15 Committee on Pharmacopœia. By a resolution of the National Eclectic Medical Association, adopted at Cleveland, June, 18, 1879, a "Committee on Pharmacopoeia" was appointed, consisting of the following members: Albert Merrill, M. D., 2346 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Mo. S. B. Munn, M. D., Waterbury, Conu. C. E. Miles, M. D., 126 Warren Street, Boston, Mass. This Committee is instructed to report at the coming annual meeting in Chicago a plan for an AMERICAN PHARMACOPŒIA, to correspond with and invite suggestions from physicians, and to conduct experiments in pharmacy to the end of determining any unsettled questions. Committee on Locations for Physicians. The following standing resolution was adopted by the Association at its annual meeting in 1871: Resolved, Thit a Committee on Locations be appointed by the Chair to obtain information in regard to desirable locations for physicians, and to correspond with any who may desire to change their location. The Committee for the present year will stand as follows: J. M. Scudder, M. D., 228 Court Street, Cincinnati, O. R. A. Gunn, M. D., 116 East Thirteenth Street, New York City. P. D. Yost, M. D., 5 High Street, St Louis, Mo. B. L. Yeagley, M. D., Johnstown, Penn. W. S. Laita, M. D., Lincoln, Neb. C. Edwin Miles, M. D., 126 Warren Street, Boston, Mass. National Bureau of Correspondence. This Bureau will continue its duties as directed by the Association at its annual meetings in June, 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1879. The following are the members for 1879-80: ROBERT S. NEWTON, M. D., 1 Livingstone Place, New York City Alabama-J. F. Boughton, M.D., Fort Deposit. Georgia-A. L. Clinkscales, M. D., Macon. Michigan-H. S. McMaster, M. D., Dowagiac. Chairman. Minnesota-J. Q. A. Vale, M. D., Homer. Oregon-G. W. Biggers, M. D. La Grande. West Virginia--A. J. Alexander, M. D. Wisconsin--Henry P. Wenzel, M. D., Theresa. 6 Status of Eclectic Medicine in the Several States. Pursuant to the fifth article of the constitution, the following persons, members of this Association, and others in fellowship with its objects, have been designated in the several States, whose duty is specified in the following terms: To attend the meetings of the Eclectic Medical Societies of the States in which they respectively reside, and to report in writing, at the annual meetings of this Association, the prosperity membership and condition of such societies, and such facts in regard to the welfare and prospects of Reformed Medicine in the States as shall appear to them of importance. These reports, or & proper abstract of them, shall be included in the published Transactions of the Association. Alabama-H. P. Bolton, M. D. Montana-A. L. Davison, M. D. Washington Ter. --J.M. F. Browne,M. D. Eclectic physicians are respectfully requested to communicate with this Association in regard to the condition and prospects of Reformed Medicine such facts as are in their possession, of interest. I trust that every member of this Association, to whom a Report, Address or Essay, has been assigned, will endeavor zealously to perform his duty. The subjects which have been selected take a wide range, but they all come within the province of the physician. The thorough examination of them will be of immense value to the writers themselves, as well as to those who hear or read the papers. An earnest spirit of investigation, with breadth and clearness of view, cannot fail to secure enlarged scientific knowledge, which will benefit ourselves and the general community. While we devote a part of our time to the topics usually considered by medical practitioners, I hope that special attention will be given to PREVENTIVE MEDICINE-mental and physical Hygiene in the broadest sense. The venerable Professor Gross, in an address to the Medical Society of the State of Kentucky, says: "The great question of the day is, not this operation or that, not ovaritomy or lithotomy, or a hip-joint operation, but PREVENTIVE MEDICINE--the hygiene of our persons, our dwellings and our streets-in a word, our surroundings, whatever and wherever they may be, whether in city, town, hamlet or country. * * The people must be aroused to a deep and more earnest sense of the people's welfare, and suitable measures adopted for their protection as well as the better development of their physical, moral and intellectual poners. This is the great problem of the day, the question which you, as representatives of the rising generation of physicians, should urge, in season and out of season, upon the attention of your fellow citizens the questions which, above and beyond all others, should engage your most serious thought, and elicit your most earnest co-operation." The study of Sanitary Medicine for twenty-five years, and observations in private practice and in hospitals and asylums, has impressed me profoundly with the importance of this subject. Although not desiring other important questions to be superseded, I would earnestly urge all members of the Association to make a thorough investigation of 7 the laws of health and disease of mind and body, and to devote their energies to the promotion of the knowledge of mental and physical hygiene. The reciprocal action of mind and body, the latent correspondence of parts seemingly unconnected, is acknowledged by medical and metaphysical enquirers. Disraeli says: "The tenant and the house are inseparable, so that in striking any part of the building, you inevitably reach the dweller." Careful consideration is desired for all the topics which have been selected. They all have a bearing on the laws of mental and bodily Hygiene. Heredity in its mental and physical aspects, inebriety, opiomania, insanity, nervous disorders, maternal impressions, brain culture in relation to the school room, school bygiene, physiology in education, reciprocal action of mind and body, the law of fatigue, care and education of children, inebriety and crime, sexual hygiene, fashion and its penalties, marriage of persons contaminated by syphilis, how to eradicate inherited taints, zymotic diseases, public hygiene, malarial poisoning, sewer-gas poisoning, defective drainage, impure water and impure milk as sources of disease, building-ground in its relations to health, physiological instruction of patients, and other like questions, are closely involved in Preventive Medicine. Lack of proper knowledge on the subject is the cause of an immense amount of sickness, suffering and death in every neighborhood. The ignorance as well as the iniquities of the parents is visited upon their children; and they, in their turn, transmit an inheritance of wretchedness in the form of diseased minds and bodies. It is our duty, assumed by us together with the other obligations of our profession, to study and understand the laws of health and disease of mind and body, and to instruct the community in regard to them. The public has the right to require this from us; and if we are true men-true to our cause, true to God and humanity--we will faithfully endeavor to perform the trust. Upon the faithful compliance with these appointments depends, in a large degree, the value of our published TRANSACTIONS. The naming of individuals excludes no one. Every member of this Association is invited and desired, at his earliest convenience, to communicate to this Association, or its Secretary, all interesting cases, improvements, discoveries and suggestions as he shall consider useful, and prepare papers and essays on topics connected with medical science or practice. A copy of this circular will be mailed to each member of the National Eclectic Medical Association, as a special request to contribute some paper on a topic useful to the profession. All papers read or submitted to the Association are its property, and should be deposited with the Secretary. But this Asssociation is not to be regarded as approving unqualifiedly, or sanctioning to their full extent, the several doctrines and sentiments set forth in the papers thus presented and published by its direction. BOSTON, MASS., Sept. 1st, 1879. By the President. ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D., Secretary. MILBREY GREEN, M. D. INDEX TO VOL. VII. Next Meeting of the Eclectic Medical Association at Chi- A. ABORTION Advertising, Memorial of Ohio State E. M. Association.... Alcohol and Tobacco: Their Relations to Physical Life, by V. A. Baker. Resolutions Complimenting State Societies... 37 119 201 117 105 20 Arthritis, by Milton Jay.... Association, National E. M. College, proposed. Artificial Anus, by A. J. Howe...... Association of Medical Reformers in England. B. BAKER, V. A., on Alcohol and Tobacco. 127 |