Medicine: Schools and Pathies

A fortnight ago the American Medical Association held its 74th annual convention at San Francisco. Last week the American Institute of Homeopathy held its 79th annual convention at Atlantic City, and the American Osteopathic Association foregathered for the 27th time at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York.

The presidential address before the homeopaths, by Dr. Claude A. Burrett, of Rochester, N. Y., contained the not original assertion that 20 years will be added to the average span of life in the next half century, and that the time is near when it will be...

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