bers of the Committee of Railroad Employes sent to Omaha to consult with the Union Pacific management in referenee to the hospital fund will be divided according to the plan proposed by the company whlch will in the future conduct its own hospital. If a man is injured while on duty he will be given medical attention at the expense of the company and there will be no more monthly dues collected. If an employe becomes incapacitated by accident or illness not received in the line of duty he will have to pay his own medical expenses. The company will employ physicians along the line to care for the injured as in the past. The proposed arrangements, it is believed, will be very satisfactory to the employes of the road.

THE DENVER HOMEOPATHIC CLUB.

Reported by Edwin J. Clark, M. D., Secretary.

The March session of the Denver Homeopathic Club was held at the Brown Palace Hotel on Monday evening, March 28. with President Kehr in the chair. There were present, Drs, Kehr, Anderson, Smythe, E. H. and W. J. King, Strickler, B A. and Pearl B. Wheeler, Ingersoll, C. W. Enos, Brown, Burr, Harris, Willard, Irvine, Reinheart, Pollock and Clark and Mrs. Ingersoll. Among the visitors we noticed Drs., Robinson and Krudop of Denver, and A. E. Frankland of Chicago, Halsey Bros. genial representative; Misses Abbott and Beeler, Mrs. Griffith, Compton and Ilahi Baksh; Mr. Reinheart, Gregory, Wetlaufer, Connett, Batie, Jones, Twining, E. C. and H. M. Morton, Vinland, Strong, Dr. Compton and others.

The application of Dr. E. J. L. Robinson was received. Dr. W. J. King, Burr and Smythe were a committee on form of membership certificate.

The paper of the evening was by Dr. E. H. King, and was entitled, Diphtheria. A more appropriate title would have been The Two Diphtherias. The essayist was at his very best, loaded to the muzzle and treated the subject from the standpoint of definition and etiology. Beginning with the landing of our Pilgrim fathers from the Mayflower, the essayist, from this point, carefully followed the history of diphtheria down to the

present time, showing by excerpts from leading homeopathic authors that the school had gradually come to recognize that there were two diphtherias, having outwardly the same clinical symptoms, but only distinguishable by proper cultures and mi. croscopical manipulation. Homeopathic authors while noting these two diphtherias have failed to distinguish them by name. The essayist following allopathic authorities would call them the true and the false. True diphtheria he described as that diseased condition presenting the usual clinical symptoms called diphtheria plus the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. False diphtheria he described as that diseased condition presenting the usual clinical symptoms called diphtheria minus the Klebs-Loefler bacillus.

He advised the students present to go out into practice propared to determine for themselves whether their case was true or false diphtheria. The time of the essayist was, on motion, extended, giving him all the time desired to present his almost inexhaustible array of facts, statistics and authorities.

The essayist from beginning to finish commanded the un. divided attention of his audience, though it is doubtful if there was more than one per cent of them who endorsed his remarks. The discussion that followed was bright, sharp and very interesting. We are sorry we can not give a full report of same. In substance it was as follows.

DR. IRVINE:-Had heard of true and false diphtheria before. Where the distinction was pertinent to all. If the pa. tient died it was true, if he recovered it was false. The doctor asked the essayist if the bacilli could be present in healthy throats without any effect, why not in unhealthy ones.

DR. BURR:-Thought that the essayist was rather behind the times as the germ theory was rapidly going out of date.

DR. STRICKLER:--Called attention to the frequent presence of the Klebs-Loefler bacillus in follicular tonsilitis and the danger of placing the diagnosis on that symptom or fact alone.

DR. BROWN:-Thought that current medical literature sustained stronger than ever the doctrine of the bacilli cause in the clinical phenomena called diphtheria.

DR. C. W. ENOS:-Thought that the distinction between he true and the false forms was of no value to the homeopath

as he treated the condition of the patient and not the name of the disease. Make the membrane healthy and the bacteria of whatever name will leave.

DR. ROBINSON:--Thought that it had been proven that the bacteria were nature's scavengers and in his opinion never caused disease or diseased conditions.

DR. INGERSOLL:-Always had believed that diphtheria was a martyr and now he was sure of it and was ready to believe that it was eternal. Invoking the aid of the muses, he praised (poetically) the King of our Club.

Dr. King in closing the discussion answered each in his turn, producing argument in direct refutation or neatly turning his adversaries weapons with one of his well told stories as was best adapted to give him the advantage.

At a late hour, after a well spent evening, the club adjourned. At its next meeting, the eye and ear section, Dr. C. W. Enos, chairman, will report.

STATE MEETING POSTPONED.

The Executive Committee of the State Homeopathic Medical Society have decided to hold the annual meeting this year in the fall, at the time of the Festival of Mountain and Plain.

J. P. Willard, Secy.

In the new hospital for women in Euston Road, London, England, there have been but two deaths out of 90 major operations. All the operations were done by women.

Felons of all degrees of severity are treated by means of Diachylon Ointment, prepared according to the formula and method described by Hebra. The ointment is placed in a jar into which the finger is plunged up to the first joint so that a uniform covering of ointment, one-quarter inch in thickness is obtained. When applied early, this treatment causes resolution; but where proper treatment has been delayed, and pus has formed, the ointmeut should be used until the pus reaches the surface when it can be evacuated by a "painless prick through the dead skin." Deep incisions are not necessary, and scars never result.

THE DENVER HOMEOPATHIC

MEDICAL COLLEGE.

FOURTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT.

The fourth annual commencement exercises were held in Trinity Methodist Church on the evening of April 14th, at the close of a highly successful school year.

The following program was observed:
Prayer............S. B. Moore, D. D.

Chorus, "Go Where Glory Waits Thee"

...Terschak

Presenting candidates for graduation to the pres't... by the Dean

George William Compton, M. D.; James R. Mahon, M. D.; Chas. Branch Cowell, Esther (Anderson) Ilahi-Baksh, James William Mastin, Edward Clarence Morton, D. D. S.; Harry Martyn Morton, Wilhelmina F. O'Connor, Anna Malvina Peterson, Frederick Carl Strong, Otto Samuel Olson Vinland, Ellen Jane Wetlaufer, Nelson Rufus Wetlaufer.

The address of Dr. C. M. Cobern on ancient and modern Medicine was of a very high order and abounded in wit, wisdom and sentiment. Want of space precludes its publication in this issue of the Critique, but we shall give it further notice in our May number, knowing that it will be appreciated by all of our readers.

REGISTRAR'S REPORT.

BY DAVID A. STRICKLER, M. D.

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:-The Denver Homeopathic Medical College first opened its doors in

October, 1894, with twenty-six students registered, one of whom, Nettie Willard Demmitt, who came to us from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, received her diploma the following spring.

The second term, that of 1895-96, opened with thirtytwo students registered, of whom two, Walter D. Spoor, of the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and Lettie C. Mansur. of the Hahnemann Medical College of San Francisco, were granted the degree the following spring.

The third term opened in October, 1896, with thirtyseven matriculants, twelve of whom received their degree a year ago. Of the twelve, eight had taken their full course of instruction in this college.

Our fourth term opened last October with fortythree matriculants, thirteen of whom will receive their degree to night. Of these thirteen, six have taken their full course with us. The others have all come to us from various old school colleges. Two of them, Dr. George William Compton and Dr. James R. Mahon, having taken the degree of "doctor of medicine" from old school colleges before coming with us.

You will thus note that our growth has been substantial, and that the number of students is large for a school so young in years. We, therefore, congratulate ourselves that we fill a real need; that the success of the college proves the wisdom of its founders.

The policy of the college is to receive no student who has not been fitted by previous study to do good work. To this end a diploma from a good high school, or its equivalent, is required for entrance. The course of instruction extends over a period of four years.

The three features which we aim to make distinctive in the College are: 1st.-Teaching as far as possible by assigned lessons and recitations. 2nd.-Monthly examinations. 3rd.-Clinical instruction.

By the first we do away with the laborious note taking and follow the course which has proven itself most efficient in the best literary colleges, and which is being more