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ton  for  his  kindness  evinced  daring  the  dis-'.issions,  and  thinking  D,-.  Stretch  for 
his  faithful  services  as  Secretary. 
Although  we  do  not  believe  that  the  questions  discussed  have  been  settled  to  the 
satisfaction  of  all  interested,  yet  we  do  believe  that  much  good  would  conie  trom  a 
more  frequent  intercourse  of  physicians  and  pharmacists.  It  need  not  be  grievances 
or  criminations  to  bring  them  together  j  there  are  so  many  scientific  and  practical 
points  on  which  the  members  of  one  profession  might  enlighten  the  other,  that  we 
feel  sure  such  meetings  might  also  be  made  interesting  to  the  attendants. 
A  Bogus  Medical  Institution, —On  pige  235  of  our  April  number  a  list  of  so- 
called  colleges  and  universities  has  been  published  whose  diplomas  have  been  issued 
for  a  money  consideration,  and  without  requiring  the  tedious  course  of  acquiring 
knowledge  through  systematic  instruction.  To  this  list  must  now  be  added  the 
"  Washington  Medical  Institute,"  incorporated  under  an  act  of  Congress  passed  in 
1870,  which  provides  that  any  three  or  more  persons  of  full  age,  citizens  of  the 
United  States,  a  majority  of  whom  shall  be  citizens  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  who 
desire  to  associate  themselves  for  benevolent,  charitable,  educational,  literary,  musi- 
cal, scientific,  religious  or  missionary  purposes,  may  make,  sign  and  acknowledge 
before  any  officer  authorized  to  take  acknowledgement  of  deeds  in  the  District,  and 
file  in  the  office  of  the  Recorder  of  Deeds  a  certificate  setting  forth  the  objects  for 
which  the  society  is  formed,  and  the  name  or  title  by  which  such  society  shall  be 
known  in  law,  as  well  as  the  particular  business  it  purposes  to  transact.  Upon  filing 
their  certificate,  the  persons  shall  be  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  and  they  and 
their  successors  may  have  and  use  a  common  seal,  and  may  alter  and  change  the 
same  at  pleasure,  and  may  make  by-laws  and  elect  officers  and  agents. 
The  New  York  "Herald"  of  October  23d  gives  a  history  of  the  concern  referred 
to,  which  commenced  with  the  filing,  at  the  City  Hall,  Washington,  D.C.,  on  Nov. 
16,  1874,  of  the  following  articles  of  incorporation,  duly  acknowledged  on  the  day 
mentioned  before  Chas.  Con.  Callan,  Notary  Public.  The  document  is  worded  as 
follows  : 
Be  it  known  that  under  and  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  Section  3  of  an  act  of 
Congress  approved  Mav  5,  1870,  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  creation  of 
corporations  in  the  District  of  Columbia  by  general  law,"  the  undersigned  citizens 
of  the  United  States  have  constituted  themselves  a  body  corporate  under  the  name 
and  title  of  "The  Washington  Medical  Institute  of  the  District  of  Columbia," 
whose  object  and  purpose  is  to  provide  the  public  protection  against  medical  charla- 
tanry in  every  form  5  to  disseminate  knowledge  throughout  the  United  States  by  a 
series  of  lectures,  both  public  and  private,  and  to  provide  for  the  treatment  of  all 
diseases.  The  trustees,  to  whom  shall  be  confided  the  inanagement  of  the  affairs 
of  said  institute,  shall  be  four  in  number,  and  shall  consist  of  John  E.  Smith,  M.D.5 
Seldon  W.  Crow,  M.D.5  Oscar  C.  Stout,  M.D.,  and  B.  Brown  Williams,  M.D., 
from  whom  the  officers  of  such  institute  shall  be  elected  for  the  first  year  ot  the 
existence  of  said  institute. 
John  E.  Smith,  M.D., 
Seldon  W.  Crow,  M.D., 
Oscar  C.  Stout,  M.D., 
B,  B.  Williams,  M.D.,  et  al. 
It  will  be  observed  that  no  authority  is  claimed  for  conferring  degrees,  nor  could 
