that one object of this 
hospital is " for the purpose of affording facilities for the instruc- 
tion of medical students in the treatment of all diseases of the 
eye and ear." In accordance with this, the New York Oph- 
thalmic School was founded in connection with the hospital. 
The instruction was chiefly clinical until 1871, when a regular 
course of lectures was established and a diploma issued by the 
Board of Surgeons. Since then the number of clinical and di- 
dactic lectures have been augmented as the increased number of 
students has seemed to demand, so that now daily lectures are 
held, thus giving the student a thorough knowledge of all 
branches of ophthalmic and aural surgery. These lectures and 
the advantage of the clinics are free to all physicians and stu- 
dents of medicine. At the close of the session physicians that 
have been in practice at least one year (and only those), who 
shall pass a satisfactory examination before the Board of Sur- 
geons, will, on payment of twenty-five dollars, receive from the 
trustees the diploma of the hospital. Owing to the severity of 
the examinations but few graduates are yearly sent out to prac- 
tice such specialties, but these are eminently fitted to fill the 
high positions they hold in the various cities of our country. 958 
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The first President was Hon. Caleb S. Woodhull, two years; 
the second was Rev. Isaac Ferris, D.D., LL.D., five years; the 
third was Peter Cooper, two years ; the fourth was Solomon 
Jenner, five years; the fifth was John M. Seaman, three years; 
the sixth was Thomas C. Smith (present incumbent), eight years. 
Surgical Staff.-Surgeons, T. F. Allen, M.D., C. Th. 
Liebold, M.D., George S. Norton, M.D. Aural Surgeon, 
Henry C. Houghton, M.D. Consulting Surgeons, George E. 
Belcher, M.D., H. D. Paine, M.D., P. P. Wells, M.D., J. McE. 
Wetmore, M.D., C. A. Bacon, M.D. Assistant Surgeons, D. B. 
Hunt, M.D., F. H. Boynton, M.D., J. M. Schley, M.D. As- 
sistant Aural Surgeons, William E. Ronnels, M.D., C. E. 
Beebe, M.D. Resident Surgeon, Alfred Wanstall, M.D. 
The New York Homoeopathic Charity Hospital, 
AVard's Island.* 
In the summer of 1875, through the energy of prominent 
homoeopathic physicians of New York city, a petition was drawn 
up and signed by many of the most wealthy and influential citi- 
zens, representing about $400,000,000, asking for the privilege of 
using a large building on Ward's Island, known as the "Inebri- 
ate Asylum and Soldiers' Retreat," for a homoeopathic hospital. 
The building referred to was in charge of the Commissioners of 
Public Charities and Correction, and was originally built in 
1863 for an inebriate asylum, but in 1869 was employed by 
General Bowen for the disabled veterans of our civil war, and 
hence its name. This petition was addressed to the Hon. Wil- 
liam H. Wickham, at that time mayor, and referred to the Com- 
missioners of Public Charities and Correction. The petition 
was favorably received, was acted upon, and in due time meas- 
ures were taken to fit up the building for the purposes of a hos- 
pital. There is no building in the city better adapted for the 
work of caring for the sick than the one chosen. The site of the 
building is eminently healthful, situated as it is upon a bluff 
fifty feet above the river, thus allowing good ventilation and 
* By Alonzo P. Williamson, M.D. HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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drainage, besides possessing a magnificent view of East River. 
The building has a frontage of 282 feet. The centre block is 62 
feet in width and 220 feet in depth. The pavilions, extending 
at right angles from the main, are each 110 feet long and 40 feet 
wide. From the ends of the pavilions, and running to the rear 
on a line parallel with the main, are wings, each 120 feet in 
length by 40 feet in width. These wings are connected in 
the rear with the main building by corridors, 16 feet wide, well 
lighted, and furnishing excellent accommodations for patients. 
The entire structure is heated with steam, lighted by gas, and 
well ventilated by means of shafts running from the basement 
and connecting with all the rooms and hallways. The building 
is capable of accommodating 800 patients. 
On the first floor of the central block are offices, waiting and 
dining rooms, reception-ward, kitchen, store, and clothing-room. 
The second and third floors are used for officers' apartments. 
The fourth floor is arranged into 12 small rooms, which form a 
most excellent erysipelas ward. In this elevated position free 
ventilation is easily obtained, and this dangerous class of disease 
is far removed and completely isolated from the general hospital. 
The wings, corridors, and pavilions are exclusively used for pa- 
tients and attendants. 
On September 10th, 1875, the homoeopathic hospital was 
formally opened, and the first patient was admitted September 
14th. 
Dr. Selden H. Talcott was placed at the head of the institu- 
tion as chief of staff, with Drs. C. L. Nichols, Duncan Macfarlan, 
J. D. Madden, and R. B. Sullivan as house physicians. A 
medical board was instituted, consisting of the following gentle- 
men. Officers: Egbert Guernsey, M.D., President; H. D. 
Paine, M.D., Vice-President; Alfred K. Hills, M.D., Secretary. 
Members: Drs. William Tod Helmuth, George E. Belcher, W. 
II. White, James Robie Wood, John C. Minor, S. P. Burdick, 
Alexander Berghaus, F. E. Doughty, J. H. Demarest, George 
S. Norton, William S. Bauer, J. W. Dowling, Charles A. Bacon, 
J. H. Thompson, J. McE. Wetmore, Samuel Lilienthal, E. 960 
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Carlton, Jr., A. P. Troop, S. S. Bradford, T. D. Bradford, and 
C. B. Currier. 
To S. II. Talcott, M.D., is due great credit for the very able 
manner in which he discharged the responsible duty of organ- 
izing the hospital, classifying the wards, and placing the institu- 
tion upon a sound running basis. 
In April, 1876, the old staff gave way to a new one, com- 
posed of Drs. F. A. Bishop, W. F. Decker, F. M. Earle, F. A. 
Hale, R. W. Mifflin, and A. P. Williamson. In the early part 
of the year an amphitheatre was erected in the chapel, suitable 
for clinics, which were held once a week, and largely attended 
by the students of the New York Homoeopathic College. Here, 
also, a series of lectures were delivered for the benefit of the 
nurses by members of the medical board. 
In the fall, Drs. B. G. Carleton and C. C. Boyle were appointed 
to fill the vacancies in the house staff, caused by the resignations 
of Drs. Decker and Earle. 
GENERAL STATEMENT OF PATIENTS FROM SEPTEMBER 10TH, 
TO DECEMBER 31ST, 1875. 
1 
Males. 
Females. 
Total. 
Nativity. 
N. 
F. 
Admitted to December 31st 
368 
106 
474* 
115 
359 
Births 
2 
2 
2 
Total 
370 
106 
476 
117 
359 
Discharged to December 31st, 
93 
52 
145 
47 
98 
Died to December 31st 
15 
3 
184 
4 
14 
Total 
108 
55 
163 
51 
112 
i Remaining January 1st, 1876 
262 
51 
313 
66 
247 
Rate of death on whole number treated 3.78 per cent. 
* There were 127 insane patients transferred to the hospital at its opening from the New 
York City Asylum for Insane. These were mostly cases of chronic dementia, offering but 
faint hopes of recovery, and therefore a dead-weight upon the hospital. This inconvenience 
had to be put up with. 
t Almost all the patients admitted were chronic cases; and of the 18 that died, the cause 
of death in one-half was phthisis pulmonalis, general paresis in 4, epithelial cancer in 1, 
pleurisy and abscess of the liver in 1, and tertiary syphilis in 1. This gave a deaih-rate of 
3.78 per cent. With the year 1876, the prospects improved, with more room and better ac- 
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GENERAL STATEMENT OF PATIENTS FOR THE YEAR 1876 
187G. 
Males. 
Females. 
Total. 
Nativity. 
N. 
F. 
Remaining January 1st, 1876 
Births during the year 
Admitted during the year 
Total 
Discharged during the year 
Deaths during the year 
Total 
262 
9 
1863 
31 
4- 
888 
313 
13 
2751 
66 
13 
737 
247 
2014 
2134 
943 
3077 
816 
2261 
1623 
118 
781 
69 
2404 
187 
623 
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~ 682 
1781 
128 
1741 
850 
2591 
1909 
Rate of death on whole number treated 6.07 per cent. 
The results thus far attained are so flattering that though the 
hospital is still in its infancy, and though there is great room for 
improvement in every direction, a brilliant future is not only 
possible, but most probable. 
The Western Homeopathic Dispensary of New York City is 
situated at 411 and 413 West Forty-second Street, and was 
organized May 20th, 1868. It is an incorporated institution, with 
a medical staff, and Dr. Deys as house physician. The German 
and French languages are spoken by attending physicians. It 
has an ophthalmic and aural department. About 12,000 patients 
are treated yearly. In 1870, 4827 out visits were made and 
21,458 prescriptions given. Full reports of this able institution 
can be found in New York State Homoeopathic Transactions. 
The Morrisania Homoeopathic Medical and Surgical Dispen- 
sary was opened April, 1869. It is situated on Fifth Street, near 
Washington A venue, Morrisania. Dr. J. M. Miller was the first 
attending physician. It is an incorporated body and is in active 
operation. 
There is a dispensary connected with the Women's Medical 
College of New York City, which is conducted by the professors 
and senior students of that college. It was incorporated and 
opened in 1867. 
The Metropolitan Homoeopathic Dispensary of New York 
Vins opened at No. 58 Bleecker Street, October 28th, 1868. 962 
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During the first eight months about 4000 cases were treated. 
The daily average attendance is 35 patients; it isopen five hours 
daily. In 1872 the legislature appropriated $1000 for its sup- 
port. 
The Yorkville Homoeopathic Dispensary is located at 201 East 
Eighty-third Street, New York city. It was incorporated in June, 
1871, and opened October 1st, 1871. It supports a house phy- 
sician, has a board of directors and a medical board. The city 
has given for its support $1000. 
The Harlem Homoeopathic Dispensary was opened June 19th, 
1871. It is located at the corner of One hundred and twenty- 
second Street and Third Avenue, New York city. The city has 
donated $500 in money. 
The Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital,* 
An outgrowth of the dispensary,f inasmuch as it was defi- 
nitely projected by the trustees of that institution, was incorpo- 
rated by a special act of the legislature February 9th, 1871, 
with an appropriation of $10,000 for its completion. By a 
charity ball $3000 were realized, and in December, 1871, the 
trustees, having reorganized, purchased the building and ground 
belonging to the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum for $27,500, which 
sum has all been paid up. The institution is free from debt. 
Necessary alterations having been effected the hospital was for- 
mally opened in January, 1873. As the building now stands 
it has a frontage of 75 feet, a depth of 50 feet, is three stories 
high, with basement beneath, accommodating its own extensive 
cuisine and the suit of seven rooms occupied by the Brooklyn 
Homoeopathic Dispensary. It is advantageously arranged with 
private and public lying-in and infant wards of both male and 
female medical and surgical departments. It furnishes seventy- 
nine beds, besides accommodating its necessarily resident officers, 
cooks, waiters, etc. Its structure is brick, stands back on ground 
terraced four feet above the street, and is entirely isolated, thus 
securing an exceptionally good ventilation.J 
* R. C. Moffatt, M.D., furnished condensed reports of the Brooklyn 
in'titutions. f See page 964, (A). 
J See N. Y. State Society Transactions, vol. x, p. 443. hospitals, dispensaries, asylums, homes, etc. 
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A ladies' aid association is connected with the institution, by 
which material help and interest in the community are gener- 
ously furnished. Further extensions of the building are in con- 
templation. The hospital has been from the first highly pros- 
perous and successful. Its statistics of cure vie favorably with 
those of any of its sister institutions. Its sustaining funds are 
mainly voluntary contributions, but an annual award of $4000 
from the city, and proceeds from private patients, fairs, enter- 
tainments, etc., make the balance. 
Medical and Surgical Staff for 1876: President, A. E. Sum- 
ner, M.D.; Physicians, R. C. Moffat, M.D , E. J. Whitney, 
M.D., W. S. Searle, M.D., W. B. Garside, M.D., E. Miner, M.D., 
W. L. R. Perrine, M.D., G. A. Bowen, M.D., C. L. Bonnell, 
M.D.; Surgeons, W. M. L. Fiske, M.D., H. Wilter, M.D., A. 
Varona, M.D; Resident Physician, S. E. Stiles, M.D. 
The Brooklyn Maternity 
Was chartered January 24th, 1871, as "The Brooklyn Ho- 
moeopathic Lying-in Asylum," at 88 Lawrence Street. Its ob- 
ject was to furnish homoeopathic treatment and a comfortable 
asylum for women during confinement. In March, 1873, a 
Nursery was formed for the reception of children on board, and 
in October the first Training-school for Nurses in America was 
legally chartered, which, with the Child's Hospital, made four 
departments in one, and warranted a more comprehensive title, 
The Brooklyn Maternity, which was adopted in 1873. 
The same year large and commodious quarters were purchased 
at 46 and 48 Concord Street for $48,000. In the training-school, 
besides graded practical instruction in all that concerns parturi- 
tion, the students are taught by regular courses of lectures in 
anatomy and physiology, food and hygiene, labor and its acci- 
dents, special duties of the nurse, care of infants in health and 
sickness, besides constant clinical instruction. Up to the pres- 
ent time sixteen nurses have graduated in four classes. 
In 1871 (the first year) twelve were confined ; in 1872, thirty- 
three were confined; in. 1873 sixty-four were confined; in 1874 
eighty were confined; in 1875 eighty-seven were confined, mak- 964 
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ing a total of two hundred and seventy-six confinements, in 
which there was but one death. 
In the nursery three hundred and seventy-one infants have 
been cared for, of whom ten were stillborn, and eighteen have 
died. This praiseworthy work, with results better than in much 
private practice, is still going on. The Maternity is supported 
by voluntary contributions, by an annual award of $2500 from 
the city, by proceeds of entertainments, fairs, etc., and by board 
from paying inmates. A large majority of the patients are mar- 
ried. It is governed by a board of managers, all ladies, an ad- 
visory board of gentlemen, a matron, and medical staff. 
Medical Staff for 1876 : R. C. Moffatt, M.D., W. B. Garside, 
M.D., Edwin Miner, M.D., E. J. Whitney, M.D., C. L. Bon- 
nell, M.D., Max F. Hein, M.D., E. W. Victor, M.D., H. M. 
Lewis, M.D.; Resident Physician, W. F. Decker, M.D. 
The Brooklyn Nursery was organized in 1871 under 
the name of "The Flatbush Avenue Industrial School and 
Nursery," which was changed as above February 15th, 1872. 
Its object is to aid poor, destitute, and friendless children un- 
der three years of age, by providing them with a home. The 
institution enjoys an unexceptionable location, owns real estate 
valued at §16,000, and has accommodations for twenty-two 
nurses and twenty-four children. Its family as now constituted 
consists of one matron, one care-taker, twenty-four children, 
fourteen nurses (wet and dry),-forty in all. Since its organi- 
zation it has boarded: Children, 531; women, 236; 770 in all. 
Of these the number of patients cannot be given, the records 
having been in part mislaid. The deaths all told, eighty. In 
single donations its largest receipts have been from Mrs. E. T. 
Pell, $5000; Mount Prospect Fund Association, $600; Mr. 
Edward Annan, $500 ; total, $6100. 
It was organized in Adelphi Street, moved to Flatbush Ave- 
nue, thence to its present location, 188 Prospect Place. 
(A.) The Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital Dispensary.- 
Under the energetic charity of Mr. Edward W. Dunham, 
father of the late Carroll Dunham, M.D., " The Brooklyn Ho- 
moeopathic Dispensary" was called into being in 1853, with a HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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trusteeship of seven associated gentlemen, and had its rooms at 50 
Court Street, near the City Hall. Its growth from the first was 
satisfactory, 304 patients being treated in its first year. Larger 
accommodations were necessary in 1857 (four years), and still 
larger and more commodious in 1864, when purchase was made 
of the three-story premises, 25 x 50 feet, at 178 Atlantic Street. 
In 1869 its patients were 10,260, and its arrangements and ap- 
pointments were pronounced by the official inspector the second 
best in the entire State of New York. Its enlarged body of 
trustees and their associated corps of physicians now projected 
the institution of a homoeopathic hospital that should attain 
equal perfectness, but it was not proposed that the dispensary 
should be discontinued. Accordingly the dispensary became a 
subordinate department, yet distinct, under the name of "The 
Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital Dispensary.'7 The hospital 
was located in Cumberland Street, about a mile distant, yet the 
Atlantic Street branch was continued till the spring of the pres- 
ent year (1876), when it was wholly transferred to the basement 
of the hospital building. It maintains nine distinct depart- 
ments : 
(1) Diseases of the eye and ear; (2) of the throat; (3) of 
women; (4) of children; (5) of the digestive system ; (6) of the 
heart and lungs; (7) general (i. e., unclassified); (8) electro- 
therapeutical ; (9) surgical, embracing (a) ordinary and (b) den- 
tal. Its award from the city is $1500 annually. 
(B.) The Gates Avenue Homoeopathic Dispensary was estab- 
lished in February, 1867, at the intersection of Gates and 
Fulton avenues, under the superintendence of J. Lester Keep, 
M.D., aided by a corps of assistants. Its published summary 
statistics, up to April, 1875 (eight years), show 29,279 prescrip- 
tions for 16,675 patients; besides outdoor visits, 1465. 
(C.) The Brooklyn (Eastern District} Homoeopathic Dispensary, 
which owes its existence mainly to the efforts of its energetic 
President, Dr. William Wright, was incorporated March, 1872, 
and located at 98 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, E. D.* Its latest 
* During the first year of this dispensary's existence the medical staff 
prescribed for 3016 patients. The income from all sources amounted to 966 
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published statistics, September, 1875, present in about three 
and a half years 18,020 patients. 
State Homoeopathic Asylum for the Insane, 
at Middletown, New York.* 
In February, 1866, the late Hon. John Stanton Gould deliv- 
ered before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York, then in annual session at Albany, an address on 
"The Relation of Insanity to Bodily Disease," in which he 
stated that the necessities of the southern tier of counties would 
soon demand the erection of a new State lunatic asylum in their 
midst, and claimed, as a matter of justice, that it should be 
placed under the homoeopathic school of medicine. This seems 
to have been the crystallizing point, so to speak, of the oft-felt 
and earnest desire of the homoeopathic profession throughout 
the State, for at the next annual session of the State society, in 
February, 1867, a resolution was offered by Dr. II. M. Paine, 
of Albany, to the effect that, " Whereas, a bill authorizing the 
erection of a new lunatic asylum is now pending before the legis- 
lature," therefore a committee should be appointed to prepare a 
memorial asking li for such action as shall place said institution 
under the care of the homoeopathic school," etc. 
A committee was appointed which, took immediate measures, 
through circulars and other means, to enlist the interest of ho- 
mceopathists throughout the State, so that early in the legislative 
session of 1868 a bill was introduced and favorably reported 
upon, authorizing the appointment of (homoeopathic) commis- 
sioners to locate the site for such an asylum in one of the west- 
ern or southern tier of counties of the State, and the action of 
this committee was heartily indorsed by the State Homoeopathic 
Medical Society at its annual session of 1868. At the same ses- 
sion, also, there was presented a letter from Dr. Plilon Doty, of 
$376.10; the expenses, including everything, amounted to $380.37, leaving 
a balance of $4.27 against the dispensary, thus showing a cost of less than 
ten cents per patient. 
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Margarettsville, Delaware County, communicating information 
concerning a private lunatic asylum which he had there estab- 
lished, and in which the treatment was solely homoeopathic. 
The attempt to secure the establishment of a State insane asy- 
lum under homoeopathic direction, though it failed in 1867 and 
1868 through "the indifference of the profession to the political 
advancement of our method of practice," was again, at the so- 
ciety's annual meeting in February, 1869, kept prominently be- 
fore the public, both by the President's address, in which he 
recommended that it be brought once more to the notice of the 
legislature, and by the presentation of a report of the operations 
of the Margarettsville Retreat for the Insane by its superinten- 
dent, Dr. H. Doty, accompanied by the draft of an act provid- 
ing for its incorporation by the legislature as a joint stock com- 
pany. This plan was promptly indorsed by the State society, 
and the "Margarettsville Retreat for the Insane" was duly in- 
corporated by act of legislature, April 28th, 1869, under a board 
of five trustees, together with an advisory board, and with a 
capital of $50,00,0. Dr. Doty, however, from various causes 
seems to have speedily lost the vantage-ground thus granted to 
him, for in December of the same year (1869) the homoeopathic 
profession of the State were notified by a circular from Dr. 
George F. Foote of a plan to establish at Middletown, Orange 
County, a homoeopathic insane asylum, founded by subscription 
and endowment, and organised as a close corporation. This 
project was warmly indorsed by several of the county medical 
societies and by the homoeopathists of the State generally, and 
so indefatigable were Dr. Foote's- labors that by January 14th, 
1870, the asylum site had been selected and secured by pledge 
of the citizens of Middletown, and a sufficient amount of sub- 
scriptions received to render the enterprise a success. 
Meanwhile the Margarettsville Retreat, remotely located, dif- 
ficult of access, and lacking, as it did, the essential elements of 
success, faded from sight before the superior attractions and 
better organization of the proposed Middletown asylum. The 
friends of the latter, however, began to see that the " close cor- 
poration " organization, which they had at first proposed, would 968 
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scarcely enlist that degree of public support which they desired, 
and that not only would funds be more easily raised but the 
dignity of the homoeopathic school of practice would be more 
enhanced if the institution could be brought under the cegis of 
the State government. Accordingly they planned to make it a 
State asylum. The hour was propitious; the governor of the 
State in his annual message to the legislature of 1870 had called 
attention to the condition of the insane poor; recent official in- 
vestigations had awakened the public mind to the great and un- 
satisfied wants of that class; and the other asylums of the State 
confessed to being overcrowded. So when the friends of homoe- 
opathy again put forth their united strength, and availing them- 
selves of favorable influences in the then existing complications 
of State politics, asked for this recognition of their right to share 
in the management of the public charities of the State, they se- 
cured the passage of an act, April 28th, 1870, establishing at 
Middletown, in the county of Orange, a State lunatic asylum 
for "the care and treatment of the insane and the inebriate upon 
the principles of medicine known as homoeopathic." An appro- 
priation for the construction and maintainance of buildings was 
also made, contingent upon the raising of an equal amount by 
private subscriptions. To the work of obtaining these subscrip- 
tions Dr. Foote addressed himself, being well seconded by many 
other physicians throughout the State, and with such success 
that, by an amendment of the original act, approved March 31st, 
1871, the legislature accepted "for the site and uses of the said 
asylum," a tract of 200 acres of good arable land (including 20 
acres of timber), well watered, and containing an abundant sup- 
ply of sand, stone, and clay for building purposes, which was 
paid for by private donations. During the year 1871 excava- 
tions were made for the administrative buildings, a water sup- 
ply secured from the village reservoir, the farm stocked with 
implements, wagons, etc. Building operations fairly commenced 
in August, 1872, and on the 26th of October following the 
corner-stone of the edifice was laid with appropriate ceremonies. 
Meanwhile, in June, 1872, George F. Foote, M.D., the origi- 
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with the institution, and the position was held proforma by II. 
D. Paine, M.D., of New York city, until the election, June 
19th, 1873, of Henry R. Stiles, M.D., the present incumbent. 
On the 1st day of April, 1874, Dr. Stiles, with his family and a 
few employes, took up his residence at the nearly completed ad- 
ministrative building, and commenced the work of furnishing 
and of organizing his household. On the 20th of the same 
month the building was ready for the admission of patients, the 
first being received on the 7th day of May. The formal open- 
ing, with an address on the "Uses and Prospects of the Asylum 
in View of the Advancing Demands of Physiological Science," 
by Hon. A. B. Conger, M.D., a former president of the board, 
was held in connection with the annual meeting, June 18th, and 
was honored by the presence of a large number of distinguished 
medicists and friends of the institution, who thus testified their 
heartfelt interest in the establishment of the first homoeopathic 
insane asylum under State patronage in the United States of 
America.* 
The comparative results of treatment for the two years and 
seven months, during which we have been in operation, are 
herewith presented : 
April, 1874, to 
Nov. 30, 1874. 
Nov. 30, 1874, to 
Nov. 30, 1875. 
Nov. 30, 1875, to 
Nov. 30, 1876. 
Totals. 
Males. 
Females. 
Males. 
Females. 
Males. 
Females. 
Discharged cured 
" improved.. 
" unimproved. 
" not insane... 
Escaped 
Died 
5 
2 
7 
5 
2 
2 
9 
15 
5 
9 
1 
_ 8 .. 
38 
15 
10 
4 
3 
32 
27 
8 
12 
2 
6_ 
55 
19 
4 
24 
8 
55 
86 
29 
49 
1 
29 _ 
196 
* It has been claimed as the first and only official insane asylum under 
homoeopathic treatment in the world. This claim, however, must be yielded 
to other countries, since at the Governmental Asylum at Soran (Germany), 
established in 1812, Dr. Schnieber, the superintendent, had " long practiced, 
in part, upon the homoeopathic method" (Am. Journal of Insanity, ix, 
261) ; and the Governmental Insane Asylum at Montevideo, South Amer- 
ica, has been for fourteen years under strictly homoeopathic treatment by 
its superintendent, Dr. Korth, during which time 617 cures have been ef- 
fected out of 979 patients received, of different nationalities. Homoeopathic 
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The comparative percentages of treatment (based on the num- 
ber of admissions) is shown in the subjoined table: 
April, 1874, to Nov. 
30, 1874. 
Nov. 30, 1874, to 
Nov. 30, 1875. 
Nov. 30, 1875, to 
Nov. 30, 1876. 
Total, 2 years and 7 
months. April, 1874, 
to Nov. 30, 1875. 
[ Admissions. 
Discharges. 
Per cent. 
| Admissions. 
Discharges. 
Per cent. 
| Admissions. 
Discharges. 
Percentages. 
Total admis- 
sions. 
Total 
discharges. 
Total 
percentages. 
69 
10 cured. 
2 improved, 
unimproved. 
4 died. 
14% 
3 
5% 
99 
30 cured. 
15 improved. 
13 unimproved. 
11 died. 
30 
15 
13 
1 1 
113 
46 cured. 
12 improved. 
36 unimproved. 
14 died. 
40% 
10% 
316 
I T 
122 
281 
86 cured. 
29 improved. 
49 unimp'vd. 
29 died. 
30| 
10% 
17T5 
10% 
Of the admissions within these two years and seven months 
135 were at county charge and 146 were private. 
FORM OF DISEASE AMONG PATIENTS ADMITTED APRIL, 1874, 
TO NOVEMBER 30TH, 1876. 
Males. 
Females. 
1874 
1875 
1876 
1874 
1875 
1876 
Dementia 
1 
3 
2 
2 
» 5 
2 
Epilepsy 
5 
5 
1 
1 
Hysteria 
1 
4 
2 
Hypochondria 
1 
2 
1 
1 
2 
Mania, acute 
7 
14 
13 
6 
5 
10 
Mania, subacute 
4 
5 
1 
3 
4 
Mania, chronic 
3 
5 
6 
6 
7 
6 
Mania, puerperal 
3 
1 
2 
Mania, recurrent 
1 
1 
5 
■3 
4 
2 
Mania, religious 
1 
Melancholia 
5 
8 
13 
15 
17 
23 
Melancholia, chronic 
2 
Melancholia, with stupor 
Melancholia, religious 
1 
3 
1 
1 
2 
1 
2 
Melancholia, puerperal 
Monomania 
1 
2 
2 
1 
Paralysis 
1 
1 
2 
Paresis 
2 
2 
3 
Not insane 
1 
27 
49 
53 
42 
50 
60 HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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DEATHS DURING THE SAME PERIOD, APRIL, 1874, TO 
NOV. 30th, 1876. 
Males. 
Females. 
Totals. 
1874 
1875 
1876 
1874 
1875 
1876 
A<ute mania 
Puerperal mania 
General paresis 
Paralysis 
Cerebral paralysis 
Softening of brain 
Epilepsy 
Melancholia 
Suicide (puerperal) 
Suicide (melancholia) 
1 
1 
3 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
2 
3 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
3 
4 
1 
10 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
2 
8 
1 
1 
2 
8 
6 
- 
3 
8 
29 
We have, of course, admitted all acute cases brought to our 
door. Chronic cases have figured largely upon our books (ow- 
ing to certain local causes which will shortly be removed), and 
have somewhat impaired the percentage of our curative results. 
Henceforth, however, acute cases, and especially county patients, 
will have the prior claim to the care of this asylum. 
Our medical treatment has been purely according to the ho- 
moeopathic law of similibus curantur," and entirely 
without resort to any of the forms of anodyne, sedative, or pal- 
liative treatment so generally in use (even among physicians of 
our own school) in cases of mental disturbance. Not a grain of 
Chloral, Morphine, the Bromides, etc., has ever been allowed in 
our pharmacy, or given in our prescriptions ; and we have never 
felt their need, even in our most violent cases of acute mania. 
A careful study of the mental and physical symptoms, together 
with a rigid adherence to the Hahnemannian principles of selec- 
tion and administration of remedies, has enabled us to meet the 
requirements of each individual case with comfort and success. 
There have been several changes in the board of management 
of the Asylum during its existence, and it may be said with jus- 
tice that many of the brightest names on the homoeopathic roll 
of honor have been connected with it as trustees, such as John 
F. Gray, Carroll Dunham, T. F. Allen, J. Stanton Gould, Peter 972 
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S. Hoe, etc. Its present officers are: President, Fletcher Har- 
per, Jr., of New York city; Vice-President, Grisswell Burt, of 
Warwick, N. Y.; Secretary, Moses D. Sterers, of Middletown, 
N. Y".; Treasurer, Uzal T. Hayes, of Middletown, N. Y. 
The Albany City Homceopathic Hospital. 
The hospital was opened for the reception of patients in the 
summer of 1872. The building is centrally located, is large and 
commodious, and is provided with all suitable conveniences and 
appliances for 'the accommodation of upwards of fifty patients. 
The staff of physicians and surgeons comprises all of the homoeo- 
pathic physicians and surgeons residing in the city of Albany. 
The resources of both the hospital and a dispensary connected 
with it are derived from sources appropriated by the city gov- 
ernment and from private sources. Although these institutions 
are incumbered with a debt of several thousand dollars, incurred 
by the purchase of the premises occupied by them jointly, the 
income has been hitherto sufficient to meet all claims for current 
expenses, and a small surplus has been appropriated to the re- 
duction of the general debt. 
The Albany City (N. Y.) Dispensary was organized October 
28th, 1867, opened for patients in December, 1867, and incor- 
porated under the general laws April 9th, 1868. During the 
first seventeen months over 5200 prescriptions were made, and 
1400 patients visited at their homes. It has a resident physician. 
Since its organization it has freely afforded medical and surgical 
aid to upwards of fifty thousand applicants. It is, at the present 
time, in as flourishing a condition as at any period since its es- 
tablishment, the number of prescriptions ranging from three to 
six or seven hundred per month. 
Buffalo Homoeopathic Hospital 
In the spring or early summer of 1872 a few enthusiastic 
ladies commenced working, with the view of establishing a ho- 
moeopathic hospital in Buffalo. Though meeting with all man- 
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they continued to persevere in their efforts. A bazaar was opened 
in the fall, which continued a week, and resulted in a net gain 
of $3312. A large, commodious building, at the corner of Wash- 
ington and North Division streets, was rented, furnished, and 
opened as a hospital. The capacity of the house was about twenty 
patients. The move was a success from the commencement. In 
the summer of 1874 the premises were sold, which necessitated 
a change. The present location, corner of Maryland and Cot- 
tage streets, was purchased for $10,000. It is well located, on 
high land, overlooking Niagara River, is a good-sized brick 
building, having capacity for about thirty patients. Since the 
removal the institution has been well sustained, and nearly self- 
supporting. The government of its affairs is vested in a board 
of trustees, who appoint the medical staff, composed of six phy- 
sicians and two surgeons. There is also a board of associate 
managers composed of ladies, who manage the domestic arrange- 
ments of the house. The by-laws give any physician the privi- 
lege of bringing paying patients into the hospital and treating 
them, provided they will keep an open record of the case and 
treatment. 
The Buffalo Homoeopathic Dispensary was organized at a 
meeting of the Buffalo homoeopathic physicians, held at the 
Pharmacy, October 1st, 1867, and was opened November 1st, 
1869. A corporation was established, and a room rented at 
270 Main Street. There are twelve attending physicians, who 
each serve on certain days in the week, from 3 to 5 p.m. 1100 
prescriptions in first eight months. 
St. Luke's Home and Hospital, Utica, N. Y., was organ- 
ized in Utica about 1871, and was opened for the reception of 
patients July 9th, 1872, at No. 29 Hamilton Street, Utica, N.Y., 
under the patronage of the Episcopal Church; it is supported 
by voluntary subscriptions, with a joint board of nine allopathic 
and five homoeopathic physicians. No resident physician is em- 
ployed, the patients being at liberty to select any physician from 
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The Rochester (N. K) Free Dispensary was incorporated in 
1874; is located at 121 Main Street. It has a board of officers, 
medical staff, and resident physician. 
Rhode Island Homoeopathic Dispensary * 
This was opened in Providence, May, 1874, by the Ladies' Ho- 
moeopathic Hospital Aid Association, under the supervision of the 
Rhode Island Homoeopathic Society. The former organization 
provided what were then deemed suitable rooms and appropriate 
furniture, the latter professional attendance and medical stores. It 
was open two hours each week-day, free to all. For more than two 
years it maintained but a nominal existence, because of improper 
location and non-advertising. Removal to apartments adjoining 
H. J. Denham's pharmacy, on one of the principal streets, in- 
fused new life, but not until its connection with the branch 
pharmacy of Otis Clapp & Son, of Boston, established some two 
years subsequently, did it attain its full measure of usefulness. 
Twelve members of the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Society, 
including two surgeons, are present each an appointed hour in 
every week. Two physicians attend to the out-patient, including 
the obstetrical, department, and two dentists are attached to the 
staff, one of whom responds to calls at all hours. • 
Cleveland (Ohio) Homoeopathic Hospital.! 
The first Cleveland homoeopathic hospital was really a private 
institution, which was established by Dr. S. R. Beckwith in 1856. 
As surgeon to the C. C. & C. R. R., and to the L. S. & M. S. 
R. R., he experienced a want of hospital accommodations better 
than could be secured at private houses. Dr. Bettely, then a 
student, performed the office of house-surgeon. The building 
occupied was pleasantly located on Lake Street, and contained 
twelve beds. In the course of a few years thereafter the Charity 
Hospital (allopathic) admitted patients in charge of homoeopathic 
physicians, and the Lake Street hospital was discontinued. 
There being no Protestant hospital in the city, the more gener- 
* By George B. Peck, Jr. 
t By D. H. Beckwith, M.D. HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
975 
ous and public-spirited ladies of Cleveland, regardless of medical 
bias, commenced, in 1866, to agitate the matter of establishing a 
hospital that should be under Protestant influence. In a few 
weeks contributions were received to enable a committee to pur- 
chase a building, which became known as the Wilson Street Hos- 
pital. A medical staff and board of directors were selected from 
the adherents of the old and new school, and for two years the 
otherwise adverse medical elements worked together harmoni- 
ously. At this time a misunderstanding crept in, and a propo- 
sition was made by the allopathic party to buy or sell. They 
were permitted to buy.* The homoeopathic interest was then 
transferred to the Cleveland Protestant Homoeopathic Hospital, 
located on University Heights, and which'had been established 
by the Faculty of the Homoeopathic Hospital College in 1867, 
in order to afford greater facilities for clinical instruction. 
Cleveland Homoeopathic Dispensary.-In view of the large 
homoeopathic element which early sprang up in the history 
of the new school in Cleveland a demand was created for a 
free dispensary; accordingly, in the year 1865, such a charity 
was established and successfully maintained. During the past 
few years the dispensary work has been especially fostered by 
the college, and annually affords a large number of cases for 
valuable clinical instruction. It is by far the largest clinic in 
the city, a graduate acting as the physician, who is employed four 
hours daily. Out-visits are also made when required. 
Toledo (Ohio) Homoeopathic Hospital. 
Iii 1874 the charitable ladies of Toledo begun to realize the 
necessity of having in their city a Protestant hospital. They 
purchased a building, and opened it with eighteen beds. The 
medical staff was selected from the leading physicians of both 
schools of medicine. Allopathists that were selected refused to 
* While homoeopathic patients were treated at the Wilson Street Hospital 
Dr. B. P. Brown gathered the following statistics, which were reported at 
the State society, February, 1867: "The average number of days that 
homoeopathic patients were in the hospital under treatment was 22^-ths; 
allopathic, 36$ths." 976 
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remain and act with physicians of the new school; their places 
were filled by the trustees. Soon after they declined to attend 
patients. The result has been that a good and efficient staff has 
been chosen from among the homoeopathic physicians, and the 
hospital is now doing much good for the poor and afflicted. 
The Cincinnati, Ohio, Dispensary and Hospital was opened in 
1865, and for a few years was supported by private donations. 
When the trustees of the public charities and hospitals of the 
city admitted homoeopathic physicians in the pay departments, 
the hospital part of the dispensary was abandoned. 
The Cincinnati Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary was organized 
in November, 1867, and was opened in September, 1868. It was 
sustained by private subscriptions until May, 1869, when a fair 
was held at Pike's Music Hall, which realized $16,000, after 
which rooms were opened at 308 West Seventh Street. Dr. J. 
A. Cloud is the surgeon in charge. 
In 1873 Drs. Beckwith and Hunt organized a large private 
insane hospital near Cincinnati, which has prospered beyond 
expectation. 
Up to 1855 or '56 Chicago had only enjoyed the benefit of 
temporary hospital accommodations, and from the rapid growth of 
the city it was apparent to the city authorities that these must 
be superseded by a general hospital of sufficient capacity to 
satisfy the demands of that portion of the public who are ever 
dependent upon such provisions. Consequently an appropri- 
ation was made from the public funds for the erection of an 
imposing superstructure for this purpose. At this time homoeo- 
pathic practice had become so popular that a very considerable 
proportion of the taxpayers, including many of the most wealthy 
citizens, were its patrons. Before the building was completed 
the propriety of allowing the homoeopathic school an equal privi- 
lege in its wards began to be discussed. A petition, signed by 
a great number of the taxable inhabitants, including many of the 
most wealthy and influential of the place, requesting that a por- 
Chicago.* 
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977 
tion of the wards might be set apart for homoeopathic treatment, 
was sent to the mayor, common council, and board of health, 
March 14th, 1857. The presentation of this petition aroused a 
formidable opposition from the members of the " Cook County 
Medical Society," and particularly from the faculty of " Rush 
College." Frequent meetings were held by the "regulars," and 
condemnatory resolutions were passed, accompanied with threats, 
which were also sent to the mayor, common council, and board 
of health. A protracted controversy ensued, which was carried 
on through the daily press, to the apparent detriment of the 
"regulars," and evidently favorable to the claims of homoe- 
opathy. When this controversy subsided it was ascertained that 
the mayor and a majority of the other two boards were in favor 
of appointing the medical staff to be composed of an equal num- 
ber of homoeopathic and allopathic physicians and surgeons. 
This was done July 9th, and each school organized its board, 
with two consulting physicians, two surgeons, and four attend- 
ing physicians. But while waiting for the furniture of the new 
hospital building our country became disturbed by civil warfare 
and the government took charge of it for a military hospital. 
This terminated the strife of the homoeopathists to gain an equal 
footing in the Chicago and Cook County General Hospital. The 
battle was fairly won, but the fruits of it were blighted by an 
unlooked-for obstacle from the General Government. The con- 
troversy, however, opened the eyes of many to behold the fallacies 
as well as the unjust claims of the opponents of homoeopathy. 
A hospital was established by Drs. George E. Shipman and 
H. K. W. Boardman, and other physicians, at an early date on 
Kinzie Street, in the north division of the city, which afforded 
accommodation for twelve patients, and was supported by pri- 
vate subscriptions. This hospital, for want of support, was dis- 
continued in 1857. 
The Foundlings' Home was founded by Dr. George E. 
Shipman in 1869. The doctor enthusiastically embarked in the 
enterprise without money or the hope of personal reward, and 
his indefatigable exertions have been crowned by a remarkable 
prosperity. His scheme was publicly announced, and very soon 978 
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a temporary asylum for the little waifs and voluntary nurses to 
take care of them were provided. With the fullest confidence 
that the Lord would prepare the ways and means for the found- 
ing and support of such a hospital, the doctor became the re- 
cipient of many gifts and other encouragements to aid him in 
his benevolent work. From the very first this institution met 
with public favor, particularly from the better class, and more 
than ordinary generous support. Since his charitable work has 
become generally known, scarcely a month or a week has elapsed 
without the addition of something tangible to encourage the 
doctor in his labors. In 1872 this enterprise was sufficiently 
rewarded with donations to warrant the erection of an elegant 
four-story edifice on Wood Street for the purpose of furnishing 
a comfortable home for the little innocents mercilessly thrust 
upon a cold and heartless world. This building is known as the 
"Foundlings' Home of Chicago," and its appointments are such 
as will afford an opportunity for protecting foundlings against 
neglect and the want of care and good nursing. 
Hahnemann Hospital of Chicago was founded through the 
generosity of the Hon. J. Young Scammon, of Chicago, who 
contributed a building and grounds for hospital purposes; the 
building donated by Mr. Scammon was a two-story frame, one 
hundred and twenty feet long and twenty-six feet wide. This 
was known as the "Scammon Hospital" until 1873, when a 
new brick building, thirty by one hundred and forty feet in 
length, and two stories and basement in height, was erected be- 
side the wooden structure, since which time the whole has been 
organized under the charter of the " Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege," and is known by the name of the " Hahnemann Hospital 
of Chicago." It is situated on the shore of Lake Michigan 
and adjacent to the college building near the corner of Cottage 
Grove Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street. It has accommodations 
for about one hundred and twenty patients, and is a general 
hospital. 
Chicago Hahnemann Hospital.-During the spring of 
1874 the Ladies' Aid Society of the hospital, with the con- 
currence of the college faculty and the friends of homoeopathy HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMSj HOMES, ETC. 
979 
at home and abroad, organized a grand fair for the benefit of this 
hospital. The enterprise was arranged on a large seale and be- 
came immensely popular. The fair was opened November 16th, 
1874, and continued for nine days. The result of the undertak- 
ing, beside contributing immensely to the social standing and 
character of the cause by bringing out its best patrons, was the 
net return of eleven thousand dollars in cash. 
The oldest homoeopathic dispensary in the State is the Hah- 
nemann College Dispensary, founded in 1858 for the purpose 
of dispensing homoeopathic medicine. It is open daily under 
the supervision of'good physicians and surgeons. The number 
of prescriptions gratuitously made to the sick and infirm poor 
has exceeded ten thousand annually. Recently, and for the last 
three years, the number of prescriptions has greatly increased. 
Thousands of cures have been made and much suffering has been 
relieved. The dispensary is connected with the hospital building. 
The Foundlings' Home Dispensary is connected with the 
Home. " The Homoeopathic Dispensary of Chicago " is now the 
"Hahnemann Hospital Dispensary" above mentioned. 
The West Division Homoeopathic Dispensary of Chicago was 
organized January 4th, and was opened for patients, at No. 
240 West Madison Street, January 20th, 1868. The association 
consists of the originators and annual contributors. L. H. Hol- 
brook, M.D., was the first attending physician. 
The Chicago Half-Orphan Asylum was originally under allo- 
pathic, but since 1863 or '64 it has been under homoeopathic 
treatment. It is situated in the northern division of the city, 
and usually furnishes a home for fifty or sixty motherless or 
fatherless children. This institution has had for medical attend- 
ants Drs. H. N. Board man and E. Kneip, and afterwards Drs. 
S. P. .Hedges and L. C. Grosvenor. 
Home for the Friendless, Chicago.-In due time a charity was 
started under the name of " The Home for the Friendless," which, 
after a time, became a praiseworthy institution. An elegant, 
large, and commodious building was erected for the home. It 
has furnished comfortable apartments for a large number of the 
sick and unfortunate who were destitute of means and friends 980 
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to procure them other quarters. This charity is under the ho- 
moeopathic treatment of Dr. D. A. Colton, whose careful, prompt 
and efficient attention has won him a good name and lasting 
o o 
gratitude. 
The disastrous fire which occurred in Chicago on the night and 
morning of October Sth and 9th, 1871, was an unprecedented 
calamity. The losses sustained in almost every department of 
industry and effort were simply enormous. We extract from an 
editorial entitled " The Great Fire Medically Considered," and 
contained in the United States Medical and Surgical Journal for 
January, 1872, a few items of which are inseparably connected 
with the history of homoeopathy in the metropolis of the North- 
west : 
" The fire destroyed six hospitals, more than a hundred wholesale and retail 
drug-stores, four medical periodicals, with their offices, current issues, man- 
uscripts and proofs, back numbers, account books, and subscription lists ; and 
about two hundred physicians lost their homes, offices, fixtures, libraries, in- 
struments, and fields of practice-in short, everything in a single night. 
" The entire edition of theOctober number of this journal was burned in 
the bindery ; ditto the Transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society, and 
the Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, which were in 
press at the time of the fire." 
In consequence of the fire 15,000 families, or about 60,000 
persons, became houseless and homeless. The first physicians 
who volunteered their aid in the consternation and distress that 
followed were homoeopathists. Dr. J. E. Gilman established 
four temporary hospitals in as many different churches in the 
west division of the city; Dr. C. Horace Evans assisted ; while, 
in the ill-fated north division, Drs. Grosvenor and Hedges and 
many others were on duty day and night in the churches and 
schoolrooms. 
On the 13th of October, by a proclamation from the mayor, 
the work of distributing the funds subscribed and the provisions 
contributed for the sufferers, from all parts of the civilized world, 
was committed to the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, an organ- 
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981 
ization which dates back to 1857. This society took the entire 
charge and care of the 60,000 people who were in need of help, and 
did its work through five special committees. The Sick, Sanitary, 
and Hospital Committee of this society consisted of ten members, 
one of which, the Rev. Dr. H. N. Powers, was an eminent cler- 
gyman, and nine distinguished physicians, of whom Dr. Reuben 
Ludlam was the representative of the homoeopathic school. This 
committee had charge of all the relief patients that were admitted 
to the seven hospitals remaining in the city, including the Hah- 
nemann Hospital, to the barracks hospitals, and to the dispensaries, 
including that of the Hahnemann Medical College. The medi- 
cal work of this committee secured the best service for about 
3000 patients per week during the first winter, without expense 
to the city or to the sick. 
The city was divided into five districts, each having its medi- 
cal superintendent. These superintendents had the supervision 
of a staff of twenty visiting physicians, seven dispensary physi- 
cians, and seven dispensing druggists, from whom regular re- 
ports were made concerning the number of patients treated, etc. 
Three of the visiting physicians, viz., Drs. H. B. Fellows, J. E. 
Gilman, and C. Horace Evans were homoeopathists, and did ex- 
cellent service. The duties of the aforesaid committee were very 
severe and exacting. For many weeks they necessitated a daily 
meeting of its members, and they were not closed until more than 
a year had elapsed from the date of the fire. Before the work of 
this committee was done, a pro rata distribution of money was 
made from the treasury to the different responsible hospitals and 
charities of the city. The amount thus donated to the Hahne- 
mann Hospital, on condition that it should be appropriated for 
building purposes, was $15,000. With this sum the north wing 
of the present hospital and the clinical amphitheatre were built. 
Appropriations had formerly been made for the purchase of in- 
struments, medicines, beds and bedding, and the necessary hos- 
pital supplies; and during the winter of 1871 and 1872 the 
clinics of the Hahnemann Hospital were crowded with patients. 
The work of this mixed medical commission was carried on 
with the most perfect harmony and singleness of purpose. The 982 
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fire had already burned down many of the denominational fences, 
and the physicians who were engaged with the professional care 
of so many thousand people strove to do their whole duty in the 
emergency, without stopping to wrangle over matters of faith 
and doctrine. \ 
Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.* 
This hospital was founded in 1859 by the Rev. Louis E. Nol- 
lau,at that time pastor of St.Peter's Church, St. Louis (Lutheran). 
It was opened in a modest way, occupying a small building con- 
taining about seven rooms on Carr Street. Rev. Mr. Nollau, in 
addition to his pastoral duties, gave the hospital his almost con- 
stant personal attention, aided by voluntary subscriptions from 
his many friends; the majority of these subscriptions were for 
the first year or two from the German population. Dr. E. A. 
Fellerer was the first physician, and continued so until early in 
1859, when Dr. T. G. Comstock was also appointed attending 
physician, and these two gentlemen were the medical attendants 
until 1862. The hospital was by act of the legislature first in- 
corporated in 1859, when a new hospital building was erected, 
and finished in 1861, and the patients were removed to the new 
quarters in March of this year. The building is situated on Jef- 
ferson Avenue, at the head of O'Fallon Street, is a fine edifice, 
and capable of holding 160 patients. It was scarcely opened 
when our civil war broke out. 
We admitted soldiers wounded at the memorable capture of 
Camp Jackson, and many other patients from the military camps, 
who at that time could not be accommodated in the military hos- 
pitals. In the fall of 1861 we engaged to nurse a larger number 
of patients from the army for a reasonable compensation from 
government. Afterwards the board of directors deemed it ad- 
visable to rent the house out to the United States Government, 
who used it as a military hospital for two years, and we then re- 
moved our patients back to the old hospital on Carr Street. 
In November, 1863, we took possession of the building again, 
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983 
and have continued it ever since. The hospital was originally 
intended to be a charitable institution, and during the lifetime 
of Mr. Nollau this was carried out as far as practicable ; but 
there being no permanent endowment for the support of the same, 
it is now ordered by the board of directors that patients must 
pay when they have the means, and only a limited number are 
treated gratuitously. Mr. Nollau, the founder, was removed by 
death, February 16th, 1869. 
It would not be just in this connection should I fail to men- 
tion the names of such men as Francis Whittaker, Adolphus 
Meier, Francis Hackemeier, Samuel Plant, John Wolf, Henry 
A. Nomeier, and Frederick Bolte, who were directors of the hos- 
pital during the lifetime of Mr Nollau. Among these have 
passed away Messrs. Plant, Whittaker, and Bolte. 
Mr. Francis Whittaker, upon his deathbed, verbally requested 
that ten thousand dollars should be donated from his estate to 
the hospital. This bequest, not being mentioned in his will, of 
course could not have been legally collected from his estate. 
Through the generous efforts of his son, Mr. John Whittaker, 
this sum ($10,000) was paid over to the hospital, the amount 
of the bequest having been equally divided among all the sur- 
viving members of his family, and thus the wishes of the donor 
were fully carried out. Besides the two attending physicians 
above mentioned as having been connected with the institu- 
tion from its first organization, Drs. Helmuth, G. S. Walker, 
D. R. Luyties, C. Gundelach, E. C. Franklin, and J. Hartman 
have served at different times ; also, as medical attendants from 
.1865 until 1871. The present medical staff is: Drs. T. G. Com- 
stock, D. R. Luyties, E. C. Franklin, C. Gundelach, A. S. Ev- 
eritt, J. A. Campbell. 
The whole number of patients treated since the first opening 
of the hospital up to the present time foots up about 5000. 
This hospital is, we hope, upon a sure footing, being free from 
debt. Its present flourishing condition is not a little due to Mr. 
11. A. Wiebush, the President, who has devoted his personal ef- 
forts for the past three years towards its successful management 
financially ; the physicians are happily in perfect accord with 984 
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him. We should also mention the name of Mr. Kemper, the 
superintendent, and his benevolent wife, Mrs. Kemper, who is 
the efficient matron of the house. They have been engaged in 
the hospital in this connection for some years past. The hospi- 
tal has a number of excellently arranged private rooms, where 
private patients may be treated under any practice, and by any 
physician of their own selection. The medical staff attend the 
hospital by turns, one physician serving for a term of three 
months; but on Wednesdays two of the staff are present, and 
upon Saturdays the whole staff meet at the hospital at 1 P.M., 
and make the visit all together. During the winter months a 
clinic and a lecture are given by Drs. Franklin and Gundelach. 
This hospital is a living monument to show the advantages of 
the new system of medicine over the old. 
Cavalry Depot Hospital of St. Louis was organized 
March 1st, 1865, with Dr. E. C. Franklin as chief surgeon. 
This hospital was supported by voluntary subscriptions by 
laborers, 1400 in number, employed in the United States Cav- 
alry Depot, and was designed for the treatment of cavalrymen. 
At first temporary barracks were used, but afterwards a suitable 
building was fitted up capable of accommodating 50 patients. 
During the first year 1206 patients were treated. 
The St. Louis Homoeopathic Dispensary was organized in 1864, 
and located at the College building, No. 1009 Locust Street, and 
opened in March, 1865, with the following officers, viz.: Dr. C. 
W. Spalding, President, Mrs. Dr. William Tod Helmuth, 
Treasurer, and Dr. E. C. Franklin, Secretary. The Board of 
Trustees consisted of Drs. C. W. Spalding, E. C. Franklin, and 
T. J. Vastine, Mrs. Dr. T. G. Comstock, Mrs. W. T. Helmuth, 
Mrs. G. S. Walker, and Mrs. John T. Temple. A charter of 
incorporation was procured from the Circuit Court in March, 1866. 
A constitution and by-laws were adopted the same month. Dr. 
S. B. Parsons was appointed as the attending physician for the 
first year. In 1868 Dr. E. C. Franklin was duly appointed to 
the entire charge of the dispensary, which he has held up to the 
present time. The dispensary has been carried on within the HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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building of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, and 
large numbers have been treated by different members of the 
faculty from time to time during these years. The assistant 
physicians now in charge are Dr. J. A. Campbell, in charge of 
Eye and Ear Clinic, and Dr. J. C. Cummings, Professor of 
Clinical Medicine in the College.. At this free dispensary, dur- 
ing the collegiate term, clinics are held daily, and patients are 
examined and prescribed for before the class. The Provers' 
Union have it now in charge. 
The Homoeopathic Medical and, Surgical Dispensary of San 
Francisco was established August 5th, 1869, in San Francisco, by 
Francis Cutting, Esq., and maintained at his expense for about 
four years, at a cost of $150 per month. During the most of this 
time it was under the medical management of Dr. J. S. Beakley. 
It was then placed in the hands of a dispensary association, 
which dissolved in 1875. 
The Homoeopathic Free Dispensary of Leavenworth, Kansas, 
was opened February 10th, 1866, by Dr. Martin Mayer Marix. 
It was partly supported from the county treasury. 
Minnesota State Deaf and Dumb Asylum. 
Since the year 1863 this institution, which is located at Fari- 
bault, has been under the care of homoeopathic physicians. Dr. 
Nicols was appointed in 1863, and still retains charge of the 
institution. The average number of inmates during the thirteen 
years has been about one hundred. Although epidemics of scar- 
latina, measles, diphtheria, meningitis, and typhoid fever have 
prevailed in the town, no death has occurred in the institution. 
The Massachusetts Homceopathic Hospital.* 
This institution was chartered in 1855, and at that time failed 
by only a single vote in obtaining an endowment of $20,000 
from the State. Had this been secured the hospital would at 
that time have received additional funds from its friends, and ere 
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this have accomplished a large amount of good. But the first 
effort failing, it was not until January, 1871, that the hospital 
was opened to patients, and then in a very modest manner, in a 
private house, purchased for the purpose, at 14 Burroughs Place. 
The attempt to expel homoeopaths from the medical society 
aroused the sympathy of the community, and at the public fair, 
then instituted for this hospital, the sum of $80,000 was realized. 
A piece of land in East Concord Street, Boston, containing 
27,000 feet, was purchased of the city, and on it the present 
beautiful structure was erected. This building was opened to 
patients in May, 1876, and in thorough ventilation, delightful 
temperature, summer and winter, bright and sunny wards, and 
private rooms, together with all necessary conveniences and com- 
forts, it has proved one of the most satisfactory hospitals ever 
built. It has already received and provided for upwards of 600 
patients, with a mortality of less than 2 per cent. The patients 
are provided with the best food and care, and yet its affairs have 
been managed with such economy that the cost has been much 
less than in similar hospitals. Severe and often hopeless cases 
have resorted here for treatment with great benefit. 
The Consumptives' Home, Boston, was opened in 1864, and 
has been in operation twelve years. It is designed for incurable 
consumptives, and is supported by voluntary contributions. It 
already occupies four houses, and has accommodations for fifty 
inmates. Charles Cullis, M.D., of Boston, is the founder and 
physician. 
The Consumptives' Home Dispensary, Boston, is connected 
with the institution of that name, and was opened at No. 13 
Willard Street, March 27th, 1868. The great proportion of 
the cases treated were consumptive. It depended on voluntary 
subscriptions. Dr. G. M. Pease was the first physician. It still 
exists. 
The Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, was 
established in 1865. Its sick, from the first, have received 
homoeopathic treatment, with very remarkable success,-the HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, ASYLUMS, HOMES, ETC. 
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rate of mortality being surprisingly low for such an institution. 
William Toles is superintendent. 
The House of the Angel Guardian, founded by Rev. George 
F. Haskins, has been in the care of homoeopathic physicians for 
about four years. It shelters about three hundred boys, of from 
five to fifteen years of age. Rev. G. F. Haskins is the Director ; 
J. D. Judge, Superintendent. 
The Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary, Boston.-The failure, 
in 1855, to secure State aid for a hospital, did not wholly dis- 
courage the friends of homoeopathy in Massachusetts. In the 
following year (1856) they obtained a charter for a medical dis- 
pensary, which was opened in April, 1857. In its first year it 
treated 195 patients, since when its work has steadily aug- 
mented. The central office, at 14 Burroughs Place, is open 
daily from 10 to 12. The college branch occupies the base- 
ment of the building of the Boston University School of Medi- 
cine, in East Concord Street, and is divided into the following 
departments: Medical, surgical, dental, eye and ear, women's, 
children's, chest, and throat. There are connected with this 
branch twenty-four physicians. With the aid of the college 
faculty chemical instruction in the various departments is fur- 
nished to the medical students. The west end branch, in Leverett 
Street, is open daily from 10 to 12. The whole dispensary is 
supported mainly by a fund raised by a fair held in 1859 in the 
Music Hall, which netted $13,100, the income of which has 
provided treatment for 50,000 sick persons. 
It is a source of great regret to the editor that he is not able 
to publish full accounts of all the charitable institutions in which 
our great country so freely abounds. In the appendix to this 
volume many of these will be given which cannot be enlarged 
upon in this chapter. PHARMA C1E S. 
It is extremely difficult to obtain a complete history of the 
pharmacies in the United States, as it has been necessary to glean 
information concerning the early ones, for the most part, from 
advertisements appearing in the homoeopathic publications. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Jacob Behlert sold homoeopathic medicines in Philadelphia as 
early as 1835, and also made the first domestic cases. Soon 
afterwards Mr. I. G. Wesselhoeft sold them at his book-store 
until 1842. The first part of Dr. Hering's Domestic Physician 
was originally published in the German language, with I. G. 
Wessel hoe ft's imprint as publisher, in 1835. The second part 
was published in 1837, and the medicines recommended in that 
book were kept by Mr. Wesselhoeft, his store being then at No. 
9 Bread Street. Dr. G. Lingen also kept these medicines at 
No. 105 North Seventh Street in 1835, and they were also sold 
at the Allentown Academy, Allentown, Pa. During the year 
1842 Mr. Wesselhoeft removed to St. Louis, and his clerk, Mr. 
William Radde, continued the business, but removed it to New 
York. In the same year, or early in 1843, Mr. Charles L. Rade- 
macher opened a store for the sale of homoeopathic medicines at 
39 North Fourth Street, and so continued, when, in 1848, Dr. 
Jacob Sheek became his partner, and, under the firm of Rade- 
macher & Sheek, located at 239 Arch Street. Mr. Rademacher 
withdrew from business in 1855, and died in 1861. Dr. J. G. 
Sheek continued it under his own name until his death on Janu- 
ary 1st, 1858. Mr. William Radde, Jr., of New York, then 
bought the stock, and continued the business in the same loca- 
tion (new number 635 Arch Street) until his death in 1862. 
This business was then bought by Mr. F. E. Boericke. 
In September, 1840, Dr. J. Tanner had the United States 
Homoeopathic Pharmacy at 104 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
It is not known how long he remained there. PHARMACIES. 
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Matthews and Howard opened a pharmacy at Eighth and 
Spruce streets, Philadelphia, in 1852, and continued until 1857, 
when the business was sold to F. E. Boericke. 
F. E. Boericke and Rudolph Tafel, under the firm of Boericke 
& Tafel, opened, in 1853, a store at No. 3 South Fifth Street, 
near Chestnut, but, being burned out the year after, opened 
again a few weeks after at No. 34 South Seventh Street. Mr. 
Tafel withdrew from business in the same year, and Mr. F. E. 
Boericke continued it, removing it, in 1867, to 511 Chestnut 
Street, and, in 1861, to 48 North Ninth Street. In 1864 this 
business was sold to Mr. A. J. Tafel, who remained at Ninth 
Street under his own firm name until 1869, Dr. Boericke mean- 
while continuing at his store in Arch Street. 
In 1869 F. E. Boericke and A. J. Tafel formed a partnership 
under the firm name of Boericke & Tafel, which is continued to 
the present time. They have the largest homoeopathic pharmacy 
in the country, and have, besides their two pharmacies in Phila- 
delphia, establishments in New York, Baltimore (1869), and 
San Francisco (1870). 
In 1869 a small pharmacy was kept on Ridge Avenue, but 
continued only a few months. 
Slough's Homoeopathic Pharmacy, Allentown, Pa., was opened 
October, 1875, by Frank J. Slough, M.D., and is doing well. 
There are several other Pharmacies scattered throughout the 
State. 
NEW YORK. 
Homoeopathic medicines were sold as early as 1835 at Mr. 
Wessel Hoeft's book-store, ^o. 498 Greenwich Street, New York 
city. This business was continued by William Radde, who, in 
1842, came from Philadelphia, where he had been with Mr. I. G. 
Wesselhoeft, and established himself in Pearl Street near Broad- 
way. From there he moved to 322 Broadway, afterwards to 300 
Broadway, and finally to 550 Pearl Street. Mr. Radde was the 
general agent for the Central Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Leip- 
zic, Germany, and he also published many homoeopathic works. 
Boericke & Tafel bought out Mr. Radde in 1869, and removed 
the store from 550 Pearl Street to 145 Grand Street. They 990 
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continued the publishing as well as the pharmaceutical business, 
and have extended their business to other large cities. 
Smith's Homoeopathic Pharmacy, New York City.-Prior to 
1843 the homoeopathic physicians in New York were obliged to 
prepare their own remedies, or procure them from Germany 
through a bookseller (Mr. William Radde, who started business 
in 1835), who imported homoeopathic works. 
At this date Dr. A. Gerald Hull induced Mr. John T. S. 
Smith, whose family had been his patients for several years, to 
prepare some remedies for him. With a fondness for chemical 
manipulations, a knowledge of the natural sciences, being a good 
botanist, and having considerable mechanical skill, an opportu- 
nity was here afforded Mr. Smith to occupy his leisure hours, 
and he acceded to the request, without any intention of making 
it a business. It becoming known that he was thus engaged 
making tinctures and triturations for Drs. Hull and Gray, other 
physicians called upon him for their supplies, and he was thus 
persuaded to devote his entire time to the preparation of homoeo- 
pathic medicines. 
Being a firm believer in the homoeopathic practice, he recog- 
nized the importance of exactness in all his pharmaceutical prep- 
arations, and that certainty and success in practice depended on 
the reliability of medicine as well as the skill of the practitioner. 
To assure himself of the purity of the preparations, he found it 
necessary to refine the milk-sugar, redistil the alcohol in glass, 
prepare the chemical salts, gather the fresh plants used for tinc- 
tures, and exercise great care in selecting the dried, the pri- 
mary object being to furnish reliable preparations. He thus 
became the first manufacturer of homoeopathic medicines in this 
country. The pharmacy which he established, known from the 
beginning as " Smith's Homoeopathic Pharmacy," has become 
universally known, not only for the standard quality of its prepa- 
rations, but also for the care and neatness with which they are 
put up. It has been foremost in the adoption of improved 
means of manufacturing, whereby the increased demands for 
homoeopathic medicines could be met. 
Brooklyn Homoeopathic Pharmacies.*-J. T. S. Smith opened 
* By R. C. Mottatt, M.D. PHARMACIES. 
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the first homoeopathic pharmacy in 1850 at No. 50 Court Street, 
when there were but ten practitioners of the new school in the 
city. He did much to extend the knowledge of homoeopathy. His 
name was kept up about fifteen years, when it gave place to Pearce 
Brothers, and they, in turn, yielded to S. G. Clarke, abqut 1874. 
J. O. Noxon established Brooklyn's second pharmacy, at 323 
Washington Street, in 1869, but moved to better quarters in 
four years, where he now is, at 444 Fulton Street. 
Lewis H. Smith has had a homoeopathic pharmacy since 1869 
at 59 Court Street. 
W. Sommers opened a new pharmacy in Brooklyn at 120 
Fourth Street in 1875. 
N. B.-About the year 1865 allopathic drug stores began to 
vend homoeopathic medicines, a significant sign of the growth of 
homoeopathy in Brooklyn. 
Buffalo Homoeopathic Pharmacy*-The Buffalo Homoeopathic 
Pharmacy was founded in the year 1864 by A. J. Tafel, of the 
firm of Boericke & Tafel. At the end of a little more than a 
year, not finding it a commercial success, he disposed of his stock 
to C. S. Halsey, of Chicago. At that time I was in his employ 
as wholesale salesman, which position I had filled for several 
years, being for some years previous engaged with Mr. Halsey as 
manufacturer of fine chemicals for homoeopathic use. He put 
me in charge of the pharmacy here, and for two years more it 
was continued under my supervision, and promised financial 
success. However, Mr. H. concluded he could use the invest- 
ment to better advantage at the end of that time, and was pre- 
pared to take the stock into his Chicago house. I made him a 
proposition for the business; he accepted, and since that time, the 
spring of 1869, I have been sole proprietor. The business has 
grown slowly but steadily, and the Buffalo Homoeopathic Phar- 
macy stands in rank with the oldest and most reliable houses in 
the country. It has been my continual aim to elevate homoeo- 
pathic pharmacy to something higher than mere shop-work, and 
keep it entirely aloof and apart from the crudities of the old 
school. I have never countenanced the sale of homoeopathic 
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preparations in drug stores, and though at present those homoeo- 
pathic pharmacies that are pushing this trade may find money 
in it, they are taking the sure road to corrupt and degrade all 
homoeopathic methods. 
LOUISIANA.* 
A. d'Hemicourt, R. Angell, and Dr. de Villeneuve had phar- 
macies in New Orleans. De Villeneuve's was a small affair, 
and was closed in six months. D'Hemicourt and Angell's were 
old and very respectable establishments. 
D'Hemicourt was a civil engineer of high character, and an 
enthusiastic homoeopath. He expended $5000 on various ma- 
chines for trituration and succussion. His last one was the most 
perfect I ever saw. It was worked by a small steam-engine of 
one-horse power. The powder was scraped from the sides and 
bottom every minute by machinery. I have never used any 
triturations which gave me such satisfaction. After innumerable 
experiments, and the breakage of many materials, he found that 
a stout hickory stick was at the same time sufficiently lithe 
and yielding, and sufficiently strong, to make his succussions. 
D'Hemicourt is now dead, and his pharmacy closed. It was 
mainly patronized by Taxit, Dupaquier, Matthieu, and all the 
French high dilutionists. I do not know when it was estab- 
lished, but it must have been 30 or 40 years ago. 
Dr. Richard Angell, a most worthy representative of our 
school, established his pharmacy about 1855. He also is dead, 
but his son, Mr. Richard Angell, still carries on the business 
very successfully at 152 Julien Street. 
Boericke & Tafel have established a very fine pharmacy in 
New Orleans, at 130 Canal Street, which is doing a vast deal of 
good. 
OHIO.f 
Dr. B. H. Bartlett opened a homoeopathic pharmacy, in 1846, 
in Cleveland, it being the first in Northern Ohio. 
* By W. H. Holcombe, M.D. 
f By D. H. Beckwith, M.D. PHARMACIES. 
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John Hall, of the firm of Fiske & Hall, druggists, opened a 
pharmacy over their drug store. In a short time Hall sold 
out his interest in the store, and continued his pharmacy in 
a separate building. Dr. John Hall removed to Canada, and 
the business was conducted by his son, J. B. Hall, M.D., until 
1867, when it was purchased by Beckwith & Co. In 1869 L. 
H. Witte, a practical druggist and chemist, became the pro- 
prietor, and now occupies a large and commodious building on 
Superior Street. 
J. F. Desilver established at Cincinnati, about 1845 or '46, a 
pharmacy at 112 Main Street. 
About 1847 Smith and Worthington opened the Cincinnati 
Homoeopathic Pharmacy. In 1854 this was known as the Parks 
Central Homoeopathic Pharmacy, and was then situated at 133 
Main Street. It was then conducted by Messrs. Smith and 
Parks, and now is owned by A. E. Worthington & Co., at 170 
West Sixth Street, Cincinnati. 
Toledo Homoeopathic Pharmacy.-This pharmacy was opened 
by Dr. S. Bailey in the early part of the year 1865. 
MAINE. 
In 1862 or'63 Mr. Seavey went to Portland, Maine, and there 
opened a small pharmacy, which he continued until 1876, when 
he sold out to S. C. Sylvester, who still continues it. 
MICHIGAN. 
The first pharmacy in Michigan was established by Dr. John 
Ellis, in Detroit, about 1850, subsequently passing, in 1859, into 
the hands of Dr. E. A. Lodge, and in 1878 to Mr. Albert Lodge, 
who now continues it. Dr. A. B. Spinney also had a pharmacy 
in Saginaw at one time. 
In 1852 Messrs. Thayer & Driggs had a pharmacy at Detroit, 
which was afterwards conducted by Mr. H. C. Driggs. 
In 1873 B. E. Sickler established, at 164 Woodward Avenue^ 
Detroit, a pharmacy. 994 
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WISCONSIN. 
The Milwaukee Homoeopathic Pharmacy was founded in 1844 
by J. S. Douglas, A.M., M.D., Ph.D. For several years the 
business consisted mainly in the preparation and sale of medi- 
cines to the city, in connection with Douglas's Practical Homoe- 
opathy, a popular manual, which has now reached its thirteenth 
edition. Dr. Douglas had associated with him in business, at 
different times, Drs. Greaves, Tracy, and Perrine, all now de- 
ceased. In 1872 he formed a partnership with Lewis Sherman, 
A.M., M.D., a man who, like himself, possessed a special fitness 
for the work of homoeopathic pharmacy, and who had already 
been engaged in the business for a short time. Drs. Douglas 
and Sherman both sustained a high reputation for general scien- 
tific culture, and both had made a special study of botany. Dr. 
Sherman has the finest herbarium in the State. They made fre- 
quent excursions for the collection of plants for the herbarium 
and the pharmacy. 
In 1875 Dr. Douglas's declining years and strength admon- 
ished him of the necessity of a less active life. Accordingly he 
retired from the business, selling his interest to Dr. Sherman, 
who is now the sole proprietor.and manager. 
Dr. Sherman early perceived the imperfection of the compara- 
tively young homoeopathic pharmacopoeia, in the matter of 
regulating the strength and quality of the liquid preparations. 
The pharmaceutists, apparently without rudder or compass, were 
making tinctures and dilutions of varying medicinal strength, 
having little or no regard for the solubilities of drugs. Dr. Sher- 
man proceeded to a systematic study of the nature of the differ- 
ent substances from which tinctures are made. The result was 
the production of a system by which all the liquid preparations 
of the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia are made on the uniform 
basis of the original substance. The dilutions are of the same 
strength as the corresponding triturations. The decimal scale 
is used in the preparation of all attenuations below the thirtieth. 
Liquids are measured by volume and not by weight, nor by the 
counting of drops. The cubic centimeter of liquids is made to 
correspond exactly to the gram of solids; the imperial fluid 
ounce to the avoirdupois ounce. PHARMACIES. 
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ILLINOIS.* 
There are in Chicago three homoeopathic pharmacies which 
do a general wholesale and retail business. The first was estab- 
lished by C. S. Halsey, Esq., more than twenty years ago. The 
business of this pharmacy, though at first quite limited and very 
greatly depressed by the fire of the 9th of October, 1871, has 
become one of the most desirable and reliable pharmacies in 
our country. Under the management of the Halsey Brothers, 
this pharmacy deservedly merits the widespread confidence that 
has been expressed in its favor. 
The second one was established in 1869 by Von Scldieben, 
who was unfortunately killed early in 1872, and the business fell 
into the hands of Siebach and Delbridge, who industriously se- 
cured an extensive trade. 
In 1873 A. W. Clendening established a pharmacy at No. 35 
South Clarke Street, and was succeeded by Dr. H. N. Small in 
1874, who has since continued the business. 
There are three other homoeopathic pharmacies doing a retail 
business in Chicago, one of which is kept by Mrs. S. H. Scribner, 
on Wabash Avenue and Twenty-first Street, who for the last 
year has apparently had a prosperous and a growing trade. Dr. 
T. D. Williams, 89 Aberdeen Street, has carried on a retail 
pharmacy for the last twelve years, and has received during this 
time a respectable patronage. 
Other Pharmacies in the State.-There is at Galesburgh,a city 
of fifteen or twenty thousand inhabitants, a pharmacy which is 
doing a prosperous business. 
There is another at Quincy, a beautiful city on the banks of 
the Mississippi. This pharmacy has the patronage of many 
physicians in connection with a respectable retail trade. Besides 
these nearly every druggist in the State is supplied with homoe- 
opathic medicines, carefully prepared by some reliable chemist 
of the homoeopathic school. So strong is the current of public 
opinion in favor of homoeopathic preparations for domestic use that 
no druggist can afford to restrict his trade by not keeping them. 
* By A. E. Small, M.D. 996 
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MISSOURI. 
The first pharmacy in St. Louis was established by Dr. Wes- 
selhoeft. The next by Dr. John T. Temple, on Market Street; 
after that, one on Fourth Street, by Dr. D. R. Luyties. In 
1859 it passed into the hands of R. & II. Luyties, and in 1861 
H. C. G. Luyties, brother of the doctor, became proprietor, 
opened on Fifth Street, and is still the owner of what has grown 
from small beginnings to be second to no other homoeopathic 
pharmacy in the West. He is familiar with all the literature of 
the profession, and edits and publishes a monthly periodical, en- 
titled the Homoeopathio News. 
In 1867 John W. Munson arrived in the city from Virginia 
and opened Munson's Western Homoeopathic Pharmacy, in Lo- 
cust Street, between Fourth and Fifth. Under the successful 
management of Mr. Munson and his chief assistant, who is now 
a partner (William F. Bockstruck), this pharmacy does a large 
business. This pharmacy also publishes a monthly, called Mun- 
son's Bulletin. 
In Kansas City Dr. Field has a homoeopathic pharmacy and 
does a small business in that town, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, 
and Colorado. 
MINNESOTA. 
In the line of pharmacies our State is not yet thoroughly 
furnished, though, perhaps, in most places as fully as the demand 
will warrant. In quite a number of the smaller towns the phy- 
sician keeps a line of the ordinary remedies for sale, and a few 
of them have given special attention to the preparation of tinc- 
tures, etc. In St. Paul most of the business in this line is done 
by general druggists. The extensive wholesale house of Noyes 
Brothers & Cutler has for years dealt somewhat largely in the 
usual homoeopathic remedies. Dries & Mitsch, and also Stierle, 
have done most in the line of retail. 
In 1869 Mr. Thomas Gardiner, of Minneapolis, opened a stock 
of homoeopathic goods and sundries, and has since continued 
and enlarged his business. SECTION III. 
ON LEGISLATION. Legislation in the State of New York. 
Legislation in the State of Delaware. 
Legislation in the State of Ohio. 
Legislation in the State of New Jersey, Wallace McGeorge, M.D. 
Legislation in the State of Maine, William E. Payne, M.D. 
Legislation in the State of Michigan C. M. Woodruff. 
Legislation in the State.of Missouri. 
Legislation in the State of California C. W. Breyfogle, M.D. 
Legislation in the State of Minnesota. 
Legislation in the State of Iowa. 
Legislation in the State of Massachusetts, .... I. T. Talbot, M.D. 
CONTENTS LEGISLATION 
In the early annals of homoeopathy, before people had by trial 
verified its truths, quite a number of suits of malpractice were 
instigated against homoeopathic physicians, which, thanks to the 
impartiality of American citizens, amounted to nothing, but sim- 
ply turned the people's attention favorably to the new departure 
in medicine. It is impossible in a work of this kind to give at 
length the history of all these acts. In this chapter a brief his- 
tory, as far as has been reported to me*, of the special legislation 
for and against homoeopathy will be given. 
NEW YORK. 
The first practitioners of homoeopathy in New York city met 
from the very first with continued and persistent opposition from 
the allopathic school, but probably the first decided act of hostil- 
ity occurred in 1843, when Drs. Hull and Wells, as in duty 
bound by legal requisition, applied for membership in the Kings 
County Medical Society. They were promptly rejected, though 
thoroughly educated physicians, because they were homoeopaths. 
Dr. Wells accepted his rejection, but Dr. Hull put the matter to 
a legal test. He had all the legal credentials and had complied 
with all the required formalities. A lawsuit ensued, which 
lasted sixteen years, and resulted in a judgment in his favor. 
The society then wrote a note, inviting him to a seat with its 
members, which honor he declined. They paid the costs of the 
action. 
* Editor, J. C. G. 998 
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In 1844 the law of New York declared that all physicians 
who were not members of county societies, or who had not a 
diploma from one of the incorporated medical colleges of the State, 
were unlicensed practitioners, and as such were liable at law- 
could be imprisoned, etc., while the licensed practitioner could 
not be imprisoned. 
In 1854 one Agnes Lattimer, a child, died from retrocession 
of mumps in Brooklyn, and as she had been treated homoeopath- 
ically an inquest was held, at which the dominant school endeav- 
ored to prove that death resulted from the ignorance of her 
physicians. The jury returned a verdict of death, but were 
unable to fix the death upon the homoeopaths. 
Homoeopathy was legalized in New York State by an act of 
legislature, passed in the Senate March 1st, 1856, but the Assem- 
bly failing to pass the bill it remained until the next year, when 
it passed both branches of the legislature, becoming a law April 
13th, 1857. This act provided for the incorporation of homoe- 
opathic county medical societies, and was obtained through the 
efforts of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Northern New 
York. 
In 1861 Dr. T. D. Stow endeavored to procure a surgeoncy in 
a regiment of volunteers. He made application in due form 
and fulfilled all the requirements of the law, but was rejected 
because he was a homoeopath.* 
At the opening of the civil war the homoeopaths made strenuous 
efforts to be admitted as army surgeons and to the army hospi- 
tals. A great many of the volunteers preferred homoeopathic 
treatment, but were denied it. Much was published at the time 
regarding the subject, and a full account can be found in volumes 
two and ten of the New York State Homoeopathic Transactions. 
The New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society at that 
time took a decided stand for the introduction of homoeopathy 
into the army, claiming it as a right, but were refused by the 
allopathic authorities who were in power. 
The most conspicuous effort to crush out homoeopathy, and 
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which excited the indignation of the whole country, occurred in 
1870. One Dr. Van Arman, a commissioner of pensions, dis- 
covered that Dr. Stilman Spooner, a homoeopathic physician, was 
a pension surgeon at Oneida, N. Y. He accordingly wrote, 
under date of May 15th, 1870, asking Dr. Spooner where and 
when he graduated, and what was his present school of practice. 
Dr. Spooner at once replied that he had graduated at Fairfield, 
N. Y., in 1832, that he had for twenty years practiced allop- 
athy, but since 1852 had practiced homoeopathy. He received 
his letter of dismissal from Washington, June 20th, 1870. Dr. 
Spooner of course resented this, and wrote a letter to the authori- 
ties at Washington deprecating their course. The matter soon 
became public. The various State and county homoeopathic so- 
cieties prepared and published resolutions asking for the rein- 
statement of Dr. Spooner and the dismissal of Commissioner Van 
Arman. These petitions were addressed to the State government 
of New York and the General Government at Washington. The 
press came out, almost as a whole, in denunciation of this high- 
handed and sectarian action. Drs. S. C. Card, C. Hoppin, Bum- 
stead, A. T. Bull, and others were also required during the 
summer of 1870 to resign. The consequence of this dogmatic 
action of the commissioner was that he resigned, and about that 
time a bill passed (?) the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United States providing that all appointments to medical 
service under the government should be open to all graduates 
of legally chartered medical institutions in this or any other 
country, without reference to preferred theories of treatment.* 
DELAWARE. 
No person who was not a practitioner of medicine prior to 
the 4th of February, 1802, is, in this State, legally entitled to 
practice medicine or surgery, and charge or demand any com- 
pensation therefor, without having first obtained from the medi- 
cal board of examiners a license or permit. This board consists 
of three members of the State Medical Society. Dr. Gosewisch 
* N. Y. State Trans, of Hom. Med. Sue., vol. x. 1000 
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applied for admittance to the State Medical Society, and met the 
examining board at Dover, the State capital, where he under- 
went his examination, with which the society declared itself 
entirely satisfied. The next day, however, Dr. Gosewisch re- 
ceived from the secretary of the society a note refusing his ad- 
mittance. 
In consequence of this transaction a petition, signed by a 
large number of friends of our cause, was presented to the next 
legislature, which passed an act to exempt any physician, who 
practiced medicine according to the Homoeopathic, Thomsonian 
or Botanic system, from the action of the preceding law. 
OHIO. 
Its laws recognize homoeopathic physicians as having all the 
legal rights given to others. The county infirmaries, city and 
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town charities, prisons, and penitentiaries are often under the 
medical control of our physicians. 
NEW JERSEY.* 
" Whereas, certain practitioners of physic and surgery in 
this State labor under certain difficulties in the practice of their 
profession, owing to existing laws, by which they are unable to 
collect their dues, and are liable to pains and penalties in the 
pursuit of their profession, therefore, 
"Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for all persons, of good moral 
character, who have diplomas from any medical college, or from 
the medical department of any university of any State of the 
United States,-which, before conferring diplomas, require those 
upon whom they are conferred to be twenty-one years of age; 
to have studied physic and surgery three full years with a re- 
spectable and lawful practitioner of medicine, including two full 
courses of lectures of not less than twelve weeks each, in which 
shall be taught the principles of materia medica, pharmacy, chem- 
istry, anatomy, physiology, and the practice of physic, surgery, 
* By "Wallace MeGeorge, M.D. LEGISLATION. 
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and'midwifery,-to practice physic and surgery in this State 
after depositing a copy of their diploma, translated into the Eng- 
lish language, or other evidence of graduation, with the clerk of 
the county in which said practitioner may reside; and until said 
copy shall be so deposited, those practitioners who shall neglect 
the same shall be liable to the penalty of the law, to which this 
is a supplement; and it shall be the duty of the said clerk to file 
such copy in his office, for each of which he shall receive twelve 
and a half cents, and no more, from the practitioners who may 
deposit the same. 
"Sec. 2. All acts, or parts of acts, conflicting with the pro- 
visions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed."- 
Nixon's Digest, 1868, pp. 587, 588. 
Previous to this time homoeopathic physicians had no rights 
that allopathic physicians were bound to respect, and much an- 
noyance and expense was experienced by those who practiced 
homoeopathy. Under the law given above over fifty physicians 
filed their diplomas, and until now is the only protection we 
have. But those living and practicing in the State at the time 
were thankful even for that. 
In addition to the above, Dr. J. J. Youlin has been appointed 
one of the Hudson County Board of Health, and the freeholders 
are compelled to appoint at least one homoeopath among the mem- 
bers, so that we shall always be represented. Dr. L. Dennis, of 
Newark, is one of the seven members of the State Board of 
Health, and is highly respected by his associates. 
Some of our number have been elected coroners in a few of 
our counties, Dr. D. W. Brown, of Vineland, being a coroner 
at the present time. 
Dr. D. R. Gardiner is at present a member of the council of 
the city of Woodbury, and chairman of the Board of Health, 
and Dr. W. McGeorge is mayor of the same city. 
Other civic honors have been bestowed by the people upon our 
members, and all that is needed to have our cause succeed and 
prosper is to raise the standard of education among our students, 
and for all to continue to investigate and apply in practice the 
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MAINE.* 
Homoeopathy, as in all other States and countries, has met 
with a spirited and oftentimes unfair opposition from members of 
the old school, especially when it has come into collision with 
self-interest ; and whenever and wherever this has occurred ho- 
moeopathy has usually come out of the conflict with colors fly- 
ing at the mast-head, and without damage to either hull, spar, 
or rig. Efforts have been made in several ways by the members 
of the old-school profession to block the progress of homoeopathy 
in the State; but all such efforts thus far have proved abortive. 
In 1871 a bill was introduced into the State legislature, through 
the agency of the old school, entitled "An act to regulate the 
qualifications of practitioners of medicine and surgery," requiring 
all practitioners of medicine and surgery in the State to register 
under the act, and a failure to do this would be held as disqual- 
ification, and subject the person so practicing to prosecution and 
fine for each and every offence. The bill provided for the or- 
ganization of a "general council of medical education and regis- 
tration," before which each physician of the State should appeal' 
and undergo an examination, and receive the indorsement or 
condemnation of the board; and this decision was to settle the 
qualificationsand professional standing of every physician in the 
State. This council was to consist of seven persons, two of 
whom were to be selected by the trustees of the " Maine Medi- 
cal School " (allopathic), two by the " Maine Medical Associa- 
tion" (also allopathic), and two appointed by the governor and 
council, and the seventh to be elected by the previous six ap- 
pointees, and who should be the president of the board. A ma- 
jority of those present at each meeting was to constitute a quorum, 
and a majority of the board being elected by the " Maine Medi- 
cal School " and the " Maine Medical Association," it was clear 
that the board would always be under allopathic control, and 
always able to decide upon the qualifications of the applicant for 
registration in the interests of allopathy and adverse to homoeop- 
* By William E. Payne, M.D. LEGISLATION. 
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athy, and that no. homoeopath would stand any chanee for regis- 
tration. This bill was introduced into the upper or lower 
house, was accepted, and ordered to be printed, and, in concur- 
rence, referred to the Judiciary Committee. A hearing was noti- 
fied, and Drs. Bell and Thompson, of Augusta, Payne, of Bath, 
and Burr, of Portland, went before the committee and protested 
against the bill being returned in its present form, with the favor- 
able indorsement of the committee. Radical amendments were 
demanded, and the obvious bearing of the bill, in its present shape, 
upon the interests of homoeopathy was pointed out. The result 
was the Judiciary Committee reported back the bill, with the 
indorsement that it was inexpedient to give it a passage, and 
it died at the very threshold ; thus the force of the insidious 
blow aimed at homoeopathy through the registration bill was 
broken, to the great disappointment of its originators. At the 
last session of the Maine legislature a charter was granted for a 
State homoeopathic hospital, to be located at Portland, and in 
the month of August the corporators, consisting of some of the 
most prominent men in several sections of the State, met and 
made choice of an efficient board of trustees, and, in due time, 
doubtless, the hospital will be put into operation. Homoeopa- 
thy is steadily gaining in public confidence throughout the State, 
and the physicians of this school are regarded, not as mounte- 
banks or charlatans, but as men with whom public trusts may 
be confided ; and in towns where homoeopathy is practically 
known public trusts are confided to them indiscriminately. 
They are frequently intrusted by municipal authorities with 
the duties of city physician, and no objection is raised on account 
of peculiarity of practice. The sanitary department of the Sol- 
diers and Sailors' Orphan Asylum, an institution established and 
supported by the State, has always been, and is at the present 
time, under homoeopathic care, and the results have proved 
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A Review of the Legislation concerning the Introduction of Homoeop- 
athy in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan.* 
By an act of the legislature, approved February 12th, 1855, 
the law providing for the government of the University of 
Michigan was amended so that section 5 thereof reads as fol- 
lows : " The Regents shall have power to enact ordinances, by- 
laws, and regulations for the government of the University ; to 
elect a President, to fix, increase, and reduce the regular number 
of professors and tutors, and to appoint the same, and to deter- 
mine the amount of their salaries ; Provided, That there shall 
always be at least one professor of homoeopathy in the depart- 
ment of medicine." The provision added by the amendment 
was disregarded by the Board of Regents, and an application 
was made in January, 1856, to the Supreme Court for a man- 
damus to compel the Regents to appoint a professor of homoe- 
opathy, which was denied on the grounds : 1st. That, as a gen- 
eral rule, it was not competent for a private citizen, in a matter 
where he was not directly injured, to apply for a mandamus to 
compel a public board to the performance of an omitted duty ; 
2d. That the financial and other interests of the University were 
intrusted to the judgment and direction of the Regents, and it 
was a sufficient answer to an application for a mandamus to show 
cause why they do not appoint to a professorship established by 
law, that the appointment in question being likely to interfere 
with the harmony of the institution, and one requiring great 
care and deliberation in making, they had commenced and are 
still making the investigation necessary to enable them to make 
a proper appointment, especially where there appeared to be no 
unnecessary delay or want of good faith in their proceedings 
(The People ex rel. Drake v. Regents, 4 Mich. 98). On the 
5th of January, 1869, an application was made by the attorney- 
general to the same court for a mandamus for the same purpose, 
which was not granted, the court being equally divided upon 
MICHIGAN. 
* By C. M. Woodruff, of the Detroit Bar. LEGISLATION. 
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the question whether the legislature had power under the Con- 
stitution to exercise any such control over the Regents, who are 
vested by the Constitution of the State with " the general super- 
vision of the University, and the direction and control of all 
expenditures from the University interest fund." Const. Art. 
13, § 8 (The People, etc., v. The Regents of the University, 18 
Mich. 469). 
During the winter of 1867 an application was made to the 
legislature for a grant of further pecuniary aid to the Univer- 
sity beyond the income of the University fund. This legisla- 
ture, like that of 1855, still determined that students of the 
medical department should have the opportunity and the option 
of studying medicine, as well upon the homoeopathic as the allo- 
pathic system, were not willing to grant the pecuniary aid asked, 
unless they could at the same time secure this object. And see- 
ing that the Regents had disregarded their wishes, as expressed 
in the act of 1855, and perhaps doubting their power to control 
the action of the Regents in this matter by direct legislative in- 
junction, they determined to grant them further pecuniary aid 
upon the condition precedent, that the Regents should first carry 
into effect the act of 1855 before any of the money to be raised 
for tins purpose should be paid to them. To accomplish this 
purpose an act passed in March, 1867, imposing a tax of one- 
twentieth of a mill upon the dollar of all taxable property in 
the State was made subject to the express proviso, "That the 
Regents of the University shall carry into effect the law which 
provides that there shall always be at least one professor of ho- 
moeopathy in the department ; and appoint such professor at 
the same salary as the other professors in this department; and 
the State treasurer shall not pay to the treasurer of the Board 
of Regents any part or all of the above tax until the Regents 
shall have carried into effect this proviso." 
On the 25th of March, 1868, the Board of Regents adopted 
a series of resolutions accepting the aid with its terms and con- 
ditions, providing for the organization of a school to be called 
the " Michigan School of Homoeopathy," to be located at such 
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than Ann Arbor, in the State of Michigan, as shall pledge to the 
Board of Regents the greatest amount for the buildings and en- 
dowment of said school, the appointment of two professors, ap- 
propriating $3000, besides the salaries of the professors, out of 
the State tax so donated to the University, to be expended in 
establishing said school of homoeopathy, and appointing Dr. 
Charles J. Hempel a professor at a salary of $1000 per annum. 
Claiming that these resolutions constituted a full performance 
of the conditions of the appropriation, the Regents, by their 
treasurer, applied to the auditor-general for his warrant upon 
the State treasurer for the money, or a part of it, raised by the 
act of 1867. The auditor-general, not satisfied that this action 
constituted a performance of the condition, refused his warrant, 
and the Regents applied to the Supreme Court to compel him 
to issue it. Judges Christiancy and Graves sustained the audi- 
tor-general, Judge Campbell gave an opinion in favor of the Re- 
gents, and Judge Cooley did not give an opinion; a majority of 
the court not assenting to the issuing of the writ it was denied 
(The People ex. rel. Regents v. Auditor-General, 17 Mich. 161). 
The condition of this appropriation was abrogated by the legis- 
lature of 1869 after a sharp struggle, in which the allopathic 
element was, for the time being, triumphant. 
By an act approved April 1st, 1873, the Board of Regents 
were required to appoint and "maintain two professors of ho- 
moeopathy in the Department of Medicine in the University, to 
wit.; one professor of theory and practice, and one professor of 
materia medica, who shall receive the like salary and be en- 
titled to all the rights and privileges of other professors in said 
Department of Medicine." The Regents also disregarded this 
statute, and the homoeopaths began operations at the seat of the 
University by filing, in the Circuit Court for Washtenaw County, 
a bill signed by Attorney-General Ball and based upon the affi- 
davits of Drs. T. F. Pomeroy and F. Woodruff, asking for a 
mandamus to compel the Regents to appear and show cause as 
to their refusal to appoint a professor of theory and practice at 
their previous (June) meeting. The judge decided that he had 
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made to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the following 
11 tafficated " decision: " The very able argument in this case has 
not brought any member of the court to any different views 
from those heretofore sufficiently expressed, and we therefore 
make no order " (Attorney-General v. Regents, 30 Mich. 473), 
On the 27th of April, 1875, the following act passed by the 
legislature was approved : " The Board of Regents of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan are hereby authorized to establish a homoeo- 
pathic medical college as a branch or department of said Univer- 
sity, which shall be located at the city of Ann Arbor. The 
treasurer of the State of Michigan shall, on the first day of 
January, 1876, pay out of the general fund, to the order of the 
treasurer of the Board of Regents, the sum of six thousand 
dollars, and the same amount on the first day of January of each 
year thereafter, which moneys shall be used by said Regents ex- 
clusively for the benefit of said department." Under this act 
was organized the present " Homoeopathic Medical College of 
the University of Michigan," and thus a twenty years' battle for 
the supremacy of truth and justice was triumphantly ended.* 
MISSOURI. 
The General Assembly of Missouri has always manifested a 
liberal and enlightened spirit on the subject of medical education, 
medical practice, and opinion, as evidenced in 1857 by granting 
a charter for the establishment of the " Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Missouri." And then, in 1874, as another very im- 
portant step forward toward elevating the character of the phy- 
sician and the profession, a law was passed requiring that every 
physician in the State, after the 1st of September of that year, 
should exhibit his diploma to the county clerk of the county 
where he might reside, and have a copy of the same placed upon 
public record, otherwise he should be debarred from the practice 
of medicine in the State. No matter to what school of medicine 
or practice he might belong the proper credentials from a regu- 
larly chartered medical college was all that was required. The 
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enactment of this law forever debars the subject of so-called 
" State medicine" in Missouri without a repeal of this act, which 
has received the unqualified approval of all classes and schools 
in the State. As a consequence every physician in Missouri 
must be an educated gentleman, with the proper credentials in 
his possession, and he may then practice according to whatever 
system meets the approval of his own judgment. Further inter- 
ference or dictation no State has the right to assume; further 
protection to medical freedom of opinion and practice, or recog- 
nition of the enlightenment of the age, no State can extend. 
During the same session another act of prime importance was 
passed, supplementing the first, and for the facilitating of the study 
of human anatomy in our medical colleges. It was made lawful 
for the superintendents of all hospitals, asylums, prisons, and 
eleemosynary institutions in the State, to deliver the unclaimed 
pauper dead, after forty-eight hours' decease, to the medical colleges 
for dissection free of charge, the colleges to be supplied from time 
to time, pro rata, according to the number of students in at- 
tendance. In this manner all the medical colleges in Missouri, 
irrespective of school or opinion taught, are furnished with an 
inexhaustible supply of fresh dissecting material during the en- 
tire college course of lectures. 
In the city of St. Louis our public authorities long since 
recognized homoeopathy officially by authorizing the board of 
health to appoint clinical days for the professors of the homoeo- 
pathic college to visit the city hospitals with their students, to 
show them through the wards, to examine and diagnose cases, to 
lecture in the amphitheatre of the hospital, and to perform all 
the functions of the regular hospital staff except the administra- 
tion of medicines. This acknowledgment of our claim on the 
community and in the public charities of the city is of unspeak- 
able advantage to our medical students, who are learning that 
clinical instruction is fast coming to the front as the chief branch 
of a medical college curriculum. LEGISLATION. 
1009 
CALIFORNIA.* 
As early as August or September, 1875, the allopathic branch 
of the profession proposed to apply to the next legislature for 
the passage of "An act to regulate the practice of medicine in 
the State of California," providing that no person should prac- 
tice medicine in the State without having first obtained a certifi- 
cate from a board of examiners elected by the Allopathic State 
Medical Society. On the 25th day of October, 1876, the Cali- 
fornia State Medical Society of Homoeopathic Practitioners held 
a special meeting for the purpose of taking action respecting the 
proposed medical legislation, when the following preambles and 
resolutions were adopted : 
" Whereas, We, the members of the California State Medical Society 
of Homoeopathic Practitioners, believe it gross injustice and inconsistency 
that the laws of the State should countenance and endow the ignorant and 
uneducated with the same immunities and privileges which others have won 
only at great expense of time and money: 
" Whereas, We believe the law should interpose and protect, on the one 
hand, the masses of the people from the operation of medical quacks and 
impostors, and, on the other, the legally qualified medical profession from 
ignoble competition with ignorant and unscrupulous pretenders : 
" Resolved, That we sympathize heartily with the movement now on foot, 
inaugurated by influential laymen, and supported by learned and respectable 
members of the medical profession, for the attainment of these results. 
" Resolved, That the members of this Society will unite cordially with any 
and all practitioners of medicine, graduates of colleges in good standing, of 
whatever school, to procure the passage of a law just to all concerned; but 
we will oppose placing the medical affairs of the State under the exclusive 
control of any single body of medical men representing but one school of 
medicine. 
" Resolved, That the President is hereby authorized to appoint a commit- 
tee of seven, whose duty it shall be to co-operate with similar committees 
of other medical societies of this State, or to act alone, as the case may be, 
in determining such legislation as will meet the wants of the community, 
and, at the same time, secure our own, as well as the rights and immunities 
of other bodies of legally qualified medical men." 
In pursuance of the last resolution the President appointed the 
following as members of said committee: Drs. C. AV. Breyfogle, 
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of San Jose; W. C. F. Hempstead, of Marysville; Leste E. Cross, 
of Stockton; E. J. Fraser, of San Francisco; M. J. Werder, of 
San Francisco; F. Hiller, of San Francisco; W. N. Griswold, 
of San Francisco. 
The above preambles and resolutions, together with a proposal 
that a conference be had between the committees of the two 
societies, for the purpose of finding a basis upon which all schools 
of medicine could act together, to secure medical legislation that 
would be just to all schools, were sent officially to the San Fran- 
cisco Medical Society (allopathic), but no acknowledgment was 
returned that they had been received. The newspapers, how- 
ever, stated that they created quite a commotion in the society, 
and, after considerable debate, were referred to a special commit- 
tee, with instructions to report at the next meeting. When that 
committee reported they recommended that they " be placed on 
file without action." As no acknowledgment had yet been made, 
although the Secretary of the Homoeopathic Society had ad- 
dressed a letter of inquiry respecting the receipt of the same 
without receiving an answer, it was felt that no prospect of co- 
operation lay in that direction. The committee, therefore, pre- 
pared a spirited protest, exposing the selfish purposes of the allo- 
pathic school, and claiming equal rights with that school, at the 
same time laying down the proposition that the legislature had 
no more right to establish a State medicine than they had to 
establish a State religion. 
The protest was printed, and copies sent to the governor, to 
each member of the legislature, and to each of the leading; news- 
papers in the State. The newspapers at once took up the key- 
note and published some lively editorials in defence of the propo- 
sition laid down in the protest. 
The effect in the legislature was so great that some of the 
members declared that they would not vote for any bill, fearing 
that the homoeopathists would not get justice in the matter. On 
the evening of the first day of February, 1876, a joint session 
of the committees from each house was held for the purpose of 
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Three members of the homoeopathic committee were present, 
to wit: Drs. Griswold, Hiller, and Fraser; also Hrs. 11. Gib- 
bons, Sr., C. M. Bates, A. B. Nixon, and others, of the 
allopathic school. At that meeting the allopathists were quite 
willing to make any reasonable concessions in order to secure the 
co-operation of the homoeopathists. The bill agreed upon by 
the joint legislative committee, and concurred in by the physicians 
present, representing the two schools, provided that each State 
medical society, incorporated and in active existence on the first 
day of January, 1876,* should be competent to appoint a board 
of examiners, should have authority to examine the credentials 
of physicians, and grant certificates to all who were entitled to 
them, according to the provisions of the act. But no person 
should be permitted to practice in the State without having such 
a certificate, and the same recorded in the office of the county 
clerk in the county in which the person named resides, under 
severe penalties, either or both of fine and imprisonment. 
At that time, January 1st, 1876, three incorporated State 
medical societies were in active existence, to wit: The California 
State Medical Society (allopathic), the California State Medical 
Society of Homoeopathic Practitioners, and the Eclectic Medical 
Society of the State of California. Some members of the homoeo- 
pathic committee visited Sacramento several times, and spent 
considerable time to favor the passage of the act; and it is be- 
lieved that it was largely through their efforts that the passage 
of the bill was secured. 
MINNESOTA 
There has never been a disposition in the legislative bodies to 
do us injustice, so far as they knew the character of the measures 
brought before them. Not a little wire-pulling has been done 
by some members of the old school, but they have been so un- 
fortunate as to seem discouraged in farther efforts. In 1871 a 
petition was presented to the legislature, reported to have been 
begotten by the Allopathic State Society, asking the enactment 
* So amended before its final passage as to read the tenth day of March, 
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of a law requiring all practitioners in the State to deposit a copy 
of their license or diploma with the clerk of the District Court 
within a specified time for record. Severe penalties were at- 
tached for failure to comply with the various provisions of the 
law. This was expected to cause destruction in the ranks of 
homoeopathy. To the surprise and chagrin of the authors, all 
the members of our school were ready to comply with the law. 
Alas, however, members of their own school were left in the 
cold. The net result, of course, was that the next session of the 
legislature was earnestly besieged by the same parties to repeal 
the law and let them go free. This is the last legislation we 
have had upon the subject. 
The legal status of homoeopathy in Colorado and Ne- 
braska is the same as that of allopathy. 
For a number of years there have been made preparatory ar- 
rangements to obtain for homoeopathy an equal footing in the 
Medical Department of the State University. In 1874 the mat- 
ter was brought before the State legislature, supported by peti- 
tions numerously signed, from all parts of the State, and had it 
not been for want of time we - would have obtained our rights. 
As it was, the matter remained in petto, compelling us to wait 
for the new legislature of January, 1876. After close observa- 
tions, and numerous earnest assurances from the legislators in 
both branches, there is no reason to doubt that the matter will 
reach a successful issue this year, and that ere another year shall 
have passed homoeopathy will be taught in our State University.* 
IOWA. 
MASSACHUSETTS.! 
In May, 1850, Dr. Isaac Colby, a Fellow of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, applied for dismission, alleging, as a reason, 
"that in consequence of having adopted the homoeopathic sys- 
tem of practice, the members felt themselves required to withhold 
* Happily this is now being done, 
f By I. T. Talbot, M.D. LEGISLATION. 
1013 
from me all professional intercourse, and I thought it unreasona- 
ble to retain a membership in a society which excluded me from 
its fellowship and privileges." This application was referred to 
a committee of three, and was granted after five months' delib- 
eration. The society denounced homoeopathy in a report, which 
ended with the following resolutions : 
" 1st. Resolved, That any Fellow of this Society who makes application to 
resign his fellowship in consequence of having adopted the principles and 
practice of homoeopathy, may be permitted to do so on paying his arrearages ; 
but he shall not be entitled to any of the privileges of fellowship, nor shall 
his name be retained in the list of Fellows. 
" 2d. Resolved, That a diploma from a homoeopathic institution shall not be 
received as an evidence of a medical education, nor shall the Censors of this 
society regard the attendance on the lectures of such institutions, nor the 
time passed at them, as qualifications which shall entitle candidates to an 
examination for a license from this society." 
This report was printed and circulated. 
The Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, at a meet- 
ing held March, 1851, discussed and condemned this report, of- 
fering a series of condolatory resolutions. 
The two reports were printed together and distributed.* 
In 1871 Dr. H. P. Shattuck was appointed Medical Director 
upon the staff of General I. S. Burrill, commanding the First 
Brigade of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. The appointment 
was referred by the Governor to the Surgeon-General of the 
State, who remarked that he " would never approve the appoint- 
ment of a homoeopath" In about two months a medical com- 
mission was called to examine Dr. Shattuck, who refused to be 
examined unless all the other medical officers in the Massachu- 
setts Militia were also examined. The brigade went into camp 
without a doctor. The press, as usual, condemned the action 
of the allopaths, and the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical 
Society and other societies held indignation meetings concerning 
it. A full report can be found in the New York State Homoeo- 
pathic Transactions, Vol. X. 
* Transactions Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, vol. i. 1014 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
Trial and Expulsion of Homoeopaths from the Massachusetts 
Medical Society A 
One of the most remarkable events in the history of homoe- 
opathy in Massachusetts is the so-called trial and expulsion of 
members from the Massachusetts Medical Society for practicing 
homoeopathy. To fully understand this it is necessary to con- 
sider the origin and powers of this society. 
The Massachusetts Medical Society was incorporated and es- 
tablished in 1781, for the express purpose of encouraging, as its 
charter states, a "knowledge of the animal economy, and of the 
knowledge and effects of medicines," and it was " formed on 
liberal principles, encouraged by the patronage of the law." It 
was allowed to discriminate between those who "are duly edu- 
cated and properly qualified and those who may ignorantly and 
wickedly administer medicine whereby the health and lives of 
many valuable individuals may be endangered, or, perhaps, lost 
to the community." AU physicians were allowed to claim mem- 
bership, and if on examination they were found to be properly 
educated such membership shall be allowed them. Moreover, if 
the president or any other person, whose duty it was, should re- 
fuse to examine any physician thus applying, or should prevent 
them from such membership, "each and every such person shall 
be subject to a fine of £100 ($500), to be recovered by said can- 
didate, and for his own use, in any court within the common- 
wealth." Thus the State, in granting a charter to the society, 
had taken every precaution to secure its advantages to every 
properly educated physician in the State. Under this charter, 
and by the various laws in relation to it, homoeopaths had the 
same rights in the society as allopaths; it was education and 
character, not opinions, which determined membership. 
Homoeopathy, so entirely antagonistic to the previous opinion 
of the members, at once encountered in the society the most vio- 
lent opposition, which soon assumed a personal character. In 
1840 Dr. O. W. Holmes had publicly predicted the speedy 
* By I. T. Talbot, M.D. LEGISLATION. 
1015 
downfall of this delusion. In 1850 it had increased to such an 
extent that members counselled together as to what should be 
done with the heretics. One of these, Dr. Ira Barrows, now of 
Providence, was arraigned before the society, but upon careful 
consultation it was decided that he could not be expelled on 
account of his homoeopathic practice. Another charge, that of 
professional dishonesty, was brought against him, and though it 
would seem that the act was at worst only one of professional 
discourtesy, yet, under the obloquy of the first accusation, he was 
adjudged guilty, and dismissed. A long lawsuit followed, but 
the court, although adversely criticising the action of the society, 
did not see fit to reinstate him to membership. Twenty years 
more passed by, and the homoeopathic practitioners in Massa- 
chusetts, instead of decreasing, had quadrupled in numbers. 
Under the laisser faire policy, which had been adopted after the 
trial of Dr. Barrows, homoeopathy had steadily advanced. The 
older members said the society was powerless before the law. 
Some of the younger members said that this was a cowardly view 
to take, and all that was needed was a little bold action to crush 
out the rapidly-growing influence of homoeopathy. To accom- 
plish this the American Medical Association refused to receive 
any delegates from the Massachusetts Medical Society until it 
should have purged itself of the obnoxious members. Smarting 
under this lash action was taken, and in November, 1871, the 
following notice was received by each of the following gentle- 
men, viz., William Bushnell, M.D., Milton Fuller, M.D., 
Samuel Gregg, M.D., H. L. H. Hoffendahl, M.D., George Rus- 
sell, M.D., I. T. Talbot, M.D., David Thayer, M.D., Benjamin 
H. West, M.D., all of Boston : 
"To , M.D. 
" Sir : Charges having been preferred against you by a committee of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society of ' conduct unbecoming and unworthy an 
honorable physician and member of this society,' to wit: ' by practicing, or 
professing to practice, according to an exclusive theory or dogma, and by 
belonging to a society whose purpose is at variance with the principles of, 
and tends to disorganize, the Massachusetts Medical Society:' 
" You are hereby directed to appear before aboard of trial at the society's 
"Northampton, Mass., November 4th, 1871. 1016 
world's homceopathic convention. 
rooms, No. 36 Temple Plaae, Perkins Building, on Tuesday, November 21st, 
1871, at 11 o'clock a.m , to answer to the same, in accordance with the by- 
laws and instructions of the society. 
" Samuel A. Fisk, 
" President of the Massachusetts Medical Society.'" 
Although the word homoeopathy did not appear in this notice, 
yet, so obvious was its object, that the whole press of New Eng- 
land, and many of the leading papers throughout the United 
States, joined in denouncing the proposed action of the society. 
At the time and place appointed the persons notified appeared 
before a board consisting of Drs. Jeremiah Spofford, of Grove- 
land; Augustus Torrey, of Beverly; George Hayward, of Bos- 
ton; Frederic Winsor, of Winchester; Francis C. Greene, of 
Easthampton. The charges were then presented, signed by Drs. 
Luther Parks, of Boston ; R. L. Hodgdon, of Arlington ; Thomas 
L. Gage, of Worcester; Asa Millet, of Bridgewater; Benjamin 
B. Breed, of Lynn. 
So severe and adverse had been the criticisms of the press that 
all reporters were turned out of the room, and no one was allowed 
to be present unless he were a member of the society. It was 
evident at the outset that the persons had been summoned merely 
to be adjudged guilty and summarily expelled, and that their 
crime was so heinous as to obliterate all rights which the accusers 
were bound to respect. They protested against being tried upon 
charges of so vague a character; against the manner in which 
the so-called board of trial was constituted ; and also against the 
manner in which the trial had thus far been conducted. The 
board refused to receive or consider these protests, and said that 
it only remained for them to acknowledge whether or not they 
practiced homoeop:. hy or were members of a homoeopathic so- 
ciety. The board was about to render judgment of expulsion 
when the trial was interrupted by a temporary injunction from 
the Supreme Court. Discomfited in this manner the board of 
trial adjourned for four weeks, but did not again meet until 
April 29th, 1873. The reporters who had been so discourteously 
treated were not long in placing a full account of the trial before 
the public, and the sentiment of the whole community con- 
demned the action of the society. Taking advantage of this LEGISLATION. 
1017 
friendly feeling, a grand fair in aid of the Massachusetts Ho- 
moeopathic Hospital was held in Music and Horticultural halls, 
in which such active interest was taken that upwards of eighty 
thousand dollars were raised, and a beautiful hospital was erected 
and permanently established. 
Immediately following this the Boston University organized 
its medical department, under the charge of homoeopathic phy- 
sicians. The dispensary largely increased its work, and the 
number of homoeopathic physicians rapidly increased. 
Arguments on the question of an injunction were made by 
counsel before the Supreme Court, and the injunction was re- 
moved, the court declining, at this stage of proceedings, to decide 
upon the powers of the society under its charter. 
The trial, which had long since become a farce, proceeded 
under the following charges and specifications : 
" The committee now specify that the exclusive theory or dogma referred 
to in said charges is the theory or dogma known as homoeopathy, and the 
society therein referred to, whose purpose is at variance with and tends to 
disorganize the Massachusetts Medical Society, is the Massachusetts Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society. 
" The committee tile the following as further specifications : 
" Charge I.-That you are guilty of an attempt to disorganize and de- 
stroy the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
"Specification L-That you have joined, and are a member of, a cer- 
tain society known as the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, 
whose purposes are at variance with, and which tends to disorganize, the 
Massachusetts Medical Society. 
" Specification 2.-That you belong to, and are a member of, a certain 
society called the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, which 
adopts as its principle, in the treatment of disease, a certain exclusive theory 
or dogma known as homoeopathy. 
"Charge II.-That you are guilty of conduct unbecoming and unworthy 
an honorable physician and member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
" Specification 1.-In that you practice, or profess to practice, medicine 
according to a certain exclusive theory or dogma known as homoeopathy. 
"Specification 2 -In that while a member of the Massachusetts Medi- 
cal Society you have joined, and are a member of, a certain society called 
the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, which adopts as its prin- 
ciple, in the treatment of disease, a certain exclusive theory or dogma known 
as homoeopathy, and whose purposes are at variance with, and which tends 
to disorganize, the Massachusetts Medical Society. 1018 
world's homceopathic convention. 
" Specification 3.-In that you are a member of a certain society, called 
the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, which adopts as its prin- 
ciple, in the treatment of disease, a certain exclusive theory or dogma known 
as homoeopathy, whose purposes are at variance with, and which tends to 
disorganize, the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
"You are further hereby reminded that, to try the same, the Board of 
Trial stands adjourned to April 29th, 1873, at 11 a.m , at 36 Temple Place. 
" George C. Shattuck, 
" President of the Massachusetts Medical Society.'' 
The manner of conducting the trial is exhibited by the action 
taken on the following demands made of the Board of Trial: 
"1. That the trial should not be held with closed doors, but that their 
friends should be allowed to be present. 
"Demand refused. 
" 2. That reporters for the press should be allowed to be present; that as this 
was a matter affecting the character of the accused, the public had a right 
to know the evidence produced and the manner of conducting this trial. 
"Demand refused. 
" 3. That the accused be allowed legal counsel, since it is proposed to dis- 
possess them of rights, privileges, and personal property. 
" Demand refused. 
" 4. That they be allowed to have an advocate, not a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Medical Society, present to advise them. 
" Demand refused. 
" 5. That, as they have reason to object to the record of the Secretary, a 
phonographic reporter of the trial should be appointed by mutual consent, 
and sworn to the faithful performance of his duty. 
"Demand refused. 
" 6. That the accused may employ a phonographic reporter. 
" Demand refused. 
" 7. That an amanuensis, not a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety, be allowed to sit beside the accused and assist him in taking notes of 
the trial. 
"Demand refused. 
" 8. The right to peremptory challenge. 
" Demand refused. 
" 9. The right to challenge members of the Board of Trial for good and 
sufficient reasons. 
" Demand refused." 
A carefully prepared defence was presented by each of the ac- 
cused, but the result was, as from the first foreseen, the expulsion 
of all the accused as guilty of all the charges made against them. LEGISLATION. 
1019 
An appeal could again have been taken to the courts, but, with 
whatever result, it could have done no more good for the cause 
of homoeopathy than had already been accomplished, and it re- 
mains only for time and the medical profession to repair the 
wrong the society has done. 
Note.-An extended account of this trial, and the comments 
of the press thereon, is published in the tenth volume of the 
Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York, pp. 752-900. SECTION IV. 
HOMEOPATHIC LITERATURE OF THE 
UNITED STATES A 
1825. The Characteristic of Homoeopathia. From Hahnemann's " Geist 
der Homoeopathischen Heilkunst." By H. B. Gram, C.M.L. New York. 
J. & J. Harper. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1833. Kurze Uebersicht der Homoopathischen Heilkunst, etc. By Dr. 
C. Hering. Philadelphia ; J. G. Wesselhoeft. ■ 8vo., pp. 32. 
1833. A Concise View of the Rise and Progress of Homoeopathic Medi- 
cine. By Dr. C. Hering. Translated by Charles F. Matlack, M.D. Phila- 
delphia; Young, printer. 8vo., pp. 30. 
1833. Proposals for Publishing by Subscription the Library of Homoeo- 
pathia. A circular. By Drs. Hering and Wesselhoeft. Philadelphia. 
8vo., pp. 8. 
1834. Letter to the Physicians of France, on Homoeopathy. By Count 
des Guidi, M.D. Translated from the French, by William Channing, M.D. 
New York. Monson Bancroft. 8vo,, pp. 32. 
1835. American Journal of Homoeopathia. Drs. Gray & Hull. New 
York. 8vo. 
1835. A Concise View of the Principles of Homoeopathy. By Baron de 
Brunnow. Translated by J. L. Sullivan, A.M. New York ; Ludwig, 
printer. 8vo., pp. 34. 
1835. Popular View of Homoeopathy. By Rev. T. L. Everest. Phila- 
delphia. 8vo. 
1835. Heber Nothwendigkeit und den Nutzen der Homoopathik. By 
Dr. C. Hering. Allentown, Pa. 8vo., pp. 40. 
1835. Correspondensblatt der Homoopathischen Aertze. Allentown, 
Pa. 4to., pp. 4. 
'1835. Homoeopathist; or Domestic Physician. By C. Hering, M.D. 
First Part. Allentown, Pa. 12mo., pp. 177. 
1836. A Treatise upon a New Manner of Medical Practice called Homoe- 
opathic. By J. G. Rosenstein, MD. Albany, N. Y. 12mo. 
1836. Organon of Homoeopathic Medicine. First American, from British 
translation of Fourth German edition. Allentown, Pa. Academical Book 
Store. 8vo., pp. 212. 
1836. Jahr's Manual of Homoeopathic Medicine. Translated from the 
German, with Improvements and Additions. By Dr. C. Hering. Symp- 
tomatology. Allentown, Pa. Academical Book Store. 8vo., pp. 419. 
* Revised by Drs. Henry M. Smith, F. E. Boericke, and J. C. Guernsey. LITERATURE. 
1021 
1836. A Familiar Exposition of Homoeopathy. By Dr. Jonas Green. 
Philadelphia. 8vo. 
1837. Homoopathische Hausarzt. By Dr. C. Hering. Allentown, Pa. 
8vo., pp. 352. 
1837. On Homoeopathic Medicines. By Dr. M. Croserio. Translated by 
Dr. C. Neidhard. Philadelphia. Kinderlen & Stollmeyer, printers. 8vo., 
pp. 90. 
1837. Wirkungen des Schlangengiftes. By Constantine Hering, M.D. 
Allentown, Pa. Blumer, printer. 4to., pp. 116. 
1837. Homoeopathy Revealed; with Notice of Psora and Duringe's Ob- 
jections. By Alexis Eustaphieve. New York. 8vo. 
1837. Homoeopathic Treatment for Chronic and Acute Disease. By Dr. 
J. L. Granger. New York; Bradbury, printer. 24mo., pp. 18. 
1838. The Homoeopathist; or, Domestic Physician. By Dr. C. Hering. 
Second Part. Allentown, Pa. 18mo., pp. 290. 
1838. Jahr's Manual of Homoeopathic Medicine. Dr. C. Hering. Reper- 
tory. Allentown, Pa. Academical Book Store. 8vo., pp. 600. 
1838. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. By Jacob Jeanes, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Waldie, printer. 8vo.,pp. 391. 
1838. Philadelphia Homoeopathic Journal. Drs. Hering, Lingen, and 
Neidhard. Philadelphia. 
1838. The Homoeopathist's Pocket Reference. Translated from the Ger- 
man, with Additions and Improvements, by Dr. John Tanner. Philadel- 
phia. Tanner. 24mo., pp. 158. 
1838. The American Journal of Homoeopathy. Edited by an Association 
of Homoeopathic Physicians. Volume I. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 36. 
1839. Miscellanies on Homoeopathy. Edited by an Association of Ho- 
moeopathic Physicians. Philadelphia. Published by W. L. J. Kiderlen & 
Co. 8vo., pp. 216. 
1839. The Reformation of Medical Science Demanded by Deductive 
Philosophy. (Delivered before New York Physicians' Society, on their An- 
niversary, November 21st, 1838.) By William Channing, M.D. New 
York. Wiley & Putnam. 12mo., pp. 58. 
1839. Domestic Homoeopathy. By Curie. Edited by Dr. Gideon Hum- 
phrey. Philadelphia. 
1839. Homoeopathia; the Science of Specific Remedies. (Read before 
the New Haven County Medical Society, October 2d, 1839.) By J. L. 
Sullivan, M.D. New Haven, Conn. Babcock & Galpin. 12mo., pp. 60. 
1840. Letter to the Hon. , with Reasons for Examining and Believ- 
ing the Fundamental Principles of Homoeopathy. By C. Ticknor, M.D. 
New York. Pp. 31. 
1840. Homoeopathic Examiner. Edited by A. Gerald Hull, M D. New 
York. 8vo. 1022 
world's homceopathic convention. 
1840. Ruoff's Repertory of Homoeopathic Medicine. Translated by A. H. 
Okie, Student of Medicine. With additions by Gideon Humphrey, M D. 
Philadelphia; Dobson, printer. 12mo., pp. 254. 
1840. Theory and Practice of Homoeopathy. By J. G. Rosenstein, 
M.D. Louisville, Ky. 12mo., pp. 288. 
1841. Practical Observations on Some of the Chief Homoeopathic Reme- 
dies. By Dr. Hartman. Translated by A. H. Okie. Philadelphia. Dobson, 
printer. 12mo., pp. 171. 
1841. Diseases of the Alimentary Canal and Constipation Treated 
Homoeopathieally. By Dr. Broackes. With Preface and Notes by Gideon 
Humphrey, M.D. Philadelphia; Dobson, printer. 18mo. pp. 134. 
1841. Homoeopathy a Principle in Medicine, and not an Exclusive Sys- 
tem. Letter to Alban Goldsmith, M.D By John Augustus McVickar, 
M.D. New York. Taylor & Co. 8vo., pp. 45. 
1841. Life of Hahnemann. By A. G. Hull, M.D. New York. Felt 
& Co. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1841. Popular Consideration on Homoeopathia. (Read before New York 
Homoeopathic Society, December 23d, 1841.) By W. C. Bryant, Esq. New 
York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1841. Allppathia and Homoeopathia. (Popular Essay.) By C. Bruch- 
hausen, M.D. New York. W. E. Dean. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1841. Jahr's New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice. Second American, 
from third Paris, edition. 2 vols. Translated by A. Gerald Hull, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 12mo., pp 651, 710. 
1842. A Popular View of Homoeopathy. By Rev. T. L. Everest. From 
second London edition. With Annotations, etc., and a Brief Survey of the 
Progress and Present State of Homoeopathy in Europe. By A. G. Hull, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 244. 
1842. Remarks on Oliver Wendell Holmes's Lectures on Homoeopathy 
and Its Kindred Delusions. By Robert Wesselhooeft, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 
12mo., pp. 59. 
1842. The Practical Advantages of Homoeopathy. By Harris Dunsford. 
(Reprint from English edition.) Philadelphia. 
1842. New Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. By G. H. G. Jahr. Trans- 
lated by Dr. James Kitchen. Philadelphia. Dobson, printer. 8vo., 
pp 306. 
1842. Answer to the Homoeopathic Delusions of Dr. Oliver Wendell 
Holmes. By Dr. C. Neidhard. Philadelphia. Dobson, printer. 8vo., 
pp. 36. 
1842. An Essay on Homoeopathy. A Synopsis of the History and Prin- 
ciples of the Science, with the Author's Opinion of Palliative Remedies. 
Designed principally for Lay Readers. By Dr. Geib. Philadelphia. Dob- 
son, printer. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1842. Homoeopathy; with Particular Reference to a Lecture by O. W. 
Holmes, M.D. By A. Howard Okie, M.D. Boston, Mass. Clapp. 12mo., 
pp. 48. LITERATURE. 
1023 
1843. An Epitome of Homoeopathic Practice. By Drs. Curtis & Lillie. 
New York. Radde. 16mo., pp. 153. 
1843. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine. By J. Laurie, M.D. Edited 
by A. G. Hull, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo. 
1843. Hahnemann's Organon of Homoeopathic Medicine. Second 
American edition. New York. 
1843. Homoeopathy Vindicated in a Letter to J. V. C. Smith, M.D. By 
J. M. Lillie, M.D. New York. Boggs. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1843. Synoptical Index to Volume II of Jahr's New Manual. By R. M 
Bolles, M.D New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 48. 
1843. Family Guide to the Administration of Homoeopathic Remedies. 
From English edition. By. . . M.D. New Yrork. Radde. 32mo., pp. 44. 
1843. Domestic Homoeopathy. From 2d London ed. By John Epps, 
M.D. Boston. Clapp. 16mo , pp 195. 
1843. The Homoeopathic Medical Library. Materia Medica. Philadel- 
phia. Dorsey, printer. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1843. A Familiar Exposition of Homoeopathy; or, the New System of 
Curing Diseases, Illustrating its Superiority over the Prevalent System of 
Medicine. By Jonas Green, M.D. Washington, D. C. 12mo., pp. 12. 
1814. An Appeal for Homoeopathy; or, Remarks on the Decision of the 
late Judge Cowen relative to the Legal Rights of Homoeopathic Physicians. 
By F. Vanderburgh, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 29. 
1844. A Review of Professor C. B. Coventry's Introductory Lecture, de- 
livered before the Class of Medical Students of Geneva College, 1843-44. 
C. D. Williams, M.D. Geneva, New York. Ira Merrell. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1844. The Homoeopathist; or, Domestic Physician. By Dr. C. liering. 
Second, from fourth German edition. Philadelphia. Behlert. 8vo., pp. 
217. 
1845. A Manual of Homoeopathic Prescriptions, with a full and improved 
Repertory, etc. H. Sherrill, M.D. New York. Radde. 24mo., pp. 181. 
1845. On Eclecticism in Medicine; or, A Critical Review of the Leading 
Medical Doctrines. (An Inaugural Thesis, presented at the New York Uni- 
versity, March 1st, 1845.) C. J. Hempel, M D. New York. Radde. 8vo., 
pp. 45. 
1845. A Treatise on the Use of Arnica in Cases of Contusions, etc. C. J. 
Hempel, M D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1845. The Chronic Diseases; their Specific Nature and Homoeopathic 
Treatment. By S. Hahnemann. (Vols. 2, 3,4, 5, Antipsoric Remedies.) Trans- 
lated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 202, 323, 
328, 378, 401. 
1845. Rouff's Repertory of Homoeopathic Medicine. Translated by A. 
H. Okie, M.D., with improvements by Gideon Humphrey, M.D. (second 
American edition). New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 251. 
1845. Boenninghausen's Essay on Homoeopathic Treatment of Intermit- 
tent Fever. C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo , pp. 56. 1024 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
1845. Short Elementary Treatise upon Homoeopathia and the Manner of 
its Practice, with Some of the Most Important Effects of Ten Principal Reme- 
dies. By G. H. G. Jahr. Translated by E. Bayard, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 16mo., pp. 90. 
1845. Domestic Homoeopathy ; or, Rules for Domestic Treatment. By 
John Epps, M.D. 2d American from 4th London edition. Boston. Clapp. 
18mo., pp. 239. 
1845. Homoeopathy, Allopathy, and Young Physic. By John Forbes, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 58. 
1845. The Homoeopathic Pioneer. Edited by Drs. Gator and Tracey. 
Syracuse, New York. Tucker & Kinney. Monthly. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1845. Views of Homoeopathy, with Reasons for Examining and Admit- 
ting it as a Principle in Medical Science. By D. Holt, M.D. New Haven, 
Conn. Benham. 8vo., pp. 48. 
1845. Reflections on the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy. By 
Henry Lee, M.D. New Haven, Conn. W. Storer, printer. 12mo., pp. 12. 
1846. New York Journal of Homoeopathy. By Drs. Kirby and Snow. 
New York. 8vo. 
1846. Manual of Homoeopathic Cookery. By the Wife of a Homoeopathic 
Physician. New York. Radde. 16mo., pp. 176. 
1846. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 18mo. 
1846. Reasons Why Homoeopathy Should Receive an Impartial Investi- 
gation from the Medical Profession and the Public. B. F. Bowers, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1846. Homoeopathy Revealed (second edition). A. Eustaphieve New 
New York. D. Fanshaw. 8vo., pp. 91. 
1846. American Journal of Homoeopathy. Edited by Drs. Kirby and 
Snow. New York ; Dean, printer. Semi-monthly. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1846. Homoeopathy, Allopathy, and " Young Physic." Reprint. John 
Forbes, M.D., F.R.S. Philadelphia. Lindsay & Blakiston. 12mo., pp. 
121. 
1846. Letter to John Forbes, M.D , on his Homoeopathy, Allopathy, 
and "Young Physic." By W. H. Henderson, M.D. New Y'ork. Radde. 
8vo., pp. 66. 
1846. An Inquiry into the Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. By W. 
H. Henderson, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 154. 
1846. Materia Medica Pura. 4 vols. By Hahnemann. Translated by 
C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 221, 194, 202, 260. 
1846. Additions to the Materia Medica Pura, by Ernst Stapf, M.D. 
Translated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 292. 
1846. Therapeutics of Homoeopathy ; or, Outlines of Successful Homoeo- 
pathic Cures. By E. F. Ruckert, M.D. Translated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 496. 
1846. The Principles of Homoeopathic Practice as Compared with those LITERATURE. 
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of the Old School of Medicine or Allopathy. By Henry Wigand, M.D. 
Boston. Clapp. 18mo.,pp. 7. 
1846. Croup and Its Specific Remedy. By H. Wigand, M.D. Boston. 
Clapp. 12mo., pp. 24. 
1846. Homoeopathy and Allopathy; together with Some of the Reasons 
for Adopting the former. By S. Rosa, M.D. Painesville, O. Telegraph 
Press. 8vo., pp. 3'2. 
1846. An Answer to the Question : " What is Homoeopathy ?" by Dr. 
Epps, of London. Republished by E. H. Clapp, M.D. Columbus, Ohio. 
Haze well & Co. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1846. Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Volume 
I. Philadelphia. Rademacher. 12mo., pp. 299. 
1846. The Homoeopathic Earrier; being an Indispensable Assistant to 
those who Desire to Cure the Diseases of Horses with Ease, Success, Sim- 
plicity, and not much Expense. By Dr. Christian Bush. Carlisle, Pa. Gitt, 
printer. 18mo., pp. 136. 
1846. Practical Observations of Some of the Chief Homoeopathic Reme- 
dies. By F Hartman, M.D. Second series. Translated by A. H. Okie, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 192. 
1847. Homoeopathic Tracts for the People, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, with Circular. 
Philadelphia. C. L. Rademacher. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1847. Boenninghausen's Therapeutic Pocketbook. Translated by A. H. 
Okie, M D. Massachusetts. Clapp. 12mo., pp. 483. 
1847. Inaugural Address Delivered before the New York Homoeopathic 
Physicians' Society, January 6th, 1847. By H. G. Dunnel, M.D. New York. 
8vo., pp. 16. 
1847. Discourse on the Evidences of the Power of Small Doses and At- 
tenuated Medicines, March 9th, 1847, before the New York Homoeopathic 
Society. B. F. Joslin, M.D. New York. 8vo., pp 18. 
1847. American Journal of Homoeopathy, Semi-monthly. Vol. 1. Edited 
by Drs. Kirby and Snow. New York. Dean, printer. 8vo., pp. 296. 
1847. Hartmann's Theory of Acute Diseases, and their Homoeopathic 
Treatment. 2 vols. From Third German Edition. Translated by C. J. 
Hempel, M D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 272, 204. 
1847. Organon of the Specific Healing Art. By G. L. Ran, M D. Trans- 
lated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 200. 
1847. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, with the 
Address of E. Bayard, M D., at its Fourth Anniversary Session, held in 
Boston, June 9th, 1847. New York. Dean, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1847. Therapeutic Pocketbook. By C. Boenninghausen, M D. Translated 
by C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 504. 
1817. A Manual of Homoeopathic Veterinary Medicine. From London 
ed. By F. E Gunther. Boston. Clapp. 12mo., pp. 408. 
1847. Southwestern Journal and Review. (Monthly.) J. T. Temple,. 
M.D., editor. St. Louis, Mo. Ustick, printer. 8vo. pp. 16. 1026 
WORLD'S HOMOEOPATHIC CONVENTION. 
1847. Diseases of the Eye Treated Homoeopathically (from the German). 
Translated by A. C. Becker, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 77. 
1847. Consumption Treated Homoeopathically (from the Geiman). 
Translated by A. C. Becker, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 86. 
1848. Resolutions Adopted by the Meeting of Homoeopathic Physicians, 
with Outline of the History and Rise of Homoeopathy. By Dr. Sullivan. 
Connecticut. 8vo., pp. 6. 
1848. Laurie's Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine. By A. G. Hull, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 264. 
1848. Mariner's Physician and Surgeon. By G. W. Cook, M.D. New 
York. J. T. S. Smith. 18mo., pp. 105. 
1848. Dentition. By A. C. Becker, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., 
pp. 82. 
1848. Allopathy, Hahnemannism and Rational Homoeopathy. (Com- 
piled from the German of Dr. Griesselich). By A. C. Becker, M.D. New 
York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1848. On the Use of Chemical and Mechanical Means and Large Doses 
in connection with Homoeopathic Practice. (A Report to the American In- 
stitute of Homoeopathy, June, 1848, Fifth Annual Session.) By B. F. Jos- 
lin, M.D. New York. C. G. Dean, printer. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1848. The Rival Schools of Medicine; or, Homoeopathy v. Allopathy. 
By J. Bryant, M.D. New York. H. Parks. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1848. Jahr's New Manual-Symptomen Codex-with Extensive Addi- 
tions from various sources. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 
2 vols., 8vo., pp. 943, 1060. 
1848. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, at its 
Fifth Anniversary Session, held at New York, June 14th, 1848. New York. 
Dean, printer. 8vo.,pp. 27. 
1848. Diseases of the Digestive Organs and Constipation. By W. 
Broackes, M.D. (Second American edition.) By A. C. Becker, M.D. New 
York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 128. 
1848. A Popular Lecture on the Philosophy and Claims of Homoeopathy. 
By L. D. Fleming, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 11. 
1848. Northwestern Journal of Homoeopathia, vol. i, No. 1. (Monthly.) 
By G. E. Shipman, M.D. Chicago. 8vo , pp. 16. 
1848. What is Homoeopathy? By Benjamin Ehrmann, M.D. Chilli- 
cothe, 0. Ely & Allen. 8vo., pp. 81. 
1848. Michigan Journal of Homoeopathy. (Monthly.) Edited by John 
Ellis, M.D., and S. B. Thayer, M.D. Detroit, Michigan. 8vo. 
1848. A Short Domestic Treatise on the Homoeopathic Treatment of the 
Diseases of Females and Children. By Dr. W. Williamson. Philadelphia. 
Rademacher. 12mo., pp. 80. 
1848. Address delivered before the American Institute of Homoeopathy, 
at its Fifth Anniversary Meeting. By Dr. Jacob Jeanes. Philadelphia. 
North American print. 8vo., pp. 20. LITERATURE. 
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1849. Cholera and its Homoeopathic Treatment. By F. Humphreys, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 18vo., pp. 72. 
1849. Law of Cure (read before the American Institute of Homoeopathy 
at its Sixth Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, June 13th, 1849). By B. F. 
Joslin, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1849. First Annual Report of the New York Homoeopathic Dispensary 
Association, with an Address. By B. F. Joslin, M.D. New York. 8vo., 
pp. 27. 
1849. Hartmann's Theory of Chronic Diseases and their Homoeopathic 
Treatment (from third German edition). Translated by C. J. Hempel, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 2 vols. 12mo , pp. 225, 258. 
1849. Hahnemann's Organon (third American edition), with Dr. Her- 
ing's Introductory Remarks. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 230. 
1849. Causes and Homoeopathic Treatment of Cholera., including Reper- 
tories for this Disease and for Vomiting, Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum and 
Dysentery. By B. F. Joslin, M.D. New York. Radde. (Second edition 
same year.) 18mo., pp. 144. 
1849. Domestic Homoeopathy, Restricted to its Legitimate Sphere of 
Practice. By E. C. Chempell, M.D. (first American edition). Edited by 
Samuel B. Barlow, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 224. 
1849. The Pocket Homceopathist and Family Guide. By J. A. Tarbell, 
M.D. Boston. Clapp. 32mo., pp. 63. 
1849. On the Homoeopathic Treatment of Cholera. By C. F« Hoifendahl, 
M.D. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp 20. 
1849. A Letter to the Allopathic Doctors of Dayton. By H. Wigand, 
M.D. Dayton, O. Wilson & Decker. 12mo., pp. 12. 
1849 Quarterly Homoeopathic Journal. Edited by Drs. Joseph Birnstill 
and B. de Gersdoff. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 556. 
1849. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy, held in Philadelphia, June, 1849. Boston. Clapp. 
8vo., pp. 24. 
1849. Cholera. (Northwestern Journal of Homoeopathy, extra.') By 
G. E. Shipman, M D. Chicago. Davis & Haddock. 8vo , pp. 28. 
1849. A Report read before the Homoeopathic Association of Cincinnati, 
October 2d. By A. Taft, B. F. Barrett, S. Carlisle, N. Sawyer, and G. 
Crawford, Committee. Cincinnati, O. Bradley & Anthony. 8vo., pp. 48. 
1849. Letters on Homoeopathy, etc. By Adam Miller, M.D. Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1849. Address before the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl- 
vania. By Dr. A. E. Small. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 19. 
1849. Introductory Lecture in the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania, November 25th, 1849. By M. Semple, M D. Philadelphia. 
Merrihew & Thompson, printers. 8vo., pp. 14. 
1850. Elements of Homoeopathic Practice of Physic; an Appendix to 
Hull's Laurie's Domestic Medicine. By A. G. Hull, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 12mo., pp. 372. 1028 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
1850. Homoeopathic Theory and Practice of Medicine. By E. E. Marcy, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 629. 
1850. Principles of Homoeopathy. In a Series of Lectures. By B. F. 
Joslin, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 185. 
1850. An Epitome of Homoeopathic Practice. (Second edition, enlarged.) 
By J. T. Curtis, M.D., and J. Lillie, MD. New York. Radde. 16mo., 
pp. 206. 
1850. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine. By J. Laurie, M.D. Edited 
by A. G. Hull, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 264. 
1850. The Homoeopathic Treatment of the Diseases of the Sexual Sys- 
tem. By F. Humphreys, M.D New York. Radde. 16mo., pp. 144. 
1850. The Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. 2d ed. By C. J. Hempel, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 216. 
1850. Letter to Valentine Mott, M.D., in Reply to his Valedictory Ad- 
dress to the Members of the New York Academy of Medicine. By F. Van- 
derburgh, M.D. New York. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1850. Duty of the State in Relation to Homoeopathy. Inaugural Address 
delivered before the Hahnemann Academy of Medicine, January 9th, 1850. 
By John F. Gray, M D. New York. Angell, Engel & Hewitt, printers. 
8vo., pp. 28. 
1850. The Homoeopathist. Edited by Dioclesian Lewis, M.D. Buffalo, 
N. Y. 8vo. 
1850. Jahr's Clinical Guide ; or, Pocket Repertory. With annotations. 
By C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 409. 
1850. New Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia and Posology. From Jahr & 
Gruner. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 359. 
1850. Alphabetical Repertory of the Skin Symptoms, etc. G. H. G. 
Jahr. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 575. 
1850. Address delivered before the American Institute of Homoeopathy 
at its Meeting in Albany by A. E Small, M.D., with an Account of the Pro- 
ceedings. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 99. 
1850. Address before the American Institute of Homoeopathy. By Dr. 
A. E. Small. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 42. 
1850. The Sources of Health and the Prevention of Disease. By J. A. 
Tarbell, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 16mo , pp. 179. 
1850. Letter to W. Hooker, M.D., of Norwich, in reply to so much of his 
book, entitled "Physician and Patient," as has reference to Homoeopathy. 
By F. Matthes, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1850. Cholera in Cincinnati; or, a Connected View of the Controversy 
between the Homceopathists and the Methodist Expositor. By S. A. Latta, 
M.D. Cincinnati, O. pp. 40. 
1850. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. By Dr J H. Pulte. Cincin- 
nati. H. W. Derby & Co. 12mo., pp 556. 
1850. Review of Dr. S. A Latta's Pamphlet. By A. Miller, M.D. Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. B. Franklin Printing House. 8vo., pp. 16. LITERATURE. 
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1850. General Introductory Address before the Class of the Western Col- 
lege of Homoeopathic Medicine. By C. D. Williams, M.D. Cleveland, 
Ohio. Smead & Cowles, printers. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1850. Valedictory Address delivered at the second Annual Commence- 
ment of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, March, 1850. 
By Dr. W. S. Helmuth, M.D. Philadelphia. Merrihew & Houghton. 
8vo., pp. 16. 
1850. Homoeopathy in Germany and England in 1849. By Dr. C. Neid- 
hard. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp 45. 
1850. Hahnemann and Swedenborg ; or, the Affinities between the Fun- 
damental Principles of Homoeopathy and the Doctrines of the New Church. 
Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1850. Introductory Lecture in the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania. By Dr. C. B. Matthews. Philadelphia. Barnard & Co., 
printers. 8vo., pp. 80. 
1850. Address before the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Medical Society. 
By A. 11. Okie, M D. Providence, R. I. Whitney. 8vo., pp. '28. 
1851. Jahr's New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice; Symptomatology. 
3d Amer. ed. By A. G. Hull, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo , pp. 1025. 
1851. Homoeopathic Treatment of Diseases of the Sexual System. By 
F. Humphreys, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 144. 
1851. Pocket Manual; or, Repertory of Homoeopathic Medicines. By J. 
Bryant, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 352. 
1851. A Brief Treatise on the Pathology and Cure of Consumption. 
By M. Freligh, M.D. New York. Harrison, printer. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1851. The North American Journal, a Quarterly Magazine of Medicine 
and Auxiliary Sciences, Vol. I By Drs. C. Hering, E. E. Marcy, and J. 
W. Metcalf. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 536. 
1851. Address before the Central New York Homoeopathic Society, 
Syracuse, June 3d. By F. Humphreys, M.D. Utica, N.Y. Curtiss, printer. 
8vo., pp. 19. 
1851. The Reformation of Medical Science Demanded by Inductive 
Philosophy. 2d ed. By William Channing, M.D. New York. Angell, 
Engel & Hewitt, printers. 12mo., pp. 71. 
1851. Inaugural Address delivered before the Hahnemann Academy of 
Medicine, January 8th, 1851. By S. R. Kirby, M.D. New York. Angell, 
Engel & Hewitt, printers. 8vo., pp. 9. 
1851. Reply to the Article of Dr. J. W. Metcalf in the North American 
Journal of Homoeopathy, No. 2. By J. H. Pulte, M.D. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Derby & Co. 8vo., pp. 23. 
1851. Report of a Committee of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical 
Society. Boston. David Clapp, printer. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1851. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, together 
with the Annual Address by G. W. Swazey, M.D., at its Eighth Anniver- 
sary Session, held at New Haven, June 11th, 1851. Springfield, Mass 
Wilson, printer. 8vo., pp. 64. 1030 
world's homceopathic convention. 
1851. The American Magazine. Devoted to Homoeopathy and Hydrop- 
athy. Volume I. Edited by J. H. Pulte, M.D., and H. P. Gatehell, M.D. 
Cincinnati, O. J. M. Parks. 8vo , pp. 384. 
1851. The Family Guide to Health and Husbandry. By John Niesz. 
Canton, Ohio. Daniel Schell, M.D. 18mo., pp. 376. 
1851 Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. Second edition. By J. H. 
Pulte, M D. Cincinnati, 0. H. W. Derby & Co. 12mo., pp. 540. 
1851 Scientific Relations of Homoeopathy. (An Introductory Lecture, 
delivered before the Class of the Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine.) 
By H. L. Smith, A.M. Cleveland, Ohio. Harris, Fairbanks & Co. 8vo., 
pp. 30. 
1851. Cincinnati Journal of Homoeopathy. (Monthly.) Edited by Drs. 
Ehrmann, Miller and Bigler. Cincinnati, O. 8vo. 
1851. Homoeopathic Medical Mews Letter. (Monthly.) Drs. Granger, 
Vastine, Comstock, editors. St. Louis, Missouri. 8vo. 
1851. Treatise on Anatomy and Physiology. By W. P. Esrey, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 12mo., pp. 195. 
1851. C. Hering's Domestic Physician. Revised. Fifth American edition. 
Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 12mo., pp. 509. 
1851. An Address delivered before the Rhode Island Homoeopathic So- 
ciety, May 7th. By Charles Neidhard, M.D. Providence. Sayles & Miller, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 28. 
1851. Reply to the Article on my " Homoeopathic Domestic Physician," 
contained in No. 26 of the British Journal of Homoeopathy. By C. J. Hem- 
pel, M.D. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1851. Letter to the Connecticut Medical Society. By W. W. Rodman, 
M.D. Waterbury, Conn. Am. Office print. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1851. An Examination of the Evidence in regard to Infinitesimal Doses, 
By W. W. Rodman, M.D. Waterbury, Conn. Patton, printer. 12mo., 
pp. 99. 
1851. Homoeopathic Advocate and Guide to Health. (Monthly.) D. 
White, editor. Keene, N. H. 8vo. 
1851. A Letter to Thomas E. Bond, on Homoeopathy. By J. Schmidt, 
M.D. Baltimore, Maryland. Sands & Mills, printers. 8vo., pp. 21. 
1851. Valedictory Address delivered at the Third Annual Commence- 
ment of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By Walter 
Williamson, M.D. Philadelphia. Merrihew & Thompson. 8vo , pp. 16. 
1851. Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, October 16th, 1851. By William A. Gardiner, 
M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 15. 
1852 Valedictory Address delivered at the Fourth Annual Commence- 
ment of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. By Alvan 
Edmund Small, M.D. Philadelphia. 0. Sherman. 8vo., pp. 19. 
1852. Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, October 11th, 1852. By William S. Helmuth, 
M.D. By the Class. 8vo., pp. 19. LITERATURE. 
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18-52, Inaugural Address. (Delivered before the Rhode Island Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society, November 3d.) By H. C. Preston, M.D. Provi- 
dence, Rhode Island. Sayles & Miller. 8vo., pp. 44. 
1852. Thoughts on Homoeopathy ; or, Facts for the People. By Thomas 
J. Griffiths, M.D. Louisville, Kentucky. 8vo., pp. 11. 
1852. Uterine Diseases, etc. By Madden. New York. Radde. 8vo., 
pp. 111. 
1852. Laurie's Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine. Enlarged and im- 
proved. 7th ed. By A. G. Hull, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo. 
1852. Address to the Homoeopathic Physicians of the State of New York, 
with Constitution and By-laws of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the 
State of New York. Albany, N. Y. J. Munsell. 8vo , pp. 14. 
1852. Homoeopathy and Allopathy: Reply to an Examination of the 
Doctrines and Evidences of Homoeopathy by W Hooker, M.D. By E. E, 
Marcy, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 144 
1852. An Inquiry into the Justice of the Treatment Pursued by the Med- 
ical Profession toward Homoeopathy. By a Layman. New York Clayton. 
8vo , pp .12. 
1852. Suggestions on an Improved Mode of Prevention and Cure of 
Small-pox and Varioloid. By H. Sherrill, M.D. New York. Varey, 
printer. 12mo , pp. 12. 
1852. Reply to a Critical Review of Hempel's Repertory. By 0. J. 
Hempel, M D. New York. 8vo., pp. 10. 
1852. Proving of Apis mellifica By Drs. L. Bishop, F. Humphreys, 
and A. E. Munger. Utica, N. Y. Curtiss. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1852. Notation of Homoeopathic Medicines. By B. F. Joslin, M.D. 
New York. 8vo., pp. 10. 
1852. The Relations of Homoeopathy to Chemistry. Inaugural Address 
before the Hahnemann Academy of Medicine. By J. T. Curtis, M.D. New 
York. Angell, Engel & Hewitt, printers. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1852. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1852. 
Session held in Baltimore, May 19th. New York. Angell, Engel & Hewitt, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 60. 
1852. Address of the Homoeopathic Society of Orange County. New- 
burgh, N. Y. Allison, printer. 8vo., pp. 6. 
1852. On Homoeopathy. Address before American Institute of Homoeop- 
athy, May 19th. By S. R. Kirby, M.D. New York. Angell, Engel & 
Hewitt, printers. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1852. Homoeopathy and Its Requirements of the Physician. Read before 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, June 1st. By 
J. W. Metcalf, M.D. NewYork. Angell, Engel & Hewitt, printers. 8vo., 
pp. 24. 
1852. An Address to the Friends of Homoeopathy in New York, from 
the Trustees of the New York Homoeopathic Dispensary Association. New 
York. AV. C. Bryant & Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 43. 1032 
world's HOMOEOPATHIC CONVENTION. 
1852. The Lesser Writings of Hahnemann. By R. E. Dudgeon, M.D., 
With Notes and Preface, by E. E. Marcy, M.D. New York. Radde. 
8vo., pp. 784. 
1852. Laurie's Elements of Homoeopathic Practice of Physic. Enlarged 
and Improved. By A. G. Hull, M.D. With an Appendix on Intermittent 
Fever. By J. S. Douglass, M.D., of Wisconsin New York. Radde. 8vo., 
pp. 939. 
1852. Scientific Basis of Homoeopathy. By W. H. Holcombe, M.D. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. H. W. Derby & Co. 12mo , pp. 804. 
1852. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. Third edition, revised and en- 
larged. By J. H. Pulte, M.D. Cincinnati, O. Moore, Anderson & Co. 
12mo., pp 576. 
1852. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. Fourth edition. Illustrated 
with anatomical plates. By J. II. Pulte, M.D. Cincinnati, O. Moore, 
Anderson & Co. 12mo., pp. 576. 
1852. The Science of Medicine. (An Introductory Lecture before the 
Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine.) By J. H. Pulte, M.D. Cin- 
cinnati, 0. Harris, Fairbanks & Co. 8vo., pp. 23. 
1852. The Reviewer Reviewed. (An Address delivered before the Class 
of the Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine.) By C. D. Williams, 
M.D. Cleveland, Ohio. Gray & Wood. 8vo., pp. 28. 
1852. Elements of Homoeopathic Practice of Physic. By J. Laurie, 
M.D. First American from second London edition. Philadelphia. Mat- 
thew & Houard. 8vo., pp. 642. 
1852. Homoeopathy and Allopathy : Correspondence between Drs. Dake 
and King in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 8vo., pp. 22. 
1852. The Philadelphia Journal of Homoeopathy. Edited by Dr. W. A. 
Gardiner. Volume I. Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 8vo., pp. 572. 
1852. Dr. Caspari's Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. Edited by Dr. 
F. Hartman. Translated from the German edition, and enriched by a Trea- 
tise on Anatomy and Physiology, by W. P. Esrey, M.D. With Additions 
and Preface by C. Hering, M.D. Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 
12mo , pp. 475. 
1853. Jahr's New Manual. Vol. III. A Complete Repertory of the 
Homoeopathic Materia Medica. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 8vo., pp. 1220. 
1853. Homoeopathic Provings, etc. Appendix to the North American 
Journal of Homoeopathy. By J. W. Metcalf, M.D. New York. Radde. 
8vo., pp. 417. 
1853. The Homoeopathic Domestic Practice. By E. Guernsey, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 581. 
1853. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine (in German). By C. J. Hempel, 
M.D New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 133. 
1853. Materia Medina of American Provings. By An Association of 
Physicians. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 299. LITERATURE. 
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18'53. Dysentery and Its Homoeopathic Treatment, with Repertory and 
numerous Cases. By F. Humphreys, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., 
pp. 87. 
1853. A Treatise on Headaches, Based on T. J. Ruckert's Experience. 
By J. C. Peters, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 135. 
1853. A Treatise on Apoplexy, with an Appendix on Softening of the 
Brain, Based on T. J. Ruekert's Experience. By J. C. Peters, M.D. New 
York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 164. 
1853. Medical Report to the Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum. By B. F. 
Bowers, M D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1853. The Social Position of Medicine. Inaugural Address before the 
Hahnemann Academy of Medicine, January 20th. By J. A. McVickar, 
M.D. New York. Angell, Engell & Hewitt, printers. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1853. Discovery of Curatives by Observation. Address before the Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society of New York, February 8th. By B. F. Joslin, 
M.D. Albany, N. Y. Munsell. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1853. Family Guide to the Administration of Homoeopathic Remedies. 
By H. Malan, M.D. New York. Radde, or R. & S. 24mo , pp. 112. 
1853. Family Guide, etc. (in Spanish). By H. Malan, M.D. New York. 
Radde, or R. & S. 24mo., pp. 112. 
1853. Obligations of the World to Homoeopathia. Address before the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, Cleveland, June 9th. By E. Bayard, 
M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1853. New Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, with Possart's 
Additions. Translated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., 
pp. 923. 
1853 Diseases of Children and their Homoeopathic Treatment. By Dr. F. 
Hartmann. Translated by C. J Hempel, M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., 
pp. 513. 
1853. A Treatise on Typhoid Fever, and Its Homoeopathic Treatment. 
By Aug. Rapou. Translated by A. C. Granville, M.D. New York. Radde. 
12mo., pp. 96. 
1853. Woman's Medical Guide. By J. H. Pulte, M.D. Cincinnati, O. 
Moore, Anderson & Co. 18mo., pp. 336. 
1853. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. Fifth edition. By J. H. 
Pulte, M.D. Cincinnati, O. Moore, Anderson & Co. 12mo., pp. 576. 
1853. Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania. By William A. Gardiner, M.D. By the Class. 
8vo., pp. 16. 
1853. Valedictory Address. (Delivered atthecloseof the Third Annual 
Session of the Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine, February 28th.) 
By Jehu Brainerd, M.D. Cleveland, Ohio. Harris, Fairbanks & Co. 8vo., 
pp. 24. 
1853. Homoeopathic Manual of Obstetrics. By Dr. Croserio. Translated 
by M. Cote, M.D. Cincinnati, Ohio. Moore, Anderton & to. 12mo., 
pp. 153. 1034 
world's homceopathic convention. 
1853. Typhoid Fever and its Homoeopathic Treatment. By Augustus 
Rapou. Translated by M. Cote, M.D. Cleveland, Ohio. Moore, Ander- 
son & Co. 12mo., pp. 144. 
1853. Reply to Professor Pallen's Attack on Homoeopathy. By J. T. 
Temple, M.D St. Louis, Mo. Ustick. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1853. Suggestions for the Provings of Drugs on the Healthy. Report of 
a Committee to the American Provers' Union. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 29. 
1853. Valedictory Address to the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- 
sylvania. By Dr. M. Semple, March 1st. Philadelphia. Sherman, printer. 
8vo , pp. 20. 
1853. Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, October 12th, 1853. By F. Humphreys, M.D. 
Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1853. Homoeopathic Treatment of Intermittent Fever. By J. S. Doug- 
lass, M D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 108. 
1853. Principles and Progress of Homoeopathy. By J. S. Rowland, M.D. 
Hopkinsville, Kentucky. McCarroll, printer. 12mo., pp. 40. 
1854. Eulogium on the Life and Character of Joseph G. Loomis, M.D., 
delivered in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, January 
12th, 1854. By. A. E. Small, M.D. By the Faculty. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1854. Valedictory Address delivered at the Sixth Annual Commencement 
of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By Jacob Beakley, 
M.D. Philadelphia. C Sherman. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1854. Homoeopathy and its Principles and Practice Explained. (Lecture 
before the Students and Faculty of Madison University, April, 1815.) Second 
edition. By J. S Douglass, M.D. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Starrs. 8vo., pp. 40. 
1854. The Madison Homoeopathist. Drs. Owen and Giles, editors. Madi- 
son, Wisconsin. 8vo. 
1854. A Treatise on Diseases of Females-Disorders of Menstruation. By 
J. C. Peters, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 165. 
1854. A Treatise on Diseases of Married Females. By J. C. Peters, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 192. 
1854. Organon of Specific Homoeopathy. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 8vo., pp. 216. 
1854. A Treatise on Diseases of the Eyes, based on T. F. Ruckert's 
Clinical Experience in Homoeopathy. By J. C. Peters, M.D. New York. 
Badde. 8vo., pp. 172. 
1854. A Treatise on Nervous Derangements and Mental Disorders, based 
upon T. F. Ruckert's Clinical Experience. By J. C. Peters, M.D. New 
York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 104. 
1854. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. By M. Freligh, M.D. New 
York. Lamport, Blakeman & Law. 8vo., pp. 576. 
1854. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. By M. Freligh, M.D. New 
York. Lamport, Blakeman & Law. 8vo., pp. 576. Second edition. 
1854. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine (in French). By C. J. Hempel, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 151. LITERATURE. 
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1854 Homoeopathic Treatment of Epidemic Cholera. By B F. Jos- 
lin, M.D, LL.D. New York. Radde. 16mo., pp. 252. Third edition. 
1854. Present Position of Two Schools of Medicine. Delivered before 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, February 4th. 
By. A. S Ball M D. Albany, N. Y. Munsell. 8vo., pp. 25. 
1854. An Address at the Eleventh Session of the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy. By W. E. Payne, M.D. New York. Callahan. 8vo., 
pp. 25. 
1854. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Acute and Chronic Diseases. By 
E. Kreussler, M.D. Translated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 12mo., pp. 190. 
1854. Tussis Sicca; or, Dry Cough. By E. U. Jones, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1854. The Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Arranged Systematically and 
Practically. By A. Teste, M.D. Translated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 8vo., pp. 633. 
1854. Dr. B. Mure's Materia Medica ; or, Provings of the Principal An- 
imal and Vegetable Poisons of the Brazilian Empire, etc. Translated by C. 
J. Hempel, M D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 220. 
1854. The Sides of the Body and Drug Affinity-Homoeopathic Exer- 
cises by Dr. C. Von Boenninghausen. Edited and translated by C. J. Hempel, 
M.D. Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 12mo., pp. 28. 
1854. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1854. 
Session held in Albany, June 7th. New York. Callahan, printer. 8vo., 
pp. 96. 
1854. Chicago Homoeopath. (Bi-monthly.) By Drs. D. S. Smith, S. W. 
Graves, R. Ludlam. Chicago. Democratic Press print. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1854. A Homoeopathic Treatise on the Diseases of Children. By A. Teste, 
M.D. Translated by Emma H. Cote. Cincinnati, Ohio. 12mo. 
1854. The Family Journal of Homoeopathy. (Monthly.) An Associa- 
tion of Physicians, editors. St. Louis, Missouri. 
1854. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Indigestion, Constipation, and 
Haemorrhoids. By William Morgan, M D. Edited by A. E. Small, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 12mo., pp. 166. 
1854. The Parent's Guide ; containing the Diseases of Infancy and Child- 
hood, and their Homoeopathic Treatment. By J. Laurie, M D. Edited by 
Walter Williamson, M.D. Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 12mo., 
pp. 458. 
1854. Key to the Materia Medica, or Comparative Pharmacodynamic. 
By Adolph Lippe, M.D. Philadelphia. Duffield. 8vo., pp. 144. 
1854. Voluntary System of Medical Education. Instituted by the Inde- 
pendent Medical School of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. King & Baird, 
printers. 8vo., pp 20. 
1854. Diseases of Females and Children, and their Homoeopathic Treat- 
ment. By Walter Williamson, M.D. Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 
12mo., pp. 256. 1036 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
1854. The Homoeopathic News. Monthly. Edited by Drs. Hering and 
Lippe. Philadelphia. Boericke & TafeL 8vo., pp. 8. 
1854. Announcement of the Independent Medical School of Pennsylva- 
nia. Chartered May 8lh, 1854 Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1854. Defence of Homoeopathy against her New Church Assailants. 
Philadelphia. New Jerusalem print. De Charmes. 
1854. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1853. 
Session held in Cleveland, June 8ih. Philadelphia. King & Baird, printers. 
8vo., pp. 94. 
1855. Proceedings of the Michigan Institute of Homoeopathy, held at 
Ann Arbor, June 14th, 1855 Detroit, Mich. Pomeroy & Co., printers. 
8vo., pp. 24. 
1855. The Gentleman's Handbook of Homoeopathy. By E. Guernsey, 
M.D. Boston. Clapp. 12mo., pp. 225. 
1855. A Treatise on the Inflammatory and Organic Diseases of the Brain, 
based on E. J. Ruckert's Experience. By J. C. Peters, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 8vo., pp. 156. 
1855. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. By M. Freligh, M.D. 
New York. Sheldon, Blakeman & Co. 8vo. Third and fourth editions. 
1855. The Character of Hahnemann. Delivered in Philadelphia, at the 
Centennial Celebration of his Birthday, April 10th, 1855. By B. E. Joslin, 
M.D., LL.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1855. A Lecture on the Philosophy and Claims of Homoeopathy. By. L. 
D. Fleming, M.D. Rochester, N. Y. Strong & Co. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1855. The Homoeopathic Guide in All Diseases of the Urinary and Sexual 
Organs. By William Gollman, M.D. Translated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 8vo., pp. 309. 
1855. Clinical Remarks concerning the Homoeopathic Treatment of 
Pneumonia, etc. By J. P. Tessier, M.D. Translated by C. J. Hempel, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 131. 
1855. Clinical Researches concerning the Homoeopathic Treatment of 
Asiatic Cholera, etc. By J. P. Tessier, M.D. Translated by C. J. Hempel, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 109. 
1855. The Pocket Homoeopathist and Family Guide. Third edition. J. A. 
Tarbell, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 32mo , pp. 71. 
1855. Address and Poem delivered before the Massachusetts Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society, on the one hundreth birthday of S. Hahnemann. 
W. E. Payne, M.D., H. C. Preston, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 52. 
1855. Directory of New England. Prepared by direction of the Massa- 
chusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society. 8vo., pp. 4. 
1855. War, Cholera, and the Ministry of Health. An Appeal to Sir 
Benjamin Hall and the British People. By J. J. G. Wilkinson,M.D. Boston. 
Clapp. 8vo., pp. 80. 
1855. The Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. Sixth edition. By J. H. 
Pulte, M.D. Ohio. Moore, Anderson & Co. 12mo., pp. 576. 
1855. The Homoeopathic Practice of Surgery, together with Operative LITERATURE. 
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Surgery. By B. L. Hill, M D., and J. G. Hunt, M.D. Cleveland, O. J. 
B. Cobb & Co. 8vo., pp. 431, 223. 
1855. Surgery and its Adaptation to Homoeopathic Practice. By 'William 
Tod Helmuth, M.D. Philadelphia. Moss & Bro. 8vo., pp. 657. 
1855. Circular from the American Provers' Union to the Homoeopathic 
Physicians of the United States. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 13. 
1855. Small and Simple Doses contrasted with Bleeding and Confused 
Drugging; or, Homoeopathy v- Allopathy. By Joseph Lillie, M.D. Toronto. 
8vo , pp. 44. 
1855. " The Homoeopathic News." Its Critique and its College Reviewed. 
By J. F. Geary, M.D. Philadelphia. 8vo.,pp. 18. 
1855. The Sources of the Materia Medica An Introductory Lecture to the 
Class of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, delivered Octo- 
ber 10th. By J. P. Dake, M.D. Philadelphia. Glessner printer. 8vo., pp. 
18. 
1855. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1855. 
Session hjld in Buffalo, June. Pittsburg. Haven, printer. 8vo., pp. 92. 
1855. Homoeopathy Explained ; or, the Old and New Systems of Medi- 
cine Compared. By J. Cragin, M.D. Mobile, Ala. Forsyth & Harris. 
8vo., pp. 28. 
1855. Lecture on Homoeopathy and Allopathy. By Dr. C. Harlan. 
Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 13. 
1855. Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Birthday of 
Samuel Hahnemann, April 10th, 1855, held in Philadelphia. Philadelphia. 
King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1855. Valedictory Address delivered at the Seventh Annual Commence- 
ment of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By William 
A. Gardiner, M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1856. Valedictory Address at the Eighth Annual Commencement of the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By Isaac M. Ward, M.D. 
Philadelphia. King & Baird. ' 8vo., pp. 16. 
1856. New Manual of Homoeopathic Veterinary Medicine. By F. E. 
Gunther. Second American, from third German edition. Boston. Clapp. 
12mo., pp. 368. 
1856. A Treatise on Internal Diseases of the Eyes, based upon the 
Clinical Experience of T. J. Ruckert. By J. C. Peters, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 8vo., pp. 128. 
1856. The Homoeopathic Pocket Companion. (Two editions published 
this year.) By M. Freligh, M.D. New York. H. W. Law. 16mo,pp. 219. 
1856. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. Fifth edition. By M. Fre- 
ligh, M.D. New York. H. W. Law. 8vo. 
1856. Homeopatia Familiar Compendio Simplificato de la Practica Homeo- 
patica de la Medicina. (Second edition issued this year.) By M. Freligh, 
M.D. New York. H. W. Law. 16mo., pp. 319. 
1856. Tracts on Homoeopathy., Twelve numbers. By W. Sharp, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 12mo. 1038 
world's HOMCEOPATHIC CONVENTION. 
1856. Yellow Fever and its Homoeopathic Treatment. By W. H. Hol- 
combe, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 71. 
1856. Length of the Latent-period of a Dose. (Read before the Homoe- 
opathic Medical Society of the State of New York.) By B. F. Joslin, M.D. 
Mew York. By Society. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1856. Smith's Homoeopathic Directory of the United States. By H. M. 
Smith, M.D. New York. J. T. S. Smith. 16mo., pp 28 
1856. Diseases of the Nervous System. By A. E. Small, M.D. To which 
is added a Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, by C. E. Toothaker, A.M., M.D. 
Philadelphia. Rademacher & Sheek. 8vo., pp. 208. 
1856. The Homoeopathic Treatment of the Diseases of Females and In- 
fants at the Breast. By Dr. G. II. G. Jahr. Translated by C. J. Hempel, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 422. 
1856. New Manual of Homoeopathic Veterinary Medicine. An Easy 
and Comprehensive Arrangement of Diseases, etc. By J. C. Schaefer. M.D. 
Translated from the German by G. J. Hempel, M.D. Philadelphia. Rade- 
macher & Sheek. 12mo , pp. 321. 
1856. Provings of Ferrum met. and Merc. iod. rub. Published by order 
of the American Provers' Union. Philadelphia. Sherman, printer. 8vo., 
pp. 59. 
1856. A Lecture on Homoeopathy. By I. D. Johnson, M.D. New 
London, Pa. Crishfield, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1856. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1856. 
Session held in Washington, June. Baltimore. Sherwood, printer. 8vo., 
pp. 80. 
1856. Review of the Homoeopathic Controversy. Before the State Ho- 
moeopathic Medical Society of New Jersey, March 4th, 1856. By Thomas 
Lafon, M.D. Newark, N.J. A. S. Holbrook. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1856. Letter to a Member of the Connecticut Medical Society. By W. 
W. Rodman, M.D. Waterbury, Conn. Cooke & Co. 12mo., pp. 28. 
1856. Proceedings of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Associa- 
tion at the First Annual Meeting, held at Peoria, December 6th, 1855. Chi- 
cago, Ill. Daily Democratic Press. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1857. The Gentleman's Handbook of Homoeopathy. Second edition. By 
E. Guernsey, M,D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 255. 
1857. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. Sixth edition. ByM.Freligh, 
M.D. New York. H. W. Law. 8vo. 
1857. Report of Select Committee on Introducing Homoeopathy into 
Bellevue Hospital. New York. Kellogg. 8vo., pp. 55. 
1857. Observations on Membranous Croup, with Cases. By G. E. 
Belcher, M.D. New York. Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 30. 
1857. Arrangement of the Materia Medina. (A Report to the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy.) By B. F. Joslin, M.D. New York. 8vo.,pp. 8. 
1857. Inaugural Address before the Hahnemann Academy of Medicine, 
January 7th, 1857. By G. E. Belcher, M.D. New York. Ludwig, printer. 
8vo., pp. 21. LITERATURE. 
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1857. A Lecture on the Philosophy and Claims of Homoeopathy. By C. 
L. Spencer, M.D. New York. Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1857. Smith's Homoeopathic Directory of the United States. By H. M. 
Smith, M D. New York. Smith, lbmo , pp. 95. 
1857. Homoeopathy and Homoeopathic Practitioners in Europe. By E. 
Sanford, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 8vo., pp. 28. 
1857. The Homoeopathic Principle applied to Insanity. A Proposal to 
Treat Lunacy by Spiritualism. J. J. G. Wilkinson, M.D. Boston. Clapp. 
8vo., pp. 18. 
1857. Homoeopathy, Allopathy, and the City Hospital. A Letter to 
N. S. Davis, M.D. By G. E. Shipman, M.D. Chicago Homoeopathic 
Medical Society. 8vo., pp. 28. 
1857. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy, held in Chicago June 3d, 1857- Chicago. Demo- 
crat print. 8vo., pp. 132. 
1857. A Homoeopathic Treatise on Diseases of Children. By A. Teste. 
Translated by Emma H. Cote. Second edition, revised by J. H. Pulte, 
M D. Cincinnati, Ohio. Moore, Anderson & Co. 12mo., pp. 342. 
1857. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. Seventh edition, enlargedand 
revised, with a Treatise on Domestic Surgery. By J. H. Pulte, M.D. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 12mo., pp. 719. 
1857. Der Homoeopathische Hausfreund. J. Gonzelmann, M.D., ed- 
itor. Herman, Mo. 4to. 
1857. Homoeopathy; Its Nature and Principles. By G. Gleiwitz, M.D. 
Bridgeport. Conn. Pomroy & Morse. 8vo., pp. 48. 
1857. An Essay on Hippocrates. By M. D Kalopothakes, M.D. Phila- 
delphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 15. 
1857. Medical Reform. By Samuel Cockburn, M.D. Philadelphia. 
Rademacher & Sheek. 18mo., pp. 180. 
1857. An Introductory Address delivered in the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania. By C. J. Hempel, M.D., October 20th. Phila- 
delphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 32. 
1857. Valedictory Address delivered at the Ninth Annual Commencement 
of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By J. P. Dake, M.D. 
Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp 16. 
1857. Proceedings of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Associa- 
tion at the Second Annual Meeting, held at Springfield, January 12th, 1857. 
Waukegan. Gazette Press. 8vo., pp. 56. 
1858. The Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. By Constantine Hering, 
M.D. (Sixth American edition, revised by the author.) Philadelphia. 
I. Kohler. 8vo., pp. 393. 
1858. Apis Mellifica; or, the Poison of the Honey-bee, considered as a 
Therapeutic Agent. By C. W. Wolf, M.D. Philadelphia. Radde. 12mo., 
pp. 80. 
1858. Some Local and General Excrescences of Homoeopathy. By John 
F. Geary, M.D. Philadelphia. Ashmead, printer. 12mo., pp. 47. 1040 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
1858. Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania. By John Redman Coxe, Jr., M.D., October 14th. 
Philadelphia. Potter, printer. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1858. Impurities of Attenuating Liquids. By B. F. Joslin, M.D. New 
York. Smith. 8vo., pp. 15. 
1858. Homoeopathic Hospitals and Dispensaries. From North American 
Journal of Homoeopathy. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1858. Nature and Limitations of the Homoeopathic Law. By W. H. Hol- 
combe, M D. New York. Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1858. Insanity and its Legal Relations. By R. G. Perkins, M.D. New 
York. Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1858. Majority and Minority Reports of the Select Committee regarding 
the Introduction of Homoeopathy into Bellevue Hospital. Republished. 
Brooklyn, N Y. J. T. P. Smith. 8vo.,.pp. 28 
1858. Homoeopathy and Nature against Allopathy and Art. (Before the 
New York Homoeopathic Medical Society, April 10th, 1858.) By E. Bayard, 
M.D. New York. Ludwig. 8vo., pp. 17. 
1858. What is Homoeopathy? A Lecture. By J. A. Mabey, M.D. 
Albany. Munsell & Rowland, printers. 8vo., pp. 81. 
1858 American Homoeopathic Review. (Monthly.) Edited by R. G. 
Perkins, M.D., and H. M. Smith, M.D. New York. 8vo., pp. 48. 
1858. Relations of General Pathology to Homoeopathic Therapeutics. 
Read before the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical Society. By R. Ludlam, 
M.D. New York. Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 17. 
1858. The Northwestern Journal of Homoeopathy. Conducted by an 
Association of Physicians. (New Series.) Chicago. 8vo. 
1858. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Western Col- 
lege of Homoeopathic Medicine, February 27th, 1856. By E. A. Guilbert, 
M.D. Dubuque, Iowa. 8vo., pp. 19. 
1858. Lecture on Narcotic Stimulants. (Before the Western College of 
Homoeopathic Medicine, December 14th.) By J. Brainerd, M.D. Cleve- 
land, O. Fairbanks. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1858. Homoeopathy and Its Principles Explained and Defended. By 
E. M. Hale, M.D. Jonesville, Mich 8vo., pp. 8. 
1858. The Homoeopath. Semi-monthly. Vol. I. Edited by Charles E, 
Blumenthal, M.D. New York. C. T. Hurlbut. 8vo. 
1858. Proceedings of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1858; 
session held in Brooklyn, June. Bath, Maine. Eastern Times print. 
8vo., pp. 208. 
1858. Is there a System of Medicine ? (A Lecture in Reply to the 
Proceedings of the Iowa State Medical Society, June 7th, 1858.) By C. 
Pearson, M.D. Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Robinson. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1858. Valedictory Address delivered at the Tenth Annual Commence- 
ment of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By William 
A. Reed, M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo , pp. 16. 
1858. Proceedings of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Associa- LITERATURE. 
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tion at the Third Annual Meeting, held at Princeton, December 2d-3d, 1857. 
Aurora, Ill. Republican, print. 8vo., pp. 80. 
1859. Homoeopathy and Allopathy: A Contrast. By George W. Barnes, 
M.D. Cincinnati, O. B. Chapman, printer. 8vo., pp. 48. 
1859. Homoeopathic Medicines Alphabetically and Nosologically Ar- 
ranged. By S. Bryant, M.D. New York. Radde. 18mo., pp. 352. 
1859. Homoeopathy Simplified ; or Domestic Practice Made Easy. Fourth 
edition. J. A. Tarbell, A.M., M D. Boston. Clapp. 12mo., pp. 360. 
1859. Memorial of Dr. William Wesselhoeft, to which is added his Last 
Address to the Homoeopathic Association. By Elizabeth P. Peabody. 
Boston. Peabody. 16mo., pp. 54. 
1859. The Homceopathist. Edited by Drs. Buzzell and White. Spring- 
field, Mass. 8vo. 
1859. Sources and Benefits of Professional Earnestness. Read before the 
Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association. By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. 
Halsey & King. 8vo., pp. 15. 
1859. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. By M Freligh, M.D. New York. 
Hurlburt. 8vo., pp. 201. 
1859. A Complete Treatise on Headaches, etc. By J. C. Peters, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp 586. 
1859. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. Seventh edition, revised and 
enlarged. By M. Freligh, M.D. New York. Hurlburt. 8vo., pp. 821. 
1859. Homoeopathic Pocket Companion. Third edition. By M. Freligh, 
M.D. New York. Hurlburt. 16mo., pp. 291. 
1859. Homoeopathic Practice and Provings, Early and Recent. By B. 
F. Joslin, M.D. New York. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1859. Verified Symptoms of Rumex crispus. By B. F. Joslin, M.D. 
New York. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1859. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. By M. Freligh, M.D. New York. 
Hurlburt. 8vo., pp. 201. 
1859. Vaccination and Revaccination. By B. F. Joslin, Jr., M.D. New 
York. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1859. Intermittent Fever. By B. F. Joslin, Jr., M.D. New York. 
8vo., pp. 37. 
1859. Phthisis Pulmonalis. By R. R. Gregg, M.D. Canandaigua, N. Y. 
Milliken, printer. 8vo., pp. 56. 
1859. A Review of Some of the Late Reforms in Pathology and Thera- 
peutics. By J. C. Peters, M.D. New York. Ludwig. 8vo., pp. 76. 
1859. Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy for 1859. 
Sixteenth Annual Session, held in Boston, June 1st. Albany, N. Y. 
Munsell & Rowland, printers. 8vo., pp. 215. 
1859 Cure of Consumption at the North. By D. McNeil, M.D. New 
York. Egbert, printer. 8vo., pp., 14. 
1859. Anniversary Address before the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medi- 
cal Association. Chicago, December 1st, 1858. By J. T. Temple, M.D. 
St Louis, Mo. Ustick. 8vo.,pp. 16. 1042 
world's homceopatiiic convention. 
1859. Woman's Medical Guide, etc. Second edition. By J. H. Pulte, 
M.D. Cincinnati, O. Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 12mo., pp. 336. 
1859. An Epitome of the Homoeopathic Healing Art By B. L. Hill, 
M.D. Cleveland, O. John Hall. 24mo., pp. 160. 
1859. Lecture Introductory to the First Session of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri. By R. E. W. Adams, M.D. St. Louis, Mo. 
Strong & Co. 8vo., pp. 23. 
1859. Proceedings of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Associa- 
tion at the Fourth Annual Meeting, held at Chicago, December 2d-3d, 1858. 
Dubuque, Iowa. Times print 8vo., pp. 94. 
1859. Transactions of the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical Society. Com- 
piled by R. Ludlam, M.D., Secretary. No. I. New York. J.T.S. Smith 
& Sons. 8vo., pp. 34. 
1859. The Western Journal of Homoeopathy. (Monthly.) E. C. Frank- 
lin, M.D., editor. St. Louis, Missouri. 8vo. 
1859. Jahr's New Manual of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, with 
Possart's Additions. Translated from fifth edition. By C. J Hempel, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 12mo , pp. 923 
1859. Consumption; its Nature, Prevention, and Homoeopathic Treat- 
ment. By W. Hitchman, M.D. Philadelphia. Radde. 12mo., pp. 184. 
1859. Reply to Dr. Coe's Essay on the Modus Operandi of Calomel. By J. 
W. Price, M.D. Atlanta, Georgia. Miller & Co. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1859. Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, October 14th, 1859. By Jacob Beakley, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Potter, printer. 8vo , pp. 23. 
1859. Proving of Cannabis indica. By the American Trovers' Union. 
Philadelphia King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1859. The Homoeopathic Surgical Adviser- and Travellers' Companion. 
Philadelphia. Boericke. 24mo., pp. 84. 
1859. Acute Diseases; a Pocket Manual for Travellers. By Dr. Dake. 
Pittsburg. J. G. Backofen & Son. 
1859. Valedictory Address delivered at the Eleventh Annual Commence- 
ment of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, March 3d. By 
John Redman Coxe, Jr., M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo.,pp. 18. 
1859. Valedictory Address delivered March 1st before the Hahnemann 
Medical Institute connected with the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania. By John D. Taber, M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1859. The Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. By F. G. Ohme, M.D. 
Concord, N. H. Eastman. 18mo., pp. 165. 
1859. Refutation of Slander against D. J. Eaton, M.D. By D. J. Eaton, 
M.D. Manitowoc, Wisconsin. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1859. " L'Homoion." Organe de la Doctrine Hahnemannienne. Dirigd 
par le Dr Taxil. New Orleans. 8vo., pp. 24. Monthly. 
1859. A New and Comprehensive System of Materia Medica and Thera- LITERATURE. 
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peutics, arranged upon a Physiologico-pathological Basis. By Charles J. 
Hempel, M.D. Philadelphia. Radde. 8vo., pp. 1202. 
1860. Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science. By 0. W. 
Holmes. Reviewed. Address before the Boston Academy of Homoeopathic 
Medicine. A. J. Bellows, M.D. 8vo., pp. 27. 
1860. Homoeopathic Treatment of Abortion. By E. M. Hale, M.D- 
Chicago. Halsey & King. 8vo., pp. 22. 
1860. The Therapeutic Agency of the Mind. (Read before the Illinois 
State Homoeopathic Medical Association at the Fifth Annual Meeting, 
November 2d, 1859 ) By T. W. Shirley, M.D. Jacksonville. Young 
America print. 8vo.,pp 12. 
1860 Stomatitis Materna. (Read before the American Institute of Ho- 
moeopathy, Philadelphia, June, 1860.) By R. Ludlam, M.D. New York. 
Smith. 8vo., pp 16. 
1860. Disease; its Intricacies. (Introductory Lecture to the Course in 
the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, October 20th, 1860.) By J. L. 
Kellogg, M.D. Chicago. Cowdery, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1860. Introductory Lecture. Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. 
By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. Halsey & King. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1860. Hahnemann and His Doctrines. (Introductory Lecture to the 
Course in the Hahnemann Medical College, October 5th.) By A. E. Small, 
M.D. Chicago. Beebe & Bro., printers. 8vo., pp. 30. 
1860. Hull's Jahr: a New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice. Fourth 
edition. Edited by F. G. Snelling, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 
1204. 
1860. The Avoidable Causes of Disease, Insanity, and Deformity. By 
John Ellis, M.D. New York. J. Ellis. 12mo.,pp. 348. 
1860. Homoeopathia Familiar. Third edition. By M. Freligh, M.D. 
New York. Hurlburt. 
1860. Marriage and its Violations, Licentiousness and Vice. By J. 
Ellis, M.D. New York. J. Ellis. 12mo., pp. 48. 
1860. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy, held in Philadelphia, June 2d, I860. New York. 
American Homoeopathic Review print. 8vo., pp. 206. 
1860. Small Doses of Homoeopathy Confirmed by Physiology and Path- 
ology. By J. T. Alley, M.D. New York. Smith. 8vo., pp. 22. 
I860. jEsculus Hippocastanum. Read before the Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Oneida County, October, 1860. By H. M. Paine, M.D. 8vo., pp. 
12. 
1860. Potencies in Connection with Crudities. By B. F. Joslin, M.D. 
New York. Smith. 8vo., pp. 11. 
1860 Essay on Diphtheria. Read before the Homoeopathic Medical Society 
of Oneida County. By J. C. Raymond, M.D. New York. Smith. 8vo., 
PP 7. 
1860. The College Journal. (Bi-monthly.) St. Louis. 4to., pp. 8. 
I860. " State Homoeopathic Medical Society." Before the Oneida Ho- 1044 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
moeopathic Medical Society, December 6th, 1859. By H. M. Paine, M.D. 
New York. 8vo., pp. 7. 
1860. United States Journal of Homoeopathy (Quarterly). New York. 
Hurlburt. 
1860. Aconite, Its Therapeutical and Physiological Effects, etc. By Dr. 
Beil. Translated by H. B. Millard, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo.,pp. 
168. 
1860. Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy, Philadelphia, June 6th, I860. By F. R. McManus, 
M.D. New York American Homoeopathic Review print. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1860. Diseases of Females and Children, and their Homoeopathic Treat- 
ment. By Walter Williamson, M.D. (Third edition.) Philadelphia. 
Radde. 16mo., pp. 256. 
1860. Proceedings of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Association 
at the Fifth Annual Meeting, held at Jacksonville, November 2d, 1859. 
Dubuque, Iowa. Daily Times print. 8vo., pp. 108. 
1860. Proceedings of the Michigan Homoeopathic Institute at its First 
Annual Meeting, held at Detroit, October 3d, 1860. Detroit, Mich. Young 
Men's Journal print. 8vo., pp 6. 
1860. On the Efficacy of Crotalus Horridus in Yellow Fever. By C. 
Neidhard, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 82. 
1860. Homoeopathy; a Principle in Nature: its Scientific Universality 
Unfolded; its Development and Philosophy Explained. By C. J. Hem- 
pel, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 248. 
1860. An Address delivered at the Third Annual Meeting of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society of Chester County, Pennsylvania, October 3d, 1860. 
By I. D. Johnson, M.D. West Chester, Pennsylvania. James, printer. 
8vo. pp. 16. 
186 J. Valedictory Address at the Twelfth Annual Commencement of the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, March 1st. By M. Sem- 
ple, MD. Philadelphia. King & Baird, printers. 8vo., pp. 24. 
I860. Who, Which, What and Wherefore; or A Few Facts for the 
Homceopathic Profession. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1860. The Medical Investigator. Monthly periodical. Vol. I, No. I. 
Chicago. Halsey. 4to., pp. 8. 
1861. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. Second edition. By M. Freligh, 
M.D. New York. Hurlburt. 
1861. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Diphtheria. By F. G. Snelling, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1861. The Climate and Statistics of Consumption. By H. B. Millard, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo., pp. 108. 
1861. Past and Present Position of Homoeopathy, and the Duties of Its 
Practitioners. Before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New 
York, February 28th. By W. H. Watson, M.D. New York. Ludwig, 
printer. 8vo., pp. 15. 
1861. Introductory Lecture to the Course of the Homoeopathic Medical LITERATURE. 
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College of New York City, October 15th. By D. D. Smith, M.D. New 
York. American Homoeopathic Review print. 8vo., pp. 81. 
1861. Valedictory, delivered at the First Annual Commencement of 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of New York City. By J. Beakley, M.D. 
New York. Hart, printer. 8vo., pp 32. 
1861. List of Homoeopathic Physicians of Massachusetts. Massachusetts 
Homoeopathic Medical Society. 8vo.,pp. 4. 
1861. The Homoeopathic Family Guide for the Use of Twenty-five 
Principal Remedies, etc. Chicago. Halsey & King. 18mo., pp. 156. 
1861. Relation of Morbid Anatomy to Practical Medicine. (Lecture 
before the Hahnemann Medical College.) By R. Ludlam, M.D. New York. 
Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1861. Valedictory Address. (Hahnemann Medical College, February 
14th.) By A. E Small, M D. Chicago. Scott & Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1861. Annual Address delivered before the Illinois State Homoeopathic 
Medical Association, May 15th, by L D. Pratt, M.D., J. Y. Shirley, M.D., 
with Valedictory of Retiring President. Mt. Carroll. Hollinger & Windle, 
8vo., pp. 16. 
1861. Woman's Medical Guide. Third edition, revised. By J. II. Pulte, 
M.D. Cincinnati, Ohio. Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 12mo., pp. 336. 
1861. Report of Select Committees of the Ohio House of Representatives 
on the Medical Treatment in the Ohio Penitentiary. Columbus, Ohio. 
Harris & Hurd 8vo., pp. 12. 
1861. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri. By W. T. Helmuth, M.D. St. Louis, Mo. 
Studley & Co. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1861. What is Homoeopathy? And is there Any and What Amount 
of Truth in it? By J. T. Conquest, M.D. Second American edition. 
Philadelphia. Radde. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1861. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, at its Thirteenth Annual Commencement, 
March 1st, 1861. By Thomas Moore, M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 20. 
186'2. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine. Eighth edition. By M. 
Freligh, M.D. New York. Hurlburt. 
1862. Homoeopathic Pocket Companion. Fourth edition. By M. Fre- 
ligh, M.D. New York. Hurlburt. 
1862. Homoeopathic Treatment of Diarrhoea and Dysentery. By P. P. 
Wells, M.D. New York. Smith & Sons. 8vo., pp. 40. 
1862. Va.ledictory Address at the Second Annual Commencement of the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of New York City. By I. M Ward, M.D. 
New York. Hart, printer. 8vo , pp. 24. 
1862. Memoir of the late Dr. B. F. Joslin, LL D. Delivered before the 
Homoeopathic Medical Societies of New York and Brooklyn. By B. F. 
Bowers, M.D. New York. Smith & Sons. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1862. The Common-sense of Homoeopathy. An Address delivered before 1046 
world's homoeopathic convention. 
the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, April 10th, 1861. I. T. 
Talbot, M.D. Boston. J. Wilson & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1862. New Manual of Homoeopathic Veterinary Medicine. From third 
German edition. By F. A. Gunther. Boston. Clapp. 12mo., pp. 368. 
1862. Gelseminum ; Its Therapeutic and Physiological Effects, etc. By 
E. M. Hale, M D. Detroit. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 56. 
1862. Vab dictory Address to the Graduating Class of Hahnemann Medi- 
cal College, February 27th, 1862. By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. Hyatt 
& Calhoun, printers. 8vo., pp. 25. 
1862. A Lecture on Some Minor Superiorities of the Homoeopathic 
Treatment. (Introductory to the Course of Clinical Medicine in Hahne- 
mann Medical College, October 17th, 1861.) By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. 
Chapin, printer. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1862. Legality of Drug-proving Recognized. (Report of the Malicious 
Prosecution of E. A. Lodge, M.D., for Manslaughter.) By Dr. Lodge. Mich- 
igan. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1862. A Treatise on Diphtheria; its Pathology and Homoeopathic 
Treatment. By William Tod Helmuth, M.D. St. Louis. Luyties. 8vo., 
pp. 125. 
1862. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania. By J. K. Lee, M.D. Philadelphia. 
Collins, printer. 8vo., pp 20. 
1862. An Introductory to the Fifteenth Annual Course of Lectures in 
the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, delivered October 13th, 
1862. By George R. Starkey, A.B., M.D. Philadelphia. Spangler, printer. 
8vo., pp. 21. 
1862. Transactions of the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association at 
its Eighth Annual Meeting in Chicago, May 21st-22d, 1862. New York. 
Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 100. 
1862 Annual oftbeIowa Homoeopathic Medical Association, First Annual 
Meeting, held at Davenport, May 21st, 1862. Dubuque, Iowa. Gilmore, 
printer. 8vo., pp. 62 
1862. Publications of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society 
for 1861-62. 8vo , pp. 106. 
1863 Introductory to the Sixteenth Annual Course of Lectures in the 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, October 12th, 1863. By 
Peter S. Hitchens, M D. By the Class. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1863 Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York. Albany. Comstock & Cassidy, printers. 8vo., pp. 188. 
1863. Homoeopathy. The Science of Therapeutics. By Carroll Dunham, 
M.D. New York. Smith & Sons. 8vo., pp. 64. 
1863. The Five Points' House of Industry in New York. By B. F. Jos- 
lin, M.D. New York. American Homoeopathic Review Press. 8vo., 
pp. 10. 
1863. Woman's Medical Guide. (Fourth edition, enlarged.) By J. H. 
Pulte, M.D. Ohio. W. B. Smith & Co. LITERATURE. 
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1863. The Early Annals of Homoeopathy in New York. Before the Ho- 
moeopathic Societies of New York and Brooklyn, on the Anniversary of 
Hahnemann's Birthday, April 10th, 1863. By John F. Gray, M.D. New 
York Society. 8vo., pp. 30. 
1863. Address delivered before the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Homoe- 
opathic Medical Society of New York State, Albany, February 10th, 1863. 
By Carroll Dunham, M.D. Albany. Van Benthuysen. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1863. A Course of Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria. (Before the Class 
of Hahnemann Medical College, 1862, '63.) By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. 
Halsey. 8vo., pp. 126. 
1863. Valedictory Address to the Hahnemann Medical College, Febru- 
ary 26th. By J. L. Kellogg, M.D. Chicago. Beach & Barnard, printers. 
8vo., pp. 22. - 
1863. A Plea for Physiology ; an Introductory Lecture to the Course on 
Physiology in the Hahnemann Medical College. By R. Ludlam, M.D. 
New York. Ludwig, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1863. The Western Homoeopathic Observer. (Monthly.) Edited by 
Drs W.T. Helmuth and E C. Franklin. St. Louis. Luyties. 8vo.,pp. 8. 
1863. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician. (Eighth edition, with addi- 
tions ) By J. H. Pulte, M D. Ohio. W. B. Smith & Co. 12mo , pp. 719. 
1863. Valedictory Address to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania, at the Fifteenth Annual Commencement, March 3d, 
1863. By Silas S. Brooks, M.D. Philadelphia. Bryson, printer. 8vo., 
pp. 20. 
1863. Transactions of the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association at 
its Ninth Annual Meeting in Chicago, May 20th and 21st, 1863. Chicago, 
Ill. Calhoun, printer. 8vo., pp. 124. 
1863. Organization of the Western Institute of Homoeopathy at Chicago, 
May 20th, 1863. St. Louis, Mo. Ustick, printer. 8vo., pp. 58. 
1864. New Remedies ; Their Pathogenetic Effects and Therapeutical 
Application in Homoeopathic Practice. By E. M. Hale, M.D. Detroit. 
Lodge. 8vo., pp. 448 
1864. A New Method of Treating Fractures of the Femur in Children. 
By G. D. Beebe, M.D. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1864. The Therapeutics of Retroflexion and Retroversion of the Uterus. 
By E. M. Hale, M.D. With Plates. Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp 22. 
1864 Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of Hahnemann Med- 
ical College, February 25th. By D. A. Colton, M.D. Chicago. Beach & 
Barnard, printers. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1864. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania, at the Sixteenth Annual Commencement, 
March 2d, 1864. By H. N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadelphia. C. Sherman. 
8vo , pp. 23. 
1864. Transactions of the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association at 
its Tenth Annual Meeting in Chicago, May 17th and 18th, 1864. Chicago, Ill. 
Calhoun, printer. 8vo., pp. 72. 1048 
world's homceopathic convention. 
1864. First Annual Meeting of the Western Institute of Homoeopathy, 
Chicago, May 19th, 1864. St. Louis, Mo. Ustick, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1864. Resolutions of the General Assembly, incorporating the Connec- 
ticut Homoeopathic Medical Society ; the organization of said Society. New 
Haven, Conn. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers. 8vo., pp 12. 
1864. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of Hahnemann Med- 
ical College, February 25th. E. M. Hale, M.D. Chicago. Beach & Bar- 
nard, printers. 8vo., pp. 6. 
1864. The Homoeopathic Theory and Practice of Medicine. Two vol- 
umes. By Drs. E. E. Marcy and F. W. Hunt. New York. Radde. 8vo., 
pp. 944, 952. 
1864. Family Homoeopathy. By John Ellis, M.D. New York. Smith 
& Sons. 12mo., pp. 404. 
1864. The Introduction and Progress of Homoeopathy in the United 
States. An Inaugural Address before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of 
the County of New York, April 11th, 1864. By S. R. Kirby, M.D. By 
the Society. 8vo., pp. 24 
1864. Mosman's Materia Medica Chart. New York. Smith & Son. 
1864. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1864. Albany. Comstock & Cassidy, printers. 8vo., 
pp. 477. 
1864. Introductory Address delivered in the Hahnemann Medical 
College October 10th. By G. D. Beebe, M.D. Chicago. Calhoun, printer. 
8vo., pp. 16. 
1864. The American Homoeopathist Edited and published by Charles 
Cropper, M.D. Cincinnati. (Monthly.) 8vo., pp. 16. 
1864. Homoeopathic Observer. Detroit. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 16. Monthly. 
1864. A Treatise on Diphtheria; its Nature, Pathology, and Homoeo- 
pathic Treatment. By William Tod Helmuth, M.D. (second edition, re- 
vised and corrected). St. Louis. Luyties. 8vo., pp. 136. 
1864. What is Homoeopathy? A New Exposition of a Great Truth. By 
William H. Holcombe, M.D. New Orleans, La. Bulletin print. 8vo. 
pp. 30. 
1865. Valedictory Address delivered before the Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, in the Musical Fund Hall, March 4th, 1865. By 
G. R. Starkey, M.D. Philadelphia. Spangler & Davis. 8vo., pp. 22. 
1865. Valedictory Address delivered at the Fifteenth Annual Commence- 
ment of the Hahnemannian Institute of Philadelphia, March 1st, 1865. By 
Henry N Martin, M.D., of Buffalo, New York. Buffalo, N. Y. Franklin 
Printing House. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1865. Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Western Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy, held in St. Louis, May 18th, 1865. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1865. Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Homoeopathic 
Medical Society of Ohio, held at Columbus, June 13th and 14th, 1865. Cin- 
cinnati, O. Gazette print. 8vo., pp. 60. LITERATURE. 
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1865. High Potencies, Clinical Cases, etc. By B. Fincke, M.D. Phila- 
delphia. Tafel. 8vo , pp. 131. 
1865. Synopsis of a Forthcoming Work on Consumption, and its Nu- 
merous kindred Maladies, with tracings of their Causes and their Cures 
under Homoeopathic Treatment. By Rollin R. Gregg, M.D. Buffalo, 
N. Y. Matthews & Warren, printers. 8vo., pp. 33. 
1865. Geometry of the Vital Forces. By Federal Vanderburg, M.D. 
New York. Hurlburt. 8vo., pp. 94. 
1865. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1865. Albany. Wendell, printer. 8vo., pp. 439. 
1865. Homoeopathy in New York, and the late Abraham D. Wilson, 
A.M., M.D. By J. F. Gray, M.D. New York. Dorr, printer. 8vo.,pp.40. 
1865. Address before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York, May 10th. By H. D. Paine, M.D. Albany. Van Benthuysen, 
printer. 8vo., pp. 22. 
1865. The Past and the Present; an Introductory Lecture to the Class 
in Hahnemann Medical College, October 25th, 1865. By A. E. Small, M.D. 
Chicago. Halsey. 8vo.,pp. 20 
■1865. The Methodical Physician, being the Closing Lecture of the Course 
in Hahnemann Medical College. By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. Halsey. 
8vo , pp. 24. 
1865. An Appeal unto Caesar; being an Inquiry whether Homoeopathic 
Physicians are Quacks, Charlatans, Impostors, Mountebanks, etc. By 
George E. Shipman, M.D. Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 30. 
1865. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy, held in Cincinnati June 7th, 1865. Chicago. 
Jameson & Morse, printers. 8vo , pp. 142. 
1865. An Address delivered at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, at Cincinnati, June 7th, 1865. By Wil- 
liam W. Rodman, M.D. Chicago. Jameson & Morse, printers. 8vo.,pp.20. 
1865. United States Medical and Surgical Journal. Edited by George 
E. Shipman, M.D. Chicago. C. S. Halsey. 8vo., pp 96. Quarterly. 
1865. A New and Comprehensive System of Materia Medica and Thera- 
peutics, Arranged upon a Physiologico-pathological Basis. By Charles J. 
Hempel, M.D. Second edition, revised and enlarged. New York. Radde. 
8vo. Volume I, pp. 836. Volume II, pp. 748. 
1865. Introductory Lecture Comprising the Principles of Obstetrics and 
the Diseases of Women and Children, as Taught in the Homoeopathic Med- 
ical College of Pennsylvania. By II. N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadelphia. 
King & Baird, printers. 8vo., pp. 14. 
1865. Influence of the Tide on Parturition. By Charles G. Raue, M.D. 
Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1865. Homoeopathies; What it is, and the Logic of it. Philadelphia. 
Tafel. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1865. What is Homoeopathy ? A New Exposition of a Great Truth. By 
William H. Holcombe, M.D Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 24. 1050 
world's HOAICEOPATH1C CONVENTION. 
1865. Introductory Address delivered at the Opening of the Eighteenth 
Annual Session of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, Oc- 
tober 10th, 1865. By J. H. P. Frost, M.D. Philadelphia. King& Baird, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1865 The Hahnemannian Monthly. Edited by the Faculty of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College, of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 48. 
Monthly. 
1865. Who is a Homceopathician ? A Lecture delivered before the 
Hahnemannian Institute, Philadelphia, February 17th, 1865. By Ad. 
Lippe, M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird, printers. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1865. Manual of Homoeopathic Theory and Practice, Designed for the 
Use of Physicians and Families. By Arthur Lutze. M.D. Reprint from 
the sixteenth German edition. Philadelphia. Radde. 12mo., pp. 750. 
1865. Annual Inaugural Address, delivered at the Semi-annual Meeting 
of the Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society, at Bridgeport, November 
28th, 1865. By Gardner S. Browne, A.M., M.D. Hartford. Coburn & 
Clark, printers. 8vo., pp. 42. 
1866. Transactions of the Northwestern Provers' Association of the 
Hahnemann Medical College. Vol. I. Session, 1865-66. Chicago, 111. 
Halsey. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1866. Proceedings of the Michigan Homoeopathic Institute at the Sev- 
enth Annual Meeting in Detroit, June 19th, 1866. Detroit, Mich. Lodge. 
8vo., pp. 48. 
1866. A Practical Homoeopathic Treatise on the Diseases of Women and 
Children. By Henry Minton, M.D. New York. Blelock & Co. 8vo., 
pp. 461. 
1866. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1866. Albany. Van Benthuysen & Sons, printers. 
8vo., pp. 456. 
1866. Valedictory Address delivered at the Sixth Annual Commencement 
of the Homoeopathic Medical College of New York. By Samuel B Barlow, 
M.D., February 24th, 1866. New York. Gray & Green, printers. 8vo., 
pp. 22. 
1866. Cholera. By Carroll Dunham, M.D. New York. Smith. 8vo., 
pp. 24. 
1866. Plain Directions for the Treatment of Cholera, etc. By W. Bayes, 
M.D. New York. Radde. 12mo , pp. 8. 
1866. Treatment of Cholera, etc. (in German). By E. Baehr, M D. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1866. Taking Cold; Nature, Cause, etc. By J. W. Hayward, M.D. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1866. Tracheotomy in Croup. A Paper read before the Massachusetts 
Homoeopathic Medical Society, October 8th, 1862. I. T. Talbot., Al.D. 
Boston. Wilson & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1866. The New England Medical Gazette. Edited by H. C. Angell, M.D. 
Boston; New England Medical Gazette Association. 8vo., pp. 24. Monthly. LITERATURE. 
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1866. Correct Observation in Medicine. Delivered before the Massa- 
chusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, at the Annual Meeting, held at Bos- 
ton April, 1864. By S. M. Cate, M.D. Boston. J. Wilson & Son, printers. 
8vo., pp. 26. 
1866. Prevention and Treatment of Asiatic Cholera. By E. P. Fowler, 
M.D. New York. Smith & Sons. 8vo., pp 8 
1866. A Systematic Treatise on Abortion. By E. M. Hale, M.D. Chi- 
cago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 347. 
1866. The Nurse-Her Natural History, etc.-as an Aid to the Physi- 
cian. Introductory Lecture at Hahnemann Medical College, 1866-67. 
By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 28. 
1866. Chemical Commerce and its Commodities. An Introductory Lec- 
ture in the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. By R. Welch, M.D. 
Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1866. Sketch of the Life of Hahnemann. By Jos. Hooper, M.D. Michi- 
gan. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1866. Homoeopathy and Its Claims on Public Confidence. By J. Hooper, 
M.D. Michigan. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1866. Popular Fallacies concerning Homoeopathy Refuted. By Jos. 
Hooper, M.D. Michigan. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1866. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri. By E. C. Franklin, M.D. Michigan. Lodge. 
8vo., pp. 14. 
1866. Medical Pomposity; or, the Doctor's Dream ; (a Satire). By Wil- 
liam Tod Helmuth, M. D. Detroit. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1866. Epidemic Cholera. By G. S. Walker, M.D. St. Louis. Luyties. 
12mo., pp. 40. 
1866. Textbook of Materia Mcdica. By Ad. Lippe, M.D. Philadelphia. 
Tafel. 8vo , pp. 716. 
1866. Valedictory Address delivered at the Eighteenth Annual Com- 
mencement of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By 
Adolph Lippe, M.D. Philadelphia King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 30. 
1866. Cholera. Lecture delivered at the Homoeopathic Medical College 
of Pennsylvania, December 8th, 1865. By Adolph Lippe, M.D. Phila- 
delphia. Collins, printer, 8vo , pp. 24. 
1866. Cistus Canadensis and Its Pathogenesis. By C. Hering, M.D. 
Philadelphia Tafel. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1866. Valedictory Address delivered at the Sixteenth Annual Commence- 
ment of the Hahnemannian Institute of Philadelphia, February 27th, 1866. 
By J. Heber Smith, M.D. Boston. C. C. P. Moody. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1866. Homoeopathy and the Metropolitan Board of Health. The 
Treatment of Cholera. New York. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1866. Homoeopathy: its Theory and Practice. (A Lecture delivered 
before the Students and Faculty of Lawrence University, Kansas.) By 
Martin Mayer Marix, M.D. Leavenworth, Kansas. Bulletin print. 8vo., 
pp. 16. 1052 
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1866. Inaugural Address and Transactions of the Connecticut Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society, 1864-1865. By E. T. Foote, M.D. New Haven, 
Conn. J. T. Stafford. 8vo., pp. 32. 
1867. Opposition to Homoeopathy in New York. Address before the 
Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of New York, April 10th, 1866. 
By B. F. Bowers, M.D. New York. Ludwig, printer. 8vo , pp. 31. 
1867 Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1867. Vol. V. Albany. Van Benthuysen, printer. 
8vo., pp. 287. 
1867. Clinical Homoeopathy. The Annual Address before the Massachu- 
setts Homoeopathic Medical Society, April 12th, 1865. By H. B. Clarke, 
M.D. Cambridge. J. Wilson & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 14. 
1867- Historical Address delivered before the Massachusetts Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society, April 11th, 1866. By W. F. Jackson, M.D. Cam- 
bridge. Wilson & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1867. Publications of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society 
from 1861-66, inclusive. Volume II. Cambridge. Wilson & Son, printers. 
8vo., pp 572. 
1867. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Session of the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy, held in Pittsburg, June 6th, 7th, 1866. Boston. Band & 
Avery, printers. 8vo., pp. 189. 
1867. Homoeopathic Materia Medica of the New Remedies, and Their 
Therapeutic Application in Homoeopathic Practice, etc. By E. M. Hale, 
M.D. Detroit., Mich. E. A. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 1142. (Second edition, revised 
and enlarged. Published in numbers.) 
1867. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of Hahnemann Med- 
ical College of Chicago, February 27th. By G. D. Beebe, M.D. Chicago. 
Beach & Barnard, printers. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1867. A Lecture on Criminal Abortion, delivered in Hahnemann Med- 
ical College, February 4th, 1867. By R. Ludlam, M.D. Chicago. Halsey. 
8vo., pp. 17. 
1867. The Great Crime of the Nineteenth Century. By Edwin M. 
Hale, M.D. Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 40. 
1867. Essay on Cleft Palate. (From the New York State Homoeopathic 
Medical Society Transactions.) By W. T. Hulmuth, M.D. St. Louis, Mo. 
Van Benthuysen & Son. 8vo., pp. 29. 
1867. The Annual Address, and the Report of the Bureau of Surgery, 
to the American Institute of Homoeopathy, at its Nineteenth Annual Ses- 
sion, Pittsburg, June 6th and 7th, 1866. By W. T. Helmuth, M D. Boston, 
Mass. Rand & Avery. 8vo., pp. 40. 
1867. The Spectroscope and the' Law " Similia Similibus Curantur." 
(Read before the American Institute of Homoeopathy, at its Nineteenth Ses- 
sion, Pittsburg, June 6th and 7th, 1866.) By J. H. Pulte, M.D. Boston, 
Mass. Rand & Avery. 8vo., pp. 10. 
1867. Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter. (Bi-monthly.) Cleveland. 
Beckwith & Co. 8vo., pp. 32. LITERATURE. 
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18G7. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri, February 27th. By J. T. Temple, M.D. 
St. Louis, Mo. Ustick. 8vo., pp. 11. 
1867. Dr. H. Gross's Comparative Materia Medica. Edited by Con- 
stantine Hering, M D. Philadelphia Boericke. 8vo., pp., 520. 
1867. Introductory Lecture delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College 
of Philadelphia. By John C. Morgan, M.D. Wilmington, Delaware. 
James, printer. 8vo., pp 18. 
1867. Valedictory delivered at the Nineteenth Annual Commencement 
of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, March 2d, 1867. 
By John C. Morgan, M.D. Philadelphia. Tafel. 8vo., pp. 23. 
1867. General Introductory Address to the First Session of the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia. By Richard Koch, M.D. Phila- 
delphia. King & Baird, printers. 8vo., pp. 13. 
1867. American Journal of Homoeopathic Materia Medica. Edited by 
Drs. C. Hering and H. N. Martin. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 12. Monthly. 
1867. Diphtheria as it prevailed in the United States from 1860 to 1866, 
preceded by an Historical Accountof its Phenomena, its Nature, and Homoeo- 
pathic Treatment. By C. Neidhard, M.D. New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 
176. 
1867. The Application of the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy to 
Obstetrics anol the Disorders peculiar to Women and Young Children. By 
Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadelphia. Boericke. 8vo., pp. 752. 
18t.7. Special Pathology and Diagnostics, with Therapeutic Hints. By 
C. G. Raue, M.D. Philadelphia. Boericke. 8vo., pp. 644. 
1867. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylva- 
nia, 1866-1867, First and Second Annual Sessions, held in Pittsburg and 
Philadelphia. Westchester, Pa. Taylor & Hickman, printers. Pp. 120. 
1867. Biographical Sketch of C. Hering, M.D. Reprinted from the 
United States Medical and Surgical Journal. 8vo., pp. 6. 
1867. Introductory Address to Twentieth Annual Session of the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By W. L. Arrowsmith, M.D. 
Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1867. Report on Obstetrics to the American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
By Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp 8. 
1867. Introductory Lecture to Course at Hahnemann Medical College, 
Philadelphia. By Constantine Hering, M.D., etc. Detroit, Mich. Lodge. 
8vo., pp. 13. 
1867. Transactions of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Associa- 
tion at its Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Annual Meetings, held in Chi- 
cago, May 16th and 17th, 1865, May 15th and 16th, 1866, May 21st and 22d, 
1867. Chicago, Ill. Rounds & James, printers. 8vo , pp. 96. 
1867. Proceedings of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, Third 
Annual Session, held in Cleveland, February 26th and 27th, 1867. Cleveland, 
0. Nevins, printer. 8vo., pp. 100. 1054 
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1868. Manual of Pharmacodynamics. By R. Hughes, M.D. New York. 
Radde. 12mo , pp. 590. 
1868. The Homceopathic Sun. Monthly. Edited by Dr. F. W. Hunt. 
New York. Radde. 8vo., pp. 32. 
1868. Report of a Case of True Hermaphrodism. By Henry N. Avery, 
M.D. New York. 8vo., pp. 4. 
1868. A Contribution to the Study of Human Milk. By T. F. Allen, 
M D. Albany. Van Benthuysen, printer. 8vo , pp. 10. 
1868. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1868. Vol. VI. Albany. Van Benthuysen & Sons, 
printers. 8vo , pp. 736. 
1868. Transactions of the Twentieth Session of the American Institute of 
Homoeopathy, held in New York, June 4th-7th, 1867. New Series. Volume 
I, No. 1. Boston. Mudge & Son., printers. 8vo., pp. 411. 
1868. The Homoeopathic Independent. (Monthly.) Editor and pro- 
prietor, John Conzelman, M.D. St. Louis, Mo. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1868. Homoeopathy ; an Explanation of what It Is. By F. H. Orme, M.D. 
Detroit. Lodge. 8vo., pp. 40. 
1868. Homoeopathy; Is It " Quackery ?" Has It been Shown Fair Play ? 
Misconceptions concerning It. By F. H. Orme, M.D. Detroit. Lodge. 
8vo., pp. 8. 
1868. Monograph on Ustilago Maidis; Its Physiologico-pathological 
Effects, together with Its Uses in Disease. By W. H. Burt, M.D. Detroit. 
Lodge. 8vo., pp. 36. 
1868. The Keynote System. By Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadel- 
phia. Sherman & Co. 8vo., pp. 9. 
1868. The Bandage after Parturition. By Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Sherman & Co. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1868. Reproduction, Physically, Physiologically, and Spiritually Con- 
sidered. By Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadelphia. Sherman & Co. 
8vo., pp. 15. 
1868. A Systematic Treatise on Abortion and Sterility. By Edwin M. 
Hale, M.D. Second edition. Chicago. Halsey. 8vo , pp. 361. 
1868. Classification of a few of the " New Remedies," according to the 
parts of the body acted upon, after the plan of Bcenninghausen. By Temple 
S. Hoyne, M.D. St. Louis, Mo. Luyties. 8vo., pp. 70. 
1868. The Last Events of 1867, the Tele-microscope of Gottlieb Juntz, 
and the Organopathy of William Sharpe, M.D , F.R S. By C. Hering, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Boericke. 8vo.,pp. 22. 
1868. Subjective and Objective Symptoms. A Lecture delivered at the 
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. By C. G. Raue, M.D. Phila- 
delphia. Kildare, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1868. The Action and Classification of Medicines, in Connection with 
the Anatomy of Temperaments. By John C. Morgan, M D. Reprinted 
from Transactions of Pennsylvania State Homceopathic Medical Society, 
1868. 8vo., pp. 49. LITERATURE. 
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18C8. Biographical Sketch of J. H. Pulte, M D. Cincinnati, 0. Miami 
Printing and Publishing Company. 8vo , pp. 16. 
1868. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylva- 
nia, 1868, Third Annual Session, held in Harrisburg. Philadelphia. De 
Armond & Goodrich, printers. Pp. 152. 
1868. Yellow Fever. Part I. Homoeopathy and Allopathy. (By W. 
Richardson, M D.) Pp. 21. Part II. Some Account of the Yellow Fever 
as it Appeared in Galveston and Houston, Texas, in 1867, with its Symp- 
toms, Treatment, etc. (By H. C. Parker, M.D.) Pp. 34. Part III. Some 
General Considerations with Regard to the Treatment of Yellow Fever: the 
Non-local Origin of Yellow Fever upon the Western Continent. (By W. 
Richardson, M.D.). Missouri. 8vo., pp. 29. 
1868. Valedictory Address at the Annual Commencement of the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia, March 4th, 1868. By O. B. Gause, 
M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp. 15. 
1868. Inaugural Address delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College 
of Philadelphia, at the opening of the Session of 1868-69. By A. R. Thomas, 
M.D. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo.,pp. 21. 
1868. Valedictory Address delivered at the Twentieth Annual Com- 
mencement of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. By A. 
R. Morgan, M.D. Philadelphia. King & Baird. 8vo., pp 32. 
1868. Transactions of the Fifth and Sixth Annual Meetings of the Wes- 
tern Institute of Homoeopathy. Chicago, Ill. Calhoun, printer. 8vo., 
pp. 150. 
1868. Biographical Sketch of Constantine Hering, M.D., with portrait. 
Reprint from the United States Medical and Surgical Journal. 8vo.,pp. 5. 
1869. Transactions of the Twenty-first Session of the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy, held in St. Louis, June 2d-5th, 1868. New Series. Boston. 
Mudge & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 528. 
1869. A Brief History of the Materia Medica. By Samuel B. Barlow, 
M D. Reprint from Transactions of American Institute of Homoeopathy. 
Boston. Mudge & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1869. Code of Medical Ethics, Constitution, By-laws, and Li-t of Mem- 
bers of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Boston. Mudge & Son, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 48. 
1869. Manual of Therapeutics. By R. Hughes, M.D. New York* 
Radde. 12mo., pp. 540. 
1869. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1869. Vol. VII. Albany, N. Y. ; Argus print. 
8vo., pp. 868. 
1869. Register of the Homoeopathic Physicians in the United States. Re- 
print from New England Medical Gazette. By Henry M. Smith, M.D. 
Boston 8vo , pp. 12. 
1869. Catalogue of the Museum and Library of the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia. By C. M. Thomas, A.B. Philadelphia. W. P. 
Kildare. 8vo., pp. 45. 1056 
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1869. The Homoeopathic Quarterly. Edited and Published by Rollin R. 
Gregg, M I) Buffalo. 8vo., pp 48. 
1869. Heaven for Homoeopathy, an Historical Document. By C. Hering, 
M.D. Philadelphia. Sherman & Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 5. 
1869. Epitome of Homoeopathic Medicines. By W. L. Breyfogle, M.D. 
Philadeiphia. Boericke & Tafel. 18mo , pp. 383. 
1869. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Diarrhoea, Cholera, Dysentery, etc. 
By James B. Bell, M.D. New York. Boericke & Tafel. 12mo., pp. 168. 
1869. Provings of Carbolic Acid. Chicago. Keene & Cooke, printers. 
8vo., pp. 36. 
1869. Characteristic Materia Medica. By W. H. Burt, M.D. Phila- 
delphia. Boericke & Tafel 12mo , pp. 460. 
1869. Valedictory Address delivered at the Annual Commencement of 
the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, 
March 3d, 1869. By Henry Noah Marlin, M.D. Philadelphia. W. P. 
Kildare. 8vo., pp. 11. 
1869. Inaugural Address delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, 
at the opening of the Session of 1869-70. By Lemuel Stephens, M.D. 
Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare 8vo., pp. 16. 
1869. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylva- 
nia, 1869, Fourth Annual Session, held at Wilkesbarre. Philadelphia. A. 
G. de Armond, printer. Pp 134. 
1869. Homoeopathy and its Practitioners in Chester County, Pennsylva- 
nia. By Joseph E. Jones, M.D. West Chester, Pa. American Republican. 
8vo., pp. 15. 
1869. A Letter to Professor A. B. Palmer, M.D., of the University of 
Michigan, being a Reply to his Four Lectures on Homoeopathy. By Charles 
J. Hempel, M.D. Detroit, Mich. American Homoeopathic Observer. 
8vo., pp. 74. 
1870. Transactions of the Twenty-second Session of the American Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy, held in Boston, June 8th-11th', 1869. New Series. 
Boston. Mudge & Son, printers. 8vo., pp 552. 
1870. Liberty of Medical Opinion and Action, a Vital Necessity and a 
Great Responsibility. Annual Address delivered before the American 
Institute of Homoeopathy at itsTwenty-seventh Anniversary, Chicago, June 
8th. By Carroll Dunham, M.D. Reprintfrom New England Medical Ga- 
zette. Boston ; Mudge & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1870. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State cf 
New York for the year 1870. Vol. VIII. Albany ; Argus print. 8vo., pp. 
842. 
1870. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Hooping-cough. By C. von 
Boenninghausen, M.D. Translated, with additions, by Carroll Dunham, 
M.D New York. Smith. 12 mo., pp. 199. 
1870. Textbook of Homoeopathy By Dr. v. Grauvogl. Translated, at 
the requestor the author, by George E. Shipman, M.D. Farts 1 and II. 
Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 341 and 426, LITERATURE. 
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1870. Treatment of Disordered Dentition. By Henry N. Guernsey, M D. 
Philadelphia. Sherman & Co 8vo., pp 16. 
1870. The Homoeopathic Materia Medica. By Henry N. Guernsey, 
M.D. Philadelphia. Sherman & Co 8vo., pp. 7. 
1870. Liberty of Medical Opinion and Action. By Adolph Lippe, M.D. 
Philadelphia. Sherman & Co. 8vo., pp. 11. 
1870. Annual Record of Homoeopathic Literature. Edited by C. G. Raue, 
M.D New York. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp 416. 
1870. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Spermator- 
rhoea, and Urinary Diseases. Compiled by J. Ph. Berjeau; revised by J. 
II. P Frost, M.D. Philadelphia. Tafel. 16mo,, pp. 256. 
1870. Characteristic Cards; corroborated and selected. By C. Hering, 
M.D. Philadelphia. 
1870. Maternity; a popular Treatise for Young Wives and Mothers. 
By T. S. Verdi, M.D. New York. Ford & Co. 12mo , 451 pp. 
1870. Valedictory Address at the Annual Commencement of the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia, March 9th, 1870. By C. G Raue, 
M.D. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo , pp. 15. 
1870. Introductory Address at the opening of the Course of Lectures for 
1870-71, at the Hahnemann Medical C dlege of Philadelphia, October 10th, 
1870. By John C. Morgan, M.D. Philosophy in Medicine. Philadelphia. 
W. P Kildare. 8vo., pp. 35. 
1870. Before, During, and After Parturition. Prepared by special re- 
quest for the Cumberland Valley Homoeopathic Medical Society, and read 
before that body May 3d, 1870. By Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. New York. 
Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1870. Uterine Haemorrhage. By Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadel- 
phia. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1870. The Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society. Proceedings of 
the Semi-annual Session, held at New Haven, November 16th, 1859. Boston, 
Mass. Mudge & Son, printers. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1870. Proceedings of the Indiana Institute of Homoeopathy, reorganized 
at Indianapolis, May 11th, 1870. Muncie, Ind. Times print. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1871. Publications of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, 
from 1840 to 1861. Volume I. Taunton. Hack & Son, printers. 8vo., 
pp. 410. 
1871. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1871. Vol. IX. Albany; Argus print. 8vo.,pp. 
706. 
1871. Medical Education, Annual Address delivered before the Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society of New York, at Albany, February 14th, 1871. By 
R. McMurray, M.D. New York. 8vo , pp. 12 
1871. Annual Record of Homoeopathic Literature, 1871. By C. G. Raue, 
M.D. New York. Boericke & Tafel 8vo. 
1871. On 1 ntermittent Fever and other Malarious Diseases. By I. S. P. 
Lord, M.D. New York. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 341. 1058 
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1871. Transactions of the Twenty-third Session of the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy, held in Chicago, June 7th-10th, 1870. New Series. Chicago. 
Lakeside Press. 8vo., pp. 620. 
1871. Ovariotomy. A Clinical Report of Eight Cases. By Gaylord D. 
Beebe, M.D. Chicago. Beebe. 8vo., pp. 36. 
1871. The March of Medical Science, Past, Present, and Future. By 
Joseph Hooper, M.D , and C. S. Eldridge, M.D Cleveland. Witte. 8vo., 
PP- 40. 
1871. Allopathy and Homoeopathy before the Judgment of Common- 
sense. By F. Hiller, M.D. San Francisco. Bruce, printer. 8vo., pp. 32. 
1871. Therapeutic Key or Practical Guide for the Homoeopathic treatment 
of Acute Diseases. By I. D. Johnson, M.D. Philadelphia. Boericke. 12mo., 
278 pp. 
1871. The Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine, by Joseph Laurie. Edited 
and revised, with numerous important additions, etc. By Robert J. 
McClatchey, M.D. First American edition. New York and Philadelphia. 
Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 1034. 
1871. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylva- 
nia, 1870-1871, Fifth and Sixth Annual Sessions, held at Erie and Harris- 
burg. Philadelphia. Senseman & Son, printers. Pp 268. 
1871. Valedictory Address at the Annual Commencement of the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia, March 10th, 1871. By Richard 
Koch, M.D. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo., pp. 17. 
1871. Boericke & Tafel's Quarterly Bulletin of Homoeopathic Literature. 
New York. 16 pp. 
1871. Proceedings of the Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of Iowa 
for 1870-71. Keokuk, Iowa. Ogden print. 8vo., pp. 14. 
1871. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
Michigan, at Marshall, May 16th, and Ann Arbor, November 21st and 22d, 
1871. Detroit, Mich. Ostler & Hoekstra, printers. 8vo., pp. 46. 
1871. Valedictory Address at the Twenty-first Annual Commencement 
of the Hahnemannian Medical Institute, March 9th, 1871. By C. D. Crank, 
M.D. 8vo., pp. 15. 
1871. Charter and Statutes of the Hahnemann Medical College of Phila- 
delphia, adopted November 14th, 1871. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 
8vo., pp. 20. 
1871. Rules of the Homoeopathic Hospital of the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1871. Annual Address before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Penn- 
sylvania, 1871. By William C. Doane, M.D. Williamsport, Pa. 8vo., 
pp. 32. 
1872. Scrofulous Affections, etc. By Dr. H. Goullon. Translated from 
the German by Emil Tietze, M.D. New York and Philadelphia. Boericke 
& Tafel. 8vo. 
1872. Lectures on Diseases of the Heart. By Edwin M. Hale, M.D. 
New York. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 206. LITERATURE. 
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1872. Transactions of the Twenty-fifth Session of the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy held in Washington, May 21st-24th, 1872. New Series. 
Philadelphia. Sherman & Co. 8vo., pp. 480. 
1872. Science and Art of Surgery adapted to Homoeopathic Therapeutics- 
By E. C. Franklin, M.D. St. Louis. 8vo. 
1872. Lectures, Clinical and Didactic, on the Diseases of Women. By 
B. Ludlam, M.D. Second edition. Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 612. 
1872. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1872. Vol. X. Albany; Argus print. 8vo., pp. 
1268. 
1872. Jahr's Clinical Guide or Pocket Repertory. By S. Lilienthal, M.D. 
New York. Boerieke & Tafel. 12mo., pp. 624. 
1872. Morbus Brightii. By J. Buchner, M.D. Translated by S. Lili- 
enthal, M.D New York. Boerieke & Tafel. 12mo., pp. 148. 
1872. Catarrh of the Female Sexual Organs. By Professor H Hilde- 
brandt. Translated by S. Lilienthal, M.D. New York. Boerieke & Tafel. 
8vo., pp. 40. 
1872. Index to the first eighteen volumes of the North American Journal 
of Homoeopathy. New York ; Boerieke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 77. 
1872. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the New York 
Homoeopathic Medical College, delivered February 29th, 1872. By Carroll 
Dunham, M.D. New Yrork ; Hart, printer. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1872. Smith's Homoeopathic Directory of New York and Vicinity, 1872- 
73. New York; Smith's Homoeopathic Pharmacy. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1872. Medicine a Learned and Liberal Profession. An Address delivered 
before the King's County (New York) Homoeopathic Medical Society. By 
D. A. Gorton, M.D Albany; Argus print. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1872. The Similibus. A paper published by the Managers of the Fair for 
the benefit of the Homoeopathic Surgical Hospital, April 13th to 24th, 1372. 
Mrs. Dr. Carroll Dunham and Mrs. Dr. Henry D. Paine, editors. New 
York. 4to., 10 numbers of 8 pp. each. 
1872. Leucorrhoea ; its Concomitant Symptoms and its Homoeopathic 
Treatment, by M. Cushing, M.D. Lynn, Mass. 8vo., pp. 70. 
1872. The Pellet. A Record of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital 
Fair. Edited by T. B. Aldrich and J. M. Bugbee. April 16th-27th. 4to., 
pp. 16. 
1872. Transactions of the Twenty-fourth Session of the American Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy, held in Philadelphia, June 6th-9th, 1871. New Series. 
Chicago; Lakeside Press. 8vo., pp. 498. 
1872. Special Pathology and Diagnostics, with Therapeutic Hints. By 
C. G. Raue, M.D. Philadelphia. Boerieke. 8vo., pp. 644. 
1872. Annual Record of Homoeopathic Literature for 1872. By C G. 
Raue, M.D. New York and Philadelphia. Boerieke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 338. 
1872. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylva- 
nia, 1872, Seventh Annual Session, held at Harrisburg. Philadelphia. 
Jackson Brothers, printers, pp. 222. 1060 
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1872. Epitome of Homoeopathic Medicines. By William L. Breyfogle, 
MD. New York. Boericke & Tafel. 12mo., pp. 383 
1872. Valedictory Address to the Graduates of the Hahnemann Medical 
College of Philadelphia, delivered at the Twenty-fourth Annual Com- 
mencement, held at the Academy of Music, March 11th, 1872. By A. R. 
Thomas, M.D. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1872. Proceedings of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, Seventh 
Annual Session, at Cincinnati, May 9lh, 1871. Cleveland, O. Robison & 
Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 100. 
1873. Inaugural Address, delivered by B. F. Joslin, M.D , President, 
before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of New York, 
January 13th, 1875. New York. Englewood Timesprint. 8vo., pp. 18. 
1873. A Practical Guide for Making Post-mortem Examinations, and 
for the study of Morbid Anatomy, with Directions for Embalming the 
Dead and for the Preservation of Specimens of Morbid Anatomy. By 
A. R. Thomas, M.D. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 337. 
1873. A Memorial of David Jones, M.D , Philadelphia. By Drs. R. J. 
McClatchey and P. Dudley. Philadelphia. Hahnemannian Monthly. 8vo., 
pp. 24. 
1873. Diet of Infants and Young Children. By John C. Morgan, M.D. 
Philadelphia. William P. Kildare. 8vo., pp. 22. 
1873. Valedictory Address to the Graduates of the Hahnemann Medical 
Collegeof Philadelphia. March 10th, 1873. By Malcolm Maefarlan, M.D. 
Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo., pp 18. 
1873. The Application of the Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy 
to Obstetrics, and the Diseases peculiar to Young Children. By Henry N. 
Guernsey, M.D. Second edition, revised, enlarged, and greatly improved; 
with numerous illustrations. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 
986. 
1873. Directory of the Homoeopathic Physicians residing in the State of 
New York. Published by the Medical Director of the Atlantic Mutual Life 
Insurance Company. New York. 8vo., pp. 66. 
1873. The New York Journal of Homce 'pathy, under the auspices of the 
New York Homoeopathic Medical College. New York; Carle & Grener. 
8vo , pp. 48. Monthly. 
1873. The Medical Union. Edited by Drs. E. Guernsey, J. C Minor, 
C. E Blumenthal, A. E. Sumner, and H. M. Paine. New York ; Hurlburt. 
4to., pp. 24. Monthly. 
1873. The Homoeopathic Family Guide for the use of Twenty-eight 
Principal Remedies. By George E. Shipman, M. D. Together with direc- 
tions for the treatment of Dengue and Yellow Fever. By \V. H. Holcombe, 
M.D Eighth edition Chicago. Western News Co. 
1873. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Surgical Diseases. By J. G. Gil- 
christ, MD. Chicago. Halsey. 8vo., pp. 421. 
1873. Characteristic Materia Medica. By W. H. Burt, M.D. Second 
edition. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 12mo., pp. 541. LITERATURE. 
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1873. Hoyne's American Directory of Homoeopathic Physicians in the 
State of Illinois, for the year 1873. Chicago. Sinclair & Blair, printers. 
8vo , pp. 16. 
1873. The Characteristics of the New Remedies. By Edwin M. Hale, 
JW.D. Third edition, remodelled and rewritten. Detroit, Mich. Lodge. 
8vo , pp. 544. 
1873. Cincinnati Medical Advance. (Monthly.) Edited by T. P. Wil- 
son, M.D. Cincinnati. Dr. E. W. Fish, publisher. 8vo., pp. 64. 
1873. Boenninghausen's Homoeopathic Therapeia of Intermittent and 
other Fevers. Translated, with addition of New Remedies, by A. Korndcer- 
fer, M.D. New York and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 243. 
1873. C. Hering's Materia Medica, with a Pathological Index. Vol. I. 
New York and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 706. 
1873. Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homoeopathic Physicians and 
Surgeons. Philadelphia. Galaxy Publishing Company. 8vo., pp. 512. 
1873. Therapeutic Guide. The most important results of more than 
forty years' practice, with personal observations regarding the truly reliable 
and practically verified curative indications in actual cases of disease. By G. 
H. G. Jahr, M.D. Translated, with notes and new remedies, by Charles J. 
Hempel, M.D. New York and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 
364. 
1873. The Treatment of Typhoid Fevers, with a few Additions; apart 
of the Analytical Therapeutics. By Constantine Hering, M.D. New York 
and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo. 
1873. Annual Record of Homoeopathic Literature for 1873. Edited by C. 
G. Raue, M.D. New Y"ork and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo , pp. 
332. 
1873. A Manual of Homoeopathic Veterinary Practice, designed for 
Horses, and all kinds of Domestic Animals and Fowls. J. H. P. Frost, M.D. 
New York and Philadelphia Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 658. 
1873. Transactions of the Twenty-sixth Session of the American Institute 
of Homoeopathy, held in Cleveland, June 3d-6th, 1873. New Series. Phila- 
delphia. Sherman & Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 763. 
1873. Guernsey's Materia Medica, being Notes of Lectures on Materia 
Medica delivered in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. By 
Henry N. Guernsey, M.D. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo . pp. 234. 
1873. Trial of Drs. W. Bushnell, S. Gregg, G. Russell, D Thayer, M. 
Fuller, II. L. H. lloffendabl, I. T. Talbot, B H. West, all of Boston, for 
Practicing Homoeopathy while they were Members of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society. Boston, pp. 61. 
1873. Ophidians. By S. B. Higgins, M.D. New York. Boericke & 
Tafel. 12mo., pp. 2 19. 
1874. Scrofulous Affections, etc. By H. Goullon, M.D. Translated by 
E Tietze, M.D. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp 355. 
1874. Practical Guide to the Treatment of Common Disorders with 
Homcejpathic Remedies. New York. Boericke & Tafel. 16mo., pp. 64. 1062 
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1874. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1873-74. Vol. I, New Series. Albany; Weed, 
Parsons & Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 655. 
1874. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica. A Record of the 
Positive Effects of Drugs upon the Healthy Human Organism. Edited by 
Timothy F. Allen, A.M., M.D., with contributions from Drs. R. Hughes, 
C. Hering, Carroll Dunham, A. Lippe, and others. Vol. I, Abies-Atro- 
pine. New York. Boericke & Tafel. Royal 8vo., pp. 622. 
1874. Domestic Practice. 10th ed. By E Guernsey, M.D. New York. 
Boericke & Tafel. 8vo , pp. 653. 
1874. Directory of the Homoeopathic Physicians in the State of Pennsyl- 
vania. Compiled by Pemberton Dudley, M.D. Presented by the Homoeo- 
pathic Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Philadelphia. Jack- 
son Bros., printers. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1874. Annual Record of Homoeopathic Literature for 1874. Edited by C. 
G. Raue, M.D. New York and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo. 
1874. Homoeopathy, Hygiene, and Opium; An Address Delivered at 
Omaha before the Nebraska State Homoeopathic Medical Association. By 
E. I. M. Hurlburt, M.D. Lincoln, Nebraska. Journal Company. 8vo., 
pp. 18. 
1874. Causes that Operate to Produce the Premature Decline of Man- 
hood. By A. E. Small, M.D. Chicago. Glendenning & Co. 12mo. 
1874. Hoyne's American Directory of Homoeopathic Physicians in the 
State of Illinois, for the year 1874. Containing also an Alphabetical List 
of Physicians residing in the State of Indiana. Chicago. Sinclair & Blair, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 28. 
1874. TheSeienceof Homoeopathy. By C. J. Hempel, M.D. New York. 
Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 177. 
1874. American Observer. Medical monthly. Complete classified index. 
First Series ; 1864-1873. Detroit. Observer print. 8vo., pp. 51. 
1874. Directory of the Homoeopathic Physicians in the State of Wiscon- 
sin ; containing, also, a List of the Homoeopathic Physicians in the State of 
Minnesota. For the year 1874. By Lewis Sherman, M.D. Milwaukee, 
Wis. Godfrey & Crandal, printers. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1874. What is Homoeopathy ? By William H. Holcombe, M.D. New 
York. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp 28. 
1874 How I Became a Homoeopath! By William H. Holcombe, M.D. 
New York. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo.', pp. 28. 
1874. Homoeopathy. What It Is and What It Is Not? By Lucius D. 
Morse, M.D. Nashville, Tenn. Wheeler, Marshall & Berne, printers. 
8vo., pp. 24. 
1874. First Annual Report, from June, 1873, to June, 1874, of the Cin- 
cinnati Eye and Ear Institute. Cincinnati. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1874. On the Universality of the Homoeopathic Law of Cure. Second 
edition. By C. Neidhard, M.D. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., 
pp. 34. LITERATURE. 
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1874. Why are not all Physicians Homoeopathists ? By William H. 
Holcombe, M.D. Chicago, Ill. Halsey Bros. 8vo., pp. 20. 
1874. In Memoriam; Biographical Sketch of Elijah H. Drake, M.D., 
with the Memorial Sermon. By Rev. L. P. Mercer. Detroit, Mich. 
8vo., pp. 28. 
1874. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylva- 
nia, February, 1873, October, 1873, Eighth and Ninth Annual Sessions, both 
held at Harrisburg. Philadelphia. Jackson Brothers, printers. Pp. 331. 
1874. Valedictory Address at the Annual Commencment of the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia, March 10th, 1874. By John C. 
Morgan, M.D. Philadelphia. W. P. Kildare. 8vo., pp. 26. 
1875. Smith's Homoeopathic Veterinary Chart. Colored illustrations, 
22 x 32 inches. 
1875. Guilbert's First Annual Directory of the Homoeopathic Physicians 
of Iowa ; containing, also, a List of Homoeopathic Physicians in Wisconsin 
and Minnesota. Dubuque, Iowa. Herald print. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1875. Answer to an Anonymous Pamphlet, entitled Report of a Commit- 
tee on Charges against E. J. Fraser, M.D. San Francisco. 8vo., pp. 24. 
1875. " Honorable Medicine," and Homoeopathy, a Defence of Individual 
Freedom. By Thomas E. Enloe, M.D. Nashville, Tenn. Republican 
Banner print. 8vo., pp. 8. 
1875. Defence of Hiram L. Chase, M.D., of Cambridge, before the Board 
of Trial of the Massachusetts Medical Society, December, 1874. Cambridge, 
Mass. 8vo., pp. 10. 
1875. The Claim of Homoeopathy to a Place among the Sciences. By John 
C. Morgan, M.D. Detroit, Mich. Observer print. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1875. Analytical Therapeutics. Vol. I. By C. Hering, M.D. New York 
and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 352. 
1875. Annual Record of Homoeopathic Literature for 1875. Edited by C. 
G. Raue, M.D. New York and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., pp. 
376. 
1875. Directory of Homoeopathic Physicians residing in New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and District of Columbia. Compiled 
by Pemberton Dudley, M.D. Second edition. Philadelphia. 8vo., pp. 12. 
1875. Transactions of the Twenty-seventh Session of the American Insti- 
tute of Homoeopathy, held at Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 9th-12th, 1874. 
New Series. Philadelphia. Sherman & Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 879. 
1875. Transactions of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of 
New York for the year 1875. Vol. II. New Series. Albany, N. Y. Weed, 
Parsons & Co., printers. 8vo., pp. 501. 
1875. On the Universality of the Homoeopathic Law of Cure. By C. 
Neidhard, M.D. New York and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 8vo., 
pp 60. 
1875. Treatise on the Effects of Coffee. By Samuel Hahnemann, M.D. 
Translated by W. L. Breyfogle, M.D. Louisville, Ky. Bradley & Gilbert. 
8vo., pp. 35. 1064 
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1875. Homoeopathy; Its Nature, Purpose, and Place. By Samuel A. 
Jones, M.D. Detroit. Observer print. 8vo., pp. 16. 
1875. Pettet's Annual Directory of the Homoeopathic Physicians of Ohio. 
Cleveland. 8vo. 
1875. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies. 
By Edwin M. Hale, M D. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, in two 
volumes. Volumel: Special Symptomatology, 8vo., pp. 672. Volume II: 
Special Therapeutics, 8vo., pp. 819. New York and Philadelphia. Boer- 
icke & Tafel. 
1875. Hoyne's American Directory of Homoeopathic Physicians in the 
State of Illinois, for the year 1875. Containing also an Alphabetical List of 
Homoeopathic Physicians residing in the State of Indiana. Chicago. Sin- 
clair & Blair. 8vo., pp. 3'2. 
1875 The Echo. A Journal of the New York Homoeopathic Hospital 
Fair Association. April 10th to 24th. H. Sedley, editor. Published by 
the Fair. 13 numbers, 4to., pp. 8. 
1875. Experiences in Galvano-surgery. By John Butler, M.D. Brooklyn; 
Noxon. 8vo., pp. 25. 
1875. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica. Vol. II, Aurum- 
Carduus. By T. F. Allen, M.D. New York. Boerieke & Tafel. 8vo., 
pp. 636. 
1875. Homoeopathy in Tennessee: a Brief Sketch of its Rise and Prog- 
ress in the State. By Eugene R. Smith, M.D. Nashville, Tenn. Tavel, 
Eastman & Howell. 8vo., pp. 23. 
1875 Constitution, By-laws, Code of Medical Ethics, List of Members, 
etc., of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of New York. 
Printed for the Society. Philadelphia. Hering, Pope & Co. 8vo., pp. 41. 
1875. Valedictory Addre-s at the Annual Commencement of the Hahne- 
mann Medical College of Philadelphia, March 10th, 1875. By O. B. 
Gause, M. D. Philadelphia. Hering, Pope & Co. 8vo , pp. 14. 
1875. State Medicine and a Medical Inquisition, being a Discussion of 
Legislative Measures designed for the Erection of an Authoritative Medical 
Standard in Tennessee, and in the several States, showing their Injustice 
and Futility. By A Citizen. Nashville, Tenn. Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 
printers. 8vo., pp. 16. 
Miscellaneous. 
Ten Reasons for Preferring Homoeopathy to the Common System of 
Medical Treatment. By the Father of a Family. 8vo , pp. 8. 
What acts in Potentized Medicines? And what shall Guide us in the 
Selection of the Dose ? By Adolphus Fellger, M.D. Philadelphia. Boerieke. 
8vo., pp. 14. 
A Lecture on Homoeopathy. Delivered before the Legislature of Michi- 
gan. By Charles J. Hempel, M.D. Detroit, Mich. 8vo., pp. 40. 
Yellow Fever: its Treatment and Prevention. By Edmund A. Murphy, 
M.D. Louisiana, Ky. 8vo., pp. 25. LITERATURE. 
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List of Pamphlets Published by the Homoeopathic Mutual Life 
Insurance Company, prior to 1876.* 
1870. The Homoeopathist; a Monthly Journal. Discontinued in 1874. 
E. B. Holmes, M.D., Editor. 8 pp. 
1872. Statistics of the Comparative Mortality in New York City. By 
E. M. Kellogg, M.I). 8 pp. 
1874. Which Medical Practice? An Analysis of 80,000 cases. By E. 
M. Kellogg, M.D. 16 pp. 
1875. The Mortuary Experience of our Company. 12 pp. 
1875. Why Lower Rates to Homoeopaths? 4 pp. 
1875. Homoeopathy in the Michigan State Prison. By J. B. Tuttle, M.D. 
4 pp. 
1875. What it amounts to. By Frank B. Mayhew. 8 pp. 
* This list was received too late for its insertion chronologically. APPENDIX. 
REPORT 
ON 
HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY. CONTENTS. 
Homeopathy in Italy, Bernardino Dadea, M.D., Turin. HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY* 
The Italians received their first information concerning the 
medical doctrines of Samuel Hahnemann from the scientific jour- 
nals, among which the Biblioteca Germamica, published at Padua 
early in this century, is said to have been the first to notice them. 
The seed, which was destined to germinate, because warmed by 
the enlivening ray of clinical experience, was sown in the soil of 
Naples, most fertile in science and letters, by the Austrians, who 
entered that city March 23d, 1821, to deprive its noble inhabi- 
tants of the liberty they had gained by the revolution of the same 
year. The general in command of the army of occupation, Baron 
Francis Koller, a devoted friend of homoeopathy, presented to 
the Royal Academy of Naples a copy of Hahnemann's Organon 
and Materia Medica, inviting it to make use of them for the ben- 
efit of science and of humanity. The Academy assigned to Cav- 
aliere Alberto Schomberg the task of making a resume of them, 
which was read before the Academy at the sessions of November 
13th and 20th, and printed in 1822, and again in 1824, under 
the title, The Medical System of Samuel Hahnemann Ex- 
pounded to the Royal Academy of Naples. This contributed 
not a little to the spread among the Italians of a larger, though 
incomplete and inexact, idea of the Hahnemannian doctrine. 
There were, moreover, in the Austrian army several regimen- 
tal physicians who were conversant with, and some who prac- 
ticed homoeopathy. One, whose name has not been preserved, was 
during this year chief of the Military Hospital of San Francesco 
Saverio, in Palermo; also, the tutor of General Koller's sons, Dr. 
Giuseppe Ody, of Friburg, was a well-educated homoeopat hist, 
* By Bernardino Dadea, M.D., Turin. 
This contribution arrived too late for insertion in the first part of the 
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and imparted a knowledge of the new doctrine to such as sought 
it.* 
The introduction of homoeopathy into Italy is really due, how- 
ever, to the Bohemian Dr. George Necker, who came to Naples 
in June, 1822, as General Koller's family physician. A pupil of 
Hahnemann, Necker was a practitioner of distinction, and in a 
position, therefore, to demonstrate rather by deeds than by words 
the truth of the science which he professed. In fact, within a 
short time he made many striking cures, which had the effect of 
bringing over to the new therapeutics those physicians who were 
already convinced in theory, among them Drs. Francesco Ro- 
mani, Giuseppe Mauro and Cosmo Maria de Horatiis. Homoe- 
opathy, likewise, came into great repute in this kingdom, and 
spread rapidly thence to the rest of Italy, to France, Switzerland, 
England, and Brazil. 
In addition to his private practice, Dr. Necker, in May, 1823, 
opened in his own house a dispensary for the poor, which was 
attended by several physicians and surgeons of the German army, 
in which he was always assisted by Dr. Romani and some- 
times by Drs. Smicht and Kinzel. This dispensary was closed 
the following year, Necker having been sent by the Queen of 
Naples to Rome to take professional charge of her sister, Maria 
Louisa of Bourbon, then Queen of Etruria and mother of the 
reigning Duke of Lucca, Carlo Lodovico. 
Di-. Necker remained in Naples until General Koller's death 
in 182(5; in September of that year he was appointed physician 
to the Duke of Lucca and his court, a position which he held 
until 1848. 
On the departure of Necker the future of homoeopathy in this 
kingdom remained in the hands of the three physicians above 
named. It could not fail of being fruitful and glorious, for 
Francesco Romani, a native of Vasto-Chieti, had the reputation 
at Naples and abroad of being a learned physician and distin- 
guished litterateur; Giuseppe Mauro was known as a distin- 
* Dr. Francesco Romani and General GarafFa, of Noja, state that they got 
their first notions of homoeopathy from Dr. Ody. HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY. 
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guished and busy practitioner and as private physician of Prince 
Buffo, Minister of the Royal House of Bourbon ; and Cosmo 
Maria de Horatiis, of Cacavone-Campobasso, already the alter- 
nate of Antonio Scarpa in the chair of surgery of the Athenaeum 
of Ticino,-an honor far transcending any that all the kings of 
the earth could bestow,-was Surgeon-in-Chief of the Neapolitan 
army, Inspector-General of the Military Hospitals, Private 
Physician to the Hereditary Prince, the Duke of Calabria, after- 
wards Francis I, then physician to this king, and subsequently 
Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Naples and 
President of the Council of Vaccination. He soon perceived that 
a summary of the Organon was far from sufficient to convey an 
exact idea of Hahnemann's doctrine, and that the clinical obser- 
vations made under Necker were inadequate to the needs of a 
general practice ; he realized the necessity of a translation of the 
Organon and the Materia Medica Pura as indispensable to a 
conscientious and rational practice. 
Dr. Romani gave immediate attention to the translation of 
these precious volumes, intrusting the work to two friends. 
While these were engaged in the task, Cavaliere Bernardo Qua- 
ranta, a distinguished and able professor of archaeology in the 
University of Naples, published in 1824 a very accurate trans- 
lation of the Organon, and the allopathic Dr. Gaimari in the 
same year published another, with foolish and virulent notes, 
which were not well received even by the opponents of the new 
doctrine; and brief but pertinent notices of the work appeared 
in numbers 135, 137, 138, and 139 of the official journal of the 
kingdom. 
In 1825 appeared, under the editorship of Dr. Romani, the first 
volume of the Materia Medica, under the title Pura Dottrina 
Delle Medicine, and in 1826 the first part of volume second, and 
in 1828 the second part; the former with an introduction, and 
the latter with an introduction and an essay by Romani on the 
positive properties of the remedies described by Hahnemann, 
which showed the highest appreciation of the work of the 
great master. 
In consequence of these publications homoeopathy soon ex- 1070 
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tended to all parts of the kingdom, and even beyond the fron- 
tiers. From them Dr. Francesco Talianini, of Ascoli, and Dr. 
Giuseppe Belluomini, of Viareggio, in Lucca-Tuscany, gained a 
more exact knowledge of the new system. 
The plan and series of works which, in his introduction, Ro- 
mani promised to give in connection with the translation of the 
Materia Medica, show the extent to which in 1824 he had de- 
voted himself to the study and practice of the Hahnemannian 
doctrine. The only work which was published in connection 
with the Materia Medica, volume second, was the one already 
mentioned " On the Positive Properties of the Remedies described 
by Hahnemann." Adducing the reasons for employing remedies 
derived from poisonous substances, he displays great erudition; 
his style is grave, sententious, and elegant. In this essay he 
predicts that the time will come when the adversaries of Hahne- 
mann's doctrine, overcome and convinced of its truth, rather 
than admit its truth will adopt its ideas under another name ; 
will claim to have themselves discovered the specific virtues of 
medicines discerned by Hahnemann and confirmed by his ra- 
tional experimentation, will adopt the simple medication, the 
small dose, and even the pharmaceutical processes of homoeop- 
athy, all the while repudiating and reviling the term homoeopathy. 
The history of later days shows too conclusively that such dis- 
honesty is an accomplished fact. 
His other works were issued in a separate volume: an essay 
on " The obstacle to the General Adoption of Homoeopathy," and 
"The Causes of its Introduction into Naples in 1826," a trans- 
lation of Dr. Bigel's Apology for Homoeopathy (Naples, 1828); 
and an essay on the theory and practice of homoeopathy, illus- 
trated by clinical observations (1828). 
This essay, besides a compendious exposition of the new doc- 
trine, contains fifty-three clinical observations, of which thirteen 
were made by eminent German physicians, and were translated 
from Stapf's Archives by Dr. Mauro; one is a case of Phthisis 
pulmonalis treated by Dr. Mauro, and the remaining thirty-nine 
are by himself. These cases, which at that day might be re- 
garded as models, are still worthy of study, especially by some HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY. 
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who, ignorant of the first rudiments of homoeopathy, yet pre- 
tend to be masters of it and assume to teach it in the journals. 
The cases are illustrated by notes, which are so many chapters 
on therapeutics. Most valuable indications are given for the 
treatment of all forms of vomiting, colic, diarrhoea, syphilis, 
neuroses, and many other ailments. One of these notes is a 
complete treatise on dietetics ; another an accurate pathogenesis 
of the warm springs of Gurgitello, on the island of Ischia; and 
in the eighth (page 130) he gives-the first to my knowledge 
who did so, and four years before Samuel Hahnemann-the 
indications for Veratrum album and Arsenicum in the principal 
forms of Asiatic cholera, of which he had read descriptions, but 
which he had never seen. 
In 1828 Romani converted to homoeopathy his countryman, 
Dr. Count Sebastiano de Guidi, who subsequently occupied an 
eminent position at Lyons and in the medical republic of 
France. His wife, an invalid for many years, ineffectually 
treated by all the methods of the old school, resorted to the 
warm baths of Pozzuoli, and here became dangerously ill of 
brain fever. De Guidi sought the counsel of the resident physi- 
cian, as well as of the physician of the hospital, Dr. Giuseppe 
Cimone, in whom he found an old friend (De Guidi had emi- 
grated from Naples in 1799) and an intelligent and ardent 
partisan of homoeopathy. Cimone, a pupil of Romani, advised 
that the latter be at once placed in charge of the case; to which 
De Guidi relucantly consented. His wife having been cured 
by Romani, De Guidi devoted himself with all his energy, 
intensified by gratitude, to the study of the new doctrine, the 
blessings of which he transferred by argument and by clinical 
demonstration to France and Switzerland. 
In 1829 Francesco Romani conducted for 155 days the homoeo- 
pathic clinic opened, as we shall see, by order of the king, in 
the larger Hospital of the Trinity in Naples; and on the 21st of 
April, 1830, he left for England, where he first introduced 
homoeopathy and brought it into great honor, establishing at 
Alton Tower, an ancient possession of Lord Shrewsbury in Der- 
byshire, a homoeopathic dispensary under the patronage of the 1072 
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old lord. Returning a year later to his own country, he, in 1834, 
accompanied the queen-mother on a journey through Italy ; and 
thereafter, until his death in 1847, gave himself uninterruptedly 
to the study and practice of the new doctrine, which he honored 
by the virtues of his mind and heart. 
Besides the works already mentioned, Romani published in 
1836 a valuable essay on the homoeopathic preventives of Asiatic 
cholera, in 1837 a biographical notice of Count Sebastiano de 
Guidi, who introduced homoeopathy into France, and in 1845 
an historical eulogy of Samuel Hahnemann, which he read before 
the Academia Pontoniana, of which he was a member. This 
essay closed the series of Romani's literary works, by which he 
w7on enduring fame in literature, in science, and in criticism. In 
the second of the very valuable notes by which it is enriched 
are four letters addressed to Romani by Hahnemann : one, dated 
December 17th, 1840, acknowledging the poem on homoeopathy 
by the illustrious poet, Quintino Guanciali; another, dated June 
5th, 1841, recommending to him the daughter of Count d'Ar- 
gont; the third, dated January 4th, and the fourth, dated Feb- 
ruary 25th, 1843, in reply to a consultation in a case of cancer 
of the tongue, for which he advised Acidum muriaticum, fol- 
lowed by Thuja 30th dilution ; to these he adds a fifth, addressed 
to a Russian general sojourning in Naples, concerning a very 
grave affection of the eyes in his son, and which was afterwards 
cured by Romani. 
Dr. Giuseppe Mauro, whom Romani calls the virtuous, having 
reached his 64th year, and passed 36 years in the practice of 
allopathy, in order the better to learn the new doctrine, and to 
master the original works of Hahnemann and his disciples, ap- 
plied himself with youthful ardor and a diligence unique at so 
great an age to the difficult study of the German language. He 
soon became conversant with this branch of scientific literature, 
and turned his great and precious acquisitions to the account, not 
only of his large number of patients, but also of his colleagues far 
and near, with a generosity and disinterestedness which have 
hardly been imitated in Italy by the followers of Hahnemann. 
He translated several works, which wrnuld have been in those HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY. 
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days, and to not a few would be to-day, an inestimable treasure 
if they had ever been published. Of these unpublished transla- 
tions he gave copies in his own handwriting to such persons as 
he had initiated into the new doctrine, or who showed a desire 
to study it; an immense and almost inconceivable labor, for there 
were seventeen octavo volumes of more than a hundred pages 
each, written by his own hand in the hours and minutes which 
the old man could steal from his large practice.* 
He took part also in the translation of Hahnemann's trea- 
tise on chronic diseases by Dr. Belluomini; and to him exclu- 
sively belongs the translation of the additions by Hartlaub and 
Trinks, and the pathogenesis of Alumina from Stapf's Archives, 
by which this Italian edition is made much richer than the 
French. 
The homoeopathic periodicals, too, had in Mauro an untiring 
contributor; and the student often meets with his productions 
* The unpublished works translated and compiled by Mauro, and of which 
Dr. Rocco Rubini possesses a copy, are the following. I am indebted for 
this notice to Dr. Tomasso Cigliano ; 
1. Chronic Diseases, their Nature and Homoeopathic Treatment; by S. 
Hahnemann. Translation. 6 vols., octavo. 1829. 
2. Collection of Drug-provings. Published by a society of homoeopathic 
physicians, in the Archives of the Art of Healing. 1 vol., octavo, 364 pages. 
1829. 
3. Collection of Symptoms, printed in capitals in Hahnemann's Materia 
Medica, 2d edition, and in the Homoeopathic Archives ; and of symptoms, 
confirmed by clinical experience in Leipsic. 1 vol., octavo, 384 pages. 1829 
4. Systematic Alphabetical Index, to facilitate the difficult practice of. 
Homoeopathy. Compiled by Dr. Mauro. 2 vols., octavo, 3U0 pages each. 
Naples. 1829. 
5. Homoeopathic Pharmacology, compiled from various authors. Trans- 
lation. 3 vols., octavo, 138 pages each. 1832. 
6. Bonninghausen : Intermittent Fevers; and Table of the Characteris- 
tics of all the Remedies. Gross: Essay on the Puerperal State and the 
Treatment of the Newborn. Translation. 1 vol., octavo, 175 pages. Na- 
ples. 1834. 
7. Homoeopathic Observations by Dr. Necker, and Cures. Published in 
Stapf's Archives. 1 vol., octavo, 92 pages. 
8. On Dr. Theophilus Rau's Method of Homoeopathic Practice. Transla- 
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in the Effemeridi and in the Homoeopathic Annals of Sicily, as 
well as in the German journals. 
Mauro's translations do not always reflect the exact thought of 
the German author, and his diction, far from being always pure 
and correct, is often contaminated by words and phrases hardly 
tolerable in familiar conversation. But these blemishes are more 
than excusable in an honest and industrious veteran, who, in his 
haste to reach the distant goal before him, does not take care to 
preserve that decorum and nicety which, at an earlier age and 
with greater leisure, he would not have neglected. 
In 1829 and 1830 he was called to Rome, at Hahnemann's 
suggestion, to prescribe for a foreign lady,* and by curing her 
and many others of all classes of society he gained for himself 
and homoeopathy very great repute in the Eternal City. Some 
of his remarkable cures deserve especial mention, among them 
that of an enormorous hypertrophy of the heart, with great 
bulging of the ribs and sternum, effected with Spigelia 30th. 
At Rome he confirmed in the faith of the new doctrine Dr. 
Innocenzo Liuzzi, a fellow-countryman resident in Rome, who 
had been converted in 1821 and timidly practiced homoeopathy 
since that year, and he left to Liuzzi the completion of the cures 
he had set in progress. 
Returning to Rome early in March, 1830, he converted to 
homoeopathy the district physician of Velletri,f who, not being 
able from advanced age to undertake the arduous study and la- 
borious practice of the new doctrine, instilled its first principles 
into the mind of his son, Dr. Settimio Centamori, whom we 
shall presently meet among the most distinguished practitioners 
of Rome and of Italy. 
He subsequently returned to his native city, not, however, to 
enjoy there the repose to which his age and labors entitled him, 
but to continue with rare modesty the propagation of homoeopa- 
thy, which to him was a necessity. He took an increasing in- 
* The Countess of Ingenheim, sister-in-law of the King of Prussia. 
f A physician who, for a certain annual honorarium, has agreed with the 
commune to remain there a specified number of years, and to treat either the 
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terest in the Homoeopathic Annals of Sicily, edited by Dr. de 
Blasi, to which lie contributed translations from the German, 
useful compilations and very accurate clinical records ; and in 
1843, when more than eighty years old, we find him teaching 
in the Homoeopathic Dispensary of Palermo. Years were at 
last more mighty than his iron will, and he retired to his 
adopted country, Naples, where he died, almost a hundred years 
old, in 1857. He was on friendly terms with the most cele- 
brated homoeopaths of his day, and enjoyed the esteem of Hahne- 
mann, with whom he corresponded, and six of whose letters he 
carefully preserved. Three of these, written from Cothen under 
dates of March 16th, February 7th, and September 4th, 1829, 
were published in the first volume of the Neapolitan journal, 
L'Annemanno, pages 126, 158, 223. I do not know that the 
others have seen the light. All are now in the possession of and 
too zealously guarded by Dr. Rubini.* 
In the letter of February 7th we find the following curt sen- 
tences : " In my opinion,! I did not mention it to the marchioness 
but I now say to you, her disease is to be regarded rather 
as an engorgement of the liver than of the uterus ; but this 
makes no difference in the treatment, since the malady results 
from psora. . . . Human beings free from a psoric taint are 
rare." 
Professor Cosmo de Horatiis, by reason of his eminence in 
science and his official position at the court and in the kingdom, 
should be regarded as the chief of the first triad of learned ami 
ardent apostles in Italy of the doctrines of Hahnemann. 
His first care was to make the new practice acceptable to the 
king-not so easy a matter if we remember that princes, 
though absolute, are often servants of their servants, and still 
oftener princes of the crowd. He succeeded through his fortu- 
* Three of these letters were sent by Dr. Rubini, in 1876, to the Presi- 
dent of the World's Homoeopathic Convention at Philadelphia, as a token 
of his interest in that assemblage, and are now in his possession.-Carrolu 
Dunham. 
f This opinion, sent on the same date to the Marchioness Brancaccio, is 
published in L'Annemanno, vol. i, p. 189. 1076 
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nate cure of a most serious illness of the queen. In conse- 
quence of this not only were there many conversions in the court, 
but the king declared himself the patron of homoeopathy and 
of the homceopathists.* 
Having secured the favor of the king Horatiis endeavored to 
gain that of one of those scientific corporations which, though 
their objects are benevolent, often look with disfavor on the 
greatest and most wonderful discoveries of the human intellect. 
At a special meeting of the Medico-Chirurgical Academy of 
Naples, October 19th,f 1826, to which the illustrious Professor 
Tommasini was invited as a guest, De Horatiis read an oration- 
afterwards published in Latin-in which, after having pointed 
out, with a severe and noble criticism, the errors and the conse- 
quent dangers and injuries of the past and dominant medical 
systems, he warmly urged his colleagues to take that of Hahne- 
mann into serious consideration. 
He addressed himself particularly to Professor Tommasini, 
urging him to examine it and then to utter a deliberate judgment. 
After his return to Bologna, Tommasini expressed his opinion 
in a lecture on his journey to Naples, delivered in his clinique 
at the inauguration of the session of 1826-27. This discourse, 
in which the author conceals the fact that he has not read at all, 
or only in the most cursory manner, Hahnemann's works, 
breathes in every sentence the repugnance of the head of a 
school towards a doctrine which condemns his own. Yet, al- 
though so written as not to condemn on the one hand the intol- 
erance of his own colleagues, nor, on the other, the homoeopa- 
thists, in whose favor is the inexorable logic of facts, it is in 
many aspects favorable to homoeopathy .J 
" New facts," said he," to be believed must occur under our 
own eyes; they must be observed by ourselves, and it is our duty 
to seek them out and verify or refute them." He then advises 
experiments in certain cases with Hahnemannian remedies, and 
* He allowed Dr. Bomani to dedicate to him his translation of the Ma- 
teria Medica. 
f The Annals of Sicily give the date as the 9th. 
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concludes as follows: "I should regard the exclusion of such 
experiments as a mark of too pertinacious confidence in one's 
self, as a mark of intolerance of anything which differs from 
received opinions." 
Nevertheless, Professor Tommasini excused himself again and 
again, from verifying "with his own eyes" the facts which Drs. 
Romani, Mauro, and De Horatiis offered to place under his ob- 
servation in Naples, saying that he had the utmost confidence in 
the sagacity and honesty of the Neapolitan homoeopathists; yet 
Professor Tommasini never experimentally investigated homoeop- 
athy. But, republishing his lecture in 1841, he changed it so 
as to express great sympathy for this doctrine which threatened 
to outlive that to which he had given the name "Italian." 
De Horatiis communicated to the Academy, of which he was 
President, several noteworthy cases, one of which, a desperate 
case of an anomalous character, deserves special mention. It 
was reported in the session of December 27th, 1828.* 
But he thought that theoretical demonstrations before the 
learned ought to be followed by clinical experiment also in the 
presence of the learned. To this end, having his sovereign's 
approval, he opened his clinique in March in the general mili- 
tary hospital of the Trinity, assisted by Drs. Baldi, Grossi, and 
Pezzillo, in the presence of the chiefs of service Drs. de Cusatis 
and Ascione, and of Dr. de Simone and the entire medical staff 
of the hospital. 
He published a report of the experiment the same year in a 
quarto of 84 pages, entitled Saggio di Clinica Omiopatica la 
* The case was described as follows: Depression of spirits, hippoeratic 
face, dark-yellow and livid complexion, eyes indurated and lachrymant, folds 
of the eyelids dark livid, hands and feet extremely cold, pulsations of the 
heart excessively violent, repelling the hand placed on the thorax, stertor- 
ous orthopnoea, compelling the patient to keep the vertical posture, supported 
by a chair at the back, while the arms, elbows, and chin rested on another 
chair in front; inability to speak, pulse absolutely wanting, tongue white 
and dry but no thirst, utter abhorrence and rejection of all food, vomiting 
every evening, insomnia for several months, entire suppression of urine, 
great anasarca of the lower extremities. The cure was effected in a short 
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Prima Volta Tentato in Napoli Nell, Ospedale Generale Militare 
Della Trinita. This report, the truth of which was indisputa- 
ble, since the experiments had been made in the presence of men 
eminent in science and in character and under the royal protec- 
tion, created great excitement within the realm and abroad. It 
contains abridged or complete records of 180 clinical cases treated 
in the space of a few months,* among which are worthy of note 
a number of cases of primary and secondary syphilis, of acute 
and chronic blennorihagia, simple or complicated by orchitis? 
phimosis, and the like; of acute and chronic ophthalmia, and 
especially some cases of obscured cornea of high degree, cured 
in a short time by Cannabis sativa, Staphisagria, and Phosphoric 
acid in the 30th dilution. 
Encouraged by success, and taking counsel only of his heart, 
De Horatiis thought he could best accomplish the noble end he 
desired by giving the experiment an official character under an 
official commission. His best frauds, better acquainted with 
the nature of men in general and of physicians in particular, and 
cognizant of the enmity which burned in the minds of certain 
envious allopathic physicians against De Horatiis, tried to dis- 
suade him. He persisted, however, and at his request King 
Francis I, January 23d, 1829, approved a decree in eight sec- 
tions designed to secure fair play and honest judgment on all 
sides. 
A commission of six members and six alternates, appointed 
by the government, was to be present at the preparation and ad- 
ministration of the remedies, to accompany the director in his 
visits to the patients, to make along with the director and assist- 
ants the diagnoses and sign the record of them, to verify and 
sign at each visit a statement of the condition of each patient 
and a statement of the final result in each case; these records to 
be kept in the archives of the clinique and a copy given the di- 
rector for publication. Two assistants, one representing the com- 
mission and the other the director, were to remain constantly in 
* This experiment lasted from March to December, 1828, and must not be 
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the wards to keep an accurate account of whatever occurred dur- 
ing the absence of the commission and the director, to preserve 
order, and watch visitors. The director had the right of refus- 
ing cases not suitable for positive and comparative experimenta- 
tion, but was bound to justify his refusal. In the first place 
diseases were to be treated which homoeopathy is reputed to cure 
more rapidly than allopathy, then more difficult, and finally des- 
perate cases. The wards were to be large, containing 15 to 20 
beds, well lighted, with only one entrance, and that well guarded. 
The commissioners appointed by the government were Dr. 
Lucarelli, Professor Lanza, Dr. Delforno, Dr. Ronchi, formerly 
court physician, Dr. Folinea, and Professor Macry. The alter- 
nates were Dr. Panvini, Dr. Curti, Dr. Araneo, Dr. Albanese, 
Dr. Alessi, and Dr. Marchesani. 
Professor de Horatiis, Director of the Clinique, selected as 
Vice-Director Dr. Romani, who, foreseeing the troubles that 
subsequently occurred, at first declined, but under persuasion of 
General Caraffa di Noja and other ardent friends of the new 
doctrine accepted the appointment. Dr. Vincenzo Laraja was 
chosen assistant of the director. 
After some delay on account of De Horatiis's engagements at 
court and of difficulty in overcoming the reluctance of the com- 
missioners and alternates, the clinique was opened April 13th, 
1829. 
Of the commissioners Professor Macry never made his appear- 
ance at the hospital, Dr. Folinea attended only the first visit, 
Dr. Delforno attended two or three times, but perceiving that 
several patients whose death he had predicted were getting well 
he came no more; Professor Lanza attended seven or eight times 
without saying a word, Dr. Lucarelli appeared only once to re- 
quest the closure of the clinique, and Dr. Ronchi attended five 
or six times and with great pomp uttered sinister prognostica- 
tions. 
Of the alternates Dr. Marchesani was the most attentive, and 
not only was converted to homoeopathy but defended it most ef- 
fectively against the calumniators of this experiment; Dr. Alessi, 
who was also a most diligent attendant, became a homoeopath 1080 
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and defender of homoeopathy; Dr. Araneo took upon himself 
the duty of continually informing the poor patients that they 
were being experimented with like cattle; Dr. Curti, a violent 
and brutal man, did nothing but provoke the homoeopaths by 
gratuitous insults, carrying his vulgarity so far as to be rebuked 
by Professor Lanza whose alternate he was ; Dr. Panvini was so 
dishonest as to deny the facts which occurred before his eyes, so 
that the verification of the condition of the patients was always 
in dispute and almost impossible; and Dr. Albanese was one of 
those men who stop at nothing to gain an advantage over an ad- 
versary. 
With such elements it is easy to see the probable course of the 
clinique and the verdict of the commission. But who could 
have anticipated that these wards, in which it behooved the com- 
missioners and their alternates, as honest and impartial judges, 
to seek the truth with earnest, peaceful minds in the interests of 
the science they professed and of humanity, would become an 
arena for the display of malignant passion and almost incredible 
ribaldry ? History, however, records facts of which only infa- 
mous men could be guilty. 
The clinique remained open until September ] 3th of the same 
year; seventy-one patients were received,* of whom fifty-three 
were completely cured, six remained, much improved, when the 
clinique closed, and two, who entered moribund, died ; of the 
latter, one was a case of malignant parotitis and the other a case 
of typhus. Of those who remained in the clinique, one was an 
inveterate ophthalmia with pannus, one a purulent ophthalmia, 
and three were cases of thoracic disease. The cures were cases 
of fever, of gonorrhoea, simple or with phimosis, primary syphilis 
with phagedenic ulcer and buboes, of jaundice, of pleuritis, of 
angina tonsillaris, of chemosis, of purulent ophthalmia, etc. 
The clinique was attended by many foreign physicians and by 
many Italians, both Neapolitans and others; and these were both 
witnesses and judges of what occurred. Among the latter may 
* The records were published in an abridged form by Dr. Eligio Romani 
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be named Dr. Pezzillo, Dr. Baldi, chief army physician; Dr. 
Buongiovanni, Dr. Grossi, Dr. Dubini, Dr. Traliani, of Ascoli; 
Dr. da Kabatta, of Fabriano; Dr. de Guidi, resident at Lyons, 
and Dr. Sannicola, of Venafro. Among the foreigners were 
Dr. Pizzati, a distinguished physician of the Russian army; 
Dr. Schultz, of Berlin; Dr. Miliusy, physician of the czar, and 
Dr. Quin, of London, who became a homoeopath and one of the 
most fervent and effective apostles of homoeopathy in Great 
Britain.* 
The clinical records were all signed by the directorf and 
vice-director, and • countersigned by the commissioners and 
alternates when they were present and as long as they attended. 
These happy results, attested by witnesses and signatures that 
could not be impeached, instead of cooling passions, which deeply 
wounded self-conceit had kindled, greatly inflamed them. Only 
a few days after the clinique was opened a rumor of great mor- 
tality among the patients treated homoeopathically in the great 
Hospital of the Trinity began to creep about the city, and, 
growing as rapidly as calumny and slander are wont to grow, it 
soon reached the royal ear. On the 8th of May the Duke of 
Calabria (afterwards Ferdinand II), accompanied by two gen- 
erals, suddenly appeared in the wards and demanded the list of 
the dead. Great was his astonishment on being told that no 
such list existed, since, of the patients received, none had thus 
far died. "Then," said the prince, " the sick whom I see here 
must be the dead brought to life again." 
After, perhaps in consequence of, this rebuke the adver- 
saries of homoeopathy, willing to substantiate their calumnies 
with incontestable facts, endeavored to poison the patients under 
treatment. 
There was in the clinique a man named Domenico Fioccola 
who was seriously ill; Commissioner Ronchi had, with strong 
* This physician, illustrious on many accounts, was the founder of the 
British Homoeopathic Society and of the great Homoeopathic Hospital in 
London. 
f Dr. de Horatiis, being obliged to attend the king, was absent several 
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emphasis, prognosticated his death, and his alternate, Dr. Alba- 
nese, at each visit, repeated the unfavorable prognosis to the 
poor patient. Nevertheless, Fioccola got better; on the twelfth 
day he was free from fever and convalescent, a result which was 
attested by the most distinguished physicians who attended the 
clinique, among them Dr. Milins. Suddenly Fioccola's fever 
rekindled, and the poor fellow was in a state of the greatest peril. 
The allopaths were overjoyed ; the homoeopaths could not account 
for the fact, which learned physicians had not foreseen, and which 
honest ones could not have anticipated. Suspicions arising, the 
director demanded an inquiry, which was held by the com- 
mandant of the hospital on June 9th. This inquiry brought to 
light the following facts: 
1. That Dr. Albanese, alternate of Commissioner Ronchi, had 
secretly given dried figs to Fioccola and some other patients, 
enjoining them not to tell the homoeopathic assistant, Dr. Laraja, 
that he had done so. 
2. That Fioccola alone, whose death had been predicted by 
these physicians, soon after eating the dried figs, showed symp- 
toms of poison, which were fortunately followed by vomiting of 
the contents of the stomach.* 
Dr. Albanese was publicly accused of this nefarious crime; 
But the good-nature and ill-timed generosity of Drs. de Horatiis 
and Romani on the one side, and the self-interested interposition 
of Dr. Ronchi on the other, saved the accused from a judicial 
investigation and from the rigor of the law's. Fioccola, mean- 
while, had left the hospital in perfect health. 
The magnanimity of the homoeopaths was far from disarming 
the adversaries of the new doctrine; so true is it that this noble 
virtue is often not only powerless against, but even gives im- 
munity to, the dangers that threaten the cause of justice. They 
adopted another method to put an end to the experiment or at 
* A copy of the report of the Court of Inquiry, countersigned by the 
commandant, and addressed to Dr. de Horatiis by order of the Director 
General of Military Hospitals, may be found in the Effemeridi di Medicina 
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least to deprive it of the legitimate value which the eminent 
success already attained conferred upon it. 
On the fortieth day of the clinique, the six commissioners, 
including Macry, who had never before appeared, and the six 
alternates attended in a body. Provocation and abuse on that 
day reached their climax, and, after a fierce battle of words, the 
commissioners and their alternates abandoned the clinique for- 
ever. At the same time they addressed a secret report against 
it to the president of public instruction, and through him to the 
minister of the interior, who laid it before a cabinet council. 
The king could not credit the accusations of the allopaths; he 
nevertheless desired to examine the records with his own eyes. 
Accordingly on the 9th of June, his aide-de-camp, the Duke of 
San Valentino, accompanied by General La Grua, the Inspector- 
General of Hospitals, appeared suddenly at the Hospital of the 
Trinity, seized, sealed, and took away all the records and papers 
relating to the experiment. Records of patients discharged cured, 
records of cases under treatment-this was all that these papers 
revealed or could reveal to the astonished monarch. But what 
of this ? The calumniator is never disheartened, well knowing- 
that, if he plies his trade, some at least of hisslander will adhere. 
Dr. Panvini, who in 1824 opened the virulent warfare in Italy 
against homoeopathy by his Critical Reflections on the Medical 
System of 8. Hahnemann; Vice-Commissioner Panvini, who 
at the hospital was wont to fight, watch in hand, for one pulsa- 
tion more or less to be entered in the clinical record, published a 
famous pamphlet entitled The Forty Days in the Homoeopathic 
Clinique of Naples. The cases cured by homoeopathy were 
slight ones and nature effected the cure; the cures were always 
slow; the homoeopathic remedies, which in 1824 he had called 
poisons, had no effect whatever : this and similar nonsense, duly 
seasoned with malignant insults, directed against persons most 
respectable and highly respected, constitute the substance of this 
work of Panvini, and the form was worthy of the substance. 
Dr. Marchesani, who had also attended the clinique as vice- 
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and with a few words, more were not needed, closed forever the 
lips of his rebuked colleague. 
Notwithstanding this whirlwind of passion and malice, the 
clinique continued, as we have seen, until September, but without 
the attendance of the commission. 
At this time it became De Horatiis's duty to attend the king 
on a visit to Spain;* and Romani, tired of past, intolerant of 
present, and apprehensive of future vexations during the direc- 
tor's absence with the king, retired on the 13th of September, 
and the clinique was formally closed on the 17th, 1829. 
Such is the history of the hundred and fifty-five days of the 
public trial of homoeopathy in the great Hospital of the Trinity 
in Naples; a trial which shed great lustre on Hahnemann's doc- 
trines and greatly incensed its adversaries, and brought upon the 
whole sect of the allopaths an infamy of which they have not 
purged themselves. 
During his travels in Spain, and subsequently in France, 
Professor de Horatiis made the name of homoeopathy known 
and respected in the halls of the scientific men of these nations. 
In Madrid he read before the Medical Academy a report of 
the Naples clinique ;f and in the Academy of Medicine of 
Paris, in the presence of Portal and the flower of the French 
physicians,! at the session of June 13th, 1830, he gave in an 
elegant Latin oration a compendious exposition of the Hahne- 
mannian doctrine. 
After his return to his own country he lived twenty years, dying 
March 26th, 1850, instructing in the theory and more difficult 
operations of surgery the ablest men of the present generation, 
and teaching and practicing the doctrines of homoeopathy, which 
persecution had only endeared to him. 
* Francis I, accompanied his daughter Maria Christina, who went to 
marry King Ferdinand VII of Spain. 
f This statement rests on the authority of Dr. Rubini; I have found no 
record of the fact. 
J Salvatore Tommasi in Discourso Funebre Letto Nelle Eseguie del Com- 
mendatore Cosmo Maria de Horatiis. The oration was published in the 
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July 1st, 1829, appeared, under the nominal direction of De 
Horatiis, the first number of a monthly journal, entitled Effeme- 
ridi di Medicina Omiopatica, compiled by a society of physicians. 
The active direction was intrusted to Drs. Rocco Pezzillo and 
Mauro; Romani and De Horatiis were active editors. Two 
volumes were published, the first comprising the second half of 
the year 1829, and the second the first eleven months of 1830, 
when the publication ceased for the same reason that caused the 
closure of the clinique. 
This journal, the first to appear after the Archiv fur die Homo-, 
opathische Heilkunst, which was the first in our literature, is 
second to none in the value of its contents. Clinical facts pre- 
dominate, and, like a host of others of ancient as well as recent 
date, they prove that opinions on the pure doctrine of Hahne- 
mann, and especially on the Hahnemannian dose, can never be 
too carefully weighed. 
In 1845 De Horatiis published an Italian translation of the 
fourth edition of Hahnemann's Organon, with fragments of his 
other works and a homoeopathic pharmacopoeia.* In this way 
he replied to Esquirol, who, some years before, had asserted 
in the French Academy that De Horatiis no longer practiced 
homoeopathy. This was the last literary work of his busy life. 
He died in 1850, almost eighty years old, lamented, as few have 
ever been, by the followers of Hahnemann and by his adver- 
saries, f 
Remarkable for intelligence and culture, of wonderful indus- 
try and antique virtue, such were the first representatives of 
homoeopathy in Italy. What wonder that in so short a time it 
gained such fame and honor I 
Their practice was based on the purest maxims of Hahne- 
mann ; not so, however, all their teaching. An ill-conceived 
spirit of conciliation led them to admit doubtful, unnecessary, 
* Octavo, 291 pages. Besides these works he translated those of Under- 
wood, Marcard, Tromsdorff, Dessault, and Baudeloeque. 
f The illustrious historian of Italian medicine, Salvatore de Renzi, and 
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and damaging expedients, such as venesection and the like, to 
which they themselves never resorted; and these illogical, and 
but for their pure intentions we might say immoral concessions, 
had consequences in Italy which are still operative; for from 
them sprang that race of physicians, not yet exhausted, who 
commit base fornication with allopathy, and then seriously dis- 
cuss with a Hahnemannian whether it were better to give a half- 
globule or a drop of the thirtieth dilution to a patient whom 
they have already saturated with their poisonous stuff. 
By their works they converted to homoeopathy in the King- 
dom of Naples Drs. Rocco Pezzillo, Vincenzo la Raja, Giuseppe 
Marchesani, Giovanni Baldi, Surgeon-in-chief of the Army, 
Matteo Trombetti, Cimone, Leonardo Dorotea, Luigi Buongi- 
ovanni, Second Surgeon of the First Hotel des Invalides, Rocco 
Rubini, Eligio, nephew of Giuseppe Romani, Janelli, Jasilli, 
Bondini of Civitella del Tronto, Giovanni Sanniccola, Surgeon 
of the Civil and Military Hospital of Venafro, Vincenzo Sagli- 
occhi of Trentola, Eusebio, Caravelli, of Giulia Nuova, Paulo 
Nanni, of Casteldelmonte, Anibaldi, Ventili, Petrilli, Vincenzo 
Massa, Director of the Naples Veterinary College, Sabatino de 
Benedictis di Mosciano, and many others who practiced it with 
distinction. 
Dr. Rocco Pezzillo was, as we have seen, the active manager 
of the Effemeridi; and if the esteem of Mauro, Romani, 
and De Horatiis were not enough, the management of that 
journal attests what manner of man he was. But he too was 
affected by the unfortunate disposition to conciliate in matters 
that are irreconcilable, and he styled himself an eclectic; and, to 
promote eclecticism in medicine, and to reconcile discordant 
opinions on the principles <(similia similibus " and " contrariis 
contraria," he read and publicly defended two essays before the 
Naples Academy of Medicine. 
In the Effemeridi also he stoutly contended for these views; 
and the discussion would not have been inglorious for him had 
not the cause of conciliation and eclecticism been desperate. 
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1087 
1829, published in that year a homoeopathic pharmacopoeia, with 
a short clinical repertory.* 
In this work, after an essay on the importance of the pharma- 
copoeia to a successful practice, he gives the mode of preparing 
each of the substances of the three natural kingdoms which had 
been proved at that time, with their dynamic antidotes, the 
dose, almost always the Hahnemannian, and, briefly, their chief 
uses. 
In 1838 there appeared another edition in Milan, one volume, 
octavo, 272 pages, by Giovanni Silvestri, with notable additions 
from the works of Hartmann, Leon Simon, and Starka, which 
edition acquired great importance through the introduction of 
more than eighty subjects in its therapeutics since the first edition 
was issued. 
The clinic was closed in 1829, and Dr. La Raja went toCotrone 
to practice homoeopathy, where he was physician to the military 
hospital; for years he practiced there and in other provinces of 
Campobasso with success, giving general satisfaction. In 1858 
he visited Gravina, his native place, where he died. In 1837 
he published a guide for the cure of the Asiatic cholera, and in 
1846 he reproduced the Apologia of Bigel. 
Div Rocco Rubini, in 1832, retired into the province of Teramo, 
where homoeopathy was held in great esteem on account of what 
had been accomplished by other physicians and veterinary sur- 
geons who have been mentioned, and by the pharmaceutist Cro- 
cetti di Mosciano, a distinguished botanist, who founded a homoe- 
opathic laboratory, which attained a great reputation. 
After having- been eng-ag:ed for eig;ht years with his worthy 
colleagues in extending the field of homoeopathy in this province, 
Rubini returned to Naples and took up his residence there. In 
* Elemento di Farmacopeia Orniopatica Estratti Dalia Mat. Med. di 
S. Hahnemann e Dagli Arehivi Della Med Om. per cura del Dr. Vincenzo 
la Raja, con un indice comparativa di alcuni fenomeni prodotti nell' uomo 
sano dalle sostanze terapentiche con quelli di alcune malattie naturali, per 
agevolare in par te L'Esercizio Della Ulinica Omiopatiea. Napoli. 1829. 
Octavo, 210 pp. 1088 
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this city his enthusiastic devotion to the new science, his energetic 
efforts in its cause, and a highly successful practice, procured him 
much renown, and in 1850 he was appointed physician to His 
Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse. 
The influence of Dr. Rubini with this prince was of great ad- 
vantage to the cause of homoeopathy in this region. Through 
the intercession of the prince, permission was obtained from the 
Neapolitan Government for the establishment of a specific homoe- 
opathic pharmacy, which was opened in August, 1852. It was 
called the Draggon Pharmacy. This institution was of great 
service in affording proofs of the unfounded nature of the alle- 
gations brought by allopaths, and was an effectual answer to the 
ridicule they sought to heap upon the new doctrines. It did 
much to establish homoeopathy yet more firmly thoughout the 
kingdom, and formed a precedent in its legislation which was to 
produce important consequences. 
In effect, two other pharmacies of the same kind sprang up in 
Naples not long afterwards (Hartenstein, Peli 1 lo), and two others 
for the sale of mixed drugs (Valentino, Rajola); and in 1875 
Rubini caused another elegant specific pharmacy (Sardo) to be 
built, with a dispensary attached for the gratuitous treatment of 
the poor, which was under his direction and that of Drs. Cigliano 
and Mucci. In the provinces, a specific pharmacy was estab- 
lished at Foggia; another for mixed drugs at Massafras, in the 
province of Otranto; another of the same sort at Pomarico; a 
third of the same sort at Calciano, in the province of Basilicata. 
But the fame of Rubini, which extended beyond the kingdom, 
was owing to yet more distinguished achievements, by which his 
name will be carried down to distant generations. 
In 1854 he was invited to undertake the superintendence of 
the Royal Hospital for the Poor. It happened that an infirma- 
rian, to whom he had confided the duty of administering Cam- 
phor during the first stages of cholera, reserving to himself the 
privilege of prescribing for the subsequent stages, found on his 
hands a grave case of the disease, and during the absence of the 
doctor, being without further instructions, he continued to ad- HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY. 
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minister Camphor, until finally the patient became well. Another 
very grave case was accordingly treated by the doctor himself in 
the same way, Camphor being used both externally and inter- 
nally, and the result was again favorable. These two facts he 
considered as tending strongly to prove that Camphor could 
safely be prescribed for cholera in any stage of the malady, or, 
in other words, that it was in this case the specific remedy, and 
that it must be also the preservative. 
Encouraged by this experience, he made use of no other remedy 
in the epidemics of 1854, 1855, and 1865, and out of 448 cases 
which came under his hands, in every case the patient was cured. 
Out of 255 cases treated by others in the same manner in Naples 
and in the Abruzzi provinces, only two deaths are recorded. Of 
those cured by him in 1854 and 1855, fifteen were in an algid 
condition. The cases of cholera sicca were not few; seven were 
accompanied with epileptic convulsions. 
The Camphor was prepared by alcoholic solution in equal 
parts with highly rectified spirits; the dose was five drops, at 
times twenty or thirty drops, given every five minutes on a piece 
of sugar. The spirits were rubbed over the whole body, eight 
pounds being once employed in a desperate case, and were also 
injected ; as preservative, they were administered in doses of five 
drops three or four times a day. 
These facts are given in full by Rubini, and are proved by 
documents whose authenticity and correctness have in but few 
cases been denied,* in a work which he republished several times, 
each edition being enriched by the addition of new facts. The 
book was entitled, Statistics of Cholera Patients Cured Solely by 
the Use of Camphor in 1854-55 and '65, f and on the strength 
of these facts he claimed from the Academy of France the Breant 
premium. 
* Dr. Bruckner, of Basilca, and Colonel Wieland have denied that 163 
Swiss soldiers were cured in this manner, in the seventy-fifth volume of the 
Allg. Homoopath Zeitung, page 136 ; but in the same volume, page 159, is 
to be found Rubini's answer to this denial, fortified by an attestation of 
Colonel Wolf. 
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He declared that the dose of Camphor should be strong and often 
repeated, in accordance with the violence of the disease ; that it was 
of the utmost importance that the dose should be strong and often 
repeated. He says that even the enormous dose of over a kilo- 
gram, which he administered in a desperate case, was innocuous 
in its effects; he asserts that Camphor invariably destroys the 
small insects and fungous growths which are the cause of cholera, 
and while allowing that there are besides Camphor some valuable 
remedies* which can be used for this disease, he doubts, in spite 
of records to the contrary, whether homoeopathic doses can be 
considered sufficient in its treatment. 
The account published by Rubini was generally discredited in 
the medical world; those most favorably inclined towards him, 
'who could not doubt the honor and veracity of the compiler, 
limited themselves, while admiring him for his success, to wait- 
ing for new facts and developments. Many, nevertheless, lamented 
that Rubini should have adopted the unsound parasitic theory to 
justify the strength of his doses, and should have made use of the 
rule of three in the administration of doses in order to establish 
this theory more firmly; especially did they lament that he had 
not recognized the fact that the many marvellous cures of cholera 
morbus performed by homoeopathy throughout the world - 
achievements to which the great esteem in which the science is 
held is principally owing-are the result of doses much smaller 
than those he considers necessary. Malicious people also alleged, 
and one of them wrote, that the precepts of Rubini were borrowed 
from Hoffman and Raspail, without considering that this does 
not diminish the value of the new facts that he had gathered. 
It is needless to say that the French Academy refused to award 
the premium claimed by Rubini, and that the different govern- 
ments, always tenacious of old customs and slow in recognizing 
the value of new ideas, paid no attention to his discoveries; and 
in Italy.both the native and foreign governments refused to avail 
themselves of his services, which he offered to give gratuitously 
whenever the cholera broke out in any part of the peninsula. It 
* Rivista Omiopatiea (Homoeopathic Review), vol. xix, page 154. HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY. 
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was not till 1866 that he could obtain any recognition of his 
merits. In this year he was appointed to take charge of the 
Cholera Hospital of Foggia ; but owing to the savage intolerance 
of the allopaths on one hand, and the weakness of the authorities 
on the other, the appointment was rendered futile. The prefect 
of Foggia, intimidated by the threats of the old school of phy- 
sicians, received him courteously and conducted him over the 
whole province; but neither at Foggia, nor at San Severe, nor 
at Alpicena, where the epidemic was raging most violently, did 
he permit him to prescribe for a single case of cholera. 
In May, 1860, he was appointed to the clinical direction of 
the small hospital called the Spedale della Cesarea, which is 
under the charge of the Board of Managers for the Royal Hos- 
pital of the Poor. This office he held for three years and a half. 
The managers not being able to provide the necessary funds, 
Rubini defrayed out of his own purse the expenses necessary for 
cleaning the walls of the hospital, for renewing the pavements, 
supplying the beds with linen, etc. During this period four 
hundred and fifty patients were restored to health, and six died, 
under his treatment; while during the three previous years, when 
the hospital was in allopathic hands, out of four hundred and 
forty-eight patients the deaths were twenty-nine. 
A certain allopathic physician of the name of Ciccone being 
appointed superintendent of the Royal Hospital of the Poor, 
Rubini of course found it impossible to retain his position any 
longer, and, notwithstanding the money he had disbursed and 
the success attending his treatment, he was obliged to renounce 
the hopes he had formed of continuing to demonstrate in that 
hospital the superiority of homoeopathic methods. 
Another circumstance to which Rubini owes his enduring 
celebrity is the pure experiment he made about this time with 
the Cactus grandiflorus. The Pathogenesis published by him in 
1864 has been translated into all the languages, and at present 
forms a valuable part of every treatise of pure Materia Medica 
and of therapeutics. 
As the only surviving member of the noble band of standard- 
bearers in the cause of homoeopathy in Italy, Dr. Rocco Rubini, 1092 
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notwithstanding the obstacles in his path, continued with a youth- 
ful ardor to do all in his power to advance the interests of the 
science in whose name he had combated for fifty years the ene- 
mies aroused against it. 
When Rubini returned to Naples in 1840, the physicians 
practicing homoeopathy in that city hardly exceeded half a dozen; 
in the Continental provinces of the kingdom their number was 
but little more than double. Besides those who resided perma- 
nently in Naples, there were others, foreigners, like Dr. Severin, 
and natives, like Dr. Mengozzi, who would practice in that city 
for awhile and then change their residence to other parts. At 
present there are more than twenty homoeopathic physicians in 
Naples and as many in the provinces. 
Among those practicing in Naples are numbered the distin- 
guished physicians-Cappelli, Capodieci, Cigliano, De Angelis, 
De Horatiis, Jr., De Rinaldis, De Tommasi, Longo, Marchesani, 
Mueci, Pace, Pelillo, Panelli, Righetti, Sinapoli, Spasiano, the 
veterinary surgeon Cuscianna, and the midwife Stoczek. Among 
those practicing in the provinces the following deserve mention : 
Genito, at Alpice; D'Alessandro, at Benevento; Pellegrini, at 
Lucera; De Chiava and Menolla, atFoggia; Sette and Scavo, 
at Bari; Borulli, Giovinazzi, Notaristefani, and Schettino, at 
Massafra; Massarotti, at Pomarico; Pesce, at Castrovillari; 
Nicoli, at Reggio di Calabria; De Vincenzii and Marcelli, at 
Cassano-aLJonio; Gallucci, at Cosenza; Facchei, at Avischia; 
Vecchioli, at Torninparte; and the veterinary surgeon Pappa- 
lepore, at Cerignola. 
Not only have the labors of these physicians been of great 
advantage to the students of therapeutics, but scientific literature 
also owes much to their efforts. 
Dr. Aleziani di Velletri published at Naples, in 1852, an 
able treatise On the Best Methods of Medical Treatment. 
Dr. Francesco Benedetti, of Naples, published, in 1857, a 
small volume in defence of the Hahnemannian doctrines, and a 
little manual, which is still highly prized.* 
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1093 
In 1858 General Ritucci produced a popular version of the 
manual of veterinary science of Gunther; Dr. Simonetti pub- 
lished a memorial of the cholera of 1864;* and other memorials 
on the same subject were printed by Dr. Mengozzi in 1865,f by 
Dr. de Vicenziis in 1867, by Dr. Pellegrini in 1865 and 1868,J 
and by Dr. de Rinaldis in 1873.§ Besides these, other homoeo- 
pathic works have been produced by the doctors we have men- 
tioned, which need not be enumerated. 
Special mention, however, is due to a critical work published 
by Dr. de Rinaldis in 1869, and to two books on therapeutics 
given to the public by Dr. Panelli, one in 1870 and the other in 
1874. 
The book by De Rinaldis is entitled : Homoeopathic Reform, 
or Eclectic Homoeopathic Treatment of Maladies based upon the 
Recent Advances in Semeiology, in Pathological Anatomy, and. in 
Chemical and Microscopical Analysis of Urine for Diagnosis, and 
on the Homoeopathic Remedies whose Effect is increased by the Use 
of Idroterapia, Elettroterapia, Idrotermoterapia, Ginnastica, Ther- 
apeutica, and on Local and Palliative Methods of Cure. The 
book forms an octavo of 108 pages. 
This production, improperly called by the author a " Homceo- 
pathic Reform," and still more improperly described in the title 
as giving an " Eclectic Homoeopathic Treatment," attracted no 
attention in Italy. The majority of the small number of homoeo- 
pathic physicians who are readers were offended at the pretentious 
title, many were displeased with the substance of the work, and 
all condemned the contemptuous manner in which the author 
spoke of his colleagues in the cause of homoeopathy, to whose 
labors the science owes its rise and its flourishing condition at 
present. Moreover, the writer somewhat strangely declared that 
* On the Means of Preventing Cholera and the Method of Treating It. 
By Anthony Simonetti, M.D. Naples, 1864. 
f Medical Reminiscences with Regard to the Indo-Oriental Disease, 
Cholera. Naples, 1865. 
J Asiatic Cholera Morbus and the Homoeopathic Curative Method for the 
Disease. By Frederic Pellegrini, M.D. Lucera, 1865 and 1868. 
§ Counsels to the People as to the manner in which Asiatic Cholera may 
be Prevented. By Dr. de Rinaldis. Naples, 1873. 1094 
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his book was not intended for physicians, and his patients in 
general, to whom the book was addressed, did not find it easy to 
understand the purely scientific language which he had, perhaps, 
purposely adopted. 
Nevertheless, it is not a work meriting the oblivion into which 
it fell, nor the scorn which was its epitaph. For it contains ideas 
which, though bold and at times contradictory, should be duly 
weighed, and would advantageously be studied in a region where 
all do not recognize the fact that even the highest 'authorities 
should not be trusted too implicitly, and where scholarly and 
liberal attainments are not frequently to be met with. What 
would become of science if the voice of criticism is thus to be 
silenced ? 
The critical reasoning of Dr. de Rinaldis has reference to two 
principal ideas in connection with the homoeopathic methods and 
doctrines. These he does not seek to change; on the contrary, 
he announces his adherence to them with an air of the most 
profound conviction, and, indeed, in almost an ostentatious man- 
ner. According to him, the therapeutic law (and this should 
also be the law of reason) is one, and this is the law de similibus, 
which is destined, together with the discovery of the effects pro- 
duced by infinitesimal doses, to survive all systems ; indeed, it is 
by means of this principle alone that any system of medicine can 
effect a genuine cure. 
Nevertheless, in his opinion, the application of the law de 
similibus is incomplete, and will remain so as long as the experi- 
ments on the human frame in a state of health are not conducted 
with the same exactness of physical and positive examination with 
which natural maladies are investigated (at the present time), for if 
the objective symptoms, and other such symptoms as could be 
furnished by physical examination, by percussion, by chemical 
analysis, by microscopy, etc., are wanting, how can the symptoms 
of artificial diseases be properly compared with those natural 
maladies ? 
Moreover, as the physician must also treat organic natural 
lesions, it is indispensable that he should know in what relation 
they stand to pure Materia Medica; and as in the case of the HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY. 
1095 
healthy human frame doses endangering life cannot be admin- 
istered, experiments with poisonous drugs should be tried on 
animals, and as much positive data as possible should be gathered 
from pathological anatomy with reference to the lesions of tissue 
and nutrition produced by medicinal substances. In this way 
homoeopathic science would be made to conform to the ideal 
conceived by Hahnemann, and the physician would not be 
obliged to forswear experimental physiology, pathological anat- 
omy, nosography, etiology, semeiology, diagnosis, prognosis, and 
to put aside the chemical and microscopical arts, in order to limit 
himself to the easy task of comparing the symptoms of natural 
maladies with those already obtained by pure experiments. 
These ideas, scattered without much order throughout the 
work, are the basis of what the author calls the first reform; 
which, in fact, as he intimates himself, is an explanation-not 
entirely satisfactory in all its parts-of the law similia similibus 
curantur. 
In this explanation, however, doctrines entirely original are 
advanced,-at times in an exuberant manner; but he shows such 
negligence and confusion of ideas with regard to the institutions 
of general medicine and of homoeopathy, that it appears as if he 
had devoted himself to the higher branches of the science before 
mastering its rudiments. According to him, physiology, path- 
ology, pathological anatomy, and the medical sciences properly 
so called, such as chemistry, physics, and other accessory sciences, 
are not, properly speaking, either allopathic or homoeopathic 
sciences, although they owe their origin to allopathy. Among 
the additions made by allopathy to medical knowledge he enu- 
merates semeiology, diagnosis, prognosis,and the different branches 
of these sciences, with the advances that have been gained in 
them ; and it is on this account that he seeks in homoeopathy 
(a therapeutic science) ideas which belong to the province of 
other sciences. He defines homoeopathy as the art of curing dis- 
eases with substances that produce in the healthy frame the same 
affections which it is sought to destroy in the invalid body; which 
definition justifies to a certain extent his finding in Materia 
Medica Pura, hepatitis ivith cirrhosis nocemoscata, with cancerous 1096 
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degeneration, and other changes of nutrition and tissue, but it is 
not a true definition of homoeopathy. Nevertheless, in many 
parts of the book, he speaks with a clear understanding of the 
law de similibus. 
The other reform consists in the necessity of what he calls 
rational eclecticism in therapeutics; that is to say, in the duty 
incumbent on the physician to employ the remedial agent he 
shall consider likely to be of most advantage to the patient. In 
consequence, the homoeopathic doctor who has abandoned the 
lancet, purgatives, and other features of antiquated systems in 
order to employ globules and infinitesimal doses in the treatment 
of the most obstinate diseases, should not be satisfied with having 
merely rejected superannuated appliances, but should also em- 
bark on the mare magno of empiricism, so long the peculiar 
province of quacks and charlatans! It is useless to establish 
rules for his guidance; every one knows that an eclectic is one 
whose own discretion is his guide. 
But while advocating these "reforms," the author recognizes 
and declares that homoeopathy-the genuine homoeopathy which 
has been true to the precepts of its first founder-has achieved 
signal triumphs, and has been (and always will be) as a curative 
agent superior to allopathy, even when practiced by a mere 
empiric. 
The two works by Dr. Panelli are respectively on typhoid 
fever* and on quinsies,f and, though replete with valuable 
matter, have attracted but little attention in Italy. In this 
country, where there is a scarcity of works useful in the practice 
of homoeopathy, these books would be of special advantage to 
the student of therapeutics. Both purport to be monographs, 
but are, in fact, not confined to the consideration of a single 
subject. Nosography is treated of at large in a comprehensive 
manner, the author making copious extracts from a large num- 
ber of excellent works on the subject, but the science of thera- 
* Typhoid Fever and its Homceopathic Treatment. Naples, 1870. One 
volume, 12mo , of 480 pages. 
f Quinsies and their Homoeopathic Treatment. Naples, 1874. One 
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1097 
peutics receives but little attention. Thus it happens that at 
times the author fails to indicate clearly what remedies are to be 
selected, and in what manner they are to be employed. 
Many medicinal substances also are not noticed by which the 
Materia Medica has been enriched. It is enough to say that in 
the treatise on typhoid fever no mention whatever is made of 
Baptista tinctoria, and in the work on quinsies the name of Ai- 
lanthus glandulosa does not occur. These omissions prove that 
the books were written ten years before the date of publication; 
and the style, moreover, is open to criticism, especially in the 
nosographical part, where the author treats of natural and arti- 
ficial diseases, and where clearness and succinctness of statement 
are peculiarly desirable. 
Notwithstanding these and other deficiencies such as are 
inseparable from any human production, Dr. Fanelli's two 
treatises have procured for him the favorable opinion of all who 
have read them, which will be an encouragement for him in the 
composition of works of superior accuracy. 
Besides the Effemeridi of Homoeopathic Medicine, of which 
we have already spoken,* two other journals are to be noticed: 
The Hahnemannian, a Journal of Homoeopathic Medicine, edited 
by Henry Pelillo, M.D., assisted by other members of the pro- 
fession, and The Dynamic, edited and compiled by Thomas 
Cigliano, M.D. 
The Hahnemannian used to appear every month, and com- 
prised two octavo sheets. It first saw the light towards the 
close of the year 1856, and, after running through twenty-one 
numbers, expired in 1858. 
There were published many clinical facts of importance, and 
which are worth noticing. One of colica ileus, cured by Dr. 
de Rinaldis with Belladonna, first dilution ; and one of a polypus 
of the bladder, cured efficaciously with Calcarea carbonica, sev- 
enth dilution, by Dr. Fluge, of Ceramo; some good hygienic 
papers by Dr. Gabriele Romano; a part of the correspondence 
of Hahnemann with Dr. Giuseppe Mauro. 
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Ann Arbor, Mich. 
J. C. Burgher, M. D., 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
839 
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Ann. 
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June 9. 
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(Deceased.) 
Geo. S. Walker, M. D., 
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Indianapolis, Ind. 
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Indianapolis, Ind. 
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26 
0 
2.00 
None. 
O. S. Runnels, M. D., 
H. W. Taylor, M. D., 
W. P. Armstrong, M. D., 
G. W. Bowen, M.D. 
Homceopathy. 
6 
Hahnemann Medical As- 
sociation of Iowa. 
la. 
1870 
1877 
Ann. 
Waterloo, 
May. 
n. P. Britton, M.D., 
Iowa City, la. 
E. A. Guilbert, M. D., 
Dubuque, Iowa. 
86 
20 
0 
2.00 
"The 
Annual." 
E. A. Guilbert, M. D., 
G. A. Corning, M. D., 
H. P. Britton, M. D., 
A. C. Cowperthwaite, M. D 
7 
Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
of State of Kansas. 
Kas. 
1869 
1871 
Ann. 
Lawrence, 
May 5. 
J. J. Edie, M D., 
Leavenworth, Kan. 
J. H. Mosley, M.D., 
Olathe, Kan. 
50 
6 
1 
1.00 
None. 
W. D. Gentry, M. D., 
T. J. Patchen, M. D., 
V. W. Sunderlin, M. D., 
G. H. T. Johnson, M.D. 
8 
Maine Homoeopathic 
Medical Society. 
Me. 
1867 
1867 
Ann. 
Augusta, 
June 1. 
C. M. Foss, M.D., 
Dexter, Me. 
W. F. Shepard, M. D., 
Bangor, Me. 
47 
5 
0 
1.00 
None. 
C. H. Burr, M. D., 
G. P. Jefferds, M. D. 
9 
Maryland Hom. Med. 
Soc. of Baltimore City. 
Md. 
1875 
1875 
Ann. 
Baltimore, 
Oct. 14. 
A. A. Rothe, M.D., 
Frederick, Md. 
W. II. Lougee, M. D., 
Lawrence, Mass. 
E C. Price, M. D., 
Baltimore, Md. 
31 
9 
1 
2.00 
None. 
10 
Massachusetts Homceop. 
Medical Society. 
Ms. 
1840 
1856 
Semi- 
ann. 
Boston, 
Ap.&Oc.l4. 
H. A. Chase, M.D., 
Cambridgeport, Mass. 
180 
19 
6 
5.00 
Trans. 
Vol. 5. 
C. Wesselhoeft, M. D., 
W. Wesselhoeft, M. D., 
David Thayer, M. D , 
H. E. Spaulding, M.D., 
C. H. Farnsworth, M. D., 
I. T. Talbot, M.D., 
N. R. Morse, M. D., 
E. IT. Jones, M. D., 
F. H. Krebs, M. D., 
J. Heber Smith, M. D. 
11 
Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
of State of Michigan. 
Mic. 
1869 
1869 
Semi- 
ann. 
Ann Arbor, 
My&Nv.l8. 
0. R. Long, M. D., 
Ionia, Mich. 
R. B. House, M. D., 
Tecumseh, Mich. 
107 
18 
2 
2.00 
None. 
R. B. House, M. D., 
L M. Jones, M. D., 
W. J. Calvert, M.D., 
B. F. Bailey, M. D. 
12 
Minnesota State Hom. 
Institute. 
Min. 
1867 
1867 
Ann. 
Min'eapolis, 
June 9. 
A. E. Higbee, M. D., 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
G. H. Hawes, M. D., 
Hastings, Minn. 
52 
11 
0 
1.00 
None. 
W. H. Caine, M. D. 
13 
Missouri Institute of 
Homoeopathy. 
Mo. 
1877 
Not 
Ann. 
Hannibal, 
Ju. 2 & 3. 
D. T. Abell, M.D., 
Warrenberg, Mo. 
W. D. Fester, M.D., 
Hannibal, Mo. 
40 
6 
0 
2.00 
None. 
Wm. D. Foster, M.D., 
H. W. Westover, M.D. 
14 
Homoeopathic Medical 
Soc. of Nebraska. 
Neb. 
1873 
1874 
Ann. 
Omaha, 
May 11. 
C. L. Hart, M. D., 
Omaha, Neb. 
O. S. Wood, M. D., 
Omaha, Neb. 
15 
0 
0 
1.00 
None. 
A. C. Cowperthwaite, M. D. 
O. S. Wood, M. D. 
15 
Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
of New Hampshire. 
N.H. 
1853 
1853 
Ann. 
Concord, 
June 16. 
T. E. Sanger, M. D., 
Littleton, N. H. 
J. C. Moore, M.D., 
Lake Village, N. H. 
50 
2 
0 
1.00 
None. 1102 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
Name of Society. 
State. 
1 When or- 
1 ganized. 
1 When incor- 
| porated. 
Meetings. 
Annual 
Meetings, 
1880. 
President. 
Secretary. 
No. of 
Members. 
1 Admitted 
| last Year. 
Died last 
Y ear. 
Annual 
Dues. 
Publications 
last Year. 
Delegates. 
16 New Jersey State Hom. 
N.J. 
1860 
1870 
Semi- 
Newark, 
W. J. Andrews, M. D., 
Wallace McGeorge, 
80 
8 
0 
$1.00 
None. 
J. E. Winans, M. D. 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
May 4. 
Newark, N. J. 
Woodbury, N. J. 
17 New York State Hom. 
N.Y. 
1850 
1862 
Semi- 
Albany, 
A. R. Wright, M. D., 
H. L. Waldo, M. D., 
129 
5 00 
Trans. 
J. W. Dowling, M. D., 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
Feb. 10. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
West Troy, N. Y. 
Del. 
Dei. 
1879. 
A. S Couch, M.D., 
200 
Y 
9 
3.00 
W. M. L. Fiske, M.D., 
P'm't. 
Pmt. 
A. W. Holden, M.D. 
18 Homoeopathic Medical 
0. 
1864 
1878 
Semi- 
Cincinnati, 
H. M. Logee, M. D., 
H. E. Beebe, M. D., 
200 
10 
2 
2.00 
Proceed- 
Wm. Owens, M. D., 
Society of Ohio. 
Ann. 
May 18&19. 
Oxford, Ohio. 
Sidney, Ohio. 
ings 1879. 
D. W. Hartshorn, M. D., 
J. C. Sanders, M. D., 
N. Schneider, M.D., 
G. C. McDermott, M. D., 
S. S. Lungren, M. D. 
19 Homoeop. Med. Soc. of 
Pa. 
1866 
Not 
Ann. 
Easton, 
J. K. Lee, M.D., 
Z. T. Miller, M.D., 
142 
7 
2 
3.00 
Trans. 
State of Pennsylvania. 
Sep. 15 & 16. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
'74 to '79. 
20 Rhode Island Homoeo- 
R.I. 
1850 
1850 
Quar. 
Providence, 
I. W. Sawin, M. D., 
Geo. B. Peck, M. D., 
37 
2 
0 
5.00 
None. 
W. von Gottschalck, M.D. 
pathic Society. 
Jan. 23. 
Providence, R. I. 
Providence, R. I. 
Geo. B. Peck, M. D. 
21 Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
Ten. 
1875 
Not 
Ann. 
Chat'nooga, 
E. H. Price, M. D., 
W. C. Dake, M.D., 
32 
0 
0 
1.00 
None. 
J. P. Dake, M.D. 
of Tennessee. 
Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Nashville, Tenn. 
22 Vermont Homoeopathic 
Vt. 
1854 
1858 
Semi- 
Montpelier, 
H. C. Brigham, M. D., 
C. S. Hoag, M.D., 
65 
2 
0 
1.00 
None. 
G. E. E. Sparhawk, M. D., 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
Oct. 
Montpelier, Vt. 
Waterbury, Vt. 
C. S.Hoag, M.D., 
J. H. Jones, M. D. 
23 Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
Wis. 
1865 
1868 
Ann. 
Milwaukee, 
L. A. Bishop, M.D., 
E. F. Storcke, M. D., 
76 
8 
0 
1.00 
None. 
L. E. Ober, M.D., 
of State of Wisconsin. 
June 14. 
Fond du Lac, Wis. 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
- 
Sam. Potter, M. D., 
1,969 
192 
28 
Julia Ford, M. D. 
LOCAL SOCIETIES. 
1 San Francisco Hommop. 
Cal. 
1878 
Not 
Mth. 
H. H. Ingerson, M. D., 
Wallace A. Ely, M. D., 
22 
5 
0 
0 
None. 
Medical Association. 
San Francisco, Cal. 
San Francisco, Cal. 
2 Oakland Homoeopathic 
Ct 
H. H. Lyons, M.D., 
Medical Society. 
Oakland, Cal. 
3 Denver Academy of 
Col. 
1879 
Not 
Ann. 
Denver, 
A. S. Everett, M.D., 
N. C. Hart, M. D., 
12 
0 
0 
3.00 
A. S. Everett, M. D. 
Hom. Medicine. 
Jan. 6. 
Denver, Col. 
Denver, Col. 
♦ 
STATE SOCIETIES. - (Continued. STATE SOCIETIES. 
1103 
4 Central Illinois Homoeo- 
Hl. 
A. E. Small, Jr., M. D., 
pathic Society. 
Logan, Ill. 
5 Illinois Valley Homoeo- 
u 
H. N. Keener, M. D., 
pathic Med. Society. 
Princeton, Hl. 
6 Rock Island Homoeo- 
il 
1879 
Not 
Quar. 
P. H. Worley, M. D., 
C. B. Kinyon, M. D., 
15 
0 
0 
1.00 
C. B. Kinyon, M. D. 
pathic Med. Society. 
Davenport, 111. 
Rock Island, Hl. 
7 Military Tract District 
ic 
1870 
Not 
Semi- 
Galesburg. 
J. II. Miller, M.D., 
Hom. Med. Society. 
ann 
Abingdon, Hl. 
8 Kankakee & Despiaines 
u 
Not 
Quar. 
J. Antis, M. D., 
M. B. Campbell, M. D., 
18 
0 
0 
1.00 
M. B. Campbell, M.D. 
Vai. Med. Assoc'n. 
Mazon, Ill. 
Joliet, Hl. 
9 Homoeopathic Med. Ass. 
u 
1877 
Not 
H. L. Obetz, M. D., 
P. B.Hoyt,M.D., 
20 
5 
0 
of Wabash Valley. 
Paris, Hl. 
Paris, Ill. 
10 Chicago Acad, of Hom. 
c< 
1873 
Not 
Chicago. 
G. E. Shipman, M. D., 
H. C. Evans, M. D , 
20 
8 
1 
0 
None. 
H. C. Evans, M. D. 
Physicians & Surg'ns. 
Chicago, Hl. 
Chicago, Hl. 
11 Chicago Women's Hom. 
ll 
1879 
Not 
Mth. 
<< 
L. G. Bedell, M.D., 
C. E. Manning, M. D., 
13 
3 
0 
1.00 
L. G. Bedell, M. D. 
Med. Association. 
Chicago, Hl. 
Chicago, Ill. 
12 Clinical Soc. of Hahn. 
il 
1877 
Not 
ii 
W. H. Burt, M.D., 
E. 8. Bailey, M. D., 
67 
11 
0 
1.00 
"The 
R. Ludlam, M.D. 
Hospital of Chicago. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Clinique." 
13 Marion County Homoeo- 
Ind. 
1871 
1871 
Bi- 
Ind'nap'lis. 
0. S. Runnels, M. D., 
M. T. Runnels, M. D., 
21 
3 
1 
1.00 
None. 
O. S. Runnels, M. D. 
pathic Med. Society. 
mth. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
14 Northern Indiana Hom. 
ii 
1876 
Not 
Quar. 
Elkhart Cy. 
W. A. Whippy, M. D., 
W. H. Thomas, M. D., 
16 
3 
0 
1.00 
None. 
Institute. 
Goshen, Ind. 
Elkhart, Ind. 
15 Northeast'n Iowa Hom. 
la. 
Medical Society. 
16 Northwestern Academy 
a 
1876 
Not 
Omaha, Nb. 
W. H. Parsons, M. D., 
W. D. Stillman, M. D., 
25 
11 
0 
3.00 
None. 
P. W. Poulson, M. D. 
of Medicine. 
Glenwood, la. 
Council Bluffs, la. 
17 Hardin Co. Society of 
ii 
Homoeop. Physicians. 
18 Linn Co. Homoeopathic 
Medical Society. 
19 Central Homoeopathic 
a 
V. M. Law, M.D., 
Association of Iowa. 
Cedar Rapids, la. 
20 Baltimore Homoeopathic 
Md. 
1874 
Not 
Mth. 
Baltimore. 
M. Brewer, M. D., 
Alfred Wanstall, M. D , 
22 
2 
1 
1.00 
Medical Society. 
Baltimore, Md. 
Baltimore, Md. 
21 Boston Homoeopathic 
Ms. 
1873 
Not 
ll 
Boston, 
A. J. Baker. M.D., 
M. P. Wheeler, M. D„ 
60 
5 
1 
1.00 
None. 
C. H. Farnsworth, M. D 
Medical Society. 
Jan. 13. 
Boston, Mass. 
Boston, Mass. 
22 Bristol Co. Homoeopat'c 
a 
Medical Society. 
23 Essex Co. Homoeopathic 
u 
1872 
Not 
Semi- 
F. A. Warren, M. D., 
Sam'l Worcester, M. D.. 
46 
8 
0 
1.00 
None. 
David Foss, M. D. 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
Lowell, Mass. 
Salem, Mass. 
24 Middlesex So. Homceop. 
H 
1876 
Not 
Mth. 
Newton, 
E. P. Scales. M.D., 
Chas. A. Walker, M. D., 
18 
2 
0 
1.00 
None. 
H. L. Chase, M.D. 
Medical Society. 
Jan. 1. 
Newton, Mass. 
Natick, Mass. 
25 WorcesterCo. Homoeop. 
ll 
1866 
Not 
Quar. 
Worcester, 
C. L. Kingsbury, M.D., 
C. L. Nichols, M.D., 
33 
10 
3 
1.00 
None. 
C. L. Kingsbury, M. D. 
Medical Society. 
Nov. 12. 
Spencer, Mass. 
Worcester. Mass. 
26 Western Mass. Homoep. 
ll 
1877 
Not 
o 
Springfield, 
A. Harvey, M. D., 
Henry Tucker, M. D., 
31 
9 
2 
1.00 
None. 
Medical Society. 
May 19. 
North Adams, Mass. 
Brattleboro', Vt. 1104 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
Name of Society. 
| State. 
| When or- 
| ganized. 
When incor- 
porated. 
Meetings. 
Annual 
Meetings, 
1880. 
President. 
Secretary. 
No. of 
Members. 
I Admitted 
1 last Year. 
. Died last 
1 Y ear. 
Annual 
Dues. 
Publications 
last Year. 
Delegates. 
27 
28 
23 
30 
31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
38 
39 
40 
41 
42 
43 
44 
Massach'ts Surgical and 
Gynascological Soc. 
Dispens'y Ass. of Boston 
U niv. School of Med. 
Hahn. Med. Soc. of Barry 
and Eaton Co.'s, Mich. 
Detroit Institute of 
Homoeopathy. 
College of Physicians & 
Surgeons of Mich. 
Hahnemann Society and 
Alumni Association. 
Jackson Co. llomceop. 
Medical Society. 
Coll, of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Mich. 
Ramsey Co. Homceop. 
Medical Society. 
Hahnemann Med. Soc. 
of Hamisfar County. 
Kansas & Missouri Vai. 
Hom. Medical Assoc'n. 
St. Louis Soc. of Hom 
Physicians & Surg'ns. 
East N.J. Homoeopathic 
Medical Society. 
West Jersey Medical 
Society. 
Homoeopathic Medical 
Society of Camden. 
Albany Homoeopathic 
Medical Seedy. 
Broome Co. Homceop. 
Medical Society. 
Cayuga Co. Homceop. 
Medical Society. 
Ms. 
a 
Mgn. 
( c 
it 
<< 
(4 
<< 
Min. 
it 
Mo. 
X J. 
u 
X.Y. 
1877 
1879 
1876 
1866 
1878 
1877 
1869 
1878 
1860 
1859 
Not 
Not 
Not 
Not 
1879 
Not 
Not 
Not 
Quar. 
Mth. 
Wk. 
Quar. 
Wk. 
Mth. 
Quar. 
Mth. 
Quar. 
Quar. 
Boston. 
Boston. 
Detroit. 
Ann Arbor 
Jackson Cy. 
Detroit. 
St. Paul. 
St. Louis. 
Camden, 
May 19. 
Camden, 
April. 
Albany, 
Jan. 13. 
S. M. Cate, M. D., 
Salem, Mass. 
H. C. Clapp, M.D., 
Boston, Mass. 
W. M. Bailey, M. D., 
Detroit, Mich. 
G. A. Tabor. M. D , 
Ann Arbor. 
J. B. Tuttle, M. D., 
Jackson City, Mich. 
F. X. Spranger, M. D., 
Detroit, Mich. 
W. A. Edmunds, M. D., 
St. Louis, Mo. 
M. B. Tuller, M. D., 
Millville, N. J. 
M. F. Middleton, M. D., 
Camden. N. J. 
G. II Billings. M.D., 
Cohoes, N. Y. 
T. L. Brown. 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
G. H. Payne, M. D., 
Boston, Mass. 
Alonzo Boothby, M.D., 
Boston, Mass. 
E. F. Grant, M.D., 
Detroit, Mich. 
J. G. Gilchrist, M. D., 
Detroit, Mich. 
J. C. Wood, M. D., 
Ann Arbor. 
W. J. Calvert, M. D., 
Jackson City. 
J. G. Gilchrist, M. D., 
Detroit, Mich. 
W. B. Morgan, M. D., 
St. Louis, Mo. 
S. H. Quint, M. D., 
Camden, N. J. 
S. II. Quint, M. D., 
Camden. N. J. 
H. L. Waldo, M.D., 
West Troy, N. Y. 
57 
28 
33 
18 
46 
36 
30 
10 
23 
18 
28 
26 
1 
6 
10 
4 
1 
2 
3 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
$1.00 
1.00 
1 00 
4.00 
2.00 
1.00 
1 00 
2.00 
Trans. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
None. 
Trans. 
None. 
None. 
N. R. Morse, M. D. 
D. J. McGuire, M.D. 
Jas. F. Brown, M. D. 
Chester O. Higbee, M. D. 
W. II. Jenney, M. D. 
P. G. Valentine, M. D. 
LOCAL SOCIETIES. - {Continued ) STATE SOCIETIES. 
1105 
45 Cha'ta'q'a & Cattara'g's 
N.Y. 
1876 
1876 
Semi- 
Jamestown, 
C. Ormes, M. D., 
C. P. Alling, M.D., 
22 
5 
1 
1.00 
None. 
Co.'s Hom. Med. Soc. 
ann. 
June 10. 
Jamestown, N. Y. 
Bradford, Pa. 
46 Chemung Homoeopathic 
n 
1866 
Semi- 
Dec. 9. 
18 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
47 Chenango Homoeopathic 
U 
1871 
»« 
Jan. 13. 
J. T. Wallace, M.D., 
5 
Medical Society. 
New Berlin. 
48 Columbia & Greene Co.'s 
«c 
1861 
it 
Hudson, 
S. J. Phillips, M. D., 
P. W. Mull, M. D , 
16 
2 
2 
1.00 
Hom. Med. Societies. 
Oct. 14. 
Catskill, N. Y. 
Ghent, N. Y. 
49 Dutchess Co. Homceop. 
<c 
1861 
Quar. 
Oct. 7. 
John Hornby, M. D., 
John C Otis, M. D., 
15 
Medical Society. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
50 Erie Co. Homoeopathic 
<4 
1859 
1859 
<c 
Jan. 7. 
G. W. Lewis, M. D., 
D. B. Stumpf, M. D., 
30 
2 
0 
1.50 
L. M. Kenyon, M. D. 
Medical Society. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
51 Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
U 
1857 
1857 
Mth. 
Brooklyn, 
E. Hasbrouck, M. D., 
W. W. Blackman, M D., 
83 
8 
3 
2 00 
P. P. Wells, M. D. 
of County of Kings. 
May 11. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
52 Livingston Co. Homie. 
44 
1863 
Semi- 
June 10. 
G. R. Traver, M. D., 
J. A. West, M.D., 
11 
1 
0 
1 00 
None. 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
Perry, N. Y. 
Geneseo, N. Y. 
53 Madison Co. Homceop. 
ll 
1865 
u 
Cazenovia, 
E. C. Bass, M. D., 
J. T. Wallace, M. D., 
11 
Medical Society. 
J une 24. 
Cazenovia, N. Y. 
Cazenovia, N. Y. 
54 Monroe Co. Homceop. 
ll 
1866 
Quar. 
Rochester, 
Allen B. Carr, M. D., 
C. B. Sumner, M. D., 
25 
6 
1 
2.00 
None. 
A. R. Adams, M. D. 
Medical Society. 
Jan. 20. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
55 Montgomery & Fulton 
H 
1869 
J. G. White, M.D., 
8 
Co.'s Hom. Med. Soc.'s. 
Amsterdam, N. Y. 
56 Niagara & Orleans Co.'s 
It 
1871 
Semi- 
June 10. 
Henry Neville, M. D., 
F. A. Bishop, M D., 
23 
Hom. Med. Societies. 
ann. 
Albion, N. Y. 
Medina, N. Y. 
57 Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
ll 
1857 
Mth. 
New York, 
W. H. White, M. D., 
S. Hasbrouck, M. D., 
172 
1.00 
T. F. Smith, M. D. 
of Co. of New York. 
Dec. 11. 
New York. 
New York, N. Y. 
58 Oncida&HerkimerCo.'s 
ll 
1857 
Semi- 
Utica, 
M. O. Terry. M. D., 
C. E. Chase, M.D., 
20 
2 
2 
1.00 
Hom. Med. Society. 
ann. 
Oct. 21. 
Utica, N. Y. 
Utica, N. Y. 
59 Onondaga Co. Homceop. 
ll 
1863 
Mth. 
Syracuse, 
J. Young, M. D., 
C. D. Hale, M.D., 
30 
11 
3 
100 copies Constitution & By-Laws and 
Medical Society. 
May 4. 
Liverpool, N. Y. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Medical Ethics. 
60 Ontario & Yates Co.'s 
ll 
1861 
Semi- 
Can'nd'gua, 
Geo. Q. Noble, M. D., 
G. C. Prichard, M. D., 
14 
1 
0 
1 50 
None. 
C. T. Mitchell. 
Hom. Med. Societies. 
ann. 
Oct. 15. 
Dundee, N. Y. 
Phelps, N. Y. 
61 Orange Co. Homceop. 
ll 
1852 
Quar. 
Oct. 8. 
J. W. Ostrom, M. D. 
I. S. Bradner, M. D., 
17 
Medical Society. 
Middletown, N. Y. 
62 Otsego Co. Homceop. 
ll 
1879 
Semi- 
June 11. 
O. S. Pratt, M.D., 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
Oneonta, N. Y. 
63 Oswego Co. Homceop. 
ll 
1861 
ll 
June 10. 
C. W. Radway, M. D., 
G. D. McManus, M. D., 
8 
Medical Society. 
Mexico, N. Y. 
Oswego, N. Y. 
64 Queens Co. Homceop. 
IC 
1873 
Quar. 
Oct. 28. 
J. A. Beldin, M. D., 
W. A. Allen. M D., 
7 
Medical Society. 
Jamaica, N. Y. 
Flushing, N. Y. 
65 Rensselaer Co. Homos. 
ll 
1859 
1859 
Ann. 
Troy, 
C. H. Carpenter, M. D., 
A. R. Green, M. D., 
15 
3 
0 
1.00 
None. 
Medical Society. 
Oct. 21. 
Troy, N. Y. 
Troy, N. Y. 
66 St. Lawrence Co. Hom. 
ll 
1871 
Semi- 
June 10. 
D. E. Southwick, M D., 
S. Hoag, M. D., 
22 
Medical Society. 
ann. 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
Canton, N. Y. 
67 Schuyler Co. Homceop. 
Cl 
1872 
1872 
Quar. 
Watkins, 
A. P. HoUett, M. D., 
F. W. Adrianne, M. D., 
15 
1 
0 
1.00 
None. 
Medical Society. 
July 8. 
Havana, N. Y. 
Watkins, N. Y. 1106 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY. 
Name of Society. 
State. 
I When or- 
1 ganized. 
1 When incor- 
| porated. 
Meetings. 
Annual 
Meetings, 
1880. 
President. 
Secretary. 
No. of 
Members. 
Admitted 
| last Year. 
1 Died last 
| Year. 
Annual 
Dues. 
Publications 
last Year. 
Delegates. 
68 Seneca Homoeop. Med. 
Society. 
69 Steuben Co. Homoeop. 
Medical Society. 
70 Ulster County Homoeop. 
Medical Society. 
71 Washington & Warren 
Co.'s Hom. Med. Soc. 
72 Wayne Co. Homoeop. 
Medical Society. 
N.Y. 
u 
ic 
<< 
a 
1872 
1867 
1865 
1865 
1862 
1865 
Semi- 
ann. 
Quar. 
Semi- 
ann. 
Oct. 7. 
May 18. 
Kingston, 
May. 
Jan. 14. 
June 3. 
O. W. Smith, M. D., 
Union Springs, N. Y. 
A. M. Gamman, M. D., 
Corning, N. Y. 
Levi Schoffer, M. D., 
Kingston, N. Y. 
L. A. Clarke, M. D., 
Cambridge, N. Y. 
R. B. Covert , M. D , 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
W. E. A. Gorton, M.D., 
Corning, N. Y. 
F. W. Ingalls, M. D., 
Kingston, N. Y. 
A. W. Holden, M. D., 
Glen's Falls. 
M. H. Adams, M. D., 
Palmyra, N. Y. 
10 
10 
5 
15 
11 
0 
0 
$1.00 
None. 
73 Westchester & Putnam 
Co.'s Hora. Med. Soc. 
74 Soc. of Northern N. Y. 
cc 
1865 
1850 
Ann. 
Yonkers, 
Jan. 28. 
July 13. 
Jos. Hasbrouck, M. D., 
Dobbs' Kerry, N. Y. 
J. F. Niver, M. D., 
Cambridge, N. Y. 
R. 0. Phillips, M.D., 
Yonkers, N. Y. 
L. A. Clark, M. D., 
Cambridge, N. Y. 
18 
40 
3 
0 
0 
0 
1.00 
None. 
75 Southern Tier Homoeop. 
Medical Society. 
cc 
1874 
1878 
Quar. 
Corning, 
Jan. 20. 
B. F. Grant, M. D., 
Bath, N. Y. 
A. P. Hollett, M. D , 
Havana, N. Y. 
30 
1 
1 
1.00 
None. 
76 Montgomery Co. Hom. 
Medical Society. 
77 Lorain Co. Homoeop. 
Medical Society. 
0. 
. CC 
1860 
1865 
1870 
Semi- 
ann. 
Dayton. 
W. Webster, M D., 
Day ton, O. 
J. K. Webster, M. D., 
Dayton, 0. 
C. F. Cushing, M. D., 
Elyria, 0. 
40 
4 
1 
0 
None. 
78 Cleveland Academy of 
Medicine and Surgery. 
CC 
1865 
1865 
Mth. 
Cleveland, 
April 29. 
H. F. Biggar, M. D., 
Cleveland, O. 
A. C. Buell, M.D., 
Cleveland, 0. 
59 
4 
0 
1.00 
D. H. Beckwith, M. D. 
79 Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
of Eastern Ohio. 
CC 
1873 
Not 
Semi- 
ann. 
H. G. Sherwood, M. D., 
Warren, 0. 
D. G. Wilcox, M. D., 
Akron, O. 
30 
7 
1 
0 
None. 
O. D. Childs, M.D. 
80 Cincinnati Homoeop. 
Medical Society. 
81 Dayton City Homoeop. 
Medical Society. 
it 
it 
1865 
1879 
Not 
Not 
Mth. 
cc 
Cincinnati. 
Dayton. 
M. M. Eaton, M. D., 
Cincinnati, 0. 
W. Webster, M. D., 
Day ton, O. 
E. A. Farrington, M.D., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
J. P. Gephart, M. D., 
Cincinnati, 0. 
E. A. Nobles, M. D., 
Day ton, O. 
35 
8 
4 
0 
0 
0 
1.00 
None. 
M. M. Eaton, M. D. 
82 Homoeopathic Med. Soc. 
of Co. of Philadelphia. 
83 Homoeopathic Society of 
Germantown. 
84 Homoeopathic Society of 
Northwestern Penn. 
Pa. 
CC 
cc 
1866 
1879 
1878 
Not 
Not 
Not 
Mth. 
CC 
Quar. 
Phila., 
April 8. 
Germant'n, 
Oct. 
Charles Mohr, M. D., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
M. M. Walker, M. D. 
Susan F. Rose, M. D., 
Meadville, Pa. 
36 
't 
14 
21 
7 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1.00 
0 
1.00 
None. 
B. W. James, M. D. 
LOCAL SOCIETIES. - {Continued.} LOCAL SOCIETIES. 
1107 
85 Hom. Med. Soc. of Ches- Pa. 1858 
ter, Delaware & Mont- 
gomery Counties. 
86 Allegheny Co. Homceop. " 1866 
Medical Society. 
87 Anatomical Society of " 1874 
Allegheny County. 
88 Homceopathic Med. Soc. Ten. 1875 
of Middle Tennessee. 
89 Homoeopathic Med. Soc. Tex. 
of Western Texas. 
90 Champlain Valley Hom. Vt. 1874 
Medical Society. 
91 Hahnemann Med. Soc. Va. 
of the Old Dominion. 
92 Milwaukee Academy of Wis. 1878 
Medicine. 
1 Hughes Medical Club. Ms. 1879 
2 St. Louis Medical Club. Mo. 
3 Newark Homceop. Med. N. J. 1873 
Union. 
4 New Jersey Med. Club. " 1870 
5 Buffalo Medical Club. N.Y. 1879 
6 New York Clinical Club. " 1877 
7 Hahnemann Club of Pa. 1873 
Philadelphia. 
1 Rhode Island Homoeop. R. I. 1877 
Library Association. 
2 Am. Hom. Publishing Pa. 1877 
Society. 
3 N. Y. Homoeop. Mutual N.Y. 1868 
Life Ins. Company. 
Not Phila. T. Pratt, M. D., 
Media, Pa. 
Not Mth. Pittsburg, C. P. Seip, M. D., 
Dec. 16. Pittsburg, Pa. 
1875 " Pittsburg. W. H. Winslow, M. D., 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Not " Nashville. W. C. Dake, M. D., 
Nashville, Tenn. 
Not Quar. Middleb'y. H. W. Hamilton, M. D., 
Brandon, Vt. 
J. V. Hobson, M. D., 
Richmond, Va. 
Not Milwaukee. S. Potter, M. D. 
CLL 
Not Mth. Boston, 
(bi.) June. 
Not Mth. Newark. 
Not " J. B. Mandeville, M. D., 
Newark. 
Not " Buffalo. 
Not Semi- New York, 
mth. Nov. 7. 
Not Mth. Hahnem'n's R. J. M. Clatchey, M.D. 
birthday. 908 North 10th Street. 
MISCELL 
Not Quar. Providence, I. W. Sawin, M. D., 
Oct. 25. Providence. 
1878 Mth. Phila., C. Hering, M. D., 
Nov. 3. 112 N. 12th St., Phila. 
1868 Ann. N.Y. City, E. M. Kellogg, M. D., 
Jan. 29. 257 Broadway, N. Y. 
L. W. Hoopes, M. D., 
Downington, Pa. 
T. M. Strong, M.D., 
Allegheny, Pa. 
W. J. Martin, M. D., 
1708 Carson St., Pitts'g. 
W. M. Dake, M.D., 
Nashville, Tenn. 
G. E. Routh, M. D., 
Austin, Tex. 
F. W. Halsey, M. D., 
Middlebury, Vt. 
J. H. Patten, M. D., 
Richmond, Va. 
E. F. Storcke, M. D., 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
Total 
BS. 
W. L. Jackson, M. D. 
E. J. Howe, M. D., 
Newark. 
J. Younglove, M. D., 
Elizabeth. 
F. Parke Lewis, M. D., 
Buffalo. 
A. T. Hills, M. D., 
39 W. 36th St., N. Y. 
W. H. H. Neville, M.D., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Total 
ANEOUS. 
Geo. B. Peck, M. D., 
Providence. 
C. Mohr, M. D., 
55 N. 16th St., Phila. 
F. B. Mayhew, Esq., 
257 Broadway, N. Y. 
25 3 1 1.00 None. 
41 4 0 1.00 None. H. H. Hofmann, M. D. 
28 6 0 C. F. Bingamon, M. D, 
10 0 0 0 None. 
24 3 1 1.00 None. 
21 4 0 1.00 Milwa'kee 
Test Rep. 
1,844 294 29 
15 4 0 3.00 W. L. Jackson, M. D. 
25 0 3.00 None. 
11 3 0 0 0 
14 0 0 
24 2 1 Ass. None. Egbert Guernsey, M. D. 
11 0 0 0 Hahne- 
mannian Monthly. 
100 9 1 
13 5.00 Geo. B. Peck, M. D. 
10.00 Vol. 2 Her Ing's Guiding Symptoms. 
11,293 588 20 Statistics, E. M. Kellogg, M. D. 
pol'e's etc. 1108 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
NAME. 
Where 
Located. 
State. 
When in- 
corporated. 
When 
opened. 
Name and address of 
Secretary or Exec- 
utive Officer. 
° -S 
No.ofPat'nts 
last year. 
Cured. 
| Relieved. 
1 Not Reliev'd. 
I Died. 
Value of 
Hospital 
and 
Grounds. 
Ain't 
of 
Debt. 
Invested 
property. 
Sources of 
Income. 
Delegates. 
1 
Home for Inebriates. 
Stamford. 
Ct. 
1873 
Geo. F. Foote, M. D., 
18 
25 
20 
2 
3 
0 
$60,000 
0 
0 
Patients. 
Geo. F. Foote, M. D. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Contribut'ns. 
N. R. Stout, M. D. 
2 
Luke's Hospital Homoe- 
Ja'ks'nville. 
Fla. 
1878 
N. R. Stout, M. D., 
12 
6 
1 
1 
4 
10,000 
3 
opathic Department. 
Hahnemann Hospital. 
Chicago. 
Ill. 
1855 
1870 
Jacksonville, Fla. 
T. S. Hoyne, M.D., 
Chicago, Ill. 
120 
281 
178 
48 
49 
8 
40,000 
$5,000 
0 
Subscriptions 
Pat'nts &Don. 
Wm. J. Hawkes, M. D. 
4 Foundlings' Home. 
(C 
Jas. P. Mills, M. D. 
5 
Illinois State Peniten- 
Joliet. 
u 
M. B. Campbell, M. D., 
18 
1,143 
27 
State 
M. B. Campbell, M.D. 
tiary Hospital. 
Joliet, Ill. 
property. 
(Report for 15 months.) 
6 
7 
Hahnemann Hospital. 
Prot. Orphan Asylum. 
Iowa City. 
New Orl'ns. 
la. 
La. 
1853 
1853 
Mrs. P. R. Middhamis, 
New Orleans, La. 
16 
33 
1 
$150,000 
0 
0 
Subscriptions 
& Contr'b't'ns. 
E. A. Murphy, M. D. 
8 
Massachusetts Homoeo- 
Boston. 
Mas. 
1855 
1871 
Miss Ell. Frothingham, 
40 
156 
83 
53 
8 
9 
100,000 
0 
$40,000 
Fund, Sub'ns, 
C. Wesselhoeft, M. D. 
pathic Hospital. 
Boston, Mass. 
Patients. 
9 
10 
Consumptives' Home. 
Temporary Home N. K. 
u 
u 
1838 
1838 
Miss M. V. Ball, 
4 
24 
24 
10,000 
5,000 
0 
Contribut'ns, 
C. E. Hastings, M. D. 
Moral Reform Soc'ty. 
Boston, Mass. 
State. 
Patients. 
H. C. Allen, M. D. 
11 
Homceop. Hospital of 
Ann Arbor. 
Mgn 
1880 
A. R. Wheeler, 
30 
269 
0 
State 
0 
Supported by 
Univ, of Michigan. 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
property. 
State. 
S. B. Parsons, M. D. 
12 
Good Samaritan Hosp'l. 
St. Louis. 
Mo. 
1857 
1857 
H. A. Wiebusch, 
75 
156 
101 
24 
19 
12 
$30,000 
0 
Contrib't'ns & 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Pay'g Pat'nts. 
S. B. Parsons, M. D. 
13 
St. Louis Children's 
c< 
u 
1879 
1879 
C. H. Goodman, M. D., 
25 
15 
12 
3 
0 
4,500 
0 
0 
Subscript'ns. 
14 
Hospital. 
Orphan Asylum. 
Newark. 
N.J. 
1843 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Mrs. A. F. R. Martin, 
100 
31 
31 
0 
Charity. 
Newark, N. J. 
23,000 
City, $3,000 
Subscript'ns, 
15 
Albany Homoeopathic 
Hospital. 
Albany. 
N.Y. 
1872 
1872 
G. A. Van Allen, 
Albany, N. Y. 
30 
81 
37 
12 
11 
8 
20,000 
$200 
per year, 
Patients. 
16 
Buffalo Homoeopathic 
Buffalo. 
H. Baethig. M. D., 
Eye & Ear Infirmary. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
17 
Ingleside Home Hosp'l. 
ci 
<< 
1869 
10,000 
7,000 
Co. All'w'nce, 
18 
Buffalo Homoeopathic 
U 
1872 
1872 
II. L. Much, 
40 
58 
34 
21 
1 
2 
Hospital. 
ll 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Patients. 
19 
Brooklyn Homoeopathic 
Hospital. 
Brooklyn. 
cc 
1871 
1873 
J. R. Cowing, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
80 
344 
181 
57 
43 
26 
50,000 
0 
0 
City Appropn ations, 
Patients, Contributions. 
HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITALS IN THE UNITED STATES. HOMCEOPATHIC HOSPITALS. 
1109 
20 Brooklyn Maternity. 
21 Brooklyn Nursery. 
22 N. Y. State Homceop. 
Asyl'm for the Insane. 
23 Ward's Island Homceop. 
Hospital. 
24 Hahnemann Hospital. 
25 New York Ophthalmic 
Hospital. 
26 Hosp, of the Protestant 
Half-Orphan Asyl'm. 
27 Hosp, of the Five Points 
House of Industry. 
28 Cleveland Homoeop'thic 
Hospital. 
29 Workhouse Homceop. 
Hospital. 
30 Protestant Hospital. 
31 St. Vincent's Hospital. 
32 Convent Benedictine 
Sisters Infirmary. 
33 Homoeopathic Hospital 
of Philadelphia. 
34 Pennsylv. Homoeopathic 
Hosp, for Children. 
35 Children's Homoeop't'c 
Hosp, of Philadelphia. 
36 Pittsburg Homoeopathic 
Hospital. 
37 Rhode Island Homceop. 
Hospital. 
38 St. Vincent's Foundling 
Asylum. 
Brooklyn. 
<c 
Middiet'wn. 
New York. 
(Ward'sls.) 
New York. 
<< 
cc 
u 
Cleveland. 
Toledo. 
Erie. 
Philad'lp'a. 
CC 
Pittsburg. 
Providence. 
Milwaukee. 
N.Y. 
<1 
u 
it 
cc 
cc 
cc 
0. 
cc 
Pa. 
*c 
cc 
cc 
R.I. 
Wis. 
1871 
1869 
1875 
1852 
1870 
Not 
« 
1869 
1880 
1866 
1879 
1871 
1869 
1875 
1869 
1867 
1879 
1871 
1873 
I860 
1869 
1877 
1877 
1866 
1877 
Mrs. Geo. Stannard, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
M. D. Stivers, M. D., 
Middletown. N. Y. 
A. K. Hills, M. D., 
New York. 
J. H. Thompson, M. D., 
New York. 
R. C. Root, New York. 
H. H. Baxter, M.D., 
Cleveland, O. 
W. D. Patterson, 
Cleveland, O. 
Mrs. A. E. Scott, 
Toledo, O. 
Rev. Mother Agnes. 
Rev. Mother Scholastice 
Erie, Pa. 
D. T. Pratt, Phila., Pa. 
Miss Helen W. Hinkley. 
J. E. James, Phila., Pa. 
Wm. R. Childs, M. D., 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
(Not yet opened to pa- 
tients.) 
Robert Martin, 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
43 
225 
391 
76 
35 
38 
40 
20 
30 
10 
30 
20 
28 
40 
48 
218 
283 
3,432 
145 
6,122 
144 
991 
46 
56 
30 
426 
53 
57 
334 
206 
49 
1,516 
76 
4,285 
84 
842 
25 
48 
26 
385 
24 
31 
296 
22 
1,293 
39 
1,224 
40 
10 
3 
4 
17 
7 
12 
18 
35 
51 
4 
6 
115 
0 
0 
3 
5 
12 
14 
192 
7 
1 
5 
4 
4 
5 
0 
5 
4 
2 
15 
36,300 
508,675 
City 
propertv. 
$200,000 
100,000 
100,000 
5,000 
10,000 
0 
35,000 
20,000 
Building 
leased. 
$50,000 
19,000 
0 
0 
0 
8,000 
3,000 
0 
0 
10,000 
0 
0 
10,000 
0 
F'rmof 
211 acr. 
$45,000 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1,000 
0 
Contribut'ns, 
Ap'priations, 
State $8,000, 
Patients. 
City Ap'tions. 
Don's & Fairs. 
R'nt of offices, 
Patients. 
Patients, 
Contribut'ns. 
Patients. 
Contribut'ns. 
R'nts, Int'r'st, 
Sub'ns,Pat'nts 
Contribut'ns, 
Patients. 
Subscriptions 
Sc Donations. 
Contribut'ns 
& Patients. 
City 
Patients. 
S. H. Talcott, M. D. 
T. F. Smith, M. D. 
J. W. Dowling, M. D. 
T. F. Allen, M. D. 
H. F. Biggar, M. D. 
H. F. Biggar, M. D. 
Edward Cranch, M. D. 
CC CC CC 
J. E. James, M. D. 
J. H. McClelland, M. D 
1,682 
14,959 
8,595 
2,910 
353 
367 
$1,549,175 
$90,000 
$86,200 
Hospital of the New York Medical College for Women. 1110 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
NAME. 
Where 
Located. 
State. 
| When incor- 
porated. 
1 When op'nd 
| to patients. 
Name and Address of 
Secretary or Executive 
Officer. 
No. treated 
last year. 
No. of pre- 
scriptions. 
Cost of con- 
ducting 
last year. 
Amount 
of Funds. 
Amount 
of Debt. 
Remarks. 
Delegates. 
1 Pacific Homoeopathic 
S. Fr'ncisco. 
Cal. 
1876 
1877 
Mrs. David Wilder, 
2,953 
6,072 
$812 
91 
$1,289 
30 
0 
Dispensary. 
San Francisco, Cal. 
2 Hahnemann College 
Chicago. 
III. 
1855 
1855 
Temple S. Hoyne, M. D., 
4,560 
9,360 
450 
00 
0 
0 
Geo. A. Hall, M. D. 
Dispensary. 
1877 
Chicago, Ill. 
3 Iowa City Homoeop. 
Iowa City. 
la. 
1877 
A.C. Co'perthwaite, M.D., 
327 
682 
96 
00 
Expenses pd.by 
A. C. Co'perthwaite, M.D. 
Dispensary. 
Md. 
1875 
Iowa City, la. 
the State. 
4 Hom.Eree Dispens'ry 
Baltimore. 
1877 
Marbury Brewer, M. D., 
4,125 
11,951 
1,200 
00 
575 
00 
0 
Alfred Wanstall, M. D. 
of Baltimore City. 
Baltimore, Md. 
5 Homoeopathic Medical 
Boston. 
Mas. 
1856 
1857 
I. T. Talbot, M.D., 
1,462 
4,252 
300 
00 
20,000 
00 
0 
H. C. Clapp, M. D. 
Dispensary. 
Boston, Mass. 
6 College Homoeopathic 
M 
u 
1856 
1873 
I. T. Talbot, M. D., 
8,557 
21,012 
800 
00 
0 
Exp. paid partly 
W. L. Jackson, M. D. 
Dispensary. 
Boston, Mass. 
by Cent'l Dis- 
pens'ry, p'rtly 
7 West End Homoeop. 
ci 
cc 
1856 
1875 
I. T. Talbot, M.D., 
1,807 
4,832 
300 
00 
0 
by College. 
Supported by 
A. Boothby, M. D. 
Dispensary. 
Boston, Mass. 
C'tral Disp'y. 
8 Univer. of Michigan, 
Homoeopathic Dept. 
Ann Arbor. 
Mgn 
1875 
1880 
A. R. Wheeler, M.D., 
367 
622 
Supported by 
T. P. Wilson, M. D. 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
the State. 
Dispensary. 
9 Homoeop. Free Dis- 
Detroit. 
cc 
D. J. McGuire, M.D. 
pensary. 
10 Coll. Free Dispensary. 
St. Louis. 
Mo. 
1878 
Jas. A. Campbell, M. D., 
4.116 
9,240 
Supported by 
S. B. Parsons, M. D. 
11 Albany City Homoeo- 
St. Louis, Mo. 
the College. 
Albany. 
N.Y. 
1869 
1869 
J. J. Peckham, M. D., 
3,268 
4,370 
Supported by 
pathic Dispensary. 
Albany, N. Y. 
S. E. Stiles, M D., 
the Hospital. 
12 Brooklyn Homoeop. 
Brooklyn. 
CC 
1852 
1852 
11,477 
21,600 
1,500 
00 
0 
0 
Supported by 
Dispensary. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Samuel S. Martin, Esq., 
the City. 
13 Brooklyn E. D. Hom. 
cc 
IC 
1872 
1872 
12,000 
12,456 
802 
75 
818 
32 
$4,000 00 
$1,000 debt paid 
Dispensary. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
this year. * 
14 Gates Ave. Homoeop. 
CC 
CC 
1867 
1867 
Volney Aldridge, Esq., 
4,095 
5,955 
1,450 
00 
1,250 
00 
0 
Dispensary. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
15 New York Homoeop. 
New York. 
cc 
Dispensary. 
16 Northeastern Hom. 
Cl 
cc 
1868 
Dispensary. 
* 
HOMOEOPATHIC DISPENSARIES IN THE UNITED STATES. HOMCEOPATHIC DISPENSARIES. 
1111 
17 Western Homceopat'c 
Dispensary. 
18 Tompkins Sq. Hom. 
Dispensary. 
19 New York Homoeop. 
College Dispensary. 
20 New York College for 
Women Dispens'ry. 
21 Cincinnati Dree Hom. 
Dispensary. 
22 Free Dispensary for 
Women & Children. 
23 Good Samaritan Dis- 
pensary. 
24 Women's & Children's 
Medical & Surgical 
Dispensary. 
25 Hom. Hosp. Dispen- 
sary of Philadelphia. 
26 Children's Homoeop. 
Hosp, of Philadel- 
phia Dispensary. 
27 Pennsylvania Homoeo- 
pathic Hospital for 
Children Dispens'y. 
28 Pittsburg Homoeop. 
Hosp. Dispensary. 
29 Rhode Island Homoeo- 
pathic Dispensary. 
New York. 
44 
Cincinnati. 
c< 
Cleveland. 
<< 
Phil'd'lphia. 
u 
44 
Providence. 
N.Y. 
*4 
ll 
0. 
44 
ll 
Pa. 
1I 
ll 
i I 
R.I. 
1868 
1866 
1867 
1879 
1878 
1874 
1877 
1877 
1866 
1868 
1874 
1867 
1867 
Not 
1865 
1878 
1877 
1877 
1866 
1874 
Edward P. Orvel, Esq., 
New York, N. Y. 
J. W. Dowling, M. D., 
New York, N. Y. 
C. A. Quirell, M. D., 
Cincinnati, 0. 
Martha M. Howells, M.D., 
Cincinnati, O. 
J. Edwards Smith, M. D., 
Cleveland, 0. 
Martha M. Stone, 
Cleveland, 0. 
D. T. Pratt, Esq., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
J. E. James, M. D., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Miss Helen W. Hinckley, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wm. R. Childs, M. D., 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Geo. B. Peck, M. D., 
Providence, R. 1. 
8,196 
12,474 
10,000 
3,973 
794 
1,949 
1,260 
6,461 
3,574 
1,207 
7,162 
1,400 
17,113 
33,876 
27,000 
14,832 
6,009 
6,307 
5,040 
12,300 
13,711 
7,194 
14,822 
2,164 
1,042 55 
1,000 00 
93 00 
120 00 
366 10 
305 87 
0 
0 
Valuable 
leasehold. 
0 
$6 20 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2,528 83 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
90 87 
Formerly br'nch 
of Bond Street 
Hom. Disp'y. 
Supported by 
the College. 
Supported by 
the College. 
Supported by 
contributions. 
Supported by 
the College. 
Supported by 
contributions. 
Supported by 
the Hospital. 
Supported by 
the Hospital. 
Supported by 
the Hospital. 
Supported by 
the Hospital. 
C'ducted by the 
State Society. 
J. P. Ermantraut, M. D. 
J. W. Dowling, M.D. 
S. Lilienthal, M. D. 
G. C. McDermott, M. D. 
Wm. Owens, M. D. 
J. Edwards Smith, M. D. 
Myra K. Merrick, M. D. 
A. R. Thomas, M. D. 
J. E. James, M.D. 
J.H. McClelland, M.D. 
Geo. B. Peck, M.D. 
117,564 
272,772 
$10,639 18 
$23,938 82 
$6,619 70 
Metropolitan Homoeopathic Dispensary. Established 1868; Incorporated January, 1869. 
Rochester Free Dispensary. Incorporated 1870. 
Yorkville Homoeopathic Dispensary. Organized October 1st, 1871 ; Incorporated October 27th, 1871. 
Morrisania Homoeopathic Dispensary. Incorporated May, 1869. 
New York Homoeopathic Dispensary (2d). Incorporated June, 1860. 
Poughkeepsie Homoeopathic Dispensary. Incorporated January 27th, 1867. 
Bond Street (New York) Homoeopathic Dispensary. Incorporated February 28th, 1862. 
Buffalo Homoeopathic Dispensary. Incorporated October 9th, 1867. 
New York Homoeopathic Dispensary, for Women and Children, of New York Hospital Dispensary. Opened 1874. 
Harlem Homoeopathic Dispensary. Organized June 19th, 1871; Incorporated January 29th, 1872. 
St. Luke's Home and Hospital, Utica, New York. Opened July 9th, 1872. 1112 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
Name of College or 
Medical School. 
Where 
Located. 
1 When incor- 
porated. 
1 When students 
first admitted. | 
Name and Address 
of Dean. 
L'th of each y'rly 
course and time 
it commences. 
No. of courses 
requir'd before 
graduation. 
No. of students 
in past year. 
No. of gradu'tes 
at last Com. 
No. of Alumni. 
No. of Faculty. | 
No. of Prof'rs. | 
No. of Lect'rs. | 
Estimated value 
of College 
Property. 
Amount of En- 
dowments. 
Am't of Debt. 
Am't of Income. 
Delegates. 
1 
2 
3 
Hahnemann Medical 
Coll, and Hospital. 
Chicago Homoeopath'c 
College. 
Iowa University Hom. 
Department. 
Chicago, 
Ill. 
Chicago, 
Ill. 
Iowa City, 
la. 
1855 
1876 
1859 
1876 
1878 
R. Ludlam, M. D., 
256 Wabash Ave., 
Chicago, Ill. 
J. S. Mitchell, M. D., 
2432 Michigan Ave., 
Chicago, Ill. 
A.C. Co'perthwaite, M.D., 
Iowa City, Iowa. 
31 wks. 
Oct. 1. 
6 m'nths. 
Oct. 1. 
5 m'nths. 
1st Wed. 
in Oct. 
2 
2 
2 
253 
80 
47 
87 
20 
9 
650 
91 
13 
11 
18 
4 
8 
13 
3 
3 
5 
5 
$50,000 
Rents 
Build'g. 
$10,000 
None. 
Two 
Schol- 
'rsh'ps 
$18,000 
None. 
None. 
$11,000 
4,000 
A. E. Small, M D., 
G.A. Hall, M.D. 
J. S. Mitchell, M.D., 
J. II Buffum, M. D. 
A.C. Co'perthwaite, M.D., 
W. H. Dickinson, M. D. 
4 
5 
Boston University 
School of Medicine. 
Michigan University 
Hom. Department. 
Boston, 
Mass. 
Ann Arbor, 
Mich. 
1869 
1875 
1873 
1875 
I. T. Talbot, M. D., 
66 Marlborough St., 
Boston, Mass. 
E. C. Franklin, M. D., 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
8 m'nths. 
Oct. 5. 
9 m'nths. 
Oct. 1. 
3 & 4 
3 
113 
64 
35 
26 
223 
59 
33 
4 
9 
3 
20 
1 
100,000 
$40,000 
$35,000 
11,439 
10,000 
I. T. Talbot, M.D., 
Walt. Wesselhoeft, M. D. 
E. C. Franklin. M. D., 
H. C. Allen, M.D. 
6 
7 
Homoeopathic Medical 
College of Missouri. 
New York Homceop. 
Medical College. 
St Louis, 
Mo. 
New York, 
N. Y. 
1857 
1859 
1858 
1859 
G. S. Walker, M.D., 
2809 Washington Ave., 
St. Louis, Mo. 
J. W. Dowling, M.D., 
313 Madison Ave., 
5 m'nths. 
Oct. 1. 
5 m'nths. 
Oct. 4. 
2 
3 
54 
122 
25 
33 
340 
697 
13 
21 
13 
14 
0 
7 
Leased. 
IC 
None. 
$5,000 
None. 
None. 
3.600 
Varies 
G. S. Walker, M. D-, 
P. G. Valentine, M. D. 
J. W. Dowling, M. D., 
T. F. Allen, M.D. 
8 
New York Medical 
New York, 
1860 
1860 
New York, N. Y. 
Mrs. C. S. Lozier, M. D., 
6 m'nths. 
3 
34 
6 
141 
15 
9 
6 
0 
10 
Coll, and Hospital 
for Women. 
Homoeopathic Hosp. 
College. 
Pulte Medical College. 
N. Y. 
Cleveland, 
O. 
Cincinnati, 
1849 
1872 
1849 
1872 
22d W. 14th St , 
New York, N. Y. 
N. Schneider, M. D., 
385 Euclid Ave., 
Cleveland, 0. 
J. D. Buck, M.D., 
Oct. 11. 
22 wks. 
Sept. 25. 
23 wks. 
2 
2 
130 
87 
49 
22 
1,200 
222 
9 
11 
9 
8 
$20,000 
50,000 
None. 
None. 
C. S. Lozier, M. D. 
N. Schneider, M. D., 
J. C. Sanders, M. D. 
G. C. McDermott, M.D., 
J. D. Buck, M. D. 
B. F. Betts, M.D., 
Pemberton Dudley, M. D. 
11 
Hahnemann Medical 
College. 
O. 
Bhil'd'lph'a 
Pa. 
1848 
1848 
292 Race St., 
Cincinnati, O. 
A. R. Thomas, M. D., 
1733 Chestnut St., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Sept. 29. 
5 m'nths. 
Oct. 1. 
2 &3 
208 
75 
1,286 
20 
11 
9 
Hospit'l 
Prop'ty 
None. 
$15,727 
Total, 
1,192 
387 
4,922 
159 
100 
56 
$230,000 
$45,000 
$53,000 
$55,766. 
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES. HOMOEOPATHIC COLLEGES AND JOURNALS. 
1113 
1 
2 
School of the N. Y. 
Ophthalmic Hosp. 
Missouri School of 
Midwiferv and Dis- 
eases of Children. 
New York, 
N.Y. 
St. Louis, 
Mo. 
1852 
1875 
1852 
1875 
• SPECIAL 
SCHOOLS 
3 
15 
39 
143 
10 
4 
4 
4 
6 
$5,000 
$600 
$1 
,800 
Geo. S. Norton, M. D., 
134 West 34th St., 
New York, N. Y. 
W. C. Richardson, M. D., 
721 Chestnut St., 
St. Louis, Mo. 
6 m'nths. 
Oct. 1. 
28 wks. 
1st Mon 
in Sept. 
1 
1 
5 
21 
HOMCEOPATHIC JOURNALS IN 
THE UNITED STATES. 
Name of Journal. 
Name and Address 
of Publisher. 
Name and Address 
of Editor. 
When es- 
tablished. 
How often 
Published. 
No. of 
Copies Pub- 
lished. 
Form. 
Yearly No. 
of pages. 
Subscription 
price. 
Delegates. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
0 
Medical Investigator. 
The Clinique. 
Medical Counselor. 
The Chicago Medical Re- 
view. 
New England Medical 
Gazette. 
American Observer. 
St Louis Clinical Review. 
Homceopathic News. 
North American Journal 
of Homoeopathy. 
Homceopathic Times. 
Duncan Brothers, 
Chicago, Ill. 
T. S. Hoyne, 1634 Wabash 
Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
W. A. Chatterton. 83 5th 
Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
W. A. Chatterton, 83 5th 
Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
Otis Clapp & Son, 3 Bea- 
con St., Boston, Mass. 
E. A. Lodge, 
Detroit, Mich. 
Maynard & Co., N. 4th St., 
St. Louis, Mo. 
H. C. J. Luyties, 306 No. 
5th St., St. Louis, Mo. 
Boericke & Tafcl, 
145 Grand St., N. Y. 
The Editors, 18 West 23d 
St., New York. 
T. C. Duncan, 131 South 
Clarke St., Chicago, Ill. 
R. Ludlam, 526 Wabash 
Ave., Chicago, Ill. 
H. P. Arndt, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
H.C. Clapp, M.D.,16Con- 
cord Sq., Boston, Mass. 
E. A. Lodge and staff, 
Detroit, Mich. 
P. G. Valentine, Chouteau 
Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 
C. H. Goodman, 2619 Pine 
St., St. Louis, Mo. 
S. Lilienthal, 230 West 
25th St., N. Y. 
E. Guernsey, M. D., 18 
West 23d St., N. Y. 
A. K. Hills, M.D., 
465 5th Ave., N. Y. 
J. B. Gilbert, M.D., 
23 West 37th St, N. Y. 
1856 
1880 
1879 
1880 
1866 
1864 
1878 
1879 
1851 
1873 
Semimonthly. 
Monthly. 
Monthly. 
Bimonthly. 
Monthly. 
Monthly. 
Monthly. 
Monthly. 
Quarterly. 
Monthly. 
2,500 
1,400 
4,300 
800 
1,200 
1,000 
1,500 
550 
2,000 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
Royal 
Octavo. 
1,536 
400 
576 
96 
384 
672 
480 
288 
704 
480 
$3.00 
1.00 
2.00 
0.50 
1.00 
2.50 
2.00 
1.00 
4.00 
3.00 
T. C. Duncan, M. D. 
R. Ludlam, M. D. 
II. P. Arndt, M. D. 
H. P. Arndt, M. D. 
H. C. Clapp, M.D. 
P. G. Valentine, M. D, 
S. Lilienthal, M. D. 1114 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. 
Name of Journal. 
Name and Address 
of Publisher. 
Name and Address 
of Editor. 
When es- 
tablished. 
How often 
Published. 
No. of 
Copies Pub- 
lished. 
Form. 
Yearly No. 
of pages. 
Subscription 
price. 
Delegates. 
11 
American Homoeopath. 
A. L. Chatterton Pub. Co., 
114 Nassau St., N. Y. 
E. C. Blumenthal, 54 W. 
45th St., N. Y. 
1877 
Monthly. 
2,000 
Octavo. 
672 
2.00 
12 
American Journal of Elec- 
trology and Neurology. 
Boericke & Tafel, 
145 Grand St., N. Y. 
John Butler, 
102 East 22d St , N. Y. 
1879 
Quarterly. 
500 
Octavo. 
320 
2.00 
13 
Homoeopathic Journal of 
Obstetrics. 
A. L. Chatterton Pub. Co., 
114 Nassau St, N. Y. 
H. Minton, 106 loralemon 
St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
1879 
Quarterly. 
Octavo. 
512 
4.00 
II. Minton, M. D. 
14 
Homoeopathic Expositor. 
E. J. Morgan, Jr., 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
E. J. Morgan. Jr., 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
1878 
Quarterly. 
3,500 
Octavo. 
128 
.50 
15 
Cincinnati Medical Ad- 
vance. 
G. P. Geppert, 305 Race 
St., Cincinnati, O. 
T. P. Wilson, 
Ann Arbor, Mich. 
1873 
Monthly. 
1,200 
Octavo. 
768 
2.00 
T. P. Wilson, M. D. 
16 
Hahnemannian Monthly. 
Hahnemann Club of Phila. 
B. W. James (bus. man'r), 
N. E. cor. 18th & Green 
Sts., Phila., Pa. 
Pemberton Dudley, 15th & 
Master Sts., Phila., Pa. 
E. A. Farrington, 1738 
Green St., Phila., Pa. 
HOMCEOPATE 
1865 
[IC DIR 
Monthly. 
Total.... 
ECTORIES. 
1,000 
23,450 
Octavo. 
768 
8,784 
3.00 
$33.50 
B. W. James, M. D. 
1 
North American Homoeo. 
Directory. 
J. Pettet, M. D., 
Cleveland, O. 
J. Pettet, M. D. 
1875 
Biennially. 
6,500 
Octavo. 
120 
Free. 
J. Pettet, M. D. 
2 
3 
Directory of Illinois, Indi- 
ana, Missouri, & Kansas. 
Directory of Iowa, Minne- 
sota, and Wisconsin. 
T. 8. Hoyne, M. D., 1634 
Wabash Ave., Chicago. 
Iowa City Publishing Co. 
1872 
Annually. 
Annually. 
5,000 
5,000 
Octavo. 
Octavo. 
32 to 36 
16 
Free. 
Free. 
T. S. Hoyne, M. D. 
4 
Directory of Michigan. 
R. B. House, M D., 
Tecumseh, Mich. 
R. B. House, M.D.' 
1879 
Annually. 
3,000 
Octavo. 
16 to 24 
Free. 
R. B. House, M.D. 
5 
6 
7 
Directory of New Eng- 
land. 
Chatterton's Medical Reg. 
of N. Y. andN.E. 
Directory of Pennsylvania 
and Middle States. 
Otis Clapp & Son, 3 Bea- 
con St., Boston, Mass. 
A. L. Chatterton, 
114 Nassau St., N. Y. 
W. T. Bruce. 
J. W. Clapp, M. D. 
1876 
Biennially. 
2,000 
2,500 
Octavo. 
Duodecimo. 
8 to 10 
114 
Free. 
1.00 
HOMOEOPATHIC JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES.- Continued. INDEX. 
Act of Incorporation of the N. A. Academy, 779. 
Adams County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 655. 
Alabama, climate of, 588. 
Alabama, homoeopathy in, 586. 
Albany County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 457. 
Albany County, IN. Y., physicians in, 457. 
Allegheny County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 655. 
Allentown Academy, 773. 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, history of, 882. 
American Institute, reference to transactions, 919. 
American Provers' Union, 835. 
Armstrong County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 672. 
Arsenicum in cholera, 258. 
Australia, homoeopathy in, 391. 
Austria, history of homoeopathy in, 199. 
" history of its homoeopathic literature, 228. 
" legal standing of homoeopathic physicians, 233. 
" physicians in, 211, 212. 
" private and public practice in, 238. 
" statistical table of the hospitals, 227. 
Baehr, Bernhard, 49. 
Baer, Dr. O. P., 572. 
Barrows, Dr. Ira, 508. 
Bayer, Dr. C., 657. 
Beakley, Dr. Jacob, 741. 
Beaver County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 673. 
Bedford County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 674. 
Becker, Dr. Benjamin, 757. 
Belgium, homoeopathy in, 307. 
Bell, Dr. James B., 557. 
Berks County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 674. 
Betts, Dr. B. Frank, 748. 
Biegler, Dr. Augustus P., 457. 
Blair County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 675. 
Blakely, Dr. W. J., 663, 698. 
Bock, Professor, 42. 
Boenninghausen, Carl von, 36. 
Bohemia, physicians in, 212. 
Bradford County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 676. 
Bradford, Dr. Richmond, 556. 
Brazil, homoeopathy in, 407. 
Brazil, periodicals published in, 422. 
Brazil, physicians in, 423. 1116 
INDEX. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., physicians in, 475. 
Brooks, Dr. Silas S., 736. 
Brussels, homoeopathy in, 308. 
Bucks County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 677. 
Burgher, Dr. J. C., 661. 
Burlington County, N. J., homoeopathy in, 539. 
Bute, Dr. George H., 711. 
Butler County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 678. 
Cactus grandiflorus introduced by Rubini, 1091. 
California, homoeopathy in, 621. 
Cambria County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 679. 
Camden County, N. J., homoeopathy in, 541. 
Camphor in cholera, 1089. 
Cape of Good Hope, homoeopathy at, 371. 
Carbon County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 680. 
Cayuga County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 476. 
Centre County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 680. 
Channing, Dr. William, 449. 
Chester County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 681. 
Chicago and the great fire, 980. 
Childs, Dr. William R., 665. 
China, proving of, 9. 
Cholera epidemics in Italy in 1854, 1855, and 1865, 1089. 
" epidemic in Vienna, 205 ; of 1831, 253. 
" in Cincinnati in 1849, 528. 
" in Philadelphia, 712. 
" morbus in Rio de Janeiro, 418. 
Chronic Diseases, Hahnemann's, 18. 
Cipher Repertory, 127. 
Clark, Dr. Eliphalet, 551. 
Clearfield County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 689. 
Clinton County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 689. 
Coast Province, physicians in, 213. 
Colleges: 
Boston University School of Medicine, 809. 
Central Michigan Homoeopathic Medical Institute, 811. 
Chicago Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, 802. 
Chicago Homoeopathic College, 822. 
Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital College, 798 
Detroit Homoeopathic College, 812. 
Eclectic School at Cincinnati, 525. 
Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, 802. 
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 796. 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Detroit, 811. 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, 601, 804. 
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 786. 
Homoeopathic School of Rio de Janeiro, 413. 
Leipsic University, chair of homoeopathy, 14. 
Missouri School of Midwifery, 821. 
New York Homoeopathic Medical College, 807. 
North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art (Allen- 
town), 776. 
Penn Medical University, 771, 801. 
Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati, 529, 813. 
St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, 806. 
St. Louis Homoeopathic College of Medicine and Surgery, 806. 
University of Michigan, 814. INDEX, 
1117 
Colleges: 
Universities of Scotland, 136. 
Washington Medical College of Philadelphia, 796. 
Western College of Homoeopathic Medicine, 527. 
Colorado, homoeopathy in, 633. 
Columbia County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 470. 
Columbia County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 689. 
Comstock, Dr. T. G , 600. 
Congress, International, at Brussels, 311. 
Connecticut, homoeopathy in, 487. 
Controversy between Hahnemann and Leipsic homceopathists, 23 
Cooper, Dr. J. F., 660. 
Cote, Dr. Marcellin, 658. 
Cowley, Dr David, 665. 
Coxe, Dr. Jolin R., Jr , 740. 
Crawford County, Pa , homoeopathy in, 689. 
Cuba, homoeopathy in, 351. 
Cumberland County, N. J., homoeopathy in, 548. 
Cumberland County, Pa , homoeopathy in, 690. 
Cumberland Valley Homoeopathic Medical Society, 837. 
Curtis, Dr. Joseph Thomas, 449. 
Dake, Dr. D. M., 658. 
Dake, Dr. J P , 659, 739. 
Dauphin County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 693. 
Delaware County, Pa , homoeopathy in, 694. 
Delaware, homoeopathy in, 519. 
Delaware, physicians in, 520. 
Detwiller, Dr. Henry, 654, 709. 
Dispensaries: 
Albany City (N Y.) Dispensary, 972. 
Birmingham Dispensary. 119. 
Boston Homoeopathic Dispensary, 987. 
Brighton Dispensary, 117. 
Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital Dispensary, 964. 
Brooklyn, E. D., Dispensary, 965. 
Buffalo Homoeopathic Dispensary, 973. 
Chicago Dispensary, West Division, 979. 
Cincinnati Homoeopathic Dispensary, 976. 
Clevelanol (Ohio) Homoeopathic Dispensary, 975. 
Cochran Homoeopathic Dispensary, 117 
Consumptives' Home Dispensary, Boston, 986. 
Dispensary, Brussels, 312. 
Dispensary in Cincinnati, 528. 
Dispensary, Leipsic, 74. 
Dispensary in New Orleans, 486. 
Dispensaries of France, 156. 
Dispensaries of Germany, 55. 
Dispensary of the Philadelphia Hospital, 952; 
Foundling's Home Dispensary, 979. 
Free Dispensary of Leavenworth, Kansas, 985. 
Gates Avenue Dispensary, Brooklyn, 965. 
Great Britain, private and public of, 115. 
Hahnemann College Dispensary of Chicago, 979. 
Harlem Homoeopathic Dispensary, 962. 
Homoeopathic Dispensary of Washington, 594. 
Leipsic Dispensary, 74 
Liverpool dispensaries, 116. 1118 
INDEX 
Dispensaries : 
Medical and Surgical Dispensary of San Francisco, 985. 
Metropolitan Dispensary of New York, 961. 
Morrisania Medical and Surgical Dispensary, 961. 
New York City Western Dispensary, 961. 
New York Women's Medical College Dispensary, 961. 
North Wilts Dispensary, 117. 
Philadelphia Northern Home for Friendless Children, 953 
Pittsburg Dispensary, 954. 
Rochester (N. Y.) Free Dispensary, 974. 
Rhode Island Homoeopathic Dispensary, 974. 
St. Louis Homoeopathic Dispensary, 984. 
Yorkville Homoeopathic Dispensary, 962. 
Dubs, Dr. S. R., 677, 727. 
Dutchess County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 468. 
Dutchess County, N. Y., physicians in, 469. 
Dudley, Dr. Pemberton, 747. 
Erie County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 480. 
Erie County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 698. 
Farrington, Dr. E. A., 748. 
Fayette County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 699. 
Flagg, Dr. Josiah, 642. 
Flanders, Dr. A. H., 741. 
Fleischmann, Dr., 205, 207. 
Floyd County, Ind., homoeopathy in, 573. 
Folger, Dr., 444. 
Forbes, Sir John, on homoeopathy, 98. 
France, clinics of hospitals in, 187. 
" dispensation of medicines in, 184. 
" exclusion of homoeopaths from public services, 188. 
" faculty appointments, 184. 
" French Academy of Medicine, 186. 
" French Academy of Sciences, 186. 
" history of homoeopathy in, 151. 
" homoeopathic congresses, 159. 
" hospital and asylum clinics, 187. 
" particular homoeopathic institutions, 193. 
" practice of pharmacy, 183. 
" professional ethics, 184. 
" public instruction in homoeopathy, 187. 
" public lectures on homoeopathy in, 159. 
" reporton homoeopathic literature of, 162. 
Franklin County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 700. 
Franklin, Dr. E. C , 601. 
Freedly, Dr. Samuel, 722. 
Frost, Dr. J. H. P., 708, 710, 740. 
Gallicia, physicians in, 212. 
Gallupe, Dr. William, 554. 
Gardiner, Dr. Richard, 720. 
Gardiner, Dr. William A., 736. 
Gause, Dr. Owen B., 730. 
Georgia, homoeopathy in, 580. 
Germany, clubs in, 59. 
" homoeopathic physicians in, 55. 
" hospitals and dispensaries in, 55. INDEX. 
1119 
Germany, pharmacies in, 65. 
" popular homoeopathic journals of, 54. 
Gloucester County, N. J., homoeopathy in, 545. 
Gosewisch, Dr. J C., 519. 
Gottschalk, Dr. W. A. von, 509. 
Goullon, H., Sr., 45. 
Gram, Hans Birch, 440. 
Grauvogl, E von, 46. 
Gray, Dr. John F., 445. 
Gray, Dr. John F., as editor, 447. 
Great Britain, homoeopathy in, 95. 
Great Britain, education of physicians in homoeopathy in, 140. 
Greene County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 700. 
Gregg, Dr. Samuel, 641. 
Griesselich, Dr. L., 25. 
Griesselich. death of, 40. 
Guernsey, Dr. H. N., 494, 728. 
Guernsey, Dr. J. C., 749. 
Hahnemann, Samuel, 9. 
" in Coethen, 16. 
" in Faris, 28, 152. 
" death of, 39. 
Hahnemann's letter to Korsakoff, 255. 
Hahnemann's Materia Medica, 128. 
Hahnemann Publishing Society, 127. 
Hartlaub, K. G. Ch., 18. 
Hartman, Franz, 28. 
Helmuth, William S., 727. 
Helmuth, William Tod, 603, 737. 
Hempel, Dr. Charles J., 739. 
Henderson, conversion of, 97. 
Henderson, his inquiry into homoeopathy, 124. 
Hering, Dr. Constantine, 33, 656, 713. 
Hering's publications at Allentown, 785. 
Herkimer County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 478. 
Hermann, Dr., in St. Petersburg, 247. 
Hirschel, B., 41. 
Hitchens, Dr. Peter S., 740. 
Hoffman, Dr. Charles, 659. 
Hoffman, Dr. H H., 659. 
Hospitals: 
Albany City Homoeopathic Hospital, 972. 
Austria, 214. 
Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, 986. 
Basle, Switzerland, 242. 
Bath Homoeopathic Hospital, 119. 
Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital, 962. 
Brooklyn Maternity, 963. 
Brooklyn Nursery, 964. 
Buffalo Homoeopathic Hospital, 972. 
Cavalry Depot Hospital of St. Louis, 984. 
Chicago Hahnemann Hospital, 978. 
Chicago Half-orphan Asylum, 979. 
Chicago Hospital, 976. 
Children's Sanitarium at Southport, 118. 
Cincinnati Hospital, 976. 
Cleveland (Ohio) Homoeopathic Hospital, 974. 1120 
INDEX 
Hospitals; 
Consumptives' Home, Boston, 986. 
Foundling's Home, Chicago, 977. 
France, 155, 156. 
Germany, 55. 
Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis, 805, 982. 
Great Britain, 117. 
Gumpendorf, Vienna, 2'20. 
Hahnemann Hospital in Paris, 156. 
Hahnemann Hospital of Chicago, 978. 
Home for the Friendless, Chicago, 979. 
Homoeopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania, 947. 
House of the Angel Guardian, Boston, 987. 
Kremsier, Moravia, 223. 
Leipsic, foundation of, 22. 
Leopoldstadt, Vienna, 218. 
Linz. Upper Austria. 222 
London Homoeopathic Hospital, 119. 
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, 985. 
Minnesota Deaf and Dumb A-ylum, 985. 
New York Charity Hospital. 958. 
New York Ophthalmic Hospital, 955. 
Nisehony, Novogorod, 264. 
Philadelphia Homoeopathic Infirmary, 951. 
Pittsburg Hospital, 954. 
St. Ann's Hospital, Steyer, 226. 
St Jacques in Parts, 156. 
St James's Hospital, 118. 
St Luc in Lyons, 156 
St Luke's Home and Hospital. Utica, N. Y., 973. 
St Mary's Hospital, Baden, 224 
St Petersburg, 261, 280. 
Sechshaus, Vienna, 215. 
State Asylum for Insane, Middletown, N. Y., 966. 
Toledo (Ohio) Homoeopathic Hospital, 975 
Vienna Hospital, 201, 209 
Ward's Island Homoeopathic Hospital, N. Y., 958. 
Houard. Dr. John G., 733 
Hudson County, N. J., homoeopathy in, 543. 
Hull, Dr. Amos Gerald, 448 
Hull, Dr., editor American Journal of Homoeopathy, etc., 447, 448 
Humphreys, Dr. F., 737. 
Huntingdon County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 700. 
Ihm, Dr Carl, 711. 
Illinois, homoeopathy in, 590. 
Indiana County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 700. 
Indiana, homoeopathy in, 571. 
Iowa, homoeopathy in, 635. 
Iowa, physicians in, 636. 
Ireland, homoeopathy in, 95. 
Isopathy, by W. Lux, 33 
Italy, homoeopathy in, 1067. 
Jahr, G. H G , 36. 
Jahr in Belgium in 1870, 313. 
Jamaica, homoeopathy in, 357. INDEX 
1121 
James, Dr. David, 730. 
Jeanes, Dr. Jacob, 721. 
Jefferson County, New York, homoeopathy in, 477. 
Jefferson County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 700. 
Joslin, Dr. B. F., 455. 
Journals ; 
Athleta, Rio de Janeiro, 422. 
Belgian Homoeopath, 313. 
Belgian Homoeopathic Review, 313. 
British Journal of Homoeopathy, 123, 126, 129. 
First French journal, 157. 
First homoeopathic journal, 16. 
France, homoeopathic journals of, 158. 
German Quarterly, 40. 
German Scientific, 53. 
Hahnemannista, Rio de Janeiro, 422. 
Homoeopathic Advocate, Vermont, 569. 
Homoeopathic World, 129. 
International Review of Brussels, 312. 
Journal of the Hahnemann Dispensary, 313. 
Russia, Journal of the Homoeopathic Science, 269 
Medico Populas, Rio de Janeiro, 422. 
Monthly Homoeopathic Review, 129. 
Southwestern Homoeopathic Journal, 599. 
The fecieneia, Rio de Janeiro, 422. 
Western Homoeopathic Observer, 604. 
Juniata County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 701. 
Kafka, 48. 
Kainthen, physicians in, 213. 
Kentucky, homoeopathy in, 530. 
King's County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 474. 
Kirby, Dr Stephen R., 450. 
Kitchen, Dr James, 726. 
Koch, Dr. A. W , 729. 
Korndoerfer, Dr. Augustus, 748. 
Korsakoff. Reman, 255 
Krain, physicians in, 213. 
Lancaster County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 701. 
Lawrence County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 701. 
Lebanon County, Pa , homoeopathy in, 702. 
Lee, Dr. John K., 740. 
Legislation: 
Laws of Georgia on homoeopathy, 582. 
Legislation, history of British, 133 
" in Austria, 234. 
" in California, 1009. 
" in Colorado, 1012. 
" in Delaware, 999. 
" in Germany, 67. 
" in France affecting homoeopathy, 181 
" in Iowa, 1012. 
" in Kentucky, 537. 
" in Maine, 1002. 
" in Massachusetts, 1012. 
" in Michigan, 1004. 
" in Minnesota, 1011. 
" in Missouri, 1007. 1122 
INDEX 
Legislation : 
Legislation in Nebraska, 1012. 
" in New Jersey, 1000. 
" in New York, 997. 
" in Ohio, 1000. 
" in Texas, 619. 
Lehigh County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 704. 
Leipsic Polyclinic, 37. 
Lesser Writings of Hahnemann, 125. 
Lewis County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 477. 
Lippe, Dr. Ad., 690, 731, 757. 
Literature: 
Austrian, 228. 
Belgian publications, 314. 
French collections and periodicals, 169. 
" works on anatomy, 177. 
" " on general medicine, 179. 
" " on Homoeopathic materia medica, 167. 
" " on physiology and pathology, 177. 
" " on practical homoeopathic medicine, 164. 
" " on various subjects, 180. 
" works, memoirs, etc., 170. 
" periodicals, 180. 
Of Germany, 1820-1830, 18. 
" 1834-1840, 33. 
" 1840-1848, 39. 
" 1850-1860, 44. 
" 1861-1876, 49. 
" 53. 
" domestic and veterinary homoeopathy, 50. 
Of Great Britain, 1831-1840, 122. 
" " 1841-1850, 123. 
" " 1851-1860, 125. 
" " 1861-1870, 128. 
" " 1871-1875, 131. 
Polish publications, 275. 
Rhode Island, 518. 
Russian homoeopathic literature, 293. 
Sharp's essays in medicine, 132. 
Swedish literature, 345. 
United States, 1020. 
Livingston County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 479. 
Loomis, Dr. Joseph G , 735. 
Louisiana, homoeopathy in, 484. 
Lutze, Arthur, 43. 
Lux, William, 33. 
Luzerne County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 704. 
Lycoming County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 705, 
McClatchey, Dr. R. J., 746. 
McClelland, Dr J. H„ 668. 
McManus, Dr. F. R., 489. 
Macfarlan, Dr. Malcolm, 747. 
Maine, homoeopathy in, 549. 
Marenzeller, Dr., 201. 
Marsden, Dr. J. H., 655. 
Martin, Dr. H. Noah, 745. 
Maryland, homoeopathy in, 489. INDEX 
1123 
Massachusetts, homoeopathy in, 641. 
Massachusetts local societies, 874. 
Materia Medica, 14. 
Matthews, Dr. Caleb B., 725. 
Matlack, Dr. Charles F., 713. 
Mauro, Dr. Giuseppe, 1072. 
Mayer, V., 40. 
Medical education in the United States, 769. 
Medical schools of the United States, 769. 
Mercer County, N. J., homoeopathy in, 542. 
Mercer County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 706. 
Mexico, homoeopathy in, 383. 
Mexico, physicians in, 390. 
Mexico, supplemental report, 388. 
Michigan, homoeopathy in, 576. 
Mifflin County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 706. 
Minnesota, homoeopathy in, 623. 
Missouri, homoeopathy in, 598. 
Monmouth County, N. J., homoeopathy in, 545. 
Montevideo, homoeopathy in, 397. 
Montgomery County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 707. 
Montour County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 708. 
Moore, Dr. Thomas, 737. 
Moravia, Hospital of the Sisters, 223, 226. 
Moravia, physicians in, 212. 
Morgan, Dr. A. R , 740. 
Morgan, Dr. John C., 746. 
Moscow, physicians in, 289. 
Mueller, Dr. Clotar, 37. 
Mueller, Dr. Moritz, 16. 
Munich, homoeopathy in, 21. 
Mure, Dr. Bento, 408. 
Navarro, Dr. Jose J., 364. 
Nebraska, homoeopathy in, 629. 
Necker, Dr. George, introduces homoeopathy into Italy, 1068. 
Neidhard, Dr. Charles, 723. 
New Brunswick, homoeopathy in, 403. 
New Hampshire, homoeopathy in, 565. 
New Hampshire, physicians in, 569. 
New Jersey, homoeopathy in, 539. 
Northampton County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 709. 
Northumberland County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 709. 
Norway, homoeopathy in, 339. 
Nunez, Dr. Jose, 326. 
Ohio College of Homoeopathic Physicians, 852. 
Ohio, homoeopathy in, 521. 
Okie, Abraham H., 508. 
Oneida County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 478. 
Onondago County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 478. 
Organon, The, 13. 
" translation of, into English, 123, 124, 783. 
" " " Italian, 1069. 
" " 11 Russian, 259. 
" " " Swedish, 346. 
Orleans County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 482. 1124 
INDEX, 
Paris, physicians in, 153. 
Passaic County, N. J , homoeopathy in, 541. 
Payne, Dr. John, 553. 
Payne, Dr. William E., 549. 
Pennsylvania, homoeopathy in, 654. 
Perry County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 710. 
Pharmacies: 
Central Homoeopathic Pharmacy, Brazil, 413. 
Draggon Pharmacy, Italy, 1088. 
Pharmacies in Brussels, 313. 
" in France, 154. 
" in Germany, 65. 
" in Hartford, 488. 
" in Italy, 1088. 
" in Moscow, 289. 
" in New Orleans, 486. 
" in Riga, 290. 
" in Rio de Janeiro, 424. 
" in St. Petersburg, 252, 288. 
" of Illinois, 995. 
" of Louisiana, 992. 
" of Maine, 993. 
" of Michigan, 993. 
" of Minnesota, 996. 
" of Missouri, 996. 
" of New York, 989. 
" of Ohio, 992. 
" of Pennsylvania, 988. 
" of Wisconsin, 994. 
Pharmacopoeia, British Homoeopathic, 109, 114. 
Pharmacopoeia, Gruner's and Buchner's, 37. 
Pharmacopoeia, Schwabe's, 52. 
Philadelphia County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 711. 
Philadelphia County, Pa., physicians in, 741, 750. 
Physiological School, 48. 
Poland, homoeopathy in, 271. 
Polyclinic in St. Petersburg, 278. 
Popular homoeopathy, 51. 
Potencies, controversy concerning, 32. 
Potentization, theory of, 17. 
Provers, the first society of, 14. 
Provers' Union, 717. 835. 
Provings, Vienna, 207. 
" of Dr. Bute, 712. 
" of Dr. Hering, 715. 
" of Dr. Houard, 733. 
" of Dr. Jeanes, 722. 
Prussia, homoeopathy in, 38. 
Publications, the first homoeopathic, 11. 
Pulte, Dr. J. H., 528, 709. 
Queen's County, N.Y, homoeopathy in, 470. 
Quin, Frederick F., 9, 95. 
Rademacher, Jothan Gottfried, 45. 
Rankin, Dr. J. S., 662. 
Rapp, 46. 
Raue, Dr. Charles G., 738. INDEX 
1125 
Reed, Dr. William A., 741. 
Reichhelm, Dr. G., 655. 
Reinhold, Dr. 0. G., 680, 701, 705, 706, 709. 
Rensselaer County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 471. 
Rensselaer County, N. Y., physicians in, 473. 
Reprovings, 35, 53. 
Rhode Island, homoeopathy in, 507. 
" physicians in, 517. 
Richmond County, homoeopathy in, 481. 
Riga, physicians in, 289. 
Roberts, Dr. John, 555. 
Romani, Dr., of Italy, 1069. 
Rosa, Dr. Storm, 526. 
Rubini, Dr. Rocco, 1087. 
Rummel, Frederic Jacob, 28. 
Russian homoeopathic literature, 293. 
Russia, physicians in, 269, 290. 
Russia, homoeopathic hospitals in, 259. 
Russia, homoeopathy in, 245. 
Salzburg, physicians in, 213. 
St. Petersburg, physicians in, 288. 
San Francisco Medical and Surgical Dispensary, 985. 
Schenectady County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 470. 
Schmoele, Dr. William, 728. 
Schuyler County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 477. 
Schuylkill County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 757. 
Semple, Dr. Matthew, 735. 
Silicea in consumption, 505. 
Silesia, physicians in, 212. 
Sims, Dr. Francis, 727. 
Small, Dr. A. E., 726. 
Smith, Dr. C. Carleton, 746. 
Smith, Dr. David S , 590. 
Spain, homoeopathy in, 321. 
Spanish colonies, homoeopathy in, 321. 
Stannum in consumption, 505. 
Starkey, Dr. G. R., 747. 
Stearns, Dr. Daniel E., 448. 
Steiermark, physicians in, 213. 
Stow, Dr. T. Dwight, 741. 
Suffolk County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 482. 
Sulphur in consumption, 505. 
Susquehanna County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 759. 
Sweden, homoeopathy in, 339. 
Sweden, physicians in, 342. 
Switzerland, homoeopathy in, 241. 
Societies : 
Alabama State Homoeopathic Medical Society, 589. 
American Institute of Homoeopathy, 827, 882. 
Brazil, Homoeopathic Institute of, 410. 
California State Medical Society of Homoeopathic Practitioners, 869. 
" Pacific Homoeopathic Medical Society of, 870. 
Connecticut State Society, 488. 
Delaware State Homoeopathic Medical Society, 852. 
First Homoeopathic Society in the United States, 434. 
France, Hahnemann Society of, 157. 
" Homoeopathic Institute in Paris, 157. 
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INDEX 
Societies: 
France, Societe Gallicane, Paris, 157. 
" Society of Homoeopathic Medicine of, 157. 
Germany, 59. 
" German Central, 20, 53. 
" Lansitz Silesian, 22. 
Great Britain, British Homoeopathic Congress, 114. 
" " " Society, 113,128. 
" Hahnemann Publishing Society, 113, 127. 
" Midland Homoeopathic Medical Society, 113. 
" Northern Homoeopathic Medical Association, 112. 
Illinois, Central Homoeopathic Medical Society of, 867. 
" Chicago Academy of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons 
867. 
" Military Tract Society of, 867. 
" State Homoeopathic Association, 593, 867. 
Indiana, Homoeopathic Institute of, 575. 
Iowa, Society of Homoeopathic Physicians of, 872. 
Madrid, Hahnemann Society of, 330. 
Maine, Homoeopathic Medical Society of, 864. 
Massachusetts, Homoeopathic Fraternity of, 642, 872. 
" local or county societies of, 874. 
" State Society of, 872. 
Michigan, Detroit Institute of Homoeopathy, 866. 
" Grand Rapids Society, 866. 
" Institute of Homoeopathy, 866. 
" Jackson County, Society of,866. 
" State Society of, 866. 
Minnesota, Hennepin County, Medical Society of, 871. 
" Institute of Homoeopathy, 871. 
" Ramsey County, Homoeopathic Medical Society of, 871. 
Nebraska, State Homoeopathic Medical Association, 872. 
New Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical Society, 865. 
" Homoeopathic Medical Society of Northern, 866. 
New Jersey State Homoeopathic Medical Society, 857. 
" E. D. Homoeopathic Medical Society of, 863. 
West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical Society, 863. 
New York, Societies in the State of, 838. 
" Homoeopathic Medical Society of, 838. 
" Academy of Medicine, 838. 
" Homoeopathic Medical Society of Central, 840. 
" Local Socie ties of Central, 849. 
" City Medical Club, 851. 
" The Homoeopathic Mutual Life Insurance Company, 851. 
" Albany County, 467. 
" Dutchess County, 469. 
" Queen's County, 470. 
" Columbia County, 470. 
" Rensselaer County, 473. 
" King's County, 476 
" ' Cayuga County, 477. 
" Schuyler County, 477. 
" Onondaga County, 478. 
" Oneida County, 478. 
" Herkimer County, 479. 
" Livingston County, 479. 
" Erie County, 480. 
" Tioga County, 481. INDEX 
1127 
Societies: 
Ohio College of Homoeopathic Physicians, 852. 
" Cincinnati Branch of American Institute, 529. 
"• Homoeopathic Medical Society of, 855. 
" Local Societies of Northern, 856. 
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County Homoeopathic Medical Society, 672,835. 
" " " Anatomical Society, 672, 836. 
" " " Materia Medica Club, 672, 837. 
" Berks and Schuylkill County Homoeopathic Medical So- 
ciety, 759, 838. 
" Chester County Homoeopathic Medical Society, 688, 837. 
" Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties, 837. 
" Cumberland Valley Homoeopathic Medical Society, 837. 
" Dauphin County Homoeopathic Medical Society, 694, 837. 
" Luzerne County Homoeopathic Medical Society, 837. 
" Northampton and counties adjacent, 775. 
" Philadelphia Branch American Institute of Homoeopathy, 
827. 
" Philadelphia County Homoeopathic Medical Society, 832. 
" " Hahnemannian Society, 1833, 825. 
" " Homoeopathic Medical Society, 827. 
" State Society of, 828. 
Rhode Island, The Homoeopathic Medical Society, 852. 
" Ladies' Homoeopathic Hospital Aid Association, 852. 
" Hahnemann Medical Society of, 852. 
" State Society, 517. 
Rio de Janeiro, homoeopathic societies in, 425. 
Russia, Homoeopathic Medical Society of St. Petersburg, 277, 288. 
Tennessee, Davidson County, Homoeopathic Society of, 867. 
" Homoeopathic Medical Society of Middle, 868. 
" The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Tennessee, 868. 
Texas State Homoeopathic Medical Association, 619. 
Washington (D. C.) Homoeopathic Medical Society, 594. 
Western Academy of Homoeopathy, 878. 
" Institute of Homoeopathy, 574, 876. 
Wisconsin State Homoeopathic Medical Society, 585. 
United States, in the, 825. 
Taudte, Dr. Frederick, 661. 
Temple, Dr. John T., 598. 
Tennessee, homoeopathy in, 596. 
Tennessee, physicians in, 597. 
Texas, homoeopathy in, 618. 
Thomas, Dr. A. R., 738. 
Thomas, Dr. Charles M., 749. 
Tioga County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 480. 
Tioga County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 759. 
Toledo Homoeopathic Hospital, 975. 
Tyrol and Vararlberg, physicians in, 213. 
Union County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 761. 
United States, education and colleges in, 769. 
United States, homoeopathy in, 433. 
Universal Homoeopathic Journal, 40. 
Vanderburgh, Dr. Federal, 451. 
Venango County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 762. 
Veratrum in cholera, 258. 1128 
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Verdi, Dr. T. S., 594. 
Vermont, climate of, productive of consumption, 505. 
Vermont, homoeopathy in, 493. 
Vienna, cases treated in the hospitals in, 201. 
" hospital in Leopoldstadt, 218. 
" hospital in Gumpendorf, 220. 
" inquiry into homoeopathy, 205. 
Virginia, homoeopathy in, 765. 
Walter, Dr. G. S., 604. 
Ward, Dr. Isaac M., 739. 
Ward, Dr. Walter, 739. 
Warren County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 763. 
Washington County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 763. 
Watzke, Dr., 207. 
Wayne County, Indiana, homoeopathy in, 571. 
Wayne County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 763. 
Wesselhoeft, Dr. William, 643. 
Westmoreland County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 763. 
Williamson, Dr. Walter, 695, 723. 
Willard, Dr. L. H., 667. 
Wilsey, Mr. E. L., the first American convert to homoeopathy, 444 
Wilson, Abraham D., 447. 
Wisconsin, homoeopathy in, 583. 
Wolf, Paul, and his thesis, 29. 
Wunderlich, Professor, 43. 
Wurmb, Dr., 207. 
Wyoming County, N. Y., homoeopathy in, 481. 
Yellow fever in Alabama, 588. 
Yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, 418, 422, 425. 
York County, Pa., homoeopathy in, 764.