In the Children's Clinic we learned to interpret the signs and symptoms of the little ones and thereby to treat successfully this class of patients.

Frequently, after clinic hours, much time was spent in discussing the cases just observed and individual instruction was given in studying them with the repertories and reference books. We appreciated the work of these hours no less than the formal instruction.

No cases were refused treatment and truly surgical cases had the benefit of the indicated remedy in addition to the mechanical aid necessary in traumatic conditions.

Always new students were astonished at the marvelous results obtained by the exhibition of the similimum in infinitesimal doses, and intense interest continued as the truth of the laws of homeopathy was repeatedly revealed in clinical observation. The abundance of material for the study of both acute and chronic disorders is indicated in the report of the dispensary. In 1899 over two thousand consultations were held monthly in the clinics and homes of the patients.

Many patients came for cure after fortunes had been spent elsewhere for drugs and doctors' and surgeons' fees. The nominal charges for medicines did not cover expenses even for supplies. To assist in maintaining the increasing dispensary work, in 1897, friends and patients of the faculty formed a "Woman's Auxiliary," thus expressing their appreciation of its value in the community.

The school and dispensary rooms were simply furnished; there never was a lack of enthusiasm among the students and professors. Few in number, all were earnest workers, seeking truth for their own mental hunger and to spread abroad in the world for the needy, waiting ones. There were no specialists and no elaborate equipments. No "authorities" were acknowledged except the potent laws of homeopathy for the confident and successful work accomplished with potentized remedies.

THE ORGANON AND MATERIA MEDICA SOCIETY.

About the time the Post-Graduate School was started, a group of homeopaths in Philadelphia and vicinity, who recognized the value of the work of the masters, organized The Organon and Materia Medica Society. The meetings were held monthly in the school building and the society developed into an important adjunct of the school as all the students were welcomed to the meetings and to membership. Eventually it de

pended on those associated in the school for its activity and was at length re-organized under the name of the Boenninghausen Society.

The monthly programs consisted of detailed discussions of assigned sections of the "Organon," presentation of provings and reports of clinical cases from daily practice. As members expected to share actively in the discussions and assigned leading parts in the program, we were afforded opportunity not only to receive, but to express, knowledge of the doctrines and personal confirmations of the same.

Dispensary cases here reported, it must be confessed, often sounded like beautiful fairy tales, although the listeners, from personal observation of the progress of the patients, could vouch for the veracity of the reports. Here were heard records of serious and violent abnormal conditions transformed within a few days to orderly convalescence and recovery under the influence of properly selected remedies. Here were heard, also, discussions of single sections of the "Organon," expanded and illustrated from individual confirmatory experience.

Many papers, read and discussed in these meetings, by the students and their teachers, were afterward read with interest in the foremost journals published in the interests of homeopathy.

THE JOURNAL OF HOMEOPATHICS.

At length the work accomplished in this little school center attracted so much attention throughout the country and beyoni its borders that there arose a demand for an extension of its influence to those established in practice, who could not judiciously leave their work to attend the school sessions. The few journal contributions, the reports of occasional visitors at the school and especially the reports of students returned to their friends, impressed those hungering for knowledge, that a journal issued from this center of pure teaching and practice would help to quench their thirst.

In April, 1897, the profession greeted the first issue of The Journal of Homeopathics and read therein:

"The faculty of the Post-Graduate School has no desire to publish a medical journal, but the hundreds of urgent appeals that came in have caused it to accept the duty and it has placed upon the shoulders of the editor the rosponsibility of the work. Now that the work has begun, it shall continue, regardless of expense or profit. THE JOURNAL will continue as long as wanted.

We are aware that many worthy journals have preceded this one and now are no more. * We have started out to succeed and rest assured that it will take more than one, two or three years of reverses to cause us to abandon an enterprise that is to place before

Homeopathy for all time material that it can not afford to do withWe have enthusiastic supporters on every continent

out.

and can not afford to disappoint them."

How this journal lived and met the expectations of the profession and fulfilled its early promises is known by all who possess its numbers. Six years and a half did it continue its monthly visits with such precious freight that each recipient found something in every issue that could not be spared. To-day students of homeopathy consider themselves fortunate to gain possession of any of the complete volumes and proportionately fortunate to have access to their pages for study.

The contents of these six and a half volumes included Kent's lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy, first delivered in the class room, and later published in a volume under that title; the lectures on Materia Medica by the same master, now available in book form, and clinical reports from master prescribers throughout the world. Here are found, also, sketches of the German pioneers of homeopathy with photograph reproductions.

KENT'S REPERTORY-TESTIMONIAL.

Throughout the clinical work in the dispensary teachers and pupils encountered many difficult cases for which the remedy could not be found even with faithful use of the existing repertories. Reaching this point, we were not discouraged, for we knew that in the office of the dean was an unpublished repertory-our court of last resort-which did not fail us. How we reverenced that repertory and how we begged for its publication.

At length it came from the publisher, one section at a time. Each section we joyfully greeted, for in the cases to be studied were always important symptoms to be found only in the parts yet unpublished. There was intense rejoicing when the last section was received. The repertory which we had watched in development, whose usefulness we knew was ours, to have always.

In this rejoicing there arose the desire to celebrate the repertory's completion and by a visible sign to indicate to our muchrespected teacher's appreciation of what he had accomplished for humanity. The culmination of the students' plans was the presentation of a loving cup as a token of gratitude and esteem offered by a surprise party, one evening, at the home of the dear.

DEMISE AND LIFE EVERLASTING.

In the summer of 1899, after much careful consideration, plans were completed for a change of location of the school. At the urgent invitation and solicitation of the Dunham Medical College, it was transferred to Chicago, where the two were con

solidated; thus the Philadelphia Post-Graduate School passed from material existence.

It did not perish. It has lived and will live in the work of those nourished by its vital stream; in the renewed vital energy of the medical profession, proclaiming homeopathy; in the truer conceptions of abnormal conditions and cure, shared by profes sion and laity; in the stimulus to attainment of the higher ideals established by Hahnemann himself. An influence that shall never be erased, but shall broaden with the years, has extended from that school. It extends to all who appreciated its "Jour nal," the volume of "Lectures on Philosophy of Homeopathy," Kent's "Materia Medica" and "Repertory;" to the remote regions where its students settled to practice and to teach; to those who hear its students in discussion and realize that they were trained by a master; to the many suffering hundreds benefited by the truer conception of the duty of physicians which this school developed.

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"Principles guide and experience confirm;" "from generals to particulars;" "direction of symptoms;" "characterizing features strange, rare and peculiar;" "plane of the vital force;' "taking the case;" "symptom image;" "cure of the patient;" "a homeopathic prescription;" these are not merely empty phrases to any of the students trained in those rooms. Each of these phrases is an epitome of definite, rational logic; the key to a wealth of philosophy which they appreciate as consistent with experience; knowledge which makes it impossible for them to excuse their failures by intimating that the principle is at fault.

That homeopathy is not doomed, to-day and in the immediate future, is due very much to the fact that the training of this school leads to the detection of flaws in the sophistry that would pervert the Hahnemannian precepts in the attempt to adjust them to popular, changing fads and theories. It is due to the instilling of conscious knowledge and pure practice to counteract the deadening influence of adultery, emanating from colleges attempting to combine incompatibles. It is due, as much as to any one thing, to the happy, fortunate circumstance that the Philadelphia Post-Graduate School of Homeopathics served as a pedestal, on which JAMES TYLER KENT placed and sustained the torch, flaming with the pure white light of truth, unhesitatingly grasped from the outstretched hand of Samuel Hahnemann. There, in full view, for modern investigation, he directed the eye and the finger of would-be scientists to it as he taught us to say: "IN HOC SIGNA VINCES."

Case No. 1.-Bertha Harms, aged 15, has had dyspepsia for two years, has been much worse during the past two months. She complains of dizzy spells, with nausea and vomiting about one hour before meals. A tasteless, watery fluid is vomite! always after meals. Complains of much rumbling in stomach and bowels; appetite fair; much constipation; stools dry, hard and crumbling. She also complains of rheumatic pain beneath the knee of right leg; this pain is aggravated by motion, although it is worse while lying. Complains of bitter taste in the mouta in the morning; compares it to bad eggs; feels much better in every way while in the open air.

The diagnosis in this case is dyspepsia complicated with rheumatism; the remedy prescribed-bryonia. Characteristics indicating remedy are: the nature of the stools, bitter taste in the mouth, and rheumatic pain aggravated by motion.

Bryonia was prescribed December 4th; on the 12th she reported very much better; the pain under the knee had disappeared, the constipation was cured. December 18th the report was still improvement.

Case No. 2.-A man, aged 41, shoemaker by occupation, has had a cough and trouble with his chest for more than a year; coughs and raises a grayish-white, sticky substance. His cough is worse from 4 to 8 p. m., and is accompanied by a pricking pain in the chest. This pain also disturbs him at night and be tween 2 and 3 a. m., and on rising in the morning. He has been steadily losing flesh during the past year and complains of a cold feeling between the shoulders; appetite fair, but at times a mouthful or two seems to fill him to the neck, giving a sense of satiety which prevents his eating a full meal. The urine deposits a sandy, white sediment; complains of pain in the renal region, which is aggravated if he is obliged to retain his urine after he has experienced a desire to void it. He complains of cold feet, especially the right foot, which is much colder than the left. All his troubles date from an attack of "la grippe" one

year ago.