that in some respects America has beaten them on their own ground.

But no homœopathic college, hospital, or institution can secure copies, either by money or favor. The Christian Union, Henry Ward Beecher's paper, says that the exclusion has gone so far that "a New York microscopist of confessed eminence, who has been repeatedly employed by the museum in making preparations, and who was the constant recipient of the official reports, found himself lately cut off from the lists, and on applying for the reason, discoverd that his crime was his membership of a non-orthodox school of medicine."

The Christian Union adds:

"We candidly confess our inability to discover an adequate explanation of this conduct. Beside the medical museum, Government has an Agricultural Department. Now, in scientific agriculture, there are men that believe that a marl top-dressing iseverything, and there are others who fight for sub-soil plowing. There are the guano school and the superphosphate school. But what would farmers think if they found themselves shut off from the Agricultural Reports because there pet crochets ran counter to those of the department? The logic applies equally to our National Medical Museum. And if the reply comes that homoophathists are quacks and impostors, we would simply answer that this is an additional reason for giving them the full benefit of scientific progress."

We speak of these instances collaterally, as proof of an unwisdom and a foolish intolerance which injures those who indulge in them, and in which, as officers of the Government, they have. no right to indulge.

Beyond and above all these considerations, however, is the fact that the supporters and disciples of homoeopathy in Michigan have rights under a statute law of the State which for sixteen years have been denied them. If they have no claims to the enactment of such a law, erase it from the statute book. If they have rights under it, give them those rights. It seems to us that this is a case of "medical jurisprudence" about which no two reasonable men can dispute a moment.

American Institute of Homœopathy.-Bureau of Clinical Medicine, 1870-71. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY. The Bureau of Clinical Medicine would call the attention of the profession to the department assigned them, and solicit their co-operation and assistance. Each member of the Bureau with one exception, is pledged to present a paper at the meeting of the Institute in Philadelphia, in June next, and it is not doubted that topics of interest, and material of value to the profession, will be thus brought before the meeting. But to make these reports as complete as may be, the members of the Bureau would solicit the report of important cases to either member, for which the contributor will be duly credi

ted. And any new epidemics or unusual diseased conditions reported to them, will be published in full or presented in abstract with full acknowledgment to the author. It is the wish of the Bureau to call out some of the best work from the profession and add something to our stock of professional knowledge. Each member of the Institute to whom this call may come, will please consider himself a committee of one to write something and send it early to either of the members.

S. M. Cate, Salem, Mass.; George E. Belcher, New York; D. H. Beckwith, Cleveland, O.; J. C. Burgher, Pittsburg, Pa.; N. F. Cooke, Chicago; W. H. Holcombe, New Orleans; F. B. Mandeville, Newark, Ñ. J.; A. T. Bull, Buffalo, N. Ý.; John T. Temple, St. Louis.

Homœopathic Medical Society of Ohio.-The seventh anuual meeting will be held in Cincinnati, O., on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 9 and 10, 1871. The Convention will hold its sessions in the parlors of the Walnut Street House, where board can be obtained for $3.00 per day.

Special Notice.-Arrangements have been made for free return passes on the railroads, to members in attendance upon the convention.

Hahnemann Medical College Chicago.-Spring term of lectures. We copy the following from the Chicago Tribune of March 16:

"The spring term of Hahnemann Medical College commenced yesterday, with a lecture by Prof. E. M. Hale, introductory to his course of lectures on 'Organic Diseases of the Heart.' The new college building is located on Cottage Grove avenue, near Twenty-ninth, and is connected with Scammon Hospital, and a free dispensary, largely patronized, open from 11 to 12 A. M.

There will be fifteen lectures each week for nine weeks, by the following named professors, and on the following subjects: Dr. R. Ludlam, Diseases of Women.

Dr. W. Danforth, Surgery.

Dr. J. S. Mitchell, Physiology of Generation.

Dr. S. P. Hedges, Visceral Anatomy.

Dr. F. A. Lord, Vegetable Chemistry.

Dr. T. S. Hoyne, Materia Medica.

Dr. R. N. Foster, Diseases of Children.

Dr. E. M. Hale, Organic Diseases of the Heart.

California Homœopathic Society.-On Saturday the 25th inst. the organization of the "California State Medical Society of Homœopathic Practitioners" was completed, and the following officers were elected for one year: President, J. J. Cushing of San Francisco; First Vice-President, F. Hillier of San Francisco; Second Vice-President, J. A. Albertson of San Francisco; Recording Secretary, J. S. Beakley of San Francisco; Corresponding Secretary, E. J. Fraser of San Francisco; Treasurer, M. J. Werder of San Francisco; Board of Censors, J. M. Selfridge of Oakland; J. S. Shepherd of Petaluma; J. P. Dinsmore of San Francisco. The Society begins its career with twenty-five members, and their learning, unity and zeal betoken for it a bright prospective future.

Miscellanea.

Original articles.-A correspondent writes: "I read with disappointment in one of the recent numbers that you would not extract from other publications but devote the Observer wholly to original matter. Hitherto I have relied upon the Observer exclusivly for medical hints, and articles, but according to your announcement I shall have to take other journals if I keep respectably posted in medical literature. I doubt not you will modify the programme and select from the British and American journals, and thus obviate the necessity of your patrons taking them. If you had selected from a wider field, the last number in particular would have been, to say the least, more useful. Short, condensed, practical articles, whether original or selected, are what the practitioner wants. This is written in kindness, and in the hope that original matter, when of an inferior character, and of no practical bearing, shall give way to something selected. "

[We expect to fill our pages mainly (not exclusively) with original articles. E. A. L. ]

An Ague Cure?-A homeopathic physician writes: "Having an ague cure which proves itself a success. I desire to call the attention of the profession to it throngh the Observer. No symptoms of ague are experienced after the first dose, consisting of four pills, (sugar coated), and there are no unpleasant symptoms from the effects of the medicine, which will not harm a babe. Three pills are given every seventh day after for five weeks and the cure is complete.

Is it any wonder that after success in over one hundred cases without a failure, I should be a little enthusiastic. Should any homoeopathic physician desire such a remedy. I will send one hundred pills for $3.00 C.O. D. a smaller order I prefer not to bother with. Full directions for using &c. will accompany each box. Several of my brethern are already using.

[We omit the name to above as we are not willing to advertise nostrums. How is it that an intelligent physician, and a graduate of a homeopathic college, can think of selling secret remedies? If the Dr. has a valuable remedy it belongs to the profession. His knowledge came by the gifts of the profession to him; will be give nothing in return? We have not however the slightest confidence in his possession of one remedy, or combination of remedies, for all cases of intermittent." E. A. L.]

PERSONAL NOTICES, ETC.

James.-Dr. Bushrod W. James writes from Savannah Georgia, March 29th. 1871:-" DR. E. A. LODGE,-Dear Sir,.-I have run off from practice for a short spell, in order to recupeate my over taxed physical frame, as I find I cannot regain strength at home where many business cares are all the time pessing upon me. I desire to gain my accustomed energy so as to resume my medical pen more vigorously than ever for the Observer.

I shall visit Florida ere I return and shall post myself upon the merits of the climate before I leave this section of the country for there is no doubt but that climate is a better curative agent for some diseases than medicine. That is, there are some cases that cannot be cured by medicine while they continue to reside in our temperate zone with its sudden changes, while a residence alone in a mild warm temperature and climate, would restore them to health without any medicine. Yours very truly, and fraternally. BUSHROD W. JAMES,

Crank. I am pleased to announce a valuable addition to our homoopathic faculty in Tennessee, in the person of C. D. Crank, M. D., who has just located at Knoxville

NECROLOGICAL.

J. P. D.

Duhring.-Fell asleep in Jesus, on Thursday morning, March 2d 1871, at Philadelphia, after a short illness, Henry Duhring, in the seventyfifth year of his age.

We extract from "All Saints Monthly" the following notice:- Last month, with deep sorrow, we published a notice of the sudden death of Dr. George H. Duhring. How little we then imagined that his honored and respected brother, Mr. Henry Duhring, would so soon be called to share with him the long sleep of death. Even now, while we are writing, it is hard for us to realize that both these good and Christian men are no longer with us. It was but a few days ago that Mr. Henry Duhring favored us with a visit to our study, and cheered us in our sorrow with loving and kind words of sympathy. He was then apparently in good health, and we dreamed not then, on parting that his cheerful and pleasant" good-by " was life's last and long farewell. Truly in an hour that we think not the Master cometh, and calleth us from earthly scenes to the happiness of our better home. Hand in hand for many years these brothers walked together as true and faithful friends, and in death but for a day have they been separated. In our sorrow we cling to the blessed hope that, that though absent from us, they are at rest in Jesus. Each performed well and faithfully his life work; the one as a Christian physician in a life-ministry to the sick and the suffering, and the other a Christian merchant building up a large and successful business by honesty. integrity and enterprise. They have well done their life work, and now they have their reward in the better glory of the heavenly home. Great is our loss, but how happy is the remembrance of two such honorable and useful lives. Of a family of six brothers one only now is living, and he, the Rev. Louis Duhring, is a faithful and successful minister of the Lutheran Church in Prussia. May God vouchsafe to him yet many years of activity in the good work of Jesus.

Deferred Articles.-Book Notices, Clinical, Obstetrical and other papers, are unavoidably deferred.

E. A. L.

Obstetrical Department.

ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PERINEUM DURING LABOR, BY WM. GOODELL, M. D.,

Clinical Lecturer on Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Pennsylvania.*

Although I believe that the vast majority of natural labors require no asistance whatever to insure a safe delivery, provided the woman has escaped frequent touching, yet cases do undoubtedly arise which demand intelligent assistance, nor can we always draw the line of demarcation between natural and morbid cases. And let me remark in limine that, by laceration of the perineum, I mean any solution of its continuity, be it small or great. For the loss of every fibre entails a corresponding loss of power in the floor of the pelvis, and a consequent impairment of support to the reproductive organs. Where assistance seems demanded to prevent any laceration, the method which I adopt avoids all pressure upon, and direct support to the perineum, and I can the more confidently recommend it, because I make it a rule to have the perineum decently exposed to view, whenever there arises any fear of laceration, and not the slightest fissure can escape my notice. The prudery of obstetric teachers has, I am sure, been the cause of many undiscovered, and consequently uncured lacerations. But why should a false delicacy interfere with the freedom of manipulation, at a time when a woman's future health and happiness lie at stake, especially since her organs are then no longer sexual, in the common acceptation of the word, but parturient?

Whenever. therefore, it seems proper to aid nature, insert one or two fingers of the left hand into the rectum, the woman lying on her left side, with her knees well drawn up and separated by a pillow, and hook up and pull forward the sphincter ani towards the pubes. The thumb of the same hand is then to be placed upon the foetal head, scrupulously avoiding all contact with the fourchette. The right hand need not remain idle, it assists the thumb in making the head hug the pubes, or in retarding its advance; after a pain it presses back the head from the perineum, and thus represses reflex uterine action; it restrains the move

"American Journal Medical Sciences, Jan., 1871.

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