taught in their own schools-an unfriendliness which old school associations extend even to the persons of physicians who differ in opinion from their standard authorities. Eclecticism aims to introduce the Christian spirit of fraternity and co-operation in a profession heretofore distinguished by discord and intolerance, to which there was no exception until American reformers introduced the ethical principle of toleration and freedom.

The old school system ignores not only this spirit of toleration, but nearly all those signal improvements in the art, science and philosophy of medicine for which the world is indebted to the professional independence and originality of the American physicians, whose labors during the present century have revolutionized both the practice and the philosophy of medicine.

American Eclecticism recognizes with due respect all that has been done by the followers of Allopathy and Homœopathy, but it claims for American experience and American genius as cordial a recognition as it would give to the labors of the most distinguished foreign teachers and their followers. This recognition of American experience and originality is practically the most important characteristic of American Eclecticism; and the college, as its sole representative in the Atlantic States, invites all who are entering the medical profession to avail themselves of the larger resources which it presents, as it also invites the graduates of other colleges to attend its courses and acquire a large amount of practical knowledge which may greatly increase their professional reputation and

success.

The additional knowledge, constituting American progress, which is given in the instructions of the college, consists of new remedies, new therapeutics, new physiology and new medical philosophyan amount of novelty sufficient to constitute a revolution in medical science, and present American Eclecticism as its most complete development-the very commencement of the great medical system of the future, in which the folly and partisanship of the past shall be lost.

The materia medica of the Eclectic system embraces remedies of very high importance in practice. These, it is true, are not at present entirely unknown in the old school officinal catalogues, but they have for half a century been either entirely ignored or

practically neglected, so as to have been rarely used, because their merits were unknown; and notwithstanding the success of Eclectic practitioners in their use, medical partisanship has been sufficiently blind and stubborn to prevent their general adoption, so that until very recently, and even now in many cases, apothecaries have not been supplied with many of these remedies, which are necessary to a truly successful practice; and the young men who have entered the medical profession during the past thirty years have been deprived of a large amount of important professional knowledge and resources.

These extensive and important additions to the materia medica necessarily imply corresponding changes in our therapeutics-essentially different methods of treating diseases, which methods being substituted for the old and unsatisfactory treatment, necessarily diminish the duration, the suffering and the mortality of diseases. As examples of the diminished mortality under Eclectic treatment, we refer to the well established fact that Asiatic cholera has never been so successfully managed anywhere as by the Eclectic physicians of America. The mortality in their practice has seldom exceeded 5 per cent., while a mortality of from 25 to 50 per cent. has been considered customary, and not at all censurable, under the old school system. Even under the celebrated physicians of Paris a mortality of 62 per cent. has sometimes been reported from their hospitals. The Eclectic physicians of Cincinnati, in the terrible cholera epidemic of 1849, reported the treatment of 1,565 cases with only 65 deaths, at 4 per cent. A distinguished citizen of Cincinnati reported the mortality of cholera under old school treatment, in 1866, at "nearly one half," "while 20 per cent. of those who recovered were left with permanently impaired health.” Forty-six years ago Dr. Beach and other Eclectic physicians of New York treated 1,157 cases of cholera, with a mortality less than 6 per cent.

Pneumonia is rarely fatal under Eclectic treatment, although the mortality has been great under the old school practice. The power of professional authority in blinding the eyes of physicians, and holding them firmly to unsuccessful practice, has been shown in the fact that pneumonia was long regarded in the schools as a very dangerous disease, which must necessarily be treated heroi

cally by bleeding and by antimony. The experiments in the hospitals of Vienna, reported by Dr. Deitl, demonstrated that both of these methods were utterly worthless, as patients who were nursed and left to nature alone passed through the disease with less mortality than those upon whom either the antimonial or the bleeding method was applied.

The bondage of professional authority, and the severe animadversion against all who depart from fashionable opinions in medicine, have perpetuated the errors of the old school practice, and have prevented the Eclectic reformation from spreading throughout the world during the last half century. It is for the young men of America to determine whether this professional vassalage shall continue, or whether medicine shall have as great freedom and progress as other sciences.

In the entire system of practice there is a contrast between the American and the old school system, and physicians who have come from the old school institutions, to acquire the Eclectic methods, have found their professional life changed in many cases from skepticism and gloom to the hopefulness and confident energy which come from a consciousness of success. Despairing confessions of the inefficiency of medicine are never heard from Eclectic physicians.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION.

Requisites for Graduation: Twenty-one years of age, three years' study under the supervision of a reputable physician, and attend two full terms of instruction in an incorporated medical college, the last of which shall be in this college. Every candidate must present a thesis of his own production on some medical subject.

FEES.

The fees for instruction (to be paid in advance) are as follows: Matriculation, $5; for each Full Course of Lectures, $50; Demonstrator's Ticket, $10; Hospital, $3; Graduation Fee, $30. Certificates of Scholarship, entitling the holder to keep a student in the college for ten years from the date, $500; Perpetual Scholarship, $1,000.

TEXT-BOOKS.

Students should be careful to provide themselves with the best text-books, giving the preference, of course, to Eclectic authors. The following are preferred:

Anatomy-Gray. Surgery-Syme, by Newton, Bryant. Theory and Practice of Medicine-Newton, Potter. Reynold's Holmes System of Medicine. Materia Medica - Headland, Coe. U. S Dispensatory. National Dispensatory. American DispensatoryBiddle, Goss, Leishman, Playfair. Botany-Wood, Gray. Chemistry-Fownes, Bloxham. Obstetrics-Tyler Smith, by Gardner Cazaux, King. Diseases of Children-Newton and Powell. Physiology-Kirkes, M. Foster. Medical Jurisprudence-Taylor, Diseases of Women-Clark, Thomas. Medical Chemistry— Wm. H. Greene, M. D.

Beck.

Good board may be had convenient to the college for five or six dollars a week. Students arriving in the city may call at the office of Robert S. Newton, M. D., president, 19 East Thirty-second Street, or at the college.

All the baggage of the students may be checked direct to the college, where it will be cared for.

Any further information may be obtained by addressing Robert S. Newton, Jr., M. D., secretary, 19 East Thirty-second Street, New York City.

The executive officers of each Eclectic State Medical Society are authorized to select a beneficiary student, who may attend lectures at the Eclectic Medical College free of charge for tuition till grad