ORGANIZE—UNITE—CENTRALIZE.

The medical profession yet remains palpably negligent of its splendid opportunities and seemingly careless of its grave, indeed urgent, responsibilities to civilization, in its sloth in mustering its units into a coherent corps which will possess that power and command that respect to which it is entitled by its lofty aims and self-sacrificing labor. There are too many counties in the Union that yet have no medical societies; in too many of the states the organizations, if they exist, are lacking in virility. United in a firmly correlated and closely conjoined series of associations, our profession can imperatively demand those well-recognized reforms that will inure to the benefit of the nation, which now, on bended knee, we but faintly suggest to the law-making powers of both large and small communities. A blind man may see that in the coming century individualism will have small place in the great undertakings of