winters for the more genial climate of the southern parts of the kingdom. He settled at Clifton, on the Bristol Channel, and for many years enjoyed a lucrative practice there and endeared himself to a large circle of patients and friends. When failing health compelled him to leave off practice he came to London, and although withdrawn from the active exercise of his profession he continued to labour most assiduously at the work of the Materia Medica, and to aid with his valuable counsel any of his colleagues who might desire assistance in a difficult case. Dr. Black was an excellent practitioner. To a thorough knowledge of the materia medica he added a perfect acquaintance with the most modern researches in physiology and pathology and a familiarity with all the best means of diagnosis. His great experience rendered his opinion in cases of serious and obscure diseases extremely valuable, and he inspired his patients and colleagues with the utmost confidence in his skill and sagacity. As a physician he was eminently successful, learned, liberal, full of resources, careful and sympathising. As a man he was generous, hospitable, honest, and honourable—a perfect gentleman. To those who had the good fortune to enjoy his intimacy, he was a valued friend and a delightful companion, richly endowed with all those fine qualities of mind and heart that constitute the charm of familiar intercourse. Dr. Black was one of the few British homœopathists who had enjoyed the personal acquaintance of the illustrious founder of homœopathy. His loss is a great one to homoeopathy, to which he rendered immense services throughout his whole career, not only by working towards its scientific development, but by defending it in its early struggles against the assaults and persecutions of powerful and unscrupulous enemies, and by maintaining a high standard of conduct unsullied by any recourse to unprofessional methods of advocating its advantages. His health had never been robust, and he was often temporarily disabled, even when in full practice, by severe congestive headaches. A few years ago he contracted a pernicious fever in Rome, which he never afterwards entirely shook off. At the beginning of this year symptoms of malignant disease of the colon set in, and he died in London on the 28th of May, at the comparatively early age of sixty-four. So long has his name been known in connection with homoeopathy that it is difficult to realise that his years were only three score and four. But in the early days of homoeopathy in Britain, its partisans began to make history while still very young, and Black was only twenty-two when he stood at bay before the whole medical faculty of Edinburgh. We subjoin the letter of condolence to Mrs. Black sent by the President of the British Homœopathic Society at the request of the Society. "June 11, 1883. “DEAR MADAM, "LINGMOOR, DEAN PARK, "BOURNEMOUTH. "At a meeting of the British Homœopathic Society, Thursday, June 7, the following resolution, of which I have just received a copy from our Secretary, Dr. Hughes, was passed unanimously. "The Members of the British Homœopathic Society having received the sad intelligence of the death of their Treasurer, Dr. Black, desire to record their deep sense of the loss they have sustained, and not only they but the cause of Homœopathy generally, of which Dr. Black was one of the earliest pioneers and brightest ornaments. "A copy of this to be forwarded in a letter from the President to Mrs. Black.' "Dr. Drysdale, Dr. Hamilton, and myself, who were present at the meeting, had the privilege of knowing Dr. Black for many years, we having been present when he read a paper on Homœopathy in the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh in 1841 or 1842. "To Dr. Dudgeon, Dr. Richard Hughes, and others, who were also present at the meeting of our Society, he was long known, and by all highly esteemed. Each speaker bore testimony to the unflinching courage, the devotion to his profession, and the high and honourable bearing that had distinguished him during his long and useful career, and which had contributed so much to cause Homœopathy to be valued and respected wherever his influence was felt. "As a personal friend he will long be missed, as a hard working labourer in our school his place cannot easily be supplied. "On behalf of the British Homœopathic Society I have to convey to you the expression of their sincere sympathy in the irreparable loss you and the other members of his family have sustained. "In conclusion let me express the hope that in the midst of your great sorrow you may find that comfort and support that will not fail those who look to Him who can alone give it. That this comfort may be yours, is the earnest prayer of "Dear Madam, "Yours sincerely, "WILLIAM V. DRURY, "President of the British Homoeopathic Society." CHARLES HANSON, M.D. THOUGH Comparatively unknown to his colleagues, Dr. Hanson's departure from among us should not pass altogether unnoticed. He was a brother of Sydney Hanson, with whom many were familiar in the early days of homoeopathy in this country. He passed the greater part of his professional life at Brighton; and was resident there at the time of his death, though he had long ceased to cultivate practice. He was of a retiring disposition, and little calculated to achieve success as a practitioner of medicine; but he knew his profession, and was a gentleman and a Christian. DR. HUBER AND DR. GOULLON. Two conspicuous figures among German homoeopathists have lately disappeared from their already thinned ranks. Dr. Edward Huber died at Pola on the 8th May last. Though quite a young man, only thirty-six at the time of his decease, he was reckoned one of the most able physicians of Vienna, and when Dr. Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth established in that city a hospital for the homœopathic treatment of children, he selected Dr. Huber as its chief physician, a post he continued to occupy till his death, and to the duties of which he devoted himself heart and soul until his health, which was never very robust, gave way, and he was compelled to seek a more genial climate in Pisa. Dr. Goullon, senior, of Weimar, who has just died at upwards of eighty years of age, was well known to all the homœopathic world by his numerous writings, polemical and scientific, many of which are to be found in our early volumes. He has left behind him a son who is an even more voluminous writer, and an equally hard worker. Homeopathic Practitioner Wanted at Cape Town. WE are requested by Mr. James B. Wilson, of Cape Town, to announce that a second homoeopathic practitioner is much wanted in that city. There is at present only one doctor to administer to the wants of all the population who are favourable to the method of Hahnemann, and he is greatly overworked, and as none of the old-school practitioners will meet him in consultation, patients feel that they are placed at a disadvantage in cases of danger and difficulty. Any of our colleagues who may wish to emigrate to South Africa with the prospect of finding a good opening for their talents, should put themselves in communication with Mr. Wilson. Cómo obran los mercuriales en el tratamiento de la Sifilis. Por H. RODRIGUEZ PINILLA, M.D. Madrid. 1882. A Momentous Education Question. By P. A. SILJISTRÖM. Translated by J. J. GARTH WILKINSON. London: Young. 1882. The Message of Psychic Science to Mothers and Nurses. By Anleitung zum methodischen Studium der Homöopathie für junge Boston. 1883. Students' Guide to the Examination of the Pulse and Use of the Sphygmograph. By BYROM BRAMWELL, M.D. 2nd edit. Edinburgh. 1883. O Homœopathie. Pernambuco. No. 3. Zur Galvano-Faradisation. Von Dr. S. T. STEIN. Frankfurt a. M. Beobachtungen über eine bemerkenswerthe Wirkung der statischen Electricität. Von Dr. S. T. STEIN. Frankfurt a. M. Homœopathy in its relation to the Diseases of Females, or Gynæcology. By THOMAS SKINNER, M.D. 2nd edit. London Homœopathic Publishing Co. 1883. Constituents of Tubercles. By R. R. GREGG, M.D. Tuberculosis. By R. R. GREGG, M.D. De l'Atrophie axiale du nerf optique. MAECKER. Paris. 1883. Revista Homeopatica Catalana. The Calcutta Journal of Medicine. Par le Dr. de KEERS Boletin Clinico del Instituto Homeopatico de Madrid. Rivista Omiopatica. Revue Homeopathique Belge. The Monthly Homœopathic Review. The Homœopathic World. The Hahnemannian Monthly. The American Homœopathic Observer. The North American Journal of Homœopathy. 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