THAT 97,790 people die each day. THAT the proper spelling. is, Policlinic. THAT Small-pox is epidemic at Vienna. THAT Kairin is short for oxychinolin methylhydrure.

THAT every man who is bitten by a dog gets mad -at the dog.

THAT there were 150 American medical students in Vienna last winter.

THAT the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association has 250 members.

THAT the shortest period of incubation of the hydrophobia is six weeks.

THAT the latest addition to medical nomenclature is the "Caisson disease."

THAT subcutaneous emphysema may follow difficult labor, especially in ergot cases.

THAT the Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Ohio has 155 active members.

THAT the Hahnemann Hospital of Chicago has recently received a bequest of $12,000.

THAT at the time of Hahnemann's death his estate was valued at 70,000 thalers ($52,500).

THAT the births in the world number 104,800 per day. Are you called to attend your share?

THAT there are fewer deaths between the ages of 25 and 28 than at any other period of life.

THAT the ratio of deaths from ether and chloroform are, according to Erichsen, as one to ten.

THAT raw cow's milk is better than boiled for young children. Boiled cows don't give good milk.

THAT it costs a foreign medical student, for living-expenses and fees, about $100 per month, in Vienna.

THAT Pasteur has to the present time treated 200 persons who have been bitten by supposed rabid animals.

THAT a case of dystocia, reported in the British Medical Journal, was due to the rigor mortis of a dead fœtus.

THAT there is a chiropodist in Georgia who is worth $15,000. He must have raised corn on a great many achers.

THAT there are three hospitals in the State of Ohio under homoeopathic control, all in a prosperous condition.

THAT the proper dose of syzygium in the treatment of diabetes, is five grains of the pulverized seed three times a day.

THAT a French doctor, when asked his favorite remedy for cold in the head, replied that he always treated it with contempt.

THAT the class of '88 of the New York Homoeopathic College is an incorporated body, "capable of suing and being sued."

THAT 500 children a year are sacrificed by mothers taking them into bed and lying on them while asleep. There should be a separate crib for the baby.

THAT an invalid in an Illinois town has taken, since last May, 500 doses of medicine and paid $1,500 to doctors and druggists, and he is not well yet!

THAT no authority to whom we have appealed has been able to tell us why it is that a gentleman cat is always called Thomas, and never John or Henry.

THAT Pasteur treats all patients gratis. The money which his wealthier patients feel called upon to give him, he immediately bestows upon some charitable institution.

THAT experiments prove that the temperature of a cucumber is actually lower than that of the surrounding atmosphere. Hence the old-well, never mind repeating it.

THAT Mr. Am Ende, the Hoboken druggist who caused the death of two young women by putting morphine instead of quinine in a prescription, has been tried for manslaughter and acquitted.

THAT in Paris reports of births are made in this manner: "Last week the births were as follows: Male: legitimate, 459, illegitimate, 173; female: legitimate, 378, illegitimate, 154. Total, 1,164."

THAT in the early days of homoeopathy its adherents were denounced by the allopaths because they would not bleed or salivate their patients. Today there is not an allopath who dares do either.

THAT a prize of $125 has been offered by the chairman of the London Homœopathic Hospital for the best essay on medical treatment, with special reference to the scientific system of Hahnemann..

THAT a professor of the University of Upsala believes that he can freeze a man solid, keep him in that condition two or three years, then thaw him out and have him renew the functions of life. He calls for a volunteer to submit himself to experiment. Why not try it on a dog?

THAT a fellow in Texas rode six miles with a doctor and asked many questions regarding reme. dies for prevailing diseases. The next week the doctor discovered his former companion, with shingle out, practicing medicine as a full-fledged M. D. He had graduated after a six-mile ride.—(Is this true, Fisher?)

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It would seem to be a work almost of supererogation, at this late day, to bring forward evidence in favor of the efficacy of vaccination, a subject on which the profession is, practically, a unit. In the entire history of medicine there has been nothing which has obtained such universal acceptance. The allæopath, the eclectic and the homoeopath may employ various measures in their treatment of cholera or of consumption, but when it comes to providing a prophylactic remedy for small-pox, they have a common faith and a common practice.

The reason for this is clear. It is because the remedy is a specific, and they all know it! They know it from personal experience, from observation among their patients, and from the fact that it is supported by a greater mass of reliable evidence than attaches to any other measure connected with the practice of medicine. To reproduce statistics. going to prove the correctness of this statement, is unnecessary. There is such a vast accumulation that, after beginning, one is embarrassed to know where to stop.

That there is a small sect of unbelievers, calls for no modification of the statement that, practically, the profession is a unit on this subject. Among the one hundred thousand- -more or less-practitioners of medicine in this country, it would be a wonder if a few such eccentric characters could not be found -those who deduce general laws from single instances, and who, in their conceit, think

that all statistics, except their own, are merely "made to order." While, individually, their teachings are pernicious, yet their very limited number renders them comparatively harmless.

Fortunately, it is not necessary to appeal to their writings in order to learn that, occasionally, the operation of vaccination is attended by some accident, since information on this subject can be obtained from far more reliable sources.

But, while the careful vac

cinator recognizes that such accidents, in rare instances, may occur, he does not let the knowledge deter him from pursuing a practice which is fraught with such beneficent. results. In 1882, Dr. Dake said:

"Observation has shown that of those attacked with small-pox, about one in every five will die, so that, without the conservative results of vaccination, we should lose in the United States alone, about fifty thousand of our inhabitants; thus we have saved to us by the simple process of vaccination a population of immense magnitude throughout the civilized world."

Why should the rare chance of an occasional case of erysipelas, or of eczema, make one hesitate to pursue a practice of which so much can be said?

There is not a claim which is made by the anti-vaccinists, that will bear critical analysis, or would be worth anything before a tribunal where evidence must be supported by something more substantial than mere assertion.

They have all heard of instances in which some individual who has been vaccinated and revaccinated sixteen or seventeen times, had the small-pox and died of it.

As the boys say, tell us something that we don't know.

Who has not heard of such cases? And who has not heard of instances in which a

person has had a second attack of scarlet fever? That this occurs the writer of these words knows full well, for he has himself suffered in the manner indicated.

But, while this proves something for the single individual in question, it proves nothing for the mass of mankind, who, as we all know, are protected by a single attack.

It is right there that the anti-vaccinists fail-in their narrow-mindedness they deduce general laws from the exceptional instances, and to this they add a prejudice which leads them to think, and to assert, that all statistics, save their own, are merely "made to order."*

Of course anyone who is driven to such an extreme in support of a hobby, removes himself from debatable ground, and he does it in a very convenient manner, strongly suggestive of the position taken by the bird which shuts its eyes and buries its head in the sand, in an effort to become oblivious to everything save its own existence.

That those who have been vaccinated sometimes suffer from the small-pox-or, more properly speaking, from the varioloid-the most ardent friends of vaccination have never denied. But, as is well known, this is, compared to the whole number of the vaccinated, of rare occurrence, and the attack is robbed of more than half its terrors.

But even this is unnecessary, for there is an efficient remedy in re-vaccination. This has been demonstrated again and again, for Dr. Rauch, of the Illinois State Board of Health, Dr. Koch, of Berlin, and numerous others have confirmed the results first brought out by Simon, that a community may be arranged in four classes according to the number of vaccine cicatrices which they bear -in the following manner:

Class I. Best protected-having more than two typical marks.

Class II. Sufficiently well protected-having two typical marks.

*See American Homœopathist, Oct., 1885, foot-note signed G. W. W., on page 296.

Class III. Moderately protected having two or more passable, or one typical mark. Class IV. Badly protected-having bad marks, or having only one passable mark.

Among those in Class I. the mortality is very light; among those in Class IV. it is very heavy, while between the two it varies in accordance with the number and character of the marks.

This has been carefully observed so many times as to amount to a demonstration. That there are some who are blind to the fact, goes without saying. There is a darkey preacher in Virginia who still teaches that "the sun do move."

In the case of the darkey, there is some excuse, for certainly the sun has that appear

ance.

A late number of The Medical Record (page 435, Vol. 28, No. 16), in commenting on the labors of the German Commission which met a year ago in Berlin to discuss the subject of vaccination, says:

"According to Dr. R. Koch, out of 703 smalll-pox patients in the Stockwell Hospital, there died of those having no scars [presumably unvaccinated], 47 per cent. Having

four or more scars, 1.1 per cent."

The remarkable agreement between the statistics of Dr. Koch, of Germany, and Dr. Rauch, of Illinois, is seen in the following tabulation:

Dr. Koch's report-Four scars, 1.1; no scars, 47.

Dr. Rauch's report-Vaccinated, 9; unvaccinated, 48.

Such facts as these need no comment.

Dr. Hardaway, in his excellent little work on "The Essentials of Vaccination," says:

"The fact that vaccine virus which has gone through many successive transmissions from its original source, undoubtedly loses much of its prophylactic influence, would seem to be well established."

This is the key to the present situation. The demand is for a new supply of virus,

That which is at present in use has gone through so many transmissions that it is weakened, and, whereas, in Jenner's day, a single inoculation would in the majority of cases protect for a lifetime, it now requires occasional re-vaccination in order to accomplish a like result.

Not only has the world's supply of virus become somewhat deteriorated, but, if we may believe the reports, unscrupulous dealers have in some instances sold as vaccine virus, spurious matter of whose origin the bovine race is innocent.

The New York Medical Journal is authority for the statement that, in the city of its publication, quills tipped with croton-oil have been sold as vaccine virus.

Surely, there is something rotten in Gotham!

But it is only one whose mental operations are confined by a circle which centers in himself, who will denounce a system for the faults of men. Such an one must needs go back in history about sixteen years in order to find an instance with which to point a moral.

During the small-pox epidemic in Montreal there were 6 deaths from the disease in April, and 1,393 deaths in October.

According to those anti-vaccinists who believe that small-pox is only a "filth-disease," the people must have been 296 times as filthy in October as they were in April.

CHICAGO AS A MEDICAL CENTER.

So far as the school of homoeopathy is concerned, Chicago may justly lay claim to being the medical center, not only of this country, but, also, of the world. It has two large and flourishing colleges, whose faculties take rank with those of any other similar institutions in the land; it has college buildings well adapted to the purpose to which they are devoted; it has hospital and clinical facilities ample for the instruction of all; it has one of the best State laws governing the disposal of material

for dissection; it has every accessory advantage which a large city affords.

During the past winter an aggregate of about three hundred and sixty students have been in attendance, one hundred and fifty-five of whom, last week, had conferred upon them the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, "with all the rights, privileges and emoluments thereunto belonging."

But the most remarkable thing remains to be told. Notwithstanding this large number of new doctors, who must scatter in a hundred and fifty-five different directions to seek for fields of practice, they seemed to have their new locations already pre-empted, and to feel not the least anxiety about their ability to command the future, for, although it was made generally known among them that the editors of the ERA could give information concerning several "openings" where there were crying demands for homoeopathic physicians, the inquiries were few, and those few, on learning that the prospective practices would make cash returns of no more than twelve or fifteen hundred dollars the first year, treated them with disdain.

The whole world knows that Chicago is a city of great achievements and high aspirations. The Chicago graduate becomes imbued with the spirit.

· A GENEROUS GIFT.

In the summer of 1881, Mr. Walter H. Bullock, of Chicago, the well-known manufacturer of optical instruments, in conjunction with Mr. Grunow, of New York, offered, for five consecutive years, a handsome prize to the senior students of the various colleges of this city, literary, pharmaceutical and medical. It was nothing less than one of his excellent biological microscopes, reinforced by appropriate lenses made by Mr. Grunow, and it is known as the "Bullock and Grunow Prize."

This prize-having a value of over a hundred dollars-has been awarded annually by the examining committee to the student who