Honorary Member.

Dr. H. M. Paine.

Albany

Members.

New York.

Drs. Asa Hall................... Poughkeepsie...... Dutchess county.

The annual meeting of the Society, for the election of officers, is held in the city of Poughkeepsie, on the first Tuesday in October. A semi-annual meeting is held on the first Tuesday in April. Adjourned monthly meetings are held from time to time.

ARTICLE XXXII.

Report of the Dutchess County Homœopathic Medical Society, comprising:
A. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, held October 1, 1867.

B. Proceedings of an Extra Meeting, held February 4, 1868.
C. Proceedings of the Semi-Annual Meeting, held April 7, 1868.
By JOHN HORNBY, M. D., Secretary.

́ A.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING.

The ninth annual meeting of the Society was held at the house of the Secretary, October 1, 1867.

The following members were present: Drs. A. Hall, W. Case, L. Hubbard, D. W. Vanderburg and J. Hornby.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

Drs. I. S. P. Lord and H. N. Avery, of Poughkeepsie, were elected members of the Society.

The report of the Secretary was read and adopted.

The report of Dr. Hornby, committee on printing the constitution and by-laws of the Society, was accepted and adopted.

The report of Dr. Hornby, delegate to the American Institute of Homœopathy, was received and adopted.

The Secretary read a communication from Dr. Vanderburg, the

venerable President of the Society, resigning his post, and expressing his interest in the continued and increasing prosperity of the Society. The communication was respectfully listened to, and accepted, with expressions of regard for the doctor, on the part of the members present.

A committee was appointed to prepare and publish two forms of fee-bills: one for the use of members residing in the city of Poughkeepsie, and one for the use of members residing in other parts of the county; said bill to be printed in a form suitable for distribution, and to receive the signatures of all the physicians who may assent to its provisions. The committee consisted of Drs. Lord and Hornby, for the city, and Drs. D. W. Vanderburg, B. Lansing and W. Case, for the county.

The meeting then adjourned to the first Tuesday in April, 1868.

B.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE EXTRA MEETING.

At the written request of Drs. Hall, Hubbard and Avery, an extra meeting of the Society was held February 4, 1868, for the purpose of appointing a substitute in place of Dr. F. C. Vanderburg, to represent the Society at the next annual meeting of the State Society; also, to take action with regard to the death of two of its members, viz.: Dr. M. J. Whiton, of Fishkill Village, and Dr. F. C. Vanderburg, of Rhinebeck.

The following members were present: Drs. Lord, Hornby, Avery, Hubbard and Hall.

On motion, it was resolved to appoint Dr. Levi Hubbard, of Poughkeepsie, a substitute in place of Dr. Vanderburg, deceased, to represent this Society at the next annual meeting of the State Society.

It was resolved to appoint Drs. Hornby and Merritt a committee to draft resolutions having reference to the decease of Drs. M. J. Whiton and F. C. Vanderburg, and to prepare biographical notices for presentation at the next meeting of the Society.

It was resolved that this Society approve the appointment of Medical Examiners, as contemplated by the Constitutional Convention of this State.

Resolved, That the advertisement of a "Homœopathic Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York City," as published in the New York Tribune of January 23, 1868, be copied into a Pough

keepsie newspaper, the Eagle, and the expense be defrayed by this Society.

The meeting then adjourned to the first Tuesday in April, 1868.

C.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING.

The Society met, pursuant to adjournment, at the residence of the Secretary, April 7, 1868.

The roll being called, the following members answered to their names Drs. Hall, Hornby, Hubbard, Lord and Avery.

The report of the annual meeting was read and adopted.
The report of the extra meeting was read and adopted.

Dr. Hornby, committee on surgery, read his report, which was accepted.

The report of the Secretary and Treasurer was read and accepted, and a resolution adopted, authorizing the Treasurer of this Society to pay to the Treasurer of the State Society the amount of taxes due the State Association for the present year.

The report of the delegate to the State Society was read and approved.

The Secretary was instructed to write obituary notices of Dr. Vanderburg and Merritt, deceased.

The members present then organized an association for improvement in medical science; meetings to be held monthly, in the city of Poughkeepsie.

After the discussion of various professional subjects, the meeting adjourned to the second Tuesday in October, 1868.

ARTICLE XXXIII.

Clinical Report. By JOHN HORNBY, M. D., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

I.

Epididymitis.-Patient: a physician of sanguine nervous temperament and middle age. Symptoms: engorgement of the vasa efferentia of left testicle, which was pendulous, and of two years' standing; with shooting pains into the inguinal region from the diseased testis.

Various remedies had been previously taken, and applications made without relief.

Spongia tosta in the 200th potency, of Lehrmann's preparation, taken in six globules for a dose, at intervals of five days, effected a cure in one month, which remained permanent.

II.

Scirrhus of the Epididymis.-Patient: a farmer of bilious temperament, and middle age, with trachial phthisis. The epididymis of the left testicle enlarged to the size of a hen's egg; hard, smooth and elastic to the touch; duration two years, with slight shooting pains, occasionally, into the groin of the affected side.

Spongia tosta in the 200th potency of Lehrmann, effected resolution, and causing a discharging of thin sanious yellow matter, for two months, when the swelling disappeared. The cure remained permanent. The patient died of consumption six months later.

III.

Balanitis.-Symptoms: free discharge of yellow thin pus secreted under the prepuce of the male, and within the vulva of the female organs of generation.

Thuja occidentalis, in the 30th dilution, and acid-nitric in the 3d, effected successful cures; which, followed by sulphur of the 30th, became permanent.

IV.

Venereal Excrescences.-Symptoms: cauliflower growths, barely discernible to the naked eye, but appearing through the magnifyer as a thickly clustered circle around the corona glandis of the penis, with copious secretion of stinking, offensive fluid.

Thuja occidentalis of the 1000th potency of Jenichen's preparation, repeated twice, at intervals of six weeks, effected a cure which remained permanent. Low potencies of the same medicine, had been taken internally, and the tincture applied externally, with the addition of lunar caustic, and had failed to give any relief.

V.

Syphilitic Ophthalmia.-Patient a physician of nervous bilious temperament, and middle age. He had produced ophthalmia of both eyes, by carelessly handling them after instrumentally treating a case of stricture of the urethra supervening on gonorrhoea.

Symptoms Inflammation of the conjunctiva, with pain, lachrymation and photophobia.

Mercurius vivus in the 6th dilution effected a speedy and per

manent cure.

VI.

Bubo.-Patient a seaman in U. S. Navy, of nervous bilious temperament, and 21 years of age.

Symptoms: Bubo in the left groin, following a chancre on the penis, treated while in the service a few months previous.

Mercurius vivus, 6th centesimal dilution, six globules night and morning, cured him in a week, without recurrence of symptoms. VII.

Gonitis.-Patient a young man of sanguineo-nervous temperament, 25 years of age.

Symptoms inflammation of cellular tissue of left knee, which was swollen, hard and inflexible, of eight months' duration—all which time was spent in ineffectual allopathic treatment.

Characteristic symptoms: Pain in the joint, ameliorated by warmth, aggravated by cold or cold applications; cured in two months with rhus tox., 2000th Jenichen's, alternated with the same remedy in the 12th centesimal dilution, taken at intervals of a fortnight.

The cure remains permanent to the present time, now eighteen months.

ARTICLE XXXIV.

Syphilis and Gonorrhoea. By JoHN HORNBY, M. D., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

These diseases have, from their importance, attracted the attention of the governments of Europe, as they have also elicited the research of the ablest minds in the medical profession of all civilized countries.

The British government appointed, some time ago, a committee to inquire into the subject, with a view to diminish the effects of syphilis and gonorrhœa in the army and navy. The report of the committee is published in the British Medical Journal, for June, 1867, of which the following is an abstract :* "The committee affirm: That there is a syphilitic virus, and that syphilis is a disease as specific as small-pox.

"As to the origin of syphilis, several witnesses, and a portion of the committee, concurred in the belief that syphilis, under favorable circumstances, may be generated spontaneously. That syphilis was introduced into Europe during the latter end of the fifteenth century, is an opinion entertained by few.

"Of several sores, they describe two species-the syphilitic and

Half yearly Compendium of Medical Science, 1868, part I, page 100.