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 APRIL, 1896. 
 
 No. 5 * 
 
 Medical 
 
 Instruction 
 
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Boston University School ot Medicine. 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD YEAR, 1895-1896, BEGINS OCT. 10, 1895. 
 
 FOUR FEARS’ COURSE. 
 
 This Medical School, in 1878, was the first in this country to establish a four years* 
 coarse of medical study prior to graduation. Many years’ experience and the gratifying 
 success which attended it in producing well-trained, thoroughly educated physicians, lea 
 the faculty to require this course from all students entering this school during and 
 after the year 1890. 
 
 THE FIRST YEAR. 
 
 In addition to more thorough knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology this year affords 
 Instruction in many subjects of essential importance to the physician, but which are often 
 emitted in medical schools, and for which there is no time in a short term of six months. 
 Success in these studies makes a firm foundation for the work of the succeeding years and 
 cannot be as profitably secured outside the Medical School. 
 
 THE INCREASED FACILITIES of the School add greatly to the value of its 
 Instruction. 
 
 THE MASSACHUSETTS HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, 
 
 Is the largest Homeopathic Hospital of its class in the world, and affords valuable din* 
 ieal advantages, both surgical and medical. 
 
 THE DISPENSARY 
 
 Furnishes more than fifty thousand prescriptions a year, and its thirteen depart* 
 meats offer daily clinics in which may be seen nearly every variety of disease. 
 
 THE NEW GOLLEGE BUILDINGS 
 
 Provide excellent accommodations for studies in tbe various laboratories. Its Chemical 
 Laboratory eas one hundred and sixteen lockers and fifty-six tables, each fitred with water, 
 gas and all the needed apparatus. Tbe Microscopical Laboratory is perhaps the best arranged 
 in tbe country for light and ventilation, and is provided with forty-five Microscopes. Tbe Phy¬ 
 siological and Pathological Laboratories are equally spacious and well arranged. Tbe 
 Museum has been thoroughly refitted and is open daily for the Student. The Library contains 
 ever three thousand medical volumes, newly catalogued and arranged, vith spacious reading 
 rooms and the latest reference hooks for study. The equipments throughout are extensive ana 
 of practical value. Tor further information apply to the Dean, 
 
 L T. TALBOT, M. D., 
 
 685 Boylston St., Boston. 
 
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 Situated in West Newton, nine miles from Boston. 
 Two departments, in buildings widely separated; 
 one for patients with nervous troubles, such as 
 nervous prostration, hysteria, spinal irritation, dys¬ 
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 Massage , baths , electricity , rest treatment , 
 
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 thirty-five dollars. Price covers medical care, board, washing, 
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 VOL. II. 
 
 Boston, Apeil, 1896. 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Historical Sketch of Boston University School of Medicine, -.Page i 
 
 Medical Schools are not Commercial Enterprises, by J. P. Sutherland,.5 
 
 The Teaching of Physiology, by John A. Rockwell,.7 
 
 Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, - - - -.g 
 
 Institute of Homoeopathy and Medical Education, by W. T. Talbot,.n 
 
 Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary, . ... I4 
 
 Westboro Insane Hospital,. ------- 16 
 
 The N. E. Hahnemann Association, - -- -- -- -- -- - 19 
 
 Infinitesimals, a poem, by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,.-21 
 
 The Hahnemann Centennial Festival, ----------- 22-32 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BOSTON KNIFE RSI TV SCHOOL OF 
 
 MEDICINE. 
 
 BY I. TISDALE TALBOT, M.D- 
 
 In 1869, Boston University was incorporated by the State of 
 Massachusetts, and its charter conveyed the full powers of a 
 University in the holding of property, granting of degrees, etc. 
 Its College of Liberal Arts, its Divinity and Law Schools, a 
 College of Oratory and one of Music were already established, 
 and its Agricultural College had been associated with the State 
 Agricultural Institution at Amherst, when, in 1873, the School 
 of Medicine was organized. 
 
 By an enabling act of the legislature, in 1874, the New Eng¬ 
 land Female Medical College, which had been in existence more 
 
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 than twenty-five years, was united with it. Thus, at the very 
 beginning, this medical school opened its doors under university 
 protection with medical associations which had been accumu¬ 
 lating for more than a quarter of a century, and was supported 
 by a large branch of the profession whose members had long 
 felt the importance of a school in New England, where their 
 students might obtain a thorough education in medicine, and, 
 at the same time, secure a knowledge of homoeopathy. 
 
 Up to this time the methods of medical instruction in this 
 country had been of a crude and doubtful character. Pupils 
 began the study of medicine oftentimes without the slightest 
 regard to preliminary education. Many, it is true, were well 
 trained, and not a few were graduates of literary colleges, yet 
 they entered the same class with those who had received not 
 even the advantages of the grammar schools, but who had a de¬ 
 sire to reach the status of “ doctor ” with the least possible ex¬ 
 penditure of time and money. The method of instruction was 
 such as would meet the capacity of such students. Five or 
 more doctors elected themselves professors, established a medi¬ 
 cal school, and prepared a course of lectures, which lectures all 
 the students nominally were required to attend twice in suc¬ 
 ceeding years. In fact, some thinking it a bore to attend the 
 lectures a second time, relied upon their memory of the first 
 course to carry them through such examination as might be 
 held, while the enterprising faculties of some colleges thought 
 it a great loss of time to wait a year for the second course, and 
 by immediately repeating the series, which oftentimes occupied 
 but three months, could turn out their full-fledged doctors in 
 six months from the time they were graduated from the farm or 
 the stable. 
 
 For many years the homoeopathic physicians of New Eng¬ 
 land had held a charter under which they could establish the 
 New England Homoeopathic Medical College, but they had de¬ 
 termined not to undertake such an institution until certain that 
 they could do something to elevate the standard of medical 
 education then existing. In order to provide proper instruc¬ 
 tion, they felt it absolutely essential first, to secure a hospital 
 and a dispensary, in which the students could have opportuni¬ 
 ties for practical illustrations and clinical study. A dispensary 
 had been permanently established in 1856, which could profita¬ 
 bly be utilized. In 1855, a hospital had been chartered which 
 had struggled along in the “fond illusions of hope” until, in 
 1871, it had opened its modest doors; these were not closed 
 even by an unwise and hostile attack made upon its medical 
 system. A public uprising in its favor, in 1872, placed in its 
 treasury at one effort $80,000, and what was more, established 
 
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 an impregnable confidence in its permanence and success. With 
 these two institutions and the friendly feeling of the public to¬ 
 wards them, came the confidence of the founders and trustees 
 of Boston University and a request for help from the trustees 
 of another institution—the New England Female Medical Col- 
 iege. 
 
 The time seemed ripe for the long wished-for medical school. 
 The Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society assembled 
 in special session, endorsed the project and recommended a 
 full coterie of its members from which to form a faculty. This 
 faculty realized the full importance of their mission. It was 
 the exact reverse of the idea which had governed a large num¬ 
 ber of the medical colleges of the country ; it was how to give 
 to its students the most thorough instruction, rather than a 
 mere semblance of it in the easiest possible manner. The first 
 point determined was that no student should be allowed to 
 enter the school who was not well prepared for medical study. 
 The faculty decided, second, that no one should receive a 
 diploma in less than three years of study, two of which must 
 have been spent in a medical school. Third, instead of the rep¬ 
 etition of a single yearly course, a graded course of three years 
 was established, giving to each year distinct and successive 
 branches of study. It was feared that it would be impractica¬ 
 ble to compel all students to attend the three courses, and those 
 who had already pursued study with a physician for one or 
 more years were allowed to complete the course in two addi¬ 
 tional years by passing required examinations. But in a short 
 time even this method of lessening the time of systematic study 
 was dropped, and the three annual courses, each lengthened 
 from the usual term of five months to the university year of 
 eight months, were required of every student.* The growing 
 demands for knowledge in every department of medical science 
 found even this time too short, and in advance of every other 
 medical school in this country, in 1878, the Boston University 
 School of Medicine established an optional four years’ course, 
 which, in 1890, after a trial of twelve years, was made compul¬ 
 sory. In all these pioneer steps for better medical education, it 
 is a gratification to know that the example set by this school 
 has been followed by some of the best medical colleges of this 
 country. It required no little degree of courage, energy and 
 persistency to carry these methods to success. The expenses 
 were very largely increased in comparison with those for a sin¬ 
 gle course of lectures ; the number of instructors required was 
 more than trebled ; the amount of scientific apparatus and the 
 number of working laboratories were largely multiplied and, 
 while a few generous friends kindly assisted with contributions, 
 
 •These requirements were fully enforced in 1876. 
 
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 the faculty have been obliged to a large extent, not only to con¬ 
 tribute their time and personal seivices, but even to draw from 
 their own pecuniary resources for the support of the school. 
 From the first there has never been any hesitation or doubt as 
 to the course which this school should pursue, and the faculty 
 have been as a unit in deciding that the work done must be as 
 thorough and complete as it was possible for them to make it 
 under existing financial circumstances. There has never been 
 a time when with greater resources the work could not have 
 been enlarged and improved, and the faculty would have re¬ 
 ceived with gratitude the pecuniary assistance which was 
 greatly needed in order to give proper training and instruction 
 to the students, and to develop in them the greatest amount of 
 that knowledge and skill which, on the part of the physician, 
 are of importance to human life and health and to the welfare 
 of communities. With its work steadily increasing, the needs 
 of the school are greater now than ever before, and its friends 
 are earnestly asked to consider how they may best give it nec¬ 
 essary support. 
 
 THE FACULTY 1895 - 6 . 
 
 WILLIAM F. WARREN, LL. D., PRESIDENT. 
 
 I. TISDALE TALBOT, M.D., 685 Bovlston St., DEAN, Professor of Svrgery. 
 
 CONRAD WESSELHOEFT, M.D., 661 Boylston St., Professor of Pathology and Thera¬ 
 peutics. 
 
 HENRY C. AHLBORN, M.C., 258 Marlborough St., Professor of Pathology and Patho¬ 
 logical Anatomy. 
 
 J. HEBER SMITH, M.D., 279 Dartmouth St Professor of Materia Meclica. 
 
 WALTER WESSELHOEFT, M.D., Cambridge, Professor of Obstetrics. 
 
 HERBERT C. CLAPP, M.D., 11 Columbus Square, Professor of Diseases of the Chest. 
 EDWIN E. CALDER, A.M., Providence, R. I., Professor of Chemistry. 
 
 HOWARD P. BELLOWS, M.D., 229 Berkeley St., Professor of Otology. 
 
 JOHN P. SUTHERLAND, M.D., 295 Commonwealth Ave , Professor of Anatomy. 
 EDWARD P. COLBY, M.D., 229 Berkeley St., Professor of Nen oxis Diseases. 
 
 JOHN L. COFFiN, M.D., 229 Berkeley St., Professor of Diseases of the Shin. 
 
 JOHN H. PAYNE, M.D., Pierce’s Building, Copley Sq.. Professor of Ophthalmology. 
 HORACE PACKARD, M.D., 362 Commonwealth Ave., Professof of Surgery. 
 
 ALONZO BOOTHBY, M D.. 1 Worcester Square, Professor of Gynaecology. 
 
 WILLIAM L. JACKSON, M.D., 86 Dudley St .. Professor of Electro-Therapeutics. 
 
 N. EMMONS PAINE, M.D., West Newton, Professor of Mental Diseases. 
 
 GEORGE R. SOUTH WICK, M.D., 31 Massachusetts A ve.. Associate Professor of Ohstet- 
 r ics • 
 
 FRED B. PERCY, M.D , Brookline, Associate Professor of Materia Medica. 
 
 JOSEPH W. HAYWARD, M.D,, Taunton, Associate Professor of Surgery. 
 
 In addition to the above, the following constitute the full faculty : 
 
 JOHN A. ROCKWELL, M.D., East Concord St., Professor of Physiology. 
 
 WINFIELD S. SMITH. M.D., 601 Boylston St., Associate Professor of Anatomy. 
 NATHANIEL W. EMERSON. M.D., 601 Boylston St., Associate Professor of Surgery. 
 WINTHROP T. TALBOT, M.D., 685 Boylston St., Associate Prof essor in Pathology and 
 Director of the Pathological Laboratory. 
 
 FREDERICK P. BATCHELDER. M.D , 232 Massachusetts Ave., Associate Professor of 
 Physiology and Director of the Museum. 
 
 A. HOWARD POWERS, M D., 352 Massachusetts Ave., Demonstrator of Anatomy and 
 Instructor in Clinical Surgery and Surgical Diagnosis 
 HELEN L. F. WRIGHT, M D., 201 Clarendon St., Lecturer on Gynaecology. 
 
 EDWARD L. MELLUS, M D., Lecturer on Pathology. 
 
 GEORGE B. RICE, M.D., 229 Berkeley St., Instructor in Diseases of the Throat and 
 Nose. 
 
 MARION COON. M D., 14 Warrenton St , Instructor in Comparative Anatomy. 
 
 J. EMMONS BRIGGS M.D., 240 Massachusetts Ave., Instructor in Surgery. 
 
 C1IA RLE4 L. NICHOLS, M.D., Worcester, Lecturer on the History and Methodology of 
 Medicine. 
 
 J. WILKINSON CLAPP, M.D., 10 Park Square, Lecturer on Pharmaceutics. 
 
 FRANK C. RICHARDSON, M.D., 601 Boylston St., Lecturer on Nervous Diseases. 
 
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 FREDERICK W. HALSEY, M.D., 272 Newbury St., Lecturer on Diseases of the Rectum 
 M\URICE W. TURNER, M.D., Brookline, Instructor in Pathology and Therapeutics. 
 GEOROE H. EARL, M.D., 18 Huntington Ave., Instructor in Obstetrics. 
 
 HERBERT D. BOYD, M.D., 669 Tremont St., Assistant in Anatomy. 
 
 FRANK E. ALLARD, M.D., 33 Hancock St , Instructor in Physiology. 
 
 FREDERICK D. STACKPOLE, M.D., 24 Kenilworth St., Librarian. 
 
 EVERETT W. BURDETT, LL. B., Ames Building, Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence. 
 SARAH S. M INDSOR, M.D., 138 Marlborough St., Lecturer on Diseases of Children. 
 WM. F. WESSELHOEFT, M.D., 176 Commonwealth Ave., Lnstructor in Clinical Sur¬ 
 gery. 
 
 CHa RLES H. THOMAS, M.D , Cambridge, Lecturer on Sanitary Science. 
 
 PERCY G. BROWNE, M.D., 28 Saratoga St., Assistant in Chest Diseases. 
 
 MEDICAL COLLEGES ARE NOT COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES. 
 
 BY J. B. SUTHERLAND, M.D. 
 
 That is to say, medical colleges worthy the name, and earning 
 the right to exist as such, are not commercial enterprises. 
 
 In proportion as unkind circumstances force a medical college 
 toward commercialism in its attitude toward the public, does 
 that college decline from the dignity which should belong to its 
 position, and from its highest possibilities of usefulness. It is 
 as true of an institution as it is of an individual, that if money 
 getting, in order to live, becomes the chief aim, absorbs the 
 strength, demands the energy, the highest faculties go to waste, 
 the nature sordidly degenerates. To save the college from this 
 fate is the object of the permanent endowment which every 
 medical college so earnestly desires, but the full need of which 
 the philanthropic public so little recognizes. 
 
 Emancipation from anxiety concerning material needs is the 
 sole condition of free exercise of mental and spiritual powers. 
 As has been said, this, being true of the individual, is true also 
 of the institution. Medical colleges should exist solely for the 
 purpose of thoroughly and ideally fitting students for the suc¬ 
 cessful and honorable practice of the noblest of the professions. 
 In proportion as the intelligence and generosity of the commu¬ 
 nity make it possible for the college to do this, that community 
 is ministering to its own welfare. The trained physician— 
 soundly trained, ethically, as well as technically—is, it is no ex¬ 
 aggeration to say, the most valued and appreciated—too often 
 the most sorely needed worker in any community. It lies with 
 a community to say whether or no such physicians shall be. 
 Their training will not come of itself. It can only be acquired 
 at colleges capable of bestowing it, and such colleges can exist 
 only where the community, or certain of its rich and far-seeing 
 citizens, are found willing so to endow it as to make its best 
 work possible. 
 
 No more erroneous idea can prevail than that a medical col¬ 
 lege can or should be self-supporting. Such a notion is only 
 paralleled in error by the idea that the fees a medical student 
 pays to his Alma Mater are an equivalent for what he receives 
 
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 from her. The sooner a student disabuses himself of this latter 
 idea, the sooner will he become fit to cross the threshold of the 
 noble profession that only base souls drag down to the level of 
 a trade. The fees paid by a medical student to his college are 
 the merest honorarium , barely compensating for the few mate¬ 
 rial comforts he enjoys while prosecuting his studies ; for the 
 heating of the halls and laboratories in which he works ; the re¬ 
 pairing and lighting of the college buildings ; the services of 
 the janitors who keep them clean and. orderly; the wear and 
 tear of the material apparatus by the aid of which he studies. 
 For the magnificent gift of the inheritance of all the ages in 
 medical lore, the revelations of medical science, ancient and 
 modern, the teaching and example of the men, most of whose 
 services are given, without price, to him and his fellows, for 
 love of medical science and its continuance and upbuilding 
 along worthy lines—for these things does the community, or 
 does the student himself imagine his fees to stand as an equiv¬ 
 alent ? A moment’s thought puts to rout such a fallacy. 
 
 There are branches of teaching which demand the teacher’s 
 whole time, or so great a share of it as to render remunerative 
 work in other directions impossible for him. If these branches 
 are to be thoroughly taught, a medical college must be prepared 
 to offer such a teacher compensation sufficient to make it pos¬ 
 sible for him to put the needed amount of time at its service. 
 There are varieties of apparatus, of incalculable value—in these 
 days of close scientific exactitude, of almost absolute necessity 
 —to the thorough training of the medical student. Such appa¬ 
 ratus is only to be secured by the medical college having a cer¬ 
 tain and sufficient income at its disposal. As has been said, 
 the fees received from students are, as a rule, barely sufficient 
 to cover the lowest, most material needs of the college ; the 
 erection and repair of suitable buildings; their heating, lighting 
 and maintenance in fit order, and the like. The vital, highest 
 necessities of the college, in the way of expert teaching and 
 modern apparatus, are left practically unprovided for. The loss 
 affects not only the student, but the community in which he is 
 hereafter to practise, and which must profit or suffer according 
 as he is well or ill equipped for his work. It is for that com¬ 
 munity to protect itself in advance, by seeing to it that his 
 equipment is only limited by the measure of his ability. Public 
 opinion must be so educated that medical colleges shall be alto¬ 
 gether freed from the inevitable temptation and the very seri¬ 
 ous perils of the attempt to combine the functions of profes¬ 
 sional instruction with commercial gain. It is the duty of every 
 physician, every medical journalist, every loyal alumnus of a 
 medical college to do his share toward educating public opinion 
 to recognition of the necessity of endowments. 
 
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 METHODS OF INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIO LOG Y. 
 
 BY PROF. JOHN A. ROCKWELL, M.D 
 
 There are three ways of teaching physiology and its allied 
 sciences—by text-book, by lecture and by experimental work. 
 The book gives fullness of view; the lecture may throw in the 
 perspective, enforce certain shade lines and give color; but the 
 experimental leads to a knowledge of its parts and their method 
 of combination and action. In Boston University School of 
 Medicine, these three methods of instruction have proved of 
 the utmost practical value. The first-year students receive 
 text-book drill and must pass examination thereon. In the 
 second year there are added the lecture and the laboratory 
 work. The latter includes tasks in physiological physics, phys¬ 
 iological chemistry and experimental physiology. A proper 
 equipment for such experimental work would include a good 
 working knowledge of higher algebra, chemistry, physics and 
 the microscope, and it should be preceded by a thorough, prac¬ 
 tical course in elementary biology. In this direction the de¬ 
 partment already requires much and is moving forward. 
 
 The building of new laboratories and the expansion, in all 
 directions, of facilities for practical work are the outcome of the 
 modern spirit of exploration—the profound conviction that ob¬ 
 servation and experiment mark the road to knowledge in applied 
 science, and that no student is ready for life-work until he has 
 had a thorough, elementary training in methods of research and 
 measurement, of analysis and comparison—until his senses 
 have become trained and willing servants of a disciplined mind. 
 Physiology, especially, requires the application of these methods 
 for the elucidation of some of the processes, constructive and 
 destructive, synthetic and analytic, by which certain metabolic 
 changes take place in the human body. To understand the 
 chemistry and physics of livi«ng matter we must bring to the 
 study the painstaking and exact methods pertaining to the study 
 of those sciences. We must descend from the pedestal of spec¬ 
 ulation to the firm base of demonstration. If our rate of prog¬ 
 ress appears much slower, each step forward may mark real 
 progress. Dealing with living matter—complex in its change¬ 
 ful manifestations, sensitive to changed conditions—the way is 
 long and fatiguing and progress is especially slow—many prob¬ 
 lems of nutrition and of action remain unsolved. 
 
 Every student should be brought into touch with the investi¬ 
 gating spirit by becoming himself an investigator. He should 
 be taught to observe accurately and record truthfully, to note 
 the difference in reaction of living and lifeless matter, to set up 
 and adjust apparatus, to improvise new methods or apparatus 
 
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 for new conditions, and to become somewhat familiar with the 
 methods of systematic research. Beyond the technique he must 
 advance to the exploration of regions known and unknown. 
 
 With his microscope and other aids, chemical and physical, 
 he should for himself not only count the blood-corpuscles, ob¬ 
 serve the blood in circulation, note variations of heart action, 
 record the pulse-beat, study relations of muscle and nerve, fol¬ 
 low the different processes of digestion, and inquire into the 
 maze of reflexes and cerebration, but also enter the borderland 
 of the unknown and experience the joy of making a new contri¬ 
 bution to the sum of human knowledge. The student should 
 be taught to observe and to think for himself, to work upon 
 and, if possible, to work out his own problems, to be modest yet 
 self-reliant, and to have the courage of his own observations— 
 in short, be trained for leading work in the forceful future open¬ 
 ing to the educated young men and women of to-day. 
 
 The place for such training is in the laboratories of our 
 schools, especially the physiological and biological laboratories. 
 But laboratories cost money, a great deal of money for equip¬ 
 ment, and a great deal of money for maintenance. Yet, in what 
 direction can money be more wisely expended ? 
 
 THE MASSACHUSETTS HO MCE OP A THIC HOSPITAL. 
 
 This hospital was chartered by special act of the Legislature 
 of Massachusetts in 1855. The Dispensary was established in 
 the following year, and the great success attending a fair for 
 its permanent fund in 1859, ma de the friends of the hospital 
 confident of the immediate establishment of the hospital. The 
 
 war, however, broke out in the following year and the minds of 
 people were diverted from this charity, and ten years elapsed 
 before it was again taken up earnestly by a few of its friends. 
 
 In January, 1871, a small hospital of fifteen beds was opened 
 in a house hired for the purpose at 14 Burroughs Place, Boston, 
 which soon drew to its aid many of the friends of homoeopathy 
 in Boston and vicinity. 
 
 An event occurred in November of 1871 which, while it was 
 intended to destroy this hospital and the standing and position 
 of homoeopathy, did more than anything else could have done 
 for its progress and ultimate success. The Massachusetts 
 Medical Society determined to brand its homoeopathic members 
 as guilty of improper practice and, although they were unwill¬ 
 ing to state in their charges what the character of that practice 
 
 was, yet it was perfectly apparent to the community and finally 
 acknowledged to be—because they practised without concealment 
 homoeopathically. This attack was carried on in the most high- 
 
Massaschusetts Homoeopathic Hospital. 
 
Grant of Land for Nurses’ Home. 
 
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 handed manner, the avowed object being to place the oppro¬ 
 brium of expulsion upon all homoeopathic members. At the 
 moment when tbe prosecutors supposed they were about to ac¬ 
 complish their object, an injunction from the supreme court, 
 forbidding such summary proceedings, so completely negatived 
 their purposes that the attention and sympathies of the com¬ 
 munity were directed to the subject. 
 
 In the May following, a public fair in aid of the Homoeo¬ 
 pathic Hospital was held in the Horticultural and Boston Music 
 Halls. This continued for two weeks and produced the net sum 
 of $76,000, to which was added $4,000 by subsequent sale. The 
 immense success of this Fair, the number of friends and sup¬ 
 porters it secured established the Homoeopathic Hospital for¬ 
 ever. More than this, it established the first medical college 
 to teach homoeopathy in New England. It diverted to this 
 college the New England Female Medical College with such 
 property as it had gained in the twenty-five years of its exist¬ 
 ence, and the trustees of Boston University took these institu¬ 
 tions— the new medical school and the Woman’s College — 
 unitedly under its protecting care, forming Boston University 
 School of Medicine. 
 
 In 1876, land had been purchased from the City of Boston in 
 close proximity to the College, and a beautiful building capable 
 of containing fifty beds erected thereon was opened to the 
 public. So rapidly was this hospital filled with patients and so 
 great the demand upon it that it soon became necessary to en¬ 
 large it. The City graciously granted to the hospital an addi¬ 
 tional tract of land valued at $30,000, and the friends of the 
 hospital, among whom must be mentioned with gratitude and 
 warm regard the late Gibeon F. T. Reed, erected additional 
 buildings for the hospital at a cost exceeding $100,000, which 
 were completed and dedicated in 1884. 
 
 This sufficed for a short time only, when additional room was 
 called for and the trustees, in 1890, applied to the State Legis¬ 
 lature for aid, which gave to them a most generous grant of 
 $120,000 for the erection of additional buildings, coupled with 
 the condition that the hospital should forever maintain at least 
 twenty free beds and have four State trustees upon its board of 
 management. These buildings were completed and opened to 
 the public in 1892. 
 
 The largest number of inmates of the hospital, including 
 nurses and employees, is 200; the number of nurses in the 
 present employ is 44; the number of patients treated in the 
 past year has been 1,329. The mortality in the past year has 
 been less than 2 \ per cent., and the average mortality for 
 twenty-five years has been about 3^ per cent., a remarkably 
 
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 low rate for a general hospital of this character. The number 
 of surgical operations of most serious character has been very 
 great and attended with unusual success. 
 
 Connected with the hospital there has been for the past ten 
 years a training-school for nurses, from which have graduated a 
 large number who are now doing efficient service in the com¬ 
 munity. For lack of room in the hospital, nurses have had quar¬ 
 ters outside which, though the best that could be provided, 
 were not such as were desirable, and the City has recently 
 given a lot of land containing nearly 12,000 ft., on which a suit¬ 
 able home for nurses may be erected. Altogether the growth 
 and present condition of this hospital are such as should gratify 
 its friends and supporters. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE HOSPITAL, 1896. 
 
 President. 
 
 Charles R. Codman. 
 
 Vice-Presidents. 
 
 Henry S. Russell. W. H. Horton. John C. Haynes. Isaac Fenno. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 E. W. Burdett. 
 
 J. Wilkinson Clapp, M.D. 
 
 B. Preston Clark. 
 
 David B. Flint. 
 
 J. Livingston Grandin. 
 Rufus F. Greeley. 
 
 John A. Higginson. 
 
 George H. Leonard. 
 Thomas Mack. 
 
 Samuel P. Mandell. 
 William L. Morse. 
 William Pope. 
 
 Alvin F. Sortwell. 
 
 I. T. Talbot, M.D. 
 
 Conrad Wesselhoeft, M.D. 
 
 Mrs. Frank R. Allen. 
 
 Miss Helen Collamore. 
 Mrs. E. S. Converse. 
 
 Mrs. Oliver Ditson. 
 
 Mrs A. S. Foster. 
 
 Mrs. Rufus S. Frost. 
 
 Mrs. George W. Gregerson 
 Mrs. John C. Haynes. 
 
 Miss F. E. Horton. 
 
 Miss Ida Hunneman. 
 
 Mrs. M. P. KenNard. 1 
 Mrs. Rebecca T. Reed. 
 
 Mrs. George D. Tyson. 
 
 Mrs. Edward Whitney. 
 Mrs. Alfreds. Woodworth 
 
 State Trustees. 
 
 J. Louis Rousmaniere. 
 James H. Eaton. 
 Oliver PI. Durrell. 
 Erastus T. Colburn. 
 
 Term expires 1896. 
 “ “ 1896. 
 
 “ 1897. 
 
 “ 1898. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Spencer W. Richardson, 40 Water Street. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 George W. Jackson, 31 Milk Street. 
 
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 HOSPITAL STAFF. 
 
 Physicians. 
 
 Hency C. Ahlborn, M. D., Consulting. J. Heber Smith, M. D. 
 Conrad Wesselhoeft, M. D. John P. Sutherland, M. D. 
 
 W. P. Wesselhoeft, M. D. F. B. Percy, M. D. 
 
 Walter Wesselhoeft, M. D. H. E. Spalding, M. D. 
 
 Surgeons. 
 
 I. T. Talbot, M. D., Constilting. Horace Packard, M. D. 
 
 Alonzo Boothby, M. D., Consulting. N. W. Emerson, M. D. 
 
 James B. Bell, M. D. W. J. Winn, M. D. 
 
 Winfield S. Smith, M. D. A. Howard Powers, M. D. 
 
 Specialists. 
 
 Herbert C. Clapp, M. D., in Diseases of the Chest. 
 
 John H. Payne, M. D., in Diseases of the Eye. 
 
 Howard P. Bellows, M. D., in Diseases of the Ear. 
 
 John L. Coffin, M. D., in Diseases of the Skin. 
 
 Edward P. Colby, M. D., in Diseases of the Nprvous System. 
 N. Emmons Paine, M. D., in Diseases af the Mind. 
 
 William L. Jackson, M. D., in Electro-Therapeutics. 
 
 Almena J. Baker-Flint, M. D., in Electro-Therapeutics. 
 
 Assistant Physicians. 
 
 Frederick P. Batchei.der, M. D. Winthrop T. Talbot, M. D. 
 
 Assistant Surgeons. 
 
 W. F. Wesselhoeft, M. D. J. Emmons Briggs, M. D. 
 
 Pathologist and Curator. 
 
 Winthrop T. Talbot, M. D. 
 
 Pharmacist. 
 
 J. Wilkinson Clapp, M- D. 
 
 Resident Physician. 
 
 T. Morris Strong, M. D. 
 
 House Physicians and Surgeons. 
 
 Grace Gardiner, M. D. Myron W. Smith, M. D. 
 
 Julia M. Lombard, M. D. C. E. Montague, M. D. 
 
 HOMCEOPA THY AND MEDICAL ED DC A TION. 
 
 BY W. T. TALBOT, M.D. 
 
 The homoeopathic practitioners of the United States are rep¬ 
 resented by the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the oldest 
 national medical association in America. It was founded in 
 1844, at a meeting held in New York at the invitation of the 
 New York Homoeopathic Physicians’ Society, and, with the 
 exception of four years during the war, 1861-64, has met annu¬ 
 ally since its organization. Its growth has corresponded closely 
 with the spread of homoeopathic practice and it now comprises 
 
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 a membership of 1586 physicians from 42 States and Territories. 
 It thus may be considered as a representative body. Its atti¬ 
 tude on public questions may be said to reflect the prevailing 
 general sentiment of the men whom it represents. In 1849, 
 when but one medical school was in existence in which homoeo¬ 
 pathic practice was taught, action was taken by the Institute 
 even at that early date in the appointment of a committee for 
 the consideration of medical education. In 1858, it was “ Re¬ 
 solved, that it is the duty of the American Institute of Homoe¬ 
 opathy to extend a fostering care to the homoeopathic schools 
 of the United States.” 
 
 At the close of the war, after the interim of enforced inac¬ 
 tivity, the committee on medical education was continued and 
 was instructed to confer with representatives of the medical 
 schools “ to devise a more thorough and efficient plan of medi¬ 
 cal education than that now pursued by any.” The report was 
 made and radical recommendations were offered to the effect 
 
 that entrance examinations and a four vears’ course should be 
 
 «/ 
 
 demanded of all graduates in medicine from homoeopathic 
 schools. This action, although not immediately effective, is 
 noticeable because occurring at a time when few of the oldest 
 and best schools in the country had gone so far as to require 
 three years of study, while the great majority contented them¬ 
 selves with two terms of lectures of three or four months each 
 and not one even offered a four years’ course. The first man¬ 
 datory step was taken in 1878, when it was resolved that “no 
 college be recognized by this Institute either by the reception 
 of its delegates or the admission of its graduates, which fails to 
 make an annual report,” and that these reports should contain 
 all essential facts relating to the length of time and character 
 of studies demanded of each graduate. The colleges, moreover, 
 were required to forward copies of their charters, by-laws, etc., 
 in order to remove all shadow of doubt regarding their legal 
 standing and corporate rights. 
 
 In 1884, the Intercollegiate Committee, instituted ten years 
 previously and consisting of two delegates from the faculty of 
 each of the thirteen homoeopathic medical schools, reported as 
 follows : 
 
 “ Eleven colleges represented in the Institute have unani¬ 
 mously voted to require, from and after the session of 1885-86, 
 a thorough preliminary examination in the branches of a good 
 English education, embracing mathematics and physics, or a 
 diploma from a respectable literary institution.” 
 
 This important action in formal recognition of the necessity 
 of more thorough preliminary study, was the initiative step, as 
 far as is known, of the present reform in medical requirements 
 in either school of medical practice. 
 
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 In 1888, in obedience to a resolution of the Institute looking 
 to “ concerted and harmonious action in the further improve¬ 
 ment of medical education,” the Intercollegiate Committee 
 
 “Resolved, that after the college sessions of 1890-91, each 
 and all of the homoeopathic schools of America will require of 
 their candidates of graduation at least three years of medical 
 study, including three full courses of didactic and clinical in¬ 
 struction of at least six months each.” 
 
 This action was upheld by the national body in a resolution 
 “that this Institute will after 1891, require from all applicants 
 graduating after that time, a full compliance with the above re¬ 
 quirements for graduation.” 
 
 In 1890, the Intercollegiate Committee voted that in all 
 schools represented by the committee, “after the fall of 1892, 
 the term of study required for graduation shall be at least four 
 years , which shall include attendance upon not less than three 
 terms of lectures of six months each.” 
 
 When it is considered that the homoeopathic schools are the 
 youngest and financially the least independent schools of the 
 country, this insistence upon a standard of education higher 
 than that adopted by their competitors, was to say the least, as 
 rash as it was praiseworthy. Nor has this action been proved 
 unwise, for the best sentiment of the community and the pro¬ 
 fession is with them, and other schools have been forced now to 
 the same procedure as is evidenced by the action in 1894, of 
 the Association of Medical Colleges. 
 
 Since 1879, when the medical schools were first required to 
 furnish annual reports to the Institute, figures regarding their 
 requirements are obtainable. In the series of years from 1879 
 to 1893, the average term has been lengthened from 23.5 to 
 26.6 weeks and the average number of courses required from 
 less than 2.4 to 3.6 courses. On the other hand the proportion 
 of the number of graduates to the whole number of students 
 has been reduced from 1 in 3.26 to 1 in 3.29. That is to say 
 while the length of the terms and the number of } r ears required 
 for study has steadily increased, it has been made more difficult 
 for a candidate to obtain his degree. 
 
 
 1879 
 
 1881 
 
 1883 
 
 1885 
 
 1887 
 
 1889 
 
 1891 
 
 1893 
 
 Medical Schools, 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 13 
 
 H 
 
 *3 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 Average term, 
 
 “ number courses, No 
 “ “ students, 
 
 “ “ graduates, 
 
 23-5 
 
 237 
 
 237 
 
 24 6 
 
 25.0 
 
 2 5-5 
 
 26.0 
 
 26.6 
 
 report. 
 
 2.4 
 
 2.4 
 
 2.6 
 
 24 
 
 2.8 
 
 2.9 
 
 36 
 
 111 
 
 114 
 
 1 x 9 
 
 66 
 
 7 i 
 
 80 
 
 80 
 
 99 
 
 34 
 
 40 
 
 40 
 
 28 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 25 
 
 27 
 
 Whole number students, 
 
 1110 
 
 1250 
 
 1310 
 
 864 
 
 995 
 
 ii 75 
 
 1276 
 
 1580 
 
 “ “ graduates, 
 
 335 
 
 43 s 
 
 440 
 
 365 
 
 372 
 
 369 
 
 406 
 
 427 
 
 In common with other schools, a curious decrease in attend¬ 
 ance began in 1884 in the homoeopathic schools, reaching its 
 
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 lowest point in 1885, and then gradually rising. In fourteen 
 years, however, the number of yearly matriculants has risen 
 from 1110 to 1580, and the number of students graduated an¬ 
 nually from 335 to 427. The number of alumni in 1893 were 
 9868, as compared with 5825 ten years previously. 
 
 With regard to the attitude of homoeopathic practitioners 
 abroad toward medical education, suffice it to say that being 
 debarred from representation in the teaching faculties, it has 
 been impossible to express their views in a practical way, ex¬ 
 cept through individual thoroughness, learning and industry. 
 In one university alone, as far as is known, is there a chair de¬ 
 voted to the teaching of homoeopathic practice. Under such 
 conditions it is strange that homoeopathy has survived at all, 
 and its spread under the circumstances has been extended far 
 wider than would seem possible. 
 
 It is plain that physicians of the liberal school in the United 
 States have put themselves on record as being the first to urge 
 by official utterance and to compel the schools to raise their 
 standards and lengthen their courses. The example has proved 
 infectious and the effect is widely felt, but the end is not yet; 
 poverty-stricken though they be, the homoeopathic schools de¬ 
 serve credit not only for having taken the initiative in this 
 matter, but also for the fact that their progress is continuing 
 from year to year none the less steadily because slowly. 
 
 THE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY, BOSTON. 
 
 The large numbers which flock to a dispensary for treatment, 
 furnish a great variety of diseases for observation and study by 
 students as well as by physicians. The patients are divided 
 into three classes : 
 
 First. The chronic, which includes a great mass of persons 
 who, though for a long time sick, are able to visit the Dispen¬ 
 sary. 
 
 Second. A large number of acute affections, not sufficiently 
 severe to house the patient, and 
 
 Third. The beginning of severe acute disease. These latter 
 may make a single visit to the Dispensary and subsequent treat¬ 
 ment may require the domiciliary visits of the physician. In 
 these cases the student has the opportunity of familiarizing 
 himself with all the more common diseases which he will find 
 in subsequent practice, and under the direction of the medical 
 staff, he is able to give the careful attention and study which 
 would rarely be accorded by the physician in extensive practice, 
 however skillful he may be. Hence the Dispensary is a valu¬ 
 able adjunct to the Medical School. 
 
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 15 
 
 The Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary was chartered by the 
 State of Massachusetts in 1856, and was opened to the public 
 in the following year. It is now, therefore, in its fortieth year 
 of continuous work. Its growth has been steady. In its first 
 year, it cared for 181 patients, while in the last year it treated 
 upwards of 17,00c, administering over 53,000 prescriptions. The 
 total work since it was established has been 293,322 patients, 
 treated with 804,866 prescriptions. 
 
 The Dispensary first opened with a small room in the old 
 Tremont Temple and continued there until 1870, when it pur¬ 
 chased a house, No. 14 Burroughs Place. Later it divided into 
 three branches, the one remaining at Burroughs Place, another 
 established in the Charity Building at the West End, and the 
 third in the basement of the buildings of Boston University 
 School of Medicine, East Concord Street. The last branch 
 rapidly outgrew its quarters and now occupies the building 
 erected for it at 750 Harrison Avenue. 
 
 The financial history of the Dispensary is somewhat inter¬ 
 esting. Established in 1856, it raised a small permanent fund 
 and a small temporary fund for its support, but the fearful busi¬ 
 ness crisis in 1857 came near sweeping away all its means of 
 support and in the fall of 1858, it was seriously considered 
 whether it would not be absolutely necessary to give up the un¬ 
 dertaking. Money was scarce and nobody seemed inclined to 
 give a dollar for the charity. A few of its warm friends, 
 however, conceived the idea of a public fair for its benefit, and 
 though it was begun with the greatest misgivings as to its suc¬ 
 cess, yet it was finally decided upon and was held March 5th 
 to 9th, 1859, m Boston Music Hall. The outpouring of its 
 friends who sprang up on every side, made the effort a brilliant 
 success and secured the net sum of $13,100, which has been so 
 well managed from that time to the present, that it has been 
 able thereby to keep the Institution, in all its increased growth, 
 practically free from debt. 
 
 In the spring of 1889, the Dispensary rooms being found en¬ 
 tirely inadequate to its work, measures were taken to secure 
 more commodious quarters. Application was made to the City 
 of Boston for a lot of land on the corner of Harrison Avenue 
 and Stoughton Street, containing about 10,600 square feet. On 
 June 6th, 1889, this land was furnished by the city with a quit 
 claim deed. A building was erected of spacious dimensions, 
 the two lower stories of which were completed, and it was oc¬ 
 cupied on Sept. 2nd, 1891. It cost in erection and furnishing, 
 about $70,000. 
 
 The Dispensary is largely indebted to the generosity of Mr. 
 G. F. T. Reed, who made to its building fund a donation of 
 
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 $25,000, and to a fair held in Horticulural Hall in May, 1891, 
 which realized $10,550. The building has a large central wait¬ 
 ing room, 20 feet wide by 120 long, with consulting officers 
 arranged around it for the following departments : 
 
 Medical, Surgical, Women’s, Children’s, Eye and Ear, Skin, 
 Throat, Chest, Nervous, Rectal, Genito-Urinary, Orthopaedic 
 and Dental. About sixty physicians are in connection with 
 this who give their services, and the students in the senior year 
 of the School assist in the work of the Dispensary and also in 
 the visiting of out-patients. The number visiting the Dispen¬ 
 sary varies from 100 to 300 daily. Already the rooms are 
 oftentimes uncomfortably crowded and all its friends look for¬ 
 ward hopefully to the day when the building itself shall be 
 completed and made one of the most extensive and convenient 
 dispensary buildings in this country. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1896. 
 
 President, F. A. Dewson, Esq. ; vice-presidents, Lewis G. 
 Lowe, M.D., Hon. Alden Speare; treasurer, J. Wilkinson 
 Clapp, M.D. ; secretary, I. T. Talbot, M.D, ; trustees, Herbert 
 C. Clapp, M.D., Russell S. Codman, Miss Alice Ahlborn, A. J. 
 Baker-Flint, M.D., J. P. Sutherland, M.D., A. Howard Powers, 
 M.D., Alonzo Boothby, M.D., Mrs. A. H. Allen, Mrs. J. H. 
 Thorndike, A. L. Kennedy, M.D., S. H. Blodgett, M.D., N. H. 
 Houghton, M.D. 
 
 THE WESTBORO INSANE HOSPITAL. 
 
 The Westboro Insane Hospital is one of the group of institu¬ 
 tions in close relationship with Boston University School of 
 Medicine. Its organization was due to the same causes which 
 led to the establishment of the Medical School, and it has lain 
 along the same broad lines of tolerance in the practice of medi¬ 
 cine. Clinics for the instruction of students of Boston Univer¬ 
 sity School of Medicine were established in 1887 and have been 
 held annually since that time. The hospital is beautifully situ¬ 
 ated upon a hill overlooking Lake Chauncy, and the buildings, 
 although insufficient in size to meet the demands upon them, 
 are spacious, well ventilated, clean and attractive. 
 
 The Hospital was established by an act of the General Court 
 approved June 3, 1884, for the treatment of patients “ upon the 
 principles of medicine known as the homoeopathic,” and was 
 opened Dec. 1, 1886. It is to be presumed that, as no State 
 hospital was at that time under homoeopathic management, the 
 Legislature may have desired not merely to recognize a school 
 of medicine that had become well known and that had to a 
 greater or less extent obtained public confidence, but also to 
 
Westboro Insane Asylum 
 
Boston Homoeopathic Dispensary, 
 
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 try the experiment of placing a State institution under its 
 charge, with a view of ascertaining whether, by so doing, any 
 improvement in the treatment of insanity would result. As the 
 Westboro Hospital has now been in operation for the past ten 
 years, it is proper to point out that the large percentage of re¬ 
 coveries at this institution has demonstrated that its methods 
 of treatment are an advance upon those heretofore practised at 
 State lunatic hospitals. The hospital reports made to the Gov¬ 
 ernor and council a year ago indicate that, of the curable cases 
 which were admitted to this hospital in the year ending Sept. 
 30, 1894, 68 per cent, were cured, while the highest rate of 
 cures of similar cases in any other State hospital, during the 
 same year, was 36 per cent. In previous years—as will appear 
 upon examination of the official reports—the Westboro Hospi¬ 
 tal has led the others in the percentage of recoveries in about 
 the same proportion. It is unnecessary to make any further 
 comment upon this condition of affairs, but merely to present 
 this bare statement of the facts. 
 
 The Superintendent’s census for 1895 is as follows : 
 
 
 Men. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Totals. 
 
 Patients in the hospital Sept. 30, 1894, . 
 
 223 
 
 350 
 
 573 
 
 Admissions within the year, .... 
 Whole number of cases within the year. 
 
 111 
 
 143 
 
 254 
 
 334 
 
 493 
 
 827 
 
 Discharged within the year. 
 
 125 
 
 135 
 
 260 
 
 Yiz.: as recovered,. 
 
 30 
 
 37 
 
 67 
 
 much improved,. 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 41 
 
 improved. 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 27 
 
 not improved. 
 
 20 
 
 19 
 
 39 
 
 not insane, ...... 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 Deaths, -. 
 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 76 
 
 Patients remaining Sept. 30, 1895, . 
 
 Daily average number of patients, . 
 
 209 
 
 358 
 
 567 
 
 215.36 
 
 348.99 
 
 564.35 
 
 During the past year there were admitted to this hospital 62 
 cases of acute mania and melancholia, and in the same time 
 there were discharged 47 cases of these forms recovered. Kit 
 The large percentage of cures is a trustworthy indication of 
 the unusual efforts that are here made for the relief of the sick, 
 and whatever is possible within the limits of the means at com¬ 
 mand is done for the comfort and cure of the sick and suffering. 
 The remarkably good results are due to a number of causes, the 
 first of which is the application of the principles of homoeopa¬ 
 thy. From the opening of the hospital until the present time 
 
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 the medicines have been administered in accordance with the 
 law of similars ; all acute cases receive medicine daily, and a 
 very large proportion of the chronic patients also receive care¬ 
 ful medical treatment. Constant effort has been made toward 
 cure, even in those patients who seem to be incurable. This 
 attitude toward the insane is not generally followed in public 
 asylums for the insane, and the percentage of persons receiving 
 medicine is larger here than in most hospitals. The results 
 show not only the wisdom of the homoeopathic application of 
 medicines, but also the necessity of prescribing for a large pro¬ 
 portion of patients in a hospital. 
 
 A second reason for success is the use, in certain cases, of 
 mechanical restraint. Whenever a patient is restless, is unwil¬ 
 ling to remain quiet and in bed, inasmuch as those symptoms are 
 not the exuberance of health but the evidence of mental disease, 
 the judicious use of a bed sheet or of other suitable device for 
 keeping the patient quiet and preventing exhaustion is humane 
 and an assistance to recovery. It is believed that what is 
 termed chemical restraint, which is produced by chloral and 
 other drugs, is harmful to the patient, and unnecessary. Such 
 medicines have never been employed in this hospital. From 
 properly applied restraint ill results have never been known ; 
 by drugs, acute brain affections are often made incurable. 
 
 A third reason for satisfactory results has been due to the 
 very liberal use of the “rest treatment.” This method was 
 adopted when this hospital opened, and it was one of the first 
 State institutions in this country to use it extensively. This 
 treatment requires that tired-out and exhausted patients shall 
 be put in bed and treated like other invalids ; that they shall be 
 fed at frequent intervals, and largely in order to repair the ex¬ 
 hausted nervous system: and that massage should be given to 
 take the place of violent exercise which is prohibited. This 
 treatment, which originated with Dr. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, 
 about twenty years ago, is probably used more than any other 
 form of treatment by specialists in nervous troubles, and a few 
 years ago was found to have been employed in more than thirty 
 insane hospitals in the United States. It has the objection of 
 expensiveness and of unusual attention and skill on the part of 
 the attending physician ; it has materially contributed, however, 
 to the cures in this hospital. 
 
 Another reason why good results should be found here is due 
 to the method of classification. In this institution an attempt 
 is made to combine a hospital and an asylum under one roof. It 
 would be far better if the present buildings should be used ex¬ 
 clusively as an asylum, and other buildings more suitable could 
 be built for hospital purposes, In the absence of such an ar- 
 
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 rangement the physicians of the hospital have undertaken to 
 apportion the patients in such a way as to use certain wards for 
 hospital and other wards for asylum purposes. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE HOSPITAL. 
 
 TRUSTEES. 
 
 CHARLES R. CODMAN, Barnstable. BENJAMIN W. CHILDS, Worcester. 
 
 EMILY TALBOT, Boston. ALDEN SPEARE, Newton. 
 
 GEORGE B. RICHMOND, New Bedford. JOHN M. MERRIAM, So. Framingham. 
 ELIZA C. DURFEE, Fall River. 
 
 CONSULTING BOARD OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 
 
 I. T. TALBOT, M D. JOHN H. PAYNE, M.D. 
 
 CHARLES L. NICHOLS, M.D. H. P. BELLOWS, M.D. 
 
 CONRAD WESSELHOEFT, M.D. HORACE PACKARD, M.D. 
 
 E. P. COLBY, M D. JOHN P. RAND, M.D. 
 
 N. EMMONS PAINE, M-D. 
 
 RESIDENT OFFICERS. 
 
 GEORGE S. ADAMS, M.D., Superintendent. 
 
 G. FRANCIS ADAMS, M.D., Assistant Physician. 
 
 ELLEN L. KEITH, M.D.. Assistant Physician. 
 
 DE ETTE BROWNELL, M.D., Assistant Physician. 
 
 HENRY I. KLOPP, M.D., Assistant Physician. 
 
 JOSEPH S. HUNT, Clerk and Steward. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 FRANK W. FORBES, Westboro. 
 
 THE NEW ENGLAND HAHNEMANN ASSOC/AT/ON. 
 
 (Incorporation, April, 1896.) 
 
 The Association was founded in January, 1895, to aid in the 
 support of Boston University School of Medicine and the in¬ 
 stitutions intimately connected therewith, and essential to its 
 work. Any person may become a member by the payment of 
 $2.00 annually, or a life member by the payment of $25.00. A 
 leading object of this Association is to increase the Perma¬ 
 nent Endowment F'und, the interest of which only will 
 be used to meet the needs of the schools; a small propor¬ 
 tion of the income is appropriated for the purchase of books 
 and instruments for the school and to meet the slight running 
 expenses of the Association. Assurance is thus given that 
 monies contributed to the Association will be of permanent 
 service in educating thoroughly and well those men and women 
 who in the future are to bear the responsibility for the health 
 and well-being of families and whole communities. 
 
 Within the past six or eight years, methods of medical in¬ 
 struction have been radically changed. Instead of exclusively 
 didactic lectures, as formerly, the students in our best schools 
 are given laboratory work and clinical instruction to an extent 
 scarcely dreamed of ten years ago, and which furnish practical 
 and most valuable training. This change of method necessarily 
 
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 increases very greatly the cost of medical education ; and the 
 fees of the students in medical schools to-day are wholly in¬ 
 adequate to meet the expenses of instruction, a condition not 
 uncommon and which has been provided for in most other 
 technical schools and institutions of learning, save those of 
 medicine. To-day the total endowment of theological schools 
 is more than thirty million dollars, while that of all the medical 
 schools in America is a scant five millions. The cause is not 
 far to seek. Theology afid law have long been taught in con¬ 
 nection with universities, but in this country, at least, the 
 teaching of medicine took its start from the apprentice system, 
 rather than from the academic method of instruction, and it has 
 been chiefly through the self-sacrificing labor and gifts of phy¬ 
 sicians themselves, that medicine, sanitary science, and public 
 health are to-day in a more advanced state than heretofore. 
 Thorough instruction in medicine can only become possible 
 through fostering private and public interest in this matter, 
 and through the proper equipment of medical schools. 
 
 Boston University School of Medicine was established in 
 1873, on the broadest possible lines. It was among the earliest 
 to establish a graded course of instruction, together with en¬ 
 trance examinations. It led the way in establishing a four-years’ 
 course in 1878, and in 1890 was the first school in this country 
 to require four years of eight months each, of medical instruc¬ 
 tion. It desires to extend its work and perfect its course ; this 
 it can only do through aid from its friends. No effort has been 
 spared by its Faculty in the past. Of the fifty physicians who 
 give their time and thought to instruction within its walls, there 
 are but eight who receive any renumeration whatever, and that 
 insignificant — a guarantee of the most convincing kind of the 
 earnestness of the work of this School. It is within the power 
 of any persons who may ever have need of a thoroughly qualified 
 physician, to do lasting good by contributing to the fund of 
 this Association. 
 
 Its officers are : President, Col. Henry S. Russell, Boston ; 
 Vice-President, Elisha S. Converse, of Malden, Hon. Charles 
 R. Codman, of Barnstable, Hon. Everett W. Burdett, of Boston, 
 Samuel P. Mandell, of Boston, Hon. Charles H. Amsden, of 
 Concord, N. H., Hon. Henry Howard, of Providence, R. I., and 
 W. R. Burnham, Esq., of Norwich, Conn. ; Treasurer, R. H. 
 Stearns, 140 Tremont St., Boston; Assistant Treasurer, F. W. 
 Stearns, of Boston ; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. I. T. Talbot, 
 685 Boylston St., of Boston ; Recording Secretary, Dr. J. Heber 
 Smith, of Boston ; Directors, J. Livingston Grandin, of Boston, 
 Dr. N. Emmons Paine, of West Newton ; W. O. Kyle, Esq., of 
 
BULLETIN OF MEDICAL INSTRUCTION. 
 
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 Boston, Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft, of Boston, James M. Bugbee, 
 Esq., of Boston, and Dr. A. J. Baker-Flint, of Boston. 
 
 Subscriptions and donations will be cordially acknowledged 
 by the Treasurer. 
 
 March 27, 1896. 
 
 THE INFINITESIMALS AND THEIR DISCOVERER. 
 
 April 10 , 1895 . 
 
 BY MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE. 
 
 What are the little things ? we ask, 
 
 Bending our thought to the Century’s task ; 
 
 The mustard seed of a perfect faith, 
 
 The pulse of valor defying death, 
 
 The droplet wasted of midnight oil 
 By one bestowing his time in toil, 
 
 The clue of Wisdom in Error’s maze, 
 
 The ray that glances on unsunned ways. 
 
 O ! noble toiler, ’twas thy meed 
 Like those to succor life’s direst need. 
 
 As Alchemists smelted the precious ore 
 To swell the rich man’s golden store, 
 
 Thou from the mystical mine of health 
 Did’st wring its secrets, the poor man’s wealth. 
 
 Thou in return hadst sorrow and scorn, 
 
 And many an evil hour outworn ; 
 
 Yet did life’s sunset bring to thee 
 The crimson flush of victory. 
 
 Before the blazon of thy shield 
 The fiery Fever-demoms yield, 
 
 Yea, fell Disease his doom shall mee f , 
 
 And pile his trophies at thy feet. 
 
 Potent as are the spell of Ill, 
 
 Thine was a weapon mightier still 
 To us bequeathed, the diamond scale 
 That turns the weight of human ail. 
 
 So here thy bloodless flag we raise, 
 
 And with the silver trump of praise 
 Confirm our noble heritage, 
 
 And to all men proclaim our pledge. 
 
 Mind that forstalls the distant Day, 
 
 O’er countless centuries has sway, 
 
 And Love reserves her crowning grace 
 For helpers of the human race. 
 
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 EDITORIAL. 
 
 The New England Hahnemann Association and the Alumni 
 and Students of Boston University School of Medicine greet 
 most cordially the friends of the School and of higher medical 
 education, and welcome them heartily to this Centennial Fes¬ 
 tival. 
 
 A hundred years ago, in 1796, Christian Friedrich Samuel 
 Hahnemann enunciated his rule or law of similars —similia 
 similibus curentur —and initiated the reform which modified 
 medical practice essentially and led the way to exactness in ob¬ 
 servation, accuracy in diagnosis, simplicity and humaneness in 
 treatment. Hahnemann made it possible for the layman to be 
 intelligently informed regarding hygienic laws and the care of 
 the body. The effort now being undertaken is to popularize an 
 enlightened and deep interest in preventive medicine and sani¬ 
 tary science, and thus raise the standard of living and of the 
 public health. 
 
 THE HAHNEMANN CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL. 
 
 Six weeks ago the arrangements for a suitable celebration of 
 the centennial anniversary of the birth of the idea embodied in 
 homoeopathic practice, were entrusted by the Executive Com¬ 
 mittee of the N. E. Hahnemann Association, to a special com¬ 
 mittee consisting of Dr. John H. Payne, George B. Rice, Win- 
 throp T. Talbot, and William F. Wesselhoeft. It was at once 
 decided that festivities merely as such were unsuited to the 
 occasion ; that some lasting impression should be made by which 
 science, medical education, and as a consequence, the public 
 welfare, should be the gainers in an enduring form. As a result, 
 it was determined to carry out the fundamental purposes of the 
 N. E. Hahnemann Association in establishing the nucleus for a 
 Permanent Endowment Fund for Boston University School of 
 Medicine, and the preparations for a Bazaar and Festival were 
 immediately undertaken. The response from the friends of the 
 School was most hearty on all sides; so much so that the 
 Bazaar has grown far beyond the original modest plans. A 
 Directory to the Festival is herewith appended. 
 
 DIRECTORY TO THE FESTIVAL. 
 
 OLD BUILDING. 
 
 FIRST FLOOR. 
 
 Room i. —Gentlemen’s Coat Room. 
 
 Room 2 .— School Exhibit, Dr. Myron W. Smith; Micro¬ 
 scopic Display, Physiological and Pathological Apparatus, 
 Mr. W. T. Lee ; Materia Medica Cabinet, Mr. J. A. Smith ; 
 
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 Gymnasium Appliances ; Narragansett Machine Co. ; World’s 
 Fair Exhibit. 
 
 Rooms 3 and 4.—School Exhibit of X-Ray Apparatus, T. A. 
 Griffith ; Projection Apparatus, F. F. Strong. 
 
 Room 5.—Marshal’s Office. 
 
 Room 6.—Amphitheatre [for Entertainments]. 
 
 SECOND FLOOR. 
 
 Room 7.—Ladies’ Dressing Room. 
 
 Room 8.—Chemical Lecture Room [for Entertainments] 
 Room 9.—Treasurer’s Office. 
 
 ENTRANCE TO NEW BUILDING. 
 
 The new or laboratory building is devoted more particularly 
 to the Bazaar, Entrance to building is from the old building, 
 up one flight. 
 
 NEW BUILDING. 
 
 THIRD FLOOR. 
 
 Room A.—Sales Tables. 
 
 No. 1.—Westboro Insane Hospital. 
 
 No. 2.—Nurses of the Homoeopathic Hospital assisted by the 
 Ladies’ Aid Society. 
 
 No. 3.—Madame Wyrd. 
 
 No. 4.—Dorchester Table. 
 
 No. 5.—Dorchester Tea Table. 
 
 No. 6.—Book Table, Dr. H. F. Mack, East Boston. 
 
 Room B.—The Old Oaken Bucket, Dr. Helen S. Child and 
 Ladies of Jamaica Plain. 
 
 Room C.—No. 7.—Table Gregory Society, B. U. S. M. 
 
 No. 8.—Soda Fountain. 
 
 No. 9.—Grocery Table, Class of 1898. 
 
 Up one flight will be found 
 
 FOURTH FLOOR. 
 
 No. 10.—Toy Table, Mrs. Spalding. * 
 
 No. 11.—Candy Table. 
 
 No. 12.—Pop Corn Booth. 
 
 Rooms E., F. and G.—The Children’s Paradise, Dr. F. E. 
 Allard. 
 
 Descending two flights is the main sales floor. 
 
 Room H.—Tables 13, 14 and 15.—Newton Tables, Mrs. N. 
 E. Paine, Chairman. 
 
 Room I.— Tables 16 and 17.—Brookline, Mrs. J. W. Clapp. 
 Table 23.—Candy Table, Mrs. H. C. Clapp. 
 
 Room J.—Table 24.—East Boston, Mrs. F. C. Richardson. 
 Table 25.— Candy Table, Mrs, H. C. Clapp. 
 
 Table 26.—Children’s Table. 
 
 Table 27.—Natick, Mrs. Stone. 
 
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 Table 28.—Providence Table, Miss Alice Chaffee. 
 Table 29.—Jamaica Plain, Mrs. Betton. 
 
 Room K.—Domestic Science Exhibit, Miss Daniell. 
 Table 29.—Flower Table, Cambridge. 
 
 Room L.—Restaurant. 
 
 Room M.—Dining-Room for Workers in Festival only. 
 
 ENTERTAINMENTS , LECTURES AND EXHIBITIONS. 
 
 Demonstration Fectures on cookery by Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, 
 author of the Boston Cook Book and culinary editor of the Amer¬ 
 ican Kitchen Magazine , daily at 2.30 p. m., continuing until 4 
 o’clock. Tickets for the course, $1.00. Single tickets 50 cents. 
 
 Talks and demonstrations on the preparation of food for the 
 sick, and the diet for the child during its second, third and 
 fourth years, Miss Maria Daniell of the New England Kitchen. 
 The talks will begin promptly at 11 o’clock each morning, last¬ 
 ing one hour with practical demonstration of the articles under 
 discussion. Season tickets, $1.00. Single tickets, 50 cents. 
 
 Monday, April 6, 8 p. m. — Magic. Mr. E. P. James. Tick¬ 
 ets, $1.00. 
 
 Tuesday, April 7, 8 p. m. — Lecture by Mrs. Mary A. Liver¬ 
 more. Subject, “A Plea for the Unborn.” Tickets, $1.50. 
 
 Wednesday, April 8, 8 p. m. — Stereopticon lecture, “The 
 Other Side of the Hemisphere.” George H. Worthly. Tick¬ 
 ets, 50 cents. 
 
 Wednesday, April 8, 8 p. m., — Gymnasium lectures and 
 demonstration. Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, Miss Mary E. Allen 
 and Mr. Robert J. Roberts. Tickets, 50 cents. 
 
 Thursday, April 9, 8 p. m. — Gymnasium lectures and dem¬ 
 onstrations continued by Mrs. Chas. Wesley Emerson and Mr. 
 German F. Hoffman ; also, a demonstration of the Swedish 
 Method. Tickets, 50 cents. 
 
 Thursday, April 9, 8 p. m. —Gibson Tableaux by the Brook¬ 
 line Charity Club. Tickets, 50 cents. 
 
 BOSTON UNITE RSI TV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 
 
 SCIENTIFIC EXHIBIT. 
 
 F. R. Griffith, F. F. Strong, J. A. Smith, W. T. Lee, Dr. M. 
 W. Smith. 
 
 This exhibit will be found upon the first floor, immediately 
 upon entering the building. To the left is a lecture-room de¬ 
 voted to the display of physiological and pathological apparatus, 
 microscopes and microscopical preparations, and the materia 
 medica cabinet. In this room space has been allotted to the 
 gymnasium apparatus shown by the Narragansett Machine 
 Company. 
 
Boston University School of Medicine. 
 
 Microscopical Laboratory 
 
Physiological Laboratory.—South. 
 
 Physiological Laboratory. - North 
 
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 To the right of the main entrance, the inner room is devoted 
 to demonstrations of the Rontgen “ X-Ray ” phenomena, re¬ 
 cent discoveries of Tesla and other electrical experiments as 
 enumerated below. In the outer room, by means of a pecu¬ 
 liarly powerful oxyhydrogen light, various microscopic objects 
 are projected upon a ground glass screen three feet in diameter, 
 the magnification being about 15,000 diameters; in addition to 
 this, other optical demonstrations will be given as stated in the 
 list appended. 
 
 Owing to the nature of the exhibit and the limited space at 
 its disposal, it has been deemed advisable to adopt the following 
 system to control the number of visitors in the rooms at a given 
 time. No charge is made for admission to the exhibit, but those 
 desiring to attend should procure tickets at the ticket office. 
 Thirty tickets will be issued for each exhibition. The demon¬ 
 strations will be given four times each day as follows : 11 a. m., 
 3.30 p. m., 7.30 p. m., 9 P. M. 
 
 The programme will be varied from day to day, and will be 
 posted each morning upon a bulletin-board outside the door of 
 the room in which the exhibit is held. Special demonstrations 
 of the method employed in the manufacture of Crookes’ tubes 
 and practical demonstration of the preparation of photo-micro¬ 
 graphs, will be given during the week. The apparatus em¬ 
 ployed has been constructed by students of the school. 
 
 A few of the features to be given during the week will be 
 found in the following list: 
 
 OPTICAL. 
 
 Organisms found in water, microscopic vegetation, bacteria, 
 infusoria animalculae, etc. 
 
 Circulation of the blood in the web of the frog’s foot. 
 
 Corpuscles of the blood in man and animals. Medico-legal 
 tests for blood, spectrum of the blood pigments, microscopic 
 formation of blood crystals. 
 
 Entomological specimens. Organs and appendages of insects 
 
 Structure of vegetable organisms. Microscopic botany. 
 
 Micro-crystalography. Projection of polariscopic effects, pro¬ 
 jection of spectroscopic effects. 
 
 Microscopic electrical effects. Autograph of the electric 
 
 s P ar k- ELECTRICAL. 
 
 Franklin’s experiments, experiments with Geissler tubes, ex¬ 
 periments with Crookes’ tubes, tubes showing phenomena of 
 cathode and X-rays. 
 
 PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL APPARATUS. 
 
 Sphygmograyh, kymograph, myograph, spectroscope, polari- 
 scope, Dubois-Raymond inductorium, manometer, electrical 
 centrifugal machine. 
 
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 MATERIA MEDICA. 
 
 Specimens of organic and inorganic drugs included in the 
 materia medica. Plates and preparations. 
 
 PHYSICAL TRAINING. 
 
 (A unique exhibtion by famous instructors.) 
 
 An attractive exhibition of scientific and artistic gymnastics 
 will be given on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, April 8 
 and 9, at Boston University School of Medicine, East Concord 
 Street, Boston, as a feature of the Hahnemann Centennial 
 Festival to be held from April 6 to 11 inclusive. 
 
 The exhibitions will consist of addresses, of class drills and 
 squad demonstrations with introductory and explanatory re¬ 
 marks, of individual performances, with and without apparatus, 
 and similar practical illustrations of the different methods of 
 physical training advocated by enthusiastic, experienced and 
 successful exponents of physical culture. 
 
 At the present time no branch of hygiene is as popular as 
 gymnastics which tend strongly to intelligent cultivation of 
 alertness, adroitness, self-control, symmetry and coordination, 
 and of flexibility and grace of figure combined with certainty of 
 action. 
 
 It is being widely recognized that physical training under 
 wise supervision, while promoting primarily physical welfare, is 
 not without a positive and desirable psychic influence. An op¬ 
 portunity, such as is hereby announced, to judge of the syste¬ 
 matic, scientific and recreative character and value of the vari¬ 
 ous methods of physical training for which Boston is noted 
 should be embraced by members of the medical profession es¬ 
 pecially. 
 
 The programme which has been arranged through the kind 
 and courteous cooperation of leading instructors in this impor¬ 
 tant branch of education is as follows : 
 
 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8TH, 8 O’CLOCK P. M. 
 
 I. Dudley A. Sargent, M.D., Director of the Hemenway 
 Gymnasium, Harvard University. Address on “Physical 
 Training for the Strong and the Weak,” with practical illus¬ 
 trations. 
 
 II. Miss Mary E. Allen. Subject, “ Gymnastic Training for 
 Women and Children. Departments for Health in the Allen 
 Gymnasium, with Methods in Use in the Gymnasium Proper.” 
 Class Illustrations : 
 
 (a) Simple Series of Free Movements. 
 
 (b) Advanced Dumb-bell Drill. 
 
 \c) Hoop Drill. 
 
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 ILL Mr. Robert J. Roberts, Director of the B.Y.M.C.A. Gym¬ 
 nasium. Demonstration of the Roberts’ system as taught in the 
 leading Y. M. C. A. Gymnasiums throughout the country. 
 
 {a) A Roberts’ Dumb-bell Drill without Dumb-bells. 
 
 (b) Medicine Ball Drill. 
 
 (c) Jumping Exercises. 
 
 THURSDAY, APRIL 9TH, 8 O’CLOCK P. M. 
 
 I. Mrs. Charles Wesley Emerson. Class demonstration of 
 the method of physical culture taught at the Emerson College 
 of Oratory, Boston. 
 
 II. Exposition of the Swedish Method of Physical Training. 
 
 III. Mr. German F. Hoffman, Superintendent of the B. Y. 
 M. C. U. Gymnasium, and class. 
 
 (a) Double Club Juggling. 
 
 (b) Parallel bar exercises. 
 
 (c) Pyramids and Tumbling. 
 
 The Narragansett Machine Company, of Providence, R. I., 
 will have a special exhibition during the entire week, April 6 to 
 ii, of the most approved and scientific apparatus now in use in 
 aid of physical culture. 
 
 The Gymnastic exhibitions will be given in the Amphitheatre 
 of B. U. S. M. 
 
 Tickets, admitting also to the Bazaar, 50 cents. 
 
 Land for a Nurses Home, a Gift of the City. The gov¬ 
 erning bodies of the City of Boston, have confirmed the gift of 
 a piece of land embracing 11,600 feet on Stoughton Street, in 
 close proximity to the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital 
 as the site of a suitable building for a Nurses’ Home. At 
 present the Hospital pays rent for two private houses which 
 are ill adapted for the accomodation of a large number of nurses, 
 three or four occupying a single room and sometimes in a Box 
 and Cox fashion. The proposed building will afford ample 
 space to give to each nurse a separate and pleasant room with 
 library, reception room and all other essential comforts to in¬ 
 crease the effectiveness of the arduous labor. The building 
 will accommodate sixty-five nurses and will cost $75,000. 
 
 Talks and Demonstrations on the Preparation of Food 
 for the Sick and the Diet of the Child during its Second, 
 Third and Fourth Years, by Miss Maria Daniell, of the “New 
 England Kitchen.”—I. Tuesday, April 7, cooking of broths; 
 II. Wednesday, April 8, cooking of starch : gruels, puddings, 
 etc.; III. Thursday, April 9, preparation of nutritious and ap- 
 
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 petizing drinks; IV. Friday, April io, preparation of nutritious 
 jellies; V. Saturday, April 11, cooking of meats and solid diet. 
 The talks will begin promptly at 11 o’clock each morning, last¬ 
 ing one hour, with practical demonstrations of the articles under 
 discussion. The first four talks will treat of the diet for fever 
 patients especially ; the fifth of that suitable for convalescents 
 and young children. Season tickets $2.00; single tickets, for 
 one lecture, 50 cents. Seats limited in number. All tickets 
 admit also to the bazaar. 
 
 Demonstration Lectures on Cookery, by Mrs. Mary J. 
 Lincoln, author of “Boston Cook Book,” and culinary editor of 
 the “American Kitchen Magazine.”—Monday, April 6, consom¬ 
 me of oysters, broiled shad, carmel salad, rhubarb sauce, 
 creamed eggs; Tuesday, April 7, cream of onions, halibut a la 
 conant, string beans, shad roe salad, apples a la coronado, fon¬ 
 due ; Wednesday, April 8, cream of' clams, sweetbreads, spring 
 salad, banana a la citrona, sardines a la sterneau ; Thursday, 
 April 9, cream of rice, lamb chops with peas, scallop salad, 
 strawberry souffle, creighton oysters ; Friday, April 10, cream 
 of maize, twin soles, oyster salad, lemon meringue, quick pastry, 
 lyonnaise potatoes. These lectures will begin promptly at 2.30 
 p. m., and continue until 4 o’clock. The cooking of meat or fish, 
 of soups and fruit, of vegetables, or the making of salads, and 
 cooking on the chafing dish, will be illustrated at each lecture. 
 Tickets for the course, $2.00; single tickets, for one lecture, 50 
 cents. It is suggested that notebook and pencil, teaspoon and 
 napkin, will be found useful. All tickets admit also to the 
 bazaar. 
 
 Magic. —Monday, April 6, at 8 p.m.—Magic, Mr. E. P. James, 
 assisted by Mr. J. S. Wiley; violinist, Miss Bessie Collier; so¬ 
 loist, Mr. Clarence Ashenden; accompanist, Mrs. E. James, Jr.; 
 quartette, Mr. James, Mr. Trainer, Mr. James, Mr. Ashenden. 
 
 Quartette, selected. Magic—1. Bewitched cards and spirit 
 hand ; 2. Spiritualism at a glance ; 3. The mystic Count. Violin 
 solo, Miss Collier. Magic—4. Flying glass of water; 5. The 
 mysterious handkerchief; 6. Vanishing cage and balls. Song, 
 Mr. Ashenden. Intermission. 
 
 Quartette, selected. Magic—1. Coins in air ; 2. Second sight ; 
 3. Diminishing cards. Song, Mr. Ashenden. Violin solo, Miss 
 Collier. Magic—4. The enchanted rings ; 5. Cone of flowers ; 
 6. Mysterious hat. 
 
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 GIBSON TABLEAUX, from drawings by Charles Dana Gibson, 
 Thursday, April 9, by the Brookline Charity Club. 
 
 1. All’s Well that Ends Well. — (a) It’s a love song, and sung 
 with deep feeling, as her thoughts are with Tom in a far away land. 
 ( b ) Tom ! 
 
 2. Social Pastimes. 
 
 3. The Trials of a Bud. —Running the gauntlet among her rivals. 
 
 4 Why Not ? 
 
 5. Puzzle. —Find the wife of the man who is telling the story. 
 
 6. Anticipation. 
 
 7. A Story by a Sleeve. 
 
 8. Not a Ghost.— It is only poor Jim, who happened to marry the 
 wrong girl; and sometimes when she is particularly unendurable, he 
 remembers the other one. 
 
 Intermission. 
 
 Violin Solo, by Miss Wesselhoeft. 
 
 9. That Delicious Moment.— When you find you are to take in 
 to dinner the girl who yesterday refused you. 
 
 10. Poor Girl. —She has had a long vacation, and is more ex¬ 
 hausted than when she left the city. Sometimes there is hard work 
 in these summer vacations, don’t you know, and one finds too late 
 that the game is not worth the candle. 
 
 11. The Old Tune. 
 
 12. Puzzle. —Find the girl who has been kissed within ten minutes. 
 
 13. Puzzle —Find the Heiress. 
 
 14. Their Presence of Mind. —They had been in their room but 
 a moment when they were startled by a knock. 
 
 15. Men Must Work. —Perhaps, after all, these places distant 
 from the cities, are the safest for girls who have a tendency to flirt. 
 
 “ ON THE TRAIL." 
 
 THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 4.3O P. M. TICKETS, FIFTY CENTS. 
 
 Capt. S. E. Howard, of West Newton, will give a lecture on 
 Thursday, April 9, at 4.30 p. m., at the Hahnemann Festival, 
 entitled “ On the Trail,” being personal experiences of many 
 years in driving large herds of cattle from Texas to Montana. 
 
 He will describe the method of handling great herds on the 
 trail, the crossing of swollen rivers by the wagons and by the 
 cattle, putting the cattle to bed at night, the fidelity and daring 
 of the cow-boys, terrific storms and stampedes, etc. The lec¬ 
 ture abounds in interesting and startling situations and is given 
 by one entirely familiar with his subject. 
 
 Mrs. H. P. Perkins, Jr., of West Newton, has kindly offered 
 to contribute a number of vocal selections to the afternoon’s en¬ 
 tertainment. 
 
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 Gregory Table.— The Gregory Society composed of the 
 Women of the Boston University School of Medicine, met to 
 see what they could do toward assisting at the Bazaar. They 
 determined, after due consideration, to have a table and a soda 
 fountain in the college room, which was at their disposal. A 
 general committee composed of one woman from each class, 
 Miss M. R. Mulliner, ’96, Miss Effie Perkins, ’97, Miss Esther 
 Barnard, ’99, and Miss L. H. Diemar, ’98, Chairman. The 
 Committee on Soda Fountain was Miss A. Z. Patterson, ’96, 
 and Miss S. L. Slagle, ’98. The women of the college solicited 
 their friends for contributions to the table which met with most 
 generous response. Some contributed articles personally, and 
 a meeting was held, one evening, when each woman present 
 made one article for the table. The result is apparent in the 
 generous and beautiful display. The soda committee solicited 
 syrups and various supplies and many thanks are due to J. W. 
 Tufts, who furnished the fountain, B. Beach & Claridge and 
 J. L. Bowker for syrup, C. S. Gove & Co. and Parker & Co. for 
 soda water, and various others for ice cream, cream, etc. 
 
 Nurses’ Table. — Mrs. T. M Strong, in charge. The table 
 will be under the supervision of the following Head Nurses, 
 Miss Marston, Mrs. Wragg and the Misses Edgerton, Tisdale, 
 Stamers and Theobald, assisted by the graduates and the pupil 
 nurses of the Training-School for Nurses of the Massachusetts 
 Homoeopathic Hospital. Miss Griswold, Superintendent of 
 Nurses, has had charge of the selling of tickets and reports a 
 sale of over $75. The total cash donations towards the table 
 amount to $80, and range from gifts of $1.00 to $25. Fancy 
 and useful articles for the invalid have been received from the 
 Ladies’ Aid Association of the Hospital, merchant friends, 
 members of the medical board and their families, internes of 
 the hospital, nurses and their friends, together with patients 
 who have been, or are now, in the hospital. Among the arti¬ 
 cles for sale are pictures by well known artists, hand-painted 
 china, needlework, dolls dressed in the nurses’ costume, toilet 
 articles, a large assortment of fancy articles, together with inva¬ 
 lid trays, nightingales, knitted slippers, etc. 
 
 Newton. —The friends of the School in Newton have done 
 much to add to the success of the Festival. The Newton 
 Room is under the direction of a large general committee, Mrs. 
 N. Emmons Paine, Chairman. Each division of Newton is 
 represented by a sub-committee, of whom the following ladies 
 are Chairmen : Newton, Mrs. E. M. Springer ; Newtonville, 
 Mrs. E. P. Hatch ; Auburndale and Wellesley Hills, Mrs. M. 
 L. Clarke ; Newton Highlands, Upper Falls and Waban, Mrs. 
 
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 J F. Heckman; Newton Centre, Mrs. S. A. Sylvester; West 
 Newton, Mrs. C. R. English. Entertainments have been held 
 as follows: Newton, March 12 and 26, Drive Whist and Card 
 Parties; West Newton, a Progressive Card Party netted $50; 
 West Newton, a Musicale, $30; Newtonville, Drive Whist, 
 $42. In addition to the sales tables, tea, lemonade and Welsh 
 rarebits were daintily served to the guests of the Festival. 
 
 The Children’s Table is under the charge of the following 
 ladies : Monday, Mrs. Geo. R. Southwick and Mrs. Geo. B. 
 Rice; Tuesday, Mrs. O. B. Sanders, Mrs. Toby and Mrs. Hal¬ 
 sey; Wednesday, Mrs. C. Wesselhoeft, Mrs. J. Heber Smith, 
 Mrs. J. Emmons Briggs ; Thursday, Mrs. H. E. Spalding, Mrs. 
 H. A. Houghton ; Friday, Mrs. W. F. Wesselhoeft ; Saturday, 
 Mrs. J. H. Payne. The attractive Pop-Corn Booth in connec¬ 
 tion with the Children’s Table is under the charge of Mrs. A. 
 H. Powers. The work devoted by the ladies in charge of this 
 table to the success of the Festival and the generous contribu¬ 
 tions of their many friends are apparent in the beautiful and 
 articles offered to patrons of the Bazaar. 
 
 The Dorchester Table includes 1, Housekeeper Table; 
 2, Tea Table; 3, Booth for Palmistry. The table has received 
 through a tea and two whist parties and contributions, $135. 
 The committee in charge of the whole comprise Mrs. N. L. 
 Damon, of Dorchester, as chairman, with the following com¬ 
 mittee : Mrs. J. T. Sherman, Mrs. L. M. Lee, Dr. M. S. Hornby, 
 Miss Minna Wesselhoeft, Miss Katharine Sewall, assisted by 
 the following ladies : Tea Table in charge of Miss Minna Wes¬ 
 selhoeft, Chairman, Miss Martha Barry, Miss Katharine Sewall, 
 Miss Florence Bean, Miss Edith Glidden ; adjunct to table, 
 Mrs. E..S Batchelder. 
 
 East Boston: —The ladies of East Boston have in charge 
 a Linen Table, which they have furnished with all kinds of 
 household linen, embroideries, fancy articles and travelling cases. 
 
 The officers of this table are: President, Mrs. Frank C. 
 Richardson; Vice President, Mrs. F. W, Coy, Mrs. Brown, 
 Mrs. Dr. Dunn Carey and Mrs. W. S. Pratt; Secretary, Mrs. 
 J. M. Robinson; Treasurer, Mrs. E. P. Robinson. 
 
 Monday the table will be in charge of Mrs. J. F. I 7 ay, Chairman. 
 Tuesday, Mrs. Wm. G. Smith, Chairman ; Wednesday, Mrs. F. 
 P. Anthony, Chairman ; Thursday, Mrs. C. K. Jewett, Chairman. 
 Friday, Mrs. F. {.Dicker, Chairman; Saturday, Mrs. FI. J. Cook, 
 Chairman. 
 
 Melrose. —Through the efforts of Dr. Annie M. Selee and 
 others, a large number of tickets of admission were sold and 
 new members were added to the Association. A donation of 
 fancy articles were also made to the tables. 
 
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 Dr. Bruce’s Table.— Visitors from Roxbury will be partic¬ 
 ularly interested in this table which is under the charge of Dr. 
 Emily A. Bruce, and a number of Roxbury ladies. 
 
 Grocery Department.—Class of ’98.—Committee as fol¬ 
 lows : Mr. Lee as Chairman; Mr. Steele, Mr. Streeter, Mr. 
 Coring, Mr. Marden, Mr. McNeil, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Schub- 
 mehl. 
 
 This department was one of the last to come in the field, but 
 the efforts of the men of the class will undoubtedly make it one 
 of the attractions. The scales in the department were kindly 
 loaned by the Fairbanks Scale Co. The Cash Register, which 
 adds greatly to the business appearance of the department, 
 was kindly loaned by the National Cash Register Co. 
 
 Westboro Insane Hospital Table.— The patients have 
 been much interested in the success of the Festival for some 
 weeks and with the co-operation of the resident physicians and 
 nurses have contributed the articles on this table. It has been 
 found that in certain cases the interest excited seems to be 
 contributing markedly toward eventual recovery. 
 
 Flower Table. —The table is representative of Cambridge 
 and is under the direction of a committee of ladies, among 
 whom are Mrs. W. J. Winn, Chairman, Mrs. Walter Wessel- 
 hoeft, Mrs. S. H. Blodgett and Mrs. C. H. Thomas. Cut 
 flowers, plants and seeds are contributed from many sources. 
 
 The Brookline Table is under the chairmanship of Mrs. J. 
 W. Clapp, and the East Indian corner will refresh and interest 
 many friends. Two very successful whist parties have been 
 held in aid of the table, adding more than a hundred dollars to 
 the sum which will be donated from Brookline. 
 
 Madam Wyrd, a pupil of the celebrated Cheiro, “Your fate 
 is in your hands.” Be sure to submit your hands to her inspec¬ 
 tion and thereby learn to know thyself. Hours 3-6 p. M. 
 Terms, 50 cents. Photo-impressions of the hands, 50 cents. 
 
 Book Table.— Under the leadership of Dr. Helen G. F. 
 Mack, this attractive and novel table will arouse much interest. 
 A chance is here afforded for Yankee ability in guessing. 
 
 An attractive booth has been contributed by the firm of 
 Waiter Baker & Co., where chocolate will be dispensed for the 
 benefit of the Fund. 
 
 The spring water used in the restaurant is kindly contributed 
 by the Nobscot Spring Co. 
 
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 v. 
 
 How 
 shall I 
 feed my 
 baby? 
 
 Cow’s Milk 
 Does Not 
 Agree. 
 
 unhappy, and 
 
 Cow’s milk does not agree with your baby; would you like to know why it 
 does not? Of course you would, because you yourself are experiencing 
 this difficulty to-day in your own household. The milk looks and tastes 
 nearly the same as mother’s milk but why is it that the baby is worried and 
 has the colic when he takes the cow’s milk ? 
 
 There are three reasons why cow’s milk does not agree, and we can 
 ^ ® asons make them perfectly plain to you. When we speak of the composition 
 of milk, we must use figures, but we will do so as simply as possible. 
 Suppose you have ioo lbs. of cow’s milk: what does it contain? It contains 86 lbs. of 
 water, 5 lbs. of sugar, 4 lbs. of cheese, 4 lbs. of butter, and 1 lb. of salts. These quantities 
 are in round numbers, and will answer for the present explanation. This is the com¬ 
 
 position of 100 lbs. of cow’s milk. In order that you may intelligently compare the com¬ 
 position of these two substances (mother’s milk and cow’s milk) we will arrange them in 
 
 tabular form, thus : 
 
 Water. 
 Sugar . 
 Cheese 
 Butter. 
 Salts . 
 
 100 lbs. Cow’s Milk. 
 ... 86 lbs. 
 
 - 5 lbs. 
 
 . 4 lbs. 
 
 . 4 lbs. 
 
 - 1 lb. 
 
 100 lbs. Mother’s Milk. 
 87 lbs. 
 
 6 lbs. 
 
 2 lbs. 
 
 4 lbs. 
 
 1 lb. 
 
 100 lbs. 100 lbs. 
 
 You observe that the cow’s milk contains less sugar than the mother’s milk. 
 Reason ^ ou °^ serve » a l so » that the cow’s milk contains double the quantity of cheese 
 that mother’s milk contains. This is the first reason. 
 
 Now, cheese is a substance that is excellent for calves, and babies too; it exists in large 
 quantities in cow’s milk, which is the calf’s natural food, and the proportion of cheese, in 
 cow’s milk is correctly adapted to the requirement’s of the calf’s stomach; but the baby 
 cannot take so large a quantity of cheese, and that is what disturbs him. 
 
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 Second seconc ^ reason is that the cheese in cow’s milk is of a different quality 
 
 Reason from the clieese in mother’s milk, and it forms a different substance in the 
 baby’s stomach. In the stomach the cheesy portion becomes coagulated and 
 forms a clot; the clots of cheese from mother’s milk are soft and flocculent, and make no 
 disturbance in the baby’s stomach. The coagulated clot from the cow’s milk is hard and 
 tough, and the baby cannot digest it. 
 
 The third reason is that cow’s milk is acid and mother’s milk alkaline. If you 
 Reason obtain a piece of litmus paper, you can readily try this for yourself. If 
 
 you dip blue litmus paper into cow’s milk, the litmus paper will become red; 
 this shows that cow’s milk is acid. If you dip red litmus paper into mother’s milk, the 
 paper will turn blue ; this shows that mother’s milk is alkaline. These are the three rea¬ 
 sons why cow’s milk differs from mother’s milk, and therefore disagrees with the baby. 
 
 Now, in order to reduce the proportion of cheese, suppose you dilute ioo lbs. of cow’s 
 milk with ioo lbs. of water ; you will have then, in the 200 lbs., 186 lbs. of water, 5 lbs. of 
 sugar, 4 lbs. cheese, 4 lbs. of butter and 1 lb. of salts. Let us now compare this diluted 
 cow’s milk with the mother’s milk, and see what the difference is, taking one-half of the 
 200 lbs. of diluted cow’s milk, in order to compare equal quantities; we shall then have : 
 
 
 100 lbs. Cow’s 
 
 Milk, Diluted. 
 
 100 lbs. Mother’s Milk. 
 
 Water. 
 
 . 93 
 
 lbs. 
 
 87 lbs. 
 
 Sugar . 
 
 
 2 lbs. 
 
 6 lbs. 
 
 Cheese. 
 
 
 lbs. 
 
 2 lbs. 
 
 Butter. 
 
 
 lbs. 
 
 4 lbs. 
 
 Salts. 
 
 . V. 
 
 \ lb. 
 
 1 lb. 
 
 
 100 lbs. 
 
 100 lbs. 
 
 Now you will observe that in the diluted cow’s milk the cheese is in about the 
 same proportion that it is in the mother’s milk, but you have reduced also 
 the most important element in it, namely, the sugar; having less sugar to 
 start with than the mother’s milk, the cow’s milk diluted contains only 
 2)^ lbs. of sugar in 100 lbs., while the mother’s milk contains 6 lbs. of sugar in 100 lbs. 
 
 Simple 
 
 Dilution. 
 
 Useless. 
 
 The Real 
 Remedy. 
 
 Now for a Remedy for these three objections to cow’s milk for the baby. It 
 is found by adding Mellin’s Food to the diluted cow’s milk. The Mellin’s 
 Food contains the sugar and salts necessary to bring up the proportions in 
 the diluted cow’s milk nearly as they are in the mother’s milk. Mellin’s Food is alkaline, 
 and it is sufficiently so to neutralize the acidity of the cow’s milk. Another important 
 thing that Mellin’s Food does is to act upon the cheese of the cow’s milk so that when 
 the baby is fed with it the cheese no longer forms in a large, solid clot, but forms in 
 soft flocculent masses, which are readily absorbed by the stomach. 
 
 Would you like 
 to know. 
 
 The above explanation will sufficiently show how Mellin’s Food renders 
 
 rpi p * L 1 J 
 
 cow's milk digestible for the baby and makes it so closely resemble mother’s 
 milk. Now we have told you the secret 
 of successful hand-feeding for your baby. 
 
 the particular use of the sugar, the 
 butter, the cheese, and the salts, 
 and just what part they play in 
 building up the child’s body? You will find it in a 
 little book called “ The Care and Feeding of Infants,” 
 which contains much of interest to mothers in regard 
 to the feeding of their children. It is published by the 
 Doliber-Goodale Co., of Boston, who will send you a 
 copy, free, by mail, if you write for it. To those who 
 have not tried Mellin’s Food they will send, free, by 
 mail, a sample bottle sufficient for trial. 
 
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 A directory for Nurses is connected with the Hospital. 
 
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 PATIENTS ARE TREATED FREE, and a trifling sum only is charged to cover the 
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 The large building erected four years ago, but not fully completed, is already over¬ 
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 or for the support of the Dispensary, may be sent to the treasurer, 
 
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 Dealer in 
 
 SURGICAL, ELECTRICAL, VETERINARY 
 
 INSTRUMENTS. 
 
 All the latest and improved patterns of Surgical Instruments constantly kept in stock. Med¬ 
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 The Latest in Pleasure Carriages 
 The Most Correct in Sporting Traps. 
 The Most Approved Designs. 
 
 The Most Careful Construction, 
 
 83 and 85 SUMMER STREET, 
 
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 THE FINEST LIGHT BUGGY 
 EVER MADE BY ANYBODY 
 ANYWHERE 
 AT ANY PRICE. 
 
 Made in two sizes, on end-springs or side-bar, with panel or stick-seat, with 
 
 or without stop. 
 
 Send for Steel Engravings. 
 
 S. R. BAILEY & CO. 
 
 AMESBURY, MASS. 
 
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 DERBY DESKS. 
 
 Medical men as well as Business 
 men realize the value of good 
 
 t 
 
 appliances. 
 
 THE DERBY 
 
 IS THE 
 
 Recognized Standard 
 
 Business Desk. 
 
 The DERBY DESK is 
 ELEGANT in FINISH, RELIABLE and 
 
 CHAIRS, TABLES, Etc. DURABLE. 
 
 Special Furniture built to Order. 
 
 Just the thing for a Physician’s office, an aid to business, a time saver, a first-class appli¬ 
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 if possible visit our warerooms. 
 
 DERBY, KILMER & POND DESK CO. 
 
 93 CAUSEWAY ST., 19 BEEKMAN ST., 
 
 BOSTON. NEW YORK. 
 
 Established 32 years under one continuous Management. 
 
 THE 
 
 HENRY F. MILLER 
 
 GRAND k UPRIGHT PIANO FORTES. 
 
 Special Features are: 
 
 th. TONE 
 
 Which is MUSICAL as well as POWERFUL, also having that Sweet 
 Singing Quality so desirable for instrumental work in accompanying 
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 and lasting qualities obtained through a most careful 
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 Through our method of stringing, the MILLER pianos 
 are noted for keeping in tune. 
 
 For more than 24 years the CITY OF BOSTON has purchased HENRY F. MILLER pianos for 
 its public schools, and their use in the State Normal Schools, the leading Conservatories of 
 Music and Public Institutions throughout the country, prove their durability. 
 
 Write us for special catalogue and prices. We lease a piano with privilege of purchase and 
 take an old instrument in part payment. 
 
 HENRY F. MILLER & SONS PIANO CO. 
 
 88 Boylston St., Boston. 
 
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 S. S. PIERCE CO. 
 
 Sole Agents for 
 
 Veuve Chaffard Pure Olive Oil. 'b& 
 
 
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 Full Quart Bottles, 
 
 $1.25 
 
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 Full Pint Bottles, 
 
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 7.00 
 
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 THE BOSTON MAILING COMPANY, 
 
 (INCORPORATED.) ' 
 
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 R. W. WATERS, Pres. J. H. GERRISH, Treas. 
 
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 ESTABLISHED 1869. 
 
 JAMES FORCIE & SON, 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 -Dealers in- 
 
 Horse Furnisbiugs and Track Specialties. 
 
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 ADAMS & GILBERT, 
 
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 165 Tremont Street, — — BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 Manufacturers of SPECTACLES and EYEGLASSES, 
 Importers of Opera, Field and Marine Glasses of superior power. 
 
 We make a specialty of Grinding com- Caution about theUse and Selections of Spectacles 
 
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 equal density and have imperfectly formed surfaces. Continued use of these 
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