so that no one will go estray, upon that particular point, in the future.

President Dunklee's addres in full:

"Officers and Members of the Denver Homeopathic ClubLadies and Gentlemen: The various subjects taught in the technical schools, the colleges and the universities of the country impress one that all things conform to natural law; and the necessity of study in the various schools is to so equip one for his life's work, that he may be able to make proper application of the law governing in his field of labor. While the law governing in a given matter does not change, the final result often depends upon different forces which may have varied combinations. In order to solve an intricate problem it is necessary to proceed scientifically. The highest skill and judgment the student possesses are called forth in the application of these laws. In the sphere of navigation we discover that the mariner's compass needs a twofold correction-one for the variation and one for the deviation of the needle. The variation of the needle is due to the fact that the magnetic north pole does not coincide with the true north pole. It is only when the observer is on a meridian that passes through both poles that the compass does not need to be corrected for variation.

"The deviation of the compass is due to local conditions. During its construction all the iron in a ship becomes magnetized and arranges itself so the part toward the north becomes a south pole and the part toward the south becomes a north pole; thus each ship has its own individuality, and whenever extensive repairs are made, in a dock with different bearings from the one during construction, a modification of the original magnetism takes place.

"In order for a captain to secure safety for his cargo and passengers, he must understand the degree of variation of the compass. The variation is not constant on the same meridian, but changes to correspond to the latitude of the observer. He must also study his ship for the deviation, and make a new observation after any extensive repairs have been made.

"One does not need to confine his study to books to become acquainted with the correct application of these laws. The In

dians, by observing, made many scientific discoveries, which they utilized to a marked degree. In his work entitled "In the Woods of Maine" Henry D. Thoreau notes the ability of his Indian guide to ramble in the forest for hours and could, upon request, take a direct course for camp. When asked how he could do it he said that the moss is to be found on the shady side of rocks and trees, and the larger limbs were to be found on the south or sunny side. Thoreau explained that when the sap starts in the springtime it starts earlier and continues later in the day on the south or sunny side, hence the larger limbs are found on that side. Farmers in the maple sugar district of Vermont know there is a marked difference in the yield of an orchard with a southern exposure. They have also observed that in tapping large trees, when two buckets are placed at a tree, the bucket on the south side yielsd more sap.

"The system of medicine in vogue a hundred years ago was in a state of chaos. It was based upon experience, superstition, and observation made in an unscientific manner. The experience in many instances where benefit resulted can be traced to rational methods of nursing rather than proper application of a remedy. Drugs were administered upon the principle that if a little is good, more is better. The dose was often so large that patients surviving the vigorous drugging, required more time to recover from the drug disease than from the original malady. One of the consequences was that as only the very strong could possibly survive after running the gauntlet, we had a strong and vigorous people.

"Samuel Hahnemann's experiments led to the discovery of the law of similars. He oberved that remedies, found useful in disease, when taken by the healthy, produced the same symptoms they would remove in the sick. He reasoned that a remedy administered to the healthy in quantity sufficient to produce its effect upon the nerve centers and excite symptoms would always, if he had discovered a law of cure, so act upon the same nerve centers in the sick as to remove the disease. He called this proving the remedy. He studied carefully a large number of cases and satisfied himself that he had discovered a principle of prescribing that surpassed any method ever introduced. He made known his views, and increased his field of observation by enlist

ing the co-operation of a large number of physicians. One hundred years of trial, in scientific hands, corroborates his provings; and we use to-day the same remedies in removing the same symptons that Hahnemann and his co-workers used.

"In other fields of medicine so many remedies have been lauded and fallen into disuse within the past twenty years that careful students regard each new remedy with incredulity and expect its destination will be the medical scrap-pile.

"We hear much said of reproving the homeopathic materia medica that we may utilize modern methods of examination and, in opposition to this, no rational argument can be urged. We confidently expect nothing but good can result, and that the polychrest remedies that have stood the test of a century and been found equally efficient in all parts of the civilized world, in different decades, will be more firmly established by such investigation.

"It may be suggested that, if our system is scientific and our remedies are selected according to a law, our patients should all die of old age. The outcome of a case is the resultant of different forces. The leaf that falls directly to the ground is influenced by gravitation alone. The leaf that is caught by the breeze and carried many rods before reaching the ground is attracted by gravity in the same degree. Its final landing place is the resultant of two or more forces.

"The pilot on a Mississippi river steamboat orders frequent soundings, that the shifting sands, forming bars, may be located. He explains he wants to know what the river is doing. He keeps a chart and exchanges with other pilots and each keeps daily studying the river for their mutual advantage.

"As the captain studies his individual ship to detect its influence in deviation of the compass, so must the pilot study the constant changing of the river bed.

"Every practicing physician has experienced satisfaction in seeing an almost hopeless case respond promptly to the remedy and the patient recover. On the other hand, he has seen cases with indications equally clear pass from bad to worse and death close the scene.

"Is it proof positive that he has been negligent in selecting his remedy? Can it not be definitely stated that the disappoint

ing outcome, in many cases, is that resultant of two or more forces?

"The conscientious physician studies his patient as carefully as any pilot can the Mississippi or any captain his steamer. He realizes that some idiosyncrasy in the patient may so influence matters that, in spite of the scientific application of the remedy, the result can not be what might otherwise be expected. In his studying the individual patient he aims to overcome, as far as possible, any shortcomings as bad habits or hereditary tendencies. He studies the symptoms in each patient, because it gives him a better index than any other method. Every physician knows that the same disease, in different patients, presents symptoms differing so much as to make it difficult for any but a a skilled diagnostician to discover positively that the disease is the same. Why should each of such patients receive the same remedy? Common sense would suggest to any one that in such a case one man's meat would be another man's poison. The follower of Hahnemann knows that when he can make out the disease his duty is only partially performed. He must study the individual disease in the individual patient. He feels confident that a remedy for the symptoms resulting from the combination is more scientific and more successful than any prescription for the disease as a whole."

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The seventeenth annual commencement exercises of the Colorado School for Nurses, which is connected with the Denver City and County Hospital, were held at that institution Thursday evening, January 12, 1905, at which time a class of nineteen young ladies was given diplo The following is a list of the graduates: Ida May Mercer, Elizabeth S. Belcher, Vida Matthews, Cynthia P. Dozier, Edna McHenry, Minnie J. McCrossen, Catharine E. Wilkin, Marie M. Farner, R. Virginia Bainard, Jessie B. Leckliter, Edith V. Orman, Clara A. Stueven, Margaret A. Wheatley, Carries M. Richardson, Catharine B. Crockford, Margaret Fitzgerald, Mary C. Trafford, Christine A. Hammon, Floa V. Plumley. Mayor Speer presented the diplomas, Drs. Levy and Hall made appropriate speeches, Harry Martin's Mendelssohn Quartet sang, and there was an all-around good time. The occasion will long be remembered as one of the most enjoyable of its kind that has occurred in the city for some while, and the young ladies are to be congratulated upon the success of the affair and the completion of their course.

PNEUMONIA.

In penumonia the non-homeopath has a disease that he dreads as one that will result fatally, but the homeopath finds the disease amenable, in all altitudes, to his treatment. Under homeopthic treatment the crisis that is due to occur "usually upon one of the odd days of the disease," is very often absent. The mortality rate of "about twenty per cent." is cut down to less than one one-quarter of that rate. Delayed resolution is rare. In this disease as in most other acute affections the great danger amongst most physicians calling themselves homeopathic is that having read non-homeopathic works on practice, not having much confidence in their knowledge of "the healing art" and in their ability to use what knowledge they have, they use too much medicine and too many unnecessary adjuvants. They become anxious about the heart and go to punishing it. (They falsely call it stimulating the heart, though correctly it is a process of whipping, of using up the heart's energy.)

What one wants for good success is a room with good ventilation, an equable temperature, not over seventy degrees, and fifty is preferable to eighty. Food should be simple, varied according to the amount of fever and the general condition of the patient. Alcohol before and during the attack increases the death rate. No physician skilled in homeopathy finds any need for strychnine, the coal tar preparations and other remedies of this character. The fact is that any old granny can take and nurse three times as many cases to recovery as the doctor who uses strychnine, opioum, trional, sulfonal, antipyretic analgesics, alcohol, etc. The homeopath who uses the single remedy and the minimum dose should have a death rate much less than that of the good nurse.

C. G. Raue in the 1904 transactions of our Pennsylvania Society, says: "While there is no specific or curative serum for pneumonia, still we are most fortunate in possessing such remedies as acon., bry., phos., and sulf." "Our remedies will do much to avert complications, but I do not believe they have the slightest effect on the course of the disease. If the case is going to have a crisis on the fifth, eighth or ninth day it is going to come at that time. We can keep the violence of the symptoms in check and nothing more.

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