strange that for a period of several years (1850–1875) homoeopathy flourished in New York. In all fairness, therefore, it may be said that the great improvement in the manner of administering drugs which took place, both here and in European countries, during the period from 1860 to 1880, may be attributed indirectly to the influence of the new sect. Hahnemann died in Paris in 1843, at the age of eighty-eight. * * * * * [Illustration: HUFELAND (From Eugen Hollaender’s “_Medizin und Plastik_,” by permission.) ] CHRISTOPH WILHELM HUFELAND, who was born in 1762, at Langensalza, in the district of Thuringia, Central Germany, founded, about the year 1795, a medical journal that bore the title, “_Hufeland’s Journal der Practischen Heilkunde_,”—the first German medical journal that was devoted largely to matters of interest to the practitioner. It was published regularly every month and was in almost every respect similar to the best medical journals of the present day. It was kept in active circulation up to the time of the founder’s death in 1836, and was highly appreciated by physicians generally. Hufeland’s reputation, however, rested less upon this journal, notwithstanding its great popularity, than it did upon his famous treatise entitled “The Art of Prolonging Life” (_Makrobiotik_). This book, which has been translated into every modern language, and which during the past century and a half has never had a rival in the field of which it treats, continues to-day to furnish entertaining reading to hundreds of men and women, laymen as well as physicians, who desire to learn the well-established facts regarding human longevity. Farther on, I will furnish a few extracts from both of these publications, thus enabling those of my readers who have not yet had an opportunity to become acquainted with Hufeland’s writings or with his work as a journalist, to learn something more definite about the man. So far as I am able to ascertain, Hufeland’s only other important activities were those connected with the positions which he held in the Universities of Jena (1793–1798) and Berlin (1798–1835). In the former institution, he held the Chair of Medicine; in the latter he held the same chair, but he was also acknowledged to be the guiding spirit in all matters relating to the organization and management of that important centre of medical education. Among the items of special interest in Hufeland’s “_Makrobiotik_,” I find the following:—