Congress of British Homœopathic Practitioners. We beg to remind our readers that the Congress for the present year will be held at Edinburgh on the 3rd of September, and two subsequent days. The opening address will be delivered by Dr. Drysdale. A communication on the subject of the Dose has been promised by Mr. Phillips of Manchester. Those who have made experiments with the Cobra poison, distributed by Dr. Russell at last Congress, are requested to communicate them to the meeting. Dr. Russell of Edinburgh, Secretary to the Congress, will be happy to supply all needful information respecting the particular time and place of the Meetings of the Congress. We trust that the attendance of homoeopathic practitioners will be very large. MISCELLANEOUS. Opinion of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh, on the rejection of Dr. Pope. "Since the previous sheet was printed, above four months ago, I see that the medical examiners have been publicly accused of rejecting a candidate, not for incompetence, but on the confessed ground that he was supposed favourable to a medical theory, rising dangerously in opinion, and not in unison with the medical theory of his examiners. On such a step--such an injustice-such an absurdity-the old sectional examiners would not have ventured. If the charge be well founded, an Edinburgh Under Died. Total. medical graduate may now be an ignorant, unable to spell his mothertongue, but must not be a proficient, professing to think for himself. So certain also are now the opinions of a majority, touching the very practice and in the very body where heretofore medical scepticism was always in proportion to medical wisdom! Our Gregorys and Thomsons - what would they now say to this ?"-Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, by SIR WILLAM HAMILTON, Bart. p. 643. [Our readers will be gratified to learn that, at the special request of the Association for the Protection of Homœopathic Students and Practitioners, the Homœopathic College of Pennsylvania has been pleased to waive its rule, that candidates for its degrees shall undergo a personal examination, in favor of Mr. Pope, and has conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Medicine, at a public commencement, held on the 1st March of this year.-EDS.] The Last Argument against Homœopathy. Our North American contemporary furnishes us with the following novel reason for rejecting homœopathy, taken from a pamphlet published on the other side of the Atlantic. "Pah!" exclaims our assailant with intense disgust, 66 we are ashamed to think how these effeminate doctors, who carry a whole apothecary's shop in a pocket-book no bigger than your hand, walk in, put three drops of nothing into two half tumblers of water, giving you a teaspoonful, utterly tasteless, hour by hour; or put upon your tongue three or four white specks of milk-sugar, and that they call medicine! Our AngloSaxon fathers would have scorned to get well upon such a dainty practice, and would have died like men upon substantial medicine rather than sneak back to life upon such effeminacy." It is refreshing to find that, among our go-ahead transatlantic cousins, there are still some specimens of the good old tory school, whose motto is ever stare super vias antiquas, and who re-echo the sighs of our own Lord John Manners at the progress of the age. To the author of the above passage we would commend the following parody on the famous couplet of the Poet Laureate of the Woods and Forests, which we feel assured just speaks his sentiments: "Let wives and daughters, sons and cousins die, CLINICAL RECORD. Cases treated at the Edinburgh Homeopathic Dispensary, reported by Dr. STEWART, House Surgeon to that Institution. Acute Rheumatism. John Robertson, æt. 6, Carubber's-close, High-street. Oct. 25th, 1851, 6:30 P.M.: Had shivering about a week ago, followed by severe pains all |