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more. Maryland, who was a personal student of Hahnemann, and an 

 inmate of his family for ten years. When Dr. ITaynel returned to 

 Germany in 1868, he presented the medallion to Dr. Henry N. Guern- 

 sey of Philadelphia, the father of the donor, who was a co-worker 

 with him in the pioneer field of homeopathy. Four photographs of 

 pathological specimens resulting from the action of small doses of 

 homeopathic dilutions given to healthy animals were contributed by 

 Dr. W. Franklin Baker of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a result 

 of the cooperation of Doctor Dewey, the Museum is indebted to the 

 following persons for books relating to the subject of homeopathy : 



Dr. Dudley A. Williams. Providence, Ehode Island, ten volumes 

 of Allen's Encyclopedia of Homeopathic Materia Medica, with 

 Symptom Register, and a copy of Hahnemann's Lesser Writings: 

 Dr. E. P. Guthbert, Titusville. Pennsylvania, nine volumes of the 

 Transactions of the American Enstitute of Homeopathy: Dr. Lynn 

 A. Martin, Binghamton, New York, Transactions of the First and 

 Second Sessions of the American Institute of Homeopathy, L844- 

 1845; The American Institute of Homeopathy, Chicago. Illinois, 

 volumes one and two of its transactions for the year 1876: Dr. Martha 

 Isabel Boger, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a copy of Allen's Materia 

 Medica of the Xosodes; and Mr. Carl Hering, Philadelphia. Penn- 

 sylvania, a bound typewritten copy of the " Chronology of the Life 

 of Constantine Hering, the Father of Homeopathy in America," and 

 a reprint of part of the same from the Transactions of the Interna- 

 tional Hahnemannian Association. 



The division of medicine in continuing its efforts to obtain mate- 

 rial to illustrate the history and principles of Osteopathy, received by 

 contribution from Dr. George A. Still, Director of the American 

 School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, 77 books and pamphlets, 

 and 114 photographs relating to the subject. 



Dr. Murray Gait Hotter, Librarian of the Hygienic Laboratory, 

 Washington City, and for many years Secretary of the Revision 

 Committee of the U. S. Pharmacopoeial Convention or of its Board 

 of Trustees, contributed : 2T publications bearing on the history of 

 the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. Among these is a copy of the Edinburgh 

 Pharmacopoeia of 177G. and the Pharmacopoeia of the Massachu- 

 setts Medical Society, dated 1808, which books were the precursors 

 of the first official pharmacopoeia of the United States, which was 

 published in Boston, December 15, 1820, and which has been revised 

 every ten years since that time. 



The United States Pharmacopoeia occupies a unique place among 

 other books of similar character, in that while it is not published 

 official^ b}- the United States Government, it is nevertheless an 

 official publication. It has been declared the standard in the enforce- 

 ment of our national food and drug law, and is so recognized in 



