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CONCENTRATED MEDICINES.-The advertisement of E. S. McClellan & Co. is worthy of the attention of our readers.

A communication from Drs. Canniff and McClellan has been inserted in this number, reflecting rather severely upon Dr. J. Brown. I have since been informed, that whatever his language may have been, the expressions of Dr. B. were not at all designed to allude to Drs. C. and M. This being the case, I regret that any controversy should have arisen through inadvertence, and hope it will proceed no farther.

DR. G. MIESSE is said to be doing an extensive and successful medical and surgical practice at Greenville, Ohio. The following notice of one of his operations is from the Greenville Herald:

REMOVAL OF A NEUROMA.-Another very delicate operation was successfully performed by our Eclectic surgeon, Dr. G. Miesse, of Greenville, upon the person of Miss L. Robinson, who had an enlargement of the median nerve. This part of the nerve which was removed was one inch in diameter, and about three inches in length, and with this a tumor of equal size, embedded in the tendons and arteries of the carpus or wrist and fore arm, pressing upon the radial artery, which were dissected from the same, and removed without the slightest injury to the tendons, blood-vessels or nerves, and the use of the and fully restored. Such skillfulness is worthy of the high praise.

AVISCONSIN.-Dr. T., an Eclectic physician of Janesville, Wisunsin, says: "There are some six or eight practitioners in this State, and of course increasing, as all are doing well, and I can safely say there is no State in the Union, (except Ohio perhaps,) where Reform takes so well as here, for I doubt not there are five hundred places where a Reformer might make good living if no more. Therefore, if you have a surplus of practitioners, and desire for them locations, send them to our State-there is room'the harvest is plenty but the laborers are few.""

DR. JOHN T. SHOTWELL, Professor of Anatomy in the Ohio Medical College, and perhaps the most popular and esteemed member of the Faculty, died on the 23d of July.

Chartered in 1845-Session of 1849-50-Matriculants, 224Graduates, 65.

THE sixth winter session of this college will commence on the first Monday of November, 1850, and continue four months. The chairs of the Faculty will be arranged as follows:

HORATIO P. GATCHELL, M. D.-Professor of Anatomy and Physiology.

JOSEPH R. BUCHANAN, M. D.-Medical Chemistry and Cerebral Physiology.

LORENZO E. JONES, M. D.—Materia Medica and Phar

macy.

BENJAMIN L. HILL, M. D.-Surgery and Obstetrics. I. GIBSON JONES, M. D.-Theory and Practice of Medicine.

WOOSTER BEACH, M. D.-Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine.

WM. OWENS, M. D.-Demonstrator of Anatomy and Surgical

Prosector.

A gratuitous preliminary course of lectures will commence on the first Monday in October: at the same time the Demonstrator's rooms will be opened with every facility for the study of Anatomy. Tickets to a full course of lectures $60, in advance, (or well endorsed 12 months note for $70 and interest;) to two or more full courses of lectures $100, in advance, (or a well endorsed note for $125.) Matriculation ticket $5; Graduation $15; Demonstrator's ticket $5, (anatomical material abundant;) Hospital ticket $5; which gives access to the clinical lectures of the extensive Commercial Hospital. Board from $2 to $2.50 per week. Students occasionally board themselves in clubs for one half of this amount.

The leading principles of the College are, that all medical treatment should be of a safe and restorative, instead of a dangerous or

debilitant character-that knowledge should be sought freely from all sources, and that no medical creed should be enforced by proscriptive associations. The Eclectic system of practice embraces a great number of medicines and remedial measures, not generally known or used, and its success is believed to be unequalled. The average mortality of cholera under Eclectic practice, has been less than five per cent.-the average mortality from all diseases, less than two per cent. Students will call upon their arrival in the city at the office of Prof. B. L. Hill, Secretary of the Faculty, N. W.corner of Ninth and Elm. For further information address, post-paid, JOS. R. BUCHANAN, M. D., DEAN.

SIXTH ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE
ECLECTIC MEDICAL INSTITUTE.

The Board of Trustees of the Eclectic Medical Institute have the pleasure of again announcing the prosperous career of a College devoted to à liberal system of Medicine.

But the pleasure of this announcement is mingled with grief for the loss of a member of the Faculty whose ability, zeal and devotedness have endeared his name to every friend of Medical Reform throughout our Republic.

To the energy, public spirit and professional ability of Dr. THOMAS VAUGEN MORROW we are indebted more than to the exertions of any other individual for the origination and successful establishment of a college devoted to Medical Reform. No other member of the medical profession has toiled so long or devoted so great an amount of time to this noble enterprise. With this enterprise his name and fame were identified, and its success is the best monument to his memory.

The energy, discretion and liberality which were manifested in his first efforts enabled him to secure the co-operation of others equally ardent and efficient in their devotion to the great principles of the school, and qualified by their various talents and attainments to advance and sustain the College in the first rank of American schools.

Under the embarrassment produced by the sudden and unexpected loss of the Dean of the Faculty upon the eve of the annual announcement, upon whom the principal responsibilities of the school devolved during the absence of several of the Professors, every exertion has been made by the Faculty and Trustees to reorganize the school as speedily as possible and send forth an early announcement of the programme of the next session. We are gratified in being able to announce that everything has been arranged in the most satisfactory manner as to the division of the chairs and their occupancy by each.

Prof. L. E. JONES will occupy the chair of Materia Medica, &c., as usual. Prof. B. L. HILL will occupy the chair of Surgery and Obstetrics, as before. Prof. H. P. GATCHELL will occupy the chair of Anatomy, and the details of corporeal Physiology will be assigned to his department.

Prof. J. R. BUCHANAN Will continue to teach the physiology of the nervous system, in which he has made so many important discoveries, and in place of the details of common physiology, he will take up the collateral subject of Medical Chemistry.

The chair of Chemistry heretofore ably filled by Prof. J. B. STALLO had been rendered vacant by his resignation at the end of the last session-a resignation rendered absolutely necessary by the engrossment of his time in professional labors at the bar. The subject of Chemistry having been assigned to Prof. Buchanan to be taught in its proper connection with Physiology and practical Medicine, no other appointment will be necessary for that department.

The remaining chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine, lately occupied by Prof. Morrow, demanded for its proper occupancy not only a skilful teacher but a man of extensive experience and high reputation, in whom the Eclectic Medical Reformers of America would repose entire confidence as an able and judicious teacher. Such a man, we are happy to say, has been found in Prof. I. G. Jones of Columbus, the old fellow-student and colleague of Prof. Morrow in the earliest movements in the West in behalf of medical reform. Of his skill and judgment as a practitioner, and of his ability as a teacher, there is but one opinion, and he is unanimously regarded by the profession as above all others the proper man to occupy the vacancy left by Dr. Morrow. Dr. J. is no theoretical declaimer nor factious partizan, eager for the establishment of some favorite doctrine, but a profound, judicious and conscientious physician, whose instructions, based upon positive knowledge and cautious examination of facts cannot fail to make a deep impression and to prove a safe and successful guide under the arduous responsibilities of medical practice. These merits, together with his terse and vigorous style of thought and speech as a teacher render Dr. J. eminently worthy to be associated with the distinguished occupants of the several chairs, and to bear the high responsibilities to the profession and to the country which attach to the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine in a flourishing college.

We congratulate the members of the medical profession upon his acceptance of this appointment, which gives additional assurance of the future prosperity and reputation of the school.

In accordance with the respected custom of awarding an honorary title to senior members of the profession who have rendered distinguished services to medical science-the title of Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine accorded to Prof. W. Beach, by the Institute, (with which he has heretofore been actively connected,) is a suitable recognition of his pre eminent services to his coun try as the pioneer of American Medical Reform. To him belongs the distinguished honor of being the first medical man to take a stand in the profession for its thorough practical reform, and to maintain that position with skill, judgment and energy, without running into any of the rash extremes so common among medical innovators and theorists.

The reputation of Professors Buchanan, Hill and Jones, established by their career as medical teachers, and by their widely circulated writings, is of the highest order. The physiological writings of Prof. Buchanan and the surgical work of Prof. Hill, are conspicuous illustrations of the most advanced progress of the American mind on those subjects.

As a lecturer on Anatomy, Prof. Gatchell, whose name was first announced in our last annual circular, has fully sustained his reputation as an able and learned teacher.

The corps of Professors at present consists of gentlemen, each eminent in his own department, constituting in the aggregate a body unsurpassed by the Faculty of any other College in the United States in respect to their capacity for imparting a thorough practical and useful knowledge of medical science. This superiority arises from the fact that in addition to their eminent personal qualifications, they occupy an independent position, and instead of regarding improvements in science with cautious timidity, are proud to be known as the foremost in knowledge and as masters of the amplest practical resources.

In accordance with this magnanimous spirit the Institute has extended its countenance to one of the most remarkable modern innovations of medical science-the system of Homœopathic practice-a system dishonored and excluded by all other medical colleges in accordance with the party spirit which has ever prevailed in the profession. Recognizing Homeopathy as a contribution to medical science, worthy of investigation, the Institute has tendered its students an ample opportunity of becoming acquainted with its details.

This movement was prompted by no considerations of policy, for it was

well known that the Homœopathic party like all other exclusive parties claims an unqualified and undivided allegiance from all who approve its tenets, and looks with jealousy if not with aversion upon those who but partially recognize its claims. An eminent Homœopathic physician was selected to represent the system, not because the Institute approved the position of the Homoeopathic party, but because it wished to give to the world every assurance of entire good faith and cordiality in its relations to a rival party, and to give to that party opportunity of being represented by their own especial advocate.

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Having thus, during the past session, exhibited a magnanimity without precedent in the history of medical schools-a magnanimity which is peculiar to those who are in the possession of truth, and who have nothing to fear from investigation, it is considered unnecessary to give any further evidence of the catholic liberality of the school which has been so fully demonstrated. The Board are therefore gratified to announce that the Professorship of the principles and practice of Homoeopathy has been formally abolished.

An additional reason for the change is derived from the internal economy of the school. The existence of seven professorships, and consequently of seven daily lectures, in addition to other exercises, was found upon trial to impose too great a burden of mental labor upon the members of the class. Its effect was so injurious upon their health and proficiency as to render a diminution of the number of daily lectures absolutely necessary.

If any additional reasons for the change were requisite they might be found in the character of the party to which the hospitality of the College has been tendered, and the unworthiness of such a favor which has been manifested in their course. It was originally supposed that a Homeopathic professorship might be maintained for two years in the Institute without inconvenience, at the end of which time it was designed to discontinue the chair. This gratuitous kindness to a system of medical doctrines commonly regarded as visionary and ludicrous, appeared to be neither appreciated nor understood by the party thus favored. On the contrary, a vehement and slanderous opposition to the Institute was manifested by prominent members of the very party to whom this kindness had been extended.

The bigotry and censorious language of Homeopathic physicians who seemed to dread the influence of a liberal school and to shrink from the comparison of doctrines, necessarily destroyed their claims to the respect and confidence of the Eclectic party. Their shrinking from the free investigation of doctrines and contact of mind with mind under circumstances so favorable and liberal to themselves, proved clearly that if they had confidence in their own doctrines they had much less manly reliance upon the power of truth than the Eclectic party.

The intolerance which has appeared to characterise the majority of the Homœopathic party, proves that ultra Homeopathy stands in as hostile relations to liberal medicine as does the fashionable system of Allopathy. The Institute cannot therefore extend its countenance to a party which takes advantage of every concession and courtesy to make war upon the principles and progress of Eclectic Reform.

The students of the Institute will continue as before to consult with Eclectic discrimination the pages of Allopathic and Homeopathic text-books, but no proscriptive and intolerant party can ever be allowed again to occupy a place in the regular course of lectures.

In these remarks, while condemning the Homeopathic party, we do not mean to include all practitioners of Homœopathy. On the contrary, we respect as conscientious medical reformers those who discard the authority of Hahnemann or any other master, and adopt with discriminating independence, the principles and resources of Homœopathy without discarding or condemning the resources derived from the American medical reform, or any reform of similar spirit and objects, and who fraternize cordially with every species of scien