ciently to make a fair showing upon which a diploma may be granted.

Many of the students are wholly incapable of understanding or appreciating Homeopathy even under good instructors and their lack of intelligence, education and oftentimes refinement, both in and out of the college, has a strong tendency to prent a better class of students from choosing a school which can admit and graduate such as these.

There is a remedy, however, which could, and would, if properly applied, overcome all the greater obstacles to better teaching, better students and better Homeopathy, as well as to a better standing in the minds of the profession and laiety at large.

If the A. I. H. would countenance only such colleges as are founded in communities which can show sufficient material to make a choice of teachers possible and would insist on the requirements of that body being observed in spirit and in letter, much of the criticism so justly showered upon us at present would cease; by lessening the number of colleges self-support would be assured, the class of graduates, as a whole, would be much improved and, above all, Homeopathy would be better taught, better understood by a larger number of students and through such students better appreciated by the public.

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA.

There are few remedies that have so wide a range as Echinacea. Yet there is one red lining through them all-sepsis. Wherever there is pus or blood poisoning, Echinacea internally, five drops of the O, two or three times a day, will almost invariably prove to be beneficial. Also a solution of the remedy, or cerate, applied to abscesses, etc., is useful.

Looking through medical literature it will be found that Echinacea has been successfully used in puerperal sepsis and septicemia, sepsis, bad effects of vaccination, all septic conditions, bites of animals and insects, syphilis, typhoid, ulcers, boils, carbuncles, running sores, gangrene, blood poisoning, burns, depraved blood and possibly cancer.

It is a remedy well worth careful study.

SUBSTITUTION.

By E. J. Clark, M. D., Denver, Colorado.

Not long ago a detail man from one of our largest nonHomeopathic pharmacies said to me: "I can not understand the great faith you Homeopaths have in your remedies. A large proportion of your school sees no need for our new remedies. We tried to explain to him how the true Homeopath selects his remedy according to a law and knows that, if rightly selected, the remedy must act in a certain and known manner. The good Homeopathist is also a most particular person in regard to the character of drugs he uses. Drug store arnica made from the dried flowers is good enough for most people, but the Homeopath must have this drug, as well as many others, made from the fresh plant. The poor Homeopath, like the non-Homeopath, often looks at the price rather than the quality. The Homeopathic practitioner who values success secures his drugs from a pharmacy having a reputation for providing the drug ordered or of giving a reason for its omission from the order. Then he dispenses his remedy to his patient, thus knowing just what the patient is getting and the amount that he is receiving. Had he to send his patients to the ordinary drug store to have their prescription filled, I am sure he would soon think the law of Homeopathy a farce.

Many Homeopaths think that because we prescribe our own remedies that we escape the great danger of substitution that is such a real hoodoo to our non-Homeopathic colleague, but such is not the case. When you can buy Homeopathic tincture at a price close to or even below the cost of grain alcohol dangerous substitution must exist. When you can buy triturates for less than sugar of milk, there is also a good reason for it. We have seen iodine, low trituration, without any iodine present. We have triturations and tablets in our possession of soluble drugs that will not dissolve.

We remember on one occasion when called into consultation we expressed our opinion that the remedy chosen was the right Inquiry disclosed the fact that the attending physician. was purchasing his remedies at what you might call our bargain store Homeopathic pharmacy. Giving to the patient the

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same remedy and potency (B. and T.) from a reputable Homeopathic pharmacy, secured immediate and beneficial results.

We know careful non-Homeopaths who are using simples, securing principally either P. D. & Co.'s or B. and T. tablets, and sending very few prescriptions to a drug store. We know one physician who uses B. and T.'s tablets of calomel 1-10 gr. and will have no other, "because they always act the same."

In conversation with a prominent non-Homeopath, he expressed the thought that he never knew what he was giving to a patient, for he never was certain that his prescriptions were put up as they were written. To a conscientious physician it must be a great drawback not to be able to place any confidence in the man who fills his prescriptions. The result will be either that he must stop writing prescriptions or that his conscience will become so hardened that he will practice for the money that there is in it without regard to results.

During the last session of our state Legislature there was a bill passed entitled, "An act to promote the public health," etc. It was more properly an act to protect licensed physicians. If our dear friends who spent so much valuable time and money on this bill would draft and secure the passage of a bill that would prevent the selling of adulterated drugs, the substitution of one drug or agent for another or of one preparation of a drug for another, and would stop the druggist and pharmacist from filling or refilling prescriptions other than those bearing the signature of a licensed physician it would have a more decided bearing on the public health than any bill passed in the last six months. Druggists frequently complain that physicians write impossible prescriptions or make an error by writing a prescription calling for a dangerous amount of the drug. While the druggist ought to be protected from these licensed incompatibles, yet they should be compelled either to fill the prescription as written or to refuse to fill it until corrected by its maker. Make the doctor responsible for correctly writing the prescription and the druggist for correctly filling it.

The best way to escape the substitution is to be scientific for the scientific physician of any and all schools never mixes; he uses simples, can furnish them and knows then what he is doing.

THE COLORADO MEDICAL LAW.

An Act to Protect the Public Health and Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the State of Colorado. Approved April 20, 1905.

Section 1. A board is hereby established, to be known by the name and style of the State Board of Medical Examiners. Said board shall be composed of nine practicing physicians of integrity and ability, who shall be residents of, and have been duly licensed to practice medicine in this state, and who shall have been graduated from medical schools of high educational requirements and standing, and have been engaged in the active practice of their profession within this state for a period of at least five years. Said board shall perform such duties, and possess and exercise such powers, relative to the protection of the public health and the control and regulation of the practice of medicine in this state as shall be in this act prescribed and conferred upon it.

Sec. 2. The governor shall appoint nine physicians, who shall possess the qualifications specified in section 1 of this act, to constitute the members of said board. Said members shall be so classified by the governor that the term of office of three shall expire in two, three in four and three in six years from the date of appointment. Biennially thereafter the governor shall appoint three members, who shall possess the qualifications as specified in section 1 of this act, each to serve for the term of six years, and he shall fill vacancies in the membership of said board as soon as practicable.

Sec 3. Said board shall, biennially, elect a president, a vice president and a secretary-treasurer from their membership, and adopt a seal, which shall be affixed to all licenses issued by them. They shall, from time to time, adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the performance of their duties, and a schedule of minimum educational requirements, which shall be without prejudice, partiality or discrimination as to schools or systems of practice of medicine. When an applicant for a license offers to the board satisfactory proof that he has complied with such educational requirements as are specified in said schedule, the board shall accept such proof as sufficient evidence of the educational qualifications of the applicant to entitle

him to a license without examination; Provided, however, That at no time shall said schedule for graduates after Jaunary 1, 1900, specify the attendance upon less than four full courses of instruction in four separate years in a reputable medical school. They shall keep on file with the Secretary of State, for public inspection, a copy of their schedule of educational requirements and rules and regulations.

Sec. 4. Any person wishing to obtain the right to practice medicine in this state, who has not heretofore been licensed so to do, shall, before it shall be lawful for him to practice medicine in this state, make application to said State Board of Medical Examiners, through the secretary-treasurer thereof, upon such form and in such manner, as shall be adopted and prescribed by the board, and obtain from the board a license so to do. Unless such person shall have obtained a license as aforesaid it shall be unlawful for him to practice medicine in this state; and if he shall practice medicine in this state without first having obtained such a license he shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this act. All applicants for a license to practice medicine or for a renewal of any such license which has been revoked, shall furnish the board with satisfactory evidence of good moral character.

Sec. 5. Said board shall have authority to administer oaths, to summons witnesses and to take testimony in all matters relating to their duties. Said board shall issue licenses to practice medicine to all persons who shall furnish satisfactory evidence of attainments and qualifications under the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations of the board. Such licenses shall be signed by the president and attested by the secretarytreasurer of the board under its adopted seal, and they shall be absolute authority to the persons to whom they are issued to practice medicine in this state. It shall be the duty of the secretary-treasurer under the direction of the board, personally or by deputy, to aid the several district attorneys of the state in the enforcement of this act and in the prosecution of all persons charged with violating any of its provisions.

Sec. 6. There shall be paid to the secretary-treasurer of the State Board of Medical Examiners by each applicant for a