terrible foe!" The battle rages; the doctor, through ignorance, or a worthless and vicious system of treatment, is worsted; disease gives to death the spoils of the victory; and there is heard, " mourning, lamentation and woe." And then comes the useless regret, that the treatment of another medical system had not been substituted! Here is a picture not uncommon; it is one to be found in every dwelling, it has darkened every home, it is engraved upon almost every heart. Upon other subjects of vital importance people are forewarned and foretaught. The religious tract-distributer, has many a time and oft dropped at the door his unostentatious, silent little instructer, to show the pathway to heaven, when death has foiled the doctor, and the dark and silent grave is the inevitable doom. But no such messenger was ever known to precede the day of sickness, to warn the victim against the drug store, and to point out the new, the glorious health-restorer in the few globules, or the single drop, of the homœopathist. But truly religious men believe their creed; they love it, they prize it, they live for it, they die for it, and therefore, the tract finds out every house-the mansion, the cottage and the hovel! All are taught, all may, if they will, be saved. But we, homœopathists, believe we have a new truth, -a life-saving, disease-destroying principle; and yet, strange to say, we only tell this to those who "call us in and pay us!" WE distribute no tracts, we circulate no information, we send forth no home or foreign missionary to tell this glad tidings of great joy to all the people; this new gospel of health, that if indeed true, as we pretend it is, must have come down from God as sure as any other truth has ever come! for He is the fountain of all truth. This pure science of life which we hold should teach another lesson, a lesson of expansive benevolence; we should try and save the people; we should have them forewarned before disease came; they should be aware of our existence, of all we profess and promise to do when cholera and yellow fever mow down the people, who do not know, and never did know, that the homœopathic physician can, if faithful to his system, rescue them from the grasp of these fearful destroyers! If the physicians of our school are true, faithful, honorable disciples of a great life-saving truth, like this, the country, the town, the city, the hamlet, the court and the alley, will be deluged with simple truth-telling tracts on this vital subject before the end of the coming

We have now "thrown our bread upon the waters." The publishers, we are happy to see, have offered to supply all with the seeds of truth. Let them be scattered far and wide. We confidently assure the sowers that according to the unfailing laws of nature, they will reap an abundant harvest of health for the people, and even of wealth for themselves that is, for such of them as can be prompted to action by no more powerful inducement than " a shower of gold."

A short time since a well-informed and fashionable lady friend of ours charged us with being professionally associated with a system upon which the grandees of our quaker city frowned as "not fashionable enough" for "our people." We very modestly replied, that we were but poor judges of such matters, only that we felt sure that one-third, at least, of the inhabitants were devoted to our school: and that as far as we could judge, one-third of the fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture and bank stock belonged to them: -and, further, that one-third of the honesty, independence and liberality would be found in the same quarter; and lastly, that onethird of the education, intelligence and intellectual development was in their keeping. We were doubtful whether we might not have claimed a much larger proportion of the last named qualities, but we never push matters to extremes. We also added mildly, that the great men recorded by history, whom Time has thought worthy of a cöequal life with himself, did not appear to have been "people of fashion," but only great thinkers, great doers and great self-deniers -and, indeed, that some of the most noble of them forgot themselves so much as to allow their lives to be taken for the good of others. When we asked our friend if she remembered whether any "people of fashion" had done as much, she could not exactly call to mind any, and her memory is remarkably good. Moreover, we informed her that a very dear friend of ours had learned all he knew of this system among the very aristocracy of a very old and very proud people living in a large island in the Atlantic ocean-and we closed our conversation by reading the following scrap, cut away from a paper the same friend had given us in the morning :"A deputation consisting of the following noblemen and gentlemen, had an interview with Lord Panmure on Thursday, and presented a memorial praying that a civil hospital at Smyrna, or elsewhere in the neighborhood of the theatre of war, might be appropriated for the treatment of soldiers and sailors, according to the Homœopathic system:-The Earl of Essex, Lord Lavaine, M. P., General Sir John Doveton, K. C. B., Admiral Gambier, Colonel Wyndham, Colonel Taylor, R. A., and Captain Fishbourne, R. N. The deputation was introduced by Lord Robert Grosvenor. The memorial was signed by twenty-two members of the House of Lords, military and naval officers and others, and set forth the number of officers and men now serving in the East who had confidence in no other curative method, A memorial of a similar nature was also presented to his Lordship, the result of a public meeting in Manchester."-London Evening Mail, April 20th, 1855.

EDITORIAL.

Some time since, we were pleased to read, in one of our daily journals, the following paragraph:-"HOMEOPATHY IN MICHIGAN-A bill has been passed, establishing a chair of Homœopathy in the medical department of the State University of Ann Arbor." Such news was pleasing indeed, and plainly indicated the increasing momentum with which our science is being propelled through the more remote portions of our country. But what to the members of the Homœopathic profession was (to be regular and scientific in expression,) merely a "healthy tonic," proved to our brethren of the old school, rather an indigestible article; indeed, judging from the effusions it has produced, which, it may be observed, were all on the surface, it has proved quite a diaphoretic.

The thaumaturgical resolution unanimously adopted by the medical convention that so lately held their important deliberations in our city, concerning the passage of the already referred to bill by the Legislature of Michigan, has been fully dwelt upon in another portion of this Journal, and also, chiefly from its curiosity as a literary production,-in several of our daily and weekly periodicals; it therefore needs no further comment.

But it has lately been currently reported, that the Legislature of the above mentioned State, has no power whatever over the University; that the committee appointed to inquire concerning the propriety of establishing such a professorship, after having thoroughly investigated the matter, and being unable to discover any precedent in the hospitals, colleges and universities abroad, had become convinced of the futility of attempting to combine in one institution the different practices, and that they had unanimously resolved that a chair of homœopathy could not, with any propriety, be allowed to exist in their university. Many such rumors are afloat, and numerous scraps from various periodicals, bear testimony to the zeal with which certain interested parties are endeavoring, by "stuffing the ears of men with false reports," to prevent the exposition of the law of simile. We chance to have one of these fugitive articles in our possession. It is one of the most impartial we have perused, and probably contains a fair statement of the case. It reads thus: -"HOMEOPATHY-At the recent session of the Legislature of Michigan, an act was passed, establishing a professorship of homeopathy in the University of that State. It seems, however, that the Legislature have only an advisory power in the premises, as the constitution of the State vests the control of the University in a Board of Regents elected by the people, one from each judicial district, and holding office for six years. These Regents, it is said, see no reason for complying with the recommendation, but have appointed a committee to examine the subject of the feasibility of connecting homœopathy with the old school of medicine in the same institution. This will involve an investigation of the homœopathic system, and a report of the subject will be submitted to the Legislature. It is anticipated that the report will be unfavorable."

With regard to the latter portion of the quotation, we are not so positive, particularly if the committee appointed, conduct an impartial investigation, and report with candor. The kingdom of Bavaria, of the Grand Duchy of Baden and other German states, have authorized professorships in their public universities. Hospitals, in which the patients were formerly exclusively treated in accordance with allopathic principles, have, at the present time, extensive wards set apart for the treatment of disease according to the law of Hahnemann. Indeed, there are numerous professors who have publicly embraced homœopathy, and who still occupy "their accustomed places" in the Universities of Europe. Probably, therefore, when such facts are made known to the "Regents," through their committee, and as the Legislature, with its "advising power," has already recommended the establishment of a chair of homœopathy, the result will be in accordance with the wishes of those influential members of the Executive body, through whose instrumentality the passage of the act was accomplished.

That the question is being discussed and our cause is being well supported by the friends of our system in the "far west," the following article from the Detriot, (Michigan) "Free Press" is sufficient evidence :

"НОМЕОРАTHIC PROFESSORS IN EUROPE-Mr. Editor:-A statement has been, and is being circulated, that the Regents of our University have refused to appoint a homœopathic professor in compliance with the late act of the Legislature. This is a mistake. We have been informed by one of the Regents that they appointed a committee to make inquiries in regard to existing homœopathic professorships in the Universities of Europe-if there are any such-it having been represented to them that none such exist.

As such a statement is frequently made by the opposers of the new professorship, and as they represent that it is impossible to have the two systems taught in the same institution, as though the experiment had never been tried, we take the following list of homœopathic professors from The British and Foreign Homœopathic Medical Directory and Record, for 1855, edited by GEORGE ATKIN, M. D., Edinburg, and published in London by GROOMBRIDGE & SONS.

First.-Professors of homœopathy, and also professors who occupy chairs in which the effects or use of medicines in the treatment of diseases is taught, and necessarily teach homœopathy:

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1. Dr. T. BUCHNER, Professor of Homœopathy in the University of Munich.

2. Dr. F. ARNOLD, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Zurich.

3. Dr. HENDERSON, Professor of Medicine and General Pathology, and lately one of the Professors of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburg.

4. Dr. EDWARD MARTIN, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Jena.

5. Dr. JANER, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Barcelona.

6. Dr. CHEVALIER DE HORATIIS, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Naples, and President of the Royal Academy of Medicine.

7. Dr. LAMBRECHT, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Padua.

8. Dr. J. A. WEBER, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Freyburg.

9. Dr. QUADRI, Professor of Ophthalmic Surgery, Naples.

10. Dr. H. ARNITH, Professor of Midwifery in the General Hospital, Vienna.

11. Dr. BIGEL, Professor of Midwifery in the University of St. Petersburg.

12. Dr. Вотто, Professor of Surgery in the University of Genoa.

Secondly.-Professors who are acknowledged homœopathists, but the particular department in which they teach not stated :

13. Professor LEUPOLDT, of the University of Erlangen. 14. Dr. REUBEL, Professor in the University of Munich. 15. Professor QUADRANTI, University of Naples.

16. Professor RIBES, of Montpelier.

17. Professor TAGLIANANI, of Ascoli.

Thirdly. Professors who are avowed Homœopathists, but who fill chairs which have nothing to do with the effect or administration of medicines: 18. Dr. FOLCH, Professor of Pathology, University of Barcelona. 19. Dr. KIRSCHLEGER, Professor of Botany in the University of Strasburg.

20. Dr. MALY, Professor of Dietetics in the University of Gratz. 21. Dr. M. McDONALD, Professor of Civil and Natural History in the University of St. Andrews.

Homœopathy in the General Hospital of Madrid.-For a number of years, homœopathy has been practised in this Hospital with so much success, that the Queen has, by royal mandate, sanctioned the establishment