THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



had to forego the pleasure of attending. 

 But we did not get left. Saratoga is 

 slumbering but not dead. 



Some of the springs reminded us of 

 the analytical laboratory. The water 

 smelled of Hydrogen Sulfide and tasted 

 of it. But the beautiful village park 

 condoned for the odor of its springs. 

 The Fountain of Youth, Lover's Lane, 

 the Casino and the Pergola present pic- 

 tures not easily forgotten, especially 

 when you have kodaked them. 



Dr. Rehfus was a splendid presiding 

 ofificer. Business was disposed of with 

 dispatch and the sessions, without ex- 

 ception, were interesting. When will 

 another meeting be held at Saratoga? 

 We'll come again. 



PERSONALS. 



Guy yi. Smith, one of Sharp & 

 Dohme's most popular Ohio representa- 

 tives, was recently married to Miss Lela 

 Moling of Columbus, Ohio. On their 

 bridal tour they spent several days at 

 the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Her- 

 man, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



J. Byrne Severs and family recently 

 occupied their new home at Cloverport, 

 Ky. Mr. Severs represents Sharp & 

 Dohme in Western Kentucky. 



WANTED 



Analytical balance. 



Muffle furnace. 



Drying Oven, 



Polariscope, 

 or any apparatus used in Food 

 and Drug Laboratory. 



Write, stating full particulars. 



Dr. SIDNEY IMAY, 



2 10 West 143d Street, N. Y. City 



THE MEDICAL SECTS. 



Alvin E. Kuhlmann, Ph.C, M. D„ 

 Pathologist to the Babies' Hospital. 



The intelligent person directing his 

 thoughts into medical channels must of 

 necessity wonder why there should exist 

 in medicine the so-called sects or schools. 

 He reads of allopathy, homeopathy, ec- 

 lecticism, etc., and of the "wonderful 

 cures" brought about by this method of 

 treatment where that method has failed. 

 For what reason do these various thera- 

 peutic sects exist? Medicine is a sci- 

 ence, is it not? As such its principles 

 ought necessarily to be definite, clear cut 

 and incontrovertible. The existence of 

 the various "pathies." however, seems to 

 point in the opposite direction. 



Medical sectarianism does not exist 

 in the scientific world at the present time ! 

 The public at large is misinformed and 

 guided by the opinions of decades long 

 since gone by. Sectarianism in medicine 

 belongs to past ages and generations. It 

 exists only among laymen who are mis- 

 informed and among physicians below 

 the ordinary level of mental capacity who 

 accept in good faith teachings now 

 known to be obsolete. 



Among the medical sects I include only 

 allopathy, homeopathy and eclecticism, 

 for these and only these represent the 

 reputable of the medical sects. Osteo- 

 pathy, chiropractic and the like, I refuse 

 to dignify by classing them among the 

 true medical sects. Briefly stated they 

 are vicious, mercenary, criminal prac- 

 tices, participated in ignorantly by some 

 and intentionally by others. They belong 

 to the worst sort of quackery because of 

 their semi-professional aspect. Their 

 schools have no recjuirements, they have 

 no facilities for teaching medicine, and 



