Dr. Fisher said: I hope that motion will not prevail. That would be simply postponing a live issue. If it is right, let us make it a By-Law; if it is wrong, let us vote it down. Dr. Duncan: If you pass this the Board of Censors will be compelled to decide what is a local society; how many men does it consist of? Shall it be three or five or one? Will we be in any better position, as far as guarding this Institute is concerned, than we are now? I think it is the sense of the censors that this is extra work that you are putting upon them, and a quantity, too, that you don't realize. The force of the requirement as it is now is that these three endorsers shall certify that the applicant is in good standing. Speaking as a member of the Board of Censors, no man can get into this Institute unless he is endorsed by men who know him personally or of him. This is a large country, and there are sections of the country where you can't get three men together. They are so busy they can't leave their practice; but they would like to be members of this Institute. The professors of these colleges should endorse the man who makes the application and, in addition, he ought to be endorsed by some one who knows him. The question being called or Dr. Smith's motion to postpone until next session, in the meantime referring it to a committee, the President put the question, and it was lost. Dr. Higbee: I have served on the Board of Censors several times and I know that these questions have come up in regard to local societies and I know that these local societies have kept out of their membership some of the best men and best Homoeopaths in the country, and these physicians have subsequently applied for membership in the Institute and been promptly admitted, whereas, if this resolution had been in force in the Institute, inasmuch as they could not get into their little local societies for reasons that might seem to us perfectly childish, we should also have had to refuse them admission here. Again, if it comes to a matter of local societies being the arbiters of membership of this Institute, why may not the downers" in time form their little local society and recommend their members to membership? would "( sun prevent such a course? I believe that the present arrangement is ample-leave this matter to the Board of Censors. The question being called on the amendment as proposed by the Homœopathic Medical Society of the District of Columbia, it was stated and the article read as at present and as it would appear if so amended, and then put to a vote. A division being called, resulted in: ayes, 46; nays, 52. Declared lost. The Intercollegiate Committee report was called for, but asked for further time. Dr. Fisher moved that all papers and reports of sections shall be placed in the hands of the General Secretary before the close of the sessions of the Institute. Carried. Dr. Higbee asked permission to defer the report of the Committee on Medical Education until to-morrow morning, the whole committee not being prepared with the report. So ordered. On motion of Dr. Fisher, the Institute pledged itself to the payment of $2500, in instalments of 20 per cent., towards the erection of a statue to Samuel Hahnemann. Dr. A. R. Wright, chairman of the Committee on Place of Meeting, reported that the committee had endeavored to gain the opinion of the delegates on the selection of a place for next year's meeting. A majority favored a summer resort east of the Allegheny mountains. In compliance with their desire, Newport, R. I., had been selected. He spoke of the attractions at Newport, and then his report was unanimously adopted. The members of the Institute residing in Rhode Island were appointed a Committee of Local Arrangements. A number of additional subscriptions to the Monument Fund were received, after which the Institute adjourned until the following morning. SEVENTH DAY-MORNING SESSION. JUNE 20, 1894. The Board of Censors presented the names for election of those applicants who had already been posted for the requisite time, and recommended their election. The recommendation was adopted. Several other applications were handed in, and under a suspension of the rules the applicants were elected. Dr. Delamater, of Chicago, Ill., was appointed chairman pro tem. of the Section on Neurology, the chairman being absent. A SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON was presented by Dr. D. A. Strickler, of St. Paul, Minn., and was accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication. follows: It is as COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS-HOMEOPATHY vs. ALLOPATHY. (Supplemental to a Report to the World's Congress of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons of 1893). BY DAVID A. STRICKLER, M.D., ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. Cities. Year. TABLE NO. 6.—Obstetrical No. 2. Puerperal Puerperal Puerperal Affect'ns of Uterine Dystocia. Allo. Hom. Allo. Hom. Allo. Hom. Allo. Hom. Allo. Hom. Allo. Hom. * Includes all cases of peritonitis in females from 15 to 45 years of age. TABLE NO. 7.-Ratio of Work Reported, and of Physicians |