The New England Medical Gazette Volume 17 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...school and improve the practice of medicine, that we should closely study this law and its application; and that we should bring a true pathology in juxtaposition with a true materia medica. Let this be done, and there can be no doubt of the result. Believing as we do in the truth of the homoeopathic law, and seeing as we do its great efficacy in disease, do not our duties to the profession and to humanity demand that we should use every energy and spare no effort for its promulgation? There are now seven thousand homoeopathic physicians where there should be seventy thousand; there are fifty homoeopathic hospitals where there should be five hundred; there are twelve hundred homoeopathic students where there should be twelve thousand. What are the duties and responsibilities of every physician and every layman in bringing about this desirable change? Let each one realize therein and act accordingly, and however brilliant may have been our success, or however great our progress in the last year or last ten years, the next decade will far exceed all this. THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION AT ST. PAUL. Accord1ng to all reports, the late meeting of the American Association at St. Paul was not a happy one in every particular. Strange as it may seem, things did not go exactly to suit them. The New York State Society was the offending member, and they have set their august brows to frown it down. Exceptions were taken to the action of the New York Society at its last meeting, whereby the code of ethics was so modified as to admit of consultation of its members with that troublesome class known as homoeopaths. The New York delegates were dutifully forwarded, but, on presenting their credentials, were refused admittance. The Judiciary Committee reported that they should not ...