"At Jackson, Miss., we found Dr. Hough worn down and in poor health, having had the fever himself, in the midst of the epidemic. He is able to make a favourable showing for homoeopathy however.

"At Granada, where nothing stood before the pestilence, where nearly the whole population, not gone to places of refuge, was swept to the grave in a short time, we had no homeopathic physician. With mournful interest we looked over the place, lying under nature's great disinfectant, the hoar-frost of the early morning, and passed on to Memphis. There we were joined by our fellow-commissioner, Dr. Morse, who soon had us comfortably fixed in the fine Peabody hotel.

"Dr. Quinby took us around, pointing out the place where the first case of yellow fever occurred, and showing us how, thence, it radiated into all parts of the city and out into the country beyond.

"We visited the Board of Health, examined its records, talked with Dr. Mitchell, President of the Howard Association (a brave and noble physician of the old school), had a meeting of our physicians at our rooms, gathered up their statements and reports, and did what we could to encourage them and stimulate them to keep careful records in all such epidemics.

"We were sorry to find that Dr. Morse was an early subject of the fever, and that Dr. Buddeke was prostrated by over-work and loss of sleep, so that both had to leave the field to recuperate. Dr. Quinby alone remained to battle against the plague with homœopathic weapons. He did a good work, however, and is ready for future engagements.

"I must here mention that our old-school brethren, much to their credit as well as success, adopted our aconite, in many instances, and also our arsenicum and argentum nitricum. The old-fashioned heavy dosing was quite generally abandoned.

"In conclusion, I must say that the reports coming from Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, Vicksburg, Natchez, Jackson, Memphis, and Chattanooga, placed aconite at the head of the list of remedies in the first stage of yellow fever, and arsenicum at the head of the second stage. There was a most remarkable unanimity regarding treatment, showing the influence of a law of nature as a therapeutic guide.

"I must here say that the thanks of the profession, and of the homœopathic school throughout the world, will be due to you, as the President of the American Institute of Homœopathy, for having organised a commission to go, upon the very heels of the great epidemic, to gather reliable data regarding its treatment. We have taken no man's simple say so,' but have gone behind his reports, upon the field and among the people, challenging and verifying every statement. What we submit in our final

report, will stand and bear strong witness for homoeopathy in all coming time.

"It has been my fortune to occupy the highest places assigned to members in our school in this country, but I declare to you that I feel more pride in having been a member of the YellowFever Commission appointed by you, and in having taken a humble part in its labours, than in any of the high positions accorded to me in times past.

"Hoping to have the full text of our report for Congress before

"President of the American Institute of Homoeopathy."

DOCTOR AND PATIENT.

In half

"SAVE me, Doctor, and I'll give you 1,000 dols." The doctor gave him a remedy that eased him, and he called out, "Keep at it, Doctor, and I'll give you a cheque for 500 dols!" an-hour more he was able to sit up, and he calmly remarked, "Doctor, I feel like giving you a 50 dol. bill." When the doctor was ready to go, the sick man was up and dressed; he followed the doctor to the door, and said, "Say, Doctor, send in your bill the first of the month." When six months had been gathered to Time's bosom, the doctor sent in a bill amounting to 5 dols. He was pressed to cut it down to 3 dols.; after so doing he sued to get it, got judgment, and the patient put in a stay of execution.-Danbury News.

CHINESE PHARMACY.

AMONG the pharmaceutical products exhibited at the Paris Exhibition in the Chinese Section were the following:-Bear's gall— a sovereign antidote; Bezoar stones-an infallible panacea; skins of the python-for paralysis and rheumatism; dried fowls' gizzards—as a substitute for pepsine; inner pellicle of eggs-for jaundice; human urinary calculi-for renal complaints; hippocampus (seahorse)-for women in confinement, the woman to hold one in her hand; powdered elephant's skin-rheumatic complaints; fossil bones-for chorea and fever; ashes of roasted grasshoppers-for headache; tincture of scorpions-stimulant; decoction of small green serpents-for skin diseases; tiger's bones in jelly-a costly medicine, said to possess high tonic virtues; inside of a stag's horn-colds and bronchitis; buck's sinews for rheumatism and sciatica; glue made from asses' skins-enjoys a great reputation as a remedy in lung diseases;

the dried excrement of silk worms-for eye diseases; dried earth worms-for secret diseases; toad's mucus-this is prepared by keeping live toads in a vessel half-filled with flour, when the flour is sufficiently impregnated with the slimy excretions of the toads it is separated and dried-this remedy is used in convulsions.Chemist and Druggist.

BRITISH HOMEOPATHIC SOCIETY.

THE next Ordinary Meeting of this Society will take place on Thursday, the 6th of March, 1879, at seven o'clock. At eight o'clock a paper will be read by Dr. Galley-Blackley, of London, entitled "Some Interesting Cases of Skin Disease."

1. Two Rare Varieties of Pemphigus.

2. A Case of Dysidiosis.

A paper is promised for April by Dr. Murray Moore, of Taunton, entitled, "On the Pathogenetic Analogies of Isomorphous Drugs."

THE LONDON SCHOOL OF HOMEOPATHY.

DR. BAYES, the Honorary Secretary, entertained at dinner on Thursday, the 20th, the lecturers and students of the school, most of whom were present. A very enjoyable evening was passed under Dr. Bayes' hospitable roof, and several interesting speeches were made as to the prospects, progress, and mode of conducting the school. All the students who spoke expressed themselves warmly as to the great value of the school, the importance of the work done, and the ultimate success of homoeopathy as the treatment of the future.

LONDON HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL.

THE Return of Patients admitted during the two months ending February 20th, 1879, gives the following statistics :

Remaining in Hospital December 18th, 1878 ... 38
Admitted between that date and February 20th

Discharged between Dec. 18th & February 20th

82

120
73

Remaining in Hospital, February 20th, 1879 47

...

...

...

The number of New Out-Patients during the above
time has been
The total number of Out-Patients' attendances for the
same period has been

...

...

1,182 8,839

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE LONDON SCHOOL OF HOMEOPATHY.

To the Editors of the Monthly Homeopathic Review.

Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in enclosing you a letter I have recently received from one of the young physicians, who has recently gone through a course of instruction at our school and hospital. I commend its perusal to the careful consideration of your readers,

Yours, &c.,

WILLIAM BAYES, M.D.,
Hon. Secretary.

Jan. 19th, 1879.

4, Granville Place, Portman Square, W.

Dear Dr. Bayes,-Thinking you would like to hear how I am prospering, I write to let you know. In reference to myself I am getting on very well with Dr. and the patients. I am pleased to find I am making progress in the teachings of "our school," and are more than pleased with the results. I am sure that no one who gives homeopathy a fair trial can conscientiously practise otherwise.

I feel that I have gained greatly by my experience in actual practice. The charge of patients, and the responsibility connected therewith, necessitates a study of the various cases, and gives one greater confidence.

I saw the Monthly Homeopathic Review a few days since, and read your letter in it with great interest.

I for one, and I could mention others, found the clinical teaching most useful, as a practical demonstration of the lectures, and without it their value would have been materially diminished. I sincerely wish both the school and hospital every success, and hope, ere long, to have it in my power to promote their prosperity, by laying the matter before friends and patients, and asking them to help and support institutions so valuable and so much needed.

I have always been a strong partizan in whatever cause my sympathies have been enlisted; and when my knowledge increases, I shall aim to follow in your footsteps, and endeavour to the best of my ability to advance and support the cause.

Yours sincerely,

D. B.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot undertake to return rejected manuscripts.

Mr. HENRY ROBERTSON, of Shrewsbury, writes to us to say that he and the late Dr. Hering were both present at the meeting at the late Dr. Quin's residence, when the British Homœopathic Society was formed-an event to which we alluded in our notice of Dr. Quin's career in our January number. Dr. Hering and Mr. Robertson not long after withdrew from the Society. The omission of these names would have been mentioned last month, but Mr. Robertson's letter notifying it arrived too late.

Letters, &c., have been received from Dr. YELDHAM, Dr. HALE, Dr. BURNETT and Mr. CAMERON (London); Dr. WOODGATES (Exeter); Dr. MASSY (Redhill); Dr. MOORE (Liverpool); Dr. MURRAY MOORE (Taunton); and the Rev. G. BARRETT (Norwich).

Reviews of Dr. ROTH's work and Mr. GRAHAM BENNETT's have been unavoidably postponed till next month; also Dr. DRYSDALE'S.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

Practical Gynecology. A Handbook of the Diseases of Women. By Heywood Smith, M.A., M.D., Oxon. London: Churchill, 1877.

On the neglect of Physical Education and Hygiene by Parliament and the Educational Department, as the Principal Cause of the Physical Degeneration of the Physique of the Population, &c. By Dr. Roth. London: Baillière & Co., 29, King William Street. 1879.

The Year's Progress. An Address Delivered before the American Institute of Homœopathy by the President, J. C. Burgher, M.D. Philadelphia: Sherman & Co.

British Homeopathic Medical Directory, 1879. Thompson & Capper, Liverpool.

The Homœopathic World.

The Organon. A Quarterly Anglo-American Journal.

The Medical Record. A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery. New York.

The Homœopathic Times. New York.

New Remedies. A Monthly Journal of Materia Medica, &c.

The New England Medical Gazette.

The St. Louis Clinical Review.

United States Medical Investigator. Nov., 1878-Feb., 1879.

L'Homœopathie Militante. Bruxelles.

Revue Homeopathique.

Bruxelles.

Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung. Leipsic.

Homöopathische Rundschau. Leipsic.

El Criterio Medico. Madrid.

The American Homœopathist. Oct., 1878.

Spinal Weaknesses, Injuries, and Curvatures. By F. Graham Bennett, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. Whittaker & Co., London. 1878.

Papers, Dispensary Reports, and Books for Review to be sent to Dr. POPE, 2, Finsbury Circus, E.C., or to Dr. D. DYCE BROWN, 29, Seymour Street, Portman Square, W. Advertisements and Business Communications to be sent to Messrs. E. GOULD & Son, 59, Moorgate Street, E.C.