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to convert your monthly into a medium for 

 the settlement of doctors' differences. I 

 only wish to correct a misstatement of facts 

 concerning the condition of practitioners of 

 the homoeopathic school in the Province of 

 Ontario ; in regard to which, the position 

 I have held on the Board of Examiners 

 and the Medical Council may justify me in 

 speaking with authority. The misstatement 

 is to the effect that " in Ontario, up to ten 

 years ago, homoeopaths were yearly regis- 

 tered by scores ; since then they have to 

 pass through the same courses and exami- 

 nations as the regular students, in all but 

 therapeutics and pharmacy. The conse- 

 quence is, that in ten years there have only 

 been two or three applications for examina- 

 tions as homceopaths. Homoeopathy is now 

 dying a natural death." 



1. Up to ten years ago, homceopaths 

 were not " registered " (licensed, he means, 

 for there was then no registering) by scores. 

 Half a score a year was considered a large 

 number. The old law required a longer 

 course of study from homoeopathic than al- 

 lopathic students ; and much longer than 

 was necessary for graduation in a United 

 States college. As a consequence, fully 

 five sixths of our students settled across the 

 line. 



2. In the ten years following, under the 

 new law, instead of only two or three homoe- 

 opaths licensed for the whole period, there 

 have been applicants every year some as 

 homoeopaths, while others have passed the 

 allopathic examinations. And, though the 

 number of applicants may be less now than 

 formerly, the diminution applies to students 

 of all schools the result of our extended 

 course of study and rigid examinations. 

 The proportion of allopathic and homoeo- 

 pathic applicants remains about the same. 



3. The way " homoeopathy is dying " in 

 Ontario is illustrated by the fact that the 

 President of the Medical Council, the cx-offi- 

 cio head of the medical profession, is this 

 year an avowed homoeopathist, and a gradu- 

 ate of a homoeopathic college. And he has 

 been elected to that position by a two-thirds 



vote of a body in which allopathic physi- 

 cians have a majority of five to one. 



As nearly all the statements regarding 

 homoeopathy in the article referred to have 

 as much foundation in fact as those I have 

 taken the liberty of correcting, it is evident 

 that your contributor's assertions will need 

 more than a single grain of salt to render 

 them acceptable. Misstatements of facts 

 are always made either in ignorance or in 

 malice. Your contributor probably knows 

 better than I the cause of those that have 

 called forth my corrections. 



Cl. T. Campbell. 

 London, Ontario, June 25, 18S3. 



"OUR MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE LAWS.' 



Messrs. Editors : 



Gordon A. Stewart, writing on " Our 

 Marriage and Divorce Laws " in the June 

 number of the " Monthly," in speaking of 

 the causes for which divorces may be granted 

 in different States, uses this language : . . . 

 " In Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, North 

 Carolina, and Maine, there is any cause that 

 a discontented and dishonest party may al- 

 lege, or that a judge in his discretion, influ- 

 enced by sympathy or corrupt motives, may 

 approve." 



As applied to Indiana this statement is 

 wholly without foundation. In this State 

 the causes for divorce are clearly defined by 

 statute. No one is entitled to a divorce 

 who can not show the existence of some 

 one or more of the statutory grounds. 



No discretion is vested in the judge, 

 further than that of saying when the evi- 

 dence is sufficient to prove the existence of 

 the cause for which a divorce is asked. At 

 one time Indiana had such a statute, but it 

 was repealed many years ago. Mr. Stewart 

 having thus (inadvertently, I presume) li- 

 beled our State, should make the " amende 

 honorable" through the columns of the 

 " Monthly," and will doubtless take pleas- 

 ure in doing so when his attention is called 

 to the matter. R. W. McBride. 



Waterloo, Indiana, June 20, 1883. 



EDITOR'S TABLE. 



THE DEAD-LANGUAGE SUPERSTITION. 



THE celebrated defense of classical 

 studies in college education deliv- 

 ered at the University of St. Andrew's, 

 some fifteen years ago, by John Stuart 

 Mill, produced a very powerful effect 

 upon the public mind, and was thought 

 by many to end all discussion upon the 

 question. Mr. Mill had a great repu- 



tation, which was at that time at its 

 full height. He was a man of extensive 

 erudition, and fine mental accomplish- 

 ments, and was, moreover, a radical re- 

 former, and ranked high as a representa- 

 tive of modern ideas. Not being him- 

 self a university man, and standing as 

 a leading liberal, it was naturally sup- 

 posed that he would take the modern 



