produced large quantity of coagula (one third of volume) and the microscope revealed tubular casts in great number. In seeking a remedy from which something more than palliation might be expected I was led to consider, among others, the action of Kali bichromic., and having repeatedly witnessed its striking effects on the membranes of the air-passages, thought if it could be made to act on the organ affected in this case a similar radical influence would be exerted. I therefore determined to give it a thorough test by administering it in appreciable quantities and persisting in its use so long as no adverse indications presented. I commenced April 27 with Kali bich., 1st. dec. trit., one grain twice a day, in alternation with Apocyn. cannab., recommending at the same time a generous diet of fresh meat, fish, eggs, milk, and a moderate allowance of beer. In eighteen days the swelling had entirely disappeared, anæmia somewhat less marked, no dyspnoea, appetite good, and strength increased; urine showing but slight turbidity upon boiling, and none by nitric acid test, and under the microscope but few casts could be found. Continued treatment unchanged until May 20, when the most careful examination under the microscope failed to show a cast; but the slightest turbidity was effected by boiling and none by nitric acid. Treatment continued as above. May 27. To-day there is no albumen discoverable in the urine, nor a single cast; patient is seemingly as well as ever, appetite good, sleep undisturbed, no anæmic appearance; red cheeks and lips, eyes bright, and in good spirits. • As I have been unable to learn of a trial having been previously made of this remedy in acute nephritis, I send you this transcript from my notes, to use as you think best. BOSTON, May 31, 1875. Respectfully, JAS. H. OSGOOD, M.D. The New England Medical Gazette. BOSTON, JUNE, 1875. We know of no more fitting way to celebrate these days of glorious memory than to lay before our readers the details of the late discussion in England between the representatives, on the one side, of what is amiably termed "conservatism in Medicine," and those on the other whose souls have been quickened by the vitalizing touch of progressive and enlightened liberalism. As the question at issue, as well as the unmistakable leaning of public sympathy, were precisely the same as in the recent affair between the Massachusetts Medical Society and its homœopathic members, we unhesitatingly make room for extensive extracts from our British exchanges, feeling assured that our New England readers, at least, will be deeply interested in the course of an encounter which, unlike the one so fresh in their memories, resulted in decisive and significant defeat of orthodox medicine on its own chosen ground of medical ethics, so called, and in spite of the truculent attitude of all the leading allopathic journals. Gratifying and encouraging as such a victory will undoubtedly be at this time, we must not be led into the weakness of looking for the speedy dawn of the day of deliverance for the followers of Hahnemann. This ethical quirk to which of late years all anti-homœopathic argument is reduced and to which the "regulars" have prudently betaken themselves as to their last ditch, possesses certain elements of enduring strength in the fact that it precludes all discussion of scientific facts and views relating to Homeopathy, thereby uniting all the factions and conflicting elements of the dominant school upon a single point. This position, ingeniously chosen as it is and fortified with all the impenetrable mass of vanity and wilful blindness, will long resist the most persistent siege, notwithstanding the weakening effect of such shots as those from Mr. Lawson Tait and Dr. Heslop; and entrenched behind it we, for another generation, find that conservative medicine, like old Joe Bagshot, is "tough and dayvlish sly." Nevertheless we may take hope in these days of rejoicing, and the extracts given below will inspire us with some of the courage and steadfastness which, in time, will lead to a Yorktown for our cause. WELLS MONUMENT. We have received from the committee of the Hartford Medical Society a circular, addressed more especially to physicians and dentists, asking for subscriptions to the monument in process of erection to the memory of Dr. Horace Wells, the discoverer of anaesthesia by nitrous oxide gas. Many of the most eminent men in both professions have already sent a liberal subscription, but more are required to finish the statue and pedestal in a manner worthy of so true a benefactor of his kind as Dr. Wells. Letters of inquiry may be addressed to Dr. E. K. Hunt, chairman committee of the Hartford Medical Society. Subscriptions forwarded to Dr. G. W. Russell, treasurer, Hartford, Connecticut, will meet with due recognition. MEETING OF CANADIAN HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. AT the adjourned meeting of Homœopathic Physicians held at the Derby House, in Hamilton, Ontario, on the 20th ult., Dr. Lancaster, of London, was elected Chairman, and Dr. Adams, of Toronto, Secretary. The following resolutions, moved by Dr. J. Hall, of Toronto, were adopted, after considerable discussion, and ordered to be printed for distribution among members and the frieuds of Homœopathy: Resolved-1. That, in view of the too general ignorance of what Homœopathy is, and the persistent misrepresentation and opposition of the dominant school, it is high time to make known our principles. 2. That we therefore express our cordial belief in the following teaching of the illustrious founder of our art, Samuel Hahnemann: "That Homœopathy is a system of medicine, remaining always fixed in its principles as in its practice, which, like the doctrine whereon it is based, if rightly apprehended, will be found to be so exclusive (and, in that way only, serviceable), that, as the doctrine is pure, so must the practice be also, and all backward straying to the practice of the old school (whose opposite it is, as day is to night) is totally impossible, otherwise it ceases to deserve the honorable name of Homœopathy." 3. That in view of this exposition by the great master of our art, we hereby express our unwavering conviction that any and all attempts to amalgamate Homœopathy with the therapeutic practice of the old or Eclectic system of medicine are impracticable in the very nature of things that though, in the further language of Hahnemann," some erring physicians, who would wish to be considered Homœopathists, engraft some to them more convenient allopathic practices upon their nominally homeopathic treatment, it is owing to ignorance of the doctrine, and, in addition, to unpardonable negligence in searching for the best Homœopathic remedy for each case of disease." 4. That on further consideration of the inherent exclusiveness of Homœopathy as a system of treating disease, and its utter incompatibility with other systems ("whose opposite it is "), we deeply deplore that the Honorable Legislature of Ontario should have deemed it expressive of their wisdom to deprive us of our much prized privilege, the grant of a former Government enjoyed by us during ten yearsthe exclusive right to examine our own candidates for practice according to the curriculum which by law had been given to us. 5. That the provision of the late Ontario Medical Act, whereby Homœopathists are admitted as members of the Medical Council, involves by our acceptance a compromise of principle, to which, though some have yielded and so taken their seats in the Council, they cannot be charged fairly with compromise, as this seemed to them the sole alternative - - a seat in the Council or nothing to such straits had the stratagems of our opponents suddenly reduced us. That these views are neither ultra nor at variance with those of medical men of the opposite school, may be gathered from the following portion of their own protest against the union we have reprobated - a protest largely signed and presented at the first meeting of the Council in Toronto after their amalgamation with Homœopaths and Eclectics by the Ontario Legislature: "Whereas the coalition, in a Council, forced upon the medical profession with two other bodies known as Homœopathists and Eclectics, for the purpose of legislating in regard to questions involving the most vital principles of medical science, is viewed by nearly all the leading and thoughtful members of the profession as fraught with great danger, and likely to lead to the most pernicious consequences, alike subversive of the cause of science and of professional morality; for if the views held by the great schools of the world are honestly embraced by the medical profession of this Province, and if the so-called theories of the other bodies are honestly held by them, they cannot be compromised by either for any mere expediency without dishonor" 6. That this compromise in an hour of emergency we regret, and we hereby decline any further overtures on the part of the Ontario Medical Council, and beg to express our unqualified disapproval of all such attempts to bring us together; and any Homœopathist who shall hereafter take a seat in the said Council will be understood by this meeting to forfeit the confidence of our School 7. That reverting to our principles, we hereby express our firm conviction that Homœopathy needs only to be known and tested practically to obtain universal favor. 8. That in order to the diffusion of such knowledge we need a greater number of intelligent exponents-practitioners who, from patient study and close observation, have acquired such acquaintance with our art that they will conscientiously abide by its teachings. 9. That Homœopathy is not, as frequently alleged, a "hypothetical dogma," any more than the doctrine of gravitation as propounded by Newton; that though Hahnemann first announced the principle that "diseases are curable best by such medicines as can produce on the healthy similar symptoms to those sought to be cured," as hypothetical, some forty years of his own subsequent observations, and that of the thousand others since, have raised the hypothesis to the sphere of indisputable truth. 10. That it is not a system adapted merely to the milder forms of diseases in women and children, as often stated by our opponents. That, on the contrary, it grapples boldly with all forms of human malady — even the most severe- and with a success that challenges comparison with any and all other systems combined. 11. That it neither ignores nor depreciates the fundamental branches of medical inquiry known as anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany, toxicology, and hygiene, nor the noble arts of surgery and midwifery, in all of which none can present more eminent names than Homœopathy. That these are taught alike in both schools, and are identical in their practical application, but that to Homeopathy it is due to add, that by her medical treatment numerous cases are cured without the knife, where that mode of procedure is to other schools the only alternative, and that numberless lives have been saved after capital operations, where traumatic fevers have ensued so often fatal in hospitals where Homœopathy is unknown. That to midwifery likewise, in all its stages and accompaniments, Homœopathy tenders its most wonderful aid, not excepting those justly dreaded scourges, puerperal fever and mania, from which we speak advisedly very few indeed need die were they under the potent treatment of this benign but much misrepresented art. - 12. That Homœopathy, while agreeing with the old school in those points stated where the administration of medicines is not concerned thoroughly repudiates and rejects their theory and practice of medicine, with its materia medica and therapeutics, the study of which, as compulsory on our men, is so much time lost from our own materia medica and therapeutics, which demand very lengthened attention. 13. That Homœopathy is the art of treating diseases by medicinal agents, in which it claims to have discovered not a, but the modethe only one by which medicines can be prescribed with accuracy and confidence, and diseases safely, thoroughly, and promptly cured without injury to the patient. 14. That a system of medicine of such pretensions is not to be crushed out by the opposition and misrepresentation of interested parties, however numerous and influential; and that Homœopathy demands, therefore, of the Canadian people the right to prove the truth of these claims in a fair, open field, without let or hinderance. 15. That the need of Homœopathy, as before stated, is a larger supply of competent practitioners; that the supply has always been limited, for during the ten years of the existence of our Board, only some seventy obtained recommendations to the Governor for license to practise, of whom some thirty have left for the States or elsewhere. The small number remaining in the Province has received no accessions since our Board was cancelled and merged into incompatible relationship with the Medical Council of Ontario, which has forced upon us a curriculum of stu ly that demands of Homœopathic students nearly one third more expenditure of time and money than is expected from men of other schools. 16. That this procedure of the Medical Council of Ontario tends to the gradual extinction of Homoeopathy in the Province, and is in |