tell them such cases of uterine diseases, hæmorrhoids, etc., cannot be cured without topical treatments. I want you to know that is not true. First learn how to take the case, then find the indicated remedy and give it high enough but not too often, and you can make just such cures as are credited to Hahnemann, Boenninghausen, Kent and others. The law is the same yesterday, today and forever. No man who understands Hahnemann and is loyal to the law of similars needs anything more than his potencies for non-surgical uterine diseases, uncomplicated hæmorrhoids and old-fashioned ague. I was once a mongrel as bigoted and ignorant as any today; but having become disgusted I applied for a place at the feet of Prof. J. T. Kent, to whom I owe all the glory, success and satisfaction for my emancipation. He taught me what homeopathy is and how to study it; how to read the Organon, and why the inner nature of a drug or potentized form is more powerful than the crude. And, Dr. Mongrel, if you could only become conscious of your deficiency, he can teach you. That was twenty-four years ago, and day by day as I succeed in making homeopathic cures I thank him from the bottom of a grateful heart. He gave me the start. He opened my eyes and showed me how to study and how to learn the great secret as announced by the master. Then, little by little, and year by year I learned more and more from the works of Hahnemann, Boenninghausen, Dunham, H. C. Allen, Guernsey, Wells, Hering, Nash, and others of their kind. I waste little time on new works. I prefer the old ones. Now, young man, go and do likewise and you will never regret it. On the other hand, however much money you make, if you die a mongrel, even if you get to heaven at all, your professional life will have been a failure and Hahnemann will not know you.-J. C. Hollowoy, M.D., Galesburg, Il.. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Arrangements are now practically completed for the fiftythird annual meeting of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association to be held at Chicago May 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th, 1908. The first three days will be at the Sherman House, which is to be association headquarters, and where a special rate is offered to visiting members and their families. The first two days will be the Illinois association alone, and the last two will be a joint meeting with the Wisconsin Society, which will come to Chicago after a two days' meeting in Milwaukee. On the evening of the second day there will be a surgical clinic at Cook County Hospital given by the homeopathic members of the staff. A special feature of the second day will be an address by the director of the child study department of the Chicago public schools. On the third day the bureaux of Materia Medica and Clinicai Medicine of the Wisconsin and Illinois societies will present a joint report, and Dr. Royal S. Copeland, president of the American Institute, will speak on "The Relation of Homeopathy of the 'New Thought' in Medicine." In the evening there will be a public meeting in Handel Hall, where Dr. Copeland will deliver an address entitled "What Is Homeopathy?" The entire fourth day will be spent at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, where the members of both societies are invited to clinics in every department, and luncheon will be served by the college. Arrangements have been made with the Garrick Theater whereby members can procure tickets at one-third less than the regular rate for any performance during the week. This theater is only a few doors from our headquarters. More detailed information can be procured by addressing the secretary. BURTON HASELTINE, M.D., To the Editor of THE CRITIQUE : 100 State Street, Chicago. As you know, the United States Pharmacopoeia (8th Rev.) was made the standard for drugs and medicines by the passage of the National Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. Since then the manufacturing chemists, pharmacists and wholesale and retail druggists have been endeavoring to comply with the law. The fact remains, however, that many members of the medical profession are not actively supporting the movement throughout the country for the more extended use of the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary preparations. It was believed that the professors and instructors in the medical schools throughout the country could very materially aid in the movement by giving to their students special lectures on Pharmacopoeial and National Formulary preparations, illustrating them by showing actual specimens and requiring them to study their physical and medical properties. Will you kindly find space in your valuable journal for the following resolution, which will, undoubtedly, meet with approbation from the professors and instructors in most of the medical schools throughout the United States? Philadelphia, Feb. 3, 1908. Very truly yours, JOSEPH P. REMINGTON. PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND THE U. S. PHARMACOPOEIA. At an informal conference, called by Prof. Joseph P. Remington, of the teachers named below in the medical schools of Philadelphia, the following resolution was passed: "Resolved, That it is of the utmost importance for accuracy in prescribing, and in the treatment of disease, that students of medicine be instructed fully to those portions of the United States Pharmacopoeia which are of value to the practitioner, and that members of the Medical profession be urged to prescribe the preparations of that publication, and further, that this resolution be forwarded to the Medical and Pharmaceutical journals, and to the teachers of Medicine and Therapeutics in the United States. James Tyson, M. D. J. W. Holland, M. D. M. C. Thrush, M. D. John V. Shoemaker, M. D. S. Solis Cohen, M. D. February 3, 1908. The Critique Published by The Denver Journal Publishing Company. JAMES WILLIAM MASTIN, M. D., MANAGING Editor J. WYLIE ANDERSON, M D., BUSINESS MANAGER JAMES TYLER KENT, M. D., ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 92 State Street, Chicago, Ill. L. 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We would respectfully request that correspondents be particular to write upon but one side of the paper, write plainly, spell correctly, and bear in mind that there is such a thing as the proper use of capital letters and punctuation marks. EDITORIAL COMMENT. DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE.-By a recent ruling of the Postmaster Generalissimo of the United States we are debarred from the use of second-class mail privileges for subscriptions to THE CRITIQUE which are not paid to within four months of the commencement of the magazine year. I don't know whether the Postmaster General is trying to put us poor medical magazines out of business or whether he is endeavoring to impress upon readers of such literature the importance of paying for what they get in this line in a prompt and business-like manner, but I do know that unless our delinquents produce, that THE CRITIQUE will fail to appear at not an inconsequential number of business places to which it has been an apparently welcome visitor for some time. I hope our patrons will appreciate the fact that it takes money to run a medical magazine as well as to transact any other legitimate business, and that they will govern themselves accordingly. Pay up. M. KANSAS CITY IN JUNE.-From all sides come the most encouraging reports concerning the prospects for an enthusiastic meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy at Kansas City, beginning the 22nd of June next. The Missouri and Kansas state associations will abandon their customary state meetings, and no doubt Nebraska and other nearby societies will do likewise and thereby swell the crowd and make the event a record breaker, so far as numbers are concerned. In the March issue of Medical Century I notice that the indefatigable Rabe has already outlined the program of his bureau, that of "Homeopathy," and that it contains a feast fit for the Homeopathic gods and godesses who may be fortunate enough to attend the banquet on the banks of the raging Kaw, is a superfluous statement. The other bureaus are supplied with unusually well selected assortments of scientific material, sufficient at least to be attractive to those who are in search of the real thing in medicine; from all appearances, too, the program will be in the hands of the printer a sufficient time in advance of the meeting to insure its being distributed long enough ahead of the same for those who anticipate attending to become more or less familiar with it. Taking everything into consideration, the Kansas City meeting looks good" to me. M. |