Growing Membership

Following the reorganization of the Medical Fraternity as the Medical Society, the members used this volume to record changes in the by-laws. New members added their signatures upon admission to the society through 1881

Statistically, Massachusetts had 111 homeopathic practitioners in 1854, 193 in 1861, and an estimated 250 at the time of the annual address of the Homeopathic Medical Society's president in 1866. Only New York and Pennsylvania had higher number of practitioners at the time. In Boston itself, there were 16 practitioners in 1852, and 30 in 1861. By 1890, the Homeopathic Medical Society had 230 active members—both men and women—and had had nearly 400 over the course of its existence to that date.