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DISPENSARIES.

These require a much smaller outlay in establishing and sustaining, and one of the finest is in Liverpool. It was established more than twenty years ago, outgrew its first quarters, and its friends contributed money enough to erect a fine building. This proved insufficient for the wants of Liverpool, and a branch dispensary was established. So great have been the demands. upon it that in a single morning, when I happened to be present, 317 persons visited the dispensary to avail themselves of its advantages.

Nearly every town of considerable size in England has a homoeopathic dispensary for the benefit of the poor. In addition there is a large number of dispensaries where the poor pay a trifling sum, sufficient for the current expenses, and the physician devotes his time to their care gratuitously. There are probably at least a dozen of these in London alone.

In Paris, by the liberality of the Messrs. Catellan, a free dispensary is connected with each of their pharmacies (five in number), they contributing all the medicines needed. There are also dispensaries connected with each of the hospitals, and the numbers flocking to these are, in the aggregate, very great. In Switzerland there are several homoeopathic dispensaries, and likewise in nearly all important towns of Germany.

The Central Dispensary at Leipsic, established in 1832, has been for many years a polyclinic, at which Haubold and Meyer have presided, and where the learned Müller is now in daily attendance. Thousands flock annually thither, not only from Leipsic but from the country around.

PHARMACIES.

Paris is fortunate in having such a family as the Catellan frères, who have established five dispensaries in different quarters of that city, each one of which is kept with scrupulous care and exactness, and they may well be models to pharmacies the world over.

Throughout Saxony every pharmacy is by law compelled to

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from his former professional associates, and walked the hospitals almost alone. Since his time none of the Faculty have dared to avow themselves homoeopathists. There are, however, two private hospitals in Paris, each having upwards of forty beds. One of these is supported by the friends of high attenuations, and the other by those of the low. Both claim success, and both are struggling on, supported by earnest and unselfish friends.

In Lyons a new and beautiful hospital has been erected the past year, at a cost of about 800,000 francs, including a considerable tract of land. Such a hospital in this country would cost at least $300,000; and yet this has been built, in a great measure, by the earnest, persistent effort of a single physician. A part already completed will accommodate about eighty patients, but it is designed to add wings, that the hospital, when finished, may contain about four hundred beds.

At Geneva there is also a homeopathic hospital, which for twenty years has quietly and unostentatiously filled its mission. It has some forty-four beds, which are nearly always full, and has provided for about 12,000 patients. It has been, during this whole time, under the medical care of Dr. Dufresne; and Sisters of Charity have acted as nurses and attendants. The religious warfare now going on in Geneva seriously interferes with this hospital, since it belongs to the order of Sisters, and they have been forbidden to live in Geneva.

In Berlin there is a private surgical hospital of about twenty beds, under the management of Dr. Maylander.

In Linz there is also a large homoeopathic hospital, and at Vienna there are three, the Sechs Haus (containing some 600 beds), the Gumpendorf, and the Leopoldstadt Hospitals. The latter two have been in existence as homeopathic hospitals nearly thirty years, and so great was the demand for homoeopathic treatment that the government has devoted the larger hospital to this practice. There are many other hospitals wholly or partly devoted to homeopathic treatment, and the success attending them has been highly gratifying.

DISPENSARIES.

These require a much smaller outlay in establishing and sustaining, and one of the finest is in Liverpool. It was established more than twenty years ago, outgrew its first quarters, and its friends contributed money enough to erect a fine building. This proved insufficient for the wants of Liverpool, and a branch -dispensary was established. So great have been the demands upon it that in a single morning, when I happened to be present, 317 persons visited the dispensary to avail themselves of its advantages.

Nearly every town of considerable size in England has a homoeopathic dispensary for the benefit of the poor. In addition there is a large number of dispensaries where the poor pay a trifling sum, sufficient for the current expenses, and the physician devotes his time to their care gratuitously. There are probably at least a dozen of these in London alone.

In Paris, by the liberality of the Messrs. Catellan, a free dispensary is connected with each of their pharmacies (five in number), they contributing all the medicines needed. There are also dispensaries connected with each of the hospitals, and the numbers flocking to these are, in the aggregate, very great. In Switzerland there are several homoeopathic dispensaries, and likewise in nearly all important towns of Germany.

The Central Dispensary at Leipsic, established in 1832, has been for many years a polyclinic, at which Haubold and Meyer have presided, and where the learned Müller is now in daily attendance. Thousands flock annually thither, not only from Leipsic but from the country around.

PHARMACIES.

Paris is fortunate in having such a family as the Catellan frères, who have established five dispensaries in different quarters of that city, each one of which is kept with scrupulous care and exactness, and they may well be models to pharmacies the world over.

Throughout Saxony every pharmacy is by law compelled to

have a homoeopathic department separate, but connected with it, and in all the important places good homeopathic pharmacies are to be found. The most extensive, perhaps, in Europe is that of Dr. William Schwabe, of Leipsic, who sends his preparations to all parts of the civilized world. An earnest, warmhearted man, he is himself, as well as his pharmacy, worthy of a visit.

Nothing more markedly indicates the growth of homœopathy in London than the increase of its pharmacies. Where twenty years ago there were but one or two, now there are at least a dozen, and all have an air of prosperity and success.

In Liverpool there are three, under the care of and belonging to Messrs. Thompson & Capper. All are admirably arranged, and command the entire respect of the profession.

SOCIETIES.

In England there are two general and several local societies. The British Homœopathic Society allows membership from any part of the United Kingdom. The meetings are held monthly in London, and the annual meeting took place this year on the evenings of June 23 and 24. Papers were read and carefully and intelligently discussed, with an earnestness, courtesy, and knowledge which might be copied by all our societies with advantage. Out of some three hundred practitioners this Society numbers one hundred and seventeen members. Of these about forty were present at the annual meeting. The venerable Dr. Quin, the first to introduce homoeopathy into England, is the president of the Society, but Dr. Pope, acting president, delivered the address. During the past year, under the auspices of this society, ten carefully prepared essays have been read by members, and discussed; a course of lectures by Drs. Dudgeon, Hale, and Hughes has been given at the hospital in Great Ormond Street, and the general interests of homoeopathy in Great Britain have been protected. During the past twenty years, there have been held from time to time, latterly every year, a British Congress, to which all homœopathic practitioners are invited. This year it was held at Manchester, on September 9,

and some fifty physicians from various parts of the country were present. Four papers were read and discussed, and the whole tone of the Congress was indicative of educated scientific men. At these meetings the social element is not lacking, and the last session is always around the dinner-table.

There are local societies in Liverpool and some of the larger towns which serve an excellent purpose by bringing the physicians together, while the nature of their profession and its duties otherwise serve to keep them apart.

In Paris there are two medical societies, divided, if I judge rightly, in the first place by "the difference in the dose," and kept apart by those personal antipathies which too often mar professional esteem. Both societies publish a journal and support a hospital. Discussions in both societies often assume the form of dissertations, in which the disputants aim to include the largest amount of personal observation and thought. Could personal estrangements be overcome and all the physicians unite in support of one common object, our cause in France would undoubtedly progress more rapidly than it has done hitherto.

In Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and Hungary there are homœopathic societies, all engaged in active work.

On August 9 there assembled in Berlin the National Society of Germany, the Central Homœopathische Verein. This Society is one of the oldest, and has had in membership nearly all the leading members of our school in Germany. About fifty were present at this session, and among them were such wellknown men as Kafka, Baer, Gerstel, Prof. Haussmann, Prof. Rapp, Müller, Goullon, Jr., etc. etc. The session lasted three days, and in it the social element so prominent in German character came in most happily. The influence of such meetings there, as elsewhere, proves most salutary to the profession.

THE OUTLOOK.

The changes of the past twenty years in Europe in our ranks have been great. Nearly all the old students and associates of Hahnemann have closed forever their labors. The middleaged men whom I met in my former visits are now old, and at

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