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profession has in Denver been very friendly in the main to the Homœopaths. Without having given the matter of the resolution any special study he thought it would be rather a good thing to do.

Dr. Smythe: A great many of the Allopathic associations of our city and State have expressed their good will towards us. If the Institute will do this thing I think it will be appreciated.

Dr. Shannon: I think the Denver men of the Old School will take it very kindly and will appreciate it very highly from the feeling that I know exists between the two schools.

Dr. Higbee: I favor this resolution. I have a personal friend here who is an Allopathic physician. It can't hurt us and it may do them good.

Dr. J. B. G. Custis, of Washington, D. C., arose. He said: "When I first heard of this resolution I said: 'No, it must not pass.' I have heard that statements of an uncomplimentary character to the American Institute of Homoeopathy have been made by speakers at this body. However, I favor it now. The Homoeopaths are independent and may do as they like. This greeting is merely an expression of good will and cannot possibly do harm."

Dr. Dudley: I am opposed to the resolution. I don't think that an interchange of friendly greetings under the circumstances under which we are gathered should originate with us; it ought to come from the other party. We are the visitors here; they are residents. The attendance of a few members of the Allopathic profession at our meetings is not an act of their society, and has no more significance than if two or three of our members should step into their society. That would be simply an act of respectful courtesy on the part of the individual members. The whole history of the unfortunate antagonisms between the two "schools" of practice was originated and has been maintained by their action; not by ours. The position of the Homoeopathic School has ever been one of protest against the exclusive policy and attitude of our Allopathic brethren. We are, therefore, in a position to accept overtures, but not to offer them. That prerogative is theirs only. We have no reason to suppose that our greeting would be cordially received. Indeed we have every reason to believe that it would not be. On the other hand, they know that an overture from them to us would be gladly received and most heartily welcomed. But they have not sent it. It appears to me that while the discussion of the question is a good thing in the way of once more expressing our opinions and exhibiting our attitude, I question very much whether it should go any further.

Dr. Fisher: I think we can stand on our independence and our merits. If it is right, let us do it; if not, vote it down; when we were in session they visited us. I don't think it would be harmful at all for us to send these people a courteous greeting. I hope the resolution will pass.

Dr. McClelland: I don't want to be counted as one who is inimical to fraternal feeling towards other practitioners than our own; at the same time I think it would be intrusive and might not be accounted good taste on the part of ourselves-a national body coming here as guests and, as you may say, thrusting ourselves upon a body of physicians that has uniformly treated us with disdain. Now the individual treatment that we have received from individuals is one thing; but I can assure you that in their corporate capacity, as a society, they have invariably treated us shamefully. In my own. experience some of the best friends I have in my city are my neighbors of the Old School; they come to my table and I go to theirs; and yet, in two different instances when one of these men occupied the President's chair of their State Society at different times, they called us an association of quacks, and that we were either knaves or fools if we believed in the tenets of Homœopathy. That is the way when they come into their societies; individually we are all right and we are most excellent friends. I don't feel like being placed in that position at all. I think if there are any overtures or advances to be made, it ought to come from the gentlemen in whose State we are sojourners, or we ought to have some intimation from them-in an unofficial way if you like-that such an action on our part would be well received by them. Otherwise I don't believe in thrusting ourselves upon them in this way. I don't think it would

be well received.

Dr. W. H. Burt, of Chicago, moved that the resolution be laid upon the table. The motion was numerously seconded and adopted.

Dr. Wilson wanted to know whether this wrangle will be made. part of our records. Being answered in the affirmative, he declared that the motion ought never to have been injected into the closing hours of the Institute's session, or else that it should be expunged from the records of the sessions. The action of the Institute throughout upon this resolution has been narrow and unchristianlike.

Dr. Fisher: I certainly would not have injected a fire-brand at this late hour of our session. This matter was brought up and talked over in the presence of the local practitioners, who thought they knew the local society. An expression from this Institute which claims to be representative of the most liberal and progressive school of medicine in the world, would have been accepted in a proper and Christian spirit. I hope the action of the Institute will go into the press.

stand in the records and

Dr. Talbot: I think I speak the sentiment of every member in this audience, when I declare that we all want to foster kindly and pleasant relations. But it is not that question that is being decided; but it is whether we, as guests from the whole United States here,

should present to the State of Colorado what they might not consider complimentary but rather intrusive. It is only to that sentiment that I object.

Dr. Fisher: There is no mistaking the gentleman. It is a rebuff to the arrogance of the younger and more progressive members of this Institute.

Dr. Talbot disclaimed any reference to the gentleman last speaking in any way whatever and affirmed that his remarks had reference solely to the propriety of the resolution as stated by him.

At this point, Dr. King, of Denver, addressed the Institute at some length in a congratulatory vein, with thanks for their visit and their influence upon the profession and upon the citizens of Denver and of the State of Colorado.

The President acknowledged the courteous remarks of the vicechairman of the Committee of Local Arrangements, and expressed the belief that the Institute would depart from Denver feeling that every possible convenience and comfort had been provided for them. The President then announced Drs. Hudson, King, and Cogswell a Committee on the subject of publishing articles upon Homœopathy in the daily papers, as provided under Dr. Hudson's resolution. Dr. Wilson suggested the feasibility of having local fairs given by the ladies of our members in the interest of the Hahnemann Monument.

Dr. Storke (mounting the platform and seizing the gavel): Mr. President, the members of this Institute, which is now about to close its fiftieth annual session, believing it is their pleasurable duty to make some fitting acknowledgement of the fair, impartial, and able manner in which you have presided over the various meetings of this Institute, wish now to present you with this gavel, an implement of authority. May you place it in the archives, with your other treasures, as a lasting memento that you presided satisfactorily over one of the most successful meetings that the American Institute of Homœopathy has ever had.

President McClelland returned his thanks for the memento in a few sentences. In closing, he said simply: "I have done the best I could."

He then declared the American Institute of Homœopathy, having completed its fiftieth anniversary session, adjourned sine die.

PEMBERTON DUDLEY, M.D.,

General Secretary.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

JUNE 6, 1894.

American Institute of Homœopathy, in account with E. M. KELLOGG, M.D., Treasurer, and T. FRANKLIN SMITH, M.D., Assistant Treasurer.

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We, the undersigned Committee, do hereby certify that we have examined the

Treasurer's Report, and find it correct.

Auditing Committee: JOHN C. NOTTINGHAM,

WM. H. HANCHETT.

JUNE 15, 1894.

COMPLETE REPORT OF THE BOARD OF CENSORS.

PHYSICIANS ELECTED TO MEMBERSHIP.

ABBOTT, CHARLES SHEWELL, M.D.,

E. Concord St., Boston, Mass.

Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 1892.

ALEXANDER, ERNEST L., M.D.,

1022 N. 24th St., Omaha, Neb. 602 California Bldg, Denver, Col. Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, 1893.

Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, 1882.

ALEXANDER, J. LLOYD, M.D.,

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AVERY, AARON B., M.D.,

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Ada, O. Norwood, N. Y.

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Cleveland Homœopathic Hospital College, 1873.

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BEAUMONT, JOHN F., M.D.,
N. W. Cor. State and Madison Sts., Chicago, Ill.
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 1877.
BLAIR, WILLIAM WIGHTMAN, M.D.,

406 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Boston University School of Medicine, 1891.

BRYAN, JOSEPH HARTER, M.D.,
221 Asbury Ave., Asbury Park, N. J.
New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, 1890.
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, M.D.,

CAMERON, WATTS, M.D.,

64 Green Ave., Breoklyn, N. Y.
New York Homœopathic Medical College, 1871.
Cor. Stout and 17th Sts., Denver, Col.
Edinburgh Medical College, Scotland, 1857.
Los Angeles, Cal.

CAMPBELL, EUGENE, M.D.,

CANNEY, F. G., M.D.,

New York Homeopathic Medical College, 1878.
924 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal.
New York Homœopathic Medical College, 1893.

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