There are a number of other reasons and especially if one is to resort to personalities as to why the Institute should not go to Denver.

Second: Chicago is probably the most logical place of meeting from a casual survey of the situation, but to offset this we have our local condition to contend with. Illinois is well organized.

We have as president of our State Society a man who has had better opportunities than any other man in the state for developing into the position which he now occupies. He is one of the most influential men in the state. He has done as much towards organizing our district societies as any other one man and has a more profound influence throughout the state than any other one member of our society.

To deprive our state the benefit of the climax which would accrue at a state meeting under his direction would to my mind be exceedingly unfortunate.

Hazeltine has worked hard. Has attended the various district societies and has a program pretty thoroughly developed for next May.

By the time the Institute can meet and decide this matter definitely, which is in December, it will be rather late for the State Society to forego the plans that will have been developed by that time, because should we hold our State Society meeting in May it would very materially detract from the National Society in June.

On the other hand the date situation might be intrigated by reelecting all our officers to officiate in 1913. But that is more or less presumptive and conjectural.

I could elaborate upon this subject to some further length, but I believe you will concede that as an intregal influence in organization and development the Institute is of no benefit to a local community. But as a stimulus attracting wide attention it fills a sphere that only a national organization can occupy.

We do not need the Institute this year. We really do not want it, and I believe the solution of the problem lies here.

Third: Cleveland-the home of the executive office, the center from which radiates everything A. I. H., and situated centrally to a large homoeopathic influence. The State of Ohio is not well organized and its plans for next year are probably not matured.

The Institute has not been in Cleveland for eleven years. It is twelve hours more accessible to the East than Chicago and the westerner is known to be a better traveler than the easterner.

The Institute can be taken to Cleveland, because Cleveland is the home of the executive officers and cause less antagonism from a few mortals in Denver then can if it be taken to any other city.

Chicago does not want to appear in the field as bidding against Denver, and the trustees can vote it to Cleveland, because Denver is an unwise choice and Cleveland a logical situation. I gave this matter a considerable thought while I was West and on my return home and I so wrote my opinion to several of the trustees. I am now again going to address a letter to each of the trustees on this matter, because I think it would be calamity to take the Institute to Denver. The attendance would not compare with what it was at Pittsburg, and if we are going to select a community from year to year which only involves a loss of attendance, it is only a question of time until the Institute will have surely run its course.

If you will convey my sentiments in this matter to Dr. Hinsdale and to Dr. Dewey it will save me personally addressing them and "time is money."

With my best wishes, my dear Dr. Hinsdale, I am,

Very sincerely vours,

(Signed) GILBERT FITZ-PATRICK.

MISCELLANEOUS

Medical Century places the attendance upon the State Society of Colorado at twenty. Liberal.

With this issue THE CRITIQUE closes the nineteenth year of publication. Say, but that's a long time to look forward.

According to secular advices the roller towel law will be rigidly enforced on and after December 15, 1912. Quit yer kiddin'.

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The Colorado Homoeopathic Society placed itself upon record as favoring the scrambled variety of medical examining boards.

The permanent address of the editorial and business offices of Hahnemannian Monthly is 1807 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Now that the arrangements committee has been appointed to take charge of the Institute meetings, we trust it is pertitent to remark: "proceed!"

Dr. G. P. Robinson, old-time homoeopathic physician of Colorado Springs, was a caller the 27th, of last month. He may locate in Denver. More the merrier.

All persons indebted to THE CRITIQUE, on subscription, are cordially invited to "come across" with the coin. Barring the slang, this is certainly a sensible suggestion.

Drs. Burnham and Palmer have removed to Dr. Burnham's old location, corner of California and Fourteenth streets. They formerly held forth on the fourth floor of the Mack Building.

Dr. Lewis Pinkerton Crutcher's address is 238 Grand avenue, Glendale, Calicrnia. He has severed all connection with the National League for Medical Freedom, according to notice contained in this issue.

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"Homoeopathy Experimentally Demonstrated" is the title of a fourteen-page booklet that recently found its way to this office. M. Cahis, Barcelona, is the editor and seems to know pretty thoroughly what he is talking about.

Now that a "conference" has been held regarding the appointment of local talent for the forthcoming meeting of the American Institute and a still more public urgment (good word) of certain appointments, "What are you going to do about it?"

Now that election is over and politics have been relegated to the rear, THE CRITIQUE hopes to issue promptly 1st of every month. Too much business in the mechanical department of this publication, to make

our issues any more prompt than they have been during the past ten months.

Wonder if anything will be done towards restoring the name "Denver Homoeopathic" to the hospital now recognized as the "Park Avenue?" Run along, little boy, and sell your papers; "nothin' doin'."

Dr. P. G. Rowe, Hering, was an agreeable caller at the editorial offices of THE CRITIQUE the 23d of last month. He contemplates pitching his tent, so to speak, in this vicinity, and we wish him all manner of good luck. He is a sure-enough homoeopath.

Dr. C. E. Fisher was not elected congressman-at-large by the Bull Moose bunch, but he made an awful good stagger toward the goal of his ambitions. He is chairman of the transportation committee for the forthcoming meeting of the American Institute in Denver, which means there will be something doing" in that department.

DR. CRUTCHER SEVERS ALL CONNECTION WITH MED. ICAL FREEDOM LEAGUE.

DR. J. W. MASTIN, Editor The Critique, Denver, Colo.

DEAR DR. MASTIN: For the information of those of my professional friends who may be interested, will you please publish in an early number of your journal the announcement that I have, for good and sufficient reasons, severed all connection with the National League for Medical Freedom, and oblige, Fraternally yours,

238 Central Ave., Glendale, Cal.

LEWIS P. CRUTCHER, M. D.

PUBLIC CLINICS AT U. M. NEXT MONTH.

The Clinical Faculty of the Homoeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will give a series of public clinics during the entire week of January 6, 1913, to which all members of the profession are invited. Doctors Stephen H. Knight and Rollin H. Stevens. both of Detroit, will cooperate with the faculty of the college in their respective specialties. The clinics will be mostly operative, in the various departments of surgery. There will, however, be at least one medical and one nervous disease clinic and, perhaps, a few special lectures.

A special announcement is being prepared, giving hours and names. The announcement will be sent upon application to the dean of the college.

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THAT FUNNY NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL.

The Critique seems to be disturbed because in quoting the Medical Century's objections to Denver as the meeting place for the Institute in 1C13, and in having a little fun at the grandiloquence of its own announcement in re that meeting, we did not come out specifically and say wher the North American stands. The omission is easily supplied. The North American never questioned the ability of the Board of Trustees to thoroughly weigh the pros and cons and decide where the next meeting had best be held. While their choice, Denver, is some distance away

from the center of homoeopathic population, that is not the only consideration, and the North American knows no reason why the officers of the Institute and the Colorado homoeopthists working together cannot bring about a meeting that will be pleasurable and profitable to those who attend and of lasting good to the cause of homoeopathy in the Rocky Mountain region.-N. A. Journal of Homoeopathy.

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NIGGER-IN-THE-WOODPILE!

One clause of the Colorado law, as presented in the communication of Attorney Frederick D. Anderson to the editor of THE CRITIQUE and printed in the October issue of that periodical, is worthy of note, as it has much of the Nigger-in-the-Woodpile effect and the Colorado law is by no means the only one that has practically the same words in it. Indeed, it is found in many of the state laws and its origin is evident. The clause is: "They (the board) shall, from time to time adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the performance of their duties," etc., etc. This is a decidedly elastic clause in the law. In one state where this clause appears the board adopted a rule that no candidate could come before it for examination unless he had two years of collegiate work as a pre-requisite to matriculation. Another state board adopted the rule that no college would be in good standing unless the equipment had among other things a sphymomanometer of a certain instrument maker's make. Another adopted the rule that a college to be in good standing must have six full-time salaried teachers and it might go further if it likes and fix the amount of salaries!

We are heartily in sympathy with Editor's Mastin's contention that every State in the Union should urge the appointment of a Homoeopathic State Board of Medical Examiners whose duty shall be to determine the qualifications of homoeopathic applicants.-Medical Century.

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DENVER IN 1913.

The meeting of the American Institute of Homoeopathy to be held in Denver in June, 1913, should be the Mecca for every member. Numerous excellent hotels, clubs, parks and places of amusement, unsurpassed mountain scenery, bright sunshine, and pure, cool, salubrious air make Denver an ideal convention city.

"Denver does things" is our slogan, and we want to assure the profession that so far as Denver is concerned nothing will be left undone to make the Institute meeting a grand success. Now is the time to make your plans for next summer's vacation. Get away from your daily grind. Come with the Institute, take part in the work, renew old acquaintances and make new ones, exchange ideas, promote sociability. Arrange to spend a few weeks in the Rockies, where renewed health and vigor are imbibed from the backbone of the continent.

Colorado is an ideal place for motor enthusiasts in summer. Thousands come every year. The roads are good, and every point of interest is reached by machine. Here you escape the intense heat of other climes, while a panorama of scenery rivaling that of Switzerland lies always before you, making motoring one continuous round of pleasure. Again, we bid you come with the Institute to Denver and join us in making the meeting the greatest success in history.-J. B. Brown, M. D., President Colorado Homoeopathic Society, in Journal American Institute of Homoeopathy.

STEDMAN'S MEDICAL DIRECTORY.

The medical profession is under lasting obligations to Thomas Lathrop Stedman, A. M., M. D., for the most recent product of his master mind in the form of Stedman's Medical Dictionary. It comprises words used in medicine, with their derivation and pronounciation, as well as all common and special terms, such as life insurance, electrical, botanical, veterinary, chemical, dental, etc.

It gives the chemical and therapeutic information as to mineral Springs of America, which of itself is sufficient to make it a book of inestimable value to the average medical man and places him in possession of scientific knowledge beyond that gained in railroad folders and from private information of a more or less unreliable nature; in fact it is a book every doctor should have upon his library shelves. Writers of papers for publication and public presentation would avoid many embarrassing situations by using this authority. Messrs. William Wood & Co., 51 Fifth Avenue, New York, are the publishers and this fact alone is sufficient without further comment to assure the profession a desirable product of the printer's art. It is beautifully bound, plainly indexed and the arrangement is such as to make the study of its pages a pleasure. The price is: Plain, $4.50, net; $5.00 indexed.

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REPORT OF SOUTHERN HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASS'N Nothing succeeds, like success, and this is once more demonstrated in the case of the twenty-ninth session of the Southern Association meeting. which was held in Richmond, Va. It was one of the most enthusiastic and successful meetings ever held by the organization. New life was instilled, many new members were added and every one was impressed with the bright future of the association.

The opening exercises were held in the Jefferson Hotel auditorium on the evening of the first day. Dr. Royal S. Copeland of New York City delivered the formal address, "What is Homoeopathy?" The attendance was large. The papers presented covered all the field of medicine and surgery.

Dr. Ralph Bernstein of Philadelphia gave a stereoscopic skin clinic and reflectoscopic lantern demonstration of the more common skin diseases of childhood, their recognition and treatment. The session was well attended and a hearty discussion entered into.

Dr. Bernard S. Arnulphy's paper, of Paris, France, "The Istonic Plasma of Professor Reni de Quinton in treatment of children," was read by Dr. Harry B. Baker of Richmond. This opened up a new line of thought. The subject was well presented and caused much favorable comment and discussion.

Dr. E. Stillman Bailey of Chicago, Ill., read a paper on "Radium as a Remedy in Carcinoma." The most intense interest was manifested. The doctor has for sometime been interested in this subject and gave some very excellent results. Dr. Bailey commanded the undivided attention of a large audience. The doctor is a patient research worker.

Dr. William R. King of Washington, D. C., read an interesting paper -"Imbalances of Extraneous Eye Muscles." He recounted numerous cases where extraordinary conditions have resulted from strain on the muscles of the eye. So it went on for three days, a large number of papers being presented and fully discussed.

The social features were an automobile ride to Abattoir Valentine Meat Juice Co. After inspection of the Abattoir, members of the association were.driven to the Valentine Museum. After viewing the col