Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,

BY R. J. MCCLATCHEY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PREFACE.

THE volume of Transactions of the Twenty-sixth Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy is herewith submitted. The delay in issuing the work has been due to circumstances entirely beyond the control of the Committee of Publication.

The Committee of Publication deem it their duty to call attention to the fact that three of the papers (there may have been others) printed in this volume as parts of the reports of various bureaus, have been published elsewhere since the meeting of the Institute, viz.: "Anal and Rectal Fissure," by William Eggert, M.D., printed in the North American Journal of Homœopathy; " Diet of Infants and Young Children," by John C. Morgan, M.D., printed in the American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica, &c., and reprinted in pamphlet form; "Clinical Cases in Ophthalmology," by Charles H. Von Tagen, M.D., partially printed in the Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter. The committee would ask the Institute to take action looking to the protection of its reports and papers, at the coming session.

In behalf of the Committee of Publication.

ROBERT J. MCCLATCHEY,

General Secretary.