Nor is the foregoing all that we can offer in the way of a preliminary announcement. Those who have read after Dr. Felter comprehend the fact that in the line of therapy, especially that connected with materia medica, his writings are exceptionally comprehensive. This is shown in the great American Dispensatory, in the pages of the current Eclectic journals, in the society prints to which he has continuously contributed, and in the pages of the GLEANER, as well as in his college lectures. All of this is well understood, but it is not so well known that, in addition to the exacting work that Dr. Felter has accomplished as a writer and lecturer, he has an enviable professional record, his practice demanding every possible moment of his time. All of this has worked together to make him an authority in the direction of practical and clinical therapy. To retain his familiarity with journalistic literature and connected publications, and to keep in touch with the present readers and writers in various lines, whilst at the same time devoting himself to the study of "The American Herbalists," he has accepted, upon request of the publishers, the responsibility of editorship of the Eclectic Medical Journal. But, as has been said, details in all these directions will be announced later.

Dr. Felter now fills the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Medical History in the Eclectic Medical College. In 1909 he delivered the first regular course of lectures upon the history of medicine ever given in Cincinnati.

This writer feels that the GLEANER of the Lloyd Library should, in the closing number of its present form, carry a biography as well as the portrait of its talented editor, Dr. Felter. In this every reader of the GLEANER will surely agree, whether personally acquainted with Dr. Felter or knowing him only through his writings. Therefore, without his knowledge, we present the frontispiece portrait, taken from Lloyd Library Bulletin No. 19, together with the following brief biographical sketch, written by this writer for the "History of the Eclectic Medical Institute," 1902:

Harvey Wickes Felter, M. D., was born at Rensselaerville, Albany County, N. Y., June 15, 1865, a son of Andrew Jay and Elizabeth (Nichols) Felter. His ancestry on the paternal side was of French and Dutch descent, tracing his genealogy back to the French Huguenots, who took refuge in Holland to escape the persecutions of Catherine de' Medici and her Catholic adherents. Beyond this the family

may be traced back to its origin in the fertile plains of Languedoc. His maternal ancestors were of English extraction. The paternal ancestors, at an early date, emigrated to America, and settled in the valley of the Hudson, and were among the founders of the village of Saugerties, N. Y. His mother dying when he was but eight years old, Dr. Felter met with varying fortunes. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Troy, Lansingburg, and Green Island, and in the Groveside district school at Pittstown, N. Y. When seventeen, he obtained a teacher's certificate, and taught school for three successive winters at Potter's Hill, East Pittstown, and Groveside district schools. During the balance of the year he labored at farming. Subsequently he attended the Lansingburg Academy at Lansingburg, N. Y. In 1883 he began the study of medicine and surgery under Dr. Alexander B. Willis, of Johnsonville, N. Y., an old school physician of prominence and liberal views. Looking with disfavor upon the Allopathic branch of the profession, as he saw its practice, he decided to adopt the Eclectic system of medicine, and, though bitterly opposed by friends who honestly believed the choice to be suicidal to professional preferment, he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute in 1886, and graduated June 5, 1888, at the head of a class of sixty. He then located in Troy, N. Y., for the practice of his profession. After about a year he returned to Cincinnati, where he has since resided and followed his calling. Dr. Felter was married, January 1, 1890, to Miss Martha Reyburn Caldwell, a collateral descendant of John Caldwell Calhoun and the Caldwells of the Carolinas. They have two children-Dorah Helen, and Lloyd King.

Dr. Felter has been secretary and president of the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Society, is a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association, and of the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association, of which he has been secretary, vice-president, and, in 1898, president, holding at Columbus, in 1899, one of the best meetings in the history of the society. He was formerly a member of the Albany (N. Y.) County Eclectic Medical Society, serving as secretary, and a member of the New York State Eclectic Medical Society. He was chosen Demonstrator of Anatomy, vice Dr. Eli McPheron, in April, 1891, and quiz master in chemistry in 1895. In addition to his other duties he was appointed demonstrator of chemistry in 1898. In 1897 he became adjunct professor of chemistry, delivering the lectures on chemistry and toxicology, while Professor Lloyd delivered the lectures on pharmacy. In 1892 the death of Professor Howe necessitated the appointment of Professor Bloyer to the chair of surgery, and Dr. Felter was appointed, temporarily, to the chair of anatomy, delivering the lectures for the term, as the season had just begun. This arrangement was but temporary, Professor E. Freeman being called to the chair of surgery, while Professor Bloyer resumed the chair of anatomy. In 1895 Dr. Felter collated and edited, with large additions, the lectures on Materia Medica delivered by Professor Locke before the classes, and published the work as "Locke's Syllabus of

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Eclectic Materia Medica." In 1900 he brought out a second edition, to which he added a number of articles. He is the joint author, with Professor John Uri Lloyd, of the two-volume revision of the "American Dispensatory," which was completed in the winter of 1898. At present he holds the positions of professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy, to which chair he was appointed in 1899, and adjunct professor of chemistry, pharmacy, and toxicology, delivering six lectures each week. He is the author of the historical and a portion of the biographical matter of this work, "The History of the Eclectic Medical Institute." Dr. Felter's favorite recreation studies are botany and general history, particularly medical history and biography. He has contributed regularly to the Eclectic Medical Journal, in original articles and as associate editor. He has also contributed regularly to the "Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery," particularly upon materia medica and specific medication. His papers on "Eclectic Medicines," running for several years in the Eclectic Medical Gleaner, attracted considerable attention in this country and abroad, and were widely copied in many pharmaceutical and medical periodicals.

EDITORIAL.

SAMUEL THOMSON.-In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the historic and esthetic city of Boston, entombed in the sacred soil of her famed Common, and close to the point where the subway traffic belches forth from the bowels of the earth, lies all that was mortal of Samuel Thomson. Self-taught philosopher and reformer in medicine, his life was no less turbulent than the street noise and the tremble of the earth that now enfolds his clay. As the writer stood at his unmarked grave, known to but few even in Boston, he could not but recall how great had been the services of that unlettered pioneer in the medical reformation that made possible the milder practice of to-day; and how little recognized have been his virtues, all because his methods conflicted with those generally prescribed and approved by "authority" in the medical circles of his day.

And now it has occurred to the writer that, in this closing issue. of the GLEANER, nothing could be more fitting than a parting tribute to that heroic personage, who has been justly styled the most picturesque character in the history of American medicine.

While Eclecticism is not nor ever was Thomsonianism, notwithstanding erroneous publication to that effect; and while no two political parties ever contended with each other more viciously