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honored and honorable title of Doctors in Medicine? Let this once be 

 unfait accompli, and we may rest assured that the good sense and mutual 

 interests of the two great schools will speedily draw them together, in 

 a process of mutual absorption, which will give a new impetus to the 

 growth of medical science, and contribute immeasurably to a more suc- 

 cessful, because more rational, treatment of disease. 



The New York State Medical Society, representing the head and 

 front of the profession in this country, has recently taken an ini- 

 tiatory step in this direction, by striking out and changing certain 

 clauses of its ethical code which prohibited consultation with duly 

 qualified homoeopathic practitioners. Despite the unfortunate ac- 

 tion of the American Association, in setting the stamp of their use- 

 less disapprobation upon this timely step, a thinking public must needs 

 declare itself in approval of the New York Society. It has but con- 

 stituted itself the vanguard of a movement which will soon be fol- 

 lowed by all liberal men in the profession, and must ere long sweep 

 away those petty obstacles to the progress of medicine, which, causing 

 the disunion of its disciples, have limited its usefulness, weakened its 

 experimental conclusions, and brought upon it the popular reproach of 

 disagreement. 



Many, it may be, of the older generation of physicians minds 

 which have crystallized unchangeably to the form of early ideas 

 must " pass away before these things are fulfilled," but they who are 

 stepping forward to take their places in the great struggle with dis- 

 ease and death, will have their hands strengthened by a more conscious 

 unity of work and purpose with their fellows, to which the profession 

 of medicine has long been a stranger. 



The principal barrier, let me repeat, to the attainment of this de- 

 sired end lies, not within professional lines, but in the existence of this 

 unfortunate prejudice among the people. "When patients demand to 

 be assured that a medical practitioner is not an " allopath " or a 

 " homoeopath," but a reputable and well-educated physician, then will 

 the folly of " exclusivism " be made manifest, not alone to the mind, 

 but to the pocket of the profession ; and then will Medicine, unembar- 

 rassed by the strife of schools, rise to her possible place as a successful 

 and a more exact science. 



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BKAIN-POWER IN EDUCATION. 



WE are supposed to live in an age when brute-force has ceased to 

 rule, and when brain-power alone is the governing agent. In 

 the good old days, the heavy, strong-armed knight, protected by his 

 impenetrable armor, and skilled in the use of his sword, was almost 

 invincible. A little nearer our own day, the skilled swordsman or 



