1911, at 8:30 p. m. The program of the evening consisted of a demonstration of clinical cases lasting for thirty minutes, which was followed by the presentation of the following papers: "Two Cases of True Catalepsy". ...W. LAWRENCE HICKS, M. D. "Empyema of the Autrum of Highmore of Dental Origin”.

"Report of a Case of Arteriosclerosis of the Uterus".

.F. W. SMITH, M. D. ...NORMAN S. BETTS, M. D.

"Report of a Case of Tuberculosis of Wrist Joint"..

Wм. M. SYLVIS, M. D.

The names of DR. MAX ROEDMANN, 1631 North Fifteenth Street, and DR. GEO. F. BAIER, JR., 161 North Sixtieth Street, Philadelphia, were proposed for membership. BENJ. K. FLETcher, M. D., Secretary.

THE WOMEN'S HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURG held its regular monthly meeting at the office of Dr. Mary Cochran, 24 Ellsworth Street, Bellevue, on Thursday, April 6th, 1911, at 8 p. m. The scientific program consisted of a paper on "Cancer" which was ably presented by Dr. Cochran. Hearty discussion was entered into by the members present. MARY E. COFFIN, M. D., Secretary.

THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF ERIE COUNTY held its regular monthly meeting on April 5th, 1911, at 8:30 p. m., at the Erie Public Library. The subject of the evening was a talk on Materia Medica as considered by the two leading schools, by Dr. E. Cranch, which proved very interesting and was well received. The meeting was well attended. C. A. MITCHELL, M. D., Secretary.

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PERSONALS: DR. HERMAN H. SEIP, Pittsburg, Pa., announces the removal of his office to Suite 8028-29-30 Jenkins Arcade Building, Liberty and Fifth Avenues. Office hours: 9 to 12 a. m., 2:30 to 5:30 Other hours by appointment. Genito-Urinary diseases exclusively. DRS. LEON T. ASHCRAFT, THOMAS H. CARMICHAEL, GUSTAVE VAN LENNEP and RALPH BERNSTEIN, all of Philadelphia, were guests of the Atlantic City Homeopathic Medical Club at their third annual open meeting which was held at the Marlborough-Blenheim on Friday, March 24th, 1911, at 8:30 o'clock. Dr. Ashcraft acted as master, while addresses were made by Drs. Carmichael and Bernstein.

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MODERN HOSPITAL IN LARGEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD. One of the numerous unique features to be offered by the new McAlpin Hotel, now in course of construction on the southwest corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Broadway, New York City, is a fully equipped miniature hospital where cases, no matter how serious, can be treated with exactly the same care as in the best up-to-date private sanitorium. It is to be arranged so as to be able to comfortably accommodate twelve patients at the one time. Expert surgeons, physicians and trained nurses will be in attendance so that surgical operations of any character can be skillfully handled at a few moments notice.

This practical and extraordinary addition to hotel accommodations is to be situated on the twenty-third floor of this largest hotel in the world so that a patient can enjoy the same quiet and comfort as though being treated in the most tranquil locality in spite of the fact that the McAlpin is to be the most centrally located hotel in New York City.

Expert surgeons and medical men have been consulted by Mr. Frank Andrews, the architect of the hotel, and plans are being made for this miniature hospital so that it will be fitted with every modern appliance known to surgery in exactly the same manner as the best equipped hospital in any part of the country.

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THE "CITY" ANEMIC. The hard hum-drum city life, especially of those whose days are spent indoors, in offices, bending over desks, ledgers, and school books, is almost certain, sooner of later, to leave its traces upon the man, woman or child thus unfortunately situated. General sluggishness of metabolism, due to indoor confinement in a vitiated atmosphere, and lack of exercise, is followed by failing appetite and later by degenerative blood changes of anemic nature. While Pepto-Mangan (Gude) cannot, of course, remedy the cause of the anemia and general devitalization, it almost always assists materially in overcoming the anemic blood state, increases appetite and acts as a real tonic and general reconstructive. As Pepto-Mangan (Gude) is free from irritant effect upon digestion, it is readily borne and quickly absorbed and assimilated, and as it is non-astringent it does not cause or increase constipation.

PROPER MEDICATION AND CHEERFUL COMPANY. During the past two months, we have met with more lagrippe than anything else, and the number of cases in which the pulmonary and bronchial organs have been very slightly or nor at all involved, has been greater than we have noted in former invasions. On the contrary, grippal neuarlgia, rheumatism and hepatitis have been of far greater frequency, while the nervous system has also been most seriously depressed.

With each succeeding visitation of this trouble we have found it more and more necessary to watch out for the disease in disguise, and to treat these abnormal manifestations; consequently we have relied upon mild nerve sedatives, anodynes and tonics rather than upon any specific line of treatment. Most cases will improve by being made to rest in bed and encouraging skin and kidney action, with possibly minute doses of blue pill or calomel. We have found much benefit from the use of antikamnia and salol tablets, two every three hours in the stage of pyrexia and muscular painfulness, and later on, when there was fever and brochial cough and expectoration, from an antikamnia and codeine tablet every three hours. Throughout the attack and after its intensity is over, the patient will require nerve and vascular tonics and reconstructives for some time. In addition to these therapeutic agents, the mental condition plays an important part, and the practitioner must not lose sight of its value. Cheerful company, change of scene and pleasant occupation are all not only helpful, but actually necessary in curing the patient.

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BY J. HENRY ALLEN, M. D., PROFESSOR DERMATOLOGY, HERING MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILL.

ALCARIA CARB. Calcaria is to the human house what the structural iron work is to the great building. It is the material of which the timber in the human house is largely composed. When the calcaria patient is sick, the material that carries on this structural work is lacking or deficient. The metabolic process going on in the tissues suffers. That power to assimilate and take from the food such materials as is required in this structural work going on in the body constantly, is either to a greater or less degree arrested. This vital process must again be established before health is restored.

An evidence of the annulment of this process can readily be seen in infancy, in childhood, in the enlarged head, the open sutures; seen from the physiological pathology, if I may use the term; seen in these infants at birth, who have large head, large abdomen, who perspire profusely about the head, drenching the pillow with a copious sweat. They look well, have all the appearance of health. The body is usually rotund and to all appearance well nourished, but on examination of the tissues of these children, we find the muscles all soft and flabby. There is not that rigid fibre in the calcaria patient that we find in nux vomica, sepia or nitric acid. No, there is no other remedy that can compare with it. The calcaria patient, whether it be an infant, child, or adult at any age, we recognize in them this same flabby, soft condition of the whole muscular system. Their physical strength corresponds with this kind of tissue. There is no reserve force; they tire quickly and become exhausted easily. They all desire sympathy and need the sympathy of others, for this false plethora,

this body with its unstable tissues, its fragile bones, has no endurance. They are all syphilo-psoric or pseudo-psoric as described by Hahnemann in Vol. 1 of the "Chronic Diseases." Their ancestors have had syphilis, and this potential essence of the white plague is instilled into every drop of their blood. In infancy we see it in the osseus tissues involved; the bones are soft, the sutures are open and long in closing. They are creatures of excesses from beginning to end. Watch the sleeping calcaria child, with the perspiration standing out on its face like pearls; notice how this child increases in flesh and not in strength; how weak the limbs are, yet as we look at the size of them, they ought to carry a child twice its weight; notice the willfulness, the persistence, the determination of this child to have its own sweet way.

Someone has said that the bones cease growing; yes, and the secret of that cessation is a cell process, a cell dynamis. The stalk of wheat that lops over and tumbles to the earth among its fellows, has not lost that assimilative power that the calcaria patient has lost; there is no lime or silicates about its roots for it to draw from. The calcaria patient starves with plenty of food which is suitable enough to build up the body to be as firm as a sulphur patient. The secret is the loss of power to assimilate that food.

The second step in this tubercular individual is the lymphatic involvement, such as, hypertrophy of the glands, especially the cervical glands are envolved. They go hand in hand with the oscous change and the glandular change. Nothing so profound takes place in the organism, which is fathered alone by the latent syphilitic taint or its half brother, the tubercular.

The third change is the neurotic involvement, which is almost always accompanied with some form or degree of hysteria. This stage is the most difficult to cure. The first two processes are comparatively easily cured in the child or in the developing adult, but in this last process dwells the chronic condition which you can battle with for a life time with but temporary results. If you do succeed in relieving