Institute, without requiring the people to be lashed through the gateways of local societies in order to get them in here.

Dr. Fisher: I am quite in sympathy with Dr. Custis's position in this matter, and especially as it relates to the District of Columbia. I think his reasons are good reasons; but another reason why we should adopt this resolution, or something like it, is that it touches every part of the United States and every Homoeopath in it. Dr. Westover says we don't want this censorship. If the doctor will carefully study the By-Laws of this American Institute, he will discover that the Institute arrogates to itself the censorship over Homœopathic journals and colleges, and, as well, over everything else that pertains to the success of the Institute and the profession of Homœopathic medicine. This is the chief Homœopathic body of the United States; it is the official head; it is the head of the family; it should know every member of its family. Dr. Roby suggests that Dr. Custis may be here to guard the door. I was here last year as eager to protect the Institute membership as any member here to-day, and yet I inadvertently helped to open the door to one of the most notorious and offensive advertisers in the United States. How do we know these men? They come recommended as graduates by friends of former years. We accept the precedent of their names on the application blank, and send it in in good faith. Now, the doctor suggests that it would be a hardship to send him back home; better let him go home than to admit an improper man. A man who is not in good standing in his home is not a fit member for this Institute. I have confidence enough in the good sense and justice of these home societies to believe that they will deal justly with an applicant.

Dr. T. P. Wilson: The American Medical Association is some few years younger than this Institute as a national body, yet it has arrived at the perfection of organization of which we might well take cognizance. The American Medical Association is purely a representative body. Delegates and representatives are sent from the local bodies and no man can go into that association unless he can be sent there as a delegate from some local society. So anxious are men to be represented in the American Medical Association that they have formed societies in every valley and on every hill-top and collected themselves within it to be represented in the American Medical Association. They are not representative by themselves but of the societies of the country. What can you do for the benefit of Homoeopathy by adopting that plan of work? Now regarding the ideas of Dr. Westover he has driven the whole thing to an absurdity. If we could carry such censorship as that, why we could carry it to any extent. I don't wish to support Dr. Custis particularly because it applies to the District of Columbia but because it applies to the whole United States. We have men enough to form new

local societies here and there, and soon we shall be a representative body. We are now only a mass meeting and because of that we stand inferior to the American Medical Association to-day. I hope that Dr. Custis's resolution will prevail. And I now make the motion that this report be referred back to the committee to report more in accordance with the desire of this Institute. This motion

was adopted.

Dr. A. R. Wright, of the Committee to Report on the Place of Meeting for the Institute for next year, reported progress. He said he did not suppose when he accepted the place that there would be so much difficulty to secure a place of meeting; but up to the present time the committee has not been able to decide definitely, until we get one or two telegrams. The committee will endeavor to report finally to-morrow morning.

Dr. C. G. Higbee proposed a resolution having reference to the question of medical ethics in relation to the matter of advertising of sanitariums, and asked that it be referred to the Senate of Seniors.

Dr. Fisher raised the point of order that all resolutions are required to go before the Committee on Resolutions.

The President decides that this being in relation to a question of ethics properly belongs to the Senate of Seniors and therefore the resolution is so referred.

THE REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE

was now presented and read by the General Secretary to the effect that said committee had examined the accounts and vouchers of the Treasurer and found his report correct.

The Report of the Treasurer together with that of the Auditing Committee, was then accepted and referred to the Committee of

Publication. (See the "Report of the Treasurer.")

Adjourned.

Following the adjournment of the general session of the morning, sectional meetings were held in Obstetrics and in Surgery.

In the afternoon sectional meetings were held in Gynecology and in Clinical Medicine.

EVENING SESSION.

The Institute reconvened at eight o'clock. President McClelland occupying the chair.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE HAHNEMANN MONU

MENT

was presented and read by Dr. Henry M. Smith, Secretary of the Committee, and was accepted.*

At this point the President announced that inastouch as he was one of the speakers of the evening he would call Dr. C. E. Fisher, Vice-President, to the chair.

Dr. A. W. Roby, of Topeka, Kansas, read the following:

TO SAMUEL HAHNEMANN-THE GREATEST OF ALL OUR DEAD.

A SONNET.

BY HENRY W. ROBY, M.D., TOPEKA, KAN.

The sonneteer may well distrust his laggard pen,
And loud bewail his paucity and lack of skill;
His scanty inspiration he may well bemoan,

To fitly picture to the waiting sons of men

The sturdy prowess and indomitable will

That Hahnemann displayed upon the battle-field alone.

Ah, me! If I could only lift my voice

In such resounding tones as Stentor did,

And make the men across Time's estuaries hear,

How gladly would I bid them all rejoice

And take new courage for their lives, amid

The lurking dangers that surround them year by year;

How gladly would I tell each hopeful sire and son

The mighty deeds that matchless Hahnemann hath done.

How gladly would I paint in glory of the skies
That dauntless courage and that vision keen and clear
That saw, beyond the little round of dying days,
That, in the light of long-drawn centuries there lies
More wisdom than is found in any passing year,
And hope for human welfare in the kindlier ways
That come with glowing feet across the burning plains

*This report failed to reach the Secretary.

Which lie between the world's primeval state

And that most fair environment wherein the human race
Shall find surcease from all its racking pains,

And life itself shall yield its regency so late

That staves and white hairs shall be signs of youthful grace;
And, tangled in and out amid the picture's tint should run
The record of the deeds this later Hercules hath done.

To-day, if I could sing some grand triumphant song,

In which the music of the spheres should blend with sweetness of the nightingale,

And all the roaring thunders of the cataract and sea,

I would lift up my voice and pour it full and strong
In melody and harmony sublime through every vale,
By every mountain side, by every shore and lea,
To all the dying sons of men who plead and cry
For succor in the hour when death assails, and they
Lie succorless, and lionhearted men in anguish bow,
And weeping children lift their tearful faces to the sky
That mocks their terrors till they turn away
With scowl and frown of dying centuries upon their brow.
And all the burden of that song of mine should be,
The mighty things that Hahnemann hath done for me.

The rolling centuries shall answer one by one
What lofty souls they held in sacred keep and bound,
When light of love was stronger than the light of day,
And none shall answer as the circling cycles run

A greater soul, or one whose love for man was more profound,
Than that which saw the "King of Terrors" halted by the way,
And questioned of his right to slay mankind at every turn

Of life's great highway, over which the sons of earth

Must all go up and answer summons for a last account;

None shall more proudly speak in words that glow and burn,

And say to all mankind, "Mine was that son of more than mortal worth
Who lately stood upon transfiguration's mount,

Where all mankind might lift their eyes and see
How like were they of Koethen and of Galilee."

Dr. J. B. G. Custis, of Washington, D. C., and Dr. J. S. Mitchell, of Chicago, Ill., read brief and interesting addresses in relation to the subject of the committee's report:*

Mr. J. Newman, the distinguished elocutionist of Denver, gave two recitations from J. Whitcomb Riley, which greatly edified and amused the audience.

Dr. T. F. Allen was the next speaker. He said:

* These addresses were not handed to the Secretary.

There is but one thing to say concerning this honor to the great Samuel Hahnemann-and that is what I have thought all the time since this project was started-that we owe an immense debt of gratitude to him and that we can show but very little to-day in this scheme to honor his memory. I have always been a disciple of the Grand Old Man; always studied his books from the time I began to study Homoeopathy. But I do not think I ever half appreciated it until within the past year, when it became my lot to write a short sketch of him for a certain work, and I went over his life very carefully. I have never been so impressed with the wonderful genius of the man as I have been during the past season. It seems to me that a man who, at his time, could have propounded the philosophy and established the system of medicine which is so far-reaching and so true and so perfect and so in sympathy with the issues of to-day in every department of study and science, and especially in that of medicine, as he did, must have been inspired. It does not seem possible that he could have foreseen this just-closing century which has witnessed such great advancements in the department of medicine, not only from the point of view of therapeutics but as bearing even upon contemporary medicine, and upon everything that we are just beginning to investigate. Hahnemann was ahead of us, and his works are as fresh and wonderful to us to-day as they were to his disciples a hundred years ago. Whenever a patient recovers from a serious illness by virtue of a prescription based upon Hahnemann's law, I feel like asking of that patient a contribution; I feel that he owes to us some tithe to forward this monument. And if we do not do it ourselves, then the laity will have to do it. I am sorry in one way that the monument was started quite so soon in the world's history, for I think it will not be very many years, if we do not complete it, before it will be erected by our friends of the Old School It may be that they will double the beauty and size of the monument in the days to come; but it looks a little nowadays as if they were coming over to our process of reasoning in the matter of cure. I had the gratification of hearing six or seven Allopathic physicians, during this past winter, expressing their appreciation and gratitude to Samuel Hahnemann for giving us so clear and concisely stated a work as he had done, and these were rather prominent men of the Old School in New York. One of them came to me one day-a physician in a very large practice-with a face-ache. He said, "Doctor, is there anything under heaven in your way of doctoring that will cure this face-ache?" I said I didn't know; "tell me what sort of face-ache it is. Now," I said, "if Hahnemann has anywhere discovered a remedy by experimenting upon himself that will produce a face-ache like yours, then we will apply his law of cure and we will cure you. Come to-morrow." Next day he came. I said I had found a remedy. I took down Hahnemann's