O Teachers! toiling in the mine,
Where patience and self-sacrifice

You daily offered at the shrine

Of noblest art,

- be yours the prize!
From all these gifts, the mind concludes
That life is much more than to live,
And chief of its beatitudes,

It is most blessed thus to give.

The smallest may be longest sight,
The oak must to the acorn bend;
Remember! 't was the widow's mite

That brought the largest dividend.
If we would take an honored place,
The cause we plead must have our best.
The cry of pain, old as the race,;

Still fills the earth, and knows no rest.

In feeble lines one ill can trace

The feelings now his thoughts control;
Hope throws about each happy face

A crimson sunrise of the soul.

'Tis love you sowed, 't is love you 'll reap,
Through web and woof of life inwrought;
This love you gave, still shall you keep,
As due the Teacher from the Taught.

God grant you never-failing hope,

And strength, that you may long do good;
And with the problems of disease to cope,
So bless our common brotherhood.
Classmates, we take their honored gift.
Remember, we shall serve it most,

By living where high duties lift

And crown with honor every trust.

All trials melt by courage met;

All labor true has power to bless;
On faith, the buds of promise set,
Which later bloom in full success.
Press onward, then, and Truth explore.
Press on! work ever for the Right;
Press on! new worlds lie on before;
Press on nor doubt the coming light.

AN APOLOGY. We beg pardon of Drs. Lilienthal and Cushing for having failed to publish in our last issue their letters to the GAZETTE. The omission was entirely unintentional, and we make the only redress in our power-publish the correspondence this month, and publicly acknowledge our fault.

And in this connection we would say, our columes are always open to our subscribers, and we shall be pleased to have them address the GAZETTE at any time. The department of Correspondence can easily be made an interesting feature of our journal.

HOMOEOPATHIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co. - The annual report of this company for 1874 is before us. The policy-holders have reason to be well satisfied with the exhibit made, for its financial condition is excellent.

A glance at this report shows that the principle on which this company conducts its business, viz. cheaper rates to the homœopathists, is a sound one, for, while our patients hold three fourths of the policies, more than three fourths of the deaths have been among those employing old-school treatment.

We believe that it is our duty, as homoeopathic physicians, to support a company which is doing so much to prove the efficacy of homoopathic treatment.

CORRESPONDENCE.

WALTER WESSELHOEFT, M.D.:

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 1875.

In the January number of your valuable journal, Dr. Adolph Lippe, of Philadelphia, stigmatizes the editor of the North American Journal of Homoeopathy as the "professedly homoeopathic editor" (the italics are not ours), and blames him for not making foot-notes concerning the broad falsehoods stated in that paper.

I acknowledge that I was once guilty of this breach of etiquette in an article, where I defended a standpoint taken by Dr. Lippe (N. A. J. of H., xxi, 270), and I did it unknowingly; but as my friends have taught me better, I let matters now stand as they are without comment, notes, or foot-notes.

Dr. Millard, after returning from Europe, requested to print his reply to our good friend, Dr. Korndoerfer. A just principle says, Audi alteram partem; the Good Book says, Do as you wish to be done by; and a refusal to print this reply would have been rank injustice, especially as I am somewhat known, at least in this neighborhood, as a professed homœopath.

This is the third time and the third journal, in which Dr Lippe wishes to ostracize me. Really, I have been found in bad company, for I call such professedly homoeopathic physicians as Carroll Dunham, Constantine Hering, and others, my most valued friends. Peccavi ! peccavi! And the world moves on after all.

I intend to give my answers by illustrations, as such were demanded in the pages of the Ilahnemannian. I select cases from other journals, so that I cannot be accused of making cases to suit the object.

Fraternally yours,

S. LILIENTHAL,

230 W. 25th Street, N. Y.

For the New England Medical Gazette.

MR. EDITOR,-The citizens of Lynn have been trying to establish a hospital in our city. As the ladies have had nearly the entire charge of it, they have made the following addition to the Constitution:

"As this institution is intended to meet the wants of the entire community, there shall be no discrimination in favor of any school of medicine."

A certain medical journal asks, "What does this mean?" Simply this, another stroke of the bell ringing out the death-knell of

bigotry.

Now, Mr. Journal, what does this mean? In the introductory lecture of the one hundred and ninth session of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, delivered in the new Medical Hall, Oct. 11, 1874, by Alfred Stillé, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, etc., we read the following:

"The history of medicine is marked by successive periods, in which empirical and scientific methods have by turns prevailed, and a study of them both must satisfy impartial inquirers that neither can be relied upon exclusively to establish principles or to found a method of practice. Of the two, the empirical is unquestionably the most fruitful in lasting results."

Lynn, Mass.

A. M. CUSHING.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Books sent to THE GAZETTE for notice will, after suitable examination and criticism, be presented to the College Library, where they will be accessible to the profession under the rules of the library.

TEXT-BOOK OF MODERN MEDICINE AND SURGERY, ON HOMEOPATHIC PRINCIPLES. By E. Harris Ruddock, M.D., of London.

We agree with the author, when he says in his preface, that, although the law of similars is becoming more and more general among medical practitioners, the recognition of "Homœopathy" is still repudiated. So much more must we regret that he has exerted his energy mainly in the first-named direction, where it seems least needed, for, while his work may make the modern method of cure still more accessible and easy to laymen and beginning practitioners, we cannot think that this large and not impracticable volume will give much impetus in scientific quarters towards the recognition of Homoeopathy By trying to be all to all in this eclectic work, he has failed, or omitted to furnish the homoeopathic method with any new arguments, or to develop new corroborating truths and proofs such as we had expected to find when we opened its pages. However, in as much as his aim has been to write for laymen or the half educated practitioners, this text-book contains as complete a pons to homeopathic treatment as we can find; the chapters on hygiene, diet, and regimen, and those on

accessory treatment, especially surgical, and on accidents, are compiled with good judgment and practical sense. Therefore we think that as a practical text-book it will recommend itself and sell well. G. H.

CONSPECTUS OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES Comprises manuals of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. By Henry Hartshorne, A.M., M.D. Phil. : Henry P. Lea.

ESSENTIALS OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By Henry Hartshorne. Phil. Henry P. Lea.

The only thing to be said of these two compilations is that they are "good of their kind," but that their kind is exceedingly bad. The ingenuity displayed in crowding into the narrow space of one thousand and twenty-four octavo pages the whole science and art of medicine, as is done in the "conspectus," is truly surprising; but the surprise is by no means of a pleasing character, if we reflect that the works are prepared for those who have no time to read better ones. The author has the temerity to announce in the preface to the first edition of the conspectus, that the book is written for medical students, and to claim at the same time that the work of preparing "tonics" is a legitimate one, as students, while attending lectures, are too much occupied to make use of more extended text-books. Greater fallacy was never uttered in preface, and it is especially to be regretted that it should come from one who may lend authority to his words by writing himself Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania.

. We can do no more here than to warn all conscientious students that knowledge gained by the hasty memorizing of the contents of such works will bring them nothing but failure and chagrin in practice, whatever temporary advantages it may offer during the important period of their preparation for the onerous duties of the physician. · Verbum sapienti sat.

ITEMS AND EXTRACTS.

BUFFALO HOMEOPATAIC HOSPITAL. The trustees beg to announce to the public that they have purchased the valuable property, corner of Maryland and Cottage Streets, and that the Buffalo Homœopathic Hospital is now permanently established at this eligible location with increased facilities for the comfort of its inmates. Having an experienced matron, assisted by well-trained nurses, with the best medical attendance that the city can afford, this institution will be found a most desirable home for the sick and afflicted. The present building is large and commodious; but, having ample grounds for the purpose, it is the intention of the trustees, at no distant day, to erect buildings suitable for a Homœopathic College, in obedience to the earnest desire of many patrons of that school of medicine in this city. J. F. FARGO, President.

A CURE FOR LOCKJAW.· The extraordinary action of nitrate of amyl upon the human body has invested this agent with remarkable importance. A distinguished chemist, Professor Guthrie, while distilling over nitrate of amyl from amylic alcohol, observed that the vapor, when inhaled, quickened his circulation, and made him feel as if he had been running. There was flushing of the face, rapid action of the heart, and breathlessness. Dr. Benjamin Richardson, an eminent English physician, finds that this nitrate of amyl produces its effect by causing an extreme relaxation, first of the blood-vessels, and afterward of the muscular fibres of the body. To such an extent did this agent thus relax that he found it would even overcome the tetanic spasm produced by strychnia, and forthwith recommended its use for removing the spasm in some of the most extreme spasmodic diseases. The results have more than realized the doctor's expectations. Under the influence of this agent one of the most agonizing of known human maladies, called angina pectoris, has been brought under such control that the paroxysms have been regularly prevented, and in one instance, at least, altogether removed. Even tetanus, or lockjaw, has been subdued by it, and in two instances of an extreme kind so effectually as to warrant the credit of what may be truly called a cure.

THE LOCAL USE OF TANNIN.--Dr. Philip Miall states that for a number of years he has employed a concentrated solution of tannin (tannin 3j, water 3 vi) as an astringent for topical application. This powerful astringent, which is almost free from irritating properties, is said to form one of the best dressings for wounds, far superior to collodion and even less irritating than the styptic colloid, which it somewhat resembles. If applied by a brush, and allowed to dry, it soon forms a pellicle which excludes the air, and gives ease to pain. It may be applied to any form of ulcer and to wounds after amputation, or other operation, especially when not very deep. It answers well, for instance, after the operation for hare-lip, painted over the pins and threads, in the same way as collodion is sometimes used. For cracked nipples this solution, diluted with an equal amount of water, is the best application, and corresponds to the tannin solution commonly used for this purpose. It is also recommended for the purpose of reducing enlarged tonsils, and as a styptic in severe uterine hæmorrhage. -British Medical Journal.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The ladies of the "Buffalo Homœopathic Hospital Association" desire to acknowledge their indebtedness to Messrs. J. Brayley, J. Pierce, C. F. Allen, and J. F. Fargo, for their liberality in furnishing teams for the removal of the hospital from its old quarters on Washington Street to its present permanent location, corner of Cottage and Maryland Streets. They also feel grateful to C. W. Miller for his kindness in providing carriages for the comfortable transportation of the patients to their new quarters.

MRS. L. LEWIS, Secretary Ex. Com.