Hence, although fearfully false, the medical advertisement is not exceptionally false. Its lies have plenty of companionship of a respectable character.

Instead of being void of truth, the average advertising doctor tells some truth on the board fence and on the rock, because the human frame is so pervaded by general laws, that as nearly all diseases spring from a few causes, so there are a few drugs which will act favorably against a hundred different ailments. The regular doctor treats a hundred diseases with a half-dozen nostrums, and should his art be set forth upon the board fence, we should be amazed to find how many forms of physical misery were combated and defeated by calomel or quinine or nux.

Thus the question where lies the shame of the physician who placards his art becomes complicated. In this thick fog, we imagine that we see light in this fact; that loud advertisements are pardonable in those pursuits whose sole aim is the making of money. If the world has tacitly admitted that purely commercial trades may resort to great handbills and capital letters, and that intellectual and religious callings must adopt a more modest style, that tacit understanding will tell us why it is that the doctor who commands the ends of houses and the sides of mountains to proclaim his worth, is justly denominated a quack. He has taken a high art which should be full of thought and science and all modes of scholarship, and has made it simply a matter of money. His mind is out in the world upon the same errand as that which impels the dealer in produce. As at the railway stations one sees a score of porters each one attempting to shout highest the name of his hotel, the whole business not being one of science or culture, but of money, so in the advertising doctors we see a lot of men who have discarded the office of student and professional man to live only for money. In this general statement must lie the reason why the medical advertiser is rated at a low figure by the professional world. He may have some good drugs on hand, but he has degraded a high calling.

In the educated and intellectual world, it is admitted that one must use the placard with much more economy than marks

a showman or a land agent. Powers and Thorwaldsen did not dare state what wonderful works they were making in their shop; nor did Bierstadt dare tell what wonderful secrets he had learned about perspective and color; nor do the regular lawyers dare state in the papers that they can make the best of all speeches upon any side of any case; nor may a clergyman, without charge, place in some public place a handbill to the effect that he has on hand a fine assortment of sermons upon all important questions of earth, hell and heaven. In this immense and goodly company of persons where mind seems to rise above both boasting and money, the physician stands, and he will starve to death, or turn mechanic or farmer, before he will ask his profession to hire a man with a brush and paste-pot to help him pull in money. It may be that his pills would help many persons who are ailing and that by spoiling some of Nature's rocks and by publishing the letters of persons whose livers have been purgated by his May-apple and hyssop he could attract to himself many who have pains and symptoms, yet he would rather feel that there was one doctor too many than attompt to fill his money-purse by any degradation of a noble and learned profession.-The Alliance.

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The National Eclectic Medical Association.

There was a certain propriety in appointing the next meeting of the National Eclectic Medical Association at Chicago. The re-organization had taken place in that city, after a lapse of thirteen years. It was pleaded eloquently that the tenth anniversary should be held where the career of the organization had so auspiciously begun. "We will have a tin wedding," said one. It was enough. Alack, St. Louis! Avaunt, Buffalo! The grand family gathering will be at the Chicago Homestead. So the Association and its Electoral Committee, each in its turn, deliberately voted.

The response from Chicago promises all that can be desired for the occasion. The Eclectic Medical Society of that city has begun already by naming a Committee of Arrangements and a Reception Committee. Prof. Jay writes: "We have some

sixty-five Eclectics in Chicago, and I think that almost every one of them is not only willing but anxious to do everything in his power to aid the good work of the National Asssociation. Any information that the President or Secretary may want, we will always be ready to give. Any of us will be willing to serve in any capacity. We think we are alive in Chicago on the subject of Eclecticism, and we expect that every one that visits us at that meeting shall think so."

Dr. Stratford also writes: "I only hope that I shall be alive and well, and able to assist to the best of my ability in making all who favor us with their presence happy and contented while with us, and that they may carry to their homes sweet thoughts and remembrances of their visit. I want everything done in shape, as far as we are concerned here, to make it a grand success, and an event that you may all remember with pleasure and profit."

President Green has made the following appointments.

COMMITTEE ON LOCATIONS FOR PHYSICIANS.

J. M. Scudder, M. D., 228 Court street, Cincinnati, Ohio. R. A. Gunn, M. D., 102 E. Twenty-third street, New York City.

P. D. Yost, M. D., 2908 Pine street, St. Louis, Mo.

B. S. Yeagley, M. D., Box 612, Johnstown, Penn.

W. S. Latta, M. D., Lincoln, Neb.

C. Edwin Miles, M. D., 126 Warren street, Boston Highlands, Mass.

Theory and Practice of Medicine........... S. H. Potter,

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It is desirable, if practicable, to devote the evening session to reading and discussion, and the following have been designated to open as indicated:

W. S. Latta, M. D., "The Nature and Consequences of Malarial Poisoning."

S. B. Munn, M. D., "Defective Drainage as a Cause of Dis

Wilson H. Davis, M. D., "Public and School Hygiene." A. G. Springsteen, M. D., "Care and Education of Children."

Milton Jay, M. D., "Physiology in Education."

J. C. Durgan, M. D., "Importance of Sanitary Legislation." H. S. McMaster, M. D., " Inebriety and Crime.'

R. S. Newton, M. D., "Marriage of Syphilized Persons." A. L. Clark, M. D., "Fashion and its Penalties."

C. E. Miles, M. D., "Physiological Instruction of Patients.” F. J. Lock, M. D., "Yellow Fever."

C. E. Griswold, M. D., "Zymotic Disease."

D. P. Borden, M. D., "Impure Water as a Source of Dis

ease."

J. B. Shultz, M. D., "Building Ground in its Relation to Health."

James Anton, M. D., "Relation and Hereditary Tendency between Inebriety and Epilepsy."

ESSAYS.

V. A. Baker, M. D., "Relation of Sex to Health and Longevity."

L. T. Beam, M. D., "Brain Culture in its Relations to the Schoolroom."

H. A. Bolles, M. D., "Alcohol in Disease."

L. H. Borden, M. D., "Defective Nutrition of Children."

J. R. Borland, M. D., “Influence of Civilization on the Duration of Human Life.”

G. W. Boskowitz, M. D., On Chemical Examination of Urine."

J. H. Bundy, M. D., "Advances in Pharmacy."

H. W. Buxten, M. D., Phenomena of the Pulse."

W. F. Curryer, M. D.,

Subacute Ovaritis.”

Orin Davis, M. D., Emotional Insanity.”

H. S. Firth, “Syphilitic Brain Diseases.”

H. D. Garrison, M. D., Responsibility of the Insane for Criminal Acts."

R. W. Geddes, M. D., "Influences of Heredity on Disease."

F. L. Gerald, M. D., “Pathology of Puerperal Fever.”

R. A. Gunn, M. D., "The Metric System in Prescriptions."

W. H. Hawley, M. D., “Therapeutics of Epilepsy."

A. J. Howe, M. D., " Mental Evolution."

J. A. Jeancon, M. D., “Effects of Malaria on the Glandular System."

N. Jewett, M. D., "Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic Nervous System."

J. W. Kermott, M. D., "Intemperance as a Disease."

J. W. King, M. D., "Bright's Disease."

R. E. Kunze, M. D., "Medical Botany."

J. V. Lewis, M. D., "Puerperal Septicemia.'

J. T. McLaughlin, M. D., "Nervous Disorders connected with the Genital Functions."

A. J. Marston, M. D., "Dressing for Fractured Clavicles." M. M. Miles, M. D., "Transmissibility of Tuberculosis.” J. M. Mulholand, M. D., "Conversion of Types of Fever."

H. G. Newton, M. D., "Ventilation."

R. S. Newton, M. D., "Heredity and Consanguineous Marriages."

M. Nivison, M. D., "Disorders of Sleep."

Henry Parker, M. D., "Typho-Malarial Fever and its Treatment."