Chronic Diseases, and I showed him the remedy and told him the reason why it would cure him. He was willing to do anything to cure his face. He was taking all sorts and sorts of drugs. I said to him, "Take one of these little pills once in four hours, and return to me in a week." I never had prescribed that drug for face-ache; it was one of Hahnemann's own remedies. I told him it would only cure by virtue of the law; I laid the whole business on Hahnemann. He told me afterwards, after twelve hours of taking of the medicine, the pain went away and never came back again. I instantly struck him for a contribution, and got it, to this monument fund. Every man and woman who cures his patient in that way and gets money for it should put aside a tithe of that money for honoring Hahnemann. Every patient whose life is saved should be besought to add to his doctor's bill a good round sum for this purpose. I believe that by a little concerted effort on our part we can very speedily have this monument materialize.

Dr. E. H. Pratt said: I am never too tired, my spirit is never too weary, I am never too unprepared to lend my voice or strength or magnetism to any good cause when the idols of my heart are mentioned. The man whose name we are here to honor to-night I try to emulate and to follow in every way. I love Samuel Hahnemann. I am one of his followers because he taught and yet teaches what appeals to human reason. He deserves a high place in the regard of the people; he is one of the men to be almost worshipped; he is only one. By the way, don't put him in the position of a god. There is only one God, and as every ray of light points to the sun, 80 Samuel Hahnemann's position is pointing us towards one of these rays. He looked at the heavens so steadily that he at last found the light. The whole world will see and applaud him for the light which he brought to them. As to the truth he discovered, as to the ray of light that he found, and through it found his God, he found it shining in all cracks and crevices, and as he got his self-consciousness out of the way he allowed the light to shine right through him and illuminate the medical darkness of his time. He saw the truth. We call it "like cures like." I am here to tell you that that is only a little bit of the truth, that there is a bigger ray than that. It is like attracts like, and "like cures like" is only a piece of it. You know how smiles beget smiles, how tears beget tears, grief begets grief, how good and good go together and bad and bad flock in each other's company-animals, plants, minerals. Some of the likes in this way are good and some are bad. There are those who have no selfishness, where the good come together and no quarrel takes place, and their face is always turned starward. The selfish are those who have not seen the light, and they are simply wandering in darkness, waiting to be called to the light. Then comes the war and the battle is on. Then come sickness and struggle and disease. Then comes

the prescription based on the law which Hahnemann discoveredthat the bad shall cure the bad. It takes a regular to cure a regular; it takes disease to cure disease. That is where Hahnemann's discovery comes in. He wanted something for the weary and tempesttossed and the lost of humanity. The discovery of Hahnemann has brought the physical part of the light so that the salvation of mankind can take place. What a hard time he had! We are happy now because that master mind sacrificed his happiness, that master mind spent his health in the pursuit of disease. He went down to disease and studied crime and death in order that coming generations might not suffer as he had suffered. No wonder they kicked him out and tried to destroy his influence with the profession. They could not bear to have him expose their wickedness. He was our martyr, and because of that we honor him to-night. In Washington we should have a monument of all men who liberated the race from slavery. Lincoln is there because he liberated the slaves. Swedenborg should be there because he unlocked the word of God and showed us its true meaning. There is one other will be there, and that is William Tomlins, of Chicago, because of his work in music. Hahnemann was the Moses of medicine and always will be. He has given us the only law of cure that has ever been given to humanity. We have received something. Shall we give nothing? His monument will be there soon. In Lincoln Park, Chicago, is a monument of Abraham Lincoln. It is a wonderful monument. There is a large crescent low on the ground; around the inner side of that crescent is a seat; in the centre of the area, surrounded by the crescent, is Lincoln. There he stands, colossal, sober, great spirit that he was, not high up on an elevation, not where other men are put, on a pedestal, but right down among the people. I never go within half a mile of that monument but I drive there to get the inspiration that that presence suggests. When we get Hahnemann's monument in Washington with the other emancipators of slavery, then we will be a free people. It is a privilege to give. I always feel sorry that I did not have the privilege to give to the Lincoln monument. I should feel mortally hurt if I were not given the privilege to express my appreciation of the good that Hahnemann has done to myself, my family and to all my friends, and to contribute my mite to the building of this monument to his memory and to suggest him as the medical reformer of this people of the United States.

Dr. Eugene F. Storke, of Denver: Do not be alarmed; I am not going to make a long speech; what I have to say will be expressed in less than a hundred words. My theme is gratitude. For thirty years I have been actively studying Homœopathy. It is the solid foundation upon which the greater portion of my intellectual growth and even my financial success has been based. I am to-night

grateful for the great rank and file of Homœopathic practitioners in the vast expanse of the world. I am also thankful for the Homoopathic journals that are spreading their literature far and near. am thankful for the Homoeopathic colleges; they have made these journals possible. I am more than thankful for the pioneers-those Homœopathic pioneers-the sappers and miners who opened the way through the dark wilderness of prejudice and made these colleges possible. I consider it a pleasurable debt, therefore, to contribute as liberally as my duty to my family and myself will permit, to the erection of a monument to Samuel Hahnemann who founded the now world-wide and famous and undying system of Homœopathy. Dr. J. H. McClelland: Some fourteen years ago I was relating an episode before the Homœopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania. I was relating what I had seen in London that same year; namely, the unveiling of a statue to William Harvey; that much abused man. One of the greatest gatherings of medical men that ever convened on earth were about that pedestal and there did honor to a name that had been reviled; and at that time I said, the time is not far distant when there shall be another unveiling, but the name that shall be there honored, will be that of Samuel Hahnemann. I think to-night promises well to the confirmation of that end. I believe that the Homoeopathic profession has within it the spirit and the power to do honor to its leader; and I am sure that the outcome of this meeting with the distinguished endorsment that it has received, will be such that in Washington City there shall go up a monument that will be matchless and that monument will be to our great and immortal hero.

At this point, Vice-President Fisher in the chair, made a most fervent and effective appeal for subscriptions towards the Hahnemann Monument Fund. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and subscriptions from colleges, journals, societies and from individual physicians and laymen, poured in until the total amount pledged to the fund had reached nearly fifteen thousand dollars. The meeting then, at a late hour, adjourned.

SIXTH DAY-MORNING SESSION.

JUNE 19, 1894.

The Institute was called to order at nine o'clock. President McClelland in the chair.

The Censors reported a number of names for election, the same

having been posted as required by the By-Laws. These candidates were duly elected.

Dr. T. F. Smith said the TRANSACTIONS of the Institute are much scattered. It would be proper, I think, that these TRANSACTIONS should be gathered together and stored away in some safe place. I would therefore move that the Treasurer be authorized to rent a room in a fire-proof building at a rate not to exceed one hundred dollars a year, and have it properly fitted up, and then have the Papers and TRANSACTIONS and other Archives of the Institute stored therein. The motion was adopted.

Dr. T. C. Duncan gave notice of a proposed Amendment to the Constitution, providing that there shall be three vice-presidents instead of two.

Dr. David A. Strickler said that he had a Report of Comparative Statistics, but there seemed to be no place for it.

Secretary Dudley said that it would come properly before the Institute as part of the Report of the Committee on Organization, Registration and Statistics, to which the subject had been referred two years ago.

Dr. Julia Holmes Smith reported verbally the success of a Women's Homoeopathic Hospital on the World's Fair grounds. She said that it was really the first time that there has been a proper test of public opinion in regard to putting women in charge of this class of work in the United States. Dr. Owen, who was put in charge of the hospital, was so imprudent as to promise to have a woman on his staff from his own school, but he failed to carry it out. The sanitary conditions were such that there was no place for a hospital in the Women's Building; so that the State of Illinois appropriated $6000 for women's work and for the pharmacy exhibit. That was not enough, and so we had a Homœopathic woman-Mrs. Judge Sherbert-who induced Mr. Higginbotham to build a house for us. We secured a building 80 by 40 feet, and it was fixed up as a perfectly appointed hospital. Three women physicians were installed; I was the chairman of the Homœopathic department and it was my privilege to appoint the resident physician who is a member of this Institute. During the summer every week attending physicians of the Homœopathic and the other schools were in attendThe head nurse was a strong allopath; our medical director was a strong allopath. We never had the service of a single nurse for any time except for one week, when we had one from the Pratt Sanitarium. And yet with all these disadvantages, with every environment against us, two weeks before the close of the session, on

ance.

looking over the books with the greatest care I found that 372 patients had been treated Homoeopathically, 815 Allopathically, and 238 by the Eclectic attending physician. At the close of the whole session the Homœopathic books showed 1012 patients. The diseases were all those that usually come to a doctor's office, men, women and children; fractures, trouble with the eyes, etc.

We had

no ambulance service except to take away a patient to a hotel.

Dr. H. M. Smith presented the report of the committee which has prepared an Index of the TRANSACTIONS of this Institute for the first half century, and recommending its publication in a separate volume. It will make a volume of between 300 and 400 pages, and will cost at least $100.

Dr. T. F. Allen: If every writer who comes after me is to have as much trouble as I have had, he will bless the Institute for this Index. The amount of clinical reports and provings and verifications included in the volumes of the Institute, I have reason to know, is enormous. I have been through the Transactions of every society or journal in three or four languages and there is nothing that compares with the American Institute of Homœopathy, but which is now, or was up to this time, a sealed book to the most of us. I had to hire a secretary to go through the books myself. The progress of Homoeopathy would be enormously advanced by a convenient index. The TRANSACTIONS are full of meat and if we could only have this index, those of us who are inclined to value such things, it would indeed be a valuable acquisition in the development of Homoeopathy. All teachers must sooner or later have

the index.

Dr. Cowperthwaite: I want to know whether you propose now, so far as the present is concerned, a simple index to all the volumes, or do you propose to have something like the "Annual of Medical Sciences?' If the latter, can you do it for $100. And I want to know further, whether it is to be part of this year's TRANSACTIONS or a separate volume.

Dr. H. M. Smith (producing a manuscript book): This is a part of the volume of 1876-an abstract of the proceedings. The cost is material. I have employed a stenographer five or six weeks to make these volumes on my own account, and have gone over every item that is given here. This was entirely separate from the cost of printing. It is proposed to have it a cross-reference index, and to bring it down to the present so as to give it as much value as pos

sible.

The motion to appropriate $100 for the purpose of preparing and printing this index was adopted.