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and, the Association will form a most valuable, and influential medium 

 by whicb the professional world may be reached. And, who can tell 

 but the absence of such a medium of communication, may have, already, 

 doomed many a medical flower ' to blush unseen, and waste Ms sweet- 

 ness on the fore&t air T At all events, the establishment of the Asso- 

 ciation will place more surely within the reach of the studious physician, 

 the reward always due to ability and learning." 



It will be somewhat curious to note the action of the Association, at 

 its autumn meeting in this city, in view of the recent medical legisla- 

 tion of this Province. The Ontario Medical Act, passed during the 

 last session of the Legislature, entitled " An Act to amend and con- 

 solidate the Acts relating to the profession of Medicine and Surgery," 

 creates a Council, composed of one representative, from each of six col- 

 leges named, and twelve distiict or territorial representatives, elected 

 by popular vote of the registered practitioners, and additional members, 

 as provided by clause or sub-section two of section eight, as follows : 

 ''There shall also belong to the said Council five members, to be elected 

 by the duly licensed practitioners in Homoeopathy, who have been 

 registered under this Act ; and five members to be elected by the duly 

 licensed practitioners in the Eclectic system of medicine, who have 

 been registered under this Act." The Act also incorporates the medi- 

 cal profession, under the name and style of " The College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons of Ontario," and, to become registered under the Act, 

 makes the person so registered, — be he Allopath, Homoeopath or Eclec- 

 tic, — a full-fledged member, without distinction of any kind whatever, 

 of this College of Physicians and Surgeons. I am not aware whether 

 the " College " has yet selected its motto, but, in discussing the matter 

 a day or two ago with two young friends, one suggested as au appro- 

 priate motto the three graces, "Faith, Hope, and Charity;" "for," 

 said he, " the old school is the only element in the College fitted to 

 inspire the former, while the other two need the most unbounded 

 exercise of the latter." " No," said the other, in great indignation, 

 " I would give the College this motto, ' Dignity, ImpudencCf and Pre- 

 sumption' and I would call its members Spotted Dicks." 



It seems that, according to the rules of the Canadian Association, 

 neither Homoeopathy nor Eclecticism receive recognition, and cannot, 

 therefore, be admitted to membership. But suppose a Homoeopath 

 applies, as a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 

 Ontario, — what then ? On this point, in an article of the writer's to 



