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Homoeopathic Recorder

MONTHLY.

VOLUME XIV.

1899.

PUBLISHED BY
BOERICKE & TAFEL,

APR 12 1901

INDEX TO VOL. XIV.

A Dream of Paradise, 121.

A Few Minutes with the Editors,

312.
A New Book About Babies, 546.
A Prophetic Voice from the Past, 16.
A Tribute to Great Men, 163.
Achillea, 431.
Aconite, 434, 494, 536.
Aconite, Studies in. 536.
After "Country Doctor." 115.
Albuminuria, acute, 415.
Amblyopia, Does Tobacco Cause,

419.
American Institute of Homoeopathy,

168, 234, 2S3, 285. 395.
Amputation, Escaping an, 399.
An Alkaloidal Man, 523.
Angina Pectoris, 175.
Ann Arbor Hospital, 380.
Another Knight in the List, 293.
Antitoxin, 43, 95, 140, 316, 460, 465.
Appendicitis, 459, 460.
Appendicitis, Chronic, Treated with

Mercurius, 84.
Apocynum Can., 79.
Arnica, Causing Symptoms of a

Bruise, 38, 81.
Asclepias Tub., 173, 419.
Asiatic Cholera, 368.
Aurum, Startling Cure with, 323.

Bacteriology, 523.

Baptisia, 238.

Baptism Disease, 420.

Beef Tea, Toxic Properties of, 370.

Belladonna in Certain Tuberculous

Ulcers, 401.
Bicycle and Electricity, 315.
Bladder, Haemorrhage, 369.
Bleeding from Nose, 11.
Blindness Averted by the Indicated

Remedy, 510.

Boils Echinacea, 416.

Bovine Tuberculosis, 194.

Broadening Out, 1, 49.

Bryonia as a Woman's Remedy, 410.

Calcarea Carb. in Skin Diseases, 130.
Cancer, 213.

Cancer, Arsenical Caustic Treat-
ment, 266.
Carbolic Acid in Pneumonia, 124.
Carbuncle, 369.
Ceanothus, 431.
Chicago Materia Medica Society,

533-
Child, the Sick, 405.
Chiuinum Ars., Proving, 267.
Chlorosis, 289.

Christian Science, 382, 473, 517.
" Chronic Diseases," 258.
Cineraria Martima, 374.
Cocaine, Magnau's Sympton, 68.
Coccus Cacti, 454.
Colchicum in Typhoid, 214.
Compulsory Notification, 380.
Constipation, Indications for, 173.
Convallaria Majalis, 487.
Crataegus Oryacantha, 87, 496.
Cuphea vis., in Cholera Infantum,

417.

Dermatology, Some New Remedies

in, 255, 297, 359.
Diagnosis, Slippery Places in, 482.
Diphtheria, Lycopodium, Lachesis,

237-
Diphtheria, Merc. Cyn., 408.
Distilled Water, 390.
Dropsy, 509.
Dulcamara, 264.
Duty of a Homoeopathic Physician,

62.
Dysentery in India, 119.

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IV

INDEX.

Ear Remedies, 211.
Echinacea, 87, 337, 385, 387, 416.
Echinacea, Proving, 337, 386.
Eczema (oleander), 13.
Elements of Materia Medica, 454.
Epilepsy, CEnanthe coc, 542.
Eye Glasses, 459.

Ferrum Phos. and Kali Mar., Clini-
cal, 551.

Ferrum Phos. in Supra Orbital Neu-
ralgia. 37.

Fraudulent Pharmacists, 25.

Fraxinus Americanus, 174, 442.

Gelsemium, 4S1.

Ginseng, 142.

Glycerinized Lymph., 478, 521.

Goitre, Iodine in, 74.

Grippe Remedy, The Epidemic, 33.

Gynecology, Natural Aids in, 242.

Hsemaptysis, 413.

Haemorrhage, Bladder, 369.

Haemorrhage, Post-partem, 11.

Half Tone Habit, 1S8.

Hamamelis, 132.

Havana, A Letter from, 21.

Hay Fever, 465.

Hay Fever, Pseudo, 458.

Headache, A Frenchman's, 11.

Hiccough Gargling, for, 419.

Higher Science, it is, 19.

Homoeopathic "Trust," 92, 142, 239.

Homoeopathy, as she is (Sometimes),
Practiced, 130.

Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Ger-
many, 22.

Homoeopathic Remedies in Tubercu-
losis, 160.

Homoeopathy, How to Become Fa-
miliar with, 38.

" House Cleaning," 417.

" Husa," 207.

Hydrastis Can., Poisoning, 409.

Hydrocele, 178.

Hypertrophy of the Prostate Gland,
509.

"Improved" Horn. Remedies, 382.
In the Zodiacal Sign of Influenza,

327.

"Improved Tinctures," 73.

Intermittent Fever, Horn. Treat-
ment of, 247, 301.

International Horn. Congress, 1900,
no, 397.

Iodine in Goitre, 74.

Kali Mur., 551.
Kali Phos., 461.
Koch on Malaria, 82, 479.

L'Omipatia in Italy, 227.

Larynx, Inflammation of and Bron-
chia from, Arsenic, 85.

Leaders in Therapeutics, 209,

Letter from an Old Time Homoeo-
path, 493.

Leucorrhoea, 59.

Lilium tigrinurn, 531.

Little Pills, 473.

Lupus, 212, 508.

Lycopodium, 203, 463.

Lycopus, 430.

Magnau's Symptom, Cocaine, 68.

Malandrinum, 529.

Malaria Officinalis, 442.

Mania, 12.

Maryland's Homoeopathic History,

353-
Medical Examining Boards in the

Klondike, 333.
Melilotus, 10, 430.
Men Who Know Things, 44.
Meningitis, Spinal, 403.
; Mercurius Vivus, Black Triturations

of, 379. 525.

Merely a Statement of Facts, 113.

Monument Fund, Ladies' Associa-
tion, in.

Mullein Oil, 174, 314.

Myristica Sebifera, 263.

N. Y. State Transactions, 1898, 456.
Narcissus, 193.

Natrutn Muriaticum as a Remedy
for Women, 499.

INDEX.

Nepeta Cataria, 129.
Nericum Oleander, 12.
Nervous Dyspepsia, 461, 464.
Neuralgia, Ferruin Phos., 37.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Abbott Bacteriology, 231.
Abbott. Hygiene, Transmissible

Diseases, 422.
Allen. Keynotes, 39.
Anders. Practice, 568.
Arndt. Practice, 181.

Baruch. Homoeopathy and Anti-
toxin, 279.
Bishop. Ear, Nose, and Tnroat,

329-
Black. Viscum Album, 278.
Boericke & Dewey. Twelve

Tissue Remedies, 274.
Bradford. Logic of Figures,

5i4.
Butler. Materia Medica Thera-
peutics and Pharmacology,
568.

Church. Nervous and Mental

Diseases, 182.
Clarke. Catarrh, Colds and j

Grippe, 515.
CoblenTz. New Remedies, 330.

Deschweinitz. Diseases of the
Eye, 135.

Deschweinitz. Text-Book of
Diseases of the Eye, 136.

Dewey. Essentials of Homoeo-
pathic Materia Medica, 374.

Directory. British and Colon-
ial, 90.

Donders. Refraction, 18*.

Grafstrom. Mechanico - Ther-
apy, 90.
Grandin. Obstetrics. 329.
Griffith. Care of the Baby, 230.

Haab. External Diseases of Ear.

231.
Halphide. Mind and Body, 422.
Hansen. Rare Remedies, 182.
Hawkes Characteristics, 136.
Heath. Vaccination, 91.
Heysinger. Solar Energy, 88.
Hughes. Repertory Cyclopaedia,

230.

Jones. Bee-Line Therapia, 566.

Kent. Repertory, 274.
Kyle. Nose and Throat, 422.

Lydston. Surgical Diseases Gen-
ito Urinary Tract, 568.

Maecoem and Moss. Supple-
ment, 375.

Morgan. Repertory of Urinary
Organs, 514.

Morris. Essentials of Materia
Medica, 90.

Mracek. Atlas Skin Diseases,
277.

Nash. Leaders, 134, 184.

Park. History of Medicine, 278.
Phelps. Loveliness, 569.
Powell. Medical Formulary, 91 .
Pryor. Treatment Pelvic Inflam-
mation, 423.

Raue. Diseases of Children, 466,

Dorland. Medical Dictionary,

546.

423-

Rockwood. Physiological Chem-

istry, 516.

Edinger. Anatomy, Nervous

System, 280.

Stelwagon. Diseases of Skin,

567.

Gatchell, Practice, 515.

Storey. Materia Medica for

Gould. Year-Book, 91.

Nurses, 231.

VI

INDEX,

3,000 Questions, 136.

Vecki. Sexual Impotance, 182.

Warren. International Text-
Book of Surgery, 515.
Wolf. Medical Chemistry, 576.

Obituary, Boens Hubert, 75.
Obituary, Cleckley, Harvey Milton.

427.
Obituary, Hale, Edwin M., 78.
Obituary, Hayne, Temple S., 109.
Obituary, Talbot, I. Tisdale, 380.
Obituary, Williams, Thomas C, 520.
OEnanthe Crocata, 542.
Oleander, Nericum, 12, 172.
One Thing Lacking, 476.
Opium, 481.

Pamphlets, New Horn. Series, 518.

Paralysis Agitans, 180.

Passiflora Incarnata, 47, 172, 187,

429.
Pepsin Craze, 371.
Pharmaceopceia, the New, 18, 72,

73, 91, 117, 185, 363, 383.
Pharmacy, Horn, in England, 426.
Phaseolus Nana, 549.
Phthisis Pulmonalis, Tuberculin,

201.
Physostigma Heart, 448.
Phytolacca, Mental Symptoms, 14.
Pneumonia, Carbolic Acid, 124.
Power, Boards of Health Great, 461.
Primary Symptoms, 345.
Prostate Gland, Hypertrophy of,

509-

Prostatic Enlargement, Saw Pal-
metto, 127.

Pseudo Hay Fever, 458.

Pure Water a Poison, 372.

Pyrogen Case, A, 366.

Quarantine, Local, 522.
Quinsy, 456.

Rabies, Does it Exist, 392.
Rabies Does Exist, 455.

Rakings from an Old Note Book,

170.
Rational Medicine, 44.
Remedies Wanted, 167.

Saw Palmetto in Prostatic Enlarge-
ment, 127.

Scientist or Martyr? 43.

Sea Sickness, Homoeopathy, 83.

Secondary Symptoms, 118, 345.

"Serum" and Carbolic Acid, 523.

Several Errors, a Partial Eerror and
a Hit, 549.

Silicea, Success with, 505.

Small Pox, 521.

So Runs the World, 226.

Some Causes of Disease, 320.

Some Neglected Remedies, 561.

Southern Homoeopathic Medical As-
sociation. 310.

Spartium Scoparium, Proving, 216.

Spigelia. 177

Spinal Meningitis, 403.

Stability, 476.

Stellaria Media in Liver Diseases,
123.

Stigmata Maidis in Acute Albumin-
uria, 415.

Sulphur, What Able To Do, 169.

Suum Quique, 489.

Syphilis, House Epidemic of, 179.

Systemic Therapy, 145.

The World in Time Will Grow up

to it, 114.
Therapeutic Guides, 345.
There Is Good in All Fads, 550.
Tonsils, Enlargement of, 511.
Tonsillitis, 464.
Tri folium, 431.
Tuberculinurn, 201.
Tuberculous Ulcers, 401.
Tuberculosis, Horn. Remedies in,

160.
Tuberculosis, Prevention of Among

Cattle, 261.
Tuberculosis in Cattle, 472.
Typhoid, Colchicum, 214.

INDEX.

Vll

Urine, Constantly Bloody, 549.

Vaccinia, 412.

Vaccination, Ruta vs. Matthews,

367.
Vaccination, 461, 529.
Vespa Crabro, 95.
Vertigo, 176.

Veterinary, 34, 70, 72, 115, 485, 513.
Veterinary Homoeopath}- Should Be

Encouraged, 548.
Veterinary Practice, Country Doc_

tor, 70.

Veterinary Profession, Why it has

not Advanced, 34.
Vision, Strengthening the, 465.

Water a Poison, Pure, 272.
Water Supply of Small Cities, 97.
What Should Constitute an Official
Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia,

363-
Women, Diseases of, 58.
Woman's Remedy, Bryonia as a, 410.

Ye Cannot Serve Two Masters, 72.

THE

Homeopathic Recorder.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa, January, 1899. No. 1

BROADENING OUT.

A Paper for Physicians.

By I. W. Heysinger, M. A., M. D., author of "The Source and Mode
of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe;" "The Battle Against Pros-
perity;" "The Scientific Basis of Medicine;" "Marriage and Divorce,"
etc., etc.

Medical students come together from every walk of life; they
assemble by hundreds, and for four long years pursue with all
their energy lines of special study. The farmers' sons fresh
from the district schools, young school teachers, sons and
brothers of physicians in practice, college graduates, clerks in
stores, mechanics, professional men, young men of wealth and
leisure and those for whom life is a constant struggle, young
married men who feel the need of all earnestness in this new
field, and the young man about town to whom the study of
medicine comes more as a distraction than a life work, all these
classes, and many others, make up the bulk of the students in
our medical schools and colleges, and are destined in turn to
become the physicians and surgeons of the future, just as our
present practitioners have come forth in past years in the same
manner and from the same sources.

Varying in age from twenty to twenty-five or thirty years,
these four years of constant and assiduous application along a
single specialized line of research have been practical^ cut
right out of the most valuable section of these human lives,
while the broadening knowledge which would have come from
all sides during these eventful years is almost entirely shut
out; for the few allied branches of human study and knowledge
which go to make up directly the sum and substance of medical
teaching require a constantly fixed gaze and an incessant pur-

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suit to give the necessary mastery of those forms and forces which
are inextricably interwoven into the fabric of human life, disease
and death.

For these four years the sole and immediate work of life is to
forge and draw the metal, and rough- edge it for this single
purpose; the Damascus temper, the razor-edge, the deft hand,
and practical skill can only come afterwards, though the heat
and attrition of active practice, when responsibilities must be
met and faced alone, and confidence comes by victory and ex-
perience by defeat.

Take two young men growing up side by side; one, filled
with enthusiasm to become a physician, devotes, for four con-
secutive years, all his time, energy and application to this
glorious pursuit, the other follows the lines of liberal study and
reading and keeps up and extends his intercourse with his
fellow men, and with all the vast accumulations of human
knowledge available to the student. In the one case we will
have an all-around man, ready and alert to take part in every
paper or discussion on almost any subject, a practical man of
affairs, to whom the world and its multifarious scenes and
interests are familiar; in the other case, a young physician in
whom all these faculties and pursuits have largely been atro-
phied, so that his whole talk is "shop," or else of trifling matters
seen'out of their true perspective, and exaggerated by distor-
tion. For these reasons Professor Von Schwenninger (Bis-
marck's late physician) contended that the four years' medical
course was far too long, that it dwarfed the very faculties which
go most largely to make up the true physician and surgeon, and
that eighteen months of solid consecutive work were quite
sufficient to ensure a student's mastery, so far as could be done
by a student, of the whole medical and surgical field, thus
leaving the remaining two and a half years for culture, general
study, and acquaintance with the broader aspects of life, nature
and mind.

Years ago the medical course was only of two years; but then
the old preceptor figured, and a broader knowledge, for which
there was time, was looked for outside the medical curriculum.
The curriculum has, necessarily, been extended with the longer
course, but always along the specialized lines of medicine and
surgery.

It is doubtful whether the human element in the physician has

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been improved in these later days in proportion to the universal
average of advance in every other department of human knowl-
edge; it is almost certain that the influence of the physician, as
a factor of society, has relatively diminished. This is a distinct
loss to humanity, for in lieu of the broad-minded old doctors, the
leaders of thought and opinion, the repositories and oracles of
scientific knowledge in their communities, the dignified and dis-
tinguished professors of the " old regime," we now have a mul-
titude of younger physicians who seem to seek to hide them-
selves in the surging crowds of great cities, where individual
influence does not so much count; for it is a fact that in large
cities is to be found not only the best field for those who are
destined to transcendently excel, but also for those who else-
where would fail to reach success, because they would fail to
deserve it.

And yet the curriculum of a medical college faithfully fol-
lowed, and its teachings thoroughly acquired, constitutes un-
doubtedly the very best starting point for a liberal and scientific
education to be found in the whole world; the difficulties simply
are that the young physician who has forced his way through
the examinations, who has received his diploma, and passed the
state examining board, feels that his work is done and that he
has only to sit down, to wait in idleness or work his cards for
patients, and thus to receive his happy reward. Never was a
grosser mistake made, for patients will not come as they would
come otherwise, and, if they do come, sooner or later a better man
will enter the field beside him and all his laurels and successes
will fade away. Competition is too sharp and keen, the struggle
for success far too severe, to enable any one to rely for success on
any single line, when the good will of his fellow men constitutes
the prime factor of success.

You must stand well with these people, and in many ways
they are brighter and stronger than you are, Oh, doctor that you
are ! for while you were toiling in the depths of the mine, they
were out exulting and learning in the broad school of the world.
So if you would win success in any large way you must expand
now more rapidly than they have done; and right here comes in
the extreme value of the studies you have pursued, as a generatrix,
a starting point, a set of instruments with which to work.

Going into practice, the first years of a physician's life are
necessarily of waiting and expectancy. This enforced leisure,

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if properly understood and utilized, will become a veritable
Aladdin's cavern, in which all the walls will blaze with gold and
all the trees blossom with precious stones. And these treasures
will be the most real things of your whole life and will stand
yoti in good stead, not only during all the steps you may take
afterwards, onward and upward, but when all things of old
shall become new, and you lay down your sheaf of gathered
grain, rich and ripe with wealth and reputation.

You will be a power in the community and will be a far
better and more successful physician or surgeon, and your justly
won repute will extend far beyond the immediate circle of your
own busy life. And littleness, with its squabbles and quarrels,
its meannesses and petty jealousies, will disappear, and you will
achieve your full measure of manhood and professional life.

The lines you have followed for four years have seemed to
you like straight and broad highways, but instead of this they
are mere lateral by-roads, and if you follow these alone you will
fail to realize the significance of what you have learned, to grasp
the opportunities presented, or to avail yourselves of their ad-
vantages; you will have spent all your time in harvesting wind-
falls.

Anatomy leads at once to its main stem, which is Comparative
Anatomy. This, broadly pursued, is perhaps the richest of all
lines of study, and the most telling in its effects on after life.
To trace the structure of a man into an ape or the like is not com-
parative anatomy; these are the refuges of those smatterers who
do not know what comparative anatomy means. The true sci-
ence leads not only beyond this, but far aside from it. How
many sexes have the honeybee? what are the neuters, and
how did they become so ? such questions will indicate the scope
of this science, which at once opens the door to all biology. You
will be asked what animal ranks next to man in intellect, and
will probably try to lay it on the monkey-tribe, or, failing that,
on dogs and horses, or the classical example, the elephant.
But it will not work, and to find our next neighbor in the scale
of mind you must go back along the record of life far past the
primates, the mammalia, the vertebrates even, far, far back in
geological times, until you strike that line of deflection which
led up along the articulates to the ant, and here you will find the
second order now living in intellect, organization, and even in
civilization.

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When you learn the individualized architecture and economy
of their cities, and their diverse systems of administration, of
their rulers, their ranks and orders, and their systems of
government, that they keep milk-cows which they carry from
place to place and pasture and attend to them, that they plant
gardens and do regular and systematic farming on a large scale,
that they keep slaves, captured in embryo as the fruits of battle;
that they organize armies quite on our modern plans and make
war in regiments, brigades and divisions, each under their own
generals, and that their commanding officers even go to batte
mounted, that their mental actions are closely allied to and
comparable in extent and diversity with our own, and that it
has even been strongly suspected that they have the religious
faculty and worship] idols, all these things, and others still
more wonderful of these little creatures apparently, so enormously
far removed from us, will at once let in a flood of light on the
whole scheme of nature; and the field of vision will become at
once transfigured and illuminated. And how one discovery will
lead to another, until you will soon find that your hands are
filled with treasures new and startling and rich in golden
threads which lead away in all directions to still further
knowledge. When the spirit of Samuel arose from the dark-
ness the awe-struck listener cried, " I see gods! " We all may
see them, and walk with them hand in hand, and live in their
splendid light and eternal promise. For not one jot or tittle of
all you learn in this world will be lost or wasted; if it be of
goodness and breadth, it will start you well along in the eternal
path of your own individuality hereafter, and if it be of frivolity
and meanness, it will start your pathway lower and lower in
darkness and toil, for " as ye sow, so also shall ye reap."

As comparative anatomy is the main stem of human anatomy,
so is comparative physiology the main stem of our own physi-
ology, and with these two subjects you can unlock all the
mysteries of life and its evolution, and illuminate human
anatomy and physiology as well. The words "function and
structure" will acquire new *and unexpected meanings. You
will find that some forms of life, and not very low ones, can be
turned inside out, like the finger of a glove, so that the skin
will now form the gut and the intestinal organs form the out-
side. Note now how these parts will change structure, until in
a little while the animal is again complete, as'before, and ready

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to be reversed again. What made these changes of structure ?
Did " function precede structure" here, or did "structure pre-
cede function?" On the answer to this depends the sufficiency
of natural selection, or, in its stead, of what has now come to the
front to stay, the Neo-Lamarckian system of the evolution of
life.

From your medical chemistry it is easy to enter the great
ocean of general chemistry, and you will find instantly at hand
the whole geological and mineralogical history of the earth; and
thence at once the structures of all the suns and nebulae which
people space, the infinite ocean of the circumambient and all-
penetrating and pervading ether, and the incessant play of light,
heat and electricity, eternal and universal. Here you will sound
the depth of all the universe with a safe and sure plummet, and
every foot-step you plant will bring up before you a new and
still grander horizon. When Moses was sent to Pharaoh, the
message given him as the receptacle and embodiment of divine
light and knowledge was: "I will make you as gods before
him!" So may you each be, by the same mastery before the
darkness of ignorance and the bigotry of prejudice which you
will encounter. And in learning these things (for that is one of
the splendid and inevitable consequences), side lights will flood
you with new knowledge from other sources and on other sub-
jects, and from every direction. You will soon acquire the criti-
cal faculty; you will learn what has a real look and what a sham
one, and you will learn how to use these new tools with con-
stantly accelerating rapidity and certainty. You will be like
some great musician, like the deaf old Beethoven, who could evoke
the sublimest floods of harmeny from the rich but silent inner
chambers of his mind, and can leave behind you and all around
you these undying records of a sound, strong and comprehensive
life.

All your medical studies can thus be made to bear the richest
fruitage by merely tracing back these specialties to the parent
stems, and then pursuing this new knowledge along the broadest
and highest lines. There is not a medical or surgical study
which in this way will not bring new light to its own further
illumination. From microscopy you will plunge at once into the
primal forms of life, and you will learn that intellect, like in
order to our own, but not in degree, goes back to the monad,
and back there you will trace the parting of the roads, and sur-

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prising you will find it, between animal and vegetable life, and
can study a new world which will illuminate and glorify the
problems which you encounter every day.

But how shall all these fields, so immeasurably wider than
those of a medical education, be explored ? It is easy; it only re-
quires consecutive study and thought, and, above all else, hu-
mility. During your earlier years of practice make it a rule to
keep a book, on some such subject, open on your chair before
you; and if you will have an easy study chair, with a swinging
book holder (which you can purchase for a trifle) always ready
for you in your back office, wTith the book in place, and stick to
that particular book till it is read through, and thought and con-
sidered through, the problem will almost solve itself. Learn
what books are available on a single subject; the purchase of one
will lead to another; perhaps libraries are available, either at
home or by correspondence, and thus read all you can on the same
subject and before going on to another one, until you have mas-
tered it measurably well, and then take up a new line, and not
till then, and so on.

Perhaps you will read and consider a half dozen works on
each subject before passing on to another, but endeavor to get
the solid drift of every subject you attack before leaving it, and
you will never regret the time expended. And the very sight of
these books in your library, and in constant use, will bring you
respect and confidence, and help your practice.

A physician who wastes his time on novels of the lighter sort
is making a sad mistake; he will be measured by that, and will
soon measure himself by it also. But to simply read books
through, to fritter them away, and then pass on to another, is al-
most equally vicious. Books must be comprehended and di-
gested all the time; doubtful questions must be cleared up, for-
gotten passages must be re-read, and the work must proceed in a
systematic manner to make such study grow more easy and
more valuable with each book studied.

Then a valuable library will gradually be acquired; a sterling
body-guard of tried and true retainers who will never desert you,
and whose aid will be incalculable forever afterwards.

You will soon learn to discriminate; you will start a book and
find that it is a padded-up affair, made to sell, or the vagary of
an unpractised mind. You will drop them and get rid of them,
but the work will constantly go on with ever-increasing gain in

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a hundred different directions. History, poetry, all the liberal
and fine arts, will lend their aid, and the results will be a constant
surprise and pleasure; and when the busy after life comes, the
whole foundations will remain and a splendid superstructure
only needing the constant retouching of science and art as they
advance; and the mind itself will then become a driver, and you
will not rest content until you are fully abreast of the best thought
and highest knowledge of the age. You will have become a
safe, valuable, and even an indispensable leader in your com-
munity.

Your future will be safe. Contrast with this the sham phy-
sician who seeks only the quick and unearned or half-earned
dollar, who caters to the frailties of his patrons, who spends his
years on the lowest planes of his occupation, and feels his shame
and ignorance whenever he comes in contact with loftiness and
enlightenment. The day for such doctors is passing, the world
has no need of them, for the true field of medicine now embraces
all that touches the welfare and advancement of the physical,
the mental and the psychological man, and the physician who
will win success must deserve it. In olden times he was the
scientific leader of men — and so he must be in the future. A
doctor who can hang out but his three pills to the passers-by is
nothing but a pawnbroker, and a cheap, vulgar and charlatan-
sort of a pawnbroker at that.

Young physicians, on graduating, almost instinctively turn
their eyes to some large city as the only place with scope enough
to give their own particular talents full vent; but no more ab-
surd mistake could possibly be made. There is an impression
prevalent that the profession is overcrowded; but that is only so
because the natural fields for the physician are allowed to lie
largely fallow, while a great multitude of cultivators work their
little garden-patches to death and think that they themselves
constitute the whole agricultural establishment. Like a man
on a church steeple, everybody looks little to him, and he looks
little to everybody.

A distinguished physician, the dean of one of our medical
colleges, asserts that statistics show that not only are too many
physicians not graduated, but that the supply is not sufficient
to replace those removed by death and allow for the natural in-
crease of the population. The purple spots we see are not due
to general plethora, but to unhealthy local congestion.

Broadening Out. 9

These young doctors often have queer ideas; they come from
country districts where they have never seen fifty miles around,
and then claim a great city for their workshop. A physician in
a large town is a veritable slave, and, with rare exceptions, after
a life time of unremitting toil, and with scant and narrow
reputation, they lie down and die and leave no money and no
tangible results behind them. The wave rolls, in a single day,
over their vacant places, the lines close up, and all is as it was
before. On the contrary, in smaller places they have oppor-
tunity to build an enduring fame, to live a life of constant
and recognized usefulness, to accumulate property, and, after
an honored life, to leave a memory behind which will be a
crown of blessing to those who come after them. City physi-
cians, those especially to the manor born, are fond of picturing
the long and weary drives at night of their unhappy country
confreres, the impecunious families, the uncouth patients, the
constricted lives; but, alas! all these things and more are multi-
plied over and over in an average city practice. No leisure, a
call on tap at all times, no privacy, no time for anything, and al-
ways in the grasp of unhappy jealousy, professional detrac-
tion, battling for life and to hold onto the patients one has against
the incessant grabbing from all sides; and, above all, the
thousand-handed hospitals and dispensaries which never cease
to reach out and grab, and which must eventually drive in-
dividuality and healthy competition away from the city profes-
sion. And then the sharp sting of unrequited toil, with the
brave but ineffective show to keep up appearances against the
style of those who ride, full-breasted, on the tide of apparent
success, and who themselves, dying, leave behind them nothing
or almost nothing, and in many cases less than nothing.

Compared with such lives the practice of a country doctor is
an elysium; respected everywhere, with leisure to study nature,
with long drives through leafy avenues, with poor but grateful
patients at the end, and here and there the stately mansions to
which he is an ever welcomed and honored guest; the oppor-
tunities to convert slow bills into a trade-equivalent, to pick up
a bit of real estate here and there, to cultivate some spare ground,
or to supervise it, with a careful farmer under his eye, to have
good horses in the stable, and to take an active part in every
movement for intellectual and moral advancement in the com-
munity, to be a power for good, and to see one's family growing

io Melilotus.

up around, healthy in mind and body, and to actually be a living
part of the great fluxes of life, what can be finer?

Nothing; but the man must also be fine himself. The best
and brightest of our profession should be the ones for such a life;
the common herd of doctors are good enough for rough and
tumble city practice, but for a professional life where the fulness
of strength, usefulness and beauty can manifest itself, the oppor-
tunity and the man must both come together.

( To be concluded in February. )

MELILOTUS.
By Dr. G. W. Bowen, M. D.

Many years ago a tincture of this remedy was prepared and
from the two species, the alba (white blossoms) and officinalis
(the yellow blossoms), also one from the roots. After using the
various forms of the preparation, cannot say there is much dif-
ference in results obtained. Only the Melilotus alba has been
used for the last five years, and made from the whole plant.

Most any one can make his own tincture, and probably better
than any he could buy, judging from some I have seen from some
pharmacies. Gather the plant in blossom, clean it, cut it up,
and put in clear alcohol (no water) let it stand six months or
a year, and you will have a nice wine-colored tincture that will
keep and can be relied upon.

I have never given it in any other form except in pills, medi-
cated with the first centesimal. I have it in the forty-five
thousandth, but have never given it. and probably never shall,
as it could not act any better than the ist centesimal does.

Of late years one- half of my patients get a dose of Melilotus.
If they have a headache, pain in the chest, stomach, or any-
where else they get a dose, and generally in five minutes they
say it is better, or it is all gone.

Whether my assertion that it will make them better has a
persuasive influence, will leave for others to decide. Every
stranger or patient that come to me gets a dose while their
case is being considered or studied over, and as it always makes
them better they are ready to believe all I say. It is the only
remedv that I know of that will cure sick headache alone.

Melilotus. 1 1

Belladoyina and Nnx vomica, if given night and morning, will, of
course, cure it.

A Frenchman's Headache.

Case No. i. — A Frenchman came to my office and said: " Oh,
I have so bad headache I think I die: it is all the time so bad.
I have him one week by gar! I can do nothing. Doctor can you
do something?" I gave him a dose of Melilotus, and on inquiry
found that he needed Nux vomica and went to my office to get it:
and in about five minutes returned, and to my surprise found
the man on his hands and knees on the floor shaking his head
furiously. I asked him what was the matter, but he did not
answer. My conclusion was that he was crazy, and made so by
my medicine. Soon he rose up and said: " That pain is all gone.
I was just trying him." Of course it relieved me of my
anxiety. When offered his medicine he said: '* Xo, that pain is
all gone, what for I need medicine?"

Bleeding From the Nose.

Case Xo. 2. — Some years ago was called to go fifteen miles in
the country to see a girl that had bled from the nose for three
days. The doctors had tamponed her nose, but the blood went
back into her throat and she got so nervous the)' were obliged to
remove the obstruction and decided she would probably bleed
to death. I found her cold, pale and nearly pulseless. I gave
her Melilotus, and told her I would not leave her until it was
stopped. The bleeding disminished gradually, and in thirty
minutes had entirely stopped, and then I gave her the second
dose. One hour after that gave her the third dose, and left one
more dose to take the next day, if needed. Chi?ia was left to be
taken three or four times a day.

One week later the girl was brought to the city, and her
father told several that I had charged him fifteen dollars for
three little doses of medicine, but explained that it had saved
his daughters life and it was the cheapest medicine he ever had
in his life.

Post Partem Haemorrhage.
Case Xo. 3. — Was summoned in haste to a case of post partem
haemorrhage. The face was pale and the hands cold, did not
stop to count the pulse. Was assured that the afterbirth had
passed off. Made a hasty examination and felt the hot blood
pass over my hand. I called for a cloth to make a tampon and

12 Nertcum Oleander.

to bandage her limbs and save all the blood I could for her.
then gave a dose of Melil - I had learned in one ease before

that it would stop profuse menses. Before my tampon was
ready to be used she said: " Doctor. I feel better and I do
flow much now."' On examination this was found to be the
case, as it was nearly stopped and the blood was not accumulat-
ing in the uterus. My dam was not made or needed. Three
more doses oi /. - was given that day. and then China

every three or four hours.

Mania. Etc.

Two eases of violent mania have been cured with Ik
the first coses had to be given with positive physical force.
The more violent the case the more certain of speedy results,
and this is true of all acute cases of any form, whether it be
mania as from excessive use of stimulants.

Melancholy is not so amenable to treatment as mania. Melilotus
will compare favorably to a police force to disperse a crowd at
at a local congestion.

It is questionable with me whether its action is best on the
nervous system, or on the venous circulation that controls the
capillary.

For congestion, epistaxis, sprains o: any kind, infantile,
epilepsy and eclampsia I rely upon it implicitly, for there is no
need of waiting but for a few moments at most to see beneficial
results.

If physicians will give it but a few times they will see its
prompt action and learn to rely upon it for immediate results.

Fort Wayne, hid.

NERICUM OLEANDER.
By Robert T. Cooper. M. A.. M. D.

In the Homcfopathic Recorder for September, 1897. is an
interesting article by Dr. Goullon, of Weimar, translated from
Leipz. Pop. Zeitschr. /. Horn, for June, containing some most
interesting details as to the action of Oleander.

When on my holiday at Yiehy in August. '97. I made some
tincture of the Olecuider from a succulent twig of a small tree
grown in a flower pot. Soon after I had made it a lady wrote

Nericum Oleander. 13

me from Ipswich about a servant girl, aged 23, who was suffer-
ing from eczema that had lasted for a year, and that had gone
on getting worse in spite of treatment in the County Hospital
and from private doctors. The eczema had begun with pimples
all over the back, then on the breast and then on the arms, the
right forearm being much the worst. The older patches on this
latter site, are inflamed and are raised wrell above the skin, and
are round in shape, one being about the size of a crown piece,
and between these are small clustered red pimples which run
together and form into patches. There is a great deal of itch-
ing, coming on severely every hour or so, with much oozing if
rubbed. New pimply spots are appearing very fast, and the left
forearm is being attacked as well as the right.

The only remedy I had by me that seemed indicated was
Olea?ider, and of this recently prepared tincture I gave on Sacch.
lact. a dose (OA); this was done by letter, and when a fortnight
afterwards, on my return home, I saw the girl her testimony
wras that no fresh spots had come out since the powder and that
all irritation had immediately lessened, there being scarcely
any itching or oozing present.

The eczema was not cured, but it certainly seemed on the
high road towards dispersal — so much so that I told her to take
another dose only if the irritation returned.

This it evidently did, for a month afterwards she wrote com-
plaining that the eczema was spreading and that little blisters
were coming out every day, causing the patches to run into each
other, though these were less elevated above the skin than
formerly; there was still much irritation, worse after washing.
For this I sent (5 Oct.) Arbutus a?idrach?ie OA, and on the 18
November received the report that the patches were getting
thin and pale; the last dose was repeated. No permanent
improvement resulted, however, from this or other selections,
until on 9th June of this year (1898) I gave Rhus radica?is OA,
i, <?., a drop of a tincture made by myself from a succulent shoot
of the "Rhus Toxicodendron var. Radicans" in Kew
Gardens.

The eczema was then described as being on the breasts and
spreading round the body, and worse when the patient was
hot, and preventing her moving her body for fear of chafing.
Immediate improvement set in. and on 22 June she wrote
saying she felt sure another powder would complete the cure.

14 Phytolacca Mental Symptoms.

This I have every reason to believe has been the case, as I have
not since heard, 8 December, '98, which I know I would have
done had the result been anything short of what the patient ex-
pected.

The case is interesting as showing the power of Oleander to
arrest a rapidly spreading eczema, and of Rhus radicans to
cause its complete dispersal. The great indication for Rhus
radicans was the appearance of the patches, viz., well raised
above the level of the skin and having a yellowish vesicular
appearance.

So A George Street, Hanover Street, IV., London, England.

PHYTOLACCA MENTAL SYMPTOMS.
By E. R. Mclntyre, B. A., M. D.

In the Homceopathic Recorder for November Prof. T. C.
Duncan calls attention to some recorded mental symptoms of
this drug that deserve more than a passing notice.

I believe Allen was the first to record what I think a careful
study will prove to be the true mental state while under the
influence of Pytolacca, viz.: " Sense of entire indifference to life
and disgust for everything." Then some one else has distorted
this into " Great loss of personal delicacy; total disregard of all
surrounding objects, and no disposition to adjust their persons
under an}' circumstances." And still another finds material in
this for "Loss of personal delicacy; complete shamelessness."
Thus, it seems, that the last symptom of which Dr. Duncan
speaks is the result of a kind of evolution, so to speak, from
the symptom of indifference as given by Jahr. We rarely
expect a patient who is totally indifferent to all environments
to manifest that degree of personal delicacy one sees in the
best society; nor are we surprised when she fails to manifest
shame. There can be little doubt that "shamelessness," as
given here, is but a result of partial or total loss of conscious-
ness as expressed in Allen's Encyclopoedia in the first symptom
given, and can not properly constitute an indication calling for
Phytolacca any more than does the same condition in a patient
under the influence of Chloroform or Ether, and who would
think of prescribing Phytolacca to such a patient ? Or, if he, did
would not his failures outweigh his successes ?

Phytolacca Mental Symptoms. 15

A correct interpretation of symptoms is the importa?it object
in the study of the Materia Medica, yet we see here one of the
numerous instances of misinterpretation carried to the extent of
drawing a comparison between this purely imaginary symptom
of Phytolacca and the lasciviousness of Hyoscyamus as if their
action were similar, when they are diametrically opposite.
True, the symptoms of obscenity, etc. of Hyosc. are found in
those who are unconscious or delirious, with delusive sensations
from a diseased sexual system, while under Phytolacca there is
merely the indifference accompanying loss of consciousness and
may be found under the action of every drug that is capable of
producing unconsciousness. Hence it is no more a symptom of
Phytolacca than of any of the others.

Let us study the symptom as given by Jahr in its relations to
other well-known symptoms of the drug, viz.: "Paleness of
the face; countenance pale and hippoeratic; vertigo with dim-
ness of vision; sensation of soreness deep in brain." These all
tell us of cerebral anaemia, which finally culminates in opisthot-
onus as expressed in " Head is thrown back to its utmost ex-
tent; back very stiff." This is^uie expression of cortical irri-
tation, and is the beginning of a loud cry for nutrition by the
cerebral cortex, and sootn passes into. " Extreme faintness," all
of which speak Ito us of cerebral ^aoaemia, while rlyosc., as is
well-known,. -produces cerebral hyperemia. Still, at 'least "one
author would, have.us ,tliink shei^ acticfcs on the mind are
similar. True, both produce loss of consciousness, the one from
lack of blood to the cerebral centers the other from pressure by
an excess of blood in the cranial cavity, the one by spasmodic
irritation of the vaso-constrictors the other by paralyzing them.
The anaemia extends to the medulla, where it produces irrita-
tion in the neuclei of the pneumogastric and spinal accessory
nerves in the floor of the fourth ventricle, as shown by the
"Nausea immediately followed by violent retching and vomit-
ing, ejecting the contents of the stomach, which consisted of
ingesta (after half an hour), vomiting continued at intervals of
from one to five minutes, ejecting a transparent mucus, slightly
tinged with yellow." The action of the drug on the vagus is
further shown by the " Small, thread-like, irregular pulse."
Nowhere do I read of slow pulse from this irritation, to be
followed by rapid heart's action when the stage of irritation
gives place to that of paresis of the vagus. This would be the

1 6 A Prophetic I 'oice From the Past.

natural course. One author speaks of a pulse of 85 "Soft and
unresisting;" another says: " Heart's action is weak with con-
stipation, pulse small, irregular, with great excitement in the
chest, especially in cardiac region, pulse full but soft."

The irregular pulse speaks to us of loss of balance, so to speak,
between the cardio-inhibitory fibres from the vagus and spinal
accessor}* on the one hand and the cardio-accelleratory fibres
from the sympathetic on the other. Since in any nerve con-
tinued irritation terminates in loss of function, we would expect
soon to encounter a very rapid heart's action from paresis of the
cardio-inhibitory fibres from the vagus and spinal accessory. At
this stage of its action, the pulmonary fibres of the vagus being
also paretic, we would not be surprised to find "respiration
difficult and oppressed, mucous rales distinct and audible any-
where in the room," nor the "hoarseness and dryness of the
larynx," either because of paresis of the laryngeals from the
vagus and spinal accessory.

If these physiological deductions be true, Phytolacca causes
cerebral anaemia that first manifests itself by irritation, to soon
be followed by decrease of ncrye-power that may extend to the
whole cerebrospinal systejn, with loss^ of consciousness result-
ing in indifference to all environments *

It wcu'id. be interesting to crace the action- of this drug to the
mammary and other secreting glands where it has reached over,
so to speak, from, the rer£bro-spinru :to, che sympathetic; but
space and time wrili not permit.

Chicago, III.

A PROPHETIC VOICE FROM THE PAST.
Carroll Dunham, M. D.

It appears then that our opponents have come pretty nearly to
our ground, except on the fourth point, that of the infinitesimal
dose. Touching this point, their denunciation of us has lost none
of its bitterness. They claim to have demonstrated again and
again that there is nothing in our potentized preparations. The
reasoning of Thomson touching the size of molecules furnishes
them with a welcome argument against the possibility of any
drug potency existing in even our medium attenuations. And
these arguments have strongly influenced many of our own school

A Prophetic Voice From the Past. 17

whose personal experience and observation had not compelled
opposite convictions. But let me say that proofs of a negative
in any matter which can be determined only by experiment are
very fallacious, and a dangerous dependence. I do not despair
of seeing before many years, from some old-school authority or
some non-medical investigator, a demonstration of the medicinal
powers of homoeopathic potencies; and I warn such of my col-
leagues as have been influenced by the arguments of our
opponents, against the chagrin they will feel when they
shall be outflanked on this point ; when to unbelieving
homceopathists shall be presented, by experimenting allo-
paths, a demonstration of the drug-power inherent in homoe-
opathic attenuations. An incident touching on the his-
tory of our Materia Medica is very suggestive in this connection.
When the Nestor of Homoeopathy, whose jubilee we celebrated
here last March, and whom God spares to gladden our hearts to-
day by his presence, undertook those studies of serpent-venom
which have brought such honor to his name, and such benefit to
suffering humanity, he added to the effects observed from swal-
lowing minute quantities of the venom the effects produced by
large quantities introduced into the system by a snake bite, re-
garding the latter as complementary to the former and both as
portions of a graduated scale of homologous effects. But many
of our own school could not admit an analogy between the effects
of small internal doses and of the bite. The chemists proved
that saliva or gastric juice, or alcohol rendered venom innocuous.
Finally, it was "proved to demonstration," in this city and
India, that serpent- venom introduced into the stomach could not
act. This demonstration of a negative was accepted by many of
our own school, by whom the serpent-venom were accordinglv
discarded as inert. Soon, however, Hermann, the physiologist,
giving Curate to a rabbit whose renal arteries were tied, found
death occur, and from as small a dose introduced into the stom-
ach as would have proved fatal if introduced beneath the skin.
This suggested the idea that the apparent inertness of venom
in the stomach results from its slow absorption and rapid
elimination, which prevent its reaching the centres on which it
acts. And lately Fayrer and Brunton. studying serpent- venom
under the auspices of the British government, have satisfied
themselves, and unequivocally affirm, that venom introduced
into the stomach affects the system more slowly and gentlv, and

1 8 Agai?i the Old Defence.

therefore with a greater variety of symptoms, but in essentially
the same way and with a tendency to the same results as when
introduced into the blood by a bite. Thus is the negative dem-
onstration overthrown, and the correctness of our veteran col-
league's induction most happily established. But in what a
position do these facts leave those of our school who, disregard-
ing the provings of trustworthy members of their own school,
disregarding and not willing to verify the a posteriori evidence
of cures in great numbers, cast out from their Materia Medica,
Lachesis, Crotalus and Naja on the negative demonstration of an
old school physiologist! In the same position many will stop,
I think, when ingenious experiment or molecular energy shall
lead a Tyndall or a Crookes to a demonstration of the power of
potenized medicaments. — From Transactions of World? s Homoeo-
pathic Convention, i8j6, page 4.J et seq.

AGAIN THE OLD DEFENCE.

The Hahnemannian Monthly for December has for its leading
article a paper by the publisher of the new pharmacopoeia, under
the title " Comparative Tincture Strength," which is virtually
a plea to the profession to save the Committee's book.

It is curious that all those who undertake the defence of this
book dwell on this point only and are silent on the vital ones.
They are constantly trying to make the profession see that 1-10
tinctures are as "strong" as the old Hahnemannian tinctures,
and have never a word to say on those features of the book
which take the attitude towards Homoeopathy that the oppo-
nents of Similia have always taken. It would be interesting to
hear from them on these points.

For instance, why do they not have something to say about
the rejection of dynamization.

About the rejection of the " potency " and the adoption of the
"molecule" as the measure of power of a homoeopathic remedy.

About the assertion that the limit of "divisibility" being
passed at the 12th potency.

About the condemnation as inert of all the dilutions directed
by Hahnemann to be made from triturations of the " insolubles,"
and successfully used since to this day.

About teaching the youthful mind of the young medic that
above the 12th is naught but milk sugar or alcohol, but, if

It is Higher Science. 19

i.sked for, the higher potencies must be supplied and solemnly
labeled with the various names, Arsen. alb., Mercurius viv., Aco-
nite, etc., even while they are all one and the same.

About one so believing; would he be justified in filling the
whole order from one bottle; and would not that tend to pro-
duce pharmaceutical chaos ?

About what is to be done with "old junk " like Hahnemann,
Hering, Boenninghausen, Jahr, Hughes, Guernsey, Raue, Far-
rington and ten thousand others who have reported brilliant
results with potencies above the 12th. The new book leaves no
room for them, and its believers must say of their works even as
does Hooker, Holmes, Gould and the $100.00 pamphlet.

About Carl von Nageli's discovery of the " new force," oligo-
dynamis, in the presence of which the molecule is a clod, which
"new force" seems to be Hahnemann's "spirit-like power"
developed by dynamization, and which made his potencies from
the now forbidden "insolubles " so potent in controlling disease.

About these, and other points, some rational explanation
would be very acceptable. Let it be given in the calm spirit of
science and not controversially. But we get nothing but long
essays on tincture " strength," just as though that were the one
vital point, whereas every man in the profession knows that if
he can select the right drug, the one truly homoeopathic to a
given case, he need borrow no trouble over its "strength." If
the gentlemen of the medical profession want 1-10 tinctures they
can get them, though what special advantage it will be to them
to get weaker tinctures is not qute clear.

Take, for instance, Ipecac, Nux vomica, Ignatia, Chi?ia, etc.;
the old way was one part of the drug to five of alcohol. The
new pharmacopoeia directs the maceration of one part drug to
ten of alcohol. That it would be of some advantage to the
pharmacist to get precisely double the amount of tincture from
a pound of these not inexpensive drugs is quite apparent, but of
what advantage is it to the buyer?

IT IS HIGHER SCIENCE.

In one of the December journals we find the following —
the writer believes in Homoeopathy but seems to be not sure
that is right because not scientifically demonstrated:

In this state of affairs the time has arrived when we ought to take a step
forward toward a better state of things by insisting on correct scie?itific

20 // is Higher Science.

data. Whether Homoeopathy is right or wrong, it will stand or fall, not
as a creed or belief, but as a question of knowledge, or a scientific problem,
and it must be subjected to the crucial test of modern times. I assume
that it is not only willing but eager to abide by such tests. If other
antagonistic schools refuse to submit to them, the fault will be theirs
when some time in the future the balance is struck.

At first glance this seems to be correct — but it is not. You
cannot measure Homoeopathy by the world's scientific standards
because it is above them all, consequently one who attempts to
judge the greater by the lesser will only land in confusion and
scepticism.

The reason for this is very plain and commonsense-like.
Homoeopathy — similar suffering — originates from human beings.
The drugs causing the suffering are always the same — or they
ought to be — but no two human beings are alike or ever will
be; there is no created thing that is so unscientific as man when
viewed objectively.

You may make ten thousand bicycles, or sewing machines, or
guns, and they will be all alike — a triumph of mechanical
science. But turn out ten thousand, human beings, all, it is
true, in the same general pattern, but what a confusion as to
personalities! No two alike, consequently each one requiring
a different treatment when things get out of gear. The mind
in each human being dominates the body and must play a great
part in all that concerns the body; and. this is where the lesser
science misses, for it ignores the- man himself and concerns itself
only with the earthy part of him. Homoeopathy takes cogni-
zance of both. It can never be scientific in the sense the word
is used every day because it transcends that science even as the
higher mathematics transcends the ordinary arithmetic.

When men will accept this view of the only science that con-
siders both mind and matter, or soul and body, they will then
be in the realms of the higher sciences, the kind that you can-
not test by the microscope or chemical analysis; and those who
attempt to do so, to measure the higher by the lower, will fall
into confusion, doubt and nihilism.

At first glance this may seem to be fanciful, and all that sort
of thing, but it is not fanciful, but plain horse-sense.

The man with the broken leg, or a belly full of something his
system cannot manage, or his sub-belly system clogged with
stuff that must come out, does not need homoeopathic treatment,
nor no one ever claimed he did. But after the mechanical, or

A Letter From Havana. 21

scientific, end of medicine has done its duty and the human
machine has all its parts in mechanical working order yet the
man is not in health, what then ? There the science that never
rises above matter halts; a door is banged on its nose and it
fails to see that beyond that door is a realm of science com-
pared with which its very useful sphere sinks into insignifi-
cance. That is where Homoeopathy does its work. To refuse
to believe in that work because you cannot put it into a
"scientific" formula is a great misfortune to the sceptic, for
there is only one greater law for the alleviation of human ills
and misery and that is the Divine one — " Cease to do evil."

A LETTER FROM HAVANA.

(The following extract from a letter from one of Messrs. Boericke &
Tafel's old correspondents in Havana may not be without general interest.
It is the first letter received by them since the war from Cuba.)

It is a long time since I wanted to suggest to you the conve-
nience of having in Habana a good homoeopathic doctor, but the
misfortunes of this unhappy country then kept away more and
more the possibility of such things. To-day that we have en-
tered into a new era full of promises for all, I think the oppor-
tunity has arrived for me to suggest to you what I think would
be a good thing for my country and a good enterprise for who-
ever takes hold of it.

There are many families here that are addicted and enthusias-
tic for the Hahnemann system; but the Homoeopathy of past
years, that had very good interpreters, has been for a long time
in decline, it very often being the case that those who applied
themselves to it have been always ignorant doctors, not even
capable to practise the other medicine on account of the facility
with which it kills and who have tried to find in Homoeopathy
only the means of making a living, concealing their ignorance
from the populace. I have seen them practising without know-
ing or using but the manuals of Jahr and Hughes. As the sys-
tem is so good, these quacks have made some very good cures;
but above all what they have attained is to impair the reputa-
tion of Homoeopathy among us.

We have to-day some doctors who practise in good earnest the
Homoeopathy, but some are eclectics who administer antipyrin
to lower the temperature in cases of fever and Henry's magnesia

22 Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany.

to disinfect the intestines, the patient at the same time taking
Baptisia or Arse?iic or other homoeopathic medicine. I have
seen these and others mix in the same glass of water drops of
several mother tinctures or potencies, and in others I notice the
timidity produced by the idea of being alone in such a large
field; the result being that said field is almost virgin.

The day that a good doctor comes here who is not afraid to
come across some of the eminent allopathies, of which we have
some highly respected, who is at the same time a good homoeo-
path of rooted convictions, who possesses solid knowledge of
homoeopathic therapeutics and is at the height of all the im-
provements which this science permits, and one who is at the
same time a man of enterprise and push and one who can propa-
gate the truth, I firmly believe that man will do great good and
may be able to make in a little time a fortune. If he speaks
English it will be much better; but if he does not speak it, he
will also find his way.

Haba?ia, Nov. 25, 1898.

HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACY IN GERMANY.

( The following translation from the German of Dr. Wilmar Schwabe,
though in parts dealing in matters of elementary homoeopathic facts, is
nevertheless of very general use and suggestiveness).

Hahnemannian Pharmacy.
A man of clear thought, as was Samuel Hahnemanyi, could
not have failed to notice many imperfections in the pharmaceutics
of his day, and even in the period antedating his discovery of
Homoeopathy, he was striving for an improved way of prepar-
ing medicines. Thus we find in his translation of the Edin-
burg Pharmacopoeia a number of practical counsels, which
demonstrate that he could not only write prescriptions at his
writing table, as is done by many, but that he also had been
for a long time a practical chemist and pharmacist. An honor-
able testimonial of this fact is also furnished by the work pub-
lished by him in common with Van der Sa?ide in the year 17S7:
'' Die Keunzeicheri der Guete u?id Verfael seining der ArzneimitteV '
(Characteristics of the Genuineness or the Adulteration of
Drugs). His knowledge in this direction could not but in-
fluence the curative method created bv him. Thev led him to

Homoeopathic Phar??iacy in Germany. 23

originate a peculiar mode of preparing medicines differing
from the pharmaceutics sanctioned by the state and directed by
the official pharmacopoeia. This new method is governed by
invariable laws which must not be changed. The reason of
this is, that the provings of the medicines on healthy persons
were made with medicinal preparations made according to these
rules, which were peculiar and in part invented by himself.
Since these provings form the basis for the practice at the
sick bed, and since medicines differently prepared give
different images of disease, no other preparations of these
medicines are permissible. The original direction of the

PROVING PHYSICIAN IS THE RULE FOR PREPARING THE REMEDY.

Homoeopathic pharmacy is not, therefore, dependent on the pre-
valing chemical or other fashions of the day, which have
occasionally injured also the allopathic medical practice. For
remedies which had proved very valuable were occasionally
degraded to useless remedies, because the endeavor to present
them in the purest possible state changed their natural state in
which they had been for thousands of years and thereby
deprived them of their characteristic effects.

Hahnemann says: " The substances of the animal and of the
vegetable kingdoms are most medicinal in their crude state."
Some medicinal plants by drying lose a large part of their
efficient properties, while in other plants these are only de-
veloped by drying them. So, also, the time in which medicinal
plants are gathered is of great importance, and much depends
on the most exact obedience to all the directions given concern-
ing it. Since many a reader may be interested in hearing some-
thing concerning homoeopathic medicinal preparations, we shall
give here some additional information.

Homoeopathic Medicinal Preparations.

Essences are preparations from medicinal plants rich in juice.
The plants, or certain definite parts of them, are pressed out, and
equal parts of the juice are mixed with an equal quantity of
alcohol. Kept in well- corked bottles these essences, which are
not much used in allopathy, will keep for many years. For
this mode of preparing essences we are indebted to Hahnemann,
who first introduced this method.

Ti?ictures are made from dried plants and their parts, etc., in
the proportion of 1 : 5.

24 Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany.

Solutions are made from substances soluble in water or alcohol,
in certain proportions.

Triturations are most intimate mixtures of the drug with
sugar of milk, also in a definite proportion, exactly prescribed.

Liquid Potencies or dilutions are alcoholic dilutions (or, more
correctly, potencies) made from essences, tinctures and the higher
triturations in definite proportions.

Globular Potencies or Pellets are small pellets of sugar impreg-
nated with potencies; these are used in various sizes in Homoe-
opathy.

Tablets are prepared from homoeopathic triturations, 9 milli-
meters (.35 inches) in diameter and 3 millimeters in thick-
ness, weighing about 25 centigrammes (3.85 grains). They
permit the prescription of a quantity of medicine accurately
weighed out, from which neither too much nor too little will be
given or spilled, as may happen with the frequently prescribed
dose of "as much as will lie on the point of a knife." They are
firm enough not to crumble in pieces and, nevertheless, not too
hard to easily dissolve on the tongue. This form of preparation
is most convenient with children and while traveling.

Decimal and Centesimal.

It is of extraordinary importance with respect to the value of
homoeopathic medicinal preparations, especially in the fluid
potencies and in the triturations, that they should be most care-
fully prepared according to the directions given in Dr.
Schwabe's " Pharmacopcea homceopathica polyglotta ," with due
regard to the medicinal strength of the original drug. When
the triturations, e. g., are carefully prepared, requiring several
hours' trituration of the original drug with sugar of milk in
every case, the fine division of the original drug, especially that
of the precipitated metals, may be followed with the microscope
even into the higher stages of the trituration, and yet the mi-
croscope is as yet quite imperfect an instrument. This tritura-
tion and potentizing is done according to two different scales,
namely the Centesimal scale or one of a hundred parts, where the
potentizing proceeds at the rate of 1 : 100; and the other, the
Decimal scale, in which the potentizing proceeds in the propor-
tion of 1 : 10. Potencies made by the latter scale have a capital
D before the number, denoting their potency (e. g., Belladonna
D3, D4, etc.). As to their quantitative value, the

Homoeopathic Pharmacy i?i Germany. 25

2 Decimal potency = 1 Centesimal potency.

4 " =2

6 =3

8 " =4 " etc.

The decimal potencies have the advantage that the steps from
one to the other are not considerable; they also enable the phar-
marceutist to work with greater exactness, as a larger quantity
of the original drug or of a tincture or potency may be more in-
timately mixed with the indifferent vehicle than a smaller
quantity. This is especially important in the lower potencies;
for the homoeopathic physician who wishes to prescribe ^ of a
milligram of a medicine is sure that this must be contained, e. g. ,
in a gramme of the 4th decimal trituration if he orders it from a
homoeopathic pharmacy working with exactness. So that even
if he should descend to a lower dose, e. g., the 3 decimal of
which one gramme contains a milligramme of medicine, he is
much surer of getting it than the allopathic doctor, who also of
the violent poisons prescribes at times a milligramme. The
latter dose is far more difficult to weigh out properly than a
whole gramme of the 3 trituration which contains the same
quantity of medicine, leaving out the fact that the latter is di-
vided into its minutest parts and thus is in a corresponding
measure prepared for its reception into the organism.

Fraudulent Pharmacists.
From this it may appear that Homoeopathic medicines can only
be procured from very reliable pharmaceutists, who are co?ivinced of
the force of Homoeopathic curative principle, a?id therefore work with
exactness. There is, indeed, from year to year a very gratifying
increase among the ordinary (allopathic) druggists who have
some interest in Homoeopathy, and who are determined to serve
its adherents in a conscientious manner. But even if the drug-
gist in an allopathic drug store be ever so well disposed, he is
nevertheless frequently compelled to rely on his assistants, who
are not bound by oath to conscientiously observe the homoeo-
pathic pharmacopoeia. What some of these assistants think and
say about Homoeopathy is probably known to every one. With-
out meaning any harm, such a one will not hesitate to give in-
stead of a certain homoeopathic remedy another, or instead of a
certain potency another potency which he may happen to have
on hand, or even mere alcohol. So it happened a few years ago,
in a drug store in Silesia, that a lady living in the country sent

26 Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany.

her servant to buy some homoeopathic medicines, the names of
which she had written on a sheet of paper, in the town. Her
servant was also to get in a wool store some Estremadura wool No.
5, and that he might not forget this she wrote at the bottom of the
sheet: Estremadura No. 5. The servant did not bring the wool,
but he brought a homoeopathic vial with a clear- colored liquid
and a written label with Estremadura 5. There is no homoeo-
pathic medicine which even approximately bears this name.
The druggist, when this deception was made known to him, re-
stored the money charged for this pseudo medicine with a
thousand excuses. The matter, nevertheless, got into the
papers, and a homoeopathic physician in the March, who had
hitherto felt perfect confidence in his allopathic druggist, deter-
mined to put him to the proof and through another person also
obtained Estremadura 5. The owner of the drug store, when
this was made known to him, was so indignant at this that he
straightway dismissed his assistant.

Similar was the experience of Druggist N. who is now a firm
adherent of Homoeopathy, as reported in Nos. 7 and 8 of the
Leipzig er Populaere Zeitschr. f. Horn, of 1892. In a drugstore
having on its sign "Allopathic and Homoeopathic Pharmacy,"
he received instead of the 2 decimal potency of Rheum, which
should be of a decidedly brown color, a transparent, clear, alco-
holic liquid. In N. he received in all the drug stores except
one for the 2 decimal potency of China a similar liquid.

" Fraudulent Baldheads."

Still more convincing as to the truth of these statements are
the revelations made in the Populcere Zeitschrift fur Hom&opathie
(No. 23-24, 1887) by the members of the Berlin Homoeopathic
Society. Irritated because non-medical adherents of Homoeop-
athy had frequently been accused, brought before the courts and
fined for unlicensed giving of medicines, they offered to prove
that in one-half of the drug stores of Berlin only sugar of milk or
alcohol was sold for homoeopathic medicine. These revelations
contain verbatim the following:

"We have hitherto held an even too favorable opinion of our
allo-homoeopathic druggists. Not only one-half but seven-
eighths of them have been hoodwinking their homoeopathic cus-
tomers, and for their honest money have dishonestly furnished
them merely sugar of milk or alcohol. This we can prove by

Homoeopathic Phar?nacy in Germany. 27

the following facts: We sought out some Latin words which
sound somewhat like the names of medicines and found the fol-
lowing the most suitable:

Tuber cine?reum, ashy protubera?ice in the brain; thus the ana-
tomical designation of a.portion of the brain.

Urticaria rubra, red nettle rash; thus a human disease.

Pemphigus foliaceus, malignant isolated large blisters; another
human disease.

Madaroma fraudulentum, fraudulent baldhead.

Only Twelve were Honest."

We now wrote out prescriptions with these names, appending
a numeral for the potency and the amount in weight; to this we
added some other remedy, such as Aconite, Silica, Pulsatilla, etc.
With these prescriptions we rejoiced the hearts of the eighty-
nine drug stores found in the directory of our capital of this year.
Out of these eighty-nine drug stores only twelve refused to fill
these fictitious prescriptions, and among the latter there were
several which kept no homoeopathic medicines in stock at all.
In the remaining seventy- seven drugstores of Berlin the fictitious
remedies were furnished according to rule and furnished with
signatures. In several drug stores the apothecary's assistants,
though they were bound to know that there are no such medi-
cines, had the impudence of even pasting the names on the
bottles, i. <?., of writing them on their signatures. We received:

Tuber cinereum dil. d. 5 in fifty-eight drug stores.

Urticaria rubra dil. d. 3 in sixteen drug stores.

Pemphigus foliaceus dil. 3 in three drug stores.

Madaroma fraudulentum trit. d. 3 in seven drug stores.

Several drug stores were visited two or three times, and every
time they furnished without any hesitation a second or third
fictitious remedy.

In the drug store of S., which is supposed to be the best
specially homoeopathic drug store in all Berlin, we received
Spirillum luteum(?) as well as Madaroma fraudulenhim, and the
owner, when charged with it, excused himself with a show of
much annoyance by saying that a young assistant not fully in-
doctrinated yet had read Mandragora 3 and that another assist-
ant had supposed that Spirillum luteum 3 was equivalent to
Crocus 3. At the same time the money charged us for this
naughtiness of the assistants was returned. But ths same drug

28 Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany.

store furnished Dr. B's. drug store, which had no Madaroma
fraudulentum on stock, this same remedy on payment ! ! ! So
we were not the only ones who were hoodwinked and by whom
this large part of Berlin drug stores was enriched; but this same
drug store also hoodwinked its colleage, Dr. B., by furnishing him
sugar of milk for a non-existing remedy. Dr. B., when charged
about it, wrote to us that he furnished the Madaroma fraudulen-
tum in full confidence in the reliability of S's. drug store.

The Same Everywhere.

The same experience as in Berlin was made in Stettin, Pots-
dam, etc. In Stettin we received in one drug store Urticaria
rubra, Spirillum luteum and a fluid 3 potency (one which cannot
be prepared at all) of Antimon. crudum; in another drug store
Pemphigus foliaceus , Spirillum luteum, Urticaria rubra and a fluid
third potency (one which cannot be prepared) of Calcarea car-
bonica. A third drug store in Stettin also furnished the latter
preparation. All the three drug stores wrote the names of these
remedies on the bottles and received 50 pfg. for the same. In
Potsdam in three drug stores we received Tuber cinereum.

In a city in central Germany where a homoeopathic pharmacy
is conjoined with an allopathic drug shop, a friend of our cause
procured the following remedies with the appropriate etiquettes:

Five grammes Silicea 3 in fluid form.

Two grammes Calcarea carbonica 3 in pellets.

Twe grammes Silicea 3 also in pellets.

Neither one of these three preparations can be made or fur-
nished either according to the Pharmacoposa homoeopathica poly-
glolta, nor according to the pharmacopoeia of Gruner. A third
fluid potency of Silicea has no existence, and a third centesimal
potency in pellets cannot be formed either of Silicea or of Cal-
carea carbonica; at most a 5 centesimal or 10 decimal.

Why it is Better to Stand by the Old Reliable Pharmacies.

But there are other reasons why we should always be sure to
go to the most reliable sources in procuring homoeopathic medi-
cines— sources which guarantee that the medicines are prepared
according to Hahnemann's procedure, and which, owing to the
extent of their business, are compelled to use the utmost care in
procuring the raw materials, especially the medicinal plants for
their medicines. Only from such an establishment can we be
supplied with tinctures and potencies always of the same charac-

Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany. 29

ter, because such an establishment is working year after year
according to the same principles and large quantities are always
made. We would not insinuate that a good original tincture or
essence in small quantities might not be made out of one or sev-
eral well-selected medicinal plants; but the larger the quantity
that is worked upon the more homogeneous the preparation is
apt to be. The quality of the medicinal plants also decides the
excellence of the preparation. There are great differences be-
tween the essences made from plants grown on a moist soil and
those taken from a dry soil; the excellence of the preparation is
also influenced by the time of the day and the season in which
the plants are gathered, etc. Finally, it is only the well-estab-
lished larger homoeopathic pharmacies will undertake to import
from the first hands the drugs for medicines made from foreign
plants. Hahnemann and his disciples have given us exact
directions for the preparation of medicines, and it was not in
vain that the master directed his disciples: "Imitate me, but
imitate with exactness."

Hahnemannian Tinctures Only are Permissable in
Homoeopathic Prescribing.

This warning of the great Master had come to be somewhat
neglected even among the most loyal of his adherents until a
few decades ago. Men had begun u to lay the ax to the root of
the tree" by allowing themselves to make arbitrary changes
and variations under the influence of the general tendency of
improving on our ancestors, which tendency is so manifest in
allopathic pharmacy and which continually seeks to produce
"stronger," "finer looking" and "purer" medicinal prepara-
tions. But what is meant by "stronger?" If the medical
drug, as Hahnemann teaches, has the most medicinal virtue in
its raw state, all that we can strive after is to preserve it for a
longer period. A deviation from the old rules of manufacture is
not allowable before it is demonstrated that the tincture made
in the new way has the same effects as those made by Hahne-
mann. If the practising physician should desire to obtain a
stronger medicinal effect, this is quite in his power by using
another potency. An essence of Aconitum napellus, made by
pressing out the juice, pouring alcohol over the residue and
then pressing this out and mixing it with the juice first ex-
pressed, may look " finer," i. e., of richer color and more green,

2,o Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany.

than the essence made according to Hahnemann by pressing
out the juice and mixing it at once with an equal part of
alcohol; but it is another tincture than the latter. // is not
permissible in Homoeopathy to judge of the strength of a ?nedici?ie by
its color, its smell and its toxic effects. The direction of Hah?iemann
alone is decisive also with respect to the purity of a preparation.
If it should seem to the pharmaceutist to be "impure," i. e., to
contain admixtures which are originally contained in the
original drug, this is immaterial to the pharmaceutist, for the
drug was proved with these " impurities" and these themselves
may have produced some very peculiar effects which are not
proper to the "pure" preparation. The chief aim of the
homoeopathic pharmacy is not " purity " in its perverse applica-
tion to therapeutics but — absolute cleanliness.

Frenzy of " Improving" Homoeopathic Pharmacy.

This frenzy of improving has been the cause of introducing
among the valuable metal of the Hahnemannian remedies so
much dross, so many new remedies, because the remedies which
have been really and thoroughly proved have been " improved."
just as was done in allopathy, and the resulting preparations
resulting have been less useful in Homoeopathy and the
physician has become less certain. As an example, we may
mention that in proving Arnica Montana the alcoholic tincture
of the freshly dried root was used, but later on the practice was
introduced of using the whole of the fresh plant in making the
essence. In another plant a transition has been made from the
plant just beginning to bloom to the same plant while bearing
seed; in another the fresh root was substituted for the plant
itself, etc., generally in obedience to the dictum of some
chemist that these parts were more "toxic" or "medicinal."
The appearance of the Pharmacopoea homceopathica polyglotta by
Dr. Willmar Schwabe in Leipzig put an end to this abuse, for in
that work the author went back to Hahnemann's principles, and
this not only in the preparation of tinctures and essences but
also in the potentizing of medicines, in which also the greatest
arbitrariness and variation had been introduced. This pharma-
copoeia appeared at first in 1872 in three languages — German,
French and English — while the second edition appeared in five
— (Italian and Spanish being added). The Central Union of
Homceopatic Physicians of Germany, after the usefulness of the

Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany. 31

work and the principles on which it was founded had been
acknowledged by forty-eight written opinions of men especially
competent, therefore united in recommending the adoption of
the work to the various governments in the following resolu-
tion:

The Cosmopolitan Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia.

"The undersigned Directory of the Homoeopathic Central
Union of Germany herewith give evidence to Dr. Willmar
Schwabe in Leipzig that the members of the said Union have
taken action with respect to the work published by him and
entitled Pharmacopcea homceopathica polyglotta, Leipzig, 1872,
which action is founded on and in agreement with the written
opinions respecting the same delivered by forty- eight homoe-
opathic hhysicians, and considering that

1. There has not hitherto been any normal Homoeopathic
Pharmacopoeia in complete agreement with the rules established
by the provers for the preparation of the medicines in question,
and having due regard to the scales of potentizing recognized
in Homoeopathy;

2. That the Inspectors of drug stores have not hitherto had
afforded them a correct criterion by which to judge homoeopathic
pharmacies;

3. The homoeopathic pharmacopoeias published before do not
suffice for the present needs of homoeopathic physicians and
pharmaceutists owing to the introduction of a great number of
newly proved remedies;

They herewith declare and resolve:

That the " Pharmacopceia homceopathica polyglotta" published
by Dr. Willmar Schwabe and translated into English by Dr.
S. Hahnemann and into French by Dr. Noack, is in agreement
with the rules established by Samuel Hahneman and the other
Provers for the preparation of the homoeopathic remedies; and
as only a firm adhesion to these rules is able to stem the threat-
ening corruption, the said Pharmacopoeia is recommended to
the august governments as the normal Homoeopathic Pharma-
copoeia for introduction by lav. .

August 20, 18J2.

The Directory of the Homoeopathic Central Union of Germany.
Dr. med. Fischer in Weingarten (Wiirtenberg), President.
Dr. med. Clotar Miiller in Leipzig.

32 Homoeopathic Pharmacy in Germany.

Dr. med. A. Gerstel in Vienna.

[L. S.]

A similar resolution was passed by the "Central Union of
Homoeopathic Physicians in Hungarv."

The Mattei Humbuggery.

Lastly we may be allowed to say a few words about a certain
disorderly matter which appeared thirty years ago in Homoeop-
athy, and then for a considerable time was forgotten, i. e., only
managed to eke out its existence, but which now by the insist-
ent advertising of a Swiss drug shop has received new life. This
is the so-called Electro- Homoeopathy .

The original inventor was a certain Count Mattei in Bologna.
Yet he himself was far from naming his remedies, which in the
allopathic mode are compounded of ma?iy medicines , homoeopathic;
but called them vegeto-electric, because they are supposed to act
very quickly and to cure cancer in a very expeditious manner.
A German Homoeopath, who once visited him, first brought him
to the absurd idea of calling these remedies, even the composi-
tion of which is to this day held as a secret by him, electro-hom-
oeopathic. This physician told him: ' ' If your remedies cure and
do not merely alleviate this can only be done according to the
homoeopathic method; and if they cure quickly, electricity must
be involved." This homoeopath brought Mattei's remedies to
Germany, tried them for about a year and then laid them entirely
aside, because they did not do what their inventor claimed and
what the homoeopathic remedy, if rightly chosen, will effect. The
same was done by other physicians who had tried these secret
remedies. But Mattei had in the meantime made depositories in
various countries by which his remedies came on the market.
But differences with these agents arose, and they imitated
Mattei's remedies, claiming to have discovered his secret. But
this dealing in secrets could not last long, and three of his imi-
tators so far have published writings in which this "secret" is
seemingly published, and it is averred besides, that it is the im-
proved Hahnemannian system. Whoever reads these publica-
tions will be astonished beyond measure by the effrontery with
which men belonging to a scientific profession, to which drug-
gists may be said to belong, dare to offer to the world such a
pharmaceutic humbug, reminding one of the worst times of the
dark ages and attempt to compare it with the homoeopathic sys-

The Epidemic Remedy. 33

tern established by the genial Samuel Hahnemann. On the one
side we see the master who refuses to give more than one remedy
at a time, and this one proved on healthy men, and who zeal-
ously opposes all mixtures; on the other side the electro-homoe-
opathic druggist, who would like to do business with the
adherents of Homoeopathy and audaciously avers that he has
compounded a remedy which will cure scrofula, using Asarum,
Scrofularia, Rubia tinct., Phosphori acid, Ralijod., Calcarea carb.,
Sulphur and Natrum mur., thus that he is trying to mix together
remedies which according to chemistry cannot mix. If a cook
were to aver that he can make a savory, wholesome dish of peb-
bles, sourcrout, Epsom salts, sugar, sheep skin, ox horns, asses' ears,
rancid butter and mouldy cheese even the most simple person could
not believe him. But if the same thing were averred with Latin
names by a druggist, then there will always be found people
who allow themselves to be ensnared. No doubt there are pa-
tients who are alleviated and even gain health while using such
mixtures. But these are not cures but natural recoveries, such
as are also seen with many other methods and remedies, if the
curative process initiated by the natural healing forces are not
interfered with. But this electro-homoeopathic humbug has
nothing to do with Homoeopathy. To use the name of Homoeop-
athy in connection with this quackery arises either from ignorance
of scientific homoeopathic therapeutics, or it is misleading the public
with evil intent.

THE EPIDEMIC GRIPPE REMEDY.
By T. C. Duncan, M. D.

The reappearance of La Grippe leads epidemologists to search
carefully for the epidemic remedy. The study of the few cases
that are met after a recurrent boreal wave seems to call for Bella-
donna. There is the sore throat, the evolvement of the eyes with
the upper air passages and bursting headache with sometimes pro-
jectile vomiting. The accelerated heart is manifest by fever and
throbbing and aching all over. Sometimes hoarseness is an early
symptom, then there may remain a cough from the bronchial
envolvement.

There is another phase that gives all the symptoms of a "hard
cold." The tidal barrier gives way to the severe bronchial in-
flammation and the bronchioles, the vesicles and finally lobules

34 Why Veterinary Profession Has Not Advanced.

are involved, giving a true bronchial pneumonia. A person who
neglects a cold when "grippe" prevails does so at his peril.
The danger is along the line of progressive asphyxiation from
profuse mucus blocking the bronchi preventing aeration of the
blood.

The indication for treatment is to arrest the progressive in-
flammation and hasten resolution. Belladonna or Veratrum
may be needed, perhaps Bryonia if the pleura is affected, giving
its characteristic pains. Phosphorus hastens the resolution.
The form may be Ferrum phos., Kali phos., Strych. phos., or Calc
phos. The blush of inflammation when the parenychyma of the
lung is involved may need Ferrumphos. Then the clear article
Phosphorus is indicated by the profuse frothy exudate. A mis-
take is often made by loosening the cough too much. This is
the danger in children and in old people. Tart. em. has smoth-
ered many a case, even since being prohibited by the surgeon
general in the Civil War. Kali phos. has a tough fibrous mucus.
Strychnia phos. meets the great lassitude so characteristic of this
disease. If the reabsorption is tardy, the cough persistent so that
tuberculosis is feared, remember Calc phos. and Sulphur.

While Belladonna seems to be the epidemic remedy now, it may
not be after the January thaw. Remember that while the first
symptoms are epidemic, the second are those typical of the
disease assumed and the last are individual or constitutional.

Chicago, December 27, 1898.

WHY THE VETERINARY PROFESSION HAS NOT

ADVANCED.

Dr. Wilmar J. Murphy.

The practice of human medicine and the practice of veterinary
medicine should advance hand in hand. Their interests are so
closely allied that the public good requires that each should
benefit the other and be benefited in return by one another.
Looking at the history of human medicine we can see the rapid
strides of advancement as various truths connected with its vital
interests have been discovered. Where we find a number of in-
curable diseases we can look further and find an incapable
materia medica, and as the useless drugs have been eliminated
and worthless practices abandoned the medical art has been
forced further to the front and mankind has been benefited by
its progress.

Why Veterinary Profession Has Not Advanced. 35

Let us compare the veterinary profession with its sister pro-
fession, and we find the one advancing year by year, discarding
old ideas, accepting new truths and approaching step by step
nearer a new science, while the other still wallows in the mire
of ignorance and degradation, not advancing a single step.

Why has the veterinary profession not developed into a
science? Surely its progress is a necessity. The health of a
nation depends almost wholly on the condition of the food pro-
duct the people consume. Diseases of animals exert a very
material influence on the health of the human race. Tuberculo-
sis in man and beast is very closely allied — one probably the
cause of the other. Ravages of animal ills destroy the wealth of
the community. Long ago these facts were established. Many
of the early religious laws were enforced to prevent the race's
extermination by the consumption of diseased meat, and yet so
important an art, so vital an interest and a subject so fraught
with dangeroug possibilities has been abandoned almost entirely.
What a lamentable fact it is that a subject so important, so
serious, so vital, is allowed to sink year by year deeper into the
depths of obscurity and ignorance because of prejudice alone.

Some say the art has not advanced and will not do so because
the future of the horse is clothed in obscurity, that the possi-
bilities of electrical locomotion seem to limit that animal's use-
fulness, and a thorough knowledge of the animal economy
hardly necessary. Such is a very superficial view of the sub-
ject. However, let us look at the situation in the extreme and
assume that the horse entirely disappears from the field of vet-
erinary practice. Consider the vast dairy interests, the demand
for pure milk, the necessity for wholesome meat product, the
many industries dependent upon sheep growing and the like, all
of which require for successful ends that animal diseases be
thoroughly understood and their treatment reduced to a pure
science.

But the horse is not going to disappear, and domestic animals
and their ills will continue to be as closely allied with the in-
terests of the human race as ever. We can answer the question
why the veterinary profession has not advanced. It is because
it has associated with its existence the most barbarous practices
that could be imagined. An incapable materia medica has
wrought a great deal of harm. Animal medication has been
one grand conjecture. The most heroic practices have been

2,6 Why Veterinary Profession Has Not Advanced.

tolerated with the most disastrous results until the public mind
associates the veterinary art with a combination of barbarity
and inhumanity. Diseases unknown before came with the ad-
vent of animal prescribing. The cold, raw, damp exposure
caused less mortality than did the action of irritating drugs and
cruel and inhuman practices, until finally animals stricken with
disease were abandoned to their fate rather than permit them to
be tortured by those who understood next to nothing of the sub-
ject in which they were supposed to be proficient. Thus came
into existence such barbarous acts as the stamping out of animal
plagues when the disorders so feared were remedial ills. Whole
herds of valuable cattle have been thus destroyed, because pre-
judice would not bow to the truth of recent discoveries in the
practice of medicine.

Prejudice and ignorance have retarded the advancement of the
veterinary profession. Only now is the darkness rising in which
it has been for years enveloped disappearing. Incurable diseases,
or, in other words, ills not understood, are gradually diminishing
in number, only because Homoeopathy has entered the field. Its
remedies have attacked incurable pleuro- pneumonia and like ills,
and proved them to be but remedial disorders, and since its ad-
vent the future of the profession looks brighter, but before it can
advance the old incapable materia medica must be cast aside,
heroic medication must be abandoned, cruelty must not be tol-
erated, the balling-iron must be discarded, the seaton must rust
away in some dark corner, pledotomy must be forsaken, the
firing-iron must enter some other useful field of service, abomin-
able cruelties must cease, bulky, nauseating, caustic, irritating
drugs must be debarred, drenching and insufflation must become
relics of barbarous antiquity, and we must learn that drugs do
not have to be poisonous to be useful or irritant to be effective,
that Homoeopathy must take the place of empirical delusions
and that the grand and beautiful law of Hahnemann must be
the guiding factor in the practice of veterinary medicine.

Then the profession will advance and assume its proper place,
become a profession in fact as well as name, an art applied as
well as supposed, a science worthy alike of study and devotio".
Only through the efforts of Homoeopathy can it advance, ^i
alone can rescure it, and until the truth is known and univers-
ally expounded, the profession will remain degraded, abandoned,

Ferrum PJiosplwricum. $7

mistrusted and hopelessly resigned to the unfortunate and lamen-
table fate of undeserved obscurity.
230 West 58th St, New York.

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM IN SUPRA-ORBITAL

NEURALGIA.

Translated from Revue Homceopathique Francaise for HomcEopaThic
Recorder by W. A. Dewey, M. D.

Dr. Parenteau in the Societe Francaise D'Homceopathie at
the last meeting read a paper as follows:

11 In 1897, in discussing Ferrum phosphoricum in this society,
Dr. Ximier assured us that this remedy finds an application in
supra-orbital neuralgia of the right side with a morning ag-
gravation.

"At that time I had a young patient of fifteen years, an
anaemic girl, with imperfect menstruation, who, for three months,
caused me to despair of curing owing to the tenacity of her
affection, which resisted all remedies prescribed.

" I, therefore, resolved to give her Ferrum phosphoricum in the
6x potency, and I had the surprise and satisfaction to note that
scarcely two days after the administration of the first dose a
certain amelioration was produced. Naturally, I continued the
remedy, and at the end of eight days the amelioration was such
that the patient thought herself cured. However, I advised her
to continue the treatment for a week longer and then report.
She did not come until two months afterward, but the cure was
absolute and without relapses.

" It is unnecessary to state that whenever I found a supra-
orbital neuralgia of the right side I hastened to give this
remedy; but several experiments of this kind having been
followed by absolute failure I was about to believe that my first
observation was a simple case of spontaneous cure, when
recently I had successively two cases of cure which convinced
me that the explanation given by Dr. Ximier was absolutely
exact.

" In the second case observed, it was not a young girl, but a
young woman of twenty-seven years, modiste, and who for months
had had attacks right-sided supraorbital neuralgia with morning
aggravations or coinciding with the menstrual periods, which
were very irregular, and with uterine hemorrhages, etc.

38 Ferrum Phosphoncum.

"After having vainly tried N?ix vomica then Chamomilla,
Belladomia, Colocynth, Ignatia, etc., I tried Ferrum phosphor icnm.

"As in the first case, three days had not passed before the
patient returned greatly relieved. I continued the remedy in
the 6x dilution for eight days, followed by the i2x and the i8x,
and at the end of three weeks the cure was complete without
relapse.

" The third case was similar to the two others, and I believe
that I am able to complete the indications furnished by Dr.
Nimier.

"Ashe had said, Ferrum phosphoricum is useful in supra-
orbital neuralgias of the right side with morning aggravation,
but it exerts its influence especially on the female sex, and
notably in young persons. The patients suffer from irregular-
ities in menstruation and often have special uterine troubles,
with tendency to hemorrhages. From this condition there
almost always results persistent cephalalgias and an anaemia
which may be more or less marked according to the case."

Dr. Bayes says: "I have been asked by an opponent, why
we claim Arnica as being homoeopathic to bruise ? Will it pro-
duce bruise, or its similar ? I once saw this occur. A girl who
was using Arnica lotion for an old sprain came and showed me
her knee, which, after having been wrapped up in Arnica com-
press some days, showed every sign of bruise; it was first
blackish, then changed to a greenish, afterwards to a yellowish
hue, before it recovered. This patient supposed it was drawing
the bruise out; but as the sprain was of many weeks' standing,
even that popular hypothesis would not explain it. I do not at-
tempt to theorize on this point, but am content to record the fact. ' '

A post-graduate course in old homoeopathic literature would
be the best that a young physician could take.

HOW MAY WE BECOME FAMILIAR WITH WITH
THE PRACTICE OF HOMCEOPATHY.

The answer to this question can be given by us only from the
simple standpoint of usefulness which to us is the decisive one.
According to our view it has been attempted in former times to
represent the study of Homoeopathy as exceedingly difficult, and
physicians who desired to acquaint themselves with it have

Book Notices* 39

been actually frightened away, so that it really requires a cer-
tain perseverance to penetrate more deeply into this curative
method. Dr. med. Grauvogl, in his " Manual of Homoeopathy "
(vol. II., p. 112), says: " I openly confess that after five years of
earnest study I have only succeeded in committing to memory
the complete provings of nine remedies, and I would not even
have been able to master these but for the numerous cases of
diseases which I had an opportunity of observing and but for
proving Aconite, Bellado?ina and Arsenicum on myself. ' ' But from
a full and genuine homoeopathic physician we expect the knowl-
edge of a whole series of remedies, based on his analytic and
synthetic elaborations of the provings on healthy persons. It is
not to be denied that such a knowledge acquired through labori-
ous study makes the treatment of patients in many cases much
more assured and certain, and that a Homoeopath educated in
this manner will be able to secure cures where another would
labor in vain. Taken as a whole, however, such cases form only
a very minute fraction of the great number of patients seeking
the aid of Homoeopathy. Such are cases, e. g., where the inves-
tigation of certain concomitant symptoms, which are covered by
a certain remedy because they have been found in its provings,
leads us to the remedy which is most similar. But when we
consider that the founder of Homoeopathy practiced homceopath-
ically for at least 15 years, thus for a long time before he insti-
tuted these exact and thorough provings, and even while thus
based merely on limited provings and stories of poisoning he
nevertheless even during this period accomplished extraordinary
cures which made him a celebrated physician, we can not take
very seriously the demand made in the above quotation, a de-
mand renewed again of late; least of all would we demand of a
man that before he practises Homoeopathy he should, like Dr.
Grauvogl, first study the provings for five years. — Translated.

BOOK NOTICES.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the
Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. By H. C. Allen,
M. D. 179 pages. Cloth. Si. 25: by mail, $1.32. Inter-
leaved cloth. $1.75; by mail, $1.90. Philadelphia. Boericke
& Tafel. 1898. ;

We cannot do better than quote from the preface of this book

in trying to give the reader an idea of its aim and scope:

"The life-work of the student of the homoeopathic Materia

Medica is one of constant comparison and differentiation. He

must compare the pathogenesis of a remedy with the recorded

4o Book Notices.

anamnesis of the patient; he must differentiate the apparently
similar symptoms of two or more medicinal agents in order to
select the similimum. To enable the student or practitioner to
do this correctly and rapidly, he must have as a basis for com-
parison some knowledge of the individuality of the remedy; some-
thing that is peculiar, wicommon, or sufficiently characteristic in
the confirmed pathogenesis of a polychrest remedy that may be
used as a pivotal point of comparison. It may be a so called
'keynote,' a 'characteristic,' the 'red strand of the rope,' any
central modality or principle — as the aggravation from motion
of Bryonia, the amelioration from motion of Rhus, the furious,
vicious delirium of Belladoima or the apathetic indifference of
Phosphoric acid — some familiar landmark around which the
symptoms may be arranged in the mind for comparison."

"Something of this kind seems indispensable to enable us to
intelligently and successfully use our voluminous symptom-
atology. Also, if we may judge from the small number of
homoeopathic physicians who rely on the single remedy in
practice, and the almost constant demand for a ' revision ' of the
Materia Medica, its study in the past, as well as at present, has
not been altogether satisfactory to the majority."

"An attempt to render the student's task less difficult, to
simplify its study, to make it both interesting and useful, to
place its mastery within the reach of every intelligent man or
woman in the profession, is the apology for the addition of
another monograph to our present works of reference."

" It is all-important that the first step in the study of homoe-
opathic therapeutics be correctly taken, for the pathway is then
more direct and the view more comprehensive. The object of
this work is to aid the student to master that which is guiding
and characteristic in the individuality of each remedy and thus
utilize more readily the symptomatology of the homoeopathic
Materia Medica, the most comprehensive and practical work for
the cure of the sick ever given the medical profession."

The work is finely printed on first-class paper and it ought to
be, with its sterling contents, a homoeopathic classic.

Lutze's " Therapeutics of Facial and Sciatic Neuralgias, with
Repertories and Clinical Cases," will probably be as much of a
standard work as Bell's Diarrhoea. It is built of the same lines,

Book Notices. 41

and from it you will not find much difficulty in selecting the
remedy that will acre ninety per cent, of the neuralgia cases
coming your way.

The Porcelain Painter s Son, just published, is in Dr. S. A.
Jones's happiest vein and a more charming book and at the same
one better fitted to shed light on the spirit of Hahnemann and
Homoeopathy was never published. It is gotten up in elegant
style and would be just the book for the waiting room table.

Keep that table ficll of Homoeopathic missionary books.

The history of Hahnema?in Medical College, Philadelphia, by
Dr. T. L. Bradford, has met with warm approval of the Alumni
for whom it was published. Think of 904 pages, octavo! The
work is well done and must be of great value to all in any way
interested in the mother college. The book contains many
illustrations, mentions the name of every one ever connected
with the college and is extraordinarily cheap — 904 pages, S3. 75,
express prepaid, or S3. 50 at pharmacy.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have Dr. T. C. Duncan's little
work " How to be Plump," in hand. It is a little cloth bound
i6mo. book, of 60 pages and sells for 50 cents. It was pub-
lished in 1878. The following letter concerning the book is
interesting:

Chicago, November 22, 1898.

Dear Dr. Duncan: In the summer of 1880 my weight was 116
pounds. I secured, on the advice of a friend, a copy of your
little book, " How to be Plump," and read it. Xow I weigh
178 pounds. Very sincerely,

(Rev.) Wm. H. Holmes.

Dr. H. C. Allen, of the Medical Advance, says of the recently
published second edition of Norton's Ophthalmic Diseases, etc.,
that "it is a complete, practical and up-to-date work; in fact,
in almost every particular a new book." And what particularly
pleases the Advance is that while Norton is a great specialist he
has not neglected Homoeopathy, which, on the contrary, is
one of the strong points of this book. What the author has to

42 Book Notices.

say of cataract — that taken early it can be cured with medicine —
is commented on by Dr. Allen as follows: "This is a frank ad-
mission from one of onr ablest specialists, and it is especially
valuable when incorporated in one of our best text-books, for
members of other schools of practice may from this be induced
to investigate the claim."

In the December number of the Medical Gleaner Dr. Cooper
thus expresses himself (and others, too) as to Dr. Burnett's
trick of getting down to the roots of things. This is brought
out by the recently published book, Change of Life in Women.

" This is the latest work of Dr. Burnett. The only reason
why it cannot be called his best work is because the excellence
of each of his books touches the superlative degree. In addition
to its elegant polish, there is a riant wimple, and a sort of
rhetorical abandon about his literary style, which would make
his books charming if they did not contain an idea. But they
are crammed with thought, such thought as emanates from great
brains only. I have never before seen the philosophy of
physiology so originally, profoundly and brilliantly treated as
Dr. Compton treats it in this peerless little book. Whatever
may be a physician's medical bias, he needs this little book. C."

" No printed record of medical thought and labor is without
possible use to the profession. Hence the pitiableness of our
neglect of medical libraries. Most precious things are daily
going to waste. Every member of the profession should arouse
every other to put an end to the incomprehensible neglect." —
Philadelphia Medical Journal.

" Hahnemann again laid the foundation by his doctrine of
concomitant circumstances, and none has known how to carry out
more strictly the the consideration of the indication from these
circumstances than Dr. Von Boenninghausen. His Therapeutic
Pocket-book is an imperishable work of the greatest importance
for practice, and could be prepared only by an eminent intellect,
and by unwearied theoretical and practical studies." — Von
Grauvogl.

Horraoeopathic Recorder.

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VOL. XIV.

The Homceopathic Recorder is now safely past the hoodoo
number 13 and auspiciously started on the 14th volume. Some
sample copies are sent out with the hopes that those who
receive them may become subscribers.

Compare the contents of this number of the Recorder with
that of any other homceopathic medical journal in the office: Is
it not as good, perhaps better, than the best on the table ? And
far better than the average run of medical journals ?

The subscription price is $1.00 a year.

All are invited to become contributors. Send in your contri-
bution to the common fund of homoeopathic knowledge if it is
only a note of a dozen lines. The Recorder's readers are not
bunched in one section, but are like the British drum-beat, and
your note, or paper will be heard around the world.

Your subscription respectfully solicited.

A MORTALITY OF 100 PER CENT.

Dr. W. V. M. Taylor, of McKeesport, Pa., under the heading
"What Killed the Babies," writes to Medical Council of
December as follows:

I was called to see a child 14 months old. The child was apparently
well except that when nursing it would immediately begin coughing
violently, as though some of the fluid entered the trachea; nothing further
was noticeable. The mother called me, fearing it might have croup, as
she had never seen a case of croup. Twelve hours later I saw it, and found
some hoarseness. I saw it again in about twelve hours; hoarseness con-
tinued, and with it slight stenosis, but nothing to be seen about the
fauces. I administered 2,000 antitoxin units. Seeing it again after twelve
hours I found stenosis and hoarseness about the same, although it was
drowsy and still contined to strangle when nursing; I administered another
2,000 antitoxin units. In about twelve hours I saw it again; vitality fail-

44 Editorials.

ing, stenosis and hoarsenes slightly increased, but no cyanosis; gave 1,000
antitoxin units. Four hours later we had a corpse. The other treatment
consisted of calomel to catharsis, strychnine arseniate and apomorphine.
I have used antitoxin in three cases of croup and one of diphtheria, with
a mortality of ioo per cent.

RATIONAL MEDICINE.

About fifty years ago Dr. Jacob Bigelow turned loose upon
the world the term "rational medicine." He did not demonstrate
what that sort of medicine was, save in theory, but the term
was accepted and has been used ever since, chiefly by those who
are noted for their disbelief in anything positively curative in
medicine.

"It is the part of rational medicine," says Bigelow "to re-
quire evidence for what it admits and believes." This sounds
rather well, but does any outsider, doctor or layman, admit and
believe without evidence ?

Again writes the originator of the term: "It is the part of
rational medicine to enlighten the public and the profession in
regard to the true powers of the healing art." This is a high
standard and a laudable one, and as it involves the ability to
teach not only the public, but also the profession, "the true
powers of the healing art," the term "rational physician" is
one not to be lightly assumed.

Dr. Bigelow was with Holmes, among the original of the
rational physicians, if not the first, and he classed Hahnemann's
Organon as one of the " hasty prejudiced, credulous and incom-
petent witnesses." The teachings of this book, however, have
been followed more or less faithfully down to this day and the
results, statistically, have been considerably better than those of
<( rational " medicine. On the other hand, to what definite con-
clusion has rational medicine come on the true powers of the
healing art which it is its mission to teach? Without prejudice
it really looks as though the homoeopath only is entitled to the
term rational medicine, for he can give rational reasons for what
he does and is about the onlv one who can.

MEN WHO KNOW THINGS.

The Charlotte Medical Journal recently had a rather interesting
paper on the subject of " Does it Pay a Physician to Study?"
and came to a negative conclusion, because "the]'man who

Editorials. 45

puts in his time at his books, at his microscope and in his
laboratory gets left," by physicians who do none of these things.
I find that I am using my microscope less than I formerly did. To find
an abundance of tubercle bacilli in sputum, while the patient seems in the
best of health and spirits, makes me down in the mouth and the patient
finds a more hopeful doctor. Casts in the urine always frighten me, and I
warn the patient until he gets discouraged. No, it doesn't pay to study and
work in this profession.

"The people don't want a physician who knows things."
That is all balderdash. The people instinctively turn away from
the men who think they " know things," but do not; from the
men who make the beginning and the end, the cause and effect
of disease, to lie in " microbes;" that is all. There probably is
not a mother's son of us whose throat, if swabbed, in the morn-
ing and sent to the men who "know things," but would be
ordered into quaratine by the wise Boards of Health.

SCIENTIST OR MARTYR, WHICH ?

England is still in a state of indignation over the death of
Harold Frederick, while being treated by a Christian scientist.
Canon Eyton preached on the subject from the pulpit of West-
minster Abbey and said he knew Mr. Frederick personally, but
he could not imagine how he could have consented to the course
he did. But are not men we know personally always apt to act
in a manner we cannot account for? We know from his books
that he hated doctors and that is all.

From the London letter to the Medical Record (December 10,
1898) on this subject we quote the following abstract of the
sermon of the Rev. Mr. Eyton :

Mr. Eyton says the curious feature of the growth of credulity in these
times is that it is taking place alongside of an enormous expansion of edu-
cation. He laments the lack of common sense which lets apparent.137 well-
informed people swallow any new quackery just as they swallow "patent
pills by the handful, without the least regard to the condition of their
body." The "only remedy for the terrible growth of credulity is to teach
people to think, to use their brains, to widen their mental processes."

But can anyone blame "the people" for this? In religion
is there not a perfect babel of teachers, and is not "regular
medicine" deluged with new things that are little better than
nostrums? Supplements to dictionaries are needed to list them.
And yet have we not heard from great authorities that medi-
cine is merely given to amuse the patient, while nature does

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the work ? Also that if all drugs were thrown into the sea it
would be better for man and worse for the fishes ?

The Christian scientist is, of course, an arrant little humbug,
but she has slyly taken the big-wigs at their own words and gives
no medicine, but her "sweet Chrristianity " instead, and now
they rage at her in secular, religious and medical press. Better
shrug your shoulders, gentlemen, and pass on, for if you make
a " Christian martyr" out of her she will be far more unman-
ageable than at present. Let he alone and, as the Greeks would
say, "she, too, will pass."

A homoeopathic medical magazine speaking of independence of journal-
ism says, with truth: "A medical journal that is tied to a college or a
pharmacy or any other institution holding the editor by the throat is usu-
ally not worth reading. Its opinions are obviously valueless. Its editorial
ideas are but empty echoes. If he has any convictions they must be bottled
up. His self-respect must be subordinate to his master's self-esteem." And
a lot more like it, all of which is too true. — American Homceopathist.

There is rather more than the average amount of rot in the
above quotation from the unnamed "homoeopathic medical
magazine." Whether a homoeopathic journal is worth its salt
or not depends on the man behind the pen and not on the owners,
who are satisfied to confine themselves to the advertising pages.
Is not Friend Kraft himself a shining example ? Surely he is
not held by throat, yet is not his journal " tied " to a New York
publishing house? As a matter of fact, when editor, owner and
publisher are all one and the same, the worst of all " masters "
is then felt, to wit, the Wolf at the Door.

The Medical Dial, Vol. I, No. 1, December, 1898, comes to
hand. It is published at Minneapolis, Minn., and the editor is
J. W. Macdonald, M. D., F. R. C. S. E. The salutatory begins
thus:

"The City of Minneapolis, with a population of two hun-
dred and fifteen thousand people, and three hundred and fifty
practicing physicians, the seat of two prosperous medical colleges,
six general hospitals and five dispensaries, and the medical
center of a vast territory, has no journal to voice the interests of
the regular medical profession. To supply this open field The
Medical Dial makes its appearance."

Well, Gesimdheit.

Editorials. 47

A Dr. Roulix lately made his application for membership to
the Medical Society of Paris, and, as is usual, read a scientific
paper, taking as his subject " What Should be the Treatment of
Diphtheria." Of antitoxin he said:

" All told, the serum is far from being infallible; it kills, death
being often attributed to no other cause than its use. It pro-
duces cardiac paralysis, nephritis, arthralgia, general paralysis,
urticaria, erythema, and abscesses, as well as progressive de-
bility, followed later on by death."

In Modern Medicine (Dec, 1898), Dr. Elmer Lee has the fol-
lowing to say of that host of laboratory products that have
sprung up during the past few years, most of them originally
made in Germany, but all more or less imitated in this country.

"The multiplication of new chemicals, which are everywhere pressed
upon the physician first, then the public, is pretty conclusive evidence that
the therapy of this day is not satisfactory, or else physicians are easily im-
posed upon by the promises of the impossible from the latest drug claimant.
It also shows that the doctor is dissatisfied with his standards, or loves con-
tinual experimentation. If a simple, natural materia medica prevailed in
the profession, it would enable the physician to base the cure of disease and
his hope for prosperity on selling his wits to the patient rather than the
drugs of the apothecary. People everywhere ought, and generally will,
pay a greater price for sound counsel than for a prescription for medicines.
The strong incentive to excel in medicine is commendable, and should be
based upon the desire to be a wise health-counselor, rather than a routine
prescriber of chemicals, thus commanding respect and good fees. This is
proper and just."

EXPERIMENTS WITH PASSIFLORA INCARNATA.

Dr. Isaac Ott, Professor of Physiology in the Medico-Chi.,
Philadelphia, has been making some experiments on frogs,
rabbits, etc., as to the action of Passiflora, which he reports at
length in the December number of Medical Bulletin. His con-
clusions are as follows:

It is evident that in Passiflora incarnata we have a drug of considerable
power, producing a depressant action upon the reflex activity of the spinal
cord. In cases of acute mania it arrests the exaggerated activity of the
cortex. Upon the circulation it only temporarily reduces the pulse and
arterial tension. The fall of arterial pressure seems to be due to an action
upon the main vasomotor centre in the medulla oblongata. Upon the rate
of respiration it seems to act as an excitant. These facts show that it can
be administered in large doses without any danger to the heart or respira-
tion-centre. As nearly all other nerve-sedatives greatly depress the heart
and respiratory apparatus, it is a great advantage of this drug that it does
not affect these organs except in a temporary manner.

PERSONAL.

Arndt's great one-volume work on Practice is nearly completed. It will
be the work on the subject. Wait for it and thus get the latest and best.

What is the root difference between the Christian scientist who tells the
patient there is nothing ailing him, and the hypnotist who " suggests " it to
him?

The man who blows in his money as he goes along is apt to say that the
one who doesn't is a robber and a bond holder.

Tinctures " made from the aerial and subterranean " parts of the plant is
one way of putting the " whole plant."

" Immune " is a pet word these days, yet no man knoweth the condition
of the " immune," nor need envy it.

" Gelsemium is far superior to Quinine in influenza." — Med. Summary.
Oh, you heretic!

Boericke & Tafel can now supply Glinicum and Schirrin 30, 100, 200,
1,000, and Cupressus V. Vide Burnett's books.

FOR SALE. -^n e^egant home in southern California, a complete
modern house of ten rooms, all improvements, seven
lots, cement walks, flowers, fruits and ornamental trees. One block from
post office, situated in one of the healthiests towns in the state. Just the
place for a homoeopathic physician, the nearest being five miles away. For
particulars address P. O. Box 1693, Anaheim, Cal.

Read " A Prophetic Voice from the Past," on page 16, in connection with
Naegli's experiments demonstrating power in almost inconceivably high
potency.

Imbert Gourbeyre says that Arnica, though not mentioned in our prac-
tices for that purpose is, a " remedy of the first order for cardialgia, gastral-
gia, etc."

"We know that Hahnemann used Bcenninghausen's Repertory {Thera-
peutic Pocket Book) entirely, and that he considered it indispensable."
David Wilson.

Every graduate of the New York Homoeopathic Medical College and
Hospital is requested to send his name and present address to the corre-
sponding secretary of the Alumni in order that a new list of all graduates
may be complete. Address Dr. Edwin S. Munson, Cor. Sec, 16 W. 45th
street, New York City.

What happens when a hair-raising story is told to a bald-headed man ?

Time was when diphtheria was a rare disease, but "sore throat " was as
common as " diphtheria" is now.

Wait until you have a quiet half hour at your disposal and devote it to
reading Heysinger's paper in this number of the Recorder. Then think
it over. It concerns every member of the profession.

Have you read The Scientific Basis of Medicine by Heysinger? It is a
good "broadener," none better.

J?0 R SALE. Book and instruments. The entire library or single
volumes of it, as left by a deceased Doctor; also surgical
instruments, casee *tc, everything in good shape. Catalogue sent by mail
on application. ., .^l^ Geo. S. Caruthers, Box 130, Pittsburgh, Pa.

No, John Henry, 1-10 tinctures are not the Hahnemannian ix, but they
are close to it.

The HoMceoPATHic Recorder published monthly, Si. 00 per annum.
Why not subscribe ?

THE

Homeopathic Recorder.

vol XIV. Lancaster, Pa] February, 1899, No. 2

BROADENING OUT.

A Paper for Physicians.

By I. W. Heysinger, M. A., M. D., author of "The Source and Mode
of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe;" "The Battle Against Pros-
perity;" "The Scientific Basis of Medicine;" "Marriage and Divorce,"
etc., etc.

[CONCLUDED.]

All over our broad land are hundreds of towns of from 2,500
to 10,000 inhabitants, in which not a homoeopathic physician
can be found. Why are these places not occupied ?

Good men would be welcome there, and doubly so. and would
soon build up practices which would make them easy and inde-
pendent for life. These places are not hard to find, for they exist
all over the country, and these communities are often highly intel-
ligent and progressive. There is always room here, and remem-
ber that the fairest and finest flowers always hang furthest from
the stem. Once in a while, in these places, some exceptional doctor
already located there, feels the incessant call of a specialty which
draws him to some great city-center, and which cannot be evaded.
As a rule, the city physicians of the highest rank, those who
have made and left the most conspicuous and enduring mark on
their age, have thus been drawn from smaller towns to our great
cities; but these instances are rare, and far more frequently city
physicians scatter to smaller towns. But city failures are looked
upon askance in such places, and the best time to locate there is
immediately after graduation and with opportunity to grow up
with the place. This will give leisure and scope for the sys-
tematic course of scientific and practical broadening, to which
reference has been made, and restore the warped and atrophied
rotundity of an all around man, which has been greatly im-

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paired by four years of unilateral gymnastics. As Sam. Weller
said, amid such surroundings we " can see him swellin' wisibly
before our wery eyes."

Every physician, and especially every homoeopathic phy-
sician going forth to practise medicine, ought to be a mis-
sionary; and unless he is fitted to instruct, by example and
precept, and by a thorough knowledge of the fundamental
principles and applications of his school, he ought not to un-
dertake it. If an ignorant old-school physician is a blunder,
an equally ignorant homoeopathic physician is a crime. For he
will go into direct and inevitable competition with well-equipped
practitioners of other schools of medicine, and these, for the
sake of their own bread and butter, as well as for their princi-
ples, will resist by all those arts and all that skill which were
formerly employed, but so ineffectually, against our school of
practice here and elsewhere. For in those earlier days the
men whom they attacked were the bravest and brightest from
their own fold, those with eyes to see what passed before them,
with minds clear enough to comprehend, and souls brave and
strong enough to act; and against these trebly-armed defenders
all their assaults failed and their shafts were turned against
themselves. It has often seemed that graduates of homoeopathic
schools, by having in a measure lost the standard of comparison
between successes and failures under the different systems of
practice, are at a disadvantage, since they cannot feel and see the
swift response and brilliant results, almost miraculous, indeed,
which the earlier homoeopaths were accustomed to, and that in
consequence they do not realize the enormous advantages placed
in their hands, nor pursue the system as closely and as philosophi-
cally as its older and more bilateral followers did. A visitor to
Egypt once startled a native by casually remarking, " It is a fine
day." V A what?" asked the native, in astonishment.

There is one thing certain, a homoeopath in a new community
will gain neither in repute nor practice, nor in the good opinion
of his rivals of other schools, by taking a back seat, or by cater-
ing to their good will and wish in his modes of practice. If he
is a bastard homoeopath he had better crawl off into some surg-
ing crowd where he can conceal his variations and modifications,
his imitations and limitations, his substitution of impotency for
potencies. For an old school practitioner, born and bred, there
is much respect due, for he represents a vast class of the ablest

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men, who have followed a systematic and scientific line of re-
search along somewhat narrow lines, their only defect being that
they have not given to the system of Hahnemann the same prac-
tical care and study which they have given to their own, which
it would pay them well to do, and which many of them in private
practice actually do. It used to be said that it was impossible to
obtain a thoroughly competent and trustworthy opinion of
Homoeopathy from an old school physician, because until he had
fully and dispassionately investigated it, clinically and other-
wise, his opinion was worthless, and as soon as he did this he,
himself, became a homoeopath, and his brethren incontinently
kicked him out and kept no more account of him. But they
will learn; they have learned, and are still learning, and a ho-
moeopathic physician, of rank, skill and accomplishments, build-
ing up a practice in a town of a few thousand people, and in con-
tact with a number of old-school physicians of equal intellect,
will soon make close and valued friends among them.

As illustrating this growing feeling of a common brotherhood
in the noble aims of a physician's life, the Germantown Medical
Society, which meets monthly and has an active membership of
about 150 homoeopathic physicians of Philadelphia, at its recent
annual meeting sent the following fraternal and congratulatory
message to the Phila. County Medical Society, then holding its
50th anniversary. The correspondence, as quoted from the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, is as follows:

Kind Words for the Homoeopaths.

At the meeting of the Philadelphia County Medical Society
on Tuesday evening the following communication was read:

"The Homoeopathic Medical Society of Germansown at its
twenty-first annual meeting unanimously voted to send to the
Philadelphia County Medical Society its greeting and to ex-
press the hope for a long and continuous career of usefulness in
the common cause in which all medical men are engaged."

This response was adopted:

"The Philadelphia County Medical Society acknowledges
with thanks the kind greetings on the occasion of its semi-cen-
tennial, and desires to express to the Homoeopathic Medical
Society of Germantown its appreciation of the courteous senti-
ments conveyed."

These old-school rivals are men who have themselves followed,

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for at least four years, a course of study of old-school medicine,
which is not a trifling matter, by any means, in its requirements;
they have handled their drugs clinically and otherwise, and
they understand their business. We who have followed this
course and pursued this practice know what that means.

And Hahnemann, as has been well said, never asserted that
Homoeopathy was the only means or method of cure, but that it
was the only direct law of cure. It is the best, quickest, most
certain and, usually, most applicable, but because a homoeopathic
pocket case has been lost in the creek that is no reason why the
patient must die; try a turpentines toup and a dose of oil; he
will probably worry along somehow, the principal trouble being,
as Pat expressed it, that under old-school treatment he "was
sick a month after he got well."

But for a homoeopathic physician, who has never taken this
four years' old school course at all, who does not understand and
has never systematically studied this complex old school method
of practice, to undertake to "drop into it" is an insult to
decency, to common sense and to our old school brethren them-
selves. It is not old school practice, it is old woman's practice,
and is justly greeted by our old-school confreres with a hilarious
guffaw. God save us all from such a practice, or else give us
the " Indian doctor," " the powwow witch," or the old granny
herself, with her simples, her notebook and her ineffable scorn
for " larnin'."

So, for heaven's sake and your own, don't go into a new town
where the old-school doctors carry their flour on old Dobbin at
one end of the bag and a stone at the other to balance it, because
" daddy always carried his jug that way," and undertake to beat
them on their own ground. Stick to Homoeopathy as our older
practitioners did, and you will win a crown of recompense and
honor, as they did.

Be ready to learn all about the system of Homoeopathy; study it
thoroughly, and those who established it, so that you will be able
to meet your opponents and detractors on their own ground and
vanquish them. Hahnemann was, after Hippocrates, and per-
haps before Hippocrates, the great medical reformer of the whole
world's history, and all schools of practice are now turning to
that belief. He found medicine chaos, he left it system. He
found pathology not only puerile, but preposterous, and every
teacher, and clique, and school at sword's points with every

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other. Pathology to-day is nothing to brag of: if you think it is,
turn back only twenty years, and every one will concede that,
even so recently as that, it was "dead wrong" — what will it be
in twenty years to come? Hahnemann, of necessity, was
obliged to abandon that sort of pathology as a rational guide, for
it itself was irrational and untrue; but he put the reluctant and
contradictory witness on the stand, and wrung from him by a
system of cross-questioning, the like of which was never heard
of before, the essential and eternal truths, and when lagging
pathology, still with lame and halting feet, catches up here and
there, the swift answer comes back — it is all right, the criminal
has already confessed and the correct discipline has been applied.

There is no system of Therapeutics and Materia Medica so
closely and firmly knit up with pathology as that of the Homoeo-
pathic school. Its whole science may be said to be based on the
poisonous action of drugs, thoroughly studied out; and by prop-
erly comminuting these crude drugs (as an old-school physician
does when he rubs up metallic mercury into Blue Mass), we can
even develop poisonous activities in substances originally inert.
In that old gold mine, Jahr's " Homoeopathic Practice" (Snel-
ling's edition), out of thirty pages devoted to Aconite as a remedy,
more than twenty pages are given to the Rationale of its Action,
as a poison, Clinical Observations, Toxicology, General Symp-
toms and Pathological Anatomy, during which are cited at length
more than fifty different authorities.

Homoeopathic treatment is entirely a process of observation,
deduction and experiment, and is strictly scientific and logical
throughout.

When dealing with men who do not understand, and have not
investigated scientific problems, bear in mind there is a credulity
of incredulity far more dangerous, because ignorant and uncon-
scious, than that against which it so strenuously preaches. For
men like this true science does not even exist, and never can
exist; for utter humility and a willingness to be led witherso-
ever facts and sound deductions may go are the elementary
essentials to make a scientific training even possible.

When Hahnemann wrote nearly seventy years ago of Asiatic
cholera, "they take away with them in their clothes, on their
skin, on their hair and probably, also, in their breath, the in-
visible {probably animated} and perpetually reproductive contagious
matter surrounding the cholera patient, and this contagious

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matter they unconsciously and unsuspectingly carry along with
them throughout the town," was he not already the John Baptist
of the coming pathological bacteriology and antiseptic hygiene ? —
and looking far backward into bis " psora theory" you will find
displayed the whole germ theory of to-day. No microscope had
yet revealed these germs.

In studying Hahnemann and Homoeopathy do not be drawn
aside by controverted or controversional points, many of them as
fine as a hair and as unimportant. In this way Ingersoll attempts
to make the Bible eat itself up; but when more than twenty
years ago he prognosticated that on account of his wonderful on-
slaughts (he did not know how little there was in his attacks
which was both new and important) in ten years, thereafter,
there would not be a Christian church left in this country, he
simply miscalculated his aim, and with his toy arrows awakened
a sleeping lion. If you will cite Kepler, or Newton, or Faraday,
or any of the great discoverers, you must do it broadly and not
by niggling, nor must you answer niggling by other niggling.
What is little understood may, nevertheless, be true, and if any-
thing is disproven it is but little, and even here the great re-
former was far, far in advance of his day and on the way to
truth.

Stand to defend Homoeopathy wherever you go, not with
blatant mouth and venomous tongue, but with that quietness
of mastery from which, when properly presented and fortified,
there is no appeal. It has the force of the silent ballot, which
falls so lightly —

" But executes the freemen's will
As lightning does the will of God! "

Homoeopathic physicians are notoriously the book buyers and
instrument buyers of the whole medical profession. There are
more perfectly appointed homoeopathic offices and private hos-
pitals in this city than of any other school of practice, and far
better and more extensive private medical libraries. When you
go into a new place, keep it up; it will do you good and it will
count.

But do not let your instruments and books get between your-
self and your patient. Always seek to command the situation
by your own individuality, and make every instrument you use a
mere servant to do your bidding. A good mechanic, it is con-
stantly said in workshop practice, may be known by the

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few tools be uses. A good physician should know of all these
appliances and understand how to use them, lest he miss some-
thing sometimes, or else have to stand silent when accused of
not being up to date, which these books and appliances will dis-
prove, but, like rank and the stamp on the coin,

" The man's the gowd, for a' that."

Let nothing bigger than yourself get between your own indi-
viduality and the individuality of your patient. Said the emi-
nent surgeon and teacher, Dr. W. W. Keen, in his recent ad-
dress before the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old School
County Medical Society, of this city, when speaking of the great
men of the past who founded this society: " They taught noth-
ing of bacteriology or antiseptics, [but Hahnemann did], but of
the senses, of the eye that was so alert to see the symptoms of
disease; of the touch, now becoming, I fear, a lost art; of the ear,
ready to hear the slightest deviation from the rhythm of health;
their brain ready and alert to correlate all the facts learned by
their educated senses."

When settled down and endeavoring to round out the slab-
sided, gaunt, gawky and half-emasculated personality left after
the keel-hauling of a four years' medical course, and with a keen
eye all the while for a stray patient, gradually growing more
frequent, what shall be the order of your comings and goings in
the community ? for you are unconscicusly building yourself
into the neighborhood and the neighborhood is being built up
to and into yourself at the same time. If this process is to be
one of harmonious development along that middle path which
the older philosophers averred to be the only true path of hap-
piness and usefulness, then so order your life that you may fit
into and enhance the strength and beauty of the fabric to which
you intend to belong.

A young doctor, in a bright and growing community, loses
nothing by being a church-goer, but for goodness sake do not
try that called-out-suddenly-to-an-important-case racket, for it
won't work; the newspapers have put everybody onto that scheme
long ago. Better avoid even the suspicion of it.

If the sermon is dull (and the sermon is really the least part
of church services), you can follow with profit, as you gaze upon
the speaker, the advice which Charles Lamb gave in one of his
delightful letters: "You are unhappy because your parents ex-

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pect you to attend meetings. Your mind remains, you may
think, plan, remember and foresee, and do all acts of mind as
well, sitting or walking. You are for that time at least exempt
from the counting house and your parents cannot hide you;
surely at so small expense you cannot grudge to observe the Fifth
Commandment. ' '

But, as you are a scientific man, beware of the loose thought
and speech about religious things and sacred books which passes,
among the ignorant, for knowledge and among the learned for
ignorance. Men of a scientific knowledge and skill which you
can never even begin to approach, have studied these things in
lights, and by correlated and critical investigations, far beyond
your power, and have reached quite different conclusions.

If you propose to even speak at all of these subjects first study
the Bible as a book of science, and not only our own Bible, but
those of the Indian, Persian, Egyptian and other peoples.
Before you are half through you will have quite changed your
mind, though it may be that you will be confirmed in the belief
that we are only now beginning to fully understand these things.
If still in doubt, ask any thoroughly capable and up to-date psy-
chologist and biologist whether the present trend of the highest
opinion is toward the broad proof of supernormal mentality, or
the reverse, and you will find that your crude and bigoted
notions are even less respectable than many of the faiths which
you consider to be degraded superstitions.

We all know so little, as yet, that dogmatic proclamations from
one side are no more respectable than those from the other.

One of the most interesting and important features of a phy-
sician's life is to be brought into frequent professional and
social contact with his neighboring physicians. It broadens and
fraternizes the man as nothing else will, and does it in a most
delightful way. Mean and petty jealousies and bickerings,
back biting and malicious suggestions cease, when physicians
slap each other on the back, talk matters over together, and
share each other's hospitality. The Arabs of the desert, the
Indians of the plains, become comrades when they have shared
each other's bread and salt. Make it a rule, if no medical society
exists in the county, to create one, even if there be but two or
three of your brother physicians in the county — there will soon
be more if you do. Meet at each other's houses monthly; share
your friendly association with your brother physicians' wives

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and families; read and discuss papers; consider questions of
sanitation and hygiene; write and read articles for publication
in the county papers; make yourselves known, and your influ-
ence will largely extend. Bi- county and tri- county associations,
even, can be superadded, and you will find yourselves moving in
a new world, the great world of cooperation and mutual support.

In movements in your community for public advancement
take an earnest, but inconspicuous part, and especially wmere
hygienic and sanitary matters, new water-works, systems of
drainage, etc., etc., are concerned. Join in the movement for a
public library, a town-hall, concerts and the like, but beware of
"courses of popular, scientific lectures;" anything which can
be taught in that way is worthies, and as an amusement
such rapid and partial smatterings lead only to false and frag-
mentary information. Cold type or closely-knit scientific lec-
tures are the only means wThich can avail.

If you are single do not be in haste to marry; wait and look
about you, and always remember that it is no discredit to a good
girl that she have money and social position. A partnership for
life ought to be undertaken as seriously, at least, as a business
partnership for a few years.

There is no occasion to speak of habits of intoxication at this
late day; a drunken doctor is a louse on the head of the com-
munity, a source of irritation and disgust, and should be poisoned
off or cracked at once (as he usually will bej, but indecency with
female patients is a crime like leprosy — there should be no re-
fuge for such a physician on this earth, and every hand (and
foot) should be turned against him.

To avoid false aspersions make your life a living proof of your
square-dealing; and through all this varied and progressive
course of life keep up your scientific reading, according to system
always, and of study and reflection on what you read. Try to
be in advance, and, in the long run, you will far out-distance
those who started out with a flip tongue, a cunning mind and an
illy-balanced stock of irrelevant ideas.

You will thus lay the foundations, broad and solid, for that
noblest product of human society, the good old, patient, kindly,
broad-minded, careful and thoroughly reliable family physician.

While Mahomet was the eagle-eyed Prophet, and Confucius
the Master, Christ and Buddha were always the "good physi-
cian." Try to follow the footsteps of the good, and wise, and

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learned, and truly great, and your reward will never fail you.
Let these inspired verses be for you also a guide and motto, and
all will be well:

" I live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the heaven that smiles above me
And waits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong which needs resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.
I live to learn their story
Who suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory
And follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crowd history's pages
And time's great volume make."

THE HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DISEASES
PECULIAR TO WOMEN.

Read before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Western Massachusetts, at
Springfield, Dec. 26th, 1898, by A. M. Cushing, M. D.

For two reasons I am much obliged for an invitation to say
something to-day upon this subject. Not only our vacant chair
to-day, but the frequent announcements that another of my old
comrades is dead, leaving so few of those who studied or began
to practice about the time I did, I am almost alone in that re-
spect, but I have something I wish to say in favor of Homoeopa-
thy, and naturally what I have to say must be said soon or left
unsaid. Our code of ethics says, if we learn anything of worth
or interest to the profession we are in duty bound to reveal it,
and what I shall say has been of worth and interest to me. so I
believe you will excuse me if I take a little of your time to-day.
What I say may differ from the opinions of some, so in order to
explain to you why I came to my belief I shall have to tell you
how I came to it. If others' opinions are different from mine
they have just as good a right to theirs as I to mine, provided
they obtained that belief in the same way ; that is, by practical
experience.

While a student of medicine a physician prescribed the sixth

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decimal attenuation of a remedy, and I thought he was getting
demented. Later I was a student and patient of Dr. Constantine
Hering, and still later intimately acquainted with Drs. Adolph
Lippe, C G. Raue, H. N. Guernsey and Carroll Dunham, and re-
ceived valuable advice from them; and for a knowledge of Materia
Medica and the ability to prescribe I do not know their equals
to-day, and their success was surprising ; but they were inveter-
ate students, and had implicit faith in Similia. Prof. Isaac M.
Ward said, "Begin with low attenuations, say, the third
decimal attenuation, then if you make a mistake the
aggravation will not be as severe or long lasting, and as
you learn your Materia Medica you will go up." I knew
what those men gave, saw the results and believed what was
given was the means of the cures. Yet for years I did not dare
to give them. Finally I bought one-half ounce liquid of Aconite,
Bellado?ma. Hepar sul., Spongia (mostly on Bcenninghausen's
recommendation for croup), remedies that I thought I knew
something about, and occasionally gave them and was perfectly
satisfied with the results.

Nearly twenty years ago, at a meeting of the Massachusetts
Surgical and Gynecological Society, I reported three or four cases
of fibroids of the uterus cured by the internal administration of
homoeopathic remedies. But little was said in favor of it, but
much against it. One, a brilliant specialist who doubted it then,
has since reported over seventy-five cases of tumors, fibroids and
others cured in that way.

Leucorrhoea.

To-day I shall call your attention to one, the most common
disease, leucorrhoea, and try to show you what observation and
experience have led me to believe. When I studied medicine
there were no lady students in any of my classes in either school,
and rarely a lady physician in either school. From various
sources came calls for lady physicians, as they would be better
for treating females, especially young girls, as they would then
more readily submit to examinations. I may be alone in think-
ing that in certain ways that was a mistake. Xot that I object
to lady physicians, or think they cannot prescribe as well as
men, but I believe there were already too many examinations. I
believe it is no more necessary to make a speculum or digital ex-
amination in a common case of leucorrhoea than a case of diar-

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rhoea. Does any one believe that the cutting off a finger will
cure rheumatism ? Just as much of a cure as to wash or burn
the uterus or vagina in a common case of leucorrhcea, and we
should have but few others if we cured recent cases with the
same common sense as other diseases. A well person never has
rheumatism in a finger even; a well woman never has leucor-
rhcea. Many women physicians seem to find it an imperative
duty to make a speculum or digital examination in every, or
nearly every, case of any weakness of the female genital organs,
but I am glad there are some who know better, especially in our
school. The male physicians not to be outdone, or afraid they
might loose their patients, have many of them adopted the same
practice. I heard a physician say he examined every case he
could, made them believe they needed treatment, then they would
not run off to another doctor. It has become such a craze that
if a poor, ignorant girl goes to a physician with the least trouble
with the genital organs and goes home without an examination
she feels she has been neglected or insulted. I fear medical
students look more for office chairs than a materia medica.
These statements may seem strong, but I know of physicians of
both sexes who let but few women or girls leave their office till
they have been elevated in an office chair. I am well aware
that in some long standing cases it is necessary, but I fear that
sometimes these examinations do not promote morality. When
practicing in Lynn I asked a young lady patient if she was
troubled with leucorrhcea. She said: "No, I don't run a sew-
ing machine;" but hundreds of women and girls did and many
of them were troubled with leucorrhcea. When they found they
could be treated as respectall}* for that disease as others with-
out examinations many of them came to be treated. I kept a
record of the cases, especially those with characteristic symp-
toms, for reference, and that was what led me to write a book
on the treatment of that disease. And here let me say that in
w?riting the two editions of that book I learned more materia
medica than I had ever learned before. I found that recent
cases were readily cured by low attenuations, usually the third
decimal, but those of longer standing were not as readily cured,
so I tried the higher attenuations and the success has led
me to believe that this disease can be as readily cured as any
other and without locai treatment or examinations. One thing
I feel sure of, the old school has no remedies that, given intern-

Homoeopathic Treatment of Diseases. 61

allv, will cure this disease, so have to resort to local treatment,
which simply suppresses the disease, many times resulting in
consumption, insanity or suicide. We have remedies that, given
internally, will cure it, and we ought to use them and bring all
such cases under our care. It is my impression that homoeo-
pathic physicians who use only low attenuations generally use
local treatment. I feel that we can cure all recent cases with
low attenuations, but I cannot cure those of long standing with
low attenuations, but I can with the higher ones. I feel that
those who object to attenuated remedies have not carefully tried
them. A long time before I tried them I was just as sure there
was nothing to them as I am now certain there is. An old
school physician criticised my treatment of bow legs, expecting
to cure that disease by remedies that had no taste or smell. I
sent him word that if he could taste or smell what caused the
disease I would give medicines that had taste or smell to cure it.
I cured the child.

Some Recent Cases.

A lady, near forty, had been under old school treatment four
years with washes, ointments, etc., for leucorrhcea. When I
saw her she had a constant discharge, thin, burning, excoriat-
ing the parts, with much soreness of the vagina and humid
eruption extending to inguinal region and down on the limbs.
She received Arsenicum 200, and later Rhus tox. 200. A few
days since she came into my office almost dancing with joy, say-
ing: " I am entirely well."

A lady, aet. 50, had been under treatment several months for
leucorrhcea. The indicated remedy was Lachesis I gave the
200th attenuation, and in three weeks she was well. She said:
" I am all dried up and am well every way."

A lady aged 55, quite fleshy, had a burning itching leucorhcea
so bad she had not slept one night for two years without being
obliged to bathe the parts from one to four times each night
with borax water to relieve the itching and burning so she
could sleep at all. One prescription of Sulphur, high, cured her
completely in less than three weeks.

A lady with profuse very offensive leucorrhcea was readily
cured with Kreosotui7i 200.

A lady had been under the care of a half dozen doctors with
no relief. She had other unpleasant symptoms, but the charac-

62 The Duty of a Homoeopathic Physician.

teristic symptoms that led to the selection of the remedy was a
sensation like a discharge of warm water. All her symptoms
were readily cured with one prescription of Borax 200.

I have given you these cases to show that each case has some
characteristic symptom and each remedy has one or more to
guide us, and any physician can select them, though experience
and a knowledge of materia medica will help to select one more
readily, but generally each case needs careful study. One other
disease, prolapsus or tipping of the uterus, can be better cured
by Helonias than by pessaries, but in this disease I should not
hesitate to use the tincture or lowest dilutions. The Almighty
never made a speculum or pessary, but he has put into every
herb and flower, even the sands beneath our feet, curative powers,
and we can find them if we will study.

THE DUTY OF A HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.

An Address by John B. Garrison, Retiring President.

Read before the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of New York,

January 12th, 1899.

Mr. President and Members of the Society ;

It was a good old country deacon who, when asked by one of
his children for a definition of the word duty, said, " My boy, it
is mainly the doing of something that you feel sure you ought
to do do, when you would really much rather do just the oppo-
site." We think the deacon may have been partly right.

When Hahnemann, in the first paragraph of his Organon,
wrote: " The physician's highest and only calling is to restore
health to the sick, which is called healing," he enunciated a
truth that has lost none of its force, though many years have
passed away since its writing. It is a truth which, if properly
appreciated, enforces upon us a responsibility more weighty than
may at first appear, for it places upon the physician an obligation
to inform himself upon all means of cure which may be of benefit
to his patients, whatever may be their condition. His first duty
is to his patients, no matter what his school of medicine majr be.

The advanced physician, the one who, having added to that
store of knowledge usually possessed by the ordinary physician
the science of homoeopathic therapeutics, assumes all obligations
that fall upon his brothers of the old school, and, in addition

The Duty of a HomoeopcttJiic Physician. 63

thereto, responsibilities which arise from this special education,
for he is now before the world not only a physician, but a ho-
moeopathic physician.

In the earlier years of Homoeopathy it was the custom of
physicians of our school to so announce themselves by using the
word " homceopathist " upon the signs in their window or upon
their door, and to-day, while this means of distinction has fallen
into almost common disuse, the title is just as binding.

The public, which is said to be a large employer of homoeo-
pathic skill, is undoubtedly entitled to the kind of treatment it
prefers, and when a doctor is called to attend a patient that
treatment should be accorded which the responding physician
stands for.

As to whether such treatment is, or is not, usually given this
paper has nothing to do, but we feel the right to point to the
duty of a homoeopathic physician to be homoeopathic in his pre-
scriptions.

When, at the outset of his career as a physician, he is so for-
tunate in his first few cases that his prescriptions are well chosen
and rapid cures follow, he will be reasonably sure to enter upon
the next case with renewed assurances that Homoeopathy is a
scientific method of cure and will be encouraged to study when
medicinal action is less prompt. It is when remedies are unsuc-
cessfully applied and the patient, not being relieved, urges that
something be done that the temptation comes to leave the
straight path of Homoeopathy. It is at this time that the feeling
of duty needs to be strong in our hearts. It is then that we need
to have the courage to make a careful review of the case and a
further study of the Materia Medica to find, if possible, means
whereby a true selection can be made, and to prove by the out-
come of the case that it was not Homoeopathy but ourself that
was defective.

Therein lies a duty to ourselves, our patients and to Homoe-
opathy.

Times will come no doubt to all of us when after all our toil we
will not be able to satisfactorily cure our patients. The closest
study that we are capable of giving the case does not lead us to
the similimum, some point essential in the case has escaped us
and the homoeopathic remedy is not within our grasp. Surely
no one will accuse us of infidelity if, after many trials, we bring
then to our aid some means of alleviating the distress our pa-

64 The Duty of a HomueopatJiic Physician.

tient suffers, providing that we still continue our work in en-
deavoring to discover the missing link in the chain of symp-
toms. We are required to do our best in any given case, no one
can do more.

It being thoroughly established that the duty of the homoeo-
pathic physician is to furnish his patients with the best homoeo-
pathic treatment at his command, it may be well to consider
some of the other various obligations that press upon him.

His duty as well as his inclination should lead him to affiliate
himself with as many of the medical societies as he can afford to
join. He will be personally benefited by the practical instruc-
tion gained from the experience of others related there and, by
becoming closer in touch with his brother practitioners, will give
to Homoeopathy the moral aid of his membership and his pres-
ence.

Neither membership in the County Society nor attendance at
the meetings is legally required, but it is no less the duty of the
homoeopathic physician to procure a membership and give to
Homoeopathy his public support.

It is unfortunate that the feeling exists with some that there
is not sufficient benefit to be derived from attendance at the
meetings to make it worth while to secure membership or to be
present when election has been gained. Various criticisms are
offered. Some say: "Make the meetings less tedious; have
fewer papers presented and better discussions." Others say:
" Make the social features more prominent and strive form the
habit of attendance by the use of some light refreshment, per-
haps, at the close of the meetings." Whatever means may
seem useful to increase the attendance and membership of the
society, we should all of us recognize our duty in the matter and
not expect that the president and a small executive committee
can do it all while wre remain inactive. Duty does not always
lie in the path of pleasure.

We should all come together here and form closer bonds of
friendship. We should realize that, while we may differ with
our fellows upon some of the questions relating to our school, no
one should have a monopoly and all have their rights. Discus-
sion on all subjects should be for the purpose of bringing out all
sides of the question and not to produce enmity. We should
bear in mind that we are all homoeopaths, believing in and
working for the same principle, and our respect for each other

The Duty of a Homoeopathic Physician. 65

should not permit a question of potency or frequency of dose to
split us into factions. The physician who uses the lower de-
nominations and who is successful with them cannot be said to
be unhomceopathic. Another who has proved by his rapid and
permanent cures with the far-away potencies the power of that
class of medicines should not be held in less esteem. The third
who asserts that if the principle of " similia " is strictly adhered
to in the selection of a remedy the potency has little to do with
the matter should also be held to be a fair exponent of the
homoeopathic creed. Let each one be willing to listen to the
views of the other and to induce a closer study of Homoeopathy
by all rather than to indulge in too free criticism.

Let us be fraternal in our relations, and let all the petty jeal-
ousies be left for the school that loves to be called regular and
that regularly refuses to give credit to the proper source when
publishing the action of new remedies that have been the prop-
erty of Homoeopathy for many years.

Having been identified with the county society, a most natural
step is that which leads to the state and national societies — the
two societies to whom we owe all our political advancement —
and membership in these is but the fulfilment of another duty to
Homoeopathy. There are many reasons why we should all be-
come members of these societies. Homoeopathy has demands to
make, and if these demands were supported by all who are en-
titled to membership the}' would not go long unheeded. Some
are endowed by nature with the gift of ready writing, and such
can be most useful in presenting papers before the meetings
showing the superiority of Homoeopathy over allopathic treat-
ment. Others are at their best on the floor in discussion, and
we all know how much they are needed at our meetings. There
is a place of usefulness for all, and we should be ready for the
work as it presents. In the selection of papers for our homoeo-
pathic meetings let it be considered a duty to see that they are
homoeopathic in their contents, for one good encouraging paper
will go much further toward stimulating the hearers to the right
kind of work than a dozen that are doubtful in their praise.

Visit the State Society and the American Institute and urge
before those bodies the necessity for the representation of homoe-
opathy in the public hospitals and in the army and navy of the
United States. We have a right to such representation, and it
is the duty of all homoeopathic physicians to urge early and late
that our rights be given us.

66 The Duty of a Homceopathic Physician.

During the war that has just ended there were, no doubt,
great numbers of men who were accustomed to have at home,
and preferred to have while in the army, homceopathic treatment,
but who, when sick, were forced to have allopathic treatment, to
the shame of our government be it said. Why should a man be
forced to submit to a cramming with calomel and quinine while
in the army, when at home he did not believe in them ?

Even the few homceopathic physicians who were admitted to
the service were not able, in consequence of the remedies fur-
nished by the government, to do much better than their bothers
of the old school, unless they chose to draw upon their private
cases.

What we should insist upon is representation on an equality
with all physicians, because we are their peers in every respect
and because we are homceopathic physicians representing a large
proportion of the wealth and citizenship of the country.

It is the duty of all homoeopathic physicians to work for the
advancement of these claims, and it is by united endeavor through
our societies that we can best obtain them.

As preferment takes place duty increases. As the homceo-
pathic training of the students in our homoeopathic colleges is
attended to, in like proportion may we reasonably expect pure
homceopathic physicians to graduate. When a student decides
to enter a college for the purpose of studying medicine he usually
chooses one that claims to teach the therapeutics he desires, and
if he wishes to become a homoeopath he does not usually go to
an allopathic college. When the professors come before the
classes the students do not expect to hear anything but Homoe-
opathy, that is, of course, in all branches where therapeutics
has a right to be heard as a part. As the teacher reveals Homoe-
opathy to them so will their ideas of the subject be formed and
their future moulded.

When a physician is tendered a chair in a homoeopathic col-
lege, it becomes his bounden duty to consider well his ability to
teach Homoeopathy to the students. His words to them will
encourage them to the proper study of Homoeopathy or the re-
verse. It will be his duty to teach them that Homoeopathy,
properly applied, will cure those conditions for which the allo-
path has only the remedies of alleviation. It need not be that
this professor shall always be able to make these accurate pre-
scriptions if he believe it and can teach it to his class. That it

The Duty of a Homoeopathic Physician. 67

is capable of being done is what the student wants to hear, and
has a right to hear in a homoeopathic college. The pain of gall-
stone colic has been relieved with homoeopathic medicine, and
because it is not always so cured is not the fault of the science
but of the prescriber. If the students desire to learn the other
way they know where to go to do so.

It is the duty of every one who holds a chair in a homoeopathic
college to teach pure Homoeopathy to the best of his ability or
to announce a vacancy in the faculty. Teach Homoeopathy
with enthusiasm, and even those who denounce us will be com-
pelled to admire us and our alumni will surely support us and
send their students to our institutions for their medical educa-
tion.

Let us always remember that it is our duty to work for the in-
terests of Homoeopathy wherever we can. Let the interest be
felt and shown, and the opportunity will arise and the effects
will be surprising.

Homoeopathy has succeeded and become what it now is be-
cause of its inherent truth, and because its early exponents were
men of attainment and enthusiasm and worked for its advance-
ment in the face of obstacles that must have seemed almost un-
surmountable. They worked because they deemed it their duty
to give their patients the benefit of the great and glorious science
of Homoeopathy, and never tired in their efforts to advance the
cause they had espoused.

Dr. J. F. Gray tells in an address that he delivered before this
society on April 10, 1863, of the labors of that devoted band of
homoeopaths of whom the talented Dr. Gram was the first. Dr.
Gray says: " We wrorked for the future in mutual education and
preparation." The secret of their success was their mutual
labor.

Let us, one and all, both as a duty and a pleasure, work to-
gether for the best interests of our chosen Homoeopathy. Let
us forget that we have any seeming differences, for we all bear
the banner of " Similia Similibus Curanter." Let us cheerfully
unite in the loyal support of all that homoeopathic. Let us
dutifully support our society and our president.

68 The Action of Cocaine.

THE ACTION OF COCAINE.

A Very Important Case — Magnau's Symptom.

By Robert T. Cooper, M. A., M, D., Late Physician Diseases of the Ear,
London Homoeopathic Hospital.

Our friends, the allopaths, are so disdainful of symptoms that
when they do find one of undeniable utility they forthwith pro-
ceed to secure immortality for — or would it be shorter or less
open to misconstruction to say at once — they immortalize the
discoverer by appending his name to it. It is not the sufferer
who obtains immortality, it is the man who discovers that the
sufferer is an uncommon sufferer. But if I go on like this I
shall no doubt get mixed.

As to what is Magnau's symptom, I must refer your readers
to ' ' The Current Medical Literature ' ' portion of The British
Medical Journal for January 9, 1897, where this paragraph ap-
pears:

Rybakoff, at the Moscow Neurological Society (Munch. Med.
Woch., p. 1 175, 1896), insisted on the diagnostic value of
Magnau's symptom in chronic intoxication of Cocai?ie. It is a
hallucination of sensation consisting of a feeling of foreign bodies,
erains of sand, crystals, worms, or microbes below the skin.
Korsakoff mentioned a case in which this symptom was present,
and was found to be due to the use of vaginal tampons containing
Cocaine, on the discontinuance of which it ceased."

The case I wish to bring forward in connection with this
symptom that has brought about Dr. Magnau's immortality
will be best given by reference to reports from time to time
without mention of the remedies given when not followed by
distinct results.

The case was that of an old woman of 75, crippled from head
to foot with chronic rheumatism, an inmate of an almshouse, for
whom a lady asked me to prescribe by letter and which I did for
the first time on 25th October, 1897. My patient was described
as having kept her bed since April, and as having all her joints
swollen and very painful, and as not having been able to dress
herself for months. Has been a hard working woman in her
time, but is now "on the Parish." These were all the particu-
lars I could get.

The Action of Cocaine. 69

On 17th January, 1898, report comes in: Scarcely know what
report to give. She seems to be in great pain, the left arm from
the shoulder to the finger-ends still continues to be most painful,
the right arm from the elbow. The other morning her poor
hands seemed more distorted and twisted, and now it is impossi-
ble for her to make her thumb and first finger meet, which by
great effort she used to do a little time back. She also complains
of great jumping sensation in legs. She is anxious to continue
the medicine if you think she will gain benefit, but she has to
confess that she has so far felt a greater increase of pain.

15th February, pain less but " knees are drawn at the back ; "
left leg still jumps. Hands are heavy and the bed clothes are
raised up at night from her rubbing the hands against them,
owing to a feeling of grit underneath the skin.

Finding this last symptom present, I wrote to inquire if she
had contracted a Cocai?ie or other habit, the reply being that it
was absolutely impossible.

1 2th April, pain in arms and tingling pricking in fingers,
fingers useless, feeling of grit still.

3d June, no better; urine hot and scalding, causing much ir-
ritation, great pain in arms and hands (left shoulder worst),
hands deformed and heavy. Legs burning hot. Gave
for this Triticum Repens OA and on 7th July reports: State of
the urine and the feeling in legs much better, but no strength in
them, and a feeling in the arms (left particularly) as of being
torn with thorns.

7th November, feeling of grit under the skin, between fingers
especially; legs in less pain but more useless.

In consequence of this last report I returned a powder, to be
taken as one dose, in which I placed about ){ gr. of Cocaine, not
having a dilution of the remedy by me, and this is the report to
hand (7th December, '98): " Mrs. M. felt the effect of the last
powder considerably; about 10 days after taking it she was
seized with very great jumping all over, especially in the legs
and arms, got no sleep all night; but the next day she was
almost entirely free from pain, which continued a few days; since
then the old pains have returned to arms and shoulders, but not
nearly so much pain in the legs. She was most anxious to tell
her benefactrice about it, and does not seem at all indifferent
now; she feels that something quite out of the common has
taken place within her, and it is thought that at last the powders
have thoroughly attacked the disease."

jo Other Remarks on Veterinary Practice.

Comment unnecessary. The old lady will have to keep from
physic for the next two months at all events.
30 a George St., Hanover Square, London, W.

OTHER REMARKS ON VETERINARY PRACTICE.

By the "Country Doctor."

I like the Recorder! I like it particularly well for one thing,
not its Homoeopathy, for I sail not under its flag, but what
pleases me mostly is its liberality regarding its general reading
matters. There is nothing small and narrow-minded about its
pathy! And with this in my mind's eye I ask permission to add
a few words by way of criticism on some remarks that have
lately appeared on your pages extolling the superiority of Hom-
oeopathy in veterinary practice. Have read these various effusions
with care and attention, and am forced each time to exclaim:
" Why see you the mote in your brother's eye!" The main point
of the writer is that, having tried both systems, he thinks that
he has proven allopathy to be the inferior; but he hasn't proved
anything of the kind, he has simply succeeded in demonstrating
that he knows very little about allopathic therapeutics. He de-
tails his experience in a case of spasmodic colic, in which he con-
sidered chloral as the acme of allopathic practice; but who on
earth but him has ever heard of such before? In a country
practice of nearly twenty years, in which I have never refused to
attend a sick or wounded animal, in which I have studied some
and associated with the best veterinarians of my several vicini-
ties [although, of course, not a veterinarian at all, but perhaps
only part of a horse-doctor, when my regular practice allowed]
I have never heard chloral suggested in 'that disease. The
regular treatment that has done best in my hands is an ounce or
an ounce and a half of tincture opium, the same amount of
spirit of turpentine and a couple ounces of sweet spirit of nitre
mixed and given in one dose. In some desperate cases the ad-
dition of half fluid ounce of ether makes matters still more sure.
If the prescription contains ether the effect of course is instan-
taneous, without it from five to fifteen minutes generally elapse
before the symptoms abate. The latest treatment for this com-
plaint where, as usual is the case, the bowels are spasmodically
closed is the injection in rectum of an ounce of glycerine. But

Other Remarks on Veterinary Practice. 71

a short time ago I was called to a horse just going into one of its
usual spells. I injected just one ounce of glycerine, and four
large, very large movements passed in six minutes by my watch,
and with a vent like that the accumulated gases soon blow off
and the disease entirely averted without any medicine whatever.
The homoeopathic veterinarian claims to have cured a similar
case with a dilution of Nux in five or six hours, but I fail to see
any proof whatever that the Nux had anything to do with the
result. It is of course plain that a horse will either get well or
die in that length of time, Nux or no Nux. I have seen a des-
perate case of colic [caused by feeding a little horse four quarts
of meal and then drive it twenty-six miles in two hours and
fifteen minutes] instantly relieved and soon cured by allowing
the patient to eat all the fresh green wet grass it wanted, which
soon cooled off her hot inside. I don't know as I would recom-
mend this particular treatment in all cases, but I know it worked
there.

The same writer says that he treated tetanus with Chloral and
Belladonna, which certainly is not the best of allopathic practice.
Calabar bean or Passiflora incarnata certainly is preferable, and
probably more certain than any other remedy, and so we might
go through the whole of his writings as far as his allopathic
practice is concerned.

Xow I have also tried Homoeopathy in veterinary practice, and
always failed to do any good whatever, but is that a proof that
Homoeopathy is useless ? Of course not. It in all probabilities is
simply an exhibition of my ignorance in that particular line.
Because I can not get any success out of that practice, is that any
reason why I should deride and decry others who really believe
in such practice? Of course, not. Well, then, what is the use for
any one who plainly does not understand the first thing about
allopathic therapeutics should attempt to traduce it ? Report all
the success you can in the use of homoeopathic remedies, hom-
ceopathically applied, that is the true road to progress, but find
no fault with your neighbor's eye until your own vision is some-
what enlargened.

New Sweden, Maine.

(It may be as our " country doctor " friend says that the cases
he mentions were better treated according to his methods, but
take other diseases not caused by "indiscretions of diet" and

72 Cured Homoeopathically.

pure Homoeopathy will be found as far ahead of "allopathic"
practice as Dewey's gunners were superior to the other fellows
in Manila bay. As ever, the Recorder is open to the free ex-
pression of courteous difference of opinion. — Editor of Homceo-
pathic Recorder.)

CURED HOMCEOPATHICALLY?

Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.

I have also something to say in regard to Homoeopathy. I
never have believed in the art as my father did. I had a case
that I tried a homoeopathic drug on: the result is as follows: A
butcher horse, subject to purgative on exercise, I have treated
in the regular way for some months. No relief. I happened to
be reading the provings of a drug. It came to me that that drug
would come in for the case I have mentioned. It was Rheum
3x and Carbo veg. ix. I gave 30 drops three times a day of
Rheum in a little water with a syringe, and the Carbo veg. in
feed. In three days my patient was apparently all right and
has remained so ever since. I know it did not get well on its
own account, as it has been chronic, so I must give credit to
Homoeopathy. I won't say that I am going to change my be-
lief, as this is my first trial; but I am going to keep on thinking,
and report later. It is the most wonderful thing I ever saw.

W. G. HOLLINGWORTH, D. V. S.

Utica, N. Y., Dec. 29th, 1898.

"YE CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS."

Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.

The discussion of potency reminds me of a discussion between
two doctors. One claimed that he had frequently cured mental
disturbances with the 60th ct. of Aurum, the other claimed that
that could not be. He had as fine a microscope as was ever made,
he had examined the 60th thoroughly, he found no medicine
there; there was no medicine to be found. I asked the gentle-
man of the microscope if the little animalcule that we find in a
drop of stale water were carnivora or hortivorea ? They are car-
nivorous, of course. Did your microscope ever show you the
size of the animalculae they devoured. We had a Quaker meet-
ing-

Columbus, O.

"Improved Tinctures" 73

"IMPROVED TINCTURES."

Several homoeopathic journals quote Prof. Lloyd's paper that
recently appeared in the Eclectic Medical Journal on ' ' Homoeo-
pathic Pharmacy " to prove (from Eclectic sources) that the new
pharmacopoeia is right on the tincture question. This is the sub-
stance of Mr. Lloyd's paper:

Science in all directions gives evidence of the fact that improvements are
necessary to human progress, and were Dr. Hahnemann alive to-day the
writer believes it may be accepted that he would insist that homoeopathic
medicine be given the benefit of the improvements that come through
conscientious, systematic investigation by homoeopathic pharmacists.
Because, for example, in his own practice he used a preparation made by
mixing the juice of a fresh drug with alcohol, if the light of subsequent
experience demonstrates that the remedy is less effective than when the
whole crushed drug is abstracted by alcohol, or if, when the juice of the
herb is expressed, the residue tinctured, and this tincture mixed with the
expressed juice, a better preparation results, or, even if great waste ensues
and consequent higher price by using the juice alone without any corre-
sponding benefit in therapeutic value of the product, it stands to reason
that Dr. Hahnemann would advocate the desirable changes of method. It
is evident that unless Dr. Hahnemann was more than human — infallible —
superior in every way in pharmacal knowledge to all other human beings,
even though they make close studies of his works to begin their experi-
mentation, his methods and his products should from time to time be im-
proved upon by men who make homoeopathic galenical preparations a
life study. Appreciating the fact that homoeopathic pharmacy embraces
in its ranks men of talent who unquestionably have the good of the pro-
fession at heart, and who have devoted their lives to the study of homoe-
opathic pharmacy, the writer believes that the founder of Homoeopathy
would be no less appreciative than himself of these men and their accom-
plishments, were he among us.

Is it not a strain on human credulity to term the making a
tincture from the whole crushed plant instead of from that
plant's expressed juice an evidence of " scientific advance," and
that Hahnemann would accept this ? and what pharmacist has
been making these "conscientious investigations?"

And where in all literature will you find it "proved" that
the new drugs are clinically " better " than the old ?

The old Hannemannian tinctures in the hands of men who
knew how to use them have done, and are still doing, one hun-
dred per cent, better work than the other class of drugs, so why
should they be changed ? and have the gentlemen who quote

74 Iodine Equals Thyroidian in Goitre.

Prof. Lloyd so approvingly never heard of such a thing as " drug
proving and what that means to a homoeopathic physician ? "

The old are higher priced ! On this point we can only say —
they are worth the difference.

We all know from the late Dr. Scudder that there has been
immense improvement in Eclectic tinctures, and that there was a
crying need for improvement ; we also know that he used to cite
homoeopathic tinctures as worthy of emulation. We admit our
Eclectic friends have improved their tinctures, but they are still
not equal to the best Hahnemannian tinctures.

IODINE EQUALS THYROIDIAN IN GOITRE.
By T. C. Duncan, M. D.

We had occasion some time ago {Medical Century) to point out
the similarity of the action of the thyroid gland to that of Iodine.
It is said by chemists that the gland is composed of 10 per cent,
of Iodine, and it is believed that the good effect of this animal
extract is due to the presence of the Iodi?ie. Here is an experi-
ence that will interest those who contend that pure drugs only
should be tistd:

Prof. Theodore Kocher, who had made 1,000 thyroidectomies,
now reports (Lorresp. Blatt. fur Schweiner Aetzte, September 15,
1898) 600 more new cases. "It is stated that 90 per cent, of the
cases coming to the poliklinik at Berne are sufficiently improved
by medical treatment to make operation unnecessary. The med-
ical treatment consists in the administration of preparations of
Iodine or of thyroid gland, and in case of any improvement is to
follow it usually occurs in a relatively short time, i. e., in three
or at the most four weeks after beginning the treatment. Noth-
ing more is accomplished by the use of the thyroid extract than by
the Iodine preparations. ' '

In families subject to Evart's disease (exophthalmic goitre),
particularly at certain ages, there is often rapid loss of strength
and flesh under treatment with these preparations, followed by
sudden death which cannot be accounted for at the necropsy ." —
Phil. Med fourn.

Any one who has made experiments with Iodin and studied
its effects closely can easy explain the reason for the "sudden
deaths." It blocks the absorbents.

Necrology. 75

In the early days of my practice, thirty years ago, I was called
to treat a young- lady with apparently all the symptoms of
typhoid, with progressive anaemia. The stubbornness of the
case and erratic temperature led me to inquire carefully into the
history (I thought of tuberculosis), and I finally learned that
she had used Iodide of Potassium on a goitre. Now I recognized
that it was a case of Iodin poisoning, and in searching for an
antidote I found in Jahr that Hepar sulph. was given as the anti-
dote. This was given with prompt and decided benefit. The
case made a rapid recovery. Had it progressed I should have
looked for death from sudden fainting and cardiac failure. But
that is another chapter. Iodin is a powerful and often danger-
ous drug, however given. I have come to look upon it as an
edged tool — to be used with discretion.

NECROLOGY.

Dr. Hubert Boens.
Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.

In the death of Dr. Hubert Boens, of Brussels, humanity has
lost one of its most unselfish, devoted and learned servants.

The writer has not yet been able to learn the date of Dr.
Boens' birth, nor consequently his age at death; but at the ex-
aminations in the " Ecoles Moyennes," of Belgium, in 1842, the
subject of this necrology graduated with honors in mathematics.
It may, therefore, be presumed that he was then about 17 or 18
years of age.

After this he attended the course of Philosophy at the Athenee
ofTournai, and later obtained the degree of Doctor of Natural
Sciences at the University of Louvain. He then commenced the
study of medicine, and became Professor in Comparative
Anatomy under Professor Van Beneden at that University.
Being mixed up in the revolution of 1848, he found it desirable
to leave Louvain and obtained, in open competition, the position
of Chief of Clinic to Professor Lombard at the University of
Liege, and chief of clinic also at the Ophthalmological Institute
under Dr. Jules Ausiaux, of the same city. In 1850, he was ap-
pointed physician in charge of the cholera pavilion established
during the cholera epidemic at St. Thomas Hospital (Liege).

Soon after, he returned to Tournai to take up private practice,
and was eminently successful.

J 6 Necrology.

In 1857 he published several important papers, viz.: On
chemical factories, on bread making, on prevailing maladies and
on the potato disease, which last obtained universal approval
and was probably the cause that the bacterio-mania has never
invaded that species of vegetable disease. He also published a
treatise on the diseases of coal miners, which procured him ad-
mission into the Academy of Medicine, of Belgium, of which he
soon became one of the most distinguished members.

He was appointed physician to the State Railroads and Med-
ical Superintendent of the prison of Charleroi. He owed none of
these appointments to that bane of American official competency,
"influence." He had none, and his radical views and utter-
ances rendered him anything but " persona grata" to the
authorities, but to the credit of the government authorities of
Belgium, be it said, they sought for the fittest men for the offices
in question, and found him in a political opponent.

His duties as physician of the prison of Charleroi, where
nearly all of the Belgian convicts of grave offences are confined,
brought to his notice the numerous disasters and lifelong
diseases produced by vaccination. This led him to a profound
study of the subject, and he was the first to discover the almost
identity of cowpox with syphilis, at least in its secondary
symptoms, and general resemblance in their primary lesion.

He also, in conjunction with the learned M. Bonnewyn, traced
cowpox, in several instances, direct to syphilitic milkers, in one
case by a sort of poetical justice to a patient of one of the med-
ical men who had been most rabid in denouncing Dr. Boens and
other opponents of vaccination as quacks, idiots, murderers, etc.,
for such were the generous epithets applied by the advocates of
that system of blood poisoning to all who called in question the
validity of their superstition.

From the time Dr. Boens discovered the likeness in character
and in effects between cowpox and syphilis, and the utter use-
lessness of inoculating either, he set himself vigorously to the
task of uprooting this " grotesque superstition."*

At the time of his death, Dr. Boens was president of the In-
ternational League of Anti-vaccinators, and presided over several
conferences of that body.

At the conference held in 1879, held in Paris, he, Mr. Wm.
Tebb, of England, and Prof. Vogt, of Berne, formed members of a

*So denominated by the renowned pathologist, Dr. Creighton.

Necrology. yy

deputation to the French minister, Mr. Constans, and proved to
him so conclusively the many lamentable results of vaccination
that while they astonished they also converted that minister,
who promised that the project of law introduced by Mr.
L ouville for the compulsory vaccination of the civil population
of France should not be proceeded with.

Unfortunately for France, medical ignorance has succeeded in
thrusting the vaccination rite upon the army and navy, and as
the entire adult male population (with a few exceptions) pass
through either the army or navy we have nearly every adult
male Frenchmen compulsorily vaccinated.

The mortality among the adult males of France is largely in
excess of that of the adult female, notwithstanding the dangers
of childbirth, which most of the latter undergo.

Dr. Boens and the executive council of the International
League had only a few days before Dr. Boens' death resolved to
hold a further conference in Berlin, commencing on the 18th
June, 1899. The conference will, of course, be held, and all
American physicians, vaccinists and anti-vaccinists are cordially
invited. Full opportunity will be given to all vaccinists who
desire to speak in behalf of their fetich to do so.

On the 14th of December last, Dr. Boens submitted to an
operation, with the nature of which the writer is at present unin-
formed, but which seems to have been regarded as urgently
demanded. In Le Medecin, of Brussels, of the 18th of Decem-
ber, to which Dr. Boens had for many years been a constant
contributor, appeared a notice of his sudden sickness and of his
having had to undergo a serious operation, but that regard being
had to his advanced age, he was doing well, and that there was
every reason to expect a favorable issue. In the following num-
ber of that journal appears the announcement of his death. This
took place at 4 o'clock in the morning of the 21st of December,
1898.

Dr. Boens was always ready to give his aid to workers for
humanity. The Pathological Diagnostic Table of Smallpox,
Cowpox and Syphilis of the writer had the inestimable advant-
age of the criticism, revision and approval of Dr. Boens before
publication.

Brave and learned friend of humanity, farewell!

M. R. L.

78 Dr. E. M. Hale.

DR. E. M. HALE.

Dr. Edwin M. Hale, one of Chicago's oldest and best known
physicians, died at his residence, 2200 Prairie avenue, at 4:45
A. m. yesterday, the cause of his death being ursemic poisoning.
He had been sick a week, and during that time had been con-
scious for only a brief period on Tuesday.

Dr. Hale was in the best of health until last Sunday night,
when his family found him unconscious in his bed. His son,
Dr. Albert B. Hale, was summoned and diagnosed the case as
uraemia. The patient had had no premonitory symptoms of the
disease, with the exception of slight headaches. Drs. Williams,
Barrett, Holmes, and Kippax, all old friends of the sufferer,
were called in consultation. On Tuesday it was believed that
Dr. Hale might recover, but after rallying on that day he suffered
a relapse. Dr. Hale suffered intensely on Wednesday and then
passed into a lethargic condition from which it was impossible
to arouse him.

Edwin M. Hale was born in Newport, N. H., and had he lived
would have been 70 years old on February 2d next. When he
was a boy of 14 years, with his family he removed to Fredonia,
O. Later he studied medicine at the Cleveland Medical College
and after completing his medical course practiced for a short
time in Michigan before coming to Chicago in 1862.

Through his efforts a department of Homoeopathy was added
to the University of Michigan and afterwards he was offered the
chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the university, but
declined, having accepted a chair in the Hahnemann Medical
College, Chicago, where he lectured for eighteen years. In
1877 he took the same chair in the Chicago Homoeopathic Col-
lege, and was at the time of his death an emeritus professor in
that institution. He was a member of the Chicago Academy of
Sciences and the American Institute of Homoeopathy. He was
also one of the founders of the Calumet Club and of the Chicago
Literary Club.

He was the author of a number of medical works and had just
finished a work on " Old Age and Its Treatment," which at the
time of his death was ready to go to press, with the exception of
a preface. He was a close student of homoeopathic methods and

Apocyn u m Can7tabinum. 7 9

had contributed a number of valuable works, among them be-
ing: "A Monograph on Gelsemium Sempervirens," "The
Materia Medica and Therapeutics of New Remedies," "Lect-
ures on Diseases of the Heart," and "The Heart and How to
Take Care of It." His last work was "The Practice of Medi-
cine," which he brought out in 1894 at the request of many
doctors of the school of Homoeopathy.

When he first came to Chicago Dr. Hale formed a partnership
with Professor A. E. Small, and five years later another, this
time with his brother, Dr. Parker H. Hale.

He left a widow and two children, Dr. Albert B. Hale and
Mrs. Fannie Gardiner, a widow, wTho lives at the residence of
her parents. The funeral will be held tomorrow. — Chicago
Tribune, Jan. 16, 18 pp.

APOCYNUM CANNABINUM.

(Dr. W. D. Turner, of Passadena, California, in December Therapeutic
Gazette, has the following to say of this drug:)

Thirty years' experience in the use of a medicine certainly
should entitle one to greater consideration than one who had
used the medicine in only three cases. This experience I have
had, first using Apocynum cannabinnm in the year 1868, and I
can truthfully say I know of no drug mace from any indigenous
herb growing in North America more certain in its action than
Apocynum cannabinum. It is not in local dropsies where its
curative effect is most noticeable, but in general anasarca, or
cellular dropsy. It will relieve many times in cardiac dropsy
with general anasarca, when not superinduced by degenerative
nephritis. If the latter condition is present it is more likely to
fail, or at most but temporarily relieve.

I can call to mind many cases of anasarca, ascites, hydro-
thorax, including cardiac dropsy, where its curative effect was
marvelous. I remember a boy of eleven years who had
anasarca so badly and for so long a time that on looking
at his external genitals no one could tell to which sex he be-
longed. He had been treated for some time by two other physi-
cians without success. Upon general examination I felt that
Apocynum cannabinum was the medicine called for, so I gave it
continuously just short of its emetic effect. The rapid recovery

80 New Book of Keynotes.

and subsidence of the dropsy was almost beyond belief even to
my own eyes. But he fully recovered and was well years after-
ward.

I gave the same to two young men, both so far advanced in
cardiac dropsy as to be unable to lie down. They had been
treated for months by other physicians. I gave each the same —
Apocynum cannabinum . To the surprise of all their friends their
troubles subsided, and in three or four weeks they were able to
resume their business; one of them passed a successful life in-
surance examination against my advice. Both of these cases
had organic changes in renal organs, and in a few months the
same condition returned, and death followed.

Mrs. M., six months advanced in pregnancy, became gener-
ally dropsical, cardiac dropsy supervening. She was treated by
other physicians until her condition became so alarming that a
change was decided upon, and I was called. I could find no
organic change in any of the organs of the body, but the condi-
tions were so distressing that she could not lie down or sleep but
for a few minutes at a time. I gave Apocynicm cannabinum in
as full doses as she could tolerate. The dropsy speedily sub-
sided, and she was delivered of a healthy boy at full .term, and
was well vears afterward.

A NEW BOOK OF KEYNOTES.

Keynotes and Characteristics, with Comparisons of Some
of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica.

By H. C. Allen, M. D., Prof, of Materia Medica and the

Organon in Hering Medical College and

Hospital, Chicago.

The title gives a fair idea of this work. The word keynotes
was applied to prominent symptoms by the late Professor
Guernsey. These were gathered in book form by Prof. Burt.
Hering and Hoyne gave them to students in cards. These were
selected and with additions given to us by Hawkes in a small work.
This work of Allen is really an expansion of the A, B, C work
of Hawkes. It contains more materia medica and more thera-
peutics than the former work. After making an index (that
was omitted) we found that from Aconite to Zinc there were 160
drugs, including some not found in a standard work like Her-

Arniea. 81

ing's Condensed. We infer that Allen is not a strict homoeopath,
for he gives several isopathic agents. If nosodes are the cura-
tive agents, why not " idems " all? Hahnemann argued other-
wise. He suffered for similia. But leaving that aside, if one
wishes, there are much of value in this work.

We read in the Preface that " the life-work of the student of
the Horn. Mat. Medica is one of constant comparison and differ-
entiation." That is true. We are also told that " he must
compare the pathogenesis of a remedy with the recorded anam-
nesis of the patient." That is therapeutics and not drug or
materia medica study, Prof. Allen to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. It is more therapeutic to say that " he must differentiate the
apparently similar symptoms of two or more medicinal agents in
order to select the similimum." He must first have studied
what is peculiar about each drug, so that he can compare them
with each other and learn their differences. The more he
studies drug effects separate from disease, the better knowledge
he will have of drug action. Prof. Allen has posed before the
profession as a materia medica expert, and what he knows
should be lore. The many hints given emphasize effects that
show a deep knowledge of drug action and application. This
work is adapted to advanced students and practitioners whose
knowledge of drugs needs improving. It will be a handy work
in anv librarv. T. C. Duncan.

ARNICA.

Editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder.

I notice in the last Recorder that Dr. Bayes reports a pecu-
liar condition brought about by Arnica. I had the same ex-
perience with an injury to a man's hand — cut very bad on a cir-
cular saw. I dressed it and kept it wet with Arnica. In about
a week the skin of the inside of the hand, where the dressing
was the thickest and the most liquid absorbed, turned, or took
on all the appearances of a severe bruise (there were no bruises
when the hand was hurt). This disturbed the man consider-
ably, but I told him it was the effect of the wash I was using.
I did not think anything of it, as I was using too strong a solu-
tion of the Arnica; but it was wonderful how quickly the flesh
healed; in four weeks the patient went to work again. So this
makes two witnesses to the fact that Arnica will produce that
which it will cure. J. A. Whitman, M. D.

Beaufort, S. C.

82 Malaria and its Management.

PROF. KOCH ON MALARIA AND ITS MANAGE-
MENT.

From the report of Consul Mason, of Berlin, we learn that
11 Prof. Koch, who has been investigating malaria in Italy and
Africa, makes some interesting deductions in his official report.
Prof. Koch expresses freely his opinion that the indiscriminate
use of quinine as a prophylactic in malarial countries is attended
with great danger, and is in many cases the indirect cause of
1 black water ' fever, one of the most virulent forms of malarial
disease (met on the West of Africa). The very general
practice among persons coming from temperate to tropical lati-
tudes of saturating their systems with quinine taken in regular
— often excessive — doses is vigorously condemned for two
reasons: first, because it seriously weakens the action of the
heart, and, second, because the system, having become inured to
the drug, fails to respond to quinine treatment in case of actual
sickness. The efficiency of the drug having been exhausted
as a preventive, it has no longer any important value as a
remedy; and experience shows that a person debilitated by the
excessive use of quinine may take malarial fever and die like
any one else. Prof. Koch even goes so far as to assert that the
increased death rate in certain portions of West Africa, where
the conditions of living have been greatly improved during the
past ten years, is due largely to the increased and indiscriminate
use of quinine caused by its greater cheapness and the ease
with which it can now be obtained. He also states that on the
western coast of Africa, where all forms of malarial fever are
especially virulent, cases of the intermittent type which have
resisted even heroic doses of quinine have been mastered by the
use of Arsenic. ("A preference for Arsenic as a remedy for
certain fevers is a marked and well-known peculiarity of the
German school of medicine.")

Those who are going to Cuba and other tropical countries
should be told these facts.

"Another fact noticed by Prof. Koch during his studies in
Africa and India is that women withstand exposure to malarial
climates far better than men. During the appalling mortality
on the gold coast within the past four years, says his report,
there was hardly a death among the women living out there,

Homoeopathy in Sea-sickness. 83

while every kind of man was dying — men new to the tropics,
men born there, men who had been accustomed to them for
years, even men who had battled with the ravages of West
Africa for upwards of ten years."

Possibly the abdominal constriction caused by the corset,
which prevents dilatation of the spleen and liver, may be the
explanation, malarial fever being essentially a splenic disease.
The German government has sent out two commissions to inves-
tigate these subjects still more exhaustively. The United States
should do likewise. T. C. D.

HOMCEOPATHY IN SEA-SICKNESS.

Mai de mer is an erratic equation. Of our sixty-five first-
cabin passengers perhaps not more than a dozen escaped. I
was number eleven. Not a qualm disturbed my peaceful
diaphragm. Forty-two meals on board and not one missed is
a satisfying- record. But enough were seasick to give seven
physicians a chance to try their prowess. The old school men
relied upon bromo seltzer and codeia, with varying success.
My experience covered fifteen cases. Cocculus was most helpful
when the patient was " Oh ! so sick !" and couldn't move; ver-
tigo, faintness, extreme nausea and deathly paleness completed
the picture. A single tablet of the sixth decimal gave prompt
relief in nearly all such cases. Only three times was it neces-
sary to repeat the dose for a single occurrence, though it was
necessary to re-exhibit the remedy in an occasional case upon
the rolling of a heavier sea.

Ipecac was helpful in those in whom emesis occurred easily,
giving prompt relief in several such.

Glonoinum, sixth, did excellent service for two patients with
whom violent headache took the place of gastric disturbance.
These cases are said to be quite common. Petroleum was pre-
scribed for one^case of the diarrhoea of mal de mer, relieving
promptly; Bryonia was given a man who was "dreadfully con-
stipated" and who was nauseated upon moving about, and
Apomorphia, third, one tablet, made a homoeopath of a lady
who had failed !to obtain relief from old school treatment and
from Cocculus previously administered.

From this and previous experience on the Atlantic I am quite
satisfied that seasickneess may be prescribed for successfully if

84 Treatment of Chronic Appendicitis with Mercury.

the cases be individualized, and that specifics, combination pre-
scriptions and routine remedies are of no more use here than
elsewhere. It is the patient and his personal manifestations of
the malady which are to be treated, every time, if success is to
be expected. Doubtless there are aggravated cases which resist
the usual remedies; but it cannot be gainsaid that homoeopathy
is very efficient in seasickness and has robbed the sea of much
of this particular terror. — C. E. Fisher, M. D., in Dec. Medical
Century.

THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC APPENDICITIS
WITH MERCURY.

By Dr. Mossa.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Allg. Horn. Z., Janu-
ary, 1899.

In the " Annals of Surgery" (Jan., 1898) Horwitz tells us of
four cases of chronic appendicitis in which there were clear in-
dications for surgical operation, and in which different prominent
surgeons had proposed it but the patients had refused to submit
to it. All these cases were treated by that author owing to
secondary syphilis, and were subjected to tonic (? !) doses of
Mercurius jodatus flavus (Protozoduratum hydrargyri).

I CASE. — A man of 44 years had passed through nine attacks
of appendicitis, the last one a short time previous to his coming
under my care. There was a sensitive indurated mass in the
Fossa iliaca dextra. Soon after the treatment with Mercury
had commenced the patient had a fresh acute attack of his ail-
ment, and the remedy was discontinued, but after the acute
symptoms had disappeared it was resumed, the result being
that not only the syphilitic indications disappeared but also the
appendicitis and the constipation. Four years have since passed,
without any relapse having occurred.

II Case. — A man of 31 years had three attacks of appendicitis;
there was dyspepsia and chronic constipation. After a lengthy
treatment with Mercicr. jodat. flavus, extending over a year, he
had a slight acute attack of appendicitis. Since that time, i <?.,
for 2^/1 years, he has bad no more trouble from appendicitis.

III Case. — A man of 28 years had had five attacks of appen-
dicitis; a doughy, sensitive mass in the fossa iliaca dextra. He
received Mercur. jod. flavus. His condition improved and since
that time, i. e., for 3^2 years, there has not been a relapse.

Inflamynation of the Larnyx, cjfc. 85

Cask IV. — A man of 33 years had had two attacks of appen-
dicitis; he also suffered from dyspepsia and constipation; there
are also indications of a chronic appendicitis in the right iliac
fossa. I have given him Merc. jod. flavus (now for 1^2 years).
He had two attacks of appendicitis during the treatment, but
none since the end of June.

The author added that it was notable how the chronic form
of appendicitis which followed after the acute attacks was re-
solved owing to small doses of Mercurius, and although these
few cases would not suffice to draw definite conclusions there-
from he nevertheless considers this treatment well worth a trial
in all cases of chronic appendicitis in all cases where patients
refuse to be operated upon.

From the above it is manifest that Horwitz, in giving his mer-
curial preparation to patients suffering from syphilis, found a
noticeable influence exerted by this remedy on the chronic form
of appendicitis. This curative effect of mercury is nothing new
to us Homoeopaths; nevertheless we consider this remedy even
more decidedly indicated in acute appendicitis accompanied
with an induration of the cellular tissue; as we are able to cure
with this remedy the inflammatory and exudative condition of
the vermiform appendix, so that a chronic form of the disease
will not appear. A treatment of one and a half years with even
the mild Merc. jod. flav. we do not at all consider as worthy of
imitation; to designate such small does as "tonic" we consider
just as inadmissible as the assertion of doctors of the old school
that small doses of Cantharis have a tonic effect on the kidneys.
They have a curative effect and, indeed, according to the law of
similars, and the physiological provings of the remedies on
healthy persons, show these symptoms to every one willing to
see.

INFLAMMATION OF THE LARYNX AND BRON-
CHIA AND PSEUDO-TABES IN CONSE-
QUENCE OF THE USE OF ARSENIC.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Allg. Horn. Zeit.,

December, 1S98.

The injurious effect of Arsenic, as given by the dominant
school, in which the long-continued use, rather than the large-
ness of the doses, is the aggravating point, furnishes continually

86 Inflammation of the Larynx, afc.

new toxicological and pharmacodynamic observations. It is
our duty to take note of them, as these observations complement
or confirm the results of our provings. So we find a report of
two interesting cases of inflammation of the larynx and the
bronchia in consequence of the use of Arsenic, reported by Doc.
Dr. L,. Rethi (Vienna) in the Wiener Presse (1897, 11).

1. A woman, aged 25 years, otherwise healthy, but very deli-
cate and ansemic, had been taking for one and one-half years,
with brief interruptions Sol. arsenic Fowleri. For four weeks
she has now been suffering from violent cough. Palpitation of
the heart, disturbances of digestion, loss of appetite and insom?iia
had set in before; she rapidly appeared worse and worse. There
was nothing manifest in the lungs except a slight catarrh in the
bronchia ; the tips of the lungs were free; in the heart there was
merely an accelerated activity. The mucous membrane of the nose
was slightly thickened ; granuloits pharyngitis of low degree; in
the larynx there were signs of a very acute laryngeal catarrh ;
the rim of the epiglottis more stro?igly reddened, as also the liga-
menta ventriculorum laryngis and the vocal chords, especially on
the processus vocales. The i?iteraryt&noid mucous membrane also
strongly injected and somewhat swolle?i. Repeated examinations
for tubercular bacilli gave a negative result. Codein, Morphine
and inhalation and painting with Argent, nitr. and Chlor. zinc.
without result; the palpitations increased and there was great
dryness of the throat. Incidentally the use of Arsenic was men-
tioned, and the author was led to think that the trouble might
be owing to it. He allowed the same to be taken in rapidly
diminishing doses and then discontinued it. A few days after-
wards a striking objective and subjective improvement could be
perceived, and in a short time a cure was effected. This con-
tinued until the patient gave Arse?iic another trial, when the old
symptoms at once re-appeared, but vanished on discontinuing the
remedy. We cannot too sharply reprove the carelessness which
allowed her to have the same prescription filled time and again
when the physician had only prescribed it once. This careless
execution of the legal enactments opens the door wide to such
chronic medicinal poisonings.

2. A man of 27 years complained of violent cough and palpita-
tion of the heart. There was a moderate redness of the true and
the false vocal cords, of the interarytaenoid fold, and the sub-
cordal mucous membrane; there was an accelerated cardiac
activity. All therapy had been without effect, and there gradu-

Two Cases : Echinacea and Cratcrgus. 8 J

ally set in insomnia, slight febrile symptoms and a very decided
pallor. On being questioned, the patient stated that he had for
several months back been using Arsenic on account of psoriasis.
When the remedy was discontinued the palpitation disappeared
in three days and the laryngeal symptoms within eight days.

3. We add here a case of Pseudo-tabes arsenicalis, which also
offers several interesting points. Dr. Drastich reports it in the
Militcerarzt, 1897, 4- An officer, 35 years of age, took, on Sep-
tember 6, 1896, twice as much Arsenic as would lie on the point
of a knife in order to end his life. Violent vomiting immedi-
ately followed, also a severe feeling of thirst and a feeling of
dulness in the head. These symptoms, however, gradually dis-
appeared, all but a severe gastro-enteritis. This also gradually
diminished, so that he, on October 8th, *". e., after four weeks,
could be dismissed. Four weeks later, on November 8th, he
noticed a striking heaviness in his legs and an impossibility of
standing up with closed eyes. Next day there was added a sensa-
tion of numbness in the index finger and the thumb of the right
hand, and soon afterwards also in the same fingers of the left
hand. There were also the following objective symptoms: in-
tact reaction of the eyeballs, a high degree of ataxy in the legs,
a complete absence of the patellar reflexion on both legs, diminu-
tion of the sensitiveness to touch and to pain. There was also
paraesthesia, especially in the sole of the feet and in the fingers,
mentioned above. With the use of baths and of faradization of
both hands in the succeeding weeks there was an increasing im-
provement, so that on December 12th there were no abnormal
symptoms exceeding a slight paraesthesia. It is peculiar that
there was no muscular atrophy and there was no disturbance in
the electrical excitability.

A new elaboration of the pathogenesis of Arsenicum, founded
on the continually accumulating facts, would make a proper'
subject for a dissertation or a monograph.

TWO CASES: ECHINACEA AND CRATAEGUS.

Reported by Dr. J. Borough, Mishawaka, Ind.

A lady aged 55 was struck by a railway engine, while riding
in a buggy. She was carried four or five rods by the engine
and thrown in the ditch, buggy on top of her. The only serious
injury received seemed to be a cut three and a half inches long:

88 Book Notices.

on back of head with a slight fracture of outer plate of skull,
and some slight bruises on body and limbs. I dressed the
wound, which healed nicely, except an opening left for dis-
charge. About the end of the first week greenish- yellow
blisters began to form wherever there had been the slightest
abrasion. An especially bad one was on top of the right hand;
the hand soon swelled to an enormous size, swelling extending
up the arm, with high fever. All symptoms pointing to blood
poisoning. I gave the usual remedies for twenty-four hours,
but the trouble increased. In looking over the list of remedies
I thought of Echinacea, which was given in drop doses every
hour. The fever soon began to go down, the blisters with their
surrounding redness to dry up and disappear. The wound of
the head at this time began to discharge freely. The swelling
of hand and arm concentrated in the hand, forming an abscess,
which was opened in due time, and healing nicely. The wound
on head continued to discharge freely for several weeks, which
was gradually reduced by Silicea and China. After removing a
few spicula of bone the wound soon healed. Patient is now in
excellent health.

Lady, aged 62, had for several months attacks of heart failure
on the slightest over-exertion or excitement. Gave Cactus,
Digitalis, Ars., Glonoine, and other cardiac remedies, with but
temporary relief. Every succeeding attack seemed harder, the
last one, July 1st, nearly proving fatal, as she was pulseless,
stopped breathing and had the appearance of being dead.
Friction and shaking her up a little started the circulation and
breathing. I then for the first time gave her Cratcegus tincture
in drop doses every hour, and, to my surprise, she recovered
rapidly and has been free from any heart trouble since. She
now seems well and is doing her work, but won't be without
" that medicine in the house." — Medical Counsellor.

BOOK NOTICES.

"The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the
Universe." By I. W. Heysinger, M. D. J. B. Lippincott
Co. Philadelphia and London.

This work is not a dry resume of the facts of physical astron-
omy; it deals with entirely new problems, and correlates the
entire structure of the universe into a uniformly acting whole,

. Book Notices. 89

generated by the operation of the same principles, just as evo-
lution applied to organic life has resulted in an almost infinite
variety of forms produced by the varying operation of the same
processes. In the language of a reviewer, Dr. Hey singer's
book is an " epoch making work."

The whole trend of scientific demonstration to-day is in the
direction of unity and coherence; no principles which will not
explain the whole are applicable as fundamentals, and all recent
research and demonstration confirm the facts and principles
presented in this book. Within a few years, as was the case in
geology and biology, the system of the universe will be brought
into the same rule of universal law and the older theories and
hypotheses will pass away.

These changes in scientific thought are indeed already under
way with a constantly acclerating momentum, and are being
confirmed, since this book was issued, from every side.

The President of the Royal Society of Canada wrote the
author: " I can quite appreciate the masterly way you arrange
your arguments and the lucidity of the style." The Church
Standard says, editorially: " The book is wonderfully interesting,
and furnishes an amount of information that cannot be easily
found within the same space." Says Prof. Espin, the eminent
English astronomer, "Your explanation of the repulsion of a
comet's tail is admirable. You have undoubtedly gone far to
clear up many of the difficulties which at present beset us."
President Sharpless, of Haverford College, says: ll The collation
of so much valuable matter is itself a good thing, and is done
in a way to be thoroughly readable."

The book is fully illustrated from original drawings by the
author, and the following is the table of chapter headings:

Introduction. Chapter I. The Problem of Solar Energy; past
History of the Sun and Planets. II. Constitution and Interpre-
tation of the Phenomena of the Sun. III. The Mode of Solar
Energy. IV. The Source of Solar Energy. V. The Distribu-
tion and Conservation of Solar Energy throughout the Uni-
verse. VI. The Phenomena of the Stars. VII. Temporary
Stars, Meteors, and Comets. VIII. The Phenomena of Comets.
IX. Interpretation of Cometic Phenomena. X. The Resolv-
able Nebulae, Slar-clusters, and Galaxies. XI. The Gaseous
Nebulae. XII. The Nebular Hypothesis: its basis and its diffi-
culties. XIII. The Genesis of Solar Svstems and Galaxies and

90 Book Notices.

their Development in Space. XIV. The Mosaic Cosmogony
compared with the most recent Science, and its accuracy proven
when correctly translated. XV. The Harmony throughout the
Universe of Nature's Laws and Operations.

List of 132 eminent authorities cited, with paged reference.

Classified Index of subject-matter.

No one desiring to be abreast of the most recent science (and
on questions more interesting and useful, perhaps, to the physi-
cian than to any others) should be without this book, which is
by an author whom readers of the Recorder know so well.
The publishers' price is $2.00, but by special arrangement
copies may be ordered by physicians, direct from the author,
which will be sent, post-paid, at wholesale price, $1.50 each. His
address is Dr. I. W. Heysinger, 1521 Poplar street, Phila., Pa.

British, Colonial and Continental Homoeopathic Medical
Directory for i8gg. 118 pages. Cloth. London Homoeo-
pathic Publishing Co.

This is the fifth year of the publication of this excellent
directory, where one may find homoeopathic physicians in any
part of the great British Empire, or on the continent of Europe.

Essentials of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Prescrip-
tion Writing, arranged in the form of Questions and
Answers. By Henry Morris, M. D. Fifth Edition, Revised
and Enlarged. 288 pages. Cloth, §1.00. Philadelphia. W.
B. Saunders. 1898.

This is No. 7 of Saunders' well known question compends.
The title describes the contents. To a homoeopath the thera-
peutics seem very vague and general.

A Text-Book of Mechano-Therapy (Massage and Medical
Gymnastics). Especially prepared for the use of Medical
Students and Trained Nurses. By Axel V. Grafstrom,
B. Sc, M. D., late Lieutenant in Royal Swedish Army; late
House Physician, City Hospital, Blackwell's Island, New
York. 139 pages. Cloth, $1.00. Philadelphia. \V. B.
Saunders. 1899.

If one wants a compact little book on massage, this will proba-
bly be the best one to buy, and the latest.

Book Notices. 91

Saunders' Pocket Medical Formulary. By W. M. Powell,
M. D. Fifth Edition. 290 pages. Morocco tusk, $1.75.
Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders. 1899.

A neat little pocket book, partly intealeaved, of our "regu-
lar" brethren's prescriptions for the various diseases, and an
Appendix full of useful tables of various kinds.

Vaccination, or Blood Poisoning with Animal Diseases. By
Ed. Alfred Heath, M. D. Pho., etc. 38 pages. Cloth.
London. Heath & Co.
This is a small, neatly printed work, full of facts and figures

for the comfort of the opponents and the confusion of upholders

of vaccination.

American Year-book of Medicine and Surgery. Edited
by George M. Gould, M. D. 1.102 pages, large 8vo. Cloth,
$6.50. Half morocco, $7.50. Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders.
1898.

The getting out of such a work as this one, reviewing the
medical field for a year, in 1,102 large pages, in time for notice
in the February journals, is certainly a triumph for publisher
and editor. Those who have the preceding volumes need not be
told that the work is well done. It is for sale by subscription
only.

Dr. Walter M. James, of the Homoeopathic Physician, says
of Allen's Keynotes and Characteristics, just published: "The
copy possessed by the editor, will, from this time, be found on
the shelves where he keeps his books of consultation in the
daily treatment of cases. This is our testimony to the useful-
ness of this book." Of Dewey's Essentials of Homoeopathic
Therapeutics, second edition, Dr. James says: " We have looked
over the pages of the book with great interest, and found our-
selves urgently in need of the instruction to be found there.
An earnest student will at once possess himself of the book,
and commit to memory everything it contains, with the satis-
factory feeling that he is better equipped for a contest with the
examining boards and more likely to come off victorious."

Homoeopathic Recorder.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT LANCASTER, PA.,

By BOERICKE & TAFEL.

SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00, TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES $1.24 PER ANNUM
Address communications, books for review, exchanges, etc., for the editor, to

E. P. ANSHUTZ, P. O. Box 921, Philadelphia, Pa.

THE PROPOSED HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACY

TRUST.

We have read a report (evidently inspired) in a St. Louis
paper concerning a Homoeopathic Pharmacy Trust which is be-
ing organized by a homoeopathic pharmacy company of that
city, which has hitherto advertised itself as "the largest Ho-
moeopathic pharmacy in the world," its capital stock being
$16,000. The company has been reorganized and proposes to so-
licit additional capital so as to increase this to $600,000, with the
object of buying up or forcing all other homoeopathic pharmacies
in this country to join the trust. The article further states that
the increased capital is to be lured out of the pockets of physi-
cians, who will, after subscribing to the stock, see their own in-
terest in patronizing the trust only. The article also states as
follows, and this it prints in quotation marks: " The largest con-
cern the company would have to deal with is Boericke &

Tafel. . . . They would not sell out unless they received a good
price. It is possible, however, that they might enter into the
combination. . . . Boericke & Tafel's concern is a very rich one
and would be very hard to fight."

The scheme of getting physicians to invest their money in a
Homoeopathic Pharmacy Company, and in this way compel them
to patronize one concern to the exclusion of all others, is an old
scheme and was tried by a pharmacist in New York city many
years ago. The consequence of this was that whereas at first
they would purchase their goods from their company, when, how-
ever they found that they were not receiving the promised div-
idend, with no prospect of ever seeing their money again, they
resented this by buying anywhere else rather than from their
company. As to compelling Boericke & Tafel to join the trust
by fighting them, this will probably also have the opposite effect

Editorial. 93

from that desired. There are three large cities where it would
be desirable if B. & T. had branches and where they
are not now established. One of these cities is St. Louis, in
which city, by the way, they have been requested by physi-
cians more than once to establish themselves; they have con-
sidered it wiser, however, to do this in these cities only if it
were necessary to do so to protect themselves. Boericke &
Tafel thoroughly believe in Homoeopathy and they have always
upheld and fought for its doctrines, and the day they go out of
business to sell out to a trust which is dominated by principles
typified by the " Homoeopathic News'' that day there will be a
change in Homoeopathy not at all to its advantage.

BUY FROM RELIABLE HOUSES.

" Quite a similar incident occurred one time, in my association
with Dr. Carroll Dunham. He manifested some surprise at
hearing me say that Dulca??iara had disappointed me oftener
than any other remedy; indeed, it had never amounted to any-
thing in my hands.

"He advised me to get another supply, from another
pharmacy, which being done ended my disappointment with
Dulcamara. Again, for a long time, I had no success with
Kali bichromicumm ', but upon replacing it with a fresh supply
from another source I had no more trouble." — Dr. A. R. Mor-
gan, Hah n. Advocate for December, 1898.

AN OPENING.

Editor Homoeopathic Recorder.

Mapleton, Iowa, is a good place for a young homoeopathic
physician to locate with the intention of building up a perma-
nent practice. It is a town of about 1,500 population, two rail-
roads and prosperous surrounding country. Leading old school
man there recently died, leaving three in the field, only one of
whom can command the respect and confidence of the people to
any extent.

Homoeopathy has never been represented there. An energetic
young man ought to make expenses from the start and have a
fine business in a short time. Will answer inquiries addressed
to me.

L. Q. Spauldixg, M. D.

Ida Grove, Iowa, Dec. 16, i8g8.

94 Editorial.

A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM.

The new pharmacopoeia states that the limit of divisibility of
"practically insoluble substances" is 20V0 to 30V0 of a milli-
meter. If this is true, then an ordinary dose of the 6x trituration
might possibly contain one "molecule" of the crude material,
but the mathematical chances are 1 to 50 that it contains only
sugar of milk — according to the "science" that illumines this
book. Still some physicians claim to get good results from these,
and considerably higher triturations. We would like very
much to have a scientific explanation of the paradox. The in-
evitable effects of such teaching on the students of a homoeo-
pathic college can be easily foreseen, and, with due respect to
those who support the new work, keeping silent on the subject
will not make those two incompatibles — Homoeopathy and the
new pharmacopoeia — mix. One or the other must go.

Read Dr. John B. Garrison's paper in this issue of the Re-
corder. "It is the duty of everyone who holds a chair in a homoeo-
pathic college to teach pure Homoeopathy,'" says Dr. Garrison.
But, some may say, if the professor believes, for instance, that
Antitoxin is better for diphtheria, or Salicylic acid for rheuma-
tism, than the homoeopathic remedy, should he not, in the in-
terest of truth, so teach ? In the interest of truth, as Dr. Garri-
son shows, he should not; he is there to teach Homoeopathy
and not his own beliefs if they run counter to similia. " If the
students desire to learn the other way they know where to go,"
says Dr. Garrison on this point. If a man desires to learn
Greek the professor should not teach him French, because he,
the professor, may be convinced it is a more useful language.

The Journal of Scientific Medicine, a little thing now in its
third month, tells its readers, in its leading editorial, that here-
after it will "make no more fun," for Prof. Ohman-Dumesnil " is
not to be disobeyed," and Professor Ohman-Dumesnil has said:
"If we desire to be scientific we must omit the jokes." One is
not quite certain whether the little Journal of Scientific Medicine
is quite serious in this, for its next paper is headed, "The
Death-Struggle of Homoeopathy," and if it is not a joke to be
in a "death-struggle" and not know it we are no judge of
jokes. Among other things our sworn-off friend gets off the
following:

Editorial. 95

Ever since Samuel Hahnemann has given to the world the law (?) of
similia sitnilibus curantur not one homoeopathist has done anything par-
ticular for medicine or for suffering humanity. True, colleges and hos-
pitals have been erected, books written, old women and children gained as
patients — but what has been done by them to advance medical science ?
Nothing.

Ach die liebes kind ! what a confirmed joker thou art.

Dr. Adolph Rupp reaches the following conclusions concern-
ing antitoxin in the Medical Record of January 28th:

1. It is a substance and a remedy of variable and irregular "unit"
strength.

2. The same make of antitoxin ma}- reap fulsome praise at one place, and
at another place damn itself with a large mortality rate.

3. Antitoxin is an organic substance, which is easily rendered inutile by
age and unfavorable temperatures (it sometimes deteriorates in spite of
good handling).

4. In comparing and weighing statistics which claim to prove the potent
beneficence of antitoxin, we should not forget that antitoxin and diphtheria
are not two conceptions that fit one the other like nut and screw. Anti-
toxin is as fickle and uncertain, as merchandise and as a remedy, as diph-
theria is at different times and places a variable disease complexion. In
neither case are we dealing with fixed and rigid standards and certainties.

It seems as though in the near future it will be as .bad form to
use this stuff as it is, or was but yesterday, not to use it. The
discoveries of this sort cometh up as the grass and are withered.
Only Homoeopathy endureth.

A correspondent asks for information concerning the rem-
edy Vespa crabro. " Vespa " stands for wasp and " crabro " for
crabronidae, which is the designation of one of the thirteen fam-
ilies into which the wasp is divided. A proving of the remedy
will be found in Allen's Handbook of Materia Medica and Ho-
moeopathic Therapeutics. Clinically it has been used in burning
micturition in women, especially if connected with ailments of
left ovary. A writer in the Medical Summary, November, 1897,
claims that wasp stings caused acute hepatitis, resulting in
death of the patient.

11 In Homoeopathic pharmacy alkaloidal uncertainties are hap-
pily avoided by employing the whole drug as prepared in
nature's laboratory by its conversion into tincture form and
without the disturbing influence of heat." — C. H. Evans, M.
D., in Clinique, December, 1898.

PERSONAL.

" Why do we die ?" is the heading of a recent paper in Medical World.
Our answer would be, because we can't help it.

The young woman asked for Appendicitis, by Thackeray; the clerk gave
her Pendennis and it was all right.

The Klondike doctors have organized an Examining Board.

It is said that 95 per cent, of those taken to the London smallpox hos-
pital have been vaccinated.

There is a certain set mentioned in Revelations who were neither hot nor
cold; interesting reading about them.

Better a bull-necked "partisan" than a mental invertebrate who by
mingling incompatibles causes the nausea resulting in the violent ejection
of the whole.

The trouble with " scientific medicine " is that it looks to "authority "
or " personal experience," and not to law, as do other sciences.

"M. D." injan'y 14 Health says microbes are the cause of dyspepsia
and advises the use of " germicides."

"Antitoxin," we are informed by a contributor, "will cure lockjaw,
sunstroke, frost bites and lying."

POR SALE. ^n elegant home in Southern California, a complete
modern house of ten rooms, all improvements, seven
lots, cement walks, flowers, fruits and ornamental trees. One block from
post office, situated in one of the healthiest towns in the State. Just the
place for a homoeopathic physician, the nearest being five miles away.
For particulars address P. O. Box 1693, Anaheim, Cae.

Says Schopenhauer: " See something of human nature, but do not try to
mend it."

A Dr. Richards {Medical World) wants to know why dogs howl. Proba-
bly the dog is equally curious about man's singing.

The Doctor says that Koch's lymph is now admitted free of duty because
it does not interfere with home consumption.

It is reported that the San Francisco Hahnemann Hospital College is to
have a fine new building this year.

No, John Henry, a sterile woman is not necessarily a triumph of anti-
septic treatment.

Aconite, Bryonia, Belladonna and the rest of the old household have
seen thousands of scornful rivals arise and decline into innocuous desuetude,
while they wax stronger than ever.

Send your papers to the RECORDER and have them read in all countries.

If every " medicine " could do what its advertisement says it can, then
might the physician take a long rest.

H. W. O. Margary, attorney at law, Eustis, Lake County, Florida, writes
that there is a fine opening there for a homoeopathic physician.

Burnett's little books occasionally receive some hard knocks from the
critics, but they have hosts of friends who have tried them and found them
not wanting.

To know about Fraxinus Americanus is worth the price of Organ Dis-
eases of Women.

We have all heard who is the " father of lies," but who is their mother ?

Xanthopsydracia is a yellow pimple, and it is nothing more.

THE

Homeopathic Recorder.

Vol XIV. Lancaster, Pa, March, 1899. No. 3

THE WATER SUPPLY OF SMALL CITIES AND
VILLAGES, CONSIDERED MAINLY WITH REF-
ERENCE TO THE RELATION WHICH EXISTS,
OR IS SUPPOSED TO EXIST, BETWEEN DRINK-
ING WATER AND DISEASE.*

By Dr. J. Hodge, M. D., Niagara Falls, N. Y.

There is probably no sanitary subject of more general interest,
or attracting more earnest attention, than that relating to the
wholesomeness and abundance of domestic water supplies. An
adequate supply of wholesome water being a fundamental hygi-
enic necessity, one of the first points of inquiry in all sanitary
investigations should be the question of the water supply.

The principal objects of the writer of this paper are, first, a
cursor}- examination of the various sources supplying small
cities and villages with water for drinking and culinary purposes;
second, a consideration of the comparative merits and objection-
able features of the different potable-water sources within their
reach; third, a review of some of the evidence upon which the
connection between certain diseases and the imbibition of impure
drinking water is assumed to exist.

Properties of Water.

Both oxygen gas and hydrogen gas, when pure, are colorless,
and have neither taste nor smell. Water, a result of their com-
bination, when pure, is limpid, tasteless, inodorous and color-
less, except when viewed in considerable depth.

The solvent powers of water exceed those of any other liquid
known to chemists, and it has an extensive range of affinities.

* Read before the Western New York Homoeopathic Medical Society in
Buffalo, N. Y., January 13, 1899.

98 The Water Supply of Small Cities and Villages.

This is why it is almost impossible to secure water free from im-
purities, and why almost every substance in nature enters into
solution in water. There is a property in water capable of over-
coming the adhesive force of the particles of matter in a great
variety of solids and liquids, and of overcoming the repulsive
force in gases. The particles are then distributed by molecular
activities, and the result is termed solution.

In all the wonderful and complex transformations in nature,
in the sustenance and development of all organized beings, and in
the convenience and comfort of man water is appointed to per-
form an essential part. When we consider that about seventy-
five per cent, of our healthy blood and not less than eighty per
cent, of our bodies when in health consists of water, that not less
than ninety-five per cent, of our food is also water, wTe readily
acknowledge the important part it plays in our very existence.
Life cannot long continue in either plant or animal unless water
in some of its forms is provided in due quantity. Wholesome
water is indispensable in the preparation of all our foods. Clear
and soft water is essential for promoting the cleanliness and
health of our bodies; and comparatively pure water is de-
manded for great variety of the operations of the useful and me-
chanical arts.

Physiological Office of Water in the Human Economy.

All living tissues contain water. Of the three essentials to
human life, air, water and food, the one now to be considered,
water, has for its physiological office to maintain all the tissues
in healthy action. Water is second only to air in its importance
in the animal organism.

In the stomach water effects the solution of pabulum, which
it conveys into the blood current. It is the medium through
which worn out material is removed from the body; and in effect-
ing its discharge through the lungs and skin it so regulates the
body temperature that the chemico-vital processes of the animal
laboratory are carried on continuously with equable and health-
ful force. If the water received into the system is unfit for such
special service all the functions suffer a consequent impairment.
Air then but partially clarifies the blood, food then is imperfectly
assimilated, the effete products of the body are but partially
eliminated and the body degenerates. The necessity, therefore,
of a judiciously executed system of public water supply for
household purposes cannot be overestimated. No town or city

The Water Supply of Small Cities and Villages. 99

can submit to a continued want of an adequate supply of whole-
some water without a serious check in its prosperity. Capital
is always wary of investment where the elements of safety and
health are lacking, and industry dreads frequent failures and ob-
jectionable quality in its water supply. In a town in which
potable water is procurable with difficulty the lack is sure to
prove a growing hindrance to its prosperity, and before the town
arrives at considerable magnitude the remedy for this defect will
present one of the most difficult problems with which its muni-
cipal authorities are obliged to cope.

Sources of Supply.

With reference to their use for town and household supply,
natural waters may be conveniently divided into four classes, as
follows:

1. Rainwater; 2. Surface water, including streams and lakes;
3. Ground water, including shallow wells; 4 Deep-seated water,
including deep wells, artesian wells and springs.

From none of these sources, however, can we obtain water
which is chemically pure, i. e., nothing other than the com-
pound of oxygen and hydrogen (H20) known under that name.

The collection of the rain directly as a source of public water
supply, in our latitude, would be undertaken only under very
exceptional circumstances. In many localities, however, where
there is no sufficient public supply and where wells are out of
the question, as is the case in the city of Xew Orleans, the col-
lection of rain water by the individual householder becomes a
necessity; also where the public supply is hard and unfit for
washing.

Rain water, although generally regarded as a pure water, is
liable to contamination from various sources. The rain which
falls, even in the open country, is far from being pure in the
chemical sense, as it washes from the air both gaseous and solid
substances. It is by means of the rainfall that the atmosphere
is purified after long periods of drought. In manufacturing
localities, the air, and consequently the rain, may contain much
impurity; and in any event when the rain is collected near
human habitations, the impurity is considerable. Hence the
so-called " pure waters of heaven " are fouled before they reach
the earth with the solids and gases' of earth. The rain is the
sewer of the atmosphere, and it is hardly to be supposed that
spores, germs, bacilli and other presumably deleterious organic

ioo The Water Supply of Small Cities and Villages.

substances which have resisted the atmospheric oxidizing
agencies will be destroyed or rendered inert by their transfer-
ence from an aerial to an aqueous medium. Moreover, rain
water is liable to be contaminated by impurities on the collecting
surface. The cleanest of roofs become covered with dust in dry
seasons, and this dust, although largely mineral in character,
contains a percentage of organic matter, which requires only
moisture for the inception of fermentative change and the de-
velopment and growth of organic forms. The morbific principle,
or poison of specific disease, which may be air borne, must thus,
of necessity, be also susceptible of transmission to the system
by means of a rain water supply. Rain water is inevitably
modified by the character of the roof which sheds it — that from
a clean slate roof being the best — while rotting shingles, the
excrement of birds, the dead and decomposing bodies of insects,
decaying leaves from the trees, various sorts of dust and dirt,
foul conductors and equally foul storage tanks, may all impress
their characters upon the quality of the water.

The presence, therefore, of more or less organic matter being
a necessary consequence of the mode of procuring rain water, it
cannot be regarded as a good potable water unless especial care
has been exercised in its collection and storage. It is desirable
that the collecting surface should be a slate roof, and that the
first and impure portions of the rain-shower should be rejected
by means of a cut-off, and that the after-fall should be stored in
a clean, underground cistern. By thus excluding from the stor-
age reservoirs the atmospheric impurities and the washings from
the watershed, a water may be obtained which, although con-
taining traces of ammonia and organic matter, must, from its
natural history, be considered as a reasonably wholesome supply.
For the storage of rain water, there is nothing better, from a
sanitary point of view, than slate-lined tanks. On account of
the sediment which accumulates in the cisterns in which rain
water is stored, it is desirable that they should be thorougly
cleansed from time to time, and that the water should be sub-
jected to filtration before being used for drinking or for culinary
purposes. While rain water, on account of its softness, is
peculiarly adapted to use in washing and cooking, it is also, as
already stated, wholesome as a beverage if collected and stored
so as to be reasonably pure. Its general purity and its great
aeration make it both healthful and pleasant. As the necessary
precautions are but rarely observed in its collection, and on ac-

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count of the numerous sources of danger to the purity of stored
rain water, most authorities unite in condemning; it for dietetic
and culinary purposes.

River Waters.
Rivers are of necessity the final resort of a majority of the
principal cities of the world for their public water supply. The
volume of water dailv required in even a small city often exceeds
the combined capacity of all the springs, brooks and ponds
within accessible limits, and supplies from wells become im-
possible because of lack of capacity, excessive aggregate cost,
and liability to contamination of their waters.

Harmless Impregnations.

The natural organic impurities of rivers are seldom other than
dissolving vegetable fibres washed down from the forests and
swamps, and these are rarely n objectionable amounts.

Turbidity of Streams.
It is hardly necessary to dwell upon the fact that rivers are
frequently objectionable as sources of supply on account of the
large amount of suspended matter, mainly clay, which many of
them carry invariably and others at time of flood.

Pollutions.
It is the artificial impurities that are the bane of our river
waters. Manufactories, villages, towns and cities spring up
upon the river banks, and their refuse, dead animals and sewage
are dumped into the running streams, making them foul potions
of putrefaction when they should flow clear and wholesome ac-
cording to natural laws. At the present time great volumes of
sewage from the city of Buffalo are poured into Niagara river,
which furnishes the public water supply for the city of Niagara
Falls and the village of Tonawanda. This dilute sewage is
used by many thousands of people for domestic purposes.

Spring Water.
In point of potability, the best water is, undoubtedly, spring
water, in which all possibility of contamination is out of the
question. Where the course of the water has not been too long,
and it has not, consequently, taken up a large amount of mineral
matter, such springs furnish one of the very best sources of
drinking water. The advantage of spring water over surface
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great as to justify the incurring of a very considerable expense
in order to procure it. Thus, the city of Vienna has con-
structed extensive water works for the sake of bringing water
from springs which are sixty miles distant.

Drinking Water and Disease.

The relation which exists, or is presumed by some to exist, be-
tween drinking water and certain diseases has served as an
interesting subject for discussion by sanitarians for a long time.

The attention of sanitarians and water experts is directed now-
adays principally to the effect of water which is polluted by the
waste materials from manufactories and dwellings, or by the
sewage of towns and cities: and it is generally held in England,
and the United States, that water thus polluted may be, and fre-
quently is, the cause of certain specific diseases. Before dis-
cussing this question directly, it is important to have a general
idea of the present prevailing views entertained of the so called
zymotic diseases.

The " germ theory " of disease is that many maladies are due
to the presence and propagation in the system of living micro-
organisms, which are popularly spoken of as bacteria, under
which term are included also organisms which, as far as known,
are harmless. Prof. William Ripley Nichols, in the last edition
of his work on "Water Supply, Considered Mainly from a
Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint," in discussing this subject,
uses the following guarded language: "Some of the diseases
which have, with more or less show of reason, been supposed to
have their cause in such organisms are intermittent, relapsing,
typhus and typhoid fever, cholera, diphtheria and tuberculosis.
With reference to specific distinctions among the organisms
themselves, observers are not agreed."

Typhoid and Cholera.

Of the diseases which are supposed to be caused by these micro-
organisms— to be propagated by germs — those which have been
with the greatest unanimity ascribed to the use of impure drink-
ing water are typhoid fever and cholera. With reference even
to these diseases, however, there has been much discussion and
controversy between the adherents and the opponents of the
"drinking-water theory." It would not be profitable, in the
brief space allotted to this paper, to attempt to review the numer-
ous cases on record where the coincidences between the use of
impure water and the occurrence of typhoid fever (and other

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diseases) have been so marked as to lead able and careful investi-
gators to believe in the existence of cause and effect. The most
able opponent of the drinking-water theory is Prof. Pettenkofer,
of Munich, who firmly holds that in these cases there is coin-
cidence only, and that the other circumstances have been over-
looked in the investigation. He and his sympathizers also bring
forward many instances where the connection between a particu-
lar outbreak of a specific disease and the drinking water previ-
ously used by those attacked is not only obvious, but absolutely
out of the question.

Zymotic Diseases.

Sanitary writings have abounded with discussion of this sub-
ject during the last decade; still looking broadly over the field
of discussion, it is evident that there is nothing like unanimity
of opinion among the different authorities upon this subject. In
studying the literature of the aetiology of typhoid fever, for in-
stance, we find that representative medical men have arrived at
very different conclusions. There is sufficient reason to warrant
the belief that this disease is never of spontaneous origin, but
that each case is derived from a preceding one through the
agency of a specific morbific principle. As to the exact nature
of the morbific agent we have no specific knowledge. In regard
to the causation of the zymotic diseases, of which typhoid fever
may be taken as a type, there are at the present time two promi-
nent theories. They are the chemical theory and the biological,
commonly called the "germ theory of disease." Both these
theories have able advocates. The chemical theory maintains
that after the infectious element has been received into the blood
it acts as a ferment and gives rise to certain morbid processes on
the principle of catalysis. Prof. Loomis, whose vast clinical
experience and scientific attainments entitle his opinion to great
weight, says in his work on fevers: "The theory of organisms,
as it is called, maintains that the infectious principles are living
organism, which, having been received into the blood, reproduce
themselves indefinitely, and by their reproduction morbid pro-
cesses are excited which are characteristic of certain types of
disease. This is a very seductive theory, and at the present
time is quite extensively adopted by medical theorists." " Un-
fortunately for this thory," remarks Prof. Loomis, " the special
organism of any one of the infectious diseases has never been
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others in the same field of study could with certainty recognize
it. The bacterian theory, which recently has so occupied the
attention of medical men, especially in Germany, is rapidly
being disproved, and consequently as rapidly being abandoned."
"It seems to me," continues Prof. Loomis, " that one who has
closely observed bacterian development must arrive at the con-
clusion that bacteria found in connection with the development
of disease are the product and not the cause of the diseased pro-
cess. After reviewing these different theories and giving careful
attention to the facts presented in their support, we arrive at
this conclusion — that the exact nature of these morbific agents
is unknown."

After a general survey of all the accessible literature on the
subject, I find that the causal relation between the germs in
drinking water and the occurrence of disease, if there be such
relation, has never been demonstrated with sufficient accuracy
and certainty to satisfy all careful and competent observers in
this field of investigation. As to the exact nature of the mor-
bific agent and its element of power in the reproduction of dis-
ease I believe we have no positive knowledge.

Bacteriological Study of Water.

When we come to the bacteriological study of water we are
again confronted with two conflicting theories. They are the
" drinking-water theory " and the " telluric theory." On this
subject, likewise, nothing like unanimity of opinion prevails
among recognized authorities. Prof. A. C. Abbott, in the last
edition of his work on bacteriology, has this to say: " Of the
hypotheses that have been advanced in explanation of the ex-
istence and dissemination of zymotic diseases two stand pre-
eminent and are worthy of consideration. They are the " tel-
luric theory," of Von Pettenkofer and his pupils, and the
"drinking-water" theory of the school of bacteriologists, of
which Koch stands at the head. The adherents to the ground-
water view explain the presence of the zymotic diseases in epi-
demic form through alterations in the soil resulting from fluctua-
tions in the level of the soil water, and assign to the drinking
water either a very insignificant role, or, as is most frequently
the case, ignore it entirely. On the other hand, those who have
been instrumental in developing the drinking-water hypothesis
claim that alterations in the soil play little or no part in favoring
the appearance of these diseases in a neighborhood; but that, as

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a rule, they appear as a result of direct infection through the
use of waters that are contaminated with materials containing
the specific organisms that are known to cause such diseases."

Thus we see that some of the ablest and most careful investi-
gators deny the existence of any positive evidence of a causal
relation between germs and disease.

Prof. William Ripley Nichols, who is himself an ardent sup-
porter of the drinking water hypothesis — that is, the germ
theory — candidly makes the following admission: "Even the
most earnest advocates of drinking watery theory must admit
that the theory is by no means proved." Neither can it be as-
serted that the drinking water is the only means by which the
zymotic diseases may be propagated. Admitting the necessary
presence of these minute organisms, which, at least in certain
stages of their development, can exist outside the human body
and retain their vitality for a long time, the question arises how
they can find their way into the systems of healthy persons to
produce disease.

Air and Water.

The two most obvious of the possible carriers of disease are
the air we breathe and the water we drink. We have no diffi-
culty in supposing that emanations from sick persons, particulate
or otherwise, may find their way into the air; moreover, the
dejections of the sick and the water in which their clothes or
their persons have been washed may often reach the sources of
drinking water. Of these two media, the former, i. e , the air, is
a priori the most probable, partly because we take very much
more air into our lungs than we take water into our stomachs,
and also because the lungs afford a better chance for the morbific
principle to enter the blood; indeed, some of the ablest and most
careful investigators maintain that any organisms entering the
stomach are rendered harmless by the fluids therein, and that
the drinking water is not to be considered at all as a means of
conveying the germs of disease. I am aware that there are
other investigators who affirm that the exciting cause of typhoid
fever is a specific, organized, pathogenetic germ, called the
11 bacillus typhosus," which is most commonly received into the
system through the medium of drinking water. Still I have
been unable after diligent search to discover in the broad domain
of medical literature a single recorded instance in which inocula-
tion experiments upon the lower animals with cultures of the
"typhoid bacillus" have been followed by the lesions which

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characterize typhoid fever in the human subject, notwithstanding
the fact that thousands of experiments have been made with
this specific object in view. It is a well-recognized fact, also,
that the domesticated horse is subject to typhoid fever con-
tracted in the natural way. Veterinarian writers tell us that
typhoid fever prevails at times in epidemic form, or, more prop-
erly speaking, epizootic form among the equine race.

Whatever may be the merits of the germ theory of disease, it
must be admitted, however, that, with our present information,
too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of prevent-
ing the discharge of organic filth and sewage into any stream
which is used as a source of domestic water supply. The im-
portance of this matter is underrated for two reasons: First, be-
cause of a mistaken belief that a polluted water rapidly purifies
itself by natural means; and, second, because of the misleading
idea that a water to be prejudicial to health must be polluted to
such an extent that the animal matter may be recognized by
chemical tests. That polluted water in its flow does become
somewhat purified, no one can doubt who has followed the
course of a polluted stream; chemical analysis proves the same
thing. There is, however, much difference of opinion as to the
method by which the self-purification takes place, and also as to
the extent to which we may suppose that the disease-producing
something is eliminated.

While oxidation, deposition, the action of infusorial plants
and the agency of fish may account in a small degree for the
disappearances of sewage in streams, undoubtedly the most im-
portant reason of the apparent disappearance of such filth is the
fact that the amount of polluting matter is so small, compared
with the volume of water into which it is thrown, that it is dis-
seminated through the mass, and thus lost to observation and
in many cases to chemical tests.

Natural Purification of Water.

In regard to the so-called self-purification of streams, Prof.
William Ripley Nichols, who has made a very exhaustive study
of the subject, emphatically declares that "the apparent self-
purification of running streams is largely due to dilution, and
the fact that a river seems to have purified itself at a certain
distance below a point where it was certainly polluted is no
guaranty that the water is fit for domestic use."

To what extent must a polluted liquid be diluted in order to

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be safely used for domestic purposes? This question, I believe,
no scientist has ever been able to answer. We do know this:
Many eminent bacteriologists claim to have demonstrated by
actual experiments that the spores of some of the lower orders
of vegetable organisms are very difficult to deprive of vitality;
they may be frozen, or heated to the boiling temperature, or
they may be kept in a dry condition for years, and then, if placed
in a favorable medium, becomes active and produce their kind.
The "bacillus typhosus" is the micro-organism or germ gen-
erally recognized by the school of bacteriologists who adhere to
the " drinking-water theory " of disease, as being the etiological
factor in the production of typhoid fever. Prudden found this
germ capable of growth after having been frozen in ice for one
hundred and three days, and after having been heated to a
temperature of 132.8 degrees F. He also found that it retained
its vitality after repeated alternate freezing and thawing. Ad-
mitting, then, the presence of these disease germs in a liquid,
the liquid may be diluted until the chance of taking even a
single germ into the system is so small that it may be disre-
garded and yet if the prevailing "germ theory of disease" be
true a single germ, if taken into the system, might produce dis-
astrous results. It is reasonable to assume that countless
myriads of these typhoid fever germs gain ready access to the
waters of Niagara river, into wrhich is poured vast volumes of
sewage from the populous city of Buffalo, this sewage contain-
ing as it does the dejections from patients sick wTith typhoid
fever. To my mind a weighty argument against the acceptance
of the theory that ascribes the production of typhoid fever and
other zymotic diseases to the presence of micro-organisms in the
drinking water used is the fact that Tonawanda and Niagara
Falls are not the hotbeds of typhoid fever, using as they do for
dietetic and household purposes the polluted water of Niagara
river, which has been fouled by the sewage from the city of
Buffalo, and containing as it must countless millions of the
typhoid fever bacilli, which are known to retain their power of
growth and reproduction in water at such wide ranges of tem-
perature for prolonged periods of time.

Neither Proved Nor Disproved.

Whether the micro-organisms in polluted drinking water are
primarily the underlying cause of zymotic disease cannot, it
seems to me, in the present state of medical science, be abso-

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lutely affirmed or denied — proved or disproved — so that those
who have carefully reviewed the literature extant on this inter-
esting subject find themselves in a state of mental incertitude,
if not in a purely agnostic state of mind. The duty, therefore,
of those who have to advise or to decide in matters relating to
water supply is perfectly clear; it is to err on the side of safety
to admit the hypothesis that specific disease may be conveyed by
the drinking water imbibed, and to carefully guard all sources
of domestic and public supply from the possibility of contamina-
tion by sewage, by the dejections of persons sick with zymotic
diseases and by excremental matter generally. It is admitted,
as the result of universal observation, that the less the quantity
of organic matter held by the water we drink the more whole-
some it is

The joint use, therefore, of rivers and other water-courses for
sewers and as sources of water supply for domestic use should
be deprecated. I believe it to be the duty of physicians to em-
phatically protest against the adoption or use of a source of
domestic water supply that is at all subject to contamination by
sewage or putrefying organic matters of any kind. When or-
ganic matter comes from drainage it is a most formidable in-
gredient in drinking water, and it is the one of all others that
ought to be looked upon with apprehension when it is from the
drainage of cities and large towns, containing, as it does in such
cases, the excreta from the diseased as well as healthy human
beings.

Dr. R. A. Smith, in his testimony before the Royal Commis-
sion of Water Supply of London, said: " No one has conclusively
shown that it is safe to trust to dilution, agitation, filtration or
periods of time for the complete removal from water of disease-
producing elements, whatever these may be. Chemistry and
microscopy cannot and do not claim to prove the absence of these
elements in any specimen of drinking water."

Leaving out of the discussion the scientific aspect of the case,
the natural instinctive sentiment of repugnance and disgust ex-
cited by the mere thought of receiving upon one's tongue or into
his mouth or stomach excrementitious animal substance — how-
ever much diluted — is sufficient condemnation of the repulsive
practice of using dilute sewage for drinking and culinary pur-
poses. It is evident that nothing is more unphilosophical than
that one city should be allowed to discharge its sewage into a

Obituary, 109

water course which is the only available source of domestic
supply for another city or village lower down on the stream.

We are wont to boast of the great intellectual enlightenment
of the present age, and of our grand achievements in sanitary
science, still, here on the eve of the nineteenth century in the
Empire State of this great Commonwealth, thousands of its citi-
zens are compelled to use for drinking and cooking purposes the
diluted sewage of great cities which pour their vast volumes of
organic filth and human excrement into the water-courses used
as public supplies.

The remedy for this great wrong is to be found only in legal
enactments, such as are now in force in France, England, Ger-
many and Prussia, prohibiting the pollution of these streams.
Cities and towns claim the right to discharge their sewage into
a water- course on which they may be situated, and unless a nui-
sance is thereby created within their own boundaries they are not
likely, of their motion, to do anything incurring additional ex-
pense.

Niagara Falls, N. Y.

OBITUARY.
Dr. T. S. Hoyne,

Expressions of regret w7ere heard among medical men in all
parts of the city when it became generally known that Dr.
Temple Stoughton Hoyne, the veteran homceopathist and author
of several technical works, had died.

Dr. Hoyne had been ill for some time and had sought relief in
a surgical operation. After a slight improvement he suffered a
relapse and died at his home, 1833 Indiana avenue, at w^o
o'clock in the morning.

Dr. Hoyne was 57 years of age and a native of Chicago. His
father, Thomas Hoyne, practiced at the Chicago bar in the city's
pioneer days and his grandfather was the first homceopathist to
practice here. After attending the common schools of this city
and graduating from Chicago University young Hoyne went to
New York, where he studied under Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, re-
ceiving a diploma from Bellevue Medical College. He returned
to Chicago, graduated from the Hahnemann College and after-
ward became one of its lecturers. Among the books written by
him are " Hoyne's Materia Medica " and "Clinical Thera-
peutics."

no International Ho?nceopat/iic Congress.

In 1866, shortly after his return to Chicago, Dr. Hoyne mar-
ried Miss Fannie H. Vedder, of Palatine Bridge, New York, who,
with a daughter, Mrs. Charles Buell, survives him. — Chicago
Tribune.

INTERNATIONAL HOMOEOPATHIC CONGRESS,

1900.

Esteemed Colleague:

At the London Congress of 1896 it was decided that we should
meet next in Paris, and that the quinquennial gathering should
be ante-dated one year, so as to make it coincide with the Ex-
position Universelle which is to be held in that city in 1900.
The Societe Francaise d'Homceopathie has accepted the task of
organizing the Congress, and has appointed the undersigned a
Commission for the purpose. It has also obtained from the Man-
agement of the Exposition a place among the Official Congresses
meeting in connection therewith.

We, therefore, beg to inform you that the Sixth Quinquennial
International Homoeopathic Congress will assemble in Paris, at
a date hereafter to be determined, but lying between July 20th
and August 19th, 1900; and we earnestly solicit your coopera-
tion in our work of preparation for it. We need essays for our
discussions, and the representatives of our system to conduct
these to advantage. Will you be good enough to take such
measures as you deem most suitable for interesting in our pro-
jected gathering the readers of the Homceopathic Recorder.
All information regarding the Congress will be published in
good time in the French Homoeopathic Journals.

With our fraternal regards, we remain, dear colleague, yours
most truly,

P. JOUSSET, President.

R. Hughes, Permane?it Secretary.

Leon Simon, Secretary.

Victor Chancorel.

A. Gounard.

Marc Joussep.

J. Love.

J. P. Tessier.

P. S. — All essays and papers should arrive by January 1st,
1900, at the latest, and should be addressed to

Dr. Leon Simon,
24, Place Vendome, Paris, France.

Ladies" Hahnemann Mo/in ment Association. in

LADIES' HAHNEMANN MONUMENT AS-
SOCIATION.

Buffalo. February ist, 1899.

Dear Mr. Editor: — The president of the L H. M. A. has
authorized me to communicate some facts which may be of
interest to your readers. The work of raising money for the
Hahnemann monument by the above organization came to an
abrupt standstill soon after the association was formed, on ac-
count of the war with Spain.

Now that these momentous conditions are changed to an era
of peace and prosperity, the project is again being pushed in
every part of the United States of collecting the requisite
amount to assist in completing this most superb memorial to the
founder of Homoeopathy.

Many distinguished women in all sections of the country are
interested in this movement; a few names will suffiice to show
the kind of representation the organization has:

Mrs. M. A. Hanua, Ohio,

Mrs. George Westinghouse, Washington, D. C,

Mrs. John Dalzell, Pennsylvania,

Mrs. James A. Mount, Indiana,

Mrs. H. Clay Evans, Tennessee,

Mrs. William Appleton, Massachusetts,

Mrs. H. X. Higinbotham, Illinois,

Mrs. John S. Newberry, Michigan,

Mrs. Elihu Root, New York,

Mrs. John H. Vincent, Kansas.

Could this work of raising a monument to Samuel Hahne-
mann have a stronger endorsement among the laity than these
brilliant names ?

This effort, combined with the splendid achievement of the
physician's committee in obtaining thirt3r thousand dollars for
this object, insures the success of the entire movement.

One of the several methods employed by the L. H. M. A. has
been to commence sending out a personal letter to homoeopathic
physicians, intending to interest those who have not yet given,
asking for small contributions to the fund.

This appeal, only just begun, has, at the outset, met with
most encouraging results; especially noteworthy, because many
of the physicians whose names are here given had already con-
tributed once, twice and even thrice to the Hahnemann Monu-
ment fund. The courtesy of the replies for promptness, kind

ii2 Ladies* Hahnemann Monument Association.

words and the enclosures is deeply appreciated by all concerned.
The following physicians have contributed to February ist,
not including donations from the " Chain Method" commenced
in the Autumn:

Herbert A. Sherwood, M. D., $ 5 oo

Arthur F. Bissell, M. D., 5 oo

J. G. Baldwin, M. D., 2 00

Daniel H. Arthur, M. D., 2 00

John Arschagouni, M. D., 2 co

P. L. Hatch, M. D., 3 00

F. P. Batcheldor, M. D., and wife, 2 co

George A. Adams, M. D., 2 00

C. F. Barber, M. D., 2 00

F. J. Becker, M. D., 3 00

Chas. P. Beaman, M. D., 2 00

A. B. Berghaus, M. D., 2 00

Joseph P. Paine, M. D., 2 00

Francis M. Bennett, M. D., 2 00

A. B. Blackmail, M. D., 1 00

J. Arthur Bullard, M. D., . 2 00

Merritt C. Bragdon, M. D., 2 00

J. D. Brewster, M. D., 4 00

J. P. Bloss, M. D., 5 00

A. J. Bond, M. D., 2 00

F. C. Bowman, M. D., 2 00

Herbert M. Bishop, M. D., 1 00

H. F. Biggar, M. D., 25 00

J. D. Burns, M. D., 200

Total to Date, $82 00

In the near future the complete report of the Treasurer, Mrs.
A. R. Wright, will be forwarded for publication in your valuable
columns. Physicians' contributions will be sent as often as
amounts warrant it.

It is very encouraging to know that medical societies are tak-
ing up the Hahnemann Monument matter as the following letter
will show:

Boston, January 10th, 1899.
Dear Mrs. Cook: — The work of the "Ladies' Hahnemann Monument
Association," as outlined in yours of December 31st, and in the enclosed
circular was presented at the annual meeting of our Boston Homoeopathic
Medical Society, held last Thursday evening, January 5th.

The whole subject of the monument, past and present efforts, was dis-
cussed with much interest by various members. It was voted to appoint a
committee who should have the power to take the necessary steps to secure
the co-operation of the members to raise among the laity, as well as the
profession of Boston, a sum that will aggregate at least one thousand
dollars.

"Merely a Statement of Facts." 113

Drs. A. J. Baker Flint, Adaline B. Church, Lucy Appleton and Sarah S.
Windsor, president elect, were appointed such committee.

The movement instituted by the L. H. M. A. must prove a grand success.
I also take pleasure in informing you that another start has been made by
the present students of Boston University School of Medicine, who do not
wish to be left behind in this movement to the honor of Hahnemann and
Homoeopathy.

It is of added significance that the leader in this and the editor-iu-chief
of the college paper, "The Medical Student," is a lady, Miss Alberta S.
Boomhower.

The movement is an infectious one, and it may spread and spread until
success crown the faithful efforts put forth.

Very sincerely yours,

BOSTONIAN M. D.

It is earnestly hoped that medical societies everywhere will
take up this matter and. co-operate with the L. H. M. A. to
interest the laity in paying this tribute to the greatest reformer
of the century.

The following physicians' wives are identified with the central
organization at Buffalo, N. Y. :

Mrs. Joseph T. Cook, president;

Mrs. F. Park Lewis, vice president;

Mrs. Burt J. Maycock, vice president;

Mrs. Dewitt G. Wilcox, vice president;

Mrs. B. P. Hussey, vice president;

Mrs. Wm. Henry Marcy, vice president;

Mrs. Hubbard A. Foster, Advisory Committee;

Mrs. P. A. McCrea, Advisory Committee;

Mrs. John Miller, Advisory Committee;

Mrs. A. R. Wright, Treasuser.

Very cordially yours,

Annie H. Frost,

Assistant Secretary.

"MERELY A STATEMENT OF FACTS."

Some time ago an old school physician asked us to see in con-
sultation with him, a case of infantile atrophy. We had never
met him before and were a little puzzled at the request until, in
the course of conversation, it developed that the mother had
formerly been successfully treated by a homoeopathic physician
(in Terre Haute, Ind.), who had, by mail, suggested that we
be seen for the child. As it was a case of consult or cease
attending, he had chosen to consult, code or no code. We saw
the child. Upon inquiry, we discovered that it had had an

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eruption that had been "cured" by local applications, after
which the marasmic condition had developed. The doctor was
astonished at our " unscientific " view that this " cure " was the
cause of the marasmus. To enlighten him, we gave him Bur-
nett's Diseases of the Skin to read. Later, he returned the book
saying he had not read it through; " it was not scientific; it was
merely a statement of facts." This fairly took our breath away,
and, before we could recover it, he made the discovery that the
street car was coming and he must drive away as his horse was
liable to shy, but he would call again, etc., etc., and he was
gone! "Not scientific; only a statement of facts! " Comments
are unnecessary. — Editorial, Clinical Reporter, Ja?iuary.

THE WORLD IN TIME WILL GROW UP TO IT.

No phase of Hahnemann's teaching has been as bitterly dis-
cussed, more keenly ridiculed, and more stubbornly misapplied
than his theory of the origin of chronic diseases. Robbed of all
superfluous verbiage, it simply teaches that chronic diseases, as
a class, usually result from the suppression of an exanthem, or
from an inherited tendency to disturbances of nutrition, or some
specific infection; hence the necessity of avoiding local treat-
ment of exanthems, and of patient, long-continued internal
treatment for the eradication of the inherited and fixed tendency
to morbid states.

Any ridicule cast upon this teaching is largely based upon a
misinterpretation of the German term "Kraetze," which may
mean "itch," but also is and was used, at Hahnemann's time
and now, as a generic term, covering a rash on the skin, accom-
panied with itching. The discovery of the itch- parasite did not
invalidate Hahnemann's teaching. Neither does the discovery
of the fact that many exanthems really demand local treatment
bring into question the soundness of Hahnemann's views, for
the beneficent effect of topical medication applies to only a
small subdivision of the "diseases of the skin."

Hahnemann's "theory of chronic diseases," rationally inter-
preted, is valid to-day and constitutes his crown of glory. There
is no need whatever of apologizing for it, no excuse for thinking
of it as a relic of the old days. No medical student in the world
but that acknowledges the correctness of the general proposition
that the suppression of an exanthem involves great danger. The

After the "Country Doctor." 115

famous " dartrous theory " of more recent date is but a different
phrasing of Hahnemann's doctrine, and not only claims disas-
trous results from the suppression of a rash, but offers evidence
of the cure of severe chronic diseases after reappearance of sup-
pressed rash, such cure occurring under the use of mineral waters
containing infinitesimal doses of sulphur, thus practically en-
dorsing all the essentials of Hahnemann's teaching. Further-
more, modern medicine in the aetiology of chronic diseases,
especially syphilis, scrofulosis, cancer and tuberculosis, places
strong emphasis upon "inherited predisposition," "personal
bias," and thus again indirectly verifies the teaching of the man
it has so often villified.

I beg to add to these fragmentary statement the following:
Hahnemann's teaching, as a whole, was only marvellously in
advance of his own day, but at this writing is the very back-
bone of modern conservative medicine. Its essentials have been
shown correct by every forward step made. The fame of Hahne-
mann as a teacher is safe. If you and I forsake him, the medi-
cal profession at large will for its own sake acknowledge his
authority and eventually claim him one of its prophets. — Dr.
Arndt in Pacific Coast fournal of Homoeopathy .

AFTER "COUNTRY DOCTOR."

Editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder.

Although I have taken and read the Recorder for several
years, have not till now written a word in defense of homoeo-
pathic treatment in animals. But in answer to your correspond-
ent of New Sweden, Maine, who says that he cures spasmodic
colic with one dose, would ask him if he had a severe case
of flatulent colic whether he would be as successful ? It will
take the five or six hours that he so derides for the accumulated
gas in a bad case to pass off or to become neutralized. I would
not like to depend in such an instant on Nux for a cure, but it
will have to be a very serious case that Ammonium causticum
will not cure with an occasional dose of Nux thrown in. A
case of acute indigestion will often assume the form of colic that
will take at least the five or six hours for the patient to obtain
permanent relief, and then Nux will do the work with an oc-
casional dose of A?nmo?iium caust. to neutralize the gas that
may accumulate in the intestines.

n6 Reliable Medicines.

At one time I treated on the allopathic principle, "but, oh,"
what time was lost taking off coat, rolling up sleeves, getting
an extra man or two to help "drench," besides sending to the
drug store to have prescriptions filled, that finallv I became dis-
gusted and determined to try the small doses and the teaspoon,
so sent to Boericke & Tafel for some of the remedies that are
mostly needed, a work on Veterinary Homoeopathy, and I also
obtained books on the actions and uses of medicine used on the
two legged animals, and began to practice with fear, trembling,
but to my utter astonishment found that I could obtain better
and quicker results with the few drops given in a spoon than
with the large quantity poured down out of a bottle.

There are several practitioners in this city of the old school,
and yet a brother Vet, who has been on the sick list from the
first of the year, asked me to attend to his practice for him, at
least I offered so to do, and he was not afraid to entrust his
patients to a knight of the spoon.

Now let me just add that if "New Sweden" has not been
successful with homoeopathic treatment, he did not select the
right remedy for the disease; if he had, and the patient had not
been sick too long before he was called in, he could not help but
effect a cure; he must not expect one dose to do it, it is the
small and repeated dose of the right remedy that acts on the
diseased organ and removes the cause of sickness, like the con-
tinual drops of water wearing away a stone.

Try again, brother Vet, and you will soon discard heroic treat-
ment for the more safe and reliable homoeopathic dose.

W. C. Kimpton, V. S.

Washington , D. C.

RELIABLE MEDICINES.

By an Old Physician.
Into my hands has come a pamphlet on " Our Homoeopathic
Pharmacopoeias," in which I find some singular statements. In
the early days we prepared our remedies as Hahnemann directed
us. We early had supply houses who also attempted to follow
the directions of the master. In new provings we made the
best preparations we could and insisted that the pharmacies
should supply the profession with preparations made in the same
manner as those used in the provings. It is only recently, since
the British profession attempted to get the Institute to adopt
their pharmaceutical ideas, that a jangle has occurred.

Reliable Medicines. 117

As physicians we want reliable medicines and we will patron-
ize those pharmacies whom we can trust. I have bought from
the same houses for about forty years. Purity and care in the
preparations are the chief requisites. Time is an element and
no house can supply good medicines cheaply. I used to make
a good many tinctures of plants, but I soon found that I could
make more money by attending to calls. Plants must be gathered
at the right time and found in the right places. Roots must be
at their best; the same is true of barks. Pharmacology is a pro-
fession by itself. Perhaps it is not generally known that Hahne-
mann has revolutionized the making of tinctures. The best and
most careful men in the regular ranks prefer homoeopathic tinc-
tures and patronize our best pharmacies, for they believe that we
are " awful particular " with the preparation of our drugs. We
are, and should be. The Pharmacopoeia that is called American
is no more authoratative than any other. Many years ago a
Committee on Pharmacy was authorized by American Institute
to prepare a Pharmacopoeia. The committee consisted of the
pharmacy men in the Institute, with Dr. Boericke as chairman.
I think they delegated Dr. Mitchell, of Newbury, and Dr. C.
Dunham to compile it. I think trouble occurred over publish-
ing it. The Institute could not afford it. After waiting a long
time the Polyglott came out. Then, after that was exhausted,
Dr. Boericke had the American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia
issued. About the same time or soon after two were published
in Chicago; one copied after the Institute Pharmacopoeia; the
other followed Gruner. In the meantime new men in the Insti-
tute came to the front, and these insisted in a new edition of
British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, urged an international
one, but could not wait, and after a new edition of the British
appeared the new one, under the sanction of the Institute, has
recently appeared. It seems that the leading pharmacies do not
like the revolutions proposed in it and the profession are re-
quested to lend their influence to coerce the pharmacies to
adopt the innovations. It is part of the old fight on Allen's En-
cyclopaedia and the profession will wisely let it alone.

Give us preparations like the ones used to develop the
symptoms of the Materia Medica is all we ask, even if they differ
from allopathic methods. Stability is a characteristic of the
new school. Our remedies must be the same yesterday, to day
and forever as those used by our pioneers and they will always
suit.

n8 Guides to Practice.

GUIDES IN PRACTICE— SECONDARY SYMPTOMS.

By Thomas C. Duncan, M. D., Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of
General Medicine, Chicago.

In Nash's interesting and valuable little book, " Leaders in
Homoeopathic Therapeutics," we are told as follows: " We must
remember that every remedy has a dual action. These two
actions are termed primary and secondary. I think that the
so-called secondary action is only the reaction of the organism
against the first or primary (so-called) action of the drug. For
instance, the real action of Opium is to produce sleep or stupor,
the reaction is wakefulness; of Podophyllum, Aloes, etc., catharsis,
the reaction is constipation, and I think that the truly homoeopathic
curative must be in accord with the primary (so-called) effects of
every drug in order to get the best and most radical cure, but if
given for the secondary (so-called) symptoms, the primary ones
having passed by, we should carefully inquire for all the symp-
toms which have preceded those which are present, and taking
both past and present, let them all enter into the picture whose
counterpart is to be found in the drug which is to cure. Any
other method is only palliative, and not curative."

We use the term dual action when really it is only one action.
The system's forces oppose the drug force from start to finish,
and finally prevail, and the normal functions are gradually re-
sumed. To get the exact similar the whole range of the drug
must, it is true, correspond to the disease, but as we desire to
hasten the last vestige of the disease effects (symptoms) we
select the remedy that has a similar getting-well-end to its
pathogenesis. We do not surely select Opium for its soporific
effect, nor Aloes for its cathartic effect, but rather for their
secondary action.

Surely this author has been wrongly printed. That is appar-
ent all through this practical work. He brings out prominently
that the guiding symptoms are the last symptoms, and surely
the secondary symptoms must be the curative ones, according to
similia.

One of the last symptoms developed by Dr. J. C. Morgan, in
his proving of Gelsemium was diarrhoea from " bad news," which
Father Hering wisely declared would prove a guiding symptom.
This author verifies its value for this condition, given in the
30th potency.

Dysentery in India. 119

Now let us settle this matter once for all. In therapeutics
(practice) shall we take the primary (toxic) or secondary (re-
actionary) symptoms as our guides? e. g., given a case of
restlessness, wakefulness, shall we give Opium, whose primary
effect is sopor but whose secondary effect is wakefulness? The
dose must also enter into the problem. Small doses of Opium
increases wakefulness. Now in this case of wakefulness shall
we give small doses of Opium ? Rather must we not investigate
and find out if this wakefulness be not cardiac or emotional, and
select a remedy whose secondary symptoms correspond to the
subsequent symptoms that must follow a cardiac or emotional
wakefulness. In either case is it not the secondary symptoms
that are the curative ones ? Belladonna relieves a congestive
headache, not only because it causes tachycardia and then con-
gestive headache, but also because it opens the urinary tract as
does nature, and thus relieves the circulatory storm that rages
in the cerebrum.

It seems to me that the keynotes are found chiefly among the
secondary symptoms. Characteristics may be either primary or
secondary symptoms, but if I study Homoeopathy aright the
getting-well symptoms must be exact similars. Because of the
similar teachings of this author our therapeutic works and pro-
fession are in the fog, or at least it would seem so. Can we not
declare with emphasis: I?i therapeutics the secondary symptoms
must be our guides ?

DYSENTERY IN INDIA.
B. K. Baptist, H. P.

Dr. Hughes says, in his Manual of Therapeutics: "I hope
that ere long some of our East India practitioners will tell us what
they do in the affection (dysentery) as seen there." Therefore
I give an account of my own experience in the treatment of
dysentery in India. I hope, also, that the account will give some
idea as to what I have personally found useful in its treatment.

Dysentery is a very troublesome disease in some points, such
as its obstinacy, excessive haemorrhage, distressing tenesmus
and the tormina. Unless the haemorrhage is checked imme-
diately at the outset the patient cannot have patience to rely
upon the homoeopathic drugs, because of the strong impression
in the minds of the India people, '"that homoeopathic medicine
acts very slowly."

120 Dysentery in India.

Formerly, owing to want of sufficient knowledge and personal

erience, I had to follow the Western Therapeutists in pre-

scril ing Mercurius corrosivus and Ipecac, for •• muco -bloody flux "

morrhage respectively. But dysentery, as I find in India,

is s stinate in its nature :' it it foes not yield to the above

icines easily. So the patient is compelled some times to try

All ; ithy for immediate relic:' by the use of some strong drug,

like Opium or Bismuth. I had occasion to call on several

ents, who had first gone to allopaths and taken excessive

doses oi \ causing a very troublesome flatulence, with

perfect success.

Having prescribed Mercurius corrosivus and Ipecacuanha , ac-
cording to our new school method, I have found that they really
take some time in almost all cases to relieve the patients: this
delay makes them lose all faith in Homoeopathy. I myself tried
a few cases with Merc. cor. and Ipec. but they soon ran away to
the allopaths and I became a loser thereby. I had been thinking
how to get credit in treating dysentery: no sooner I remembered
" Hamamelis arrests the haemorrhage at once," then I came to
the conclusion that this is the medicine that will soothe the
patient by checking the bleeding immediately, and thus it will
induce my patients to rely upon my treatment. In the case
which came to me I gave Hamamelis ix without a moment's
hesitation — one drop a cose every two hours. The following
morning, when I was called. I examined and found a wonderful
improvement: haemorrhage altogether stopped, decomposition of
faeces disappeared and quantity of mucous secretion lessened. I
repeated Ham. ix the second day: and the third day I found that
almost all symptoms aopeared favorable: only slight tenesmus,
intestinal spasm and occasional colic were all that remained. In
this state I prescribed Cuprum metallicum 6x. every four hours,
which took away the minor ailments and completed the cure.
If the tenesmus, owing to " mucous-riux." had remained still I
would have then given Merc. cor. May I be called a specialist in
this lar? Yet I appreciate the virtues of Colocynthis in

occasional colic, Arnica in tormina and Nux vomica in flatulence,
according to our new school friends.

I have cured several cases of dysentery with Hamamelis ix in
the commencement and found that sometimes it alone completes
the :ure. I re uest my foreign friends to try Ha?na?nelis in dysen-
tery and kindly let me know how it acts in their countries.

jj Serang's Lane. Calcutta. India. Feb. 2, 1899.

A Dream of Paradise.

A DREAM OF PARADISE.
By Dr. William J. Murphy. New York,

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122 A Dream of Paradise.

had great ridges buried deep into the flesh, because the delicate
tissues of the lungs had been congested. Several had great
swellings in the neck, as though a foreign body lodged be-
neath— perhaps some massive "ball" that had lingered on its
journey to the stomach. Many bore the tell tale marks of where
a cruel seaton, smeared with caustic salve, had been inserted.
The fleam had laid its victim low.

What torture these poor beasts had undergone. What bar-
barity had been practiced upon their drooping frames under the
guise of skillful treatment. Their lives were not blighted by
disease. They had not succumbed to the ravages of a fatal epi-
demic, but they were the unfortunate recipients of allopathic
veterinary "skill." Perhaps they could have withstood the
ravages of disease alone, but its union with the medical monster
spread death and destruction in its path. Victims of incom-
petence, how I pitied them.

I wished to linger longer midst these distorted wrecks, but the
guide urged that we proceed; and journying on we shortly came
unto the bottom of a mountain, and there, in a secluded nook, we
found a house made of palms and other tropical plants. Creep-
ing vines gave to it an air of inviting loveliness. Pretty flowers
in brilliant hue peeped from beneath the little windows quaint
which were in its structure. Delicate fragrance emanated from
the dreamy place and seemed to saturate the atmosphere with a
languid perfume. Truly an ideal spot, too delicate to be real,.
too heavenly to be natural, too beautiful to be but a dream.

Entering, I saw a pharmacy in miniature, and on the flowery-
shelves were medicines which bore the most familiar names.
There was homoeopathic Aconite in tincture and in the various
attenuations. A demijohn of Calendula stood on the grassy
floor as though it had been recently in use. A vase of oriental
pattern, half full of Belladonna, occupied a table by itself, and
on a shelf made of short and slender twigs of most fantastic
shapes were bottles of Bryonia, Phosphorus, Mercurius, Hydrastis
and Gelsemium arranged with neatness and precision, while in
the background were beds of roses white and red, intermingled
with a flower altogether new to me, but of exquisite beauty; and
the perfumes, wafted by the gentle zephyrs as they toyed among
the flowers, made the place a perfect paradise for the weak to-
seek repose.

The mellow, soft surroundings were in keeping with the
homoeopathic treatment that the sick received when they ar-

Stellaria Med. in Liver Diseases. 123

rived. Just then entered the rosy bower which answered for a
door, a creature divine, celestial. Her angelic face beamed with
radiant beauty as she administered to a small canine — some
earthly pet that just arrived, a mass of skin and bones.

As yet she was unmindful of our presence. My guide ad-
dressed her Beatrice, and we were in her presence. From her I
learned that Death had never paid a visit here. Time never
aged those that pastured in its fertile fields or romped at play in
its verdured valleys.

11 Beatrice," I addressed her, as did the guide, " the pharmacy
is beautiful, sublime, exquisite, but why no Alcohol, no Quinine,
no Carbonate of ammonia, no Chloral, no Sulphuric acid, no
Opium, no Morphine, no Potash, no Soda, no Copper, no Zinc?"
for it seemed that I considered them as valuable remedial
agents.

Turning to me slowly, she said! " Monster! Who art thou ?
Canst thou not see the wrongs that thou hast done already ?
Hast thou not seen the horses ruined by those drugs, the cows
distorted into hideous beasts by their use, the dogs ravished by
their patronage, the cats maltreated by their application ? "

Such wrath! Such a transformation! Such a lightning
change from a creature angelic to one whose every word was
bitter scorn and contempt. I looked around, the guide had
vanished, I rushed wildly from the place and then awoke. A
small alarm clock was announcing in vigorous manner the morn-
ing hour and paradise had vanished.

STELLARIA MED. IN LIVER DISEASES.

Five or six weeks ago I was seized with a very violent attack
of sickness which lasted for two days and nights, during which
I had no rest or sleep. Sharp pains in the stomach continually
recurred, increasing in violence and then ending in an explosive
vomit. None of the usual remedies had any effect. At last I
discovered that it all arose from the liver, which was much en-
larged and hard to the touch, and the pains began at a point
where I conclude lies the seat of the gall- duct. I then called to
remembrance that in Mr. Kopp's proving of Stell. med., painful
enlargement of the liver was a prominent symptom, and I then
took frequent doses of Stell. med. 1. After the first dose the
vomiting ceased, and the pains and enlargement of the liver
quickly subsided. If it were not for Stell. med. I fear I should

124 Carbolic Acid in Pneumonia.

have gone on to utter exhaustion. — F. H. B., in Homoeopathic
World, Feb. i, 18pp.

CARBOLIC ACID IN PNEUMONIA.
By P. Proctor, L. R. C. P. Edin.

This agent, which occupies so prominent a place in modern
medicine and surgery, has been so exclusively regarded in its
antiseptic character that is its biodynamic action, to coin a use-
ful word, has been almost entirely lost sight of by both homoeo-
path and allopath, and it certainly has not received at our hands
the attention that it deserves as a protoplasm poison, and there-
fore under suitable dosage a medicine of power. With the ex-
ception of two or three minor cases reported by Dr. Hughes
there is little or no reference to it in our literature. This may
possibly be owing to the fact that our knowledge of its physiologi-
cal action is limited to the effects either of overpoweringly poison-
ous quantities or of provings with attenuations, medium doses
not having been tested. Yet a protoplasm poison of such- activity
must possess properties that are available for homoeopathic uses
if we only knew its specific character as a disturber of the vital
functions in a moderate degree corresponding to the forms of
disease commonly met with.

In reading over the Carbolic acid chapter in the Cyclopedia of
Driig Pathogenesy, wherein we get what is known both of symp-
toms and morbid anatomy, one cannot fail to be struck with the
uniformity and the intensity of the action of this agent on the
lungs in all fatal cases. Engorgement with dark, blackish,
venous-looking blood, with subsequent bronchial irritation when
sufficient time has been allowed during life, is the invariable
condition. This state prevails generally, involving heart, lungs,
liver and kidneys in one destructive operation. Fatty degenera-
tion and haemorrhages are also to be found.

The entire process singularly resembles the effects of Phos-
phorus, and in one case, No. 7, recorded in the Cyclopedia, the
parallel to Phosphoric poisoning in microscopic appearances is
pointed out by the reporter. Blood decomposition, haemor-
rhages, engorgement of abdominal and thoracic viscera and fatty
cell degeneration show a pretty close correspondence between
these two active substances. Differences between them will ap-
pear on closer examination. The inflammatory action does not

Carbolic Acid in Pneumonia. 125

rise so high with Carbol. acid, and there is more venous stasis
than with Phosphorus, which latter presents us with post-mortem
appearances — where the blood is dark red and the stainings and
haemorrhages partake of this more oxygenized character. Tak-
ing the post-mortem appearances altogether and the symptoms
during life a very vivid impression is left on the mind that Car-
bolic acid is to Phosphorus what venous is to arterial blood, and
the tissue irritations bear a corresponding relationship, the same
sphere of activity being to a great extent common to both drugs.
Having this impression imprinted on my mind, I waited for a
suitable case in which to put the analogy to practical use.

An opportunity presented itself in the spring of last year, in
the case of a lady of 68. She was of decidedly bilious tempera-
ment and had been treated for enlargement of the liver the year
previously. She was pale and thin, and mentally depressed by
reason of family troubles and in condition to meet the strain of
a severe illness. Her attack began with an affection of the colon,
which was treated with enemata and medicine under an allo-
pathic practitioner. The case dragged on and consulting phy-
sicians were called in, but the patient got gradually wrorse, and
at the end of some four or five weeks her state became so criti-
cal that I was called in to try what a change of treatment could
do. I found the heart failing and a feeble, intermittent pulse, a
state of utter prostration and a serious derangement of digestive
organs and liver. The condition of the circulation called for im-
mediate attention, and under Digit, and Strophanthus the heart
gradually resumed strength and regularity. The abdominal
organs received attention, and with the help of Nux vom. a
normal state of things was brought about; but as this part of
the case does not bear upon the subject of this article no more
need be said than that our efforts seemed to be rewarded with
success and the patient to be on a straight course to recovery.

This, however, was not to be her good fortune, for in about a
fortnight a low form of pneumonia gradually set in, beginning
at the right base and involving the lower half of the lung.
There was no great rise of temperature, but the weak heart
showed signs of distress again. The expectoration showed a
tendency to prune juice coloration and in a few days became
haemorrhagic, dark colored and copious. To meet this new de-
velopment the usual medicines were resorted to, but, to my sur-
prise, without making any decided impression. Arsen., Phosph.,
Iodine, Laches., Ant. tart., Sang., were employed in varying

126 Carbolic Acid in Pneumonia.

dilutions in the above order, but the symptoms showed no abate-
ment, and at last we were face to face with another critical state
of the case. Being called out late one evening after a rather
larger hsemorrhagic expectoration than hitherto, I felt that
something else was called for, and in thinking over what that
something might possibly be the picture of Carbolic acid in the
Cyclopedia came to mind. Forthwith the acid carbol liq. B. P.
was procured, and one drop administered in water every three
hours.

It should be mentioned that during the treatment with the
acid no other medicine on any account whatever was given, so
that the effect may be regarded as due entirely to the single
medicine. In the course of 24 hours some improvement was
manifest, in 48 hours it was decided, and in three days
the blood had disappeared entirely. Concurrent^ the tem-
perature went down, rusty sputum again made its appearance
and the consolidation began to yield. The Carbolic acid was con-
tinued every four and then every six hours in the same dose of
the pure acid. Finally it was given for some days in the first
decimal until all necessity for it seemed to have passed away.
The attendants thought the hsemorrhagic expectoration had
been merely suppressed, but it was effectually cured and the
lung cleared up completely.

The patient got well and was able to leave home for a change
when hot wreather came, and at the present is in the enjoyment
of her usual health.

It should be mentioned that the Carbolic acid agreed extremely
well with the patient, no untoward symptoms appearing, and the
appetite improved under it.

One word I would add in conclusion, to suggest that the pneu-
monic complications of typhoid present just such a group of
symptoms as seem likely to correspond to this remedy, and it is
probable that typhoid as a whole may come to be regarded as
within the sphere of this acid on homoeopathic lines, for many
points of resemblance strike one on turning over the before-
mentioned article in the Cyclopedia. The undoubted value of
the drug in allopathic hands lends probability to the suggestion
that it acts in that disease as a dynamic agent and not merely as
a germicide. If it should possess this medicinal virtue in addi-
tion to its germicidal property it would become not less, but doubly
acceptable to us. — Monthly Homoeopathic Review \ February, 1899.

Saw Palmetto. 127

SAW PALMETTO— PROSTATIC ENLARGEMENT.
W. E. Reily, M. D., Bowling Green, Mo.

In view of the vagueness and absolute uncertainty of anything
in the old school in the treatment of prostatic troubles, I desire,
in this paper, to give a few cases illustrating the action on Saw
Palmetto.

It has been said that out of every ten men, nine have prostatic
enlargement at some time between the ages of thirty-five and
seventy- five.

Boocock's proving vide, " Hale's Saw Palmetto" — shows that
the symptoms of this remedy correspond almost exactly wTith
most of the prostatic troubles and especially to the condition of
nerve irritation preceding prostatic hypertrophy. There is that
same irritation of the neck of the bladder with difficulty in void-
ing urine; a sense of weight, usually accompanied by coldness of
the adjacent parts with loss of sexual desire. Sometimes there
is loss of prostatic fluid, at other times only the bladder symp-
toms. I can best illustrate what I want to say by drawing on
my case book.

The following cases illustrate three of the most frequent phases
of prostatic troubles in which Saw Palmetto has been useful in
my hands.

Case I. Mr. J., age 56. Occupation, banker.

Previous history good until about six years ago, when he first
began to notice an extraordinary frequency in urinating which
became so annoying that he finally consulted a physician who
treated him for a long time with only temporary relief. He then
went from one doctor to another with no better results, and finally
becoming despondent and thoroughly discouraged began the
usual round of patent medicines. After a period of three years
of such experimentation he gave the whole thing up in utter
desperation and as a dernier resort came to me saying he had de-
cided to try Homoeopathy.

On December 28th I made a careful study of the case, finding
the following characteristics:

Very despondent.

Irritable.

Sympathy seemed to anger him.

Great tenesmus in the neck of the bladder with heavy, aching
pains with sense of coldness extending into the external genitals.

128 Saw Palmetto.

Occasionally, sharp pains would extend upward into the ab-
domen and down the thighs., especially the left, which has been
amputated at about the middle third, because of a gun shot
wound at the battle of Vicksburg.

Appetite capricious.

Constipation chronic.

Urine normal in every particular except frequency.

Sleep greatly disturbed by frequency of micturition.

I gave Nux vomica, Gelsemium, Cimicifuga and other remedies
w7hich seemed indicated with very little improvement until finally
I came across the pathogenesy of Saw Palmetto, which so im-
pressed me with the simlarity of its symptoms to those of the
case in hand that I decided to give it a trial. I gave a 5 drop
dose of the tincture night and morning.

The result was all that I could desire. The improvement was
steady from the first, the uncomfortable symptoms gradually dis-
appearing until after eight weeks the tenesmus was all gone, the
appetite was good, the bowels regular, the patient could sleep
eight or nine hours without interruption and could hold his urine
four or five hours during the day. With the disappearing of
these symptoms went a very aggravating form of eczema on the
hands of many years duration which I failed to mention in the
previous history.

Case II. Mr. M., age 45. Occupation, superintencent of
County Hospital.

Previous history good. Had been suffering for about a year
with gradually increasing frequency of desire to urinate.

Very despondent.

Mind distressed.

Appetite capricious.

Little sexual desire, the indulgence of which is followed by
dragging pains in the small of the back, some tenesmus of the
bladder, but more trouble to get the water started.

Stream small and lacking in force.

Coldness of external genitals, with some pain of a dull aching
character in the region of the prostate and extending to thighs
and abdomen.

I gave Saw Palmetto 5 drops night and morning. Symptoms
gradually improved until after three weeks there was no vestige
of trouble whatever, nor has there been any return.

Case III. Mr. E., age 35. Occupation, real estate and loan
agent.

Nepeta Cataria. 129

Previous history good.

Had been troubled with frequency of urinating for about a
3- ear aud a half.

Heavy dragging pains in the region of the prostate and ex-
tending into the back and thighs.

Considerable loss of prostatic fluid at times.

Urine normal.

Pain in back much worse after coition.

Sexual desire very much impaired.

Prescribed Saw Palmetto 5 drops night and morning, effecting
a perfect cure in two weeks.

I neglected to say that in each of these cases there was a se-
vere headache on the top of the head, and many symptoms of
gastric catarrh, all of which disappeared under the administra-
tion of Saw Palmetto.

I have also had remarkable success with this remedy in cystitis,
both acute and chronic and have found it frequently indicated in
ovarian troubles. — Hahnemann Advocate, December, 1898.

NEPETA CATARIA.

W. E. B., in Eclectic Medical Journal for February, has the fol-
lowing to say of that venerable remedy, Nepeta cataria, otherwise
" catnip:" " The infusion of the fresh plant certainly has some-
thing in it or about it that produces excellent results, and is
soul satisfying when given to the crying baby. The infusion of
the dried plant does not do so well. In fact, the tincture is pref-
erable to the use of the dried article. Catnip relieves pain and
produces sleep. We give it to the colicky baby. Its persistent
crying and kicking and writhing soon ceases, and balmy sleep
causes baby to forget its troubles. Catnip is not necessarily a
baby remedy; many think of it only in this field. It is a
woman's remedy, and produces just as certain and pleasant
effects in nervous headache, nervous irritation, hysteria, amenor-
rhcea, dysmenorrhcea. It is an excellent remedy to bring about
the relaxation necessary to the appearance of the exanthemata.
In acute coryza or catarrh, bad colds, or la grippe, no remedy
surpasses full doses, say ten to twenty drops, in hot water every
hour or oftener."

Miss B., a private patient, aet. ten years, blonde and plump,
looked well in every way, and had a good family history. This

130 Homoeopathy as She is Practiced.

little patient came to me August 15, 1898, with a skin lesion
covering the left side of the head, scalp and ear, especially back
of the ear and down the neck. The trouble had existed for five
or six years with but slight changes. A sero-purulent exudate
oozed from the affected surfaces, which would dry down into a
thick and greasy crust. Upon removal of this crust a pale pink,
thickened and oozing base could be seen. Itching was present,
but it was not intense. The outline was irregular, and the patch
was about equally divided between the neck and the scalp.

The treatment consisted of Calcarea carb. 30, the affected
parts to be sponged once a day with hot borated water, and a
cold salt water splash -bath for the whole body as a general skin
tonic. The cure was complete in four weeks with no evidence
of any return of the trouble. — Prof. C. D. Collins, M. D., in
C Unique for Jan. 1, 18pp.

HOMOEOPATHY AS SHE IS (SOMETIMES)
PRACTICED.

(This is from the American Homozopathist of January 15. )

Or if you want to take another form of Homoeopathy (for
there are said to be several kinds), one that is very popular in
some sections because it mystifies and, therefore, satisfies, you
would begin every case with Aconite 3X, alternating with Bryonia
6x, and giving a little Veratrum vir. tincture to drop the pulse.
Leave something else low and in two glasses for the bladder.
For the bowel give teaspoon ful doses of Cascara sagrada, or that
more elegant and convenient form of modern pharmacy —
Homoeopathic Combination Tablet No. 33. For the cough, if
dry and racking, prescribe Homoeopathic Combination Tablet
No. 27. For the prune-juice expectoration give frequent doses
of Anti-Coffine (made in Germany and owned in monopoly in
New York). Give appreciable doses of Quinine if chills ensue.
Change all these homoeopathic remedies frequently and thus get
the full benefit of Homoeopathy, for "Materia Medica is the
cornerstone of Homoeopathy." On the outside of the body — for
we must neglect no adjuvant that will comfort the patient's
friends and assist the homoeopathic medication — on- the chest
put a flaxseed meal poultice soaked in hot olive oil; on the ab-
domen place a hop poultice wrung out of hot whiskey, to be
alternated every hour with a turpentine stoop. The kidneys
must not be neglected; place on them a big-sell-fly blister until

Homoeopathy as She is Practiced. 131

active vesication sets in or on, then lift it off and apply "car-
rion " oil. Between the shoulders and well up on the neck apply
baumscheidtismus to keep the lungs active. Encase in a steril-
ized cotton jacket with buttons all down before, and change
often. Give a hypodermic of an eighth or a quarter of morphia
each night to produce "tired nature's sweet restorer: sleep."
An ice coil if the trouble should mount to the brain. Whiskey
and milk, or whiskey sling, or brandy smash, or milk punch,
with Digitalis, or Strychnia, or Nitro-glycerine, or Strophanthus to
whip up the flagging energies and support the dropping and
drooping heart. Keep the patient warm — and the family the
same. Keep doing something and do still more of it. Don't let
nature have a hand in the business. She is a cruel stepmother.
Keep busy. Keep the family busy, and the corner drug store.
Keep the whole neighborhood busy. Make cultures of the
sputum. Have the trained nurses take temperature every hour
and make a blue print of them When some of the blood be-
comes too turgescent bleed himi And so on and so forth.

You see, dear Brother Editor, it isn't difficult to be a modern,
scientific, fad-bitten, hobby-ridden old-school worshiping
homoeopath (Limited). You note further, that the schools are
rapidly coming together; they are no longer a Sabbath day's
journey apart. And if some of these blame-fool editors, these
pestilential fellows, who know neither surgery nor gynecology,
would stop harping on the old-fashioned Homoeopathy which
served our fathers and grandfathers in their unscientific day all
right enough, and stop stirring up the people and the preceptors,
quoting Hahnemann, who was a good enough man, but an ex-
treme visionary, with impracticable theories, which were nothing
but his Swedenborgianism applied to medicine, why there would
soon be a complete union of schools almost as by first intention.
Both schools are now using each other's medicines. Both schools
prescribe on pathology. Both schools can practice "both
ways " — the right way — and the other way. Why, sir, there is
one hermaphroditic college, which, when it is not teaching surgery
or gynecology from sixteen chairs, teaches its students that a
good homoeopathic cough mixture for infants is made by rubbing
up Camphor and Gelsemium in sugar of milk and giving it in
every case — and other gems of the same homoeopathic ray
serene.

Isn't it wonderful what strides " Homoeopathy " has made in
the last ten or fifteen years, since gynecology took charge of the

132 Hamamelis.

helm ! Truly, it is. Pretty soon, Brother of the Medical Gleaner y
you will see the modern Hermaphroditic Medical College take
that obsolete word " Homoeopath " out of its diploma, and out
of that large black and gold sign, which, like a ghastly mockery,
has been nailed over its front door, as it has already taken the
word and all that it implies out of its curriculum. Then the
lion and the lamb will do the lying act — or, rather, the lying-in
act — the lamb lying in the lion. The millenium will have
" came." People will no longer die by natural process, but have
to be removed cito, tuto et jucunde ! Salaam aleikum — peace
be with thee.

HAMAMELIS,

Everybody — profession and laity — uses witch hazel. The
clear, distilled extract is used. Fluid extracts and tinctures are
of slight, if of any, worth. The dose of the distillate is from ten
to thirty drops, three or four times a day. Like Xanthoxylum,
Hamamelis is the remedy for feebleness and fullness of tissues.
The mucous membranes are pale, full, and relaxed; their secre-
tion is increased, and may be mucous or muco-purulent. The
key to this feebleness and fullness is without doubt an enfeebled
and engorged venous capillary circulation underneath. In the
case demanding either the internal or local use of Hamamelis,
there is a call for a so-called tonic, an astringent, and stimulant.

It is not a decidedly active remedy, but its reputation has
been established by much use.

Hamamelis internally is a remedy of no mean worth in many
cases of pelvic trouble. There is relaxation of muscles, with
fullness, weight and sluggishness in the perinseum, the rectum,
or in the ovarian region. There may be prolapsus of the womb,
or of the ovary, or of the rectum.

Witch hazel exerts a specific influence upon the venous sys-
tem. It influences the veins as certainly as strychnine does the
nervous system. Through this effect it affects favorably vari-
cose conditions generally. Varicose veins have been caused by
its administration. Varicocele is bettered by it, and venous con-
gestions, like phlebitis and phlegmasia dolens, are overcome by
Hamamelis. Congested ovaries or testicles, with a dull, heavy,
aching pain, are benefited by Hamamelis. Hemorrhoids are
cured by Hamamelis. We do not exploit it as a better remedy
than the scissors, but in those cases which will not submit to an

Ha mamelis. 133

operation, in which there is fullness and congestion, weight,
Hamamelis is an excellent remedy. There is that other class of
cases in which there is constriction, irritation, tightness, a feel-
ing as though a cockle-burr were within the grasp of the
sphincter. In these the remedy is Collinsonia, not Hamamelis.
Note the distinction as well as the difference. Hamamelis is a
kidney remedy when there is fullness and relaxation of the
organ. There may be polyuria or haernaturia. It is a remedy for
chronic vesical irritation when there is much fullness and tenes-
mus.

Hamamelis is not to be forgotten in many cases of chronic
catarrh or ozaena, in pharyngitis, in tonsillitis, in bronchitis, and
in laryngitis. Usually the discharge is copious, and the tissues
relaxed. In these cases the remedy should be given internally
as well as applied locally by means of a spray or as a gargle.

In passive haemorrhage of any part or organ, Hamamelis is an
excellence internal remedy, because of its tonic action upon the
veins. No matter whether the haemorrhagic ooze be from the
lungs — haemoptysis, the kidneys — haematuria, the nose, epistaxis,
the womb, the bowels, or the surface of mucous membrane at
any point or place, give Hamamelis. There is no better remedy
for purpura hemorrhagica, and for a certain few cases of anaemia,
than Hamamelis internally.

Though not a specific for either diarrhoea or dysentery, there
are certain cases occasionally of these troubles that yield promptly
to this remedy. Pick them out. The fact is that Hamamelis
cures Hamamelis cases of any disease.

Witch hazel has a most excellent reputation as a local appli-
cation, both in the profession and out of it, to chafings, irrita-
tions, contusions, etc. Just now, if you will search the many
foot ball captains of the country, you will no doubt find concealed
about the persons of the greater number of them, the favorite
and favored bottle of witch hazel. As a general remedy in this
line, we believe it to be better than Arnica. Hamamelis is a
soothing, sovereign balm as a local application to burns, scalds
and frost-bites, and eczema, and erythema, and herpes, and
lupus, and carbuncle, and chancroid, and freckles, and hyperi-
drosis, and fissured anus, and ulcers, and itchings, and smart-
ings, and swellings, generally and particularly. The ladies use
it for tan and sunburn, and it does as well, if not better, than
anything else. They should not add much, if any, glycerine to

J34 Book Notices.

it; a little'mite of glycerine might not roughen the skin, but an
appreciable amount will do so.

Much more might be written about Hamamelis, but we forbear,
only impressing upon you that Hamamelis affects favorably only
Hamamelis cases, and that it will always do this regardless
of the name of the disease. The dose of the distilled Hamamelis
is from ten to thirty drops every two to four hours. Locally it
may be used from full strength to any dilution.— IV. E. B. in
Ec. Med. Jour. , Dec. , 1898.

BOOK NOTICES.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics. By E. B. Nash,

M. D. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1899. Small 8vo.

Pp. 381.

Charles Lamb divided mankind into two classes, the lenders
and the borrowers. The lenders were an abject race created
solely for the convenience of lordly borrowers. The one did the
work, the other took the wages, and the game went merrily on.
It is going yet and will go until the millenium, when, it is
promised, the devil shall be chained for a thousand years. Then
many bookmakers will go out of business. These of course are
the borrowers, the sons of Belial, of whom the world is weary.

Quite recently, and not a thousand miles from this vicinity,
on the occasion of getting an X-ray apparatus for a medical col-
lege which must be nameless, a well-known homoeopathic
" author " was persuaded to subject this cranium to an examina-
tion. The skiagraph revealed a pair of rusty shears and a
mouldy paste pot, his sole " essentials " for authorship.

Dr. Nash's "Leaders^ reveals something more than scissors
and paste. An active practitioner and an alert has been review-
ing his professional life and recording what some two hundred
and twenty-nine homoeopathic <l remedies " have enabled him to
do. This not boastfully, but as the testimony of a man who is
willing to give an account for the faith that is in him.

The oldest practitioners will readily recognize the genuineness
of Dr. Nash's experience. The book is so evidently the out-
growth of his practice that those of us who " have been there "
can testify to its truthfulness, by which token the younger
physician can take up this book with confidence, and that is a

Book Notices. 135

great deal to say of a modern medical book in these anti-
millenial days of scissors and paste, the devil take them!

Another commendable feature of Dr. Nash's book is its unpre-
tentiousness. There is nothing of the braggart's swagger in a
single page; everything is stated quietly and calmly, but with
the affixed assurance of conviction. The good doctor has
reached altitudes in posology the mention of which is to the
Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but never-
theless the book impresses one by its air of unswerving veracity.
For instance, writing under the head of Conium maculatum, he
says:

11 I once treated a case of what seemed to be locomotor ataxia
with this remedy. The patient had been slowly losing the use
of his legs; could not stand in the dark, and when he walked
along the street would make his wife walk either ahead of him
or behind him, for the act of looking sideways at her or in the
least turning the head or eyes that way would cause him to
stagger or fall. Conium cured him. It would always aggravate
at first, but he would greatly improve after stopping the remedy.
The aggravation was just as invariable after taking a dose of
Fincke's cm. potency as from anything lower, but the improve-
ment lasted longer after it.

" Taking an occasional dose from a week to four weeks apart
completely cured him in about a year. It was a bad case of
years' standing before I took him."

Whatever one's predilections may be, it is not sufficient to
meet such a statement with a mere negation. One may not ac-
cept the diagnosis, nor the cure as owing to the drug, but of the
fact of the aggravation there can be no reasonable doubt.

We have had much " Materia Medica " of the spoon victuals
variety in late years, a thin innutritious pap that could engender
only wind colic in the unfortunate spoon fed student; but if this
book of Dr. Nash's is inter leaved by the student owner and en-
larged as his knowledge widens he will find it of far more value
than many a more pretending volume. However, Dr. Nash
would be the first to declare that it relieves anyone from the
more formal study of the originals.

S. J. A.

Diseases of the Eye. A hand-book of ophthalmic practice
for students and practitioners. By G. E. de Schweinitz, A.
M., M. D. With 255 illustrations and two chromo litho-

136 Book Notices.

graphic plates. Third edition, thoroughly revised. 696
pages. Cloth, $4.00. Sheep or half-morrocco, $5.00. Phila-
delphia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.

Three editions of this work seem to prove that it meets the ap-
proval of the profession for which it was written; but what
strikes a homoeopath in looking through the pages of this, and
similar medical works, is the absence of what might be termed
the high powered, smokeless powder, arms of precision against
many of the diseases which Homoeopathy has at its command.
Everything seems to consist in local measures or ' ' constitu-
tional" treatment.

An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat. Edited by G. E. de Schweinitz, A. M., M. D.,
and B. Alex. Randall, M. A., M. D., Ph. D. Illustrated with
766 engravings, 59 of them in colors. 1251 pages. Cloth, $7.00.
Half morocco or sheep, $8.00. Philadelphia: W.B.Saunders.
1899.

This massive work is gotten up in the same style as the others
of Mr. Saunder's " American Text-book " series, and the editors
have had the assistance of sixty more or less celebrated special-
ists in their various departments, and the whole may be fitly
termed the really up-to date text book of the old school on the
subjects treated. Antitoxin in the section on diphtheria receives
four and a half lines of noncommital notice.

3,000 Questions on Medical Subjects. Arranged for self-
examination, etc. Second edition. 189 pages, interleaved.
10 cents. Philadelphia: Blakiston, Son & Co. 1899.
This neat little vest pocket book is a first class quiz and ab-
surdly cheap. The answers you must hunt up yourself.

Hawse's Collections of Characteristic Indications of Prominent
Remedies are reliable. They include " keynotes," as Guernsey
used to call them, and added symptoms of about one hundred
remedies. This work might be styled a Materia Medica A,
B, C book. If physicians would put this little book in their
pocket and commit to memory the symptoms of one drug each
day they would soon have a good Materia Medica foundation.
I would suggest that four drugs be taken first, like Aconite,

Book Notices. 137

Gels., Verat. viride, Baptisia, Bryonia, Rhus, etc. Then the
stomach remedies, cough remedies, etc. That would group the
remedies just as we group diseases in practice. On the blank
pages could be copied the comparable and different symptoms.
It would be well for beginners at first to learn the remedy symp-
toms as here given. They could be written off on cards (the
symptom on one side and the name on the other), then they can

be grouped for comparison.

T. C. D.

Ix the discussion following a paper on Materia Medica. pub-
lished in January number of The Journal of the British Homoeo-
pathic Society. Dr. Fisher is reported as saying: In his own prac-
tice he followed more nearly the old Jahr and Hahnemann's
Chronic Diseases than the newer works, and with greater satis-
faction. We do not know whether any colleges recommend the
two Jahr Materia Medicas, i. e., Hull's Jahr — Symptomatology —
and Repertory, or not. They are two books that are about the
best published for sound Homoeopathy and for quick and easy-
comprehension; also (of importance to students, at least) they
are published at very low prices. We respectfully commend
them to the college faculties

The following review of Burnett's Diseases of the Skin is
from a courteous old school journal, the Medical Council, and is
rather significant:

The object of the book, as the name implies, is the consideration and treat-
ment of cutaneous affections by systematic remedies on the ground that
they are really constitutional diseases. He claims the merely local treat-
ment as practiced by physicians of all schools to be " nothing less than a
crime against humanity." Perhaps he is right. It is a vigorous challenge
that cannot be ignored. As he says, " thinking, in the profession, is well-
nigh dead. " He maintains " that the skin is a very important living organ of
the body." This is the keynote of his position. He attempts to prove by the
citation of cases that many skin diseases are due to other co-existing organic
diseases, and, contrariwise, that the suppression of many eruptions, for in-
stance, eczema capitis in one case (a child) speedily led to death, which he
tried his best to avoid by these development of the rash, but in this he failed.
The book is interesting. The Doctor does not prove his position, his treat-
ment is homoeopathic and he makes some good points. We are not ready to
say that he is altogether wrong.

" Ophthalmic Diseases and Therapeutics." By A. B.
Norton, M. D. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
The day is not so remote as to be outside the memory of the

138 Book Notices.

veterans in medicine when the old school boastinglv proclaimed
Homoeopathy to be a myth, without a literature and without
educated representatives. The assertion was only intended to
amuse, and perchance to disgust the fair-minded students of
medicine.

Here is a volume upon the most scientific department of medi-
cine, by a man whose training has been exclusively in the new
school. The literary, scientific and technical construction of the
work is so correct, so well up to date, and so conscientiously
done that it is quite out of reach of adverse criticisms.

In the preface the author says: " The indorsement extended
the first edition of this book by the leading specialists of our
school, as evidenced by the fact that it has been made the text-
book on ophthalmology in twenty-one of the twenty-two ho-
moeopathic medical colleges, and by the profession at large, as
shown by its rapid sale, is extremely gratifying to the author,
and seems to warrant its continuance."

The printer, the binder and the paper man have done their
work well. The illustrations, and especially the chromo litho-
graphic figures, are very artistic.

Every general practitioner is called upon to examine affections
of the eye. He should have such a fair knowledge of these as
to be able to treat a large number of them intelligently and suc-
cessfully. He should be particularly qualified to diagnose ex-
actly, in order that he may take timely counsel of the specialist
in those cases which he may not care to treat, either from lack
of facilities, inclination or ability. The author has admirably
succeeded in producing awork which furnishes "the student
and general practitioner with a concise, practical manual." It is
a book which should be on every physician's table. A repertory
is appended which points out the therapeutic indications for a
large number of well tried remedies. — Big Four.

An Abridged Therapy. Manual for the biochemical treat-
ment of disease. By Dr. Med. Schuessler, of Oldenburg.
Twenty-fifth edition, in part rewritten. Translated by Pro-
fessor Louis H. Tafel.

This, which has proved to be a posthumous edition of the
famous author's work (for he died March 30, when he had read
the last proof of the last sheet) is evidently, the ripest and best
of his productions. It is prefaced by a fac simile letter to the

Book Notices. 139

American publishers and a very interesting biographical sketch
of the author. Prof. Tafel has given us what Schuessler him-
self so Jmuch desired, "a true translation " of the book, and
those physicians who are looking about them for aids and helps
from authenic sources will hasten to possess themselves of a
copy, and to consult it on occasion. The introductory chapter
on " The Constituents of the Human Organism," belongs to the
literature of suggestive therapeutics in the better and most prac-
tical sense of that term. The " Characteristics of the Bio-
chemical Remedies " are briefly and pointedly given, and the
special rules for their use also, and their therapeutical results are
faithfully digested and illuminated with the sure lights of clinical
research and experience. — The Clinique.

Ophthalmic Diseases and Therapeutics. By A. B. Norton,
M. D. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
This work is printed in the form of all Boericke & Tafel's
publications, on good paper and in excellent type; with ninety
illustrations and eighteen chromo-lithographic figures. The work
is full and an excellent reference book for the busy doctor, a
complete text- book for students and homoeopathic colleges. It
is up to date in general information. Too much must not be ex-
pected of its therapeutics, as every homoeopathic physician must
prescribe with the entire Materia Medica at his hand, yet in this
volume the therapeutics may be said to be the well-known char-
acteristics of the Materia Medica. The book is too well-known
to need further commendation. It should be found in every ho-
moeopathic library. —Journal of Homoeopathies.

Dr. H. R. Arndt's great Practice of Medicine will be ready
for delivery about March 20th, perhaps a few days earlier. It
is a one- volume work of 1331 pages, and undoubtedly the com-
pletest on the practice of medicine in print today, and will
probably remain the standard for a number of years to come.
The table of contents will be sent to anyone wishing to examine
it by the publishers, Boericke & Tafel.

Homoeopathic Recorder.

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If any reader of the Recorder has pamphlets, reprints
or manuscripts concerning remedies not to be found in our
standard Materia Medicas, yet which merit a more permanent
form, or know of any such papers forgotten in the files of old
journals, etc., please communicate with the editor oftheHoMCEO-
pathic Recorder, P. O. Box 921, Philadelphia, Pa. We have
a plan to collect such material and get it into book form, for we
believe there is much valuable matter of this sort that is for-
gotten because inaccessible. Let us hear from you and have
your assistance.

Read that very interesting paper on the " protoplasm poison,"
Carbolic acid, by Dr. P. Proctor, taken from Monthly Homoeo-
pathic Review. You will find it on page 124 of this number of
the Recorder.

Carbolic acid is the only drug contained in the " serum " pre-
pared for sale, and it has been intimated by men, whose heads
are reasonably level, that in this drug lies all the virtues of
1 ' antitoxin, ' ' though these virtues are very much handicapped by
the animal matter; that with distilled water in its stead the
drug's action would be better and safer.

And the news comes from Europe (we find it in Pediatrics
of February 20) that a "new serum" is being "successfully
used," namely, a serum of "convalescent patients." It seems
to be quite as efficient as Behring's patented article. Here, too,
whatever of virtue may be in the serum may lie in the Carbolic
acid with which it is preserved.

In fact, it looks very much as though " immunizing " animals
might be dropped with no small advantage. It would save
patients from the possible contagion that may lie in the serum of
the man or beast whose serum might be used.

Editorial. 141

A clipping from Current Literature reads as follows:
A Germam biologist has calculated that the human brain contains
300,000,000 nerve cells, 5,000,000 of which die and are succeeded by new
ones every day. At this rate we get an entirely new brain every sixty days.
And yet if you will keep a careful watch on yourself for the
next sixty days you will probably find the same old boy at the
end of that period, which, after all, is rather lucky, for it would
be embarrassing to change every two months. There must be
something besides cells that make the man.

"Financial insufficiency is increasing in virulence among
the medical fraternity and many casualties are reported. Doubt-
less there is a microbe at the bottom of it all which will have to
be discovered and killed, but as a scientific experiment we sug-
gest that an antitoxine might be prepared from the brains of
health officials and contract doctors that would be efficient in ar-
resting further progress of the malady." — The Clinique.

' 'Anew trust is under way with its headquarters in St. Louis. It
is a homoeopathic pharmacy trust which intends to buy or drive
out of business all other concerns west of the Alleghanies. The
scheme is to get homoeopathic physicians to take the stock in
small amounts under the pretense of getting cheaper medicines.
But after the trust is formed up will go the prices. ' Will you
walk into my parlor said the spider to the fly.' " — Clinical Re-
porter, February, 1899.

The Therapeutic Gazette of February, 1899, editorially remarks
that "perhaps it is not as well recognized as it should be that
large doses of the salicylates are capable of producing cerebral
disturbances," etc. In illustration it is said of one patient that
" after a chill she became violently delirious, had hallucinations
of sight and hearing, with extreme agitation, and could only be
restrained by force." With all due respect to the authorities,
allopathic, "regular," scientific, liberal eclectic, or even homoeo-
pathic, there is nothing yet discovered that is so good for the
patient as the old " indicated remedy." Hundreds of brilliant
things have arisen, blazed and are now dead and forgotten, but
the " indicated remedy " has seemingly discovered the fountain
of youth. Then, too, it has the great, silent public back of it.

The following is from the N. Y. Medical Journal of Feb. 18th:
Weber, in an article on The heredity of Tuberculosis {Journal des pra-

142 Editorial.

ticiens, January 21st), cites a case reported by Beugnies as an example of
"oblique heredity," which seems to be the same thing as Sedgwick's indi-
rect atavism. A young girl was seduced and gave birth to a child. Both
the child and its father soon died of tuberculous disease. Then the girl,
herself strong and healthy, married a healthy and vigorous man. Four
children were born to them. The first, second, and third died of tubercu-
lous meningitis. The fourth, a girl, was born healthy, grew up, and mar-
ried a healthy man. All the children that she bore were affected with tuber-
culous glands.

This seems to bear out the old idea that consumption is not
"catching:" but "runs in families."

Anyone wishing to buy a mounted telescope, five feet long,
four-inch lens, made by C. A. Steinheil Sohne, Germany, cost-
ing $500, in first-class ^condition, may obtain terms by addressing
"J. B., ion Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa." This is a rare op-
portunity for some school or individual to get a first-class instru-
ment at a bargain.

The following is quoted by the Medical Record of February
18th. There is something strangely familiar about it coming,
though it does, from a Chinaman.

11 Ginseng, which is so highly prized by the Chinese as a cure
for almost all ills, and in certain qualities an extremely
expensive drug, is said to be used in a wholly empirical
way. So far as one can judge from a scientific standpoint, it
is without definite results, aside from those which arise through
trust acting on the imagination. — Dr. Chung King-u."

Drugs, it would seem, are from the "scientific standpoint."
what liquor was to " the red nosed man," the Rev. Mr. Stiggins,
" wanity." Will the day ever come when the men who occupy
that "standpoint" will unite in agreeing upon any (therapeutic)
thing ? Their work in this particular part of medicine up to
date has been chiefly head shaking, glorifying their "stand-
point," with an occasional jeer at the whole outfit from some
honest, disgruntled, cynical or bewildered standor on the " stand-
point."

Dr. Hare, in Medical Record of January 7th, in an article on
the use of Quinine in malaria concludes as follows:

" It seems evident, therefore, that Quinine, like the tints of the artist,
must be ' mixed with brains ' if the best results are to be obtained, and that
its routine use with blissful ignorance of its dangers ought not to be advo-

Editorial. 143

cated; while on the other hand, no one should for a moment cast discredit
upon a truly specific remedy. ' '

Quite true, when properly understood, Quinine is a "specific
remedy," like all other remedies, when indicated, and at no
other times. The great therapeutic law cannot be ignored. For
it is there every time a drug is administered and has a lofty dis-
regard for all medical science that does not harmonize with its
inveitable action.

" During 187 i and 1872 I treated in Kingston many cases of
yellow fever on board vessels in the harbor, with the loss of
only one case, the patients being of different nationalities,
English, American and German. I administered only dyna-
mized remedies, the principle one being Fiebre amarillo 30th."
Dr. Navarro, World's Transactions, p. 224.

(This is a Cuban plant, the properties of which were discovered
by Dr. Ituraldo, who died at sea before making known what
plant it was, he wanting to investigate and prove it further.
His friends all had potencies of it and these are still attainable.
Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.)

" Quinine is believed by a great number of physicians of our
system to be homceopathic to intermittent fever. I do not take
this view. I think Quinine is homceopathically indicated in
very few cases of intermittent fevers, and in these cases China
high, 200th for instance, will cure like magic; this I have re-
peatedly verified in my practice." — -Jose T. Navarro, M. D., San-
tiago de Cuba.

" From what has already been said we can readily infer how
many morbid states the Tarantula (Hisp.) is able to modify and
cure. In the numerous clinical cases already published there
abound, singularly enough, many varied specimens of a disease
which is the opprobrium of ancient medicine, which treated it
with all known medicaments without any results; we refer to
chorea or St. Vitus' dance, chronic or recent, in children or
adults, with or without rheumatic complications. So many
cases, after having suffered under allopathic treatment in vain,
have been cured by the Tarantula as almost to entitle it to be
considered a specific in this affection." — Hahnemannian Society
of Madrid. World's Trans., p. 333.

PERSONAL.

Diphtheria death rate under antitoxin at Seattle was 25 per cent., as re-
ported by Dr. C. A. Smith in Medical Sentinel.

" Will soon have you on your feet again," remarked the cheerful surgeon
after amputating the man's leg.

A good many of us who deny papal infallibility are not so sure about our
own.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; also sometimes after the
cup has been to the lip.

The " Keeley Institute" is nearing the bourne of the dado, but the old
soak still soaketh.

Aconite, Bryonia, Belladonna and the others seem to be about the only
permanent things in medicine.

An Eclectic journal asks, "Can a physician be a Christian?" He can,
with a good paying practice.

The Clinical Reporter says of Nash's book, Leaders, etc. : " Of the shorter
works on homoeopathic materia medica this is the most readable, the least
tiresome, and, upon the whole, we think, the best."

Probably in the round-up " the trust " will have the money and the
stockholders the experience.

A new editor writes: "We will always endeavor to interest our readers
with plain, every-day facts." Good boy !

A scientific physician writes of grip: " Hebetudo Animi usually is an
early precursor, with rhiuo-catarrhus as a close second. Cynanche Ton-
sillaris is a concomitant in adolescency and in some cases reaches back to
early infancy." There's nothing like book larnin' !

J?OR. SALE. A° elegant home in Southern California, a complete
modern house of ten rooms, all improvements, seven
lots, cement walks, flowers, fruits and ornamental trees. One block from
post office, situated in one of the healthiest towns in the State. Just the
place for a h< mceopathic physician, the nearest being five miles away.
For particulars address P. O. Box 1693, Anaheim, Cal.

They now say that sanitation has nothing to do with the prevention of
smallpox.

Red spectacles and calomel comes to us from Germany as a "specific
against sea-sickness."

The weather men solemnly tell us of the "accumulated deficiency" of
temperature.

A continental doctor advises giving to calves boiled milk as a preventive
against their contracting tuberculosis. He reminds one of the philosophers
Gulliver discovered.

Probably three-fourths of the "principles" of the world are prejudices
so disguised.

The " Lodge " excuse wasn't needed on the night of the blizzard.

The difference between Atlantic City of to-day and Atlantic City of the
last meeting is something like Chicago before the fire and to-day. The
next meeting of the American Institute will be something no one should
miss. The " sad sea waves " will not be sad then.

And though the ocean's water is salt there is still an abundance of fresh
water, etc., etc.. there.

Come one and all and help to make President Bailey"' s term a success.

THE

HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.

VOL. XIV. LANCASTER, PA, APRIL, 1899. NO. 4

SYSTEMATIC THERAPY.

Being an Essay to Place Therapy on Scientific and Practi-
cal Ground.

By A. A. Ramseyer, M. D.
I. Temperaments and Atomic Weights.

In a short paper, "The Incompatible Remedies of the Homoeo-
pathic Materia Medica," Dr. Charles Mohr, on pages 5 and 6,
asks the question : ' ' Are not some of the aggravations we find after
the administration of a remedy due to some idiosyncrasy of the
patient, making the remedy unsuited to the patient, rather than
really incompatible with the medicine formerly employed? On
this point I invite discussion. But as to the case. The lady
had received Spongia for some months without any benefit. A
careful study of the symptoms led me to give Kali car b. Almost
immediately the subjective symptoms disappeared, and in due
course the health improved and the objective signs began to
grow less and less. After some months things became quiescent,
and seeing no other remedy indicated, the thyroid enlargement
and the bulging eyeballs having remained in statu quo for several
months. I concluded to try Spongia, of which I gave one dose of
the 8000th, and inside of a week all the distressing symptoms
removed by Kali carb. had returned; there was present the same
dyspnoea and palpitation; the same aggravation at 2 a. m., com-
pelling patient to sit erect to breathe, and a decline of the gen-
eral health, and these persisted under Placebo fully two weeks,
when I returned to Kali carb. 30, relief again following at once,
and under its continued use for some months the cure was
effected."

Here, then, is a marked incompatibility between two reme-
dies, Spongia and Kali carb. Where can we find an explanation
of this fact?

146

Systematic Therapy.

Among the ancient alchemists, the Tabula Smaragdijia of
Hermes was supposed to contain the quintessence of all physical
or philosophical knowledge. Among their descendants, the
modern chemists, Mendelejeff's table of atomic weights has re-
vealed a natural, although not perfect, system of classification of
the chemical elements, showing that the properties of the ele-
ments are functions of their "atomic weights;" — "all the physi-
cal properties of the atoms are now believed to be functions of
their mass, and this idea is dominant in the periodic law of Men-
delejeff. That law shows the elements to be not independent
of each other, but closely related." (^Victor Meyer, The Chemi-
cal Problems of To day, in Smithsonian report for 1S90.)

To make matters somewhat clearer to those who have not paid
much attention to this part of chemistry, I will now give Men-
delejeff's table of atomic weights, leaving out, however, those
elements that do not present any practical interest to the physi-
cian:

I.

R202

II.

R 0

III.
R2O3

IV.

R02
R H4

V.

R2O5
RH3

VI.

R03
RH2

VII.

R, Or
RH

VIII.
R04

I

H 1

2

Li 7

GI9

B 11

C12

N 14

O 16

F19

3

Na 23

Mg24

Al 27

Si 28

P31

S32

CI 35

4

K39

Ca 40

Cr 52

Mn55

Fe56,Xi56,

C059, C1163

On &i

Z1165

As 7^

Se79

Br 80

0 ' 0

6

Sr 87

Pd 108, Ag

108

7 Ag 108

Cd 112

Sn 118

Sb 120

Tei25

I 127

8 CS133

Ba 137

Ce 141

9

I1-J93, Pt

195, OS200,

Au j 96

Au 196

Pb 207

Bi 208

11

Hg 200

12

U 239

"Passing from left to right in each series, we find that the ele-
ments can combine with a larger and larger relative quantity of

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oxygen The only oxygen compound of Lithium has the
formula Li20; the Oxide of glucinum is Glo., that of Borax,
B203; that of Carbon, which contains the largest proportion of
oxygen, is C02; that of Nitrogen, N205; that of Sulphur, S03: and
that of Chlorine, C1207. On the other hand, the power to com-
bine with hydrogen increases until a limit is reached as we pass
from right to left, as is shown in the compounds FH, OH2, NH3,
and CH4 " (Remsler, Introduction to Chemistry, p. 381.)

Prof. Robert Bartholow, in his Treatise on Materia Medica
and Therapeutics, divides the remedial agents into

Those used to promote constructive metamorphosis.

Those used to promote destructive metamorphosis.

Those used to prevent septic decomposition.

Those used to modify the functions of the nervous system.

Those used to cause some evacuation from the body. "He
adds that some remedies, with or without affecting the function
of digestion, modify the process of assimilation, either promoting
the construction of tissues or the retrograde or destructive meta-
morphosis. Iron may be taken as a typical example of the one,
and Mercury of the other mode of action on the function of as-
similation." (Page 1.)

Besides the aliments, the oils and fats, Bartholow includes as
remedial agents promoting constructive metamorphosis the fol-
lowing: the mineral acids, Phosphorus, Iron, Manganesium, Bis-
muth, Arsenic, the bitters, etc.; and as remedial agents promot-
ing the destructive metamorphosis or increasing waste, the
alkalies, Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Lithium, Ammonium,
Barium, the Vegetable acids, Sulphurous acid, Sulphur, Iodine,
Mercury, Aurum, Argentum, Cuprum, Plumbum, Zincum, A?iti-
monium, Cadmium, Cerium, Alumen, etc.

Barring those printed in italics (which I think are in the
wrong place), this is a strikingly practical classification, yet
only empirical.

MendelejefF's table of atomic weights (subject to any subse-
quent modifications of our chemical theories) seem to me to give
the true classification of remedies, together with their relative
intensity of action.

Accordingly the I, II, III and IV series, which contain
Hydrogen, Lithium, Iodium, Potassium, Cuprum (?), Ar-
gentum (?), Aurum (?), Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc, Strontium,
Cadmium, Barium, Mercury, Borax, Alum, Carbon, Silicon,

148 Systematic Therapy.

Stannum, Cerium and Lead, form one class of remedies specially
adapted to the florid, robust, plethoric temperament. While the

V, VI, VII and VIII series of Mendelsjeff, containing the fol-
lowing chemical elements: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Arsenic,
Antimony, Oxygen, Sulphur, Chrome, Selenium, Fluorine.
Chlorine, Manganese, Bromine, Iodine, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt,
Cuprum (?), Palladium, Argentum(?), Platinum and Aurum(?),
form a second class specifically adapted for weak, cachetic sub-
jects. (Those elements with question mark (?) are of doubtful
classification.)

Now the incompatibility between Kali carb. and Spongia
(which contains Iodine), in Dr. Mohr's patient is explained, as
each of these remedies belong to an opposite class (I and VII),
and I will here add a few examples taken from the Homoeopathic
Materia Medica:

Ammonium carb. and Muriat — Fat, bloated, lax individuals
who are indolent and sluggish; body large and fat, legs too thin.

Kali bichrom. — Especially suited for fat, light-haired persons.

Calcarea caj-b — Leucophlegmatic temperaments; fat children,
large head and belly.

Phosphorus, Phosphoric and Nitric acid — Persons of slender
form, tall, thin.

Iron, one of the remedies most useful in the treatment of
acute rheumatism, is more specially adapted to the treatment of
pale, delicate and cachetic subjects, and is much less beneficial,
if not positively harmful, in the plethoric and overfed. (Bartho-
low.)

Iron not only augments the oxygenation but also the electrifi-
cation of the blood, as probably do some of the drugs of the V,

VI, VII and VIII series — Nickel, Cobalt., Manganese, Chrome,
Cerium, Titanium, Palladium, Platinum, Osmium and Oxygen
are magnetic as well as Iron.

Iodine, given intercurrently with Belladonna and Platina,
cured some cases of chronic menorrhagia occurring in thin, deli-
cate women. (Bayes.)

Platina for thin patients with dark hair (do.). Sulphur caused
hemorrhage from the lungs in a very florid patient (do).
Hahnemann taught that one dose of Sulphur 30 would cure any
case of itch, but experience has taught that this is not the case.
"Next to Sulphur — and in some cases beyond Sulphur — Cuprum
is curative of itch." (Bayes.) I think Cuprum to be more
adapted for stout, corpulent patients.

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The Nitrogen series (Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony and
Bismuth) is indicated when there is a melting away of the
tissues, in consumption, for instance. Paracelsus used Antimony
as a specific in this disease, and last year (1898) at the Denver
Medical Congress a Chicago doctor presented his new treatment
of consumption by injection of Nitrogen.

Certain plants transform atmospheric nitrogen into albumin.
Cannot the human sytem do as much ? Should we not do away
with the idea that the embryo grows by simple acceretion from
its mother's albumin? The chick does not grow that way. To
what extent are gases used by human and animal organisms in
the building up of tissues ? To a much larger extent probably
than we are used to think.

II. The Alkaline and the Acid Remedies.

The above distinction between alkaline and acid remedies, as
representing two different temperaments, is well shown in some
herbs. It has been remarked by Hahnemann that the action of
Belladonna is very much increased by acids, while acids arrest
the action of Aconite. Aconite belongs to the class of alkaline.
Belladonna to that of acid remedies.

A further distinction between alkaline and acid remedies is
this: a white tongue calls for alkalies, a red one for acids. Dr.
Benjamin Ridge, of London, England, was, I believe, the first
to point out this distinction in his work " Glossology," (1838.)

Alkaline remedies are further indicated by lachrymation, sali-
vation, watery discharges (Natrum muriaticum, Schussler).
But a more important symptom speaking for alkaline remedies
is the appearance of pimples (Hepar sulph.) or vesicles filled
with serum (little serous sacks above the eye, Kali carb.), or
the serum may fill any serous cavity, as the tunica vaginalis of
the testicle (hydrocele). This symptom (pimples, vesicles or
serous cysts) is very important, and may help the physician out
of many a difficult case. Says Guernsey: " Miliary rash, let it
be ever so red, contraindicates Bellad., and under certain cir-
cumstances surely indicates Ammon. carb.

Rademacher used to give acids in petechial fevers when the
petechise were of a violet or black color, with nose bleeding.
Later he found Iron still better than acids in these same diseases.

Of course this classification is not perfect nor complete. It
does not account for every series of MendelejefF's table of atomic

150 Systematic Therapy.

weights. But it is a step in the right direction, by trying to
build a correct classification of drugs upon a true symptoma-
tology, objective, not subjective symptoms being used; also pay-
ing attention to the temperament, to the abundance, or to the
lack of tissues and fluids. May this imperfect sketch soon be-
come perfect!

" Every disease, according as it develops in this or that per-
son, manifests a different, an individual character. The ob-
jective point of the physician's investigations at the bedside is,
therefore, an individual diagnosis, first, on purely scientific
grounds, but still more important from the practical considera-
tion that it must form the indispensable basis for individualizing
the treatment." (Vierordt, Diagnosis, 1898.)

IV. Rabuteau's Atomic Law.

But this is not all we can learn from Mendelejeff's Table of
Atomic Weights; we have considered it only according to series,
as alkalies or acids, etc. Let us look vertically at any series,
the II for instance, which reads:

Glucinium 9, Magnesium 24, Calcium 40, Zincum 65, Stron-
tium 87, Cadmium 112, Barium 137, Mercury 200. Speaking of
Cadmium, Bartholow says:

' ' There is a strong resemblance — an identity of action, indeed —
between Zinc and Cadmium, except that the latter is the
stronger." But he has no explanation to give of this significant
fact, which Rabuteau, a French physician, in his Handbook of
Therapeutics (Paris, 1884), explains in the following manner:

"By comparing the physiological energy, or if you please,
the toxicity of metals of which the atomic weights are high, such
as lead (207) or mercury (200), with that of metals of which the
atomic weights are low, such as sodium (23) or magnesium (24),
a considerable difference is observed. The salts of the first
metals are dangerous, even in small doses, while those of the
latter can be introduced into the system with impunity in con-
siderable doses. Now, this difference of action is bound to a re-
lationship which I discovered in 1867 between the activity or
energy of metals and their atomic weights, viz: Metals are the
more active the higher their atomic weights are. Thus the salts of
sodium (atomic weight, 23) are much less active than those of
potassium (atomic weight, 39). Again, the salts of calcium
(atomic weight, 40) are infinitely less toxical than the salts of

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barium (atomic weight, 137.)" This, at once, explains what
Bartholow noticed about cadmium and zinc, since the atomic
weight of cadmium is 112 and that of zinc only 65, both being
in the same (II) vertical series. This, of course, presupposes a
certain similarity of action between the action of the diverse
members of the same series, as between calcium and magnesium,
zinc and cadmium, etc.; the deeper we go in the series, viz., the
higher the atomic weights of the metals of that series are the
stronger are the physiological or toxical effects observed. But
Rabuteau does not reap the full benefit of his discovery, since he
ignores infinitesimal doses, and we find him warning his readers
against the use of gold, platinum, bismuth as being fraught
with great danger when used in solutions, on account of their
high atomic weights.

Thus, with a correct table of atomic weights we would be en-
abled to both simplify and classify the Materia Medica in a very
practical manner, grouping together those drugs possessing
similar virtues or producing similar effects in their different
grades from the mildest and most evanescent to the most active
and most lasting.

III. Baehr's Dynamic Circle and Organ Remedies.

Dr. Charles Mohr, in the same paper quoted above (The In-
compatible Remedies of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica), says
(p. 4): It may be stated in a general way, so, at least, Hering
puts it, " ' that the substances which are too similar in action, es-
pecially in the remote symptoms, are incompatible, as witness
Zincum and Nux vomica in nervous affections, Rhus tox. and
Apis in skin diseases, Cinchona and Selenium in their effects on
the sexual apparatus. Mercurius and Silicea in suppurative pro-
cesses.' "

This incompatibility is explained by a discovery of Prof. Baehr,
of Dresden, Germany, published in 1861, in a book entitled
41 Der dynamische Kreis. Die Naturliche Reihenfolge der Ele-
mente und zusammengesetzten Korper als Resultat der Beob-
achtung ihrer dynamischer Wirksamkeit " (The dynamic circle.
The natural succession of the elementar and compound bodies
resulting from the observation of their dynamic power). Dr.
Johann Karl Baehr lays down a new principle for the classifica-
tion of bodies. Placing the substance to be analyzed in the
centre of a circle drawn on paper or wood and divided into 3600

152 Systematic Therapy.

(degrees), and holding a pendulum suspended in a peculiar
position (see the description of the experiment in his work),
after a little while oscillations are produced in the pendulum
which differ for almost every substance, and thus indicate each
time a different number of degrees. For instance, Gold causes
oscillations on the o°, therefore on the dynamic circle he places
Gold on o°; Sodiurn=22^°; Silver=45°, that is, the oscillations
of the pendulum are on the 45th degree; Magnesium=6o°;
Zinc=67>40; Silicon=8o°; Palladium=90°; Copper=ii2^°;
Platinum==i35°; Iron=i57^°; Arsenica 1700; Selenium=
172^°; Phosphorus=i75°; Sulphur=i8o°; Calcium carbon-
ate=220°; Sepia=225°; Potassium carbonate=240°; Nux
vomica=247}40; Opium=257^°; Coffeine=265°; Mercury=
2700; Quinine=287^°; Digitaline=295°; Ergot=30o; Iodine=
3100; Calomel=3i5°; Belladonna (tinct. )=320°; Strychnine=
3300; Fluorine=345°; Prussic acid=350°; Bromine=355°;
Chlorine=357^°; Oxygen closes the series at 3600 (while Hy-
drogen=o°, the same as Gold).

This very short list shows a striking gradation, which is still
more evident if we add a few more substances. Thus the flowers
of all plants, aromatic oils, ether, fine spices, are spread on the
circle from o° to 900, the yolk of egg occupying the middle of
the quadrant (450); woods, gums, fine wines, oils, casein, gluten,
cereals, starch, sugar, butter, milk are found between 900 and
1800, with the white of egg on the 1350, viz., in the middle of
the II quadrant; narcotic plants (leaves), resins, wax, spirits,
vinegar, strong spices, tobacco arrange themselves between 1800
and 2700, the shell of the egg and the human saliva being on
2250, the middle of the III quadrant; finally the IV quadrant
(2700 to 3600) is occupied by quicksilver, urine, acids, organic
and inorganic poisons, alkaloids, the roots of plants, dung,
iodine, fluorine, bromine, chlorine and oxygen, the human
faeces being found on 3150, the middle of the quadrant.
Thus it appears that the white of eggs (900), the yolk (1350),
the shell (2250)" and the faeces (3150) each differ 900, being
polar to each other.

"The salutary or hurtful influence of the substances on the
human system is in the closest connection with their position on
the dynamic circle," says Prof. Baehr. "On the circle the oil
of roses is the first member of a great series of fragrant sub-
stances, while the last member is chlorine, a poisonous gas. In

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the first segment the series of fragrant substances begins with
oil of roses (o°) and closes with oil of bergamot (8o°); the
second segment begins with patchouly (92^°) and closes with
Valerian oil (1700); the third segment contains musk (1800),
ammonia (2250), asafcetida (2650); and the fourth segment
valerianic acid (2750), bromine (355 °), and chlorine (357^2°).
The products of the fermentation and distillation open their
series with Muscatel and Bordeaux wines (1250, 1300) and close
it with rectified spirits (alcohol=28o°). The series of spices
begins with nutmeg flower (4o°) and closes with pepper (2600).
The series of milk and its derivatives begins with fresh, sweet
milk (ioo°) and closes with lactic acid (2800). The series of
the alkaloids begins with coffeine (2650) and theine (267^2°)
and closes with ergotine (3250) and strychnine (3300). The
animal products begin their series with albumen (250) and close
it with uric acid (307^°)."

Now to come to the explanation of the incompatibility of
remedies. All those bodies whose distances from each other on
the dynamic circle are about 1800 are antagonistic to each other,
or antagonize each other, says Prof. Baehr, while those which
differ 900 from each other are polar to each other, which polarity
supposes a relation between them, one being the complement of
the other. For instance, there is a polarity between the yolk
(450) and the white of the egg (1350), between the white (1350)
and the shell (of the egg) (225°), and the saliva (2250), and
lastly between the human saliva (2250) and the faeces (3150),
for they differ 900 from each other; while the yolk (450) is an-
tagonistic to the shell (2250) and the white (1350) to the human
faeces (3150), for their distance from each other is 1800. Further
examples of polarity are: Silver (450) and platinum (1350),
silver (450) and the white of eggs (1350), sodium (22^°) and
copper (ii2^°), sodium (22^°) and sugar (112^°), platinum
(1350) and sepia (2250); while the following are antagonistic to
each other: Silver (450) and sepia (2250), zinc (6jl/2°) and mix
vomica (247^°), (which explains the incompatibility which
Dr. Mohr observed between the two); sugar (112^°) and oxide
of copper (292^°),* the white of eggs (1350) and calomel

* Query. How far would copper-oxide go to eliminate sugar from the dia-
betic urine when given as a remedy? And what of Sodium (22^°) and
Baryta carb. (202^°) and Myrrh (202^°), both polar to Sugar (ii2><0) ?

154 Systematic Therapy.

(3*5°), purified sugar of milk (ioo°) and carbonic acid (2800),
Mocha coffee (1350) and atropine (317^°), etc.

This explains why the white of eggs is the remedy against
calomel poisoning, sugar against the poisonous effects of copper,
and why silicea (silicon=8o°) and mercurius (2800) antagonize
each other; and why chamomilla is the best remedy in the opium
habit, since chamomile flowers=8o°-i20° and morphine=292^°.

Prof. Baehr examined some animal substances, too; the white
substance of the cerebral hemisphers of a calf=o°; the arbor
vitae cerebelli=22^°; the corpus callosum=45°; the Pons
Varoli and medulla oblongata=:67%0; grey matter of the cerebral
hemisphere=9o°; grey substance of the cerebellum=ii2^.
Kar wax=202^°; human epiderrnis=225°; saliva=225°; human
urine=27o°; human faces=3i5°.

After familiarizing myself somewhat with Dr. Baehr's method
of analysis I examined on the dynamic circle a few more animal
organs, and found the Heart (inside)=o°, (outside=35°); the
Iyiver=9o°; the Lungs=i8o; the Kidneys=225; Blood=o°;
Artery (carotid, inside)=45°; Vein (jugular, inside)=:900. I
was not slow to discover that the animal organs show the same
gradation as the chemical elements, and that those chemical
elements or drugs' and those animal organs which occupy the
same degree on the circle, or are opposed to each other or differ-
ing 1800 from each other, are related to each other, viz.,
those drugs which occupy the same place on the circle as a par-
ticular organ may be termed sympathetic organ remedies (to that
organ), while those which differ 1800 from that organ may be
called antipathic organ remedies, the sympathetic remedy being
always less hurtful to the organ than the antipathic. For
instance, Mercury (2700; is an antipathic liver remedy, the
liver being on the 90th degree, while palladium (900) is a sympa-
thetic liver remedy. Gold (o°) is a fine heart as well as blood
remedy, which fact was proclaimed by Paracelsus more three cen-
turies ago; Sulphur (1800) he calls the balsam of the lungs
(lungs=i8o°). Anyone reading his medical writings will find
that he understood this system very well, as he speaks, in his
Anatomy, of an external heart (Gold), of external lungs (Sul-
phur), etc., and insists that the true physician is he only who can
make the external heart to concord with the internal, etc.

The pharynx occupies about the 135th degree on the circle
and the bronchial tubes (inside)=i57^°. Calomel (3150) and

Systematic Therapy. 155

Mercurius cyanatus (3400), which differ about 180°, are good
remedies for diphtheria in certain temperaments, but, of course,
they are antipathic ones; while Antimonium (147^°) is a
sympathetic remedy in diphtheria and one which Hering often
used.

Thus by means of Baehr's dynamic circle we have a sure
method of finding out true organ remedies, which fact, so far as
I know, I have been the first to point out.

Dr. William Bayes (of England) in his " Applied Homoe-
opathy; or Specific Restorative Medicine" (1871), says on page
3: " In a paper, entitled ' Organopathy,' and in several subse-
quent essays, Dr. Sharp, of Rugby, has laid down the following
three proportions as to disease on one hand and as to the action
of drugs on the other:

1st. '* That each cause of disease acts primarily or most power-
fully upon certain tracts, parts, or organs of the body, the blood
and other fluids, as well as the solids, being parts."

2nd. " That each medicinal drug, as a cause of disease, also
acts upon certain tracts, parts, or organs of the body, solid or
fluid."

3rd. "That in sickness the best remedy is a drug which acts
upon the tracts, parts, or organs of the body invaded by the
disease."

Not only are organ remedies found but their action is indi-
cated before hand, and the physician will do well first to try a
sympathetic organ remedy before he gives an antipathic one,
unless the case be too far advanced, in which case an antipathic
organ remedy may be called for at once; but the antipathic
remedy always weakens an organ. (Culpepper.)

Xow I will give a practical illustration of an organ remedy.
Last fall my wife was troubled with a left-sided sciatica, and
after trying, with but little relief, several remedies, as well as
local applications, I was led to give Sulphur 30, which cured
this sciatica in less than three days; at the first opportunity I
examined a sciatic nerve on the dynamic circle, and judge of
my surprise when I found its position on the 1S00, the same as
Sulphur. Of course it does not follow that Sulphur will cure
any and all cases of sciatica, but it has been found curative
in many cases, especially in France, and in my hands it cured a
a left sided case. The temperament has to be considered, of
course.

156 Systematic Therapy.

There are besides, some other factors, for instance the electrical
and magnetic conditions of the atmosphere and of the earth,
which ever vary according to the seasons and the latitudes, also
the geological formation of different localities. Faraday has
shown that the sun is the real cause of these annual and daily
variations of magnetic intensity, etc., and lately Prof. Bigelow,
of the Meteorological Bureau at Washington, has examined the
same subject in great details. By finding out which elements
are magnetic, and which not, we may be able to explain the times
of aggravation or of amelioration for the different drugs and
diseases.

These few ideas are jotted down rather as a reminder and an
incentive for some one better qualified than myself to follow up
and fully develop. See what Paracelsus (pg. 244, I. Vol. of his
works in German) has to say about the Bursa pastoris acting
sometimes as a astringent, sometimes as an emmenagogue, ac-
cording to the different times, for says he: "Often is a drug
a poison, often a remedy in another hour." By properly unfold-
ing this important idea, and by intelligently explaining this fact,
more light could be shed on the paradoxical so-called homoeo-
pathic law, as well as on the more commonly observed law of
contraries, which both are true, since everything in nature must
have two sides.

I trust that these few ideas may be found correct and be im-
proved upon by those who have better reasoning and observing
powers and better means and more time for prosecuting the
methods advanced here. But I confidentially hope that herein
will some day be found the keys to the truly scientific and suc-
cessful theory and practice of the medcial art. Which may God
grant!

1060 E. 2nd S. St., Salt Lake City, Utah.

A List of Some Substances Tested on the Dynamic Circle.

A

Acetic acid 292^'

Aconite (Tinct.) 2250

Aconitine 3100

Agaricus m 312^

Albumen 250

Alcohol 2800

Aloe 2400

Alum 2300

Alumina 3100

Amber (yellow) 245 °

Ambergris I57/^C

Ammonia 2250

Anis 185°

Antimony i47:2C

Argent, nitr 2500

Arnica (Tinct.) 1500

Arsenic 1700

Arsenious acid 3500

Asafcetida 265 °

Systematic

Atropine

B

Baryta carb 202 >£

Bellad. berries ...... 292^'

Tinct 3200

Benzoin gum 2200

Bismuth 1600

Blood o°

Boron 930

Borax 170°

Bromide of Potassium . . . .320°

Bromine 3550

Bryonia 2300

Buttermilk (fresh) 1S00

Calcium carbon 2200

fluoride 275°

oxide (quick lime I . 335°

sulphate 2700

Calomel 315°

Camphor 1300

Cantharis

Carbo (an. and veg. ) .... 1S50

Carbonic acid 2800

Castor oil 135°

Castoreum 1350

Caustic Soda 1950

Chamomile 0 8o°

Chlorine

Chrome

Cina (seed )

Cinnabar 2800

Cinnamon

Citron juice 1150

Cobalt 145°

Cochenille

Coffee (Mocha) 135 °

Coffeine 2650

Cognac 240°

Colocynth (seed) ....... 1800

Colocynthidin 262 U°

Coniine Z°2%°

Copper

oxide 292^°

vitriol 3100

Coral ( red 1

Creosote . . . ."

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Crocus (Tinct. ) 1700

Cyanide of Potassium . . . 3100

D

Dandelion (leaves) 900

Diamond 50

Digitaline . 295 °

E

Ear wax 202^°

Epidermis 225 °

Epsom Salt (sulph. magn.) . 147^°

Ergotine 3100

Ether (acetic) ioo°

Euphorbium (gum) 2750

Euphrasia (Tinct.) 2400

Excrements (hum.) 3150

F

Fceces (human) 3150

Fluor 3450

Formic acid 3100

G
Ginger 2100

Glauber salt (natr. sulp. ) . . 1350

Gold . o°

Graphite 1850

Guajac (gum) .2

H

Hair (human) 1850

Heart (inside) o°

I outside) 350

Hepar sulphuris . . ... 2500

Hoffman's Anodyne

Hydrocyanic acid 345 °

Hydrogen o°

I

Indigo 2550

Iodide of Potassium .... 265°

Iodine 3100

Iodoform 292 I2C

Iris root (orris) 92^ =

Iron

Ivory 2200

J
Juniper berries 2

158 Systematic

K

Kali bichrom 3050

carb 2400

nitric 2500

Kalium no0

Kidney .... 2250

Kreosote ...... . . . 2950

L

Laurocerasus 295 °

Lead 1500

(white) , 3200

(red) 332^°

Lemon juice 1150

Lichen isl 172^°

Linseed 1500

Liver 900

Lithium 97>^°

carb 1900

Lung 1800

Lycopodium (seed) 1350

M

Magnesia alba. (carb. magn.) . 1200
usta. (oxide magn.) . 2400

Magnesium 6o°

sulphate (epsom salts) 147/^°

Manganese 152^°

Mercury (quicksilver) .... 2700

Mercurius corrosiv 3500

cyanatus . . 3400

dulcis (calomel) . . 3150

solubilis 3050

Mercuric oxide 357 y2°

Milk ioo°

Morphine 292^°

Moschus 1800

Muriatic acid 3000

Myrrh 202^°

N

Natrium 22^°

Natron bic 1400

carb 900

nitric 167^°

sulphuric H2>£0

Nickel 1400

Nicotine 3150

Therapy.

Nitrate of Silver 2500

patassium 2500

Nitric acid 3100

Nitrogen 2700

Nutmeg 750

Nux vomica 247^'

O

Olive oil . . H2^c

Opium 257^

Orris (iris) root 92^>'

Os sepise 2100

Oxalate of potassium .... 2700

Oxalic acid 2400

Oxygen 3600

P

Palladium 900

Paris green 3300

Pepper 2400

Petroleum T42>£(

Phosphorus I77/^C

Phosphoric acid 35°°

oxide 3550

Platinum 1350

Potassium no0

bromide 3200

carbonate .... 2400

cyanide 3100

iodide 2650

nitrate 2500

Prussic acid 3500

Pulsatilla (tinct.) 2230

Pyroligneous acid 285 °

Q

Ouarz 2700

Quassia (wood) 1750

Quicksilver 2700

Quicklime 335°

Quinine 287^ c

R

Realgar 3300

Rhus tox (tinct.) 2350

Rough on rats 3500

S
Saffron ioo°

Systematic

Salicine 272^°

Saliva 2250

Salmiac (am. muriat.) .... 2750

Sambucus (tinct.) 112 }4°

Santonine 2750

Salt (table.) (natr. muriat.) . 2500
Saltpetre ( nitr. of potassium ) 2500

Secale cornutum 3000

Selenium 1750

Senega (tinct.) 2700

Senna (leaves) 187^°

Sepia 2250

Silicea 267^°

Silicon 8o°

Silver 450

Soda (sodium carb.) .... 900

Sodium 22^°

bicarb 1400

borate (borax) .... 1700

carb 900

chloride (table salt) . 2500
nitrate (saltpetre) . .167^°
sulphate (Glauber salt) 1350

Solanine 282^°

Spongia tosta 2900

Stramonium (Tinct.) .... 3000

Strychnine 3300

Sugar 112)4°

Sulphur 1800

Sulphuric acid 3300

T

Tartaric acid 2750

Tartarus stibiatus 297^°

Tea (black) 1050

(green) 157^°

Theine ■ 267^°

Theobromine 2850

Tin 1250

oxide 3050

Tobacco (Havana) 2200

(German) 2600

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Turpentine 1400

U

Uranium 1000

Uric acid 307 >2°

Urine 2700

V

Valerianic acid 2750

Vanilla 450

Veratrin 2900

Verdigris (cupric acetate) . . 3000

Vinegar . 2250

Vitriol (blue) 3100

(sulph. copper)

(green) 2900

(sulph., iron, copperas)
white) 272^°

(sulph. zinc)

W

Water (fresh fountain)

. . . 900

White of eggs . . .

• -135°

Whitelead (carb. lead)

. . . 3200

Wine:

(Bordeaux) . .

• • • 1300

(Madeira) . .

• • 1850

(Malaga) . . .

• • • 175°

(Muscatel) . .

• • • 135°

(Spanish) . .

. . . 162^

Wormwood (leaves)

. . . 202X

(artem. absint. )

Y
Yolk of eggs 450

Z

Zinc 67^°

vitriol 272^°

160 Homoeopathic Remedies in Tuberculosis.

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES IN TUBERCULOSIS.

By J. Henry Hallock, M. D., Saranac Lake, Adiron-
dack Mountains, N. Y.

There is no place among the whole list of diseases where
Homoeopathy to-day shows itself so superior to old school medi-
cation as in that class of patients who are predisposed to con-
sumption. We sometimes call them scrofulous. Burnett calls
it consumptiveness.

Whoever has watched the brilliant results of Calc. fikos.,
Calc. c, Hydrastis, Iodine, Bacillinum, Psorinum, etc., in a typi-
cal case must have been thankful that he was not of a school
dependent upon laxatives, tonics, and cough mixtures.

Two years ago a young lady, twenty-two years of age, came
to me after having been the rounds of such medication. She
was a tall, slim blonde, with a family history of scrofula and
tuberculosis, her own mother dying of cancer. She was weak,
anaemic, with enlargement of the lymphatics, especially the cer-
vical. She had a stomach which would hardly digest the
simplest food; was discouraged and tearful. Her bowels were
constipated and she had a dry, hacking cough with a slight
evening temperature. Her chest was long and lean with prom-
inent ribs and scapula.

There was no consolidation, though there was a suspicious
prolonged expiratory murmur over the lower lobe of the left lung.
There was no expectoration for the microscopist, and I was not
then familiar with the diagnostic value of tuberculin. But had
the case not yielded promptly I should have considered it one of
tuberculosis and have treated it accordingly. She proved, however,
to be in the pre-tubercular stage, and Puis., Phos. and Bacilliyium
made such a change in her condition that in two months I dis-
charged her cured. She had gained ten pounds in weight and
was to all appearances in perfect health. She has since married
and is the mother of a healthy child.

But we, as Homoeopaths, must bear in mind that consump-
tiveness and consumption, though different stages of the same
disease, are very different as far as results from medical treat-
ment are concerned.

Three years ago this spring, after battling for some weeks
with a cough seemingly from laryngeal irritation, I was induced

Homceopathic Remedies in Tnberailosis. 161

to send some of my expectoration to a microseopist, who reported
that it contained, not only tubercle bacilli, but elastic lung fibers
and pus. Then I remembered that I had had a haemorrhage a
year before, and, though I had been attending to my business,
was far from my normal weight and strength. A physical ex-
amination showed both lungs involved, and I realized that I was
in the second stage of tuberculosis.

I had already taken the indicated remedies with but slight re-
sults, and knew that something more heroic must be done at
once. With a complete change ©f environment, in a proper
climate, I believed the remedies would receive the aid necessary,
and so it proved, Iodine being the one I depended on most.

Some of the mistakes I made upon first coming to the Adiron-
dack mountains may be of help to others, as it has since been to
me, in guiding myself and the cases that have been placed under
my care. The place I first chose was entirely too damp, though
no large body of water was near. The forest was dense to
within a few rods of the camp, and in such a place the ground
never becomes dry. Next, in looking for elevation in a clearing
sufficiently large to insure dryness, I lost sight of the fact that
such elevation was not of sufficient benefit to counteract the ef-
fect of exposure from hard winds and storms that are sure to
come at certain times of the year, and that a place to be of much
benefit must get its elevation of 1,500 or 2,000 feet without
being on the top of some high exposed knoll. It must be sur-
rounded with higher mountain peaks and sheltered in all direc
tions from which hard winds may blow.

Then with a porous soil and an air loaded with oxygen from
blowing over many miles of surrounding forests one has an ideal
air in which a consumptive has a chance to regain his health.

Three years ago I was full of the old idea that exercise made
strength, and I usually started the day with a little run of
twenty rods and in the afternoon would take a long walk, or,
being fond of fishing, I would spend the day along a trout stream,
and later in the season I killed my two deer and a fair number
of partridges.

All this after ten years in general practice, where I had treated
the usual number of consumptives. And since coming here I
have met many another trying to guide himself, and while they
may not have made the same mistakes I did they frequently
make worse ones, and I have come to the conclusion that it is

1 62 Homoeopathic Remedies in Tuberculosis.

nearly an impossibility for one sent into a strange climate to get
the full benefit without the occasional advice of one familiar
with their needs. For several months I hardly held my own. A
physician who visited me during the summer of 1896 took back
a very unfavorable report to friends in the city, and with the
amount of purulent matter I was expectorating my chances were
not good.

My gain commenced soon after I stopped all exercise and be-
gan sitting out quietly on a sheltered porch from five to eight
hours a day. And by watching many cases since, I am con-
vinced that exercise of any violent kind, while active processes
are present in the lungs, by rushing the blood into the weakened,
diseased parts increases the fever and hastens the breaking
down process.

Gentle exercise should be begun after the disease is arrested
and increased as the strength and symptoms of the patient will
permit.

With warm blankets on a sheltered porch one can be comfort-
able at all seasons of the year. And I have never known such a
patient to catch cold, nor did I have, during the winter past,
a single case of la grippe among patients thus spending their
time out of doors, yet the disease was prevalent enough among
those living shut up. By the above methods I have not only
been able to regain my own health and vigor, but have been in-
strumental in aiding a good number of others to do the same.

One case was of especial interest to me, as he was among the
earlier cases sent me here, and was my companion on many a
pleasant occasion.

Mr. G., aged 38, sent me, November, '96, by Dr. May, city
bacteriologist, of Syracuse. He was a heavily built man of
healthy German parentage, and not one in whom we would
usually expect tuberculosis.

He had the la grippe during the summer preceding. Had suf-
fered from catarrhal troubles, lost weight and strength, and after
several physicians had failed to benefit him he sent a specimen
of his expectoration to Dr. May, who found that it contained
tubercle bacilli. About this time he began to raise a little
blood, which had the effect to hurry him for the woods. My
own previous experience, and the reports and treatment fol-
lowed out at several of the German sanitariums, had convinced
me of the proper course, but Mr. G., who had gained nicely dur-

A Tribute to Great Men. 163

ing his first two weeks could not resist the temptation of attend-
ing a country dance l,just to break the monotony." He danced
and otherwise enjoyed himself until a late hour, caught cold and
from that time on till spring I had to fight a very active tuber-
cular trouble with repeated hemorrhages and all the usual ac-
companying symptoms.

He was given in about the order named Aeon., Pkos., Hepar
s.t Bacillinum 200th (B. & T.'s, by Burnett), with the result
that by March, '97, he had made a perceptible gain which
continued until he was quite well.

During the summer of 1897, all active disease having left him,
he was able to hunt fish and enjoy himself generally, but of
course under advice. The consolidation had cleared up, tem-
perature was normal, and he was fast gaining his weight and
strength.

In this case, as in many others since, I know that the cure was
aided by homoeopathic remedies, but these must have failed
without the aid of proper climatic treatment.

It is so important that such patients should eat and digest
large quantities of nourishing food that the digestive organs,
which are almost always weakened, require attention, and here
again the results from our remedies are conspicuous.

Mr. G. spent the winter of '97 here to give his disease a
chance for thorough arrestment.

When he left for home the following spring he was so fleshy
he could hardly wear any of the clothes he came with, and was
an absolutely well man, and though jumping at once into hard
work, as proprietor of two city hotels, he has kept well without
one sign of his original disease.

A TRIBUTE TO GREAT MEN.
By Thomas C. Duncan, M. D., of Chicago.

Three pillars in the temple medical have fallen recently in
Chicago. Yes, we might say four, viz., Profs. Mitchell, Hale,
and Hoyne (and Burt, last year), well known to the profession,
all interested in drug study. Three were authors of repute and
their work demands more than a passing mention. It will take
time, perhaps, to accord each the meed of praise he deserves.

Prof. Mitchell was best known as a teacher — an earnest, en-

164 A Tribute to Great Men.

thusiastic teacher. A hypertrophied heart led him to study
chest disease. He was an accurate diagnostician. Notwith-
standing his preceptor, Prof. Gaylord D. Beebe, was a surgeon,
he took to medicine, following the spirited and earnest teaching
of such experts as Profs. N. F. Cooke and H. P. Gatchell
(father of Prof. Chas. Gatchell). Prof. Mitchell had strong
faith in the action of medicines (as became a professor of prac
tice) and recorded his belief that cancer and even appendicitis
could be cured by remedies. He believed that Arsenicum was
often the similimum of carcinoma. At the last session of the
Materia Medica Conference he was an active participant. He
died suddenly from aneurism of aorta a staunch believer in
similia.

Prof. Hale was the easy pioneer of the students of American
Materia Medica. His "New Remedies," issued in '64, was a
collection of provings of indigenous drugs. Some thought that
American drugs would supercede those from foreign sources, but
Hale did not. He, for years, stood as the one man who stimu-
lated provings, and Burt was the champion experimenter. Hale
was the active gleaner in the eclectic field, and, therefore, all of
his writings show their origin; but his energy has done more
than any other to make plain the way for that wing of the pro-
fession to absorb our teachings. The early study of indigenous
drugs, under the guiding of a botanic physician, led the writer
to assist Dr. Hale, in '66, in his work of gathering material for
the second edition of " New Remedies." During a quarter of a
century his gleanings have been simply enormous. Shortly be-
fore his death Hale was asked what drugs freshmen students
should be taught. He said Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura,
showing that he looked to the master's list of remedies as the
best to learn first. Dr. Hale had worked out in drug thera-
peutics a potency rule of his own, in which he gave strong doses
for the similar primary symptoms and the small doses for the
secondary symptoms. His attention was necessarily centered on
the primary action of remedies, and hence his rule tied
him to the large doses and the temptation of double remedies.
Those who will read Hahnemann's writings closely will dis-
cover that he tried also to be guided by the primary effects. It
is, however, evident to any thinking mind that the reactionary
or secondar}' symptoms must be the curative ones — the getting
well symptoms. That Dr. Hale was an honest, earnest student

A Tribute to Great Men. 165

of drug action of the over-enthusiastic is evident in all of his
writings. He was a most comprehensive student and hence his
writings take a wide range, and most of them were subsequently
gathered into book form, some having several editions growing
in proportion. The collection will be a valuable one for future
reference.

Prof. Burt, familiar with the woods of Canada and the many
native medicinal plants, became an enthusiastic prover. He
sought to ascertain the pathology of drugs. A more bold ex-
perimenter upon himself cannot be found. Prof. Burt was an
active worker with Hale. His first independent authorship was
with the " Pathogenesy of Stigmata Madis " and "Polyporus."
His most popular work was a collection of keynotes with a phy-
siological outline. Burt's "Characteristics" ran through sev-
eral editions. This blossomed out into " Physiological Materia
Medica," which is a blending of symptoms, characteristic physio-
logical effects (so-called) and pathological products and thera-
peutic hints. After he became Professor of Materia Medica in
the National he produced the "Remembrancer" — really a col-
lection of characteristics and a condensation of his two larger
works.

Prof. Hoyne was a Chicago man, educated at the common
school and university. He was a graduate of Bellevue Hospital
Medical College and pupil of that noted surgeon, Prof. Frank
Hamilton, the author of surgical works. He had a rare surgical
training, and expected to be a surgeon, but his partner and uncle,
Prof. D. S. Smith, the pioneer homoeopath in Chicago,
thought ('65) that Prof. G. D. Beebe, late surgeon of the 14th
Army Corps, should have the preference. I fancy that his
grandfather, Dr. Temple, the pioneer of Homoeopathy in St.
Louis and a most enthusiastic practitioner, had much to do in
diverting the plastic mind of Dr. Hoyne. As a young man, Dr. H.
was very diffident. His maiden lecture was given to the class
with which the writer graduated ('66). Prof. C. C. Smith, a
recent importation from Philadelphia, kept the young Dr. busy
looking up cures by high potencies. It is not singular that the
hopeful surgeon became the most enthusiastic believer in
remedies in the then high potencies — a crack shot with the
2ooths. For years after Dr. C. C. Smith went east Dr. H. was
almost alone as a high potency man. This led him, when
elected to the Chair of Materia Medica in Hahnemann Medical

*66 A Tribute to Great Men.

College, to prepare the leading guiding symptoms of drugs on
cards. These were along the lines of Hering's cards, and are
preserved in permanent form in Hawkes' little book (Hawkes a
student of Hering, Guernsey and Lippe, is an enthusiastic fol-
lower of Hahnemann). Hoyne continued to collect cases to
illustrate his lectures on drugs, and these we have preserved in
two volumes of " Clinical Therapeutics." Recently he was busy
collecting material for a third volume of cases showing the
symptoms which the remedy cured. This is really a continua-
tion of the'work of Ruckert and Raue, and should be continued
in a systematic manner. Among the clinics, that of skin and
venereal fell to this enthusiast, and the result of his study and
experience is a valuable work on " Urinary and Venereal Dis-
eases." Only recently his friends know that he suffered with his
bladder. The remedy that afforded most relief was Puis. Never
shall the writer forget the despair that crept over his face as,
ten days before the operation for stone, he said there seems " no
remedy for calculus composed of oxalate of lime." (Prof. H.
C. Allen says normal urine is the remedy. Will normal urine
dissolve stone in the bladder?) The question that interests the
general profession is this, what will be the effect upon the col-
legeslin Chicago? It is well-know that Prof. Mitchell was the
nucleus of the Chicago Homoeopathic College. When he and
eleven others threatened to secede because they were refused the
places and emoluments, they thought they should have that
there would be concussions as in '65 and subsequently, but the
then remaining men believed in "a limited faculty and better
teaching." The old college grew and the new located near our
big hospital also attracted students and friends. Hoyne was a
skillful manager and soon had the old college out of debt.
When they wanted to build larger and finer the third time he
withdrew. Then he planned a post-graduate school, but instead
others crowded him into another college with ' ' pure Homoe-
opathy " as its shibboleth. As a delegate to the American In-
stitute to represent the new college, he returned to find himself
and other friends dropped from the faculty. One of the tenders
of means said: " Organize another college and I will build you a
building." Dr. Hoyne refused to go into the new offshoot, but
was elected the chief officer and accepted and died as dean.

Any institution is either greater or less than those who repre-
sent it. If greater it lives, and if less it withers and dies. An

Remedies Wanted. 167

effort is being made to harmonize the interests in an over-
shadowing Post-Graduate College that might finally consolidate
all interests, but whether there will be wisdom enough to unify
all only the future will demonstrate. Criticism of the situation
builds up instead of hampers. It is human to find fault. It is
human to sympathize and help. The cause of Homoeopathy,
however, is safe in the hands of the special students of Materia
Medica and practice, as well as those who make up the 500 fol-
lowers of Father Hahnemann in Chicago. " Competition is the
life of trade." Medicine is also a profession. The memory of
these active, earnest men who have gone will be reflected in the
coming generation. Some will study disease more closely;
other will collect new remedies; others will develop character-
istics, while others will study the action along physiological
lines. The study of drugs will both widen and deepen, since
this work has been laid down by a quartette of men whose
memory will be ever green.

REMEDIES WANTED.

Editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder.

I am glad to learn from your widely-circulated Homoeopathic
Recorder that several homoeopathic specifics for many compli-
cated cases of human diseases have cured where allopaths have
declared the cases incurable. As the same journal treats of
veterinary subjects, I am led to believe that you will be in a
position to enlighten me where I can procure the specifics for the
following diseases among animals, viz.:

1. Rinderpest, or cattle plague.

2. Anthrax fever among horses and cattle.

3. Epizootic aptha.

4. Foot-rot among sheep.

During my active service in the civil veterinary department
as stock inspector in sixteen different districts of the Madras
Presidency I found that Allopathic treatment of those diseases
was very costly, uncertain and not commensurate with the
trouble and cost of the animal, and, therefore, it was not within
the means of the cultivator.

I remain yours sincerely,

K. P. Iyer.
Mangalore, South Ca?iara, India.

(Perhaps some of our readers can answer one or all of the
above questions. — Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.)

1 68 American Institute of Homoeopathy.

MEETING OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF
HOMCEOPATHY AT ATLANTIC CITY.

Editor Homoeopathic Recorder.

During the recent visit to Chicago, Washington, Philadel-
phia, New York, Boston and Atlantic City it was my privilege
to attend the annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the
A. I. H. in New York, to meet the local Committee of Arrange-
ments at Atlantic City, and to come in touch with the profession
generally.

The Executive Committee arranged a program which will
give every section at least one meeting before the entire Insti-
tute. There will be seven papers on the different fields of
Homoeopathy. There will be special features of unusual interest.
The memorial exercises will be held during a recess in a busy
session, and will be of a character to command our respect and
cause us to indeed realize the solemnity of the occasion. It will
be a session of thoroughly scientific interest, and one in which
the cause of Homoeopathy will be kept well to the front. The
local Committee of Arrangements have secured for this meeting
the Great Steel Pier, probably the quietest and most ideal spot
for such a meeting in the United States. The plans for the
entertainment of the Institute are the thought of the entire city,
and nothing is being left undone that time or money can do.
The greatest seaside resort in the world, a mecca for health-
seekers both winter and summer, a spot where nature and man
have vied with each other to do their best, where the very well-
to-do or the one with modest income can be supplied with just
what they desire, and which I can personally guarantee will be
thoroughly satisfactory in rate and in comfort. The profession
throughout the East are thoroughly aroused to the interest and
importance of this meeting. New England may especially be de-
pended upon to send a good contingent of strong workers but
the same is true of the whole Atlantic coast, and Chicago
promises the largest delegation in years, while the West is to be
well represented, even from the Pacific coast.

We recognize the present time as one of crisis in the affairs of
men. In medical circles there is unrest, and there never was a
time when it was more necessary for our school to present a
strong unbroken front than today.

What Sulphur is Able to Do. 169

Brother, has Homoeopathy done anything for you and yours ?

Do you, as an honest man, believe in its efficiency as a great

law of nature ? Yes ? Then you owe service and sacrifice that

through your love for truth and your fellowman the truth may

be published afar and your fellowman blessed as you and yours

have been. " Set your house in order " and get ready to attend

the meeting at Atlantic City.

Fraternally,

Bent. F. Bailey.
Lincoln, Nebraska, March 17, 1899.

WHAT SULPHUR IS ABLE TO DO.

By Dr. A. Amberg, of Arnsberg.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from ' ' Willst Du Gesund
Werden."

Mary K., a child that was hereditarily encumbered of a scrof-
ulous and especially sycotic constitution, and therefore predis-
posed to taking cold and to diseases of the serous membranes,
especially of the windpipe and the intestines, also to soreness of
the nose, etc., had frequently been successfully treated by me in
consequence of severe and dangerous diseases. Diarrhoeas,
catarrhs of the bronchia, even up to pneumonia, had been suc-
cessfully encountered, though fatal consequences were at various
occasions imminent. In the epidemic of influenza in 1890 the
child, then about four years old, again fell ill with violent fever,
colic, cough, etc., while I myself lay ill of pneumonia. When
some remedies, dispensed according to the reports received
{Aconite 3 and Bellad. 3), had produced no improvement, and
her condition had rather become worse, I refused to assume the
responsibility of treating her any further on mere reports, and
was therefore compelled to hand the child over to the care of a
friendly allopathic colleague. I heard now and then that her
condition was unfavorable, that inflammation of the bowels had
set in and an unfavorable prognosis had been given. And when
after three weeks, myself still suffering, I called on the patient
by request I found the prognosis but too correct and her state
worse than I had anticipated; her skin was burning, the tem-
perature io4°-io6° Fahrenheit, the pulse 130 to 140, a quickened
respiration, great loss of flesh, an extreme loss of strength, the

170 Raking s Fro?n an Old Notebook.

abdomen distended and painful per se and when touched; I found
inflammation of the peritoneum, with an exudation, and at the
same time diarrhoeic discharges eight or ten times in twenty-
four hours. Her cough tormented her night and day, and an
examination of the lungs showed an inflammation of the upper
lobe on the right side, as also of the posterior part of the left
lung extending all the way up and down.

To combat the inflammation of the peritoneum and the bowels
I gave first of all Belladonna 3 and applied hot poultices (the
time for cold compresses, such as had previously been applied,
had passed), and when the inflammatory symptoms had thus
been moderated, while the diarrhoea continued, I chose Sulphur
30 to combat the remaining symptoms; this not only corre-
sponded to her constitution and the obstinate diarrhoea, which
had now become painful, but had also repeatedly proved itself
successful in my practice in resolving an obstinate pneumonia.
I had no choice in the matter; as if by magic, an improvement
in all directions quickly appeared; the diarrhoea was almost in-
stantly and permanently checked and regular stools took its
place, the exudation in the abdomen disappeared in five to six
days, the inflammation of the lungs commenced to be resolved,
and in somewhat less than eight days both the lungs were free,
excepting a slight dullness in the apex of the right lung, as ap-
peared from a physical examination. The fever also quickly
disappeared, the appetite, strength and spirits soon returned, so
that the patient could leave her bed in fourteen days.

RAKINGS FROM AN OLD NOTEBOOK AND ELSE-
WHERE.

In croup, remember Ammonium causticum; in epilepsy, Sola-
num Carolinense.

If the pulse in obstructive jaundice be as low as thirty per
minute do not consider it alarming.

If in the pregnant state the amount of urea is below 1.5 per
cent, treatment should be directed towards the organs of ex-
cretion.

Convallaria calms the nervous symptoms and palpitation in
cardiac irregularities. It is a cardinal remedy in exophthalmic
goitre.

Iris may correct sour vomiting with sour, lemon colored
diarrhoea.

Raking s From an Old Notebook, 171

Animals have hysteria, especially mares. Balkiness is a kind
of hysteria.

Alcoholic dementia is not a delirium, unlike that from other
diseases, fever for instance.

Irregular hearts from tea and coffee drinking and from smok-
ing may improve under Agaricus,

The body of a person who has died from jaundice readily de-
composes, even in cold weather. Rigor mortis rapidly disap-
pears.

The potash in the strawberry renders its juice a desirable
drink for the gouty and for strumous children.

Hot food is not well borne in gastric ulcer.

Euonymine is indicated in occipital " bilious headache."

For relaxed uvula use Collinsonia locally.

To determine the time of gestation count back three months
from last day of menstruation; then count forward a year and
seven days.

A woman who has had eclampsia should not nurse her
child.

Women with well marked cardiac lesions should not become
pregnant.

Do not leave a woman after labor when the pulse is over one
hundred.

For a hemophillia consider Calcium chloride.

An old wife's remedy for worms is grated carrot, raw, upon an
empty stomach.

For indolent ulcers, bed sores, etc., locally, balsam of Peru.

Pediculi and their ova may be destroyed by a single applica-
tion of sassafras oil.

Now they say Echinacea is " good " in flatulent dyspepsia.

Coughs with dryness of mucous membranes of respiratory tract
attending or coming after measles suggest Drosera.

Tobacco makes loafers of men, tea makes them gossipy and
coffee lethargic.

For constipation in nursing mothers, chew a teaspoonful of
flaxseed daily.

Onions, for neuralgia of stomach.

Picrate of zinc, for loss of sexual power, a power that is not
easy to restore.

The only natural fetal presentation is where head leads and
child is in universal flexion.

172 Notes.

The white of an egg, well beaten, with a teaspoonful of sac.
lac. and a little salt, has in many cases of cholera infantum been
the only food that could be tolerated.

Persistent vomiting in enterocolitis is a bad symptom, and
often means the supervention of cholera infantum and rapid
dissolution.

A case of gonorrhoea may be pronounced cured when there is
no discharge, no tripper fadden, no micro-organisms present, and
when there is neither stricture nor prostatitis present. — From
Medical Counselor.

In an article on " Sleep," Medical Counselor, February, by Dr.
J. Richey Horner, of the Cleveland Medical College, we find the
following anent Passiflora ;

"There is a remedy which has recently received a consider-
able amount of attention in this connection, and that is Passi-
flora incarnata — the passion flower. I have found it of use in
mental conditions where it has been impossible to have con-
tinuous medication, if we might coin such an expression. By
that I mean that the patient will be in such a condition men-
tally as not to be amenable to reason, but it is possible to per-
suade him to take one dose of medicine. In this case instead of
giving a narcotic I would give Passiflora, a dose of 30 to 60
drops, and almost invariably would have beneficial results in
the way of a restful sleep, without the sequelae which frequently
follow the administration of narcotics."

In the Indian Medical Record for May 1st, Assistant Surgeon
H. D. Pant, of Gonda, reports a case of poisoning with the
leaves of the oleander {Nerium odorum). A Mussulman coach-
man pounded seven leaves of the plant with water and sugar
candy, and drank the sherbet, having been advised by a quack
to take it as a diuretic for gonorrhoea. Severe vomiting set in,
with violent retching and slight pain in the stomach. The
pulse was extremely slow, only 36 to the minute, and feeble.
The man recovered in a day or two. The author likens the
action of Oleander on the heart to that of Digitalis, and suggests
the medicinal use of a mild tincture on account of its rapid
action and its sustained effect.

Notes. 173

The following are some symptoms of constipation which I
have added to Lippe's Repertory from various published records:

Constipation, no desire till there is large accumulation : Alum. ,
Melil. alb.

Stool has to be removed mechanically: Aloes, Calc, Sanicula,
Selen., Sepia, Silica.

Constipation, first efforts very painful, compelling to desist:
Sulph.

Stool lies in rectum, without urging: Lachesis.

No stool for five or six days; then copious loose stool: Coral-
Hum rub.

Rectum loaded; faeces will not come away: Arnica.

Hard lumps remain long in rectum: Silicea.

Constipation from twelve to fifteen days, followed by hard
round stools size of an olive: Asterias.

Constipation of old people: Alum., Lycop.

Painful stool in babies: Veratrum.

Constipation since puberty: Lycop.

Constipation since accouchement: Lycop.

Constipation in children, with nocturnal enuresis: Caust.

Constipation in corpulent, good-humored'women: Opium.

Constipation in women: Sepia.

Constipation immediately on going to sea: Bryonia.

Constipation amel. by drinking: Capsicum, Moschus.

Constipation amel. by milk: Iodine.

Constipation when away from home: Lycop.

Constipation when travelling: Platinum.

Constipation from riding in carriage: Ignatia.

Constipation after mechanical injuries: Ruta.

Constipation on voyage, or at seaside: Aqua marina. — E. W.
Berridge, M. D., in Journal of Homoeopathies.

The editor of Eclectic Medical Gleaner gives the following indi-
cations for Asclepias (tuberosa, pleurisy root) — we condense the
leading ones from Dr. Bloyer's paper:

" In the Asclepias case ' the skin is hot, but inclined to moist-
ure; the face is flushed and the pain is sharp.' * * *

In a very great number of the la grippe cases that came under
our care, Asclepias symptoms prevailed; it was given and recov-
ery followed quickly. The skin was hot, there was thoracic

174 Mullein Oil.

pain, sometimes pleuritic, or at times bronchial or pneumonic.
* * * Not every la grippe case got Asclepias, but every la grippe
case that got Asclepias when indicated was improved thereby.

Do not forget Asclepias at any time. It matters not what the
cause of the pleurisy, be it cold or bacterium, or the cause of
bronchitis, or of pneumonia, or of peritonitis, or of any other
named disease, when Asclepias symptoms present give Asclepias
and vou will not err."

Stevens, of Detroit, says:

" As to remedies — I must confess that during the past year I
have become somewhat empirical. After reading Burnett's book
on 'Organ Diseases of Women,' I have used with most grati-
fying results Fraxinus Americanus in three to five drop doses
three or four times a day in cases of displacement, particularly
where subinvolution or congestion exist. In unmarried women,
whom it is not desirable to treat locally, it often accomplishes a
cure. In the married woman it acts quite as efficaciously.

'iHelo?iias dioica is also a favorite prescription of mine in
ovarian difficulties. Alumina is often curative in co-existent
constipation where there is a relaxed perineum and a lack of
tone to the bowels, so that the expulsive force is diminished.

" I am not so empirical as to use only the three remedies I have
mentioned, for I do not endeavor to make a homoeopathic pre-
scription in all cases, but I mention these three remedies as
being frequently used, and the first one — Fraxinus — empirically.
— The American Homceopathist.

MULLEIN OIL.

Dr. O. S. Laws makes the following comments on Mullein
Oil in the March number of the California Medical Journal:

"In all cases of earache, and deafness of children, two or
three drops in the clean ear, twice a day, has given invariable
satisfaction. Grown people thus treated are always benefited,
even in catarrhal deafness. Hence I conclude that Prof. Foltz
has never used the genuine sun-distilled essence, as lie reports
negative results from the samples he has used. It has cured all
the cases of enuresis in which I have prescribed it, some of
which had resisted all the ordinary remedies."

Cases from Practice. 175

"Some papers quoted me as prescribing it in 15 drop doses,
when it was plainly written gtt. xv in six ounces of water, the
dose being one teaspoonful of the mixture three times a day. It
cured an aged minister, who had become a nuisance to society
and at home, on account of the constant dribbling of urine.
He had been treated for years without benefit, and this was the
first and only thing that I gave him. I lay no claim to hypnotic
or suggestive power, hence I attribute all these good results to
the medicine."

After describing how it is made, the sun-distilled essence, he
says: "You need not expect much more than an ounce, but in
my estimation it is worth its weight in gold."

CASES FROM PRACTICE.

By Wm. Berlin, M. D., in Liegnitz.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Willst du gesund

werden.

Angina Pectoris Cactus.
Mrs. J., of this place, a small, weakly and pale looking per-
son, consulted me in January, 1895, on account of a pai?i in the
cardiac region, recurring every day once or twice. The pain was
stinging and burning, combined with a sensation of compression
and constriction in the chest, so that she could not draw her
breath. At the same time she would be seized with a sensation
of entire debility and faintness, and such a sensation of anguish
that death seemed imminent. Her heart beat and raged terribly.
It was a so called cramp of the heart {Angina pectoris or Steno-
cardia) The attacks lasted every time a quarter to a half hour
for a whole year, and the pains radiated into the chest and
into the back, extending to the shoulders. Cramp of the
heart is sometimes found as a merely nervous ailment, i. e.,
with a heart else quite normal, as in anaemia, in nervous
debility, or owing to the excessive use of tobacco, etc.
In these cases, therefore, no organic disease of the heart
can be discovered on examination. We also see stenocardia
accompanying organic diseases of the heart, either of the muscle
of the heart itself or of the valves of the heart. In this
patient an examination disclosed an organic ailment of the valves
of the heart, doubtless the consequence of rheumatism of many

176 Cases from Practice.

years' standing. In consequence of this, the patient had also
for about a year and a half had constant short breath and palpi-
tation of the heart as soon as she had exercised much or would
undertake any hard work. While at rest she had no troubles
except the attacks mentioned above. I prescribed Cactus grandi-
f torus 2x, three times a day, five drops. In view of her
anaemia, I also prescribed as constitutional remedy Calcarea
phosphorica 3X, as much as wTould lie on the point of a pen-
knife, in the morning and evening. Cactus grandif torus I have
always found useful in cramps of the heart accompanying or-
ganic heart disease. Also in this case it acted very favorably,
as she had only one more slight attack next day and no attack
since then. Also her customary palpitations were somewhat re-
lieved, so that she was again enabled to do some work, and is at
present still able to do so. She does not feel her heart nearly so
much as she did before, is her way of putting it. At the same
time, of course, all exciting food and drink was forbidden, and
an easily digestible, but nutritious, diet, more of a vegetarian
nature, was also prescribed and in summer an abundance of
fresh vegetables. Hard work was forbidden. Calcarea phosphor .
was given twice a day for several months, and during this time
the woman kept improving, and also at this date she looks much
better than when first treated a year ago: this I had occasion to
notice about eight days ago, when called in to treat her for a
crick in the neck.

In the provings of Cactus grandiflorus (Night blooming
Cereus) we have a pretty accurate description of angina pectoris;
the provers experienced a sensation of violent constriction of
the chest as if a band enclosed it tightly, difficult respiration,
with great anguish and restlessness, violent shooting in the
cardiac region, palpitation, etc. The remedy, therefore, causes
morbid symptoms in the healthy body which closely resemble
angina pectoris, we might say an artificial angina pectoris.
Therefore, it is found so efficient in the natural angina pectoris.

A Case of Vertigo.

2. Precentor enter. Sch., living here, 73 years old, has been
suffering since February, 1893, from loss of appetite, eructation,
and a pressure above the stomach which appeared at times early
in the morning, but usually after every meal; attended with
constipation and piles, which had not, however, as yet gotten to

Cases from Practice. 177

bleeding. Of these troubles, which were of a slight nature, he
only complained when questioned by me. He really came on
account of other ailments. Especially troublesome and dis-
agreeable he found a constant sensation of dizziness, which often
was aggravated into a severe vertigo, so that he several times
came near falling down in the street. This vertigo was par-
ticular^ severe after drinking beer. He also complained much
of headache, usually a boring in the top of the vertex and a
constant heat on a spot as large as a silver dollar. x-Vn examina-
tion showed that the stomach was only slightly painful on press-
ure. He had been already treated by two of ray allopathic col-
leagues, but had seen no effect. I gave him, on November 14,
1893, Nux vom. 6x, five drops in the morning and at noon,
and Sulphur 6 in trituration, as much as would lie on the point
of a penknife, every evening. There was no doubt that the
vertigo and the headache were connected with the congestion of
blood to the abdomen, as the effect showed. For within three
days the patient was freed from his ailments, as he, himself, told
me later on.

Spigelia.

3. R. W., a printer, asked my advice, on October 9th, 1892, as
to a pain in the left side of his face, after having been treated
for several days by the doctors of the lodges to which he be-
longed; the ailment had already continued for half a year. It
was of a tearing nature, appearing chiefly in the afternoon and
at night, while in the forenoon it was quiescent or appeared but
rarely. The nerves of the forehead and the temple, of the orbit
and of the upper jaw were affected. Warmth, whether dry or
moist, always aggravated the pain. I prescribed Spigelia 3
dilution, five drops every two to three hours. On the 16th of
October the patient reported a considerable improvement and I
repeated Spigelia, and on the 21st of October he reported his per-
fect cure.

4. Miss M., of this place, an anaemic girl of 16 years, was
seized on a morning in January, 1893, with excessively violent
tearing and beating pains in both temples, about the eyes, es-
pecially on the left side, and in the bones of the upper jaw.
The patient was put to bed, and during the morning all sorts of
domestic remedies were applied. But toward noon the pains
threatened "to drive her crazy," so they hastily sent for me.
Touching and moving the face intensely aggravated the pain.

178 Cases from Practice.

The girl, at the same time, was very restless, and had palpita-
tions and angina pectoris. I gave Spigelia 4, five drops every
half hour, and, on the subsidence of the pain the same every
two hours. At my visit the next day I found the patient cheer-
fully at work and heard that the violent pain was relieved imme-
diately after taking the first dose and was entirely removed by
evening.

Hydrocele.

5. On the 14th of February, 1896, I was called to an infant of
four weeks, which for about a week had had a swollen testicle.
I found a hydrocele of the left testicle about the size of a large
walnut. Hydrocele means an exudation and gathering of a fluid
usually serous, between the tunic enclosing the testicle and the
testicle itself. In a normal state there are always found a few
drops of fluid there, and by a morbid increase in the quantity of
this fluid hydrocele is caused. It presupposes, of course, an in-
flammation of the serous membrane encompassing the testicle.
Iyittle is known as to the cause of this inflammation. Fre-
quently it may be caused by a contusion of the testicle during
birth, or later on in carrying or bathing, etc., the babe, or an
external inflammation or soreness of the scrotum, caused by a
decomposition of the perspiration or by other impurities, may
penetrate through the tender skin of the scrotum, pass into the
serous membrane encompassing the testicle and thus excite the
membrane to serous exudation. As usual, no cause could be
discovered in my little patient which might have produced the
inflammation. I ordered Arnica 3X, three pellets thrice a day,
and I had the whole scrotum enclosed in a wet compress of raw
cotton moistened with water at 720 Fahrenheit, to be changed
every three or four hours. The one put on in the evening re-
mained all night, and the whole was covered with flannel. In
bathing the babe the scrotum had a brief douche of cold water
59°-63° Fahrenheit, so as to favor an absorption in the diseased
parts. But to the sorrow of the parents and myself, on the 28th
of February, thus two weeks after beginning the treatment,
there had been no change. In consequence, at the advice of a
colleague from Breslau, I also applied Arnica in the form of the
homoeopathic green tincture externally, putting one tea-
spoonful of the tincture into a small cup of water and applying
compresses of this. From this time improvement set in. On
the 4th of March the testicle had visibly diminished in size, and

A House Epidemic of Syphilis. 179

on the nth it was only half as large. On the 19th the swelling
had totally disappeared and the testicle was again normal. The
internal application of Arnica was only grounded on the supposi-
tion of a former lesion and on previous experience. The disease
of the testicle had not had any influence on the general health
of the babe, for its appetite was all that could be desired and the
boy grew normally.

6. On the 20th of March another babe, also four weeks old,
came under my treatment for the same disease. It was a hy-
drocele of the right testicle, also of the size of a large walnut.
It had existed five days, and also here no cause for its origin
could be discovered. The treatment was the same as in the pre-
vious case, Arnica internally and also externally in a compress.
On the 25th of March the woman came to get medicine for her
husband, and told me that she could not feel any more inflam-
mation in the testicle of the baby. A very quick cure, indeed!

From these two cases we would conclude that the external
application of Arnica has a very specific influence on the ab-
sorption of the exudated fluid. I shall be sure not to omit in
future the compresses of Arnica.

A HOUSE EPIDEMIC OF SYPHILIS.

By William S. Gottheil, M. D.

Thanks to a better knowledge of the dangers and modes of
transmission of syphilis, and to superior modes of cleanliness,
epidemics of the disease are rare in America, yet they occur
among the lower classes of our population with greater fre-
quency than is generally supposed. In the New York Medical
Journal, of March 26th, the writer records one in which the dis-
ease was introduced into the family, according to the history, by
vaccination, and in which every member of the family of eight
was ultimately infected. The first case was a child of 2 years;
then the mother, aged 34; then two girls, aged 9 and 14, re-
spectively; then a boy of 4; then a girl of 7; then a nursling,
aged six months. The father escaped until the last: but late in
the spring he came to the clinic with a characteristic eruption,
alopecia, etc. The cases were all severe; there were several
irites; all had obstinate and some very extensive mucous patches;
and the two-year-old child had a syphilitic pneumonia. The
site of inoculation was discoverable in two cases only, probably

180 Paralysis Agitans.

on account of the lateness and irregularity with which the
patients were brought to the clinic. In the mother it was upon
the center of the cheek, and in one girl it was upon the eyelid.
The family was very poor, living in one room, and their habits
were very uncleanly.

PARALYSIS AGITANS.

From Pop. Zeit.

Nothing is known with respect to the causes of paralysis
agitans, which is not rare and always appears in more mature age
(after 40th year). It is not even known whether it springs from
the central organs of the nervous system, or if it is to be con-
sidered as a merely muscular ailment. Most every one has prob-
ably seen such patients, for they suffer from very striking
trembling motions of the arms and hands, at first on the right
side. These motions continue at all times to some degree, but
when moving or speaking, or when the patient gets excited,
they are aggravated. To this is added after a time a certain
rigidity of the muscular tissue which is especially manifest in
the muscles of the lower limbs, but is also found on the body
and even in the face, which thereby receives an expression of
rigidity. The head and the body are bent forward by this
rigidity, the arms close to the body and fleeted in the elbow-
joints, the thumbs generally turned in, the other fingers closed
on the palms. The motions of the body and of the legs thereby
become difficult. When such patients have succeeded in start-
ing to walk, with or without assistance, they frequently walk
forward quickly and are set off so that they cannot stop at their
option before they have reached some firm object or a wall; for
the center of gravity and with it the faculty of retaining their
equilibrium is shifted with such patients. But also in other
respects the life of such patients is a very troublesome one. They
cannot while lying in bed raise themselves by their own exer-
tion, although their merely muscular strength remains and they
can raise themselves if they can catch hold of a handle. Nor can
they in bed turn over from one side to the other, nor rise from
their seat without assistance, etc. All the other nervous func-
tions, however, usually remain normal. The course of such a
paralysis may run through many years; but death is not caused
by this disease, but through some other adventitious disease, or

Book Notices. 181

the patient has an accident because he is unable to help himself.

This paralysis agitans has been known from ancient times, but
it was not carefully described until the year 1817 by an English
physician. The whole of the older homoeopathic literature con-
tains nothing about it, and neither Kafka nor Baehr mentions it.
Homoeopathy has not, therefore, in this disease any support
from clinical experience, and, like those who are not Homoeo-
paths, we have to rely on experiments to give such patients at
least some alleviation, as by lukewarm baths of several hours'
duration, by massage, etc. Of internal remedies Erb speaks
highly of subcutaneous injections of a solution of Hyoscyamin,
the dose not to exceed one-half a milligramme. Others have
pointed to Arsenic in Fowler's solution, five drops three times a
day; Bromide of potassium, Ergotin, Curare, Physostigmine and
Sulphate of Duboisin, a remedy akin to Hyoscy amine, which is
akin to Bellado?i?ia or Atropin. More theoretically, i. e., basing
themselves on the experiments of their opponents, modern
homoeopaths recommend Arsenicum jodat., Arsenicum album,
Causticum, Zincum valerianicum, etc.

Prof. Erb lately recommends very earnestly Faradic bipolar
baths, as well as galvanization of the head and spinal marrow,
as also of the sympathicus of the neck, which sometimes entirely
checks the trembling. Moderately successful effects have also
been obtained from the so-called cooler indifferent thermal
springs (Wildbad, Schlangenbad, Ragaz, etc.). Erb, however,
considers ffyoscyami?ie hydrobromicum in small doses, not more
than -fQ to yq of a milligramme, to be best. He claims to have
seen relief from these minimal doses; he has seen it used for
3'ears, once or twice a day, without ill effects. R.

BOOK NOTICES.

A Practice of Medicine. By H. R. Arndt, M. D. 1331 pages.

8vo. Half Morocco, S8.00; by mail, $8.53. Philadelphia:

Boericke & Tafel. 1899.

A short title, but full of meaning — a new, thoroughly modern
and able wrork on the practice of medicine by a thorough homoe-
opathic physician, and yet, withal, not a bigoted one. Dr. Arndt
has been working on this book for a long time, but the results
justify the labor, and the volume will, doubtless, for years to

1 82 Book Notices.

come be the accepted practice in homoeopathic circles. Some
vexatious delays were encountered in running the book through
the press, owing to the long distance that separated publishers
and author, but now that the book is finished all these minor
annoyances will sink into oblivion in the presence of this
scholarly, and also handsomely printed and bound volume.
From cover to cover there is nothing that could be omitted with-
out distinct loss, and yet there is no practice published that con-
tains less verbiage. The tendency of the times is to have text-
books terse, to the point and packed into as small a compass as
possible and this Dr. Arndt has accomplished — a complete prac-
tice in one volume. If any reader wants the latest and best he
will not go astray in buying this volume.

The Pathology and Treatment of Sexual Impotence. By
Victor G. Vecki, M. D. From the author's second German
edition; revised and re-written. 291 pages. Cloth, $2.00.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.

It seems to us that of the many books that have appeared on
this subject this one is the best in many respects. There is a
very peppery preface against the "old and young medical
fogies " and their " superannuated gods," but all should remem-
ber that it is only the successful author who receives the tributes
of abuse here resented and a successful man can afford to smile
at the assaults.

A Text-Book of Materia Medica and Therapeutics of Rare
Homoeopathic Remedies. By Oscar Hansen, M. D. 121
pages. Cloth. London: The Homoeopathic Publishing Com-
pany. 1899.
A small work giving the outline Of a number of drugs not

found in the current materia medicas. It is useful to one who

wants a general idea of these drugs.

Nervous and Mental Diseases. By Archibald Church, M. D.,
Professor of Clinical Neurology, etc., in the Northwestern
University Medical School (the Chicago Medical College), and
Frederick Peterson, M. D., Clinical Professor of Mental Dis-

Book Notices. 183

eases in the Woman's Medical College, New York, etc. With

305 illustrations. 843 pages. Cloth, $5.00. Half Morocco,

$6.00. Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders. 1899.

This is the latest (at writing) of Mr. Saunders' publications,

and is gotten up in the usual good style of all his works. The

title tells of the contents, and if any reader wants the latest old

school work on the subject this is by all means the one to get.

An Essay on the Nature and the Consequences of Refraction.
By F. C. Donders, M. D., late Professor of Physiology and
Ophthalmology in the University of 'Utrecht. Translated
under the supervision of the Krichbaum School of Languages
and Bureau of Translation, Philadelphia. Edited and revised
by Charles A. Oliver, A. M., M. D., University of Pennsyl-
vania. With portrait and illustrations. 81 pages. Half
leather, $1.25. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. Philadelphia.
1899.
A learned work that can be studied with profit by all who are

interested in the treatment of defective eyesight.

Dr. Frank Kraft makes the following comments on Dr.
Lutze's Sciatica:

And that which pleases every good homoeopath is that it is homoeopathic.
It pays a deserved credit to Timothy Field Allen in relation to a Phos.
symptom. It has a comprehensive repertory, so that a symptom may be
quickly run down and traced to its lair — the totality remedy — for, of course,
Lutze does not recommend prescribing for neuralgia or sciatica per se.
He is careful to say and show that the true homoeopath prescribes on the
whole case, and that the neuralgia is but a symptom — perhaps a very large
and ever-present one — but, notwithstanding, only one symptom in the case.
The book takes its place with our other first-class homoeopathic text-books,
and we recommend our readers to invest in it, and then, having so invested,
understand and apply its teachings.

Writing of Nash's Leaders the Medical Gleaner says: ' ' While
the book will be helpful to all, it strikes me that it will be of
peculiar service to those physicians who are graduates of other
schools, but who wish to test Homoeopathy. There is nothing
about the work to be adversely criticised, while there is much,
very much, about it to be commended. It won't hurt any physi-
cian to own and study the work."

184 Book Notices.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics. By E. B. Nash,

M. D.

A short title and a meagre title-page. No long, list of initials,
nor long array of the many societies to which the author be-
longs. Just a statement of the topic, and the man's name.
There must be something inside the tent when there is so little
on the fences. A.nd there is. Dr. Nash has struck a new lead
in the homoeopathic mine. And he is panning out good yellow
metal. Here is another instance of a worthy book, which is not
a rehash of old ideas dressed in more modern garb. Dr. Nash
takes the different well-proven remedies of our materia medica
and discusses them with his reader, just as our preceptor used to
TEIX us what the remedy under discussion was good for, and
where it failed, or had in his hands failed, of meeting the ex-
pected and many-times promised result. He does not go into the
remedy with a searchlight to bring forth the minutest of symp-
toms; he does not touch a remedy to hold up all its virtues; he
does not go into the materia medica to hyper credit or discredit
it; but he takes out of each some prominent characteristic and —
just as the minister selects a text — from that as a base of sup-
plies he discusses the remedy. Incidentally he weaves in many
valuable clinical lessons. The book is, therefore, a novel and
praiseworthy attempt to talk the materia medica to his readers,
and get them away from that old bugaboo, that materia medica
is nothing but symptoms, and yet more symptoms. Truly this
is a Leader. Don't buy the book in the expectation that when
he talks of Bryonia he will give you all there is to Bryonia-,
but you may expect to be furnished with a key that will, per-
haps, unlock the remedy to you, or at any rate put it before you
in such different light that you will enter upon its study with
greater avidity and hope of successful mastery. Need we add
that we recommend the book because it comes the nearest to our
own idea of the teaching of materia medica that we have so far
seen. In closing, we want to say that during our college
days we had the pleasure of listening to a course of lectures by
Dr. Nash on fevers, which have always stuck by us since. As
we were but one of a large class who listened to Dr. Nash, he
has probably forgotten us after this lapse of time; but we have
not forgotten him. — Americaii Homoeopath.

Homoeopathic Recorder.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT LANCASTER, PA.,

By BOERICKE & TAFEL.

SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00, TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES $1.24 PER ANNUM
Address communications , books for review, exchanges, etc., for the editor, to

E. P. ANSHUTZ, P. O. Box 921, Philadelphia, Pa.

THE "INSOLUBLES" AGAIN.

Mr. Geo. R. Hennig, proprietor of the Medical Visitor, devotes
nine pages of that journal, March, to "The Doctrine of Insolu-
bles. " Viewed as a whole, the paper seems more like one by an
old school druggist than a homoeopathic pharmacist. He asks
the editor of the Recorder:

Is he aware of the fact that when Hahnemann announced the law of in-
solubles his entire materia medica did not contain a single chemical salt
that could be destroyed by attempting its solution in alcohol ? And yet
to-day a rigid application of his doctrine will make it include many chemi-
cal substances that can be wholly changed by attempting their solution in
alcohol.

Whether they are changed or not does not enter into the
question, if the provings w^ere made with them in that condition;
if the provings were made with a drug prepared in a given man-
ner, that is the mode the homoeopathic pharmacist should follow,
and must follow, if the physician is to succeed.

After stating the good character of the men who got up the
pharmacopoeia, to which Mr. Hennig is committed, he says:

If such men (having no axe to grind) declared the doctrine of theinsolu-
bles to be unsound, surely there must have been weighty reasons which im-
pelled them to such a decision.

Admirable faith, Mr. Hennig, but faith in men is but faith
after all. The men who built the new pharmacopoeia — we have
never impeached their honesty of purpose, only their ability as
homoeopathic pharmacists — adopted the plan of testing Homoe-
opathy and all its peculiar doctrines, like that of the solubility of
metals, for instance, by "modern science," and whenever there
was a conflict they threw the old overboard, as, par example, the
doctrine under discussion. They forgot that this same " science "
had been fighting Homoeopathy from its revelation down to the
day when they sided with it against Homoeopathy and its doc-

1 86 Editorial.

trines, in the declaration, "we are bound to ignore nothing
which modern science has revealed " (p. 41). They forget that
this same science is ever shifting and changing and, to its credit,
getting nearer to Hahnemann all the time. At the time they
wrote this book that science said metals are insoluble, conse-
quently the new pharmacopoeia said the same thing; it asserted
that the limit of divisibility of matter must be measured by
"molecules," and, so measured, the last molecule vanished
about the 12th potency; and the faithful committee said the
same, even in the face of the fact that the whole history of
Homoeopathy teems with records of the wonderful effects of the
remedies which the would-be official book condemns as inert.
It was the severest blow the cause ever received, this assertion
in its "official" pharmacopoeia at the command of "modern
science."

But behold the sequel. After the book was writ comes Carl
von Naegli proving that certain drugs are active in dilutions be-
fore which the 12th is gross.

Equally unfortunate is the book in its declaration of the " un-
soundness " of Hahnemann's doctrine of the solubility of metals.
We were conversing recently with a gentleman living in New
York who is studying chemistry; he has taken great interest in
the discussion on the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia, and especially
on this particular point. He put the question squarely to his
professor, one of the best informed in the city, and the reply was
that the concensus of opinion among the greatest chemists of the
world is that, to a greater or lesser degree, " all m dais are
soluble. ' '

And thus we see the new pharmacopoeia "out of date"
already, even on its own chosen ground. Its defender, our re-
spected friend, Mr. Hennig, says:

In order to adequately comprehend the problem in hand, it is really es-
sential for us to remember that exact chemistry was a thing unknown in
the days of Hahnemann.

It seems to have been equally unknown about the time the
new pharmacopoeia was written. When man departs from
mathematics he enters a realm where "exact science" is a
thing unknown, and especially when it comes to the action of
drugs on sick humanity. Hahnemann revealed to us a law
whereby, for nearly a century, the best results in the treatment
of the sick have been attained that ever the world saw, and it
would be sheer folly to cast aside this law and its attendant

Editorial. 187

doctrines because a pharmacopoeia committee elects to do so at
the behest of a "science" which reversed itself almost before
the ink was dry on the new book's pages.

Prove all things and hold fast to that which is true. The old
methods have been tried in the fire and found true. Hold fast
to them.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE NEW YORK HO-

MCEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE AND

HOSPITAL.

Alumni Day and A?inual Banquet of the Alumni Association of
the New York Homoeopathic Medical College. Thursday, May 4th,
is the date set for Alumni Day this year. Dr. Helmuth writes:
" A carefully prepared programme of the exercises is now being
arranged by the faculty, and additional care is to be extended
over all the named clinics in order that the day may be one of
instruction as well as of social reunion."

The annual meeting is the same evening at half past six at
Delmonico's, Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street. The ban-
quet follows, and promises to outdo the successes of previous
years, as an elaborate post- prandial programme has been ar-
ranged. The price of the dinner will be four dollars, and all
alumni and friends will be welcome. Send early for tickets to
Chas. Helfrich, M. D., 64 West Forty-ninth street, New York.

Edwin S. Munson,
Corresponding Secretary.

16 West 45th street, New York.

"AN EFFORT TO PREJUDICE!"

In a paper published in the March number of the New England
Medical Gazette the publisher says:

An effort is being made to prejudice the minds of physicians who use the
higher dilutions against the new pharmacopoeia, for the reason that it fails
to include rules for the preparation of dilutions from triturations of in-
soluble substances.

No effort has been made to prejudice any one in the matter.
The bald facts taken from the pharmacopoeia's own pages are all
that are needed.

It is hardly worth while going over the old road again in re-
ply to the paper above referred to but here is a new phase that
requires a little attention.

1 88 Editorial.

While it is true that in the past most, if not all, of the homoeopathic
profession have used dilutions made from insoluble metals, it can be safely
stated that to-day not more than fifteen per cent, of the homoeopathic
physicians of this country employ them. It should be taken into consid-
eration also that Hahnemann never contributed to our literature any work
in the nature of a pharmacopoeia. His directions for the preparation of
medicines were given to us in the form of hints and rules of action, and
are found scattered throughout his writings.

And what in the name of all the gods in the pantheon has
that to do with the matter? Is it a mere question of majority?
Is the fifteen per cent, wrong? The pharmacopoeia says they
are.

As for the second part of the above quotation, we would
respectfully ask the writer if he has ever read the Materia Me dica
Pura and the Chronic Diseases; if he has, how can he make such
a statement ? If he has not, would it not be well to do so before
making such an assertion as is found in the above quotation?

Our regular and respected exchanges, Medicine and the Fort
Wayne Medical Journal, have been discussing the half-tone
habit, and this, from the latter, is an epitome of the matter:

In a recent number of Medicine the editor advocates what he calls "a
pleasing custom, increasingly in vogue, of the printing of physicians'
photographs with the articles which they write." The argument made is
that the printing of an author's picture with his article familiarizes the
medical public with the faces of the more frequent contributors to medical
literature, and if the author be at all prepossessing in appearance produces
a favorable effect upon the mind of the reader.

While we agree with the editor of Medicine that there is a source of
gratification at the sight of one of our friend's pictures, we confess that it
would become extremely monotonous to have the face of many of the con-
tributors to current medical periodicals staring us in the face and remind-
ing us of the unintellectual countenances of the long-suffering women who
have been radically cured of some obscure female trouble by taking some
much lauded patent medicine, the results of which she believes it to be her
solemn duty to advertise to the suffering world, or the careworn features
of the section hand whose picture adorns a highly spiced testimonial for
Dr. Swindler's pile cure.

While we would appreciate seeing the pictures of the really eminent men
in the medical profession, and for want of a better acquaintance learn to
know them through these pictures as well their writings, we certainly
w7ould discourage any attempt at cheap rate notoriety such as is aimed at
by the universal publishing of authors' pictures in connection with their
writings.

Truly, we would all like to be familiar with the faces of the
" really eminent men in the medical profession," but who among
the mighty editors has the nerve to make up the list ?

Editorial. 189

The following is an extract from an editorial that appeared in
the N. Y. Medical Journal of February 25. It is rather striking-
reading in this age that is not entirely free from the fumes of
Sodom and Gomorrah:

Are women as (physically) passionate as men ?is a question often asked.
We have studied this question extensively, and we must answer " yes "
and " no." Women are ready, normal women we mean, to yield them-
selves wholly to the man they love, intuitively realizing as they do the
inner significance of the act. But when they at last sadly and sorrowfully
recognize the essentially sensual character of man's interest in it, even
when he is genuinely attached to his partner therein, that which should be
to them the cup of sweetness often becomes bitter as wormwood.

In the act of sexual congress the properly balanced human being seeks
such complete and perfect contact and union of his threefold nature with
his mate as, we say it with all due reverence and without offense, the de-
vout Christian of whatever denomination seeks intimate union for his
spiritual nature with the Great Fount of all Pure Spirit through sacramen-
tal communion. The act of sexual union, therefore, which is undertaken
solely for the production of a certain physical sensation is as impure and
lustful, whether the parties have acquired a legal right to perform it or
not, as an act of communion would be unholy in the Christian if done
from a desire to appease hunger with the material bread, or to gratify the
palate with the sensuuos flavor of the wine, no matter though the act were
done with all due observance of the rites and ceremonies prescribed by the
religious body to which the individual happened to belong.

The following concerning the Homoeopathic Hospital at Ann
Arbor, clipped from the Daily Argus, of that city, February 28th,
will be as pleasing to the homoeopathic physicians elsewhere as
it must be gratifying to the gentlemen immediately concerned.
Alter giving an abstract of the report by Dr. Maynard, the fol-
lowing comments are made:

"This all goes to show the necessity for an enlargement of
the homoeopathic hospital facilities. At the rate of increase
the hospital has experienced during the past three years, the
present building with its accommodations for fifty-five patients is
altogether inadequate for the accommodation of patients who
will seek relief. That the hospitals are crowded is the best
answer to those skeptics who in former years prophesied that
not enough clinic material for the students could be secured in
Ann Arbor. The present clinical practitioners' course is attended
by forty physicians and there are sixty patients in the hosital."

Our homoeopathic friends who are so enthusiastic over anti-
toxin and "serum" generally, even to the exclusion of the
sturdy old " indicated remedy," which yet has done better than

1 90 Editorial.

the best of the scientific preparations, ought to read a very calm
paper in the March nth number of the Medical Record, by Dr. J.
Edward Herman, under the title "The Other Side of the Anti-
toxin Question." The keynote of the paper is found in the fol-
lowing from the paper: " I claim that not one disease, including
diphtheria, has yet found a specific cure in serum treatment."
The paper concludes as follows:

The manufacture of antitoxin serum, closely examined, reveals some
surprising things. In man natural immunity is established by a process
in which the bacteria take some part, while the so-called antitoxin horse
serum used for immunization of man is elaborated in the animal by some
phenomena in which the microbes take no part; for the toxin injected into
horses is first freed from bacteria. This to my mind is already a different
thing. When to this fact is added the likewise very important considera-
tion that the horses are tested with tuberculin, injected with tetanus anti-
toxin, and further inoculated with the mallein of glanders, the confusion
becomes worse confounded, for surely these substances must produce some
constitutional changes in the animals which are transmitted to the serum.
But this is not all! Not until to some preparations of antitoxin an antisep-
tic has been added is the serum considered finished and ready for use.

When we know that many cases of diphtheria are complicated with other
throat infections against which the Kbebs-Loeffler antitoxin serum has no
effect, and the unestablished grounds on which the whole theory rests, it
should no longer seem strange that to-day many men will not use anti-
toxin, but rather surprise should be evinced that there still remain soms
who persist in using it on the insufficient evidence brought forward in its
favor.

A NEW CLUB.

Dr. A M. Cushing, of Springfield, Mass., entertained twenty
fellow-physicians at a dinner at Burr's restaurant on the evening
of March first, it being the forty third anniversary of his gradua-
tion from the Homoeopathic Medical College, of Philadelphia.
Dr. Cushing was called upon for speech, and during the re-
sponse said that one of his reasons in calling the physicians to-
gether was the formation of a society for the study of Materia
Medica. His suggestion met with hearty approval and a club
was organized to be known as the Allen Homoeopathic Materia
Medica Club, in appreciation of the work of Dr. Timothy Field
Allen, of New York.

Dr. A. M. Cushing was unanimously elected President and
Dr. Clarice J. Parsons. Secretary.

The first meeting of the club was held at the residence of Dr.
J. H. Carmichael, on Maple street, on Monday evening, March
6th.

Editorial. 191

The meetings will be held on the evening of the first Monday
of each month excepting July and August.

Clarice J. Parsons, Secy.

In the course of the description of a case of hcemorrhagic con-
genital syphilis appearing as a hemorrhagic vesicular eruption,
Dr. William S. Gottheil calls attention to the importance of
otherwise unexplainable bleedings in infants as symptoms of
congenital lues. They may be the only mark of the disease,
especially at first, but they are almost invariably accompanied
by a diminution of the coagulability of the blood similar to that
of hemophila, and the case usually goes on rapidly to a fatal
termination. Disease of the vascular walls is one of the com-,
monest and best known effects of the syphilitic poison, leading
to hemorrhagic discharges from the mouth, the bowels, the
bladder, or the nose; to blood accumulations under the skin and
mucosae, or in the serous cavities and internal organs, or, finally,
making the syphilitic eruption itself hemorrhagic. The author
emphasises the importance of remembering these facts in the
treatment of infants who have hemorrhagic discharges or a
hemorrhagic eruption, the cause of which is obscure.

The Pacific Medical Journal for March says:

Adults who are not inmates of idiotic or insane asylums, and who oppose
vaccination, should be herded together in a secure enclosure, have small-
pox introduced among them, and when it has run its course and marked its
victims the survivors might be restored to liberty. Many, indeed, might
escape the disease, for it is logical to suppose that one who is impervious to
the arguments and evidences in favor of vaccination would be competent to
resist the assault of even so malignant a foe as variola

That last clause is something new in medicine. How that
ancient question doth stir up the bile of good men !

Our respected down south exchange, the Georgia Eclectic
Medical Journal editorially states:

The doctor's called to see a man,

Who's lying on the bed;
He prescribes a dose of physic

And the man, he goes dead. b. l. S.

To what medical denomination did that unfortunate signer of
death certificates belong ?

PERSONAL.

Arndt's one volume Practice is out. It is a credit to the author.

The doctor advised Bill Nye to "abstain from pie in large quantities and
avoid night air. We hardly know what to suggest for you to use in place
of the night air, after dark, but you must not use night air."

A spelling reform journal always reminds one of the late lamented Josh
Billing.

Well, yes, when a widow marries she is repaired.

No, John Henry, " snoligaster " is not to be found in the Century, or any
other dictionary that we have examined. You have evidently performed
the almost impossible feat of coining a word.

At Athens, Ga., they are experimenting with putting the control of
liquor in the hands of the " Christian people of the community." Let us
hope they will sell good stuff only.

Whenever we read gossipy information concerning the manners and
customs of the prehistoric man, a vision of B. I. h. S. T. U. M. P. H. I: S.
M. A. R. K. arises.

The " better " for which the greater part of civilized man is "struggling "
is a better bank account; there are a few exception, just to prove the rule.

"The rushiug Niagara of evolutionary movement " is not bad.

Gov. Piugree has appointed Dr. D. A. MacLachlan a member of the State
Board of Health of Michigan. A good appointment.

Some one terms antitoxin a "holy hypothesis."

Fort Wayne Medical Journal charges "blood guiltiness" on those who
refuse to vaccinate.

J?OR SALE. Cheap. Reading Homoeopathic Pharmacy. Estab-
lished in 1876 by present owner. Must retire from
business on account of ill health. Address Dr. J. G. Grosscup, M. D., 8th
and Walnut Sts., Reading, Pa.

" The " (antitoxin) " future is full of hope " — of the rainbow chasing char-
acter.

Has any budding scientist ever tried horse serum, pure and simple, on a
human being?

Medical Gleaner Cooper aptly terms the Porcelain Painter's Son "a
beautiful pastel."

Dr. S. Ulrich has removed from Middletown to Elizabethtown, Pa.

"If antitoxin is the best thing yet discovered for diphtheria, why not use
it and rejoice?" Minn. Horn. Mag. Even so, if it so be, let the rejoicing
begin, with the timbrel, and glad voice, and syringe!

" Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty." — Montes-
quien.

The patient tentatively suggested a warmer climate, but the old doctor re-
plied he was doing his best to save him from that last resort.

The boldest tremble at the ague.

May not evolution, or time, or whatever does that sort of thing, bring
again the old all-around doctor as the specialist of specialists?

"Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its
parts."

The Medical Advance has not lost its edge.

The key-note of Palladium is " love of approbation."

Stop kicking at the Materia Medica until you have something better to
offer in its place.

Down at bed-rock " science " is that which each individual believes, while
"truth " is of God.

Get thee to Atlantic City !

THE

Homeopathic Recorder.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa, May, 1899. No. 5

NARCISSUS.

"Agricola," one of the Homoeopathic World '' 5 oldest contrib-
utors has the following to say of this very old, yet little known
remedy. After stating how he prepared it, he continues as fol-
lows:

" A case of bronchitis (a continuous cough) has from Narcissus
1-3X obtained such prompt marked relief, where a most varied
selection of the standard remedies had hitherto failed, as to in-
duce me to write these few lines in hope that as this beautiful
flower is about to be found in most cottage gardens the prevalent
bronchitis, whooping, and other coughs may meet with prompt
cures. Dr. Charge's work, Maladies de la Respiratio?i, quotes
the great Laennec, M. D., as an authority in re Narcissus."

There is no proving whatever of this drug, although in the
Encyclopoedia (Allen) a case of poisoning from the bulbs eaten
as a salad is given; but the remedy as prescribed by Agricola
was prepared from the young buds, stems and leaves, so the case
in the Encyclopoedia is not apropos, nor is the old tincture of use.

The name of the plant, Narcissus, is not from that of the
fabled youth who fell in love with his own image reflected in
the water, but is from the Greek Narkao, "to be numb," on
account of the narcotic properties of the drug. The classic
Asphodel and the Narcissus are the same, from which it may
be seen that the plant dates back as far as man's records go.
Fernie, in his excellent Herbal Simples, from which we gather the
preceding, also says: "An extract of the bulbs applied to open
wounds has produced staggering numbness of the whole nervous
system and paralysis of the heart. Socrates called this plant
the ' Chaplet of the Infernal Gods,' because of its narcotic
effects."

Fernie also says that a decoction of the dried flowers is emetic,
and when sweetened will, as an emetic, serve most usefully

194 Bovine Tuberculosis.

for relieving the congestive bronchial catarrh of children.
<: Agricola's" experience, quoted above, however, seems to dis-
prove the notion that the beneficial action in bronchial catarrh
is the result of the emetic properties of the drug, but demon-
strates rather that it is peculiarly homoeopathic to this malady
and long continued coughs, especially of nervous origin, as may
be inferred from the following, the concluding paragraph in
Fernie's section on the Narcissus:

"The medicinal influence of the Daffodil on the nervous
system has led to giving its flowers and its bulb for hysterical
affections, and even epilepsy, with benefit."

The National Dispensatory says practically the same, i. e.;
"The emetic action of Narcissus has been used to break up
intermittent fever and relieve bronchial catarrh with congestion
or obstruction of the air tubes. Like Ipecacuanha, it has also
been prescribed in dysentery, especially of the epidemic form.
Its influence upon the nervous system is attested by the vogue
it has enjoyed in hysteria, chorea, whooping cough and even
epilepsy."

It is still the emetic action that is looked to here, but any
good homoeopath will see beyond that, in Agricola's experience,
and perceive a strong homoeopathic action in the drug to the
conditions named, for if it were the emetic action only that is
efficacious then, certainly, one emetic would do as well as an-
other, but there is something more, and the curative action can
be obtained from homoeopathic doses without the emetic action.
The tincture should not be prepared from the bulb, as has been
the case in the past, but from the fresh buds and leaves. From
such a preparation considerable benefit in obstinate bronchial
coughs should be confidently expected.

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS AND CONDITIONS
MISTAKEN FOR THE DISEASE.

By Dr. Wilbur J. Murphy, New York City.

The subject of bovine tuberculosis has received a great deal
of attention from physicians and veterinarians alike for many
years, and of the many animal ills it is probably the one most
frequently discussed, yet the least understood.

Because of the prevalence of tuberculosis in meat producing
animals and the possibility of transmission from animal to man,

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the disease should be most carefully studied and investigated.
Proper precautions should be exercised to prevent its spread,
and various sanitary measures adopted which should aim to free
the bovine tribe from the terrible scourge with which it has so
long been afflicted.

No doubt the cow and her diseases are closely allied to many
human ills, and facts tend to prove that the disease tuberculosis
in man and animals is identical.

In the human subject the disease is not at all times readily
diagnosed, and frequently other conditions with apparently
similar manifestations are mistaken for tuberculosis. The same
is true with the disease and its diagnosis in animals. At times
its existence in the live animal is very questionable, and con-
clusions hastily drawn often lack verification upon a subsequent
post mortem examination. I have seen it generalized in the
young steer, where its presence was never suspected and was
seemingly in perfect health. I have seen it in the blooded bull,
where the tubercular matter had permeated every tissue and
organ of the body, yet by no manifestation was the disease re-
vealed until the animal was butchered for food.

Thus it is evident that tuberculosis can exist without its
presence being known. On the other hand, I have seen very
many small, emaciated, worn out cows, weak, decrepid, ill-fed,
with a painful, hacking cough, hardly able to walk, pictures of
bovine misery and distress, seeming typical cases of tuberculosis
from all appearances, prove upon slaughter and examination to
be entirely free from the disease, the lungs sound, the lymphatic
glandular system normal or possibly unlooked for conditions
met which would account for the animal's decrepid state. If
these had been but occasional instances I would have thought
that perhaps a greater experience and a closer observation would
disprove views superficially apparent, but such has not been the
case.

Let us consider the disease tuberculosis in the cow. It is not
a malady readily manifest like pleuro-pneumonia. It lacks
the prominent lesions of actinomycosis. It is void the acute
symptomatology of splenic apoplexy or anthrax. The signs
which denote the presence of an acute disorder are absent. It
does not run a rapid course through various stages, but is a dis-
ease slow in character, with symptoms irregular and often ill de-
fined. Sometimes the presence of all the symptoms in promi-
nent form seem to make the diagnosis simple, yet a post-mortem

1 96 Bovine Tuberculosis.

examination reveals no trace of the disease. Tuberculosis is not
responsible for the decrepid state of every cow. Other causes —
not always disease — are often responsible for the cow's decline.

Naturally appears the question, what conditions and what
diseases are mistaken for those of tuberculosis ? There are a
number of them. Some are of frequent occurrence, others are
met occasionally. Some present lesions resembling those of the
disease with which they are confounded, and some present very
little similarity when carefully considered.

Foreign bodies taken in with the food are responsible for a
great deal of bovine distress — far more than one might imagine
— and are a very prominent cause of lesions often mistaken for
those of tuberculosis while the animal is alive. We have simi-
lar emaciation, a hacking cough, general unthriftiness. Many
of the obscure diseases of the cow, her frequent indispositions,
her occasional cough, her loss of appetite and her different an-
noying and perplexing actions arise from the presence of foreign
bodies in the stomach and the distress which their presence
sometimes occasion. In the stomach of the cow can almost al-
ways be found nails, pieces of barb wire, various extraneous ob-
jects. I should say that at least seventy-five per cent, of the
cows used upon the farm or in the dairy are so affected. Some
experience no ill effects from their presence, while others are
sickened and emaciated by the inflammatory action which the
irritating substance causes as it becomes lodged in the coats of
the stomach or works its way through that organ into other
tissues.

One time I selected a thin, worn-out cow, presenting all the
external manifestations of tuberculosis as a case illustrative of
the ravages of this disease. Upon a post mortem examination
the lungs were sound and perfect, but a large tablefork protrud-
ing through the coats of the stomach and surrounded by a large
field of inflammatory exudates readily accounted for the animal's
wasted appearance.

Catarrhal pneumonia in cattle often leaves lesions in the lungs
which have been mistaken for and accepted as evidence of the
existence of tuberculosis, although the two conditions are en-
tirely different. Where the disease has been of a severe type
we may find a portion of the lung destroyed and in its place an
abscess of varying size, encapsulated and presenting a varied
degree of consistency, according to its age. Beyond its mere
presence it exerts no ill effect upon the animal and remains at

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all times different from the deposits of the disease with which it
is confounded.

The deposits of actinomycosis in the lungs of cows cannot be
distinguished from the deposits of tuberculosis by the unaided
eye.

Throughout the west a large number of emaciated steers are
bought and shipped to distilleries in Pennsylvania and other
States to be fed, or, more properly speaking, stuffed with the
refuse from these concerns. Within a month they undergo a
wonderful transformation. They rapidly take on flesh and are
then shipped to abattoirs throughout the country. While they
may appear to good advantage they in no way equal the corn or
grain fed animal as an article of food. In the short space of one
month this distillery food has greatly impaired the animal's
sight and many of them are totally blind. If they remained
long enough they would all be similarly affected. The lymphatic
glands at the base of the tongue are enlarged from twice to four
times their natural size and are generally the seat of an abscess,
which, from its size alone, must materially interfere with the ani-
mal's deglutition. No doubt the glandular system throughout
the system has been similarly affected. If these animals were
kept long enough under such conditions and forced to partake of
this food for a sufficient time, say, three or four months, I have
no doubt that the lungs, the liver, the various internal organs
would become affected in the same way that had the hide, the
eyes and the glands at the base of the tongue, while a condi-
tion due entirely to the nature of the food which the animal re-
ceived would in all probability be mistaken for lesions of tuber-
culosis.

Evident is it that bovine tuberculosis is a disease that is fre-
quently confounded with ills and conditions of perhaps ap-
parently similar manifestations, but to suffer the condemnation
of such animals as victims of plagues with which they do not
suffer is an injustice to the farmer, a wrong to the stock raiser,
the propagation of a groundless fear to the mother, an imposi-
tion upon the public, an unfortunate blight upon our herds and
an opportunity for foreign nations, who are jealous of our
progress and our commercial activity, to discriminate unjustly
against American cattle, American dairy interests, our cows, our
meats and the various food products prepared from our meats.

There is a disease tuberculosis. It frequently exists in cows.
Sometimes it is local, and often it is generalized in form and is a

1 98 Bovine Tuberculosis.

malady that should be carefully watched to prevent its ravages
extending beyond the limits of an animal plague and exerting
its deteriorating influence upon the health of the human family.
It is an unfortunate fact that nearly all the measures employed
to eradicate tuberculosis neither aim to exterminate it when it
exists nor prevent its appearance when it does not exist.

It is not suprising that with an ill so deceiving, with a malady
so frequently the topic of conversation, various devices should
be employed to assist in the determination of its presence in a
suspected animal. We live in an age where wonderful "dis-
coveries" from the fertile brains of "scientific explorers" are
thrust upon us in rapid succession only to be accepted for a time,
heralded as marvelous truths, tried, doubted, cast aside and aban-
doned. In my short life I have passed through an era of vaccine,
mallein, antitoxin, pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculin, and we see
them all travel the one path from spontaneous adoration
through a varied career to a well deserved obscurity. They are
generally born a proprietory article or the result of a secret pro-
cess of preparation. They bloom for awhile and then fade away,
and with them go their victims, their advocates and the con-
demnation of a fickle world.

A few words about tuberculin. Its use has attracted consider-
able attention. At first it was offered as a valuable remedial
agent for the cure of tuberculosis, but being unable to sustain
that reputation it has since posed as a means of ascertaining
the existence of tuberculosis in an animal when nothing else
suggests the possibility of its presence.

Perhaps I am not in a position to criticise the action of tuber-
culin, or to comment upon its efficacy as a diagnostic agent. I
admit that I have had no practical experience with its use. I
never injected it into an animal to verify a suspicion of tuber-
culosis, principally because I reside in a large city and as yet
the opportunity has not presented itself for me to do so. Neither
do I wish to prejudice any one against its use. Some time ago
the use of mallein was strongly recommended as a useful aid in
the diagnosis of glanders in horses. I tried it in a number of
instances and the results wTere entirely disappointing. In
several pronounced cases of glanders with apparent manifesta-
tions the test gave no reaction, and so far as I am concerned its
employment is not only unavailing but useless and dangerous.

Let us return to the subject of tuberculin. From time to time
there have been brought to an abattoir within my jurisdiction a

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number of cows which had been subjected to the tuberculin test
and according to its provings, were affected with tuberculosis.

In all the number that were slaughtered at different times I
have seen but few cases of generalized tuberculosis among '.hem
and I am inclined to think that possibly they were obtained more
by accident than by operation of the test. From what I could
learn, the ones most affected gave the slighest reactions under
the test. Many of the cows in which what might have been
tuberculosis, but probably was not, was discovered only after the
most diligent search. They were in the form of isolated,
minute pin head deposits in various glands and in the structure
of the liver and were accepted as responsible for the provings of
the test. One thing is certain: If what is often accepted as
evidence of tuberculosis by the tuberculin operator is really
tuberculosis, then the entire bovine tribe, both young and old,
are hopelessly afflicted with this disease — hardly a reasonable
supposition.

Among them were cows in which the most diligent and careful
scrutiny failed to discover the least sign of disease, and I learned
that in some of these animals the rise in temperature had been
most pronounced.

While my observations in regard to the efficacy of tuberculin
have been entirely negative, I do not doubt that it has many
advocates, and many' of them have advised me that I have been
unfortunate in witnessing the work of careless or uncompetent
operators — hardly an acceptable explanation. To me the sub-
ject of tuberculin has been a most interesting study, and a study
of those who advise its use has often been a more interesting
one. One of the most remarkable truths connected with the
subject seems to be the fact that a negative reaction w7ith the
test is not demonstrative of a freedom from tuberculosis. An
animal may be a victim of generalized tuberculosis and yet the
test not reveal its presence — a tuberculin idiosyncrasy. Time
alone will decide the fate of tuberculin. It has banished into
obscurity many popular delusions which have from time to time
become associated with the medical creed, and I fear that when
posterity reads the history of medicine it will find that in a
certain age there flourished an idea quaint, queer, but unstable,
that certain animal diseases could be diagnosed by certain animal
poisons being injected into their delicate composition, but with
the advance of the light of truth this idea, fantastic and amus-

200 Bovine Tuberculosis.

ing, fell by the wayside and was lost sight of in the onward
march of the science of medicine.

Xo one wishes to partake of meat from animals diseased or
sick. The health of the nation is at stake, and in no way can
the disease-breeding material gain an easier entrance into the
system than to be taken in with the food. But every cow is not
afflicted with tuberculosis. While it is a frequent bovine ill it
is not a necessary complement to their composition.

Of all the domestic animals the cow is probably the least
understood. Veterinarians do not devote to her the attention
that her importance demands. The animal most vitally inter-
ested with human existence is left to the care of those who
understand almost nothing of her ways or wants. She is kept
in filth, is fed with filth, and her very surroundings breed the
disease we try in vain to cure.

How will we eradicate tuberculosis? It is a subject that in-
terests not only the veterinarian, but the physician, the farmer,
the universe.

We will answer the question by saying how the disease will
not be exterminated. It will not disappear as long as the dirty,
filthy cow shed remains. It can be bred into animals by the
manner of their surroundings. The cow requires good air,
light and ventilation in place of the dark, stuffy pest holes where
she is usually confined. She must have competent attendants
instead of the brutal, worthless, repulsive degenerates usually
entrusted with her care. She must receive good, wholesome food
in place of refuse. She must be cleaned, exercised and manipu-
lated with the care and delicacy which her complex mechanism
demands and should receive. When the cow is properly kept
tuberculosis will disappear. When we thoroughly understand
her ways and necessities, instead of injecting into her system
products of disease — a notion whimsical, irrational and dan-
gerous— we will have learned that this disease is an ill for which
man's ignorance and mismanagement is largely responsible.
By the proper observation of ordinary sanitary measures this
disease can be largely overcome, if not entirely eradicated. A
subject fraught with such dangerous possibilities requires the
employment of measures not only heroic, but persistent and ef-
fective, if we wish to aroid a possible eradication of the bovine
tribe and destroy a potent factor which might operate disas-
trously in the ultimate degeneration of the human race.

Phthisis Pulmonalis. 20 1

PHTHISIS PULMONALIS— TUBERCULINUM.
By J. Arthur Clement, M. D.

Is there a specific for phthisis pulmonalis ? This is a question
that has been agitated and worked upon in the medical profession
as much, if not more, than has the subject of perpetual motion
in the mechanical world.

When we read the list of fatal cases of phthisis as found in
board of health reports, we are almost appalled at the vast num-
ber who succumb to the disorder annually and at the fact that
the number is increasing year by year in every part of the United
States.

From time to time some one offers a supposed acre. Usually the
cure (?) is tested and its fame lasts but for a day. Doubtless there
is no greater field open to quack physicians and medical enthusi-
asts than the treatment of this disease.

I have not the temerity to attempt to answer the question of
the curability of consumption, but perhaps a few notes from my
case book may be of some little service to my homoeopathic
brethren and set them to thinking.

When a case of suspected phthisis presents itself for treat-
ment I divide the examination of the subject into four divisions:

1. History.

2. Subjective symptoms.

3. Physical examination.

4. Microscopical examination of sputum.

History of the case, as far as ancestry is concerned, must be
taken " cum grano salis." If our patient tells us that a parent or
grandparent has passed to the eternal life along the consumptive
route we are very apt to be biased in our diagnosis. In the sec-
ond division we must be cautious, as the typical consumptive is
always improving, in their estimation. In the third class I must
confess that I have seen so many errors of diagnosis made by
eminent men of both schools that I am very chary of basing my
opinion on that alone. As for the fourth division, or bacterio-
logical tests, I always feel that I can rely upon them.

I hope I am not classed with the enthusiasts, and I do not be-
lieve that in every case a return to normal can be brought about
by the use of tuberculinum; but I would like to report a few
cases in which the preparation was used with good success.

202 Phthisis Pulmonalis.

Right here I might state that in these cases, in connection
with the use of tuberculinum, I always prescribe the properly
indicated homoeopathic remedy, insisted upon a good, nutritious
diet and, as far as was possible, environed the patient with the
very best hygienic surroundings.

Cask I. October, '97. Miss Edith B . Age, 22. Father,

brother and two sisters died from consumption. For about six
months had been anaemic; severe bronchial cough with profuse,
yellowish expectoration and cough much worse at night; hoarse-
ness; considerable loss of flesh; hectic; night sweats; physical
examination showed considerable bronchophony ; cavernous rales.
Sample of sputum sent to a bacteriological laboratory was re-
ported on as follows: "The examination of sputum received
shows the presence of the tubercle bacilli."

Diagnosis — Phthisis pulmonalis.

Treatment — A dose of tuberculinum, 200 (B. & T.), every
6th night, until three doses had been taken; then a dose every
10th night, until three more had been used; then one dose a
month for three months.

Result — A perfect restoration to health as far as subjective
symptoms can show and an entire absence of the tubercle bacilli
from sputum after repeated examinations.

Case. II. December, '97. Mr. W. T. N . Age, 35. His

grandfather died from consumption and father from, what his
physicians termed, chronic pneumonia. About a year previous
to his presenting himself to me he had an attack of acute pneu-
monia, rather prolonged.

Subjective symptoms were a severe cough with tough, ropy
expectoration; haemorrhages, often profuse; emaciation; dyspnoea;
anorexia; night sweats; least exertion tired him; severe stitch-
ing pains between scapulae; considerable fever in afternoon and
evening, ranging from 1010 to 1030 F., gradually reaching normal
by midnight; physical examination showed increased dullness
on percussion, vocal resonance, gurgling and mucous rales.
Microscopical examination of sputum on three different occasions
showed the presence of the tubercle bacilli.

Diagnosis — Phthisis pulmonalis.

Treatment — Tuberculinum, 100, every third night for two
weeks; then one does a week for one month; and. finally, one
dose of the 200 every three weeks for six months.

Result — Recovery.

Case III. December, '98. Mrs. Jennie H . Age, 70. Came

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from a family of consumptives. When called to see her found
a case of pneumonia, the acute symptoms of which yielded in
three weeks to homoeopathic medication. But instead of recovery
the patient appeared to be developing rapid consumption. An
examination of sputum was at once resorted to and confirmed
the diagnosis, the tubercle bacilli being found present. Tubercu-
linum, 100, was given every third night, until three doses had
been taken; then a dose every tenth night, and at present writ-
ing one dose each month. The patient is now in seeming health
and complains of no symptoms whatever.

These three cases have been selected from several as being
typical ones. I have used tuberculinum when I am morally
certain it cured; I have used it when I am sure it prolonged life;
and I have used it when I knew it failed to do either.

I have never used it without first having an examination of
sputum made and the presence of the tubercle bacilli proven,
and I never fail to use it when I know the bacilli are proven to
be there. From what I have learned from its use, it seems that
tuberculinum will cure a certain percentage of cases. I do not
attempt to deny that homoeopathic remedies and hygienic meas-
ures, singly or combined, do much, but I must honestly admit
that I believe tuberculinum to be indicated in all cases of
tuberculosis, and that the triumvirate, Homoeopathy, hygiene
and tuberculinum, can cure many cases of consumption.

Baltimore, Md.

LYCOPODIUM.

By E. R. Mclntyer, B. S., M. D., Professor of Mental and

Nervous Diseases in the National Medical College

and Hospital, of Chicago.

Lycopodium is one of the most useful drugs in the Materia
Medica, as well as the mqst interesting. It is especially inter-
esting to the Homoeopath from the standpoint of pathology, be-
cause our allopathic friends tell us it is incapable of producing
and pathological changes. They say " It is a fine powder, pale,
yellowish, very mobile, inordorous, burning quickly when thrown
into a flame. Under the microscope the granules are seen to be
four-sided, reticulated with short projections on the edges. It
contains 47 per cent, of fixed oil (Fliickinger), and has no
other important constituted. It is only used as a non adhesive

204 Lycopodium.

powder for the protection of moist pills from sticking together,
and for dusting upon excoriated places to protect the surface and
to prevent chafing; its action in both cases is wholly me-
chanical."

The above is quoted verbatim ad literatum from W. P. Bolles,
and would seem to indicate absent-mindedness regarding gram-
matical construction and punctuation at least. However, this
may be excused on the grounds of extreme concentration in the
herculean task of preparing such a learned diatribe of a drug of
which he is in such profound ignorance. However, he makes
one observation that should not be overlooked, the " forty- seven
per cent, of fixed oil." It is true that the drug is inert until
this fixed oil is liberated by trituration. But in the higher
potencies it is capable of producing very important changes in
the human economy which are worthy of our consideration

Probably the most constant objective symptom of Lycopodium
is "red sand in the urine." It is present in most cases where
the drug is indicated, and has appeared at some stage of nearly
every proving that has ever been made of it. This is the excess
of lithic acid thrown off by the kidneys, as everybody knows;
but few have stopped to consider its true cause. According to
Dr. Murchison, lithic acid is the product of albumen that has
not been converted into urea because of imperfect oxidation.
He says: "When oxidation is imperfectly performed in the
liver there is a production of insoluble lithic acid and lithates
instead of urea, which is the soluble product from the last stage
of oxidation of nitrogenous matter." But here he stops; nor
others, either allopathic or homoeopathic, give us further light
as to the cause of this lack of oxidation. We are told that it
may result from any external conditions causing a lack of oxy-
gen inhaled, or from lack of power of respiration, etc. But this
is not true in a case caused by Lycopodium. There is but one
way, so far as I know, for oxygen to reach the liver, that is, in
the blood. But there can be several conditions that may inter-
fere with the circulation or the qua.ity of the blood as an oxygen
carrier. Then lack of oxidation in the liver means some dis-
turbance of the circulating fluid in that organ.

We know that Mercury and Arsenic cause like conditions,
differing from Lycopodium and Sulphur, in that Mercury destroys
the fibrin of the blood and Arsenic destroys both the fibrin and
the red corpuscles, while Sulphur and Lycopodium cause passive
venous stasis owing to their action on the nerve supply of the

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veins. Other symptoms of Lycopodium may assist us to a solu-
tion of the circulatory changes under that drug, viz., "Cirrhosis
of the liver, region of the liver, sensitive to contact, chronic
hepatic congestion where the liver is very tender to presssure."
But these symptoms symply point to congestion, but render no
assistance in solving the character of the congestion. When we
consider the lithic acid as indicating a deficient oxidation of al-
buminous matter, while Arsenic causes deficient oxydation of
carbonaceus matter, resulting in deposits of fat, owing to its de-
structive action on the red corpuscles, we must conclude that
the congestion of Lycopodium is on the venous side, like Sul-
phur, but differing from the latter in that the primary action is
not paretic but irritating to the venous capillary vaso-constrictors,
since, if we had arterial congestion with the blood intact, as it is
under Lycopodium, there would be an abundance of oxygen carried
to the liver. The venous stasis is also shown by the " Bleeding
piles and constipation; stools hard and dry." These symptoms
all point to passive hepatic engorgement from constriction of the
hepatic veins, with consequent reduction in the functions of the
liver-cells, as shown by their inability to appropriate the oxygen
in the blood; the final result being the same whether we have
constriction of the venous capillaries or their total paralysis,
which permits them to dilate to such an extent as to produce
cessation of the current through them.

As a constant accompaniment of the insoluble lithic acid in
the blood we have ''Sour eructations; accumulations of gas in
the stomach and bowels, with much rumbling." This is doubtless
due to fermentation resulting, from the neutralizing effect of the
lithic acid on the bile and other alkaline digestive secretions,
and its power to change the intestional mucous and gastric
seccretions. It is reasonable to believe that the drug has a
direct action on the sympathetic fibres concerned in the process of
digestion, especially the vaso-motors. This is confirmed by the
''Constipation with hard, dry stools; abdominal plethora," etc.
As a result of the lithaemia, we would expect some form of rheu-
matism, and we are not disappointed, for Lycopodium produces
"Chronic rheumatism with painful rigidity of the muscles
and joints; rheumatism of finger joints, or about instep and
ankle; drawing and tearing in limbs at night; oppression of
chest, palpitation," etc. In connection with the palpitation we
get "pulsating tearing in cardiac region; dilated heart, with
sensation as if circulation, stood still," etc. These cardiac

2 06 Ly 'copodiu m .

symptoms point to the so called metastasis of rheumatism to
the heart. However, most of the cardiac symptoms point to
nervous disturbances or lesions external to the heart. There is
little or no evidence of endo-carditis, or its sequelae, except the
"dilatation." The "palpitation" seems to be "only after eat-
ing or late in the afternoon." This " palpitation only after eat-
ing " would indicate a reflex trouble traveling over the pneumo-
gastric. The "continuous rolling and rumbling of gas in the
bowel," also points to the same nerve, since it presides over the
peristaltic action of the bowel. But when the gas or feces is
forced down into the rectum it meets an obstruction in a spas
modic constriction of the sphincters, as expressed in "feces
hard, scanty, passed with difficulty, from constriction of the
sphincter ani and a feeling as if much remained behind."

This points to irritation in the lumbar portion of spinal cord,
as does the spasm of the bladder as expressed in "children,
awake from sleep screaming and feel better after urinating; urg-
ing to urinate, must wait a long time before it passes, strangury."
When this irritation is higher in the cord it causes " dyspnoea as
if the chest were constricted by a cramp, worse when lying on
the back." The irritation of the cord at the roots of the inter-
costal nerves is reflected to their periphery, producing those
symptoms. The aggravation by lying on the back points to a
spinal hyperaemia which is a result of spasms of the vaso-motors
of the spinal veins. When this is high enough to attack the
roots of the spinal accessory, it will cause the " wheezing
breathing, with sensation of too much mucus in chest; con
striction of throat simulating globus hystericus; shortness of
breath with chest restriction," etc. These last symptoms were
by Professor Halbert in The Clinique for April, 1898, p. 174, in
his excellent report of a case of nervous asthma, cured by Lyco
podium.

But, I cannot agree with the inferred declaration of the doctor
that, pathologically, the drug was not indicated, when he says:
" We have learned the value of an indicated remedy when the
pathology of the disease would not naturally call for it." It
seems to me that it was very clearly indicated by both in its
pathology and symptomatology. From the spinal irritation we
mav get not only these laryngeal symptoms, but many catarrhal
symptoms in the lungs, as expressed in the '' dry. teasing cough,
day and night, in feeble emaciated boys, with painfullness of the
gastric region, from irritation in the trachea as horn fumes of

"Husa." 207

sulphur; formication in windpipe at night; paralytic weakness
of respiratory organs; chronic persistent catarrh of air passages;
sputa purulent, greenish-yellow, dirty, streaked with blood."

True, all catarrrhal symptoms of Lycopodium in the lungs do
not result from spinal irritation, because in some cases they are
the direct result of paresis of the pulmonary vasomotors, per-
mitting a hypostatic congestion, as indicated by the "loose
cough, full and deep, sounding as if entire lung were softened,
the patient raising a whole mouthful of mucus at a time of a
light rust color, but not thick." This will bring to mind
Bryonia; but under this the expectoration is in "yellow-like
lumps, almost yellow or soft brick shade."

The vaso-motor paresis may extend to the cerebral vessels,
producing a passive cerebral hyperaemia from atony of the walls
of the venous sinuses, which is shown by the " pressing head-
ache on vertex, worse from stooping; dull pain in the forehead,
as if the head were being compressed. Confusion and heaviness
of head; dulness of head. The hair becomes very gray and
comes out." This last symptom points to the trophic centres.
All the cephalic symptoms are associated with the " dyspeptic "
indications of Lycopodium, some being reflex in their nature,
resulting from peripheral disturbances to the pneumogastric and
intestinal sympathetic. It would seem that Lycopodium ex-
pends its entire action on the sympathetic system, the cerebral
symptoms being secondary to a sympathetic vaso-motor irritation,
producing constriction of venous capillaries to be followed by
their paresis with consequent passive venous engorgement, thus
accounting for the entire train of cerebro spinal symptoms.

100 State Street, Chicago.

"HUSA."

" Husa " has filled considerable space in the medical journals
during the past year and seems to have been engineered by a
very shrewd man. It was sprung on the world in February,
1898, in the Texas Courier- Record of Medicine, and made the
rounds. The Dr. Winthrop who introduced it said it is one of
the secrets of the Seminoles of the Florida everglades, "an un-
classified plant," a certain antidote for all snake-bites, "the
most diffusible stimulant known" and a certain cure for the
opium and morphine habit. No one has been able to get a speci-

208 "Husa."

men of this plant, though anyone can buy the tincture from Dr.
Winthrop at the rate of $10.00 for thirty fluid ounces. Professor
John Uri I^loyd sent for a supply of the tincture of " Husa,"
made an analysis of it and read the results of his investigations
before a joint meeting of the Cincinnati Section of the American
Chemical Society and the Cincinnati Academy of Pharmacy,
March 15, 1899. The following are his conclusions, for which
we are indebted to the Medical Gleaner of April: (The " Husa "
was received in ten vials, sealed.)

Result. — Xo. 1 contained 2.19 per cent, morphine; No. 2, 1.98 per cent,
morphine; Xo. 3, 1.95 per cent, morphine; Xo. 4, 1.72 per cent, morphine;
No. 5, 1.55 per cent, morphine; Xo. 6, 1.46 per cent, morphine; Xo. 7, 1.59
per cent, morphine; Xo. 8, .1.59 per cent, morphine; Xo. 9, 1.43 per cent,
morphine; Xo. 10, 1.33 per cent, morphine.

Accompanying I exhibit in separate bottles the morphine obtained labeled
from 1 to 10, successively; also the sulphuric acid as a barium sulphate and
the glycerine and salicylic acid from the preliminary examination. It will
be observed that the morphine is of a pure white, a condition quite different
from morphine obtained from opium by the assay process, for then it has a
yellowish color. The fact that it is so pure indicates, also, that it is added
morphine, and that it is not in natural combination. The morphine ob-
tained conformed to all the reactions demanded by the United States
Pharmacopoeia, and, in addition, to the potassium iodate test as well as
Mayer's alkaloidal test.

To sum up, viola sagittata is not an eclectic remedy, for the reason that the
name does not occur in eclectic literature, and the drug is not employed by
eclectics. " Husa " is said by " Dr. Winthrop " to be an undetermined plant
(unknown to science), found by two plume bird hunters and gathered by
them by the boat load. My investigation of "Husa," as sold by its dis-
coverer to his professional patrons, is to the effect that " Husa " is a liquid
containing large amounts of sulphate of morphine, some salicylic acid, some
alcohol, water, glycerine and coloring matter, probably burnt sugar.

The discoverer of this wonderful antidote to the morphine habit asserts
that a multitude of physicians are availing themselves of " Husa " as a sub-
stitute for morphine and opium in the treatment of victims addicted to the
opium habit. This I believe fully, judging from the extensive advertising
11 Husa " has received by the grace of the editorial and reading columns of
the American medical press, and judging from the high price charged for
the morphine, I would fain believe that the term "victim " should not be
restricted to the consumer of " Husa."

I would define " Husa " as follows: A solution of sulphate of morphine
to be administered under the name " Husa," and only by phsicians. It is
sold to physicians at the rate of $10 for about 234 grains of morphine. In
support of this view I offer the foregoing testimony and submit herewith
the morphine obtained from a 25 cc. of each liquid. Until I am furnished
with a new plant containing morphine to the extent found in these experi-
ments I shall accept that " Husa " is a concoction.

Leaders in Therapeutics. 209

LEADERS IN THERAPEUTICS.
By T. L. Bradford, M. D.

It is related that once upon a time Bcenninghausen and Jahr
were wont to meet for social converse and to sip, German fashion,
their schoppens of beer, and, ever intent on mental gain, the one
would challenge the other when a new comer entered the wein-
haus as to the proper homoeopathic remedy for the man; the
remedy seemingly indicated by his physique and bodily charac-
teristics. For these worthies believed that certain remedies
were adapted to certain temperaments. "Ah! that fat man;
he's a Calcarea patient — or that thin, transparent fellow is an
Iodine patient, or that meek and gazelle eyed person must be a
Pulsatilla patient." And so as the guests assembled each would
receive this scientific scrutiny, and in such odd fashion the clear-
headed doctors studied materia medica and swopped the results
of experience in the use of homoeopathic drugs. The masterly
deductions and compilations of Bcenninghausen and Jahr are to
be relied on by the materia medica student of to-day. The
Symptomen Kodex and the Therapeutic Pocket Book are always
found reliable. These, our medical fathers, did faithful work.
Then the sifting, the finding characteristics of the remedies by
the experience of the bedside. Lippe compiled his book —
"Key to the Materia Medica," giving some dozen remedies,
the most important or characteristic symptoms, each followed by
its analogous remedies. This was followed by his "Text Book
of Materia Medica." Then Guernsey, from the storehouse of
his experience, from his study of Jahr and Bcenninghausen,
gave us the " Genius of the Remedy," the keynote; his capacity
for grasping the points of a remedy and stating them plainly
and briefly, resulting in his keynote system — each keynote a
crystallization of the truth of many provings, the genius of the
drug, the being able to make the remedy fit the man, of being
able to know by looking at the man, woman or child what
remedy must fit. Just the same thing Jahr and Bcenninghausen
did in the old days.

Hering, from his polyglot knowledge, has left us the card Key-
notes, and his great work on Guiding Symptoms, which Knerr
has made valuable by the repertory but lately published. That
born teacher of materia medica, Farrington, has left a legacy of
lucid, clear-cut talks on the salient points of remedies. Burt

210 Leaders in Therapeutics.

gave us a book of valuable characteristics in 1869. We owe a
debt to Dunham, and Lilienthal, and Hughes, and Allen, and
Dewey, and Mohr, and Guernsey, and Kraft, and Yingling.
Fornias, in his " Differential Analysis of Remedies," is doing
masterly work. Kent is now bringing out a most valuable and
exhaustive repertory.

It has been objected by some that the use of the keynote
system tends to make one's knowledge superficial, that it is
only by exhaustive study that the best cures are made. But
the tyro, the student, becomes bewildered amid the massive
pages of the exhaustive records of drug provings. What he
wants is to commit to memory the great guiding symptoms, the
keynotes of a remedy, to become familiar with the genius of the
remedy, and afterwhiles to compare and note distinctions be-
tween analogous remedies. So that when in practice the Cal-
carea baby, or the Pulsatilla woman, or the Nux vomica man, or
the Sepia brunette, or the Sulphur slouch, or the Phosphorus
telegraph pole appears, that student knows whaf s what. The
patient is his own sign board to his proper remedy. A book
has recently appeared that bids fair to be of just such use to
both student and practitioner. A student physician has recently
given to the profession the practical results of long years passed
in fitting remedies to individuals in " Leaders in Homoeopathic
Therapeutics." By E. B. Nash, M. D. Philadelphia. Boericke
& Tafel. 1899.

The author thus preface:

" First. To fasten upon the mind of the reader the strongest
points in each remedy. Good off-hand prescribing can be done
in simple uncomplicated cases if we have fixed in our minds
ready for use the characteristic symptoms. The elder Lippe was
remarkable for such ability.

''Second. To try to discourage the disposition to quarrel
over symptomatology and pathology. Every symptom has its
pathological significance, but we cannot always give it in words;
but the fact that it has such meaning is sufficient reason for pre-
scribing on the symptom or symptoms without insisting on, or
trying to give the explanation."

One day Dr. Nash sat down and wrote his experience about
Nux vomica ,-then he took up Pulsatilla, then Bryotiia, and so on,
taking up a remedy daily, giving the keynotes, the genius of
each remedy, and pictures of its analogues with the distinctions
between each most lucidly given. Not in any stilted style, but

Ear Remedies. 211

just as any old doctor has seen them so many times at the bed-
side. This is the charm of the book to the old physician. It
seems as he reads its pregnant pages that he is living again the
changeful, busy, bygone years; it is as if he were telling his own
experience inthe camaraderie of goodfellowship and the mid-
night cigar. It is just plain expeirence with the keynotes of
the remedies, plainly written.

To the student whose wail is: ''There is so much of it all,
where can I get a book in which to study Materia Medica with-
out becoming confused by the great number of symptoms ? How
know the false from the true ?" — I, an old fellow, would say, read
Xash's "Leaders." Study the book, memorize it, carry it with
you, wear out its cover with use, and when the day comes that
you have mastered its pages you need have no fear at the bed-
side. The genius of each remedy will be yours and you, too, can
fit the remedy to the patient. So will you cure your patient
easily, quickly, pleasantly.

And he who writes reaches out a hand to Dr. Nash and:
Doctor — thank you for your book — you have fulfilled the
promise of your preface, proved that every keynote has a patho-
logical reason for being; that the man who has keynotes and
their distinctions at command can cure the sick without resort
to the fashionable flux of samples of coal tar products and other
remarkable compounds with their jaw breaking names and gen-
eral nastiness proved. You havethat the Law of Similia is a
realitv. Doctor Xash — Gesundheit.

EAR REMEDIES.

Translated from Med. Monatsh. f. Horn., Nov., 1898.

Especially in scrofulous diseases of the ears, in hardness of
hearing and in puriform discharges from the ears the following
remedies will be found effective:

Rhus has a great reputation in the so-called "dry catarrh of
the middle ear."

Silicea 12 D. is the chief remedy in puriform diseases as well
as in merely catarrhal diseases of the ear, as well in acute as in
chronic cases; its effects are as surprising in affections of the
external ear as in those of the middle and the internal ear. The
morbid mucous membrane shews itself just as receptive of its in-
fluences as the musculo tendinous and the bony portions of the

212 Cases From My Practice.

ear; those disturbances of the hearing, however, in which the
tympanum is untouched, or even if pathologically changed is,
nevertheless, still present, are usually the most receptive of its
influence. (Dr. Goullon.)

CASES FROM MY PRACTICE.

By Dr. Med. Thorn, Fleusburg.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Leipzig Pop. Zeitschr.
of Horn., November, 1898.

I. Mr. C, a mason from E., on the island of Alsen, 28 years old,
had been suffering for six years from a lupus exulcerans, occupy-
ing the right cheek from the zygoma to the corner of the mouth.
The condition of the patient, a moderately vigorous man, is
normal with the exception of a depression of mind, arising from
his ailment. C. has used many medicines, both allopathic and
homoeopathic, since he was taken ill, but without any effect.
He received, beginning with April of this year, Arsen. Jodat.,
the 4th dec. trituration, a dose of the size of a coffee-bean, three
times a day. By the middle of June the sore had healed up with
a relatively fair cicatrix, and there has been so far no sign of a
relapse.

II. Miss D., aged 28 years, from the district of Angelu, of full
constitution, of florid complexion, prone to congestions to the
head, with normal menstruation, has been suffering for about four
weeks of pains in the stomach. These are of excessive violence,
and caused the patient to give up her occupation in the country
and to come to her relatives in Fleusburg. The pains in the
stomach are predominantly of a convulsive nature, sometimes
lancinating. They appear especially in the afternoon, and de-
crease perceptibly when the patient reclines on her back. These
pains sometimes appear on an empty stomach, are temporarily
alleviated by eating, reappearing later on with all the more vio-
lence.

The constitution of the patient, the character of the pain and
the manifest alleviation on reclini?ig on her back, point to Bella-
donna; its appearance on an empty stomach, the temporary al-
leviation on eating, with subsequent aggravation, point to Pulsa-
tilla. The patient received both of these remedies in alternation
in the 3 D. potency of each remedy, three times a day, five drops.
After this one consultation I did not hear from her any more.
About four weeks later she called on me on account of a bronchial

From My Practice. 213

catarrh, and I incidentally heard that the pains in the stomach
had disappeared the next day after the consultation.

III. Mrs. P., nearly 50 years of age, a cook on a large farm in
Alsen, of a weakly constitution, has not menstruated for three
months and consulted me about the middle of May. She was
suffering from pains of the stomach, constipation and violent
headache. She stated that these ailments had only appeared on
the cessation of the menses. The headache is accompanied
with a feeling of intense heaviness, so that she can hardly raise
her eyelids. But what most distresses the patient is a continually
increasing weakness of the sight, so that she can only with diffi-
culty fulfill her duties as cook, and e. g., cuts her fingers at every
occasion. Starting from the view that her ailment was a conse-
quence of the disturbance in her circulation caused by the sud-
den cessation of the menstruation, and that the disturbance of
her vision was due to congestion of the circulation in the back
part of the eyes, and defective nutrition of the same, and since
Sepia shows itself of use in many ailments occurring in the
climatric period, I gave the patient of the 4th D. trituration of
Sepia, as much as would lie on the point of a penknife, morning
and evening. Now and then I interposed a powder of Sulphur,
4th D. trituration. The headache and the pains in the stomach
were soon alleviated, her power of vision gradually improved,
and her weakness of vision was in about six weeks so far re-
moved that the patient could again resume her functions as cook
without any trouble.

FROM MY PRACTICE.

By Dr. Zepler, of Mannheim.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Leipzig Pop. Zeitschr.
f. Horn., November, 1898.

Dr. Mueller-Kypke reported in this journal (Nos. 15-16) a
case of ailment of the stomach which first imposed as cancer,
but afterwards turned out to be another ailment. I will here
report an analogous case, only that in this instance the curious
course of the disease at once showed that the diagnose of cancer
was erroneous. The case in brief was as follows:

In the beginning of September Mrs. H. consulted me in my
office-hour; she had in the lower abdominal region on the right
side a swelling which had now been there for half a year and

214 Colchicum in a Case of Typhoid Fever.

had steadily increased in size. An allopathic physician had first
declared the ailment to be a rupture, then an indurated gland,
although the swelling was situated above the inguinal glands
in the abdominal wall; he had prescribed various embrocations
and hot poultices, but all without effect.

On investigation I found a tumor more than the size of a fist
in the lower abdominal w7all, where inguinal ruptures are wont
to appear. The skin was in some places grown to the tumor,
the latter was hard, knotty, it was difficult to distinguish it from
from the parts in normal condition; it seemed to protrude from
the abdominal cavity. An internal examination showed a
normal state of the sexual organs and that they had no connec-
tion with the swelling. In short it looked very clear that there
was a cancer in the abdominal wall, as I had seen it a few years
before in a man with whom the tumor was removed by operation.
Only the circumstance that the inguinal gland was not swollen,
and that I seemed to perceive an obscure fluctuation in the deeper
part, caused me not to altogether reject the supposition that a
suppurative inflammatory cancer, and abscess, was forming.
Acting on this thought, I ordered hot poultices of crushed
linseed, and gave her internally Mercur. solub. Ill, three times
a day, what would lie on the tip of a knife. The action of
Mercury in forwarding a suppuration already begun, and to
hasten its breaking open, was shown here in a most striking
manner. After five days the patient came to me with a radiant
countenance and reported that the swelling, which had become
red and hot, had burst open and discharged a large quantity of
pus. On examining the sore I found nothing more than a soft
swelling as large as a walnut, which on pressure discharged
some more pus; in three days more the woman was perfectly
cured. She could hardly contain her gratification, for she her-
self had already come to believe that the swelling was of a
malignant character.

COLCHICUM IN A CASE OF TYPHOID FEVER.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Allg . Horn. Zeit.,

Nov., 1898.

A man of nervous temperament had a severe case of typhoid

fever. He was very much excited, could not sleep and had an

idea that the left half of his body belonged to some other person;

he thought he was pursued by animals, wanted to jump out of

Colchicum in a Case of Typhoid Fever. 215

bed, etc. A very peculiar characteristic symptom was that his
left pupil was contracted to such a degree that it was almost in-
sensible to excitation from light, while the right pupil was dilated
to its maxhmim limit. Many remedies seemed suitable, but none
exhibited this symptom. After a long search Dr. Simson found
in the symptomatic indication of Panelli for typhoid fever, con-
traction of the left pupil with dilatation of the right given under
Colchicum ; there were also several other remedies pointing to-
ward this remedy. The patient received Colchicum and soon im-
proved; his rest at night became sound, and from this he awoke
with a clear consciousness and the convalescence proceeded
steadily. It is peculiar that the author has not been able after-
ward to discover this characteristic symptom in any Materia
Medica nor in any repertory.

The reporter of the case has not had any better success, but
he would bring to mind some observations with respect to the
action of Colchicum on the brain and the eyes. In the cases of
poisoning frequently dilatation of the pupils has been observed.
Biermann observed in a man of 60 years, who was suffering from
irregular, atonic gout, after he had received, within an hour, two
doses of seminis Colchici, amounting to 50 drops, after 18 hours a
subtle headache in the middle of the forehead, with a peculiar
surexcitation of the cerebral nerves. At the same time the phy-
sical visional powers of the optic nerves were sharpened to an
unusual clearness and, nevertheless, the intellectual visual percep-
tion so much weakened that the patient did not understand what
he read and had lost all consciousness of any logical connection
in it. In speaking he found it difficult or impossible to find
certain words; his tongue also refused its customary action.

Schoenlein found in acute rheumatism in which, after vene-
section and Tartarus stibiatus, he had given Vinum sent. Colchicine
especially after strong doses, a morbid excitation of the brain
and a condition resembling intoxication, even temporary mania,
insomnia, bright, reddened eyes, great mobility — a real delirium
maniacum. After stopping the remedy and using ammonia the
symptoms were soon allayed. Eisenmann supposes from these
observations that Colchicum seems to act especially on that part
of the brain which is the source of the optic nerves. It is proba-
ble that the symptom mentioned above was taken from a clinic
observation; a further confirmation of it would be of importance.

216 Proving s of Spartium Scoparium.

PROVINGS OF SPARTIUM SCOPARIUM.

Report of the Provers' Society.

[Reported by Dr. Schier in Mayence ]

Translated for the HomcEopathic Recorder from Allg. Horn. Zeit.y

December, 1897.
Having examined, as an intermediate remedy during the
course of the summer of 1896, Spircza ulmaria, we were able to
proceed in the latter part of the summer and during the fall to
the proving of the other constituents of our plant, and first to
the proving of the tincture produced from the fresh flowers and
the tips of the plant furnished by the pharmaceutist, Steinmetz.

1. Mrs. Dr. Schier took, on August 1, 1896, at 10 a m., five
drops of the II. D. Pot. in one tablespoonful of water. At 5-8
p. m., sore throat with difficulty in swallowing. About 4 p. m.
a soft stool, although there had been a normal stool in the morn-
ing. During the succeeding night tearing pains in all the
fingers of the right hand. August 2d, at 8-10 A. m., there was
again sore throat and difficulty in swallowing. Severe itching
of the arms, the neck and the hairy scalp.

2. Mrs. Dr. K. in W., on November 10th, 1897, took, at 7 p.
M., 10 drops of the mother tincture. About a quarter of an
hour afterward a very slight vertigo, continuing for several
minutes.

November 15th, at 10 p. m., 20 drops without effect.

November 21st, at 8 p. m., 20 drops. About 9:15 p m. nerv-
ous restlessness, disappearing after half an hour.

November 28th, at 10 A. m., 100 drops. From 10:30 to 11 A.
M. a very slight vertigo and some nervous restlessness.

Dr. U. Atzerodt, in Dresden, proved the remedy only in the
mother tincture, and took doses increasing from 10 drops to 20,
etc., up to 50 drops, then direct^ 5 grammes. Result, severe
nausea immediately after taking the remedy, but disappearing
soon afterwards; after one hour, three stools with violent rumb-
ling and noises, dark of color, squirting out. Then a violent
dull headache in the forehead, especially above the left eye,
which only vanished after two days.

4. Dr. Gustav Rischer, in Mayence. Personal account: Is
27>2 years of age, of a medium constitution, weight 143^ pounds,
height 5 feet 5-J inches, of sanguine temperament, disposed to
rheumatic affections, especially in the muscles of the thorax,

Proving s of Sparitum Scoparium. 2iJ

the loins and the heart; so also to a slight bronchitis and copious
dandruff; went through measles at the age of six years. Habits
very regular; deep, dreamless sleep from 10 p. m. to 7 A. m.;
stool generally regular with a slight tendency to constipation ; only
slight use of tobacco and alcohol; a blooming and healthy com-
plexion, dark-brown hair, brown eyes; general health normal,
sensitive to cold, but only slightly so to heat.

October 12, at 4 p. m., took one drop of the mother tincture
in one tablespoonful of water: Commencing with the 14th of Oc-
tober during the day, especially in the morning after rising,
palpitation with congestion to the head, better in the afternoon.
He also before this had suffered from palpitations, but these im-
proved from forced bodily exercise, while gymnastic exercises
showed in this case no alleviating influence.

October 14, in the evening, drawing pains in the left shoulder,
descending into the left elbow-joint, appearing periodically, most
violent in the forenoon; so also on October 15 and 16, but gradu-
ally decreasing.

October 19, at 10 a. m., three drops of the mother tincture in
one tablespoonful of water: In the evening, oppression in the
cardiac region, with pressure and anguish. October 20, in the
the forenoon, after rising, occasional palpitation with anxious
oppression in the cardiac region. So also in the afternoon from
5 to 7, but in a lesser degree. October 21, on awaking, pressure
in the cardiac region; after rising, palpitation of the heart, but
less than at the first proving. The symptoms were aggravated
every time I entered a warm room.

October 26, at 10 A. m., ten drops of the mother tincture in
one tablespoonful of water: At 4 p. m., oppression in the cardiac
region for a quarter of an hour. At 10 p. M., while sitting
down, palpitation of the heart with slight sensation of anguish
in the left side of the chest, simultaneously, pressure upon the
vertex, continuing for half an hour. At night, about 2 o'clock,
he awaked with anguish, nervous restlessness and violent palpi-
tation of the heart. In distinction from the palpitations felt at
other times during rheumatic affections, he perceives that it is not
the muscles of the heart, but the nervous system of the heart,
which is affected. At the same time pressure of the blood to
the head, with slight transpiration over the whole body, the
mind is excited, he feels quarrelsome. On turning on the left
side the symptoms are aggravated. The nervous restlessness
and the palpitation of the heart increases so much that he can-

2i8 Proving s of Spartium Scoparium.

not remain in bed, and he walks up and down his room from
2:45 to 3:15 a. m. He then goes to bed again, but as the symp-
toms continue with only slight alleviations his sleep is restless
with superficial dreams, relating especially to his practice; while
in a normal condition he hardly ever dreams. The pulse is
slightly accelerated to about 90 a minute, at the same time ir-
regular, intermitting occasionally. October 27 the restlessness
diminished somewhat; toward morning the palpitation of the
heart continues, however, with hardly any decrease. Radiating
from the heart there is a slight sensation of oppression in the
left shoulder, extending into the back. During micturition there
is a sensation of a slight irritation of the urethra, which had also
appeared during the third proving. This time, as well as during
the third proving, there is constipation, so that the stool appears
only on the second or third day and is harder, while else there
was a normal stool every morning. In the afternoon there is a
pressure in the cardiac region; toward 7 p. m. a slight palpitation
of the heart for ten minutes.

November 26, at 9:30 a. m., took 3 drops of the mother tinct-
ure in one tablespoonful of water, while his pulse stood at 64.
In the afternoon about 5 o'clock oppression in the cardiac region,
with a slight spasmodic sensation of oppression. The pulse is
92 and there is a sensation of pulsation in the carotid arteries.
He only now remembers that he took the remedy in the morning
to prove it. On moving about in the room the symptoms are
aggravated. In the evening a slight palpitation of the heart
appears till 10 p. m.

November 27th, there is oppression in the cardiac region in
the forenoon.

5. Dr. Roth, in Mayence, took 6 drops of the 10 D. dilution
at 6:40 p. m. on July 22d.

July 23d, at noon, there is a sudden pain on the edge of the
tongue near the tongue near the anterior molars. A small white
vesicle forms there, which is very painful at every touch.

July 24. The ulcer on the tongue is even more painful; the
parts surrounding the ulcerated spot are much swollen. Pain-
ful pressure in the left ear, while the concha auris is hot. Pain
at the upper insertion of the muscul. glutaei on the right and
left whenever he sits down (perhaps after exertions in walking
or going up the stairs ?).

The proving was here interrupted for a time. Nevertheless,
after four weeks, another vesicle formed on the tongue and the

Proving s Oj Spartium Scoparium. 219

symptoms proceeded as before for several days.

September 24, at 6 p. m., took four pellets moistened with the
20 C. dilution. After five minutes a clucking sensation in the
right hypochondrium, soon afterward in the right gluteal
muscles.

September 25, in the morning, while in bed, pressure in the
left bend of the ribs and in the left half of the forehead; draw-
in the right wrist-joint, also below the left knee; clucking in the
right hypochondrium. Urging in the left inguinal canal.

At 4 p. m. frequent urging in the left inguinal canal, especially
when lifting something. In the evening, in bed, drawing in the
left big toe, drawing to the right and the left in the forehead.

September 26, in the morning, in bed, stiffness in the neck as
from lying in a wrong position. The right hand and fingers are
benumbed as soon as the arm is for a moment lying above the
head.

September 27, at 11 a. m., while walking, there is a frequent
drawing between the exterior ankle of the left foot.

At 4 p. m. an agreeable sensation of warmth on the outer side
of the right thigh while sitting down.

On account of a severe cold the proving was here interrupted.

N. B. In the same way, from the 12th to the 15th of Septem-
ber, some doses of Spigelia were taken on account of an acute
mucous condition of a chronic catarrh of the nose and fauces.
The ailment was soon relieved, and I was not able to observe any
prominent symptoms of Spigelia on September 24th; but the
second proving may be influenced thereby.

Remark of the reporting physician: Since the symptoms of
the second proving have a very doubtful cause, according to the
prover himself, they have not been used in the final summary.

6. Dr. Schier, in Mayence, took five drops of the 2 D. potency
in one tablespoonful of water at 10 A. m. on October 1st, 1896.
No effect.

October 12, at 4 p. m., three drops of the mother tincture in
one tablespoonful of water. No effect.

October 19, at 10 A. m., took ten drops of the mother tincture
in one tablespoonful of water: In the succeeding night had to
get up to urinate, what else does not occur. October 20,
in the morning, in bed, a pressive pain in the abdomen and in
the region of the bladder; alleviated after a discharge of flatus
and micturition.

October 26, at 10 A. m., twenty drops of the mother tincture in

2 20, Proving s of Spartium Scoparium.

one tablespoonful of water: Soon afterwards there appears a
strong, quite unusual urging to micturition, so that about 10:30
A. M. he had to discharge a quite abnormal quantity of clear
urine. Also in the afternoon the quantity of urine was, by a
superficial estimate, increased one-half, and in the following
night he had to get up to urinate. In the morning, while in
bed, there was a pressure in the region of the bladder; dimin-
ished after micturition.

November 7, at 9:30 A. m., he took fifty drops of the mother
tincture in one tablespoonful of water: Immediately after taking
it several eructations of air. The pulse before taking the medi-
cine stood at 75, it mounted to 100 about 10 o'clock; the radial
pulse was at the same time harder than usual. Subjectively
nothing can be perceived in the cardial region, but in the course
of the day a slight oppression is noticeable in the respiration.
The pulse after dinner (at 1:15) still stood at 90. The secretion
of the urine is about three times the normal. There is besides
obtuseness of the brain and a pressive pain in the whole of the
upper part of the head, increased by motion. In the afternoon
the quantity of the urine continues to considerably exceed the
normal. The pulse at 6 p. m. is 80; later on it becomes normal
again. An exact investigation and measuring of the urine was
impracticable, because I attended my practice all day.

November 26, at 9:30 A. m., took seventy-five drops of the
mother tincture in two tablespoonfuls of water: On account of its
disagreeable taste I had soon after to drink some more water. The
pulse immediately before taking this dose stood at 72; a quarter
of an hour later it stood at 80, and at 10:30 it was 90 a minute.
The secretion of urine is measurably increased. In the after-
noon the eyes burned violently. In the succeeeding night he

had to rise for micturition, which else did not occur.

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In May, 1897, We Examined the Infusion from the Like
Fresh Parts of the Plant.

1. Dr. Rischer, in Mayence. From an infusion of 250 grs. of
water to 10 grs. of the fresh substance he took, at 9:45 A. m. on
the 15th of May, one teaspoonful, without its acting upon him
in any way.

From an infusion of 250 grs. of water on 15 grains of the pure
blossoms (without the tips or the stem) he took, at 10:30 A. m.
on May 22d, two tablespoonfuls. The pulse was 68, and his state
of health normal. At noon, about twelve o'clock, after resting

Proving s of Spartmm Scoparium. 22 1

for half an hour, he counted 88 pulsations a minute. Besides
this, within one hour there were 5-6 irregular contractions of
the heart, which were combined with a slight congestion of
blood to the head, as well as a pretty violent sensation of
anguish in the cardiac region. In the afternoon, about 5 o'clock,
there was urging to urinate, with an irritation in the region of
the bladder, like after drinking young beer; the quantity of
urine was, however, minimal. This state continued for an hour
and a half.

From an infusion of 250 grs. of water on 20 grains of clean
blossoms (without tips of the stems) he took three tablespoon-
fuls at 10 a. M. on May 29, the pulse being 70 and the state of
health normal. The taste was nauseous and soon afterward he
had to vomit. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon there appeared
irregular contractions of the heart, combined with a moderate
sensation of anguish and a considerable congestion of blood to
the head. The number of pulsations was increased from 10 to 12
beats all the afternoon. No anomaly in the secretion of urine
was observed.

2. Dr. Schier, in Mayence. On May 14th, in the afternoon
at 3 o'clock, there were gathered in the woods near Binger-
brueck blossoms together with the tips of the stems of Spartium
scopariu??i; 10 grs. of this were infused on the 15th with 250
grs. of boiling water, which was poured off after two minutes.
After the infusion had cooled off he took two tablespoonfuls of
the yellowish-green, nauseously tasting fluid at 9:45 A. m. on
the 15th of May, 1897, without feeling anything but a disagree-
able eructation, which soon passed off. At 5:30 p. m. he took of
the same infusion, which in the meanwhile had taken on a
darker, more brownish green color, three tablespoonfuls, with-
out being able to report any characteristic effect.

On May 21st, at 4 p. m., there were again gathered in the
woods near Bingerbueck blossoms of the plant, this time more
vigorous plants, and using the flowers alone (without the tips
of the stems) an infusion was made on the 22d of May, pouring
250 grs. of boiling water on 15 grs., and after standing for two
minutes the infusion was poured off through a sieve. Of this
yellowish warm tea, which had a less nauseous taste, he took
five tablespoonfuls at 10:20 A. m. on May 22d, 1897, the pulse
standing at 72 and the state of health normal. About twenty
minutes after this an abnormally strong urging to urinate ap-
peared, and he discharged what he calculated was about twice

222 Proving s of Spartium Scoparium.

the ordinary quantity of urine. It was not practicable to carry a
urine bottle in his practice, so that he was not able to give an
exact numerical computation of the quantity of urine. About
12, at noon, there was another discharge of urine, which was
tested for albumen, but did not show the slightest trace. Quite
against the normal at 2:30 another urging to urinate showed
itself. From 1 p. m., during the afternoon, the frequency of the
pulse was 90, but there were no subjective symptoms of the
heart. Toward evening the pulse again stood at 72. At 3:30,
5 and 6 there was again an urging to urinate, with slight quanti-
ties of urine.

May 28th, at 3 p. M., a collection of blossoms was again made
in the woods near Bingerbrueck, and on May 29th an infusion
of boiling water, 250 grs., to 25 grs. of the flowers (without the
tips of the stems) was made. Of this infusion, while still warm,
he took, at 10 A. m., six tablespoonfuls, while his state of health
was normal and the pulse was at 72. In the afternoon the pulse
rose to 88, without any change in the subjective feeling; the
secretion of urine was somewhat increased, but in a considerably
less degree than in the proving instituted eight days before.

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I had originally intended to subject at least the seeds of the
plant to an investigation; but I came too late, as I did not re-
turn from an extended journey this year before August. The
seed- capsules had already burst open, and I could not find any
seeds. We may, however, suppose from the results arrived at
from the parts examined that the effective principles are pretty
evenly divided in the organs of the plant, and that it is probable
that the seeds would not have given any great modification of
the symptoms.

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Summary.
a. Infusion Made From the Root of Spartium Scoparium.

Nervous System: Obtuseness of the head.

Circulatory Organs: Accelerated pulse. Heat rises to the
head, especially to the right temple. Oppressive heat in the
head.

Digestive Organs: Excessive dryness of the lips, attended with
burning. Quantities of water gather in the mouth with a
bitter taste. Eructation of air, without any taste. Xausea
almost leading to vomiting. Fermentation in the abdomen, slight
pressure in the stomach.

Proving s of Spartinm Scoparium. 223

Urinary Organs: He has to get up three times during the
night to discharge urine, contrary to his habit.

b. Tincture Made From the Root.

Geyieral Symptoms: Anxiety, melancholy, depression. Worse
during rest, improved by quick motion.

Yawning. Feverish and excited at night, he frequently wakes
up.

Acne existing before is extraordinarily aggravated. Itching
in various parts of the body, especially on the back, alleviated
by scratching. Itching on the skin of the thigh. Copious
perspiration.

Nervous System: Violent passive headache in the forehead and
©n the vertex during the catamenia. Headache, pressive upon
the vertex, beginning at noon and disappearing about 9 p. m.
Heaviness in the head without pain.

Itching on the back, especially on the two angles of the
shoulderblades, from leaning against the back of the chair while
sitting down. At night drawing pains in the hips and in the
small of the back.

Lancination in the cardiac region, with a feeling of weakness
there.

Circulatory Organs: In the morning, while in bed, great heat
in the whole of the body, also in the evening in the room.
Restlessness, especially in the head.

Respiratory Orga?is: Pain on the sternum, and where the ribs
join the sternum, increased by pressure and by taking a deep
breath.

Digestive Organs: On the mucous membrane of the left lower
jaw, near the corner of the mouth, a very painful vesicle, as
large as a pea; redness and painfulness in the anterior part of
the hard palate.

Constant eructation of air all the evening. Pressure in the
stomach and on the chest, alleviated after the passage of flatus.
At night, heaviness in the stomach and abdomen, as if a stone
was lying there. Cutting in the abdomen, alleviated after the
passing of flatus. Pinching colic. Severe lancination in the
abdomen, on both sides, in the evening. Distension of the ab-
domen; movements as if the abdomen was constricted. Urging
and pressure in both the abdominal rings, especially on the left
side, most felt when walking or urinating. Colicky pains in the
stomach and abdomen; one-quarter of an hour later light colored,

224 Proving s of Spartium Scoparium.

pappy diarrhoea, with violent burning in the anus afterwards.
Thin, sharp, frothy diarrhoea, after which the colicky pains
diminish. Urging to stool; the discharge is very hard. Con-
stipation. Urging toward the rectum, as if it was filled with
faeces.

Sexual Organs: During the menses abnormally severe loss of
blood, attended with great debility; the blood is normal, dark,
but without lumps.

Urinary Organs: Severe urging to urinate. The quantity of
urine considerably increased. Has to urinate five times in the
afternoon instead of the customary two times. The pressure on
the bladder is alleviated after micturition. The urine which is
much increased is light yellow and very frothy.

c. Tincture From the Flowers and the Stems.

General Symptoms : The mind is excited, quarrelsome. The
sleep is disturbed with superficial dreams.

Violent itching on the arms, the neck and the hairy scalp.
Iyight transpiration all over the body.

Nervous Syste?n : Obtuseness of the brain. Slight vertigo.
Nervous restlessness, congestion to the head. Pressure on the
vertex. Pressive pain in the whole of the upper part of the head,
aggravated by motion.

Violent burning of the eyes. Painful pressure in the left ear.
Hot concha.

Drawing pains in the left shoulder, descending to the left
elbow-joint, appearing periodically, most severe in the forenoon.
At night, tearing pains in all the fingers of the right hand.

Circulatory Organs : Oppression in the cardiac region and
anxiety, aggravated on entering a warm room. Palpitation of
the heart, with congestion to the head. At 2 a. m. he wakes up
with anguish, nervous restlessness and violent palpitation. On
turning over to the left side the symptoms are aggravated. The
nervous restlessness and the palpitation increase so much that he
cannot stay in bed and wanders about the room from 2:45 to 3:15
A. M. He afterwards goes to sleep again, while the symptoms
continue with only a slight alleviation. The sleep is disturbed
with superficial dreams. Oppressive sensation radiating from
the heart into the left shoulder, extending into the back.

The pulse is accelerated, irregular, occasionally intermitting;
sensation of pulsation in the carotid arteries. Congestion of
blood to the head, with slight transpiration all over the body.

Proving s of Spar Hum Scoparinm. 225

Respiratory Organs : Oppression in breathiug.

Digestive Organs : Pain on the left edge of the tongue, near
the anterior molars. A small white vesicle forms there; very
painful to the touch.

Sore throat, with difficult deglutition.

Eructation of air. Stool soft. Constipation.

In the morning, while in bed, a pressive pain in the abdomen,
diminished after passage of flatus.

Urinary Organs : Unusually strong urging to urinate and in-
crease of urine. In the morning, in bed, pain in the region of
the bladder, diminished after micturition. During micturition
the urethra feels slightly irritated.

d. Infusion from the Fresh Flowers.

Circulatory Organs : Irregular contraction of the heart, with
slight congestion of blood to the head. Violent anguish in the
cardiac region. The pulse is considerably accelerated.

Digestive Organs : Disagreeable eructations. Vomiting.

Urinary Organs ; Abnormally severe urging to urinate.
Quantity of urine increased. Irritation in the region of the
bladder, as after partaking of young beer.

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Even on a mere superficial comparison of the results obtained
from the four different provings it is manifest that the provings
of the tinctures gave much more striking and numerous symp-
toms than the provings made of the infusion of the fresh sub-
stances; especially when we consider that the quantities taken of
the infused parts of the plant were generally much more consider-
able than what would correspond to the number of drops given of
the tinctures. We may suppose that the Scoparin and the Spartein
are less easily soluble in water than in alcohol; or, on the other
hand, that these substances are in great part in a short time
decomposed at the temperature of boiling water. It is known
that, as a rule, alkaloids are either altogether insoluble or but
little soluble in water. Chemical experiments and experiments
with animals, which I cannot make here, would in this special
case give the surest decision as to which of these two causes are
to be ascribed the comparative small results obtained from in-
fusions.

These provings give us, however, in general results, which
agree fairly well as to the most important symptoms that may
be used therapeutically. It would seem that the active sub-

226 So Runs The World.

stances described in the introduction are pretty uniformly dis-
tributed in the various organs of the plant.

That the most prominent diuretic effect of our remedy depends
especially on an increase in the pressure of the blood, so that
the plant primarily affects the nerves and the muscles of the heart,
is shown most manifestly by the concurrent results of the various
experiments. It would certainly be interesting to demonstrate this
fact also by the sphygmograph; but I must confess that person-
ally I am of the opinion that nothing memorable is gained for
homoeopathic therapy from these experiments, although they
may serve to make our treatment less distasteful to allopaths.
In any case, such a proposition on my part, in view of the indo-
lence of my colleagues, who as to a great part gave no answer,
and did not even contribute the simplest, briefest report, would
have been inevitably doomed to failure; and I, myself, was from
various reasons not in the position to make such experiments.

To summarize, our remedy would seem to be indicated in cases
in which primarily the muscles of the heart, and especially the
nervous system of the heart, is affected, with acceleration and
irregularity of the pulse, congestions to the chest, neck and head,
and light rheumatic symptoms. As the remedy acts only for a
time, i. e., a few days, its use may preferably be limited to acute
diseases.

SO RUNS THE WORLD.

(This is from the American Druggist, March 25th. The same
folly — for this scramble for cheapness is sheer professional foil}- —
to a degree infests Homoeopathy).

11 Said a member of an essential oil firm: ' What is the use of
making a pure oil of sandal ? Xobody wants it. Nobody will
buy it. There isn't any market for it in America. You can't
induce a wholesale druggist to touch it, and the retailers do not
evince the slightest interest in it. What they want is a sophisti-
cated article upon which they can make a great big profit.'

"'But what about the physicians?' the traveler asked.
' Surely they demand an oil which will effect a speedy and
radical cure! '

" ' My dear friend! ' the essential oil man exclaimed, ' do you
imagine you are still living in Altruria ? The physicians of that
fantastic country possibly may desire to make speedy and radical
cures — but, believe me, that kind of physician does not exist in

L? Oiyiiopatia in Italia. 227

America. What the Yankee doctor desires is something which
will be neither radical nor speedy. Do not delude yourself with
the notion that physicians in this country are pure and unadult-
erated philanthropists. Not on your life! They run their little
Schutzenfest for what there is in it — same as I run mine.'

" ' But,' objected the traveler, ' you can not surely mean that
you have no other consideration in your business than that of
immediate profit! I am informed that your house is one of the
greatest in the line in America.'

" ' Oh, as to that! ' the essential oil man responded serenely,
1 I assure you we are very careful of our reputation. But,
as one of the ancient philosophers remarked, "When a
citizen of a state exceeds his fellows in virtues, he is no longer
a citizen of that state." Mark Twain boiled that idea down
into, " Be good and you'll be lonesome." Sabby ? '

11 ' Which I must take to mean,' said the traveler sadly, ' that
the essential oil business is carried on upon lines of exceeding
shadiness.'

"'Essential oil houses, my interesting friend, supply the
wholesale druggist with that which he demands. The whole-
saler gives the retailer what he asks for. The retailer is equally
complaisant with the physician. You must start the reform with
the doctor. Then, as the nursery rhyme has it, the stick will
beat the dog, the dog will worry the pig, the pig will cross the
stile, and so the old woman will get back to iUturia to-night, all
right. Call again; I find your Altrurian point of view quite
entertaining.' "

(Very little, comparatively speaking, of this spirit is found in
Homoeopathy, and let us hope the ugly commercialism will not
grow larger there. Lust for bargain counter drugs is the germ
of it all.)

L'OMIOPATIA IN ITALIA.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Allg. Horn. Zeit.

The Homoeopathic Institute of Italy held its meeting on the
16th of April of this year (1898), and we see from the annual
report published in the Omiopatia (No. 33, 1898) that its
finances are well ordered, the receipts being 5621,66 lires (about
$1,124.00) and disbursements 5343,54 lires (about $1,068.00),
so that there was a balance on the right side. It is gratifying
to notice that the debt which the Institute was compelled to in-

228 Z' Omiopatia in Italia.

cur for the small hospital and dispensary in Turin has been
canceled by a generous friend of Homoeopathy, who desires to
remain anonymous. Freed from this care, our Italian colleagues
will be enabled to devote all their energy to the spread of Ho-
moeopathy in their country. To place before the world their
progress in this direction, it was resolved to take part in the
National Exposition in Turin.

We will here communicate some of their observations as made
in the Polyclinc and the hospital.

i. Asparagin in the 3 Dec. trituration in solution contributed,
and in a relatively short time, to a decided improvement in a case
of cardiac trouble attended with arythmia, i.e., with an inter-
mission or cessation at every third beat, a noise in the mitral
valve, a snoring respiration, continual dyspnoea, so that the
woman had to lie with her chest considerably elevated, especially
at night, but even this did not suffice to remove long continued
spells of coughing, accompanied with a retching up of tough
mucus and with vomiting, and in daytime she was seized with
violent palpitation of the heart at any exertion, as when going
down stairs.

The patient, 40 years of age, rather corpulent, of pretty
regular menstruation, had in the preceding years twice suffered
from an arthritic attack. After the second, there was a con-
siderable ©edematous swelling of the lower limbs. She had used
numerous diuretics, as also copious doses of Nat rum salicylicum,
and during all this the cardiac trouble had developed. The
urine was sparing, dark red and turbid. After several days' use
of Asparagin the symptoms had visibly improved, so strikingly,
indeed, that she did not hesitate in presenting herself before her
former allopathic physician. The symptomatic image of the
patient offered a close agreement with the pathogenesis of
Asparagus with respect to the thoracic organs, and this was
demonstrated by the success.

2. Caltha palustris in the 3 and 6 potencies. A lymphatic
girl, seven years, having a nervous mother and a gouty father,
had at first merely suffered with rubeola. After three days it
was said, in consequence of a cold, an enormous anasarca de-
veloped, accompanied with scanty urine, rich in albumen, so
that it was easy to diagnose a case of nephritis. The case, dif-
ficult in itself, was all the more important and responsible for
Dr. Bonino, in that the little child was the niece of a physician
of the old school.

L Omiopatia in Italia. 229

The author gave Caltha palustris, in the pathogenesis of which
he found a faithful image of the sick child, and after repeating
the remedy several times the anasarca passed off and the kidneys
returned to their normal state. Two vapor baths a day, given
in her own room, proved also useful.

(The provings of this remedy actually show a swelling all over
the body, extending itself from the face, which is monstrously
swollen. The swelling is described as white, soft, somewhat
doughy. The urine is scanty, deep-red. So far as we know, de-
spite of these symptoms, the remedy has hardly ever been used
in nephritis accompanied by the above symptoms. — Rep.)

3. Pulsatilla 6, in gonorrhceal gout. A young man had suf-
fered with gonorrhoea which had been repressed by the usual as-
tringents. In the meanwhile he had been seized with a violent
inflammation on the left foot and then on the knee of the same
side, with plainly developed exudation.

Mezereum gave some alleviation, but it was only after Pulsa-
tilla that the local trouble was quickly ameliorated, but without
fundamentally influencing the constitutional state, which was
shown by the manifold glandular swellings in the right inguinal
region, which were cured by the use oi I odium 3, dilution.

From the Clinic of the Hospital.

A little girl of three and one- half years had several times suffered
from angina diphtheritica, which had always taken a favorable
course. Now she was again seized with headache, fever and
trouble in swallowing, as well as redness of the fauces. The
symptoms were quickly aggravated, the respiration became diffi-
cult, so a physician was called who at once injected the serum
(antitoxin). Nevertheless her state grew worse, and so she was
brought to the Homceopatic Hospital.

The symptoms were as follows: The child was well nourished,
no sign of decay. The inspection of the throat was very difficult,
as the tongue could not be pressed down, but so much could be
seen that a whitish-gray, firmly attached, exudation had already
formed on the arches of the palate, extending back of the pos-
terior wall of the pharynx and up to the larynx; there was a
high degree of dyspnoea and cough with a croupy sound. At
the same time time there was hardly any fever.

She was given Mercur. cyanat. 4 trituration, and Aqua
bromata 1:1000, freshly made every time; after two doses of
Mercury there was always given one of Bromine. She also re-

230 Book Notices.

ceived a few spoonfuls of cold milk. During the night there
were several suffocative spells, which recurred during the day;
toward evening the throat swelled up and became more painful.
The remedies were continued, together with the inhalation of
aqueous vapor and cold water compresses around the neck.

As the suffocative attacks recurred during the day, laryngot-
omy was thought of. The remedies were continued.

In the following night there were no more suffocative attacks
the patient slept a little and when during a spell of coughing
she had thrown out a piece of bloody membrane the respiration
became freer. The remedies were continued.

The improvement continued; another piece of membrane was
expectorated; Mercurius cyanatus was now given at longer in-
tervals and Bromine was discontinued. The nights became
more restful, without any trouble; the appetite returned. In the
fauces there only remained a slight redness of the mucous mem-
brane. The medicine was discontinued. She could now swallow
without any trouble. She received corn starch pap, and could
be

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Part III of this great work, by Richard Hughes, M. D., is
now ready for delivery.

The Care of the Baby. A Manual for Mothers and Nurses,
containing directions for the management of Infancy and
Childhood in health and disease. By J. P. Crozier Griffith,
M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hos-
pital of the University of Pennsylvania, etc. Second edition.
Revised. 404 pages. Cloth, $1.50. Philadelphia: W. B.
Saunders. 1898.
As indicated by the title, this book is chiefly devoted to the

care of the body and only a few simple drugs are prescribed. Its

advice seems to be good.

Book Notices. 231

The Principles of Bacteriology. A Practical Manual for
Students and Physicians. By A. C. Abbott, M. D., Professor
of Hygiene and Director of the Laboratory of Hygiene, Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. New (5th; edition,
enlarged and thoroughly revised. Handsome 121110., 585 pages,
109 illustrations, of 26 which are colored. Cloth, $2.75, net.
Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co.
The reason for the great popularity of this work is made clear
by an examination of its pages. The author with rare skill has
selected just that knowledge which is practically important to
the student and practitioner and has presented it with unusual
clearness, together with ample instructions for laboratory work.
The present edition has been revised to date, and many chapters,
particularly those upon technique, disinfection, specific infect-
ions, immunity, etc., have been enlarged. Equally thorough
has been the revision and improvement of the illustrations, both
black and colored.

Saunders' Medical Hand Atlases. Atlas of the External Dis-
eases of the Eye. Including a Brief Treatise on the Pathology
and Treatment. By Professor Dr. O. Haab, of Zurich. Author-
ized Translation from the German. Edited by G. E. de
Schweinitz, A. M., M. D. With 76 Colored Plates and 6 En-
gravings. 228p ages. Cloth, $3.00. Philadelphia: W. B.
Saunders. 1899.

This is the latest issue of Saunders' well-known series of
"hand atlases." The plates are unusually fine, depicting the
various diseases of the eye. We learn from the publisher that this
series has been highly successful, over 200,000 copies having been
sold.

Practical Materia Medica for Nurses. With an Appendix
containing Poisons and their Antidotes, with Poison-emergen-
cies; Weights and Measures; Dose List; and a Glossary of the
Terms used in Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Emily
A. M. Storey, Graduate of the Training School for Nurses,
Lawrence, Mass. 306 pages. Cloth, $1.50. Philadelphia:
W. B. Saunders. 1899.

The drugs in this book are alphabetically arranged and classi-
fied, as alterative, anaesthetics, anti-acids, anodynes, etc., and
the dose of each is given.

232 Book Notices.

Dr. J. T. Kent' s Journal of Homoeopathies makes the follow-
ing comments of the second edition of Dewey's Essentials of
Homoeopathic Therapeutics :

This book by Prof. Dewey we have much pleasure in commending to
students for whom it has been expressly compiled. The very difficult labor
of selecting remedies having in their nature and symptoms a strong relation
to certain diseased states has been admirably executed. The author, in his
preface, points out the danger of associating remedies with diseases or diag-
nosis with treatment, and gives this latter work its proper place as a com-
panion to his Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia Medica. The two books
are not only a boon to students, but would be strong meat for the average
graduate.

It requires genius to get at the essentials of anything, and that
genius Dewey possesses in his chosen field to an eminent degree,
as is demonstrated by the great success of his books. Many
write books, but few are called for second and third editions.
Any subject ably treated will rnn into a second edition, but —
there's the rub, that makes calamity for book ptiblishers so often,
for they must determine and they are but fallible.

Dr. Nash, like Dewey, also seems to possess that which goes
into the make up, of a successful book writer. The following ap-
preciative review of his book, Eeaders in Homoeopathic Thera-
peutics, is from the Medical Advance.

This handy volume of nearly four hundred pages gives the personal ex-
perience of a very earnest and genuine Hahnemannian with 229 of our lead-
ing remedies. The ''Leaders" are the pathogenetic characteristic symptoms
or conditions guiding the selection of the remedy, which the author has
found reliable in practice, and while the ones given are not claimed to be
the only ones of the remedy, they are the ones he has found reliable, and
and has often verified in the cure of the sick. These " Leaders " he com-
pares with similar symptoms or conditions and modalities of other remedies
which makes the work, like Jahr's Forty Years'1 Practice, a valuable refer-
ence handbook for the office table, and every working homoeopath will find
its frequent reference very helpful.

There is not a dull page in the book, nor one which will not well repay a
study. There is not a " Leader" given under any remedy that will not be
found guiding in some case. For instance Petroselinum has a very charac-
teristic indication, viz: great and sudden desire to urinate. Children are
sometimes troubled with such sudden and intense desire to urinate that they
will jump up and down trying to retain it, until their clothes are unbut-
toned. A similar symptom often obtains in gonorrhoea, when this much
neglected remedy will not only relieve the urinary difficulty but cure the
disease.

The entire work is good reading and intensely interesting to the student

Book Notices. 233

•of Materia Medica, richly interspersed with conversational anecdotes and
reminiscences of a busy professional life, and occasionally in righteous in-
dignation he scores his weak-kneed brethren for lapsing into alternation,
and the empirical methods of the self-styled "regular." We thank the
author for his helpful addition to our armamentarium. The only fault we
have to find, the only complaint we have to make, is that he did not give
us more.

The Porcelain Painter's Son. A Fantasy. Edited with a
Foreword. By Samuel Arthur Jones, M. D.
This is a companion volume to " The Grounds of a Homoeo-
path's Faith," and an appendix with the title of " Under which
King Bezonian." The author styles it a fantasy on Homoe-
opathy and Hahnemann, yet deep down will be found a golden
vein of pure science that will give the reader a new inspiration
into the early life of the Sage of Coethen.

But, whether we agree with the author or not, the entire
homoeopathic profession the world over, will sincerely regret
after reading this little book — especially "Under which King
Bezonian," — that as yet only these two small volumes have ap-
peared from the most trenchant pen which our school has pro-
duced in this century. Oh! that we had a little more such in-
spiration and admonition as this on page 102:

When the "scientific" homoeopath — that most perilous of wild fowl —
assails Hahnemann's teachings in the windy medical journal, or on the floor
of the windier medical society, how many homoeopathic students are qualified
to judge the critics and the criticism? Indeed I may ask, how many physicians?
How many of either have ever read the Organon; how many have given it
the serious and intelligent investigation that it both deserves and invites
alike from friend and foe ? If one is grossly ignorant of the Organon — that
declaration of, exposition of, and defence of the principles and practice of
Homoeopathy — by what shadow of right does such an one assume the title
" homoeopathic " physician? Does a dabster in the practice, as an art, pre-
tend to a knowledge of the principles, as a science ? Has not Homoeopathy
too many of such pretenders — " doctors " that cannot for the life of them
deliver the goods they advertise? Can the truth, the absolute truth, the
simple truth be presented, defended and triumphantly demonstrated by such
advocates ?

We trust that every reader of the Advance will buy this book
and keep it on the table in his reception room. It will do good.
— Medical Adva?ice.

Dr. Chas. J. Pollard, of Princeton, Ky., pays the following
compliments to Dr. Nash's Leaders in Homctopathic Thera-
peutics : "I consider it by far the handiest working volume on
Materia Mediea I have yet seen. It is worth double the money
asked for it."

Homoeopathic Recorder.

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Address communications , books for review, exchanges, etc., for the editor, to

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POINTERS ON THE NEXT MEETING OF THE
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY,

1 844- 1 899.

Editor of the Homceopathic Recorder.

Although many reminders of the Atlantic City meeting of the
American Institute of Homoeopathy, on June 20th, '99, have
already appeared in the various journals, it may not be amiss
to point out briefly some of the peculiar and singular advantages
of this year's assembly.

First: The place selected, Atlantic City, N. J., is ideal; per-
haps no other watering place of summer resort offers such ex-
tensive and excellent hotel accommodations, at prices that may
be adjusted to suit all. Some forty or more hotels are ready to
accommodate the members of the Institute, and they have made
notable reductions in their prices. A steel pier, which has been
secured for the meetings of the Institute, will add greatly to the
pleasure and enjoyment of the session. The halls for meetings,
both general and sectional, are all that can be desired; and the
freedom from the vexatious noise and hot winds of the city will
be more appreciated when listening to the sounds of the surf
upon the beach and enjoying the cool ocean breezes.

Second: The change of the plan, while it provides for a shorter
session, rather adds to than detracts from the value of the purely
scientific side of the meeting. Each session will have one general
meeting before the entire Institute and papers of general interest
will be read and thoroughly discussed. Sectional meetings for
each session have also been provided for. For all those meet-
ings, both general and sectional, a definite and clear cut pro-
gramme has been arranged. The papers to be read will be an-
nounced in the regular order, and the names of those chosen to
discuss the papers will follow. Time enough will be allowed to
allow others besides those on the regular programme to take

Editorial. 235

part in the discussion. It is believed these arrangements, en-
abling a larger amount of work to be done in a given time, will
prove eminently satisfactory, and the General Secretary may
add, that the chairmen of all the sessions have done everything
in their power to perfect this plan.

Quite aside from the scientific interest of the Institute, but
allied to it, is the social side. The plans of the committee, al-
ready familiar to }-our readers, need not be recapitulated here.
Suffice it to say that the members present will be made happy in
more ways than they can possibly imagine. It may be added
also, that there will be reunions and celebrations by many clubs
and organizations, and many old acquaintanceships and friend-
ships will be revived.

Fourth: Besides all these things, the railroad fare is certain
to be at a reduced rate of one and one-third for the round trip.
There will be the largest attendance at the meeting, in all proba-
bility, of any meeting held by the Institute for years. Atlantic
City is a better place to rest and enjoy oneself thoroughly than
almost any other spot that might have been selected.

To all these very good reasons why every homoeopathic phy-
sician should attend the Atlantic City meeting, let me add the
most excellent reason of all, and that is, that the American In-
stitute of Homoeopathy, our national organization, not only
desires, but is entitled to command the presence and support of
every homoeopathic physician in the United States. We all
know what the Institute has done as a national body. We know
that without it our rights, privileges and powers would have
been greatly curtailed. We know that it is not only a bulwark
and safeguard against the assaults of our enemies, but it unites
our own force into a homeogeneous working corps. Besides all
this it has encouraged and built up our schools and colleges, has
fostered scientific research, has exhibited the greatest tolerance
in matters of opinion, and has ben a college for the education
and development of leaders in a school. Because of all these
things it seems to the General Secretary that he may encroach
once more upon your space and upon the patience of your
readers, even if most of what he says has been said before. Let
us for this year, 1899, resolve that we will attend the Atlantic
City meetings of the Institute, and that we will give this grand
old national organization such a forward impetus that we will
begin the work in the new century with irresistible force and
strength.

I am, yours fraternally,

E. H. PORTKR.

236 Editorial.

A gentleman in good financial standing in his town recently-
told the writer of a case that happened near there, which seems
to have a moral. A homoeopathic graduate was called to a
case of fever and prescribed forty- eight grains of quinine in two
doses. (We do not know the doctor's name, nor where he lived,
nor even if our financially reliable friend were not drawing a
little long bow.) The result of the prescription was that the
homoeopath was incontinently fired and an old "regular"
called in his place. From this fairy (?) tale we deduce the fact
that the public refuses to believe that massive doses of salicylic
acid, calomel, quinine, coal-tars and other "regular" belong-
ings are homoeopathic, and obstinately cling to the belief that
homoeopathic medicine must be given in small and generally
tasteless doses. And the moral? Well, it looks something like
the shoemaker sticking to his last, or practicing what is professed,
or something like that, sticking to your colors, you know.

The Times of bidia says that, at the recent hearing before the
Bombay Plague Commission, Prof. Haffkine testified that he
never succeeded in curing any cases in Poona or Bombay with
his serum, but that, on the contrary, this treatment increased
the death rate.

A cow belonging to Walter Weeks, of Otsego county, says
the New York Farmer of March 23, was lately tested with tuber-
culin by the " health inspectors," and killed on ground of its
being tuberculous. A post-morte7n, however, "showed the ani-
mal to be entirely free from the disease."

We regret to hear that Dr. Miles A. Stafford, aged 63 years, died
at Springfield, Mo., April 2d, 1899, of disease of the brain. He
was a graduate of the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College
of Ohio. He leaves his wife and partner, Dr. Isabel A. Stafford,
who will leave Springfield for some northern town or city. She
is a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago.

Dr. Murphy's paper in this number of Recorder is worth
reading, for it deals with a very important question, both from

Editorial. 237

the health and the financial points of view. The number of cows
sacrificed to the " tuberculin" folly has been enormous, and of
those who safely passed the test no one knows how many have
been diseased by the virulent poison injected into them. Not
long ago an old butcher was watching the post-mortems of a
herd of apparently healthy cows that had been slaughtered at
the command of the tuberculin scientists; they proved (to their
own satisfaction) that each cow had " incipient tuberculosis," as
indicated by the minute pinhead deposits, of which Dr. Murphy
writes, quoth the disgusted butcher: "If them things mean
tuberculosis, then there wras never a cow without it; they all
have them things in 'em " But the butcher wasn't a bacterio-
logical scientist, he was only an old butcher and nothing more.

Dr. William Hoyt, of Hillsboro, O., once gave me an idea
that I never forgot, and it has become rock-rooted, to save many
children from that dread disease diphtheria. It is simple yet
valuable. When it begins on the left tonsil or fauces give
Lachesis 30X. If it begins on the right give Lycopodium 30X.
These symptoms are given by Gregg, but Dr. Hoyt called my
attention to it, and I feel that they have saved some cases, and
kept others from going on to a malignant form.

Dr. E. H. Peck, of Cleveland, O., gave me Conium for the
symptom of urine starting, then stopping suddenly, then start-
ing again. Valuable with old men.

Dr. T. A. Wasson gave me Veratrum album and equal parts
of water, to be painted on the skin in erysipelas, which is a
most excellent remedy. — R. M. Skinner, M. D., in American
Homceopa th ist.

Just hearken unto this from the stalwart Cleveland Medical
Gazette :

Vaccination with points, instead of with lymph or crust, is doubtless re-
sponsible in no small degree for the rapid spread of smallpox during the
recent epidemic, for the point is by far the least reliable of any of the
methods of vaccination.

What an ever-changing world ! for have not we all been in-
culcated, for these many years, that to use anything but the
ivory point was little short of immoral ?

238 Editorial.

" Genuine medicine has deviated from its natural paths. It
has lost its noble object, that of curing or alleviating. By thus
lapsing it has rejected therapeutics, without which the physi-
cian is but an idle naturalist, passing his life in discovering,
classifying and describing human diseases. Yet it is therapeu-
tics which elevates and ennobles our art. It alone gives to
medicine an object; and, I may add, by it alone can the art of
healing be raised to the rank of a science " — Latour.

The following is the order of examinations of the Homoeo-
pathic Medical Examining Board of Pennsylvania:

Anatomy, Tuesday, June 20, at 2 p. m.

Physiology and Pathology, Wednesday, June 21, at 9 A. m.

Therapeutics and Practice, Wednesday, June 21, at 2 p. m.

Surgery, Thursday, June 22, at 9 A. m.

Obstetrics, Thursday, June 22, at 2 p. m.

Chemistry and Materia Medica, Friday, June 23, at 9 A. M.

Diagnosis and Hygiene, Friday, June 23, at 2 p. m.

The Homoeopathic Board will meet in Philadelphia, at the
Church of New Jerusalem, Twenty-second and Chestnut streets.
The members of the Board are Dr. Augustus Korndoerfer, Presi-
dent, Philadelphia; Dr. Joseph C. Guernsey, Secretary, 1923
Chestnut street, Philadelphia; Dr. Isaac G. Smedley, Philadel-
phia; Dr. John F. Cooper, Pittsburg; Dr. John J. Detwiller,
Easton; Dr. Edward Cranch, Erie; Dr. Lewis H. Willard,
Allegheny.

Dr. John B. Oellig, writing to Medical World for May, extols
the virtues of Baptisia. Among other things he has the follow-
ing to say concerning its external use:

"We can use it internally, externally, and I had almost said
eternally. It is non-irritating, antiseptic, alterative, and it
certainly possesses some sedative properties, for I have applied
it to some very sensitive surfaces. Some very judicious physi-
cians are using it as an internal antiseptic and alterative. My
experience with the drug has been confined entirely to its local
use."

" I have had grand results with it in cases where the stinking
Iodoform failed. Did space permit, would like to paticularize
cases. I have cured those intractable ulcerations resulting from

Editorial 239

burns, as well as the so-called ' irritable ulcers ' of the books.
It is a grand remedy where gangrene is impending. I was
called to attend an old lady early in my prosessional experience,
who, like the woman mentioned in the good book, ' suffered
much of many physicians.' A large ulcerated surface of the
left calf, and her being upwards of seventy-five years of age,
made the case a very unpromising one. The Iodoform she had
been using was discontinued, and absorbent cotton, saturated
with a strong decoction of Baptisia, was applied, and renewed
three or four times a day. This treatment was continued for
four or five days, and then followed by the application of a roller
bandage and a simple ointment, which completed a permanent
cure."

11 Become a part owner and prescribe your own goods ! This
is the advice given in a prospectus of a manufacturing chemist,
now being widely distributed among the doctors, appealing to
them to purchase stock in the concern. This city is now being
investigated on the supposition that there are too many ' part
owners ' of corporations whose goods they are prescribing to the
public." — Medical Record, April 22.

They are on to the trusts. So is the Missouri Legislature.

Our esteemed Medical Visitor asks:

If vaccination is such an injury to the system, how is it that the average
length of life increases ? The number of days for a human being is greater
now than it was before Jenner advocated vaccination.

Quien sabe ?

Perhaps, though, less Calomel and "heroic" drugging, the
disappearance of the blood letting, the absence of leeches from
the sick room, permitting the sick to drink water and not
die of thirst, giving them pure air, better food, better habi-
tations, underground drainage, shorter hours of labor, and Ho-
moeopathy, may have had a little to do with prolonging man's
days.

Per contra, how is it that when infant vaccination is not en-
forced infant mortality is so much less than when it is enforced ?
Question for question !

PERSONALS.

Boericke & Tafel have opened a new branch pharmacy at 15 N. Sixth
street, Philadelphia, Pa. It is one of the brightest, lightest and finest ho-
moeopathic pharmacies in the land. Give it a call.

The organ of the would-be homoeopathic pharmacy trust and monopoly
seems to be worried and rattled. Bad form in those who would run a trust!

The Syracuse Clinic thinks that lack of money is the root of many evils;
editors, however, are not competent to judge from personal experience,
owing to their fat pocket books.

W. C. T. U. enthusiasts want " religious and temperance papers " to unite
in exposing patent medicines. Will they commit this hari hari? Probably
not.

The last is " danger " of tubercle bacilli in passenger ships. That settles
it, we'll not go to Europe this summer.

Those fonts of sparkling information, bacteriologists, now tell us that
combustion is the result of overfed microbes.

Pneumonia is also the work of microbes, so we are told; probably the
under-fed variety.

The " premium " offering journals are in a class of their own.

Dr. Chas. H. Helfrich has removed to 542 Fifth avenue, New York.

Dr. J. H. Hallock has located at Saranac Lake, N. Y., in the Adirondacks.

Dr. E. P- Wallace has removed from LaCrosse, to Green Bay, Wis.

The best missionary tract is Biddle's "Answers to Questions Concerning
Homoeopathy." Good thing to give out judiciously.

More men smile than laugh.

Cape May has committed sea-side suicide — " gone dry."

An advertiser says of his soap, "germs cannot withstand its deadly
action . ' '

Think of Ferrum phos. in earache.

Arndt's one-volume Practice is the homoeopathic practice.

Straight out, undiluted HomcEOPAThy is still the winning card as is amply
proved by the reception given to Nash's Leaders in Homoeopathic Thera-
peutics.

Straight Homoeopathy says: " Thus saith the law."

The other kind announces that '"sufficient time has not elapsed," etc., etc.

The straight kind, backed by thorough education, carries all before it.
Stick to the old colors!

Read Secretary Porter's final manifesto, anent the meeting of the Ameri-
can Institute of Homoeopathy, at Atlantic City, on June 20th, and then
determine to go.

Stop off on your way at Philadelphia, and take a walk through Boericke
& Tafel's big establishment at ion Arch street. You are cordially invited
by the firm to inspect the premises. Worth visiting.

THE

Homeopathic Recorder.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa., June, 1899. No. 6

NATURAL AIDS IN GYNECOLOGY.

By J. A. Clement, M. D.

We are living in an age of specialism, and the number of gen-
eral practitioners is becoming less year by year. Whether this
change is a healthy one or not I am not in a position to say, but
to my mind general practitioners are much too prone to send
certain classes of morbid conditions to some specialist without
making an honest effort towards curing the patient themselves.
This holds true in gynecological work as well as in many other
lines, and many a case is abandoned by the general practitioner
without his having made but a feeble effort to relieve some ab-
normal condition which it should be in his power to do.

We can not all be surgeons or experts along certain lines, and
any physician who does not understand a case, cannot diagnose
it or cannot treat it properly after diagnosis does a criminal act
in not referring the case to one who can. But we general phy-
sicians do possess in gynecological work two great agents — our
homoeopathic materia medica and the laws of hygiene, or what,
with your kind permission, we will term " natural aids."
With the former, in this paper, we shall have nothing to do, but
confine our attention to the latter, for it seems to be a subject
that has been neglected too much.

To simplify matters we will divide the subject into sections
and consider, first, food and diet. "A food may be considered
as any substance which is capable of replacing or constructing
tissue, or which enters into the development of any of those
complex vital processes which we designate as functional ac-
tivity, heat, or its equivalent, force." This is the scientific
definition of a food. The popular idea of a food among the
laity is something that allays hunger and is palatable; but when

242 Natural Aids in Gynecology.

we consider that all tissues are derived from the blood, body-
nutrition and function maintained through the same agency, and
that the blood is supplied from the food, it is reasonable to pre-
sume that without proper food the blood must deteriorate and
some disturbance of the economy result.

Thomas and Munde claim, and with justice, too, that many-
diseases of the uterus are established and a still larger number
perpetuated by impoverished blood and the disordered nerve-
state dependent upon anaemia. So well known is this fact that
a generous diet is a very important element in the treatment of
gynecological cases and the improved blood supply is a great
help towards recovery.

Dr. Graily Hewitt has pointed out that the tone of the uterus
is decidedly affected by want of sufficient nutrient material and
flexions are a frequent consequence; and, also, that a feeble,
atonic state of the uterine ligaments is engendered and kept up
by it.

Special dietary lists have been formulated by this one and
that, but we cannot prescribe a diet that will meet every case,
because every case is a " law unto itself."

As to the difference in diet between the two sexes, it is com-
mon sense to presume that the female requires a more generous
diet on account of the catamenia. In the patient who is com-
pelled to display quite a good deal of muscular activity (as is
the case with many of our patients) a carbonaceous diet will be
required to supply needs in that direction; while if muscular
exercise and physical activity be reduced to a minimum but a
small quantity of carbon will be necessary.

Many patients will be met who have any quantity of food at
their disposal, but not of the right quality, and irregularity of
meals is something that should be abolished. A bowl of soup
at noon-day is far better than a " hot bird and a cold bottle " at

I A. M.

The following dietary seems, according to many of our best
authorities, to meet most cases:

Soups, fish, raw oysters, raw clams.

Meat: Beef, mutton.

Eggs, raw, soft boiled or poached.

Bread and farinaceous articles. Any quanity, provided they
do not disorder the stomach.

Vegetables: All kinds if well cooked.

Natural Aids in Gynecology. 243

Desserts: Egg and milk puddings, fruits.

Drinks: Pure water, cream, milk, malt preparations, choco-
late. The use of pure olive oil has been highly commended
and is often found useful. In some instances it is unpalatable,
but if the patient begins with a small quantity at first she can
soon cultivate a taste for it.

The utility of alcoholic beverages is questionable. In some
cases they may be indicated, but in the majority they had best
be let alone. Possibly a good beer is useful at times, but there
is so much spurious beer in the market that its use is open to
criticism.

Bathing: Bathing affords a stimulus for the skin, improving
the tone of its glandular apparatus, increasing the excretion
which is carried on by its glands, and thus relieving the kid-
neys and liver of very much of their work.

As in diet, we cannot formulate any exact form of bathing
which will be applicable to every individual. In many cases a
cold plunge bath in the morning, followed by a brisk rubbing
with a coarse towel, will be of excellent service. In others a
tepid or hot bath seems indicated. In prescribing the morning
cold bath it seems best to have the patient begin with a tepid
bath and gradually decrease the temperature until the proper
degree has been arrived at.

Sea bathing or salt water baths are to be highly recommended.
The amount of bathing required for health varies but little, but
should be not less than two or three immersion baths per week.

Dress and Clothing: When we approach the subject of dress
and clothing, we are in the position of many of the Mississippi
river steamers — constantly in danger of running against a snag.
The surgeon may preach that the ever-present corset is liable to
cause tumors of the breast and possibly hernia; the obstetrician,
that a downward displacement of the pelvic viscera is brought
about, and the general medical man, that the fashionable splint
causes torpidity of the digestive functions, interference with
respiration and a possible tendency towards the development of
nervous conditions.

But preach as they may, the seed falls on barren ground and
the dictates of fashion overrule the advice of the man of science.
The one great argument put forth by our patient is, " she does
not feel comfortable without a corset." No doubt the dusky
maiden of far-off Africa would feel uncomfortable without her

244 Natural Aids in Gynecology.

nose and ear-rings, but one is about as necessary as the other.
Add to the corset habit the suspension of the clothing below the
waist, either from or upon the hips, and we have a combination
that neutralizes any effort we may make to bring about a nor-
mal condition. The average woman bows down before the dic-
tates of fashion and spurns the physician's advice, but at the
same time it is our duty to continue to agitate the subject of
dress reform.

The proper, the hygienic way, is to have no constricting bands
about any portion of the body, to have the skirts suspended
from the shoulders, and the garments so arranged as to give a
perfect freedom of movement. It is no uncommon thing to-day
to see a girl of twelve or fourteen laced to the proper fashion
plate limit, and it is pretty safe to assume that that individual
is getting her anatomical machinery in shape for some physician
to tinker on.

I do not wish to put myself in a position to be called a dress
reform crank, but when our surgeons display in their offices
jar after jar of ovaries and when ninety-five per cent, of our con-
finement cases are difficult ones I have sense enough to know
and nerve enough to say that there must be a big screw loose
somewhere.

Exercise: The question of proper exercise is also a hard one
to meet, as the rule is that one patient has too much and the
other too little. One wealthy client arises late in the morning,
sips her cup of chocolate and nibbles at a roll; is dressed by her
maid and then goes for a drive or perhaps on a shopping tour;
after lunch a reception or tea, then dinner and then the opera or
ball.

In the intermediate class our patient tramps about the house
all day attending to household duties and when night comes is
tired out and cross.

Our working patient arises early in the morning, walks to her
work (to save car fare), works hard all day, walks home at night
(to save car fare), and is too tired to do anything but fall into
bed and find rest in Nature's anaesthetic — sleep.

In the subject of exercise it is good common sense to strike a
happy medium.

In the first class, prescribe a gymnasium or a course of physi-
cal culture, and if no other inducement offer tell the fair patient
it will improve her form.

Natural Aids in Gynecology. 245

In the second class, prescribe a wheel, or tennis, or golf, or
anything that will take her out into God's sunshine and fresh
air for at least one hour out of the twenty-four.

In the third class — we hesitate. Legislation that will compel
employers to have some mercy upon employees will do much.
Our advice can do but little. Why ? Because they have their
daily bread to earn, and while common sense tells them to follow
the path we have blazed necessity drives them over the fire lines
trail.

Opposed to exercise is rest. There is no question in the mind
of any physician that perfect, absolute rest at the menstrual
period is imperative. In many cases this advice cannot be fol-
lowed, but where it can insist upon it.

Theorists claim that so many hours out of the twenty-four
are required for sleep, but to be on the safe side seven hours for
the adult seems to be required. Those who turn night into day
suffer for it sooner or later.

School Life: The question of mind over matter has been a
bone of contention for many a long year. How much the mind
can affect the physical organism or in what manner such a result
is brought about it is hard to decide; but there is one fact cer-
tain— the modern girl is forced too much, from a mental stand-
point. A girl is put into school or college, no heed is taken of
her physical condition, no heed is taken of her hygienic environ-
ment, she is burdened with study after study, and personal
pride in being equal with her classmates keeps her at the tread-
mill in spite of physical suffering.

Education is all right, and the better educated a girl is the
better qualified she is for her lifework in whatever sphere it may
be. But when we consider that the average high school or college
demands five to seven hours' hard work and close confinement to
class room or study hall, and five to seven hours' hard study at
home, we come to believe that in many instances it proves too
much and lays the foundation for future ills.

To secure a good education, hard and earnest work is
demanded, and if properly conducted the work will cause no
harm. The girl student must have sufficient out-of-door exercise,
plenty of fresh air, good nourishing food, plenty of sleep and
good hygienic surroundings.

Most colleges are equipped with gymnasiums, more or less
elaborate, and students are required to take physical exercise

246 Natural Aids in Gynecology.

for a certain period each day. But it is a question whether the
gymnasium entirely meets the girls' requirements. There is
considerable difference between gymnasium work and exercise
in the open air, and it is often found that a half hour's brisk walk
in the open air is of more service than the same time spent with
dumb bells or Indian clubs; and a game of lawn tennis more
useful than some of the " monkey tricks " on the horizontal bar.
No one, who knows anything of the subject, contradicts the
good result of proper gymnastics or physical culture, but it must
be interspersed with out-of-door exercise.

We must remember that the average girl of from fourteen to
twenty years of age .works as hard, if not harder, than the
average mechanic, and that, too, in a formative period of her life,
and if her mental body is developed at the expense of her phy-
sical nothing has been gained and much lost.

If the girl enters womanhood with a diploma, but is aenemic,
nervous and has uterine and ovarian ills, we cannot honestly
consider her as an addition to society.

In the line of education, the physician has a word to say to
mothers and teachers. Too many, far too many, girls arrive at
the menstrual period in absolute ignorance of what is before
them, and not only the gynecologist, but the regular practitioner
as well, can tell how many cases of some form of female ill he
has treated that has resulted from ignorance on the part of the
patient. It would be far better if our schools taught less Greek
and more common sense, and it is our duty to impress this fact
upon mothers and teachers. True it is, that we will receive
less fees if this is done, but we must remember that we are to
prevent disease, as that is the physician's duty.

A few words more and I am done. I wonder if it ever oc-
curred to any medical man that some of our brethren, when they
lay their earthly garments aside, should have a stone placed
over their remains with the inscription "Tonic" and a hand
pointing downwards ?

A woman or girl comes to the physician; is anaemic, nervous,
constipated, has indigestion and irregular menstruation, and a
host of ill-defined ailments. He prescribes a tonic and lets the
treatment end there.

Thank the Lord, our school goes deeper than that, and usually
prescribes the indicated remedy. But how many go out of the
domain of drugs and prescribe a little common sense!

Baltimore, Md.

Treatment of Intermittent Fever. 247

THE HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF INTER-
MITTENT FEVER.

By Dr. A. W. K. Choudhury.

Causticum is a rare medicine in the treatment of intermittent
fevers.

I dare say a well selected medicine in the treatment of a case
of intermittent fever, when not chronic and uncomplicated,
would scarcely fail to produce the desired effect with the first
dose. Is that not a glory to Homoeopathy ?

I don't know how Homoeopaths in the days of Hahnemann,
having no access to reports of cases by well known homoeopathic
physicians of that age, treated intermittent fevers, I am, there-
fore, content, for my purpose, to quote the description of a
case treated homceopathically by J. S. P. Lord, M. D., from
his work on bitermittent Fevers and other Malarious Diseases,
the work dating about the middle of the present century.
The description of this case illustrates how Allopathy was
lingering down to that time.

The homoeopathic treatment of this case by Dr. Lord, from
his work named above, page 179, case 105, dated July 11,
1853, 10 A. m. Patient named Charles D., aged 7. " Had a
shake, followed by great heat and sweat to-day; sweat was
slight."

What was Dr. Lord's first prescription for the patient?

He gave Nux 6 (without mentioning vomica or mochata or
anything else; however we take it for granted that he meant
vomica), every three hours.

Is it not an allopathic use of an homoeopathic medicine ?

The next day he notes " no chill " and gives Strych. 21, %
grain every five hours, given five doses.

13th. Chill at 2 p. m. ; shook hard; pain in the bowels, arms
and head; thirsty; vomited; some appetite; continued every four
hours.

14th. The same medicine was continued every four hours.

15th. Strych. was continued; Bry. 6 every hour in the chill.
Aeon. 4 every hour in the heat.

Here you see Dr. Lord expresses very clearly his internal pic-
ture; Allopathy within, with a homoeopathic covering. He makes
here an amalgimation of various different elements and, now,

248 Treatment of Intermittent Fever.

who is the clever physiologist and therapeutist to ascertain the
result of the conjoint medicinal effect of the medicines above,
in the living organism, when every one of them is sufficiently
capable of producing an enormous number of symptoms hardly
completely comprehensible by the best brains ? Is it not a mix-
ture made, not in the druggist's measure glass on the plain
table, but in the narrow-calibered test tube of vitality ? Each
drug when administered to a tolerably healthy individual is
capable of producing symptoms for days according to our
Materia Medica, then how is it possible for a true homoeopath to
use more than one remedy in twenty- four hours in diseases with
more or less regular paroxysms and periodicity ? Throw a piece
of stone on the surface of a sheet of water, surely it will pro-
duce circles of waves on it; and throw another such a stone on a
different part of the same water when the former circles are
continuing to spread on in their eccentric march, and what
will be the result ? The result will be, you may well imagine,
a disturbance of forces; one set of rings or waves opposing the
other. No two medicines in the list of the whole homoeopathic
Materia Medica produces the same sets of symptoms in their re-
spective provings; hence there is a probability of production of
disturbance of medicinal effects in Homoeopathy. What do we
mean generally by Homoeopathy ? A single remedy potentized.
We have no Materia Medica of different medicines mixed
together; so we should not and cannot use more than one medi-
cine at the same time according to similia. Like the Allopaths,
the Hindoos, the Greeks and the Arabs we may expect a good
result from a mixture of our own medicines; but I do not think
that to be good Homoeopathy till we have provings of the mix-
tures of the medicines.

The 17th inst. Dr. Lord's patient has Cina 6 to continue
every three hours.

19th. "No chill to-day and day before yesterday; feet very
sore and lame; has had a bad kind of eruption on them for some
time; they are now covered with dark brown scabs, very large.
Continue."

Here he gives " a bad kind of eruption on them for some
time " " now covered with dark brown scabs, very large." Dr.
Lord's sufficient description ! Such meagre descriptions of dis-
eases are sure signs of bad results of homoeopathic treatment.
But he goes on with Cina.

Treatment of Intermittent Fever. 249

21st. " Slight chill at 1 p. m.; some heat and sweat profusely
after: there is a large blister on the ankle with a blue border."

Orders " Lack. 10, every six hours."

23d. " Slight chill and headache every day." Says nothing
of the ulcers on the feet, whether improved or not.

He changes his medicine again on the 23d and gives Ars. 6d.,
y2 drop every six hours.

25th. He notes some change of symptoms and gives Graph.
6 every six hours.

27th. " Quinine y1^, 2 grains in the chill."

29th. No more chills or heat.

Here Doctor L,ord stops.

In this day no intermittent fever patient would ever come to
be treated homoeopathically by a homoeopathic physician if the
course of the treatment be so lengthy and lingering. Nine dif-
ferent medicines were used in the treatment of this case, and we
now use only one remedy for the treatment of a case of intermittent
fever.

Throughout the whole work you will find repetition of the
same medicine every two, three or four hours, and different
medicines used many times in the course of twenty-four hours.

Where then is the superiority of Homoeopathy in the treat-
ment ©f intermittent fevers over other systems of medicines if
there be repetitions as in the Allopathic school, and different
medicines used within a comparatively short time ?

Here I quote from the author's preface of the work. He says:
You must not expect to work miracles; if you do you will cer-
tainly be disappointed. Miraculous cures "by a single dose of
a single medicine " is a rare occurrence; it is an A. A. 1 phe-
nomenon, and a legitimate object of suspicion.

Dr. I^ord goes a few steps further and says : The publication
of such cures has been, is, and probably will ever be the curse
of our school. * * * *

A very nice and well-deserved blow from an antiquated hom-
oeopathic predecessor, for us who use only one medicine (al-
most always) in the treatment of intermittent fevers (uncompli-
cated of course), and fortunately are able to stop the fever with
the first dose of the medicine. We see in our practice the fever
stops with the first dose in about three- fourths of our cases. He
could not make out the shortest path to cure, notwithstanding
his knowledge of physiology, pathology, etc., and in our Materia

250 Treatment of Intermittent Fever.

Medica; and so concluded it to be quite impossible to cure in-
termittent fevers with a single remedy and a single dose, and he
could not have the felicity of the conception that things which
he thought quite impossible would be easily done in the future,
may be, by the meanest of his class. We should not put such
vain and hollow charges on the shoulders of our followers and
successors.

II. A Causticum Case Cured With One Dose.

One Causticum intermittent fever patient is named. Baresh,
a Mahommedan, of about 45 years, came to my dispensary
December 16, 1898, 9:50 A. m. His case runs as follows:

Type: Quotidian.

Time: 3 to 4 p. m.

Prod.: Stretching; burning of eyes; thirst; goose skin.

Chill: Shaking, of short duration; no thirst; goose skin
continuous; body hot.

Heat: No separate heat.

Sweat: Copious, no thirst, while there was chilliness of cold,
winter season.

Apyrexia: Time about 7 p. m. yesterday.

Bowels open daily once, stool thin with hard fecal knots; no
threadworms; urine colored; increase of urination at night, gets
up every night twice or thrice to pass water; tongue yellowish
in the centre, red sides and tip; taste in mouth sweet; heartburn
afternoon; no eructation; appetite not bad; sleep good; burning
of soles of feet and palms of hands; heat from vertex; falling
of hair of scalp.

In the commencement of this illness he felt heartburn, then
he had one day earache and along with it fever.

Used no medicine; took no medicine since two years back,
when he used homoeopathic medicine from the dispensary.

Cough since about ten days; increase of cough evening and
morning; cough with expectoration; sputa thick, whitish and
tenacious.

Pain in chest, left side, below left nipple; pain felt on lying
on left side during coughing, in deep inspiration with ameliora-
tion on lying on right side.

Sleep commences in chill, and on cessation of sleep he finds
himself perspiring profusely.

Heaviness of head and in the head roaring.

Treatment of Intermittent Fever. 251

Urination sometimes involuntary; passes a few drops some-
times involuntarily during urging.

Fever lasts about three hours.

Treatment: Causticum 6x, one globule; one dose to be taken
immediately.

Diet: Sago and sugar candy.

Bathing stopped.

He had no more fever; no pain in left chest or on deep inspi-
ration; diminished heaviness of head, and cough; evening ag-
gravation of cough gone, but the patient had morning aggrava-
tion at about 4 A. M. the next day. No increase of urination.

The following day, the 17th inst., he was given another dose
of the same medicine as above and he came no more to the dis-
pensary. Two or three days after, I saw him working as a day
laborer, and he was happy that he was all right.

Remarks: Dr. Lord writes very strongly against cures of cases
with a single remedy and especially with a single dose of that;
but, reader, you have, perhaps, noticed in my previous papers in
the Recorder cures of cases of intermittent fever with a single
remedy, stopping the fever with the administration of the first
dose. Is it not all a magic-like performance even to a homoe-
opath like Dr. Lord ? His days of Homoeopathy are quite
different from ours; we have the advantage of a better arrange-
ment and plan for the treatment of intermittent fevers from the
labors of Dr. H. C. Allen in his well-known work.

I am sorry to express that I don't know the result reached by
the general homoeopathic practitioners in the treatment of cases
of intermittent fevers in different parts of the world. Would you
please to send the descriptions and results of the treatment of
your patients of intermittent fever to the Homoeopathic Re-
corder to improve our knowledge ?

Dr. J. Laurie, in his Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine, twenty-
fifth edition, has repetition of medicine in treating intermittent
fevers and directs alternations of medicines. This shows that he
is not sure that he can cure a case (not chronic and complicated,
of course) with a single dose of a single remedy. He advises
the administration of the medicine every two or three hours in
the interval. This is not sound advice; as there are cases of
this disease where the interval (apyrexia), if it be perfect,
scarcely extends to half an hour. What will, then, the reader-
practitioners of his work do ?

252 Treatment of Inter 7nittent Fever.

Dr. E. Harris Ruddock, in his Text Book of Modern Medicine
and Surgery on Homoeopathic Principles, has two sets of medi-
cines, one for the paroxysm and the other for the intermission,
which many Calcutta practitioners adopt. He has repetitions of
medicines every four hours. I see no alternation of medicines
to treat intermittent fevers in his work.

Grauvogl, in his early homoeopathic life, used Aran, diadema,
five drops for a dose, and every hour a dose (See Allen's Thera-
peutics of Intermittent Fevers, page 48). Dr. Dunham repeats
sEs. every four and six hours (see the above work, page 60).
A. Iy. Fisher gives Cham, every three or four hours during
apyrexia (see above work, p. 93). Dr. Williamson gives Eup.
perfol. every hour in apyrexia (above work, p. 125). H. C.
Allen gives Eupat. perfol. every three and six hours in apyrexia
(above work, p. 126), and again we see him administering Ign.
every four hours (above work, p. 145). Dr. J. C. Burnett gives
Nat. m. every four hours (above work, p. 184). I remember
our most respected Dr. Mahendra Sal Sircar, of Calcutta (if my
memory be faithful), uses the selected medicine in a case of in-
termittent fever twice per diem generally.

What is the need of gathering these big luminaries of the
homoeopathic world ? By doing so I don't pretend that I have
made out any defect of their teaching and practice; but ask them
very submissively for the sake of Homoeopathy what would they
think if the first dose of the well-selected medicine would check
the paroxysm of the intermittent fever ? One dose- cure of inter-
mittent fever should invite their attention for further work for
the improvement of Homoeopathy. What is the advantage of
repeating a well-selected medicine when we can check the fevers
with one or two doses only ? None; it is a waste of money which
we can lay out for others. Not unlike Allopathy, if we be re-
peating medicines in treating a case of intermittent fever, Homoe-
opathy will have to lose the best ground, which she otherwise
may easily gain. We should study the patient thoroughly, and
not the fever only, then select the suitable medicine, and then
we can see how Homoeopathy can work wonders. If we can do
this, the first dose will check the paroxysm.

I generally give one and rarely two doses per diem, and what
do I expect to hear from my patient the next day? " No fever
yesterday " is generally the sweet sounding word. What then
do I do if that be the case? I, now-adays, repeat the dose,

Treatment of Intermittent Fever. 253

as experience teaches me the occasional insufficiency of such a
first dose to re-establish health, curing the disease.

Yes, there are queer, chronic, complicated cases which, no
doubt, require repetition, but their number is insignificant.
Pure, uncomplicated acute cases are amenable to one or two
doses of a well-selected homoeopathic medicine.

Many well-known homoeopathists, whose authority is almost
indisputable, administer and advise the administration of medi-
cines in the intermission, but I do not agree with them in this
advice, though I generally give the medicine in apyrexia.
What should be done in cases where the apyrexia is incomplete
and of very short duration? Practitioners like us who ad-
minister daily one dose can easily avail the opportunity of the
apyrexia however brief and incomplete it may be, but it would
be almost impossible for the repetition-party to treat such cases
with repetition of doses every three, four or six hours and so on
in the intermission. These men may use other medicines as
Aeon, and Gels, for some days to get a clearer and longer apyrexia,
as we see in Calcutta, before they can use the curative medi-
cines (as Dr. Ruddock calls them); but it is all in vain and loss
of the valuable time to use the palliative medicines during the
paroxysm, to wait days together to get a clearer and a longer
apyrexia, when we can in the meanwhile send home our
patient cured and thorougly restored to health. Jahr had an
especial favorite in Ipec, with which he (I dare call it blindly)
used to commence the treatment of almost every case of inter-
mittent fever, on the plea that Ipec. would make the case clear
for his known remedies as Nux vom., Ign., Ars., etc.

Here I cannot refrain from giving a practical hint in homoeo-
pathic treatment of intermittent fevers: If your store of medi-
cine lacks the medicine wanted for the treatment of the a certain
case wait one or two days with placebo, or no medicine, if possi-
ble, and the case may turn to be one of your known medicines
which you may have in your store. It happened more than once
with me that my patient required a new medicine, one which I
had never used and was not in my store. In such cases I pur-
posely waited one or two days to get that medicine, but in the
meantime the cases came under the medicine in my store. If
such be the case, then why not Ipec. of Jahr and Aeon, of others,
each of which has an especial ground to be so selected for its
amplitude of symptoms, be used profitably by somebody?

254 Treatment of Intermittent Fever.

We should not medicate our patients with the so-called
palliatives, as these, according to my opinion, make the cases
more difficult and prolong the time of treatment and delay re-
covery. A single curative or properly selected homoeopathic
medicine is all that is required in the treatment of intermittent
fevers.

Something more to add from my experiences: When the first
dose of a well-selected homoeopathic medicine checks the follow-
ing paroxysm of the fever, what should I do then ? Hahnemann
teaches us not to repeat medicine when you see beneficial effects
of it, as that disturbs the process of recovery (see his Organon).
I acted according to this advice for years in treating intermittent
fevers after my first dose but repeated failures made me repeat
one dose without any present indication at all. This second
dose (with absent indication of the first dose) never fails to
prove successful and begets satisfaction both to me and to my
patient.

Here it may be a question. Is it Homoeopathy to administer
a dose of medicine without any indication when the previous
deos has already stopped the paroxysm ? I have nothing to speak
on that save that it is my practical experience. Do accordingly
and record the result.

Now, as we have advanced far beyond the legitimate limit of
this paper, let us return to our Causticum patient of intermittent
fever. What made me to select Causticum here ?

The following italicized symptoms caused me to select it:
Shaking chill; chill, with hot body; chill, with no thirst; chill, then
sweat, having ?io intermediate heat; nocturnal increase of urina-
tion; sweat, with no thirst; heat from top of head; burning of soles
of feet; falling of the hair; sputa tenacious; amelioration of the
chest-pain on lying o?i the right side; goose skin in chill; yawning
and stretching , and involuntary urination .

The treatment resulted in recovery of the patient from the
fever; his chest pain disappeared, cough became less, and he got
rid of the nocturnal increase of urine.

Causticum has yawning and stretching almost always, so my
patient might have expressed his prodromal yawning and stretch-
ing.

Causticum patient may have a sleepy tendency, and in our
present cases the patient had sleep in chill, but Allen has no
such symptom.

Satkhira P. O., Calcutta, India.

Some New Remedies in Dermatology. 255

SOME OF THE NEW REMEDIES IN DERMA-
TOLOGY.

M. E. Douglass, M. D., Lecturer on Dermatology in the
Southern Horn. Med. College, Baltimore.

In our daily work as general practitioners we occasionally
find cases of skin affections that fail to respond satisfactorily to
apparently well-chosen remedies. Were we to analyze these cases
carefully we would doubtless find that we had been negligent
in our selection of the drug. That none of our old favorites
were exactly suited to this particular case, and often the true
similimum would be found to be a drug we were very little
familiar with. This has been my experience, and in a practice
extending over twenty years I have several times found the
correct drug among the so-called " new remedies." To illus-
trate this assertion, as well as to emphasize the necessity of
taking the case carefully, I will give a few cases:

An eruption of any character upon the skin is but one symp-
tom, and the physician who attempts to prescribe upon the
character of an eruption, or the peculiar symptoms immediately
connected with it, will often fail of that success he ought to ob-
tain. In no other department of medical science, perhaps, is it
more necessary to obtain all the morbid symptoms complained
of by the patient than in these cases.

Cornus Circinata.

We have heretofore thought of this drug principally in bilious
troubles, in which the symptoms are somewhat similar to those
of Nux vomica.

The following symptoms would indicate that it may be used
in affections of the skin:

Itching of the scalp, legs and feet, increased by scratching or
rubbing.

Paroxysms of itching of the skin of the back, legs and feet,
mostly at night.

Fine scarlet rash on the breast, attended with itching.

Skin covered with a copious, clammy perspiration.

Itching around the genital organs.

Itching of the skin all over the body.

Case. — Mrs. S., age 29. Presented herself while I was visit-
ing one of her neighbors, and asked me to give her some medi-

256 Some New Remedies in Dermatology.

cine to relieve a very annoying itching that troubled her at
night soon after going to bed. She stated there was no erup-
tion, and nothing else seemed to be the matter with her. Being
in a hurry to get to my next patient I gave her Mercurius.

In about ten days she came to the office and said she was no
better. I concluded that I would try to make a homoeopathic in-
stead of guesswork prescription this time, and after questioning
her closely and making an examination the following symp-
toms were obtained:

The itching came in paroxysms, sometimes during the day,
but more at night, and was on different portions of the skin,
worse about the vulva and inside of thighs. The itching ag-
gravated by scratching.

After getting warm in bed an itching on the chest, which,
after scratching, was followed by the breaking out of a fine, very
red rash, lasting but a short while. No other eruption was no-
ticed.

She also complained of occasional stitches in the upper part of
the chest.

Had to pass her water frequently during the day and three or
four times at night. The discharge is scanty and dark colored.

The bowels are constipated; stools consisting of a few small
lumps, followed by smarting at the anus.

Appetite poor, bitter taste in mouth, and wants only lemonade
to drink.

Tongue coated with a light, whitish fur.

Conjunctivae slightly yellowish. She feels indolent, tired and
no energy to perform her household duties.

I was in doubt what remedy to prescribe, and gave her six
powders of Sac. lac. and told her to come back in three days for
more medicine.

In the meantime I looked up her case and decided to give
Cornus circinata. This remedy acted in the correct manner and
all her symptoms were removed in ten days' time.

This remedy has several times since then been of valuable
assistance to me in cases like the above.

Cypripedium Pubescens.

Case. — Boy, aged 10. Complexion fair. Very nervous or-
ganization. Was brought to the clinic for an eruption on the
left side, extending towards the back. On examination it

Some New Remedies in Dermatology. 257

proved to be a case of zostar. In my absence the week before
the boy had received Rhus tox.

The child appeared to be in excellent health otherwise, the
only symptoms elicited being his great nervousness, easily fright-
ened and wakefulness at night, with constant talking and laugh-
ing. After getting to sleep there was twitching and jerking of
the limbs.

On the above few symptoms I prescribed Cypripedium pubes.,
with the result of a disappearance of the skin symptoms at his
next call upon us one week later. His mother also stated that
she thought there was an improvement in his nervous symptoms.
Sac. lac. was prescribed, and the case watched for three months.
Once only during that time did he receive a dose of the Cypri-
pedium. At the end of the three months jerking and twitching
ceased, he went to sleep as ordinary boys should, and everything
was serene in the case.

Berberis Aquifolium.

This drug is destined to occupy a prominent position in the
therapeutics of the dermatologist. The drug has proven to be
an excellent one in my hands, having used it successfully in
skin affections complicated with syphilis, for tertiary syphilis
and in eczema.

Hale gives the following symptoms as cured by this drug:

Syphilis in all its stages.

Syphilitic psoriasis.

Psoriasis diffuse.

Terrible eruption covering the scalp and extending downwards
over the face and chest; exact species not stated, but probably
eczema capitis.

Eruption confined to the ears and back of the head and neck
of six months' standing.

Roughness of the skin of the face in women.

Dry, rough and scaly skin.

Cutaneous affections, especially squamous, such as psoriasis
and pityriasis.

Tumor of the breast, with sharp pain in it, worse at night;
hard and circumscribed like scirrhus.

Dr. Buisly makes the following emphatic remarks concerning
its use in skin diseases:

258 About "Chronic Diseases."

" If you wish to smooth the skin of a lady's face which has
become rough and unsightly give her Berberis, and she will
give you many a puff," etc.

ABOUT "CHRONIC DISEASES."

[This letter has come into our hands, which we are privileged to
print. — Ed.]

In reply to your inquiry of the value of Hahnemann's
"Chronic Diseases" to you, I will let you decide. * * *
Hahnemann himself was like you, a regular and a learner. To
appreciate this work you should get hold of his " Lesser Writ-
ings." These led up to the " Materia Medica Pura " and the
" Organon." Both developed through several editions, as you
may infer. The "Chronic Diseases" is an evolution also, it
seems. Hahnemann's first work was one on Venereal Diseases,
and he looks upon the constitutional effects of gonorrhoea as a
serious matter. He was ready to look upon that and syphilis as
deep acting chronic constitutional diseases. But Psora was
forced upon his attention as an unknown dyscrasia by such vig-
orous works as that of Juncker's, Dissertatio de Damno Ex Scabie
Repulsa, Halle, 1750, and others quoted on pp. 18-31 of this
work. Don't forget that Hahnemann was a chemist and a
most conscientious and careful investigator, and also you must
know that an epidemic of psoriasis prevailed as one prevailed in
the United States after the war. The sad results of suppressing
this eruption was freely reported in the German medical press
of his day. Hahnemann was not " the original bacteriologist,"
as you style him, but he knew that something caused many dis-
ease expressions and these were multiplied by the external
treatment used. These were not syphilitic nor sycotic. This third
dyscrasia he termed the psora miasm. Here is something note-
worthy. He does not proceed to point out any one specific for
the multitudinous disease expressions as he does for syphilis
(Hydragyrum Nigrani) and Sycosis (Thuja and Nitric acid),
but takes a few drugs that have a very wide action with many
symptoms and points out their similarity. These drugs he
terms antipsorics — polychrests — many crowned. You know that.
it has been charged that Hahnemann and his followers ignored
pathology, but the array of diseases here given show the con-
trary. All of our colleges to-day teach pathology. [In the

About "Chronic Diseases." 259

National a young allopath teaches it.] Are you not rather sur-
prised at the elaborate subdivisions of the symptoms of drugs
along anatomical and physiological lines ? Hahnemann was a
stickler for facts, hence he carefully recorded the effects of each
drug, and located not only the special points but the character
of the symptoms. It may surprise you to find in this work such
supposed inert substances as sand, clay and lime brought forth
as remedies. His method of preparing them is along a new
chemical line. His treatment of gold and silver shows this.
Here you will find very careful directions about diet and con-
duct which will meet with your approval.

His reference to " vital force " will not likely puzzle or annoy
you, who are so familiar with the growing number of " nervous
diseases" and expressions. We now recognize the fact that the
nervous system works double — along one set of nerves (acceler-
ators) comes the stimulus to an organ, while along another set
comes a controlling influence (inhibitory). The body is not
entirely an automatic machine, but is presided over by a mind
that is often called upon to set things right. We recognize the
difference between mind and nervous control. Hahnemann
termed this nervous " driver " the " vital force." His explana-
tion of a secondary set of symptoms as being due to the reaction
of the vital force we can now explain as the action of the other
set of nerves set to work doubtless by the aforesaid force. But
neither is mind nor the vital nervous force able to prevent the
deleterious onset of disease or drugs introduced into the system
nor the serious consequences thereof, hence disease expressions
become chronic.

Grauvogl, in his text-book of Homoeopathy (a book, by the
way, that you need) styles, a chronic disease a consecutive result
of acute attacks — that leave structural derangements. Hahne-
mann hints at something along this line, as he seems anxious
that the " thread of the discourse," the consecutive history, be
not broken, for he expects the consecutive symptoms to disap-
pear in a reverse order, for you observe that he suggests to at-
tack the last symptoms first and then note the orderly withdrawal
of the enemy. I have the idea that had he lived longer he
would have given us the pathogeneses of drug effects arranged in
consecutive order, both to facilitate comparison and application.
This seems to be attempted by emphasizing certain symptoms.
Copy these for they are peculiar. Now read over his introduc-

260 Abou "Chronic Diseases."

tion to the drug and compare it with your list, and you will find
italicized effects that you can underscore. These might be
termed characteristic. They are " thread ends " that help selec-
tion in cases with similar symptoms, but don't be in a hurry to
apply them until you know more about how to treat a case.
Sulphur seems " the centre rush" in the attack on psora, and
learn it first as already suggested and then arrange the compari-
sons. Hering says that Sulphur works from within outward
(the opposite of Mercury and syphilis); see if you can arrange its
peculiar symptoms that way.

Here is where physiology is still weak. Notwithstanding all
we have discovered there is still much to learn, as well as in
pathology. What organs are involved in the delivery of the Sul-
phur symptoms to the surface, or vice versa ? Is it only through
the nervous system? Does not that suggest " vital force"
again ? This is most fascinating study.

Small men with narrow minds have made much sport of these
theories of Hahnemann, but in the light of to-day wise men like
yourself will wait for the evolution of science in medicine.
Allow me to suggest you be not influenced by the apparent
prejudice of some writers who would explain away or belittle
his theories and discredit symptoms. A theory you know points
the way for science to explain. You are a conservative, judicial-
minded man, and can afford to wait and see the silent triumph.
What must strike you is the apparent fact that Hahnemann had
an extensive practice and was able to sift the wheat from the
chaff and moreover grew in skill in the handling of his weapons.
What a great revolution is being made to-day, but still how far
in advance is this expert sharpshooter. With one shot he starts
recovery, and then watches the gradual disappearance of symp-
tom after symptom, then perhaps putting in another shot to
hasten on the disappearance of the enemy. That is scientific
art — the art of healing it would seem — and not found elsewhere!
Is it?

I don't know that in this rambling letter you will get a correct
idea of this work after all. The introductory and explanatory
part cover 160 pages, then come the pathogeneses of forty-
eight drugs, making a two volume work of 1600 pages.

[By the way, tell your friend, who makes sport of your inves-
tigations, that old Prof. Johnson, of Chicago Medical College,
once remarked in my hearing that " if he was younger he would

Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Cattle. 261

investigate Homoeopathy." He was not prejudiced. Neither
should be any scientific physician.]

I shall look for your opinion of this work with deep interest.
When you come this way on your vacation next summer we will
compare notes.

Perhaps you have noticed that Hahnemann was a sort of med-
ical centre, a medical father. We old physicians should, I be-
lieve, call about us the younger men in the profession in a social
way and talk over professional matters. They will come when
we invite them and treat them right. A new book like this
might be an attraction for a certain gathering. We learn much
by an interchange of views and experiences. This is one great
value of medical societies and journals and new books. But all
of this you know, so I will close as your friend,

T. C. Duncan, M. D.

Chicago.

THE PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS AMONG

CATTLE.

Frederick Hooker, M. D., Syracuse, N. Y.

At this time, when there is so much talk about bovine tuber-
culosis, and when so much of the State's money is being ex-
pended in discovering and slaughtering infected animals, a few
remarks upon the subject may not be inappropriate.

At the outset let me say that I have no word of criticism for
the Tuberculosis Commission so far as their efforts to stamp out
the disease are well directed, but it appears to me, as it must ap-
pear to any one who is conversant with the facts, that the meas-
ures adopted are abortive, that they have "put the cart before
the horse " and sought to " tolle causam " by imperfectly remov-
ing the effect.

It is no doubt proper to slaughter tuberculous animals, but
does it accord with the dictates of common sense to expend vast
sums of money upon this work when the cattle owner is allowed
so to keep his stock as to surely foster and spread this disease ?

Twenty or thirty head of cattle are commonly kept in a dirty,
dark, damp and poorly ventilated stable, which in many in-
stances is, at least, partially under ground.

During cold weather these animals are often kept shut up in
the overcrowded stable for a week or two at a time, because

262 • Prevention of Tuberculosis Among Cattle.

allowing them out of doors would cause a shrinkage of milk prod-
uct. During their confinement they are without exercise and
are stuffed with beer grains, the "sugar cane meal," which is a
refuse of the glucose factories, or some other grain food which,
while it may be more wholesome than those mentioned, is too
hearty for any animal confined without exercise and certain
under the circumstances to cause aberrations from a state of
health.

Everything is done to force the secretion of milk regardless of
the welfare of the animal.

Thus we have overcrowding, poor ventilation, lack of exercise,
overfeeding, and, in too many cases, lack of light, dampness,
filthiness, poor water and vermin.

What other elements can anyone suggest that would be more
favorable to the development and spread of tuberculosis ?

Confine human beings as these animals are confined, and would
not tuberculous diseases increase a hundred-fold?

In the parable of the sower only the seed which fell on good
ground brought forth fruit ; that which fell by the wayside,
upon stony ground or among the thorns, failed to develop.

May we not learn from this that it is not in exposure to germs
that the danger lies, but in having the soil fitted for their devel-
opment ?

Were it not thus no man could live, for all are constantly ex-
posed to germs.

About four years ago a series of experiments, among various
herds in this vicinity, was conducted by a veterinary, with the
result that nearly all of the animals examined showed tempera-
ture ranging from ioo° to upwards of 1040.

How many of these animals were tuberculous does not appear,
but that they were suffering from gastric irritation, due to over-
feeding, improper food or both, was shown by a reduction of tem-
perature under treatment directed against the stomach trouble.

The temperatures of these cattle were noted daily for a week
before any treatment was instituted.

While the conditions mentioned above exist, there is as much
hope of drying up Niagara River by putting a dam around its
mouth as there is of exterminating tuberculosis among cattle by
present methods — the work of extermination must begin in the
stable and in the methods of caring for the cattle.

It is a matter of fact that disordered digestion coupled with

Myristica Sebifera. 263

accompanying conditions above referred to constitutes "good
ground " for the development of the seeds of tuberculosis.

MYRISTICA SEBIFERA.

Dr. Olive y Gross, of Barcelona, has a high opinion of this
medicine as a great remedy in phlegmonous inflammations, as it
hastens suppuration and thereby shortens the disease. He gives
three cases which made rapid recovery under its use. One was
scrofulous ostitis of the two proximal phalanges of the right
middle finger, another was extensive ulceration of left leg, and
the third was a callous ulcer accompanied by phlegmonous
erysipelas of left heel and thigh. He says he has found it very-
useful in whitlow, erysipelas, ulcers, boils and other affections
of the connective tissue. It acts more powerfully than Hepar
and Silica and resembles Lachesis in its action on the purulent
diathesis. It is also a powerful antiseptic, and enables one to
dispense with all other antiseptic measures in surgical opera-
tions. It is also an excellent remedy in scrofulous maladies, in
this resembling Iodium, Calcarea, Silica and Sulphur. It is in-
valuable as a therapeutic agent in homoeopathic surgery.

The Myristica sebifera is a native of Guiana. It belongs to
the same genus as the ?iutmegy the botanical name of which is
M. cerifera, though some botanists put it in a different genus and
call it Virola sebifera. Its seeds are about the size of a grape
seed, and have a fenestrated covering resembling the mace of
nutmeg. Its kernel contains a quantity of fatty substance, of
which the natives make candles, and which they use as a salve
for various skin affections. — Homoeopathic World.

[Myristica sebifera is one of the old " Mure's Brazilian reme-
dies," and the lowest dilution in which it is obtainable is the
8th centesimal potency at the pharmacies at " regular rates." It
is obtained in Rio Negro, Brazil, and the part used is the fresh,
red juice obtained by puncturing the bark of the tree. It is not
an article of commerce, and that in possession of Boericke &
Tafel was obtained from Dr. Mure. — Editor of Homoeopathic
Recorder.]

264 Dulcamara.

DULCAMARA.

As an illustration of the unused wealth already contained in
our Materia Medica, which is often neglected or ignored for new
and unknown drugs, I shall call your attention to one of the
lesser known remedies. A drug offers many points of view, a
symptomatic side, a toxic side, a pathologic side, a chemic side,
etc., so I shall present the therapeutic side of Dulcamara for
consideration this evening in order to show some of the golden
grain we already have in store and the possibilities of its use.

The provings of Dulcamara show it to be capable of inducing
an inflammatory condition of fibrous and mucous structures
greatly resembling that having its origin in the rheumatic dia-
thesis. All the ailments and diseases which are caused or are
curable by this drug originate from and are aggravated during
the continuance of cold, damp weather; such weather as presents
itself during the prevalence of cold and damp east winds, cold,
misty or foggy days or long seasons of cold rains, or where there
has been a succession of warm days and cold damp nights. The
muscular system in general responds to this atmospheric condi-
tion in a subinflammatory state which manifests itself by a sense
of muscular soreness and stiffness in all parts of the body, or this
may be confined to certain localities. Locally it is more apt to
make its appearance in the cervical muscles, across the shoulder
and in the small of the back; even rheumatic pain in the scalp,
sometimes mistaken for ordinary headache, is another local ex-
pression. This muscular pain is usually continuous, with occa-
sional remissions for longer or shorter periods, but which always
returns unabated in degree at every change to cold, damp
weather.

The fibrous nerve sheaths, when they are situated close to the
surface of the body or when lying deeper among the muscles, be-
come the seat of pain; thus facial and other neuralgias arise in
consequence of exposure to the influence of cold, damp winds.
Motor nerves are also subject to this same rheumatic inflamma-
tion in their investing sheaths, and paralysis takes place from
exudation-pressure upon the contained nerve. Thus we find in-
volvement of the trifacial and hypoglossal nerves giving rise to
paralysis of the face and of the tongue, or paralysis of the legs
follows when the person has been sitting for some time upon

Dulcamara. 265

cold, damp or wet ground. Paralysis also occurs in the sphincter
of the bladder, causing involuntary urination.

All the paralyses of Dulcamara are local or spinal, a neuritis
in fact, and not cerebral in origin, for it is observed in cases ot
poisoning with this drug that consciousness is preserved to the
very last. Twitchings and convulsions, evidently spinal, also
occur.

Urticaria shows its reddened skin and white wheals whenever
the body has been exposed to cold, and is often associated with
acidity of the stomach.

Many gastric disorders and colic, with free yellow or mucous
diarrhoea, as a consequence of the before-mentioned weather,
often finds its cure in Dulcamara. Not only in the intestinal
tract, but all mucous surfaces, wherever these are situated, be-
come the seat of a catarrhal inflammation, due to exposure to
cold and dampness, and aggravated by every return of the same
kind of weather, fall within the curative range of this similarly
acting remedy; not the ailments caused by exposure to clear,
sharp, dry cold air, which are best met by Aconite, but the chill-
ing effect of a cold, moisture-laden atmosphere. A free produc-
tion of mucus attends all these catarrhal disorders, from the nose
and pharynx to all the canals and ducts and outlets of the body.
Even the pharyngitis, whose inflammation extends downward
into the air passages, producing laryngitis, trachitis and bron-
chitis, presents this same clinical character, and though there
may be a dry cough the general rule is a loose mucous cough
with easy expectoration. Sometimes there is a nervous element
connected with these, and the cough then takes on a spasmodic
character.

The kidneys participate in this rheumatic diathesis, and only
a small quantity of urine is secreted as a result of catarrhal in-
flammation, especially so in those who are exposed to cold and
dampness or who habitually work in water, while albumin ap-
pears in the urine in considerable amount; in such cases, as well
as in a chronic cystitis with offensive mucus contained in the
urine, Dulcamara exercises its curative effect. The menses are
apt to be late and scanty or suppressed entirely, and urticaria
often accompanies the period.

Vesicles and herpes are of frequent occurrence and show them-
selves in any locality. I have often thought that the " cold
sores" on the lips, which are always vesicular or herpetic, and

266 Treatment of Cutaneous Cancers.

which popular tradition assigns to " cold," might be due to the in-
fluence of the rheumatic diathesis, for, after all is said, skin dis-
eases are really cutaneous neuroses. Eruptions appearing on
the skin after exposure to cold or changes of weather, and sup-
pressed eruptions followed by neuralgias or asthma, all find
their counterpart in the pathogenesis of the bittersweet.

There is a tendency of the skin to become hard and callous,
with a scaly epidermis, and this drug has often been used in
psoriasis. The glandular system is also invaded; inflammation
of the salivary glands is attended with free salivation, and en-
largement of the lymphatics often occurs. — C. H. Evans, M. D.,
zn The Clinique.

POINTS IN THE ARSENICAL CAUSTIC TREAT-
MENT OF CUTANEOUS CANCERS.

By William S. Gottheil, M. D.

i. The arsenious acid caustic treatment of skin cancers does
not contemplate or depend upon the actual destruction of the
new growth by the caustic.

2. The method is based upon the fact that newly-formed tis-
sue of all kinds has less resisting power than the normal structure
when exposed to an irritation and its consequent inflammation.
Hence the former breaks down under an ''insult" which the
latter successfully resists.

3. If, therefore, the whole affected area can be subjected to the
influence of an irritant of just sufficient strength to cause a re-
active inflammation intense enough to destroy the vitality of
the new cells, the older normal cells will survive.

4. Arsenious acid of properly mitigated strength is such an
agent, and its application causes an inflammation of the required
intensity.

5. It, therefore, exercises a selective influence upon the tissue
to which it is applied, and causes the death of the cancer cells in
localities outside the apparent limits of the new growth, where
there is as yet no evidence of disease.

6. It is superior, in suitable cases, to any method, knife or
cautery, which requires the exercise of the surgeon's judgment
as to the extent to which it is to be carried. That that judg-
ment is often wrong, and necessarily so, is shown by the fre-

Proving of Chininum Arsenicosum. 267

quency of recurrence under these methods even in the best
hands.

7. It is applicable to all cutaneous carcinomata in which the
deeper structures are not involved, and which do not extend far
into the mucous membranes.

8. It is easy of application; it is safe; it is only moderately
painful; and its results compare favorably with those obtained
with other methods.

PROVING OF CHININUM ARSENICOSUM.
By Dr. Schier, of Mayence.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Allg. Horn. Zeit.,
April, 1899.

After my colleague, Dr. Rischer, in Aix-la Chapelle, and my-
self had undertaken the elaboration of China, Chininum sulphur-
icum and Chininum arsenicosum for the new German Materia
Medica, we came to the conviction that it was very desirable to
have an additional proving of the latter remedy. Although the
two component substances have been proved very carefully, and
the preparation is in consequence sufficiently well-known
theoretically, and has also been found very effective in practice,
nevertheless the proper foundation for its use at the sick-bed was
almost totally lacking: the compound had hardly ever been
proved on healthy persons. Up to this date we had at our dis-
posal merely the publication of an involuntary proving by Dr.
Muhr, given in the 88th volume of this journal. My colleague,
Dr. Rischer, to whom we owe many thanks, with several of his
male and female patients, therefore instituted last winter a num-
ber of experiments under all the precautionary measures re-
quired. We here give the results:

Proving of Chininum Arsenicosum.
Names of the provers:

1. Mr. K., cabinet-maker, 67 years of age.

2. Mr. H., bookbinder, 50 years old.

3. Mr. P., office-holder, 45 years old.

4. Dr. Risher, physician, 30 years old.

5. Miss G., 30 years old.

6. Miss K., 19 years old.

268 Proving of Chininum Arsenicosu?n.

The provings were carried on subject to the prescriptions given
in the circular of Dr. Goehrum, the 12, 6, 3, 2 d. and the crude
substances being used.

Skin. — Burning sensation all over the body, compelling the
person to scratch, followed by an unusually deep redness of the
skin. This symptom lasted about half a day, when it gradually
disappeared. Aggravation while warm, alleviation when cold.
(This symptom was observed three times while proving the 2 d.
by Nos. 4 and 5.) Intense redness of the skin, the chest and the
abdomen, after previous slight chilliness and a feeling of weari-
ness and soreness of the whole body lasting several hours. This
redness lasted about an hour, and was followed by an erysipela-
tous, extremely violent burning and itching eruption. This was
accompanied by great excitation of the whole body, with con-
gestions to the head. The eruption also appeared in a slight de-
gree between the shoulder blades; but there it disappeared after
about two hours. The pulse during the eruption was 80 to the
minute, the temperature 37. 8° (ioo° F.) and reaching 380
(100. 40 F. ). Aggravated by warmth, cold is indifferent. The
eruption continued for about three days and disappeared grad-
ually. The stools during this time were strikingly hard. (This
symptom of the eruption was observed once (No. 5) after taking
three times of the 2 d. a quantity as large as a bean.) The doses
were taken at intervals of one hour each.

Head. — Slight drawing pains in the forehead and in the right
temple. These appeared about one and a half hours after taking
the 3 d. and after about an equal period of time they extended all
over the head. External pressure is easily borne After three
hours, these pains slowly disappeared. The general health and
the appetite are somewhat disturbed. (This symptom was ob-
served four times after taking the 3 d. by Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6.)
Typically appearing neuralgia of the Nervus supraorbitalis sin.
This appears twelve hours after taking D. 2, at 1 1 p. M., about
one hour after going to bed. The (actual) paroxysms of pain
recurred three times in two hours, accompanied with sensation
of heat in the region of the nerve affected, with painful lancina-
tion in the left pupil. Next morning no ailments were felt.
(This symptom was observed once in No. 5.) It lasted only a
few minutes; during the period free from pain there is a strong
tension in the whole of the forehead.

Mouth. — Redness and swelling of the gums, with great sensi-

Proving of Chininum Arsenicosum. 269

tiveness of the same. In chewing, there are severe pains which
render it very difficult. In one case, for two days, only liquid
and pappy food could be taken (No. 1). These symptoms
appeared one to two hours after taking the 3 (or 2d.) and were
observed in four instances (1, 2, 3, 5). After about twenty- four
hours these symptoms receded of their own accord. Severe,
tearing toothache, in many ways resembling the type of neural-
gia, with deep-red and swollen gums. The provers in every
case stated that they had the sensation as if a gum-boil was
forming. The ailment appeared three hours after taking the
2 d. and continued for three to four days, after which they grad-
ually vanished. These symptoms were observed in two cases
(3, 6). A proof the correctness of these provings, as well as of
the homoeopathic principle itself, we may see in the following:
When No. 5 was about to proceed to prove 2 d. the above men-
tioned affection of the gums happened to be present, probably
from a rheumatic cause. One dose of D. 2 was sufficient to com-
pletely remove all this trouble within two hours. Redness and
inflammatory swelling of both corners of the mouth, so that every
movement in chewing is painful. This appeared within four
hours after taking D. 2, and continued for twenty-four hours.
It was observed in two instances (4 and 5).

Stomach. — Empty eructations, appearing )/o hour after taking
D. 3. This was accompanied with nausea and vomiturition.
Loss of appetite. These troubles lasted half a day and disap-
peared gradually; they were observed in three instances (1.4,
5). Violent eructation with nausea and vomiturition, once
there was vomiting (No. 5). This was accompanied with
pinching, drawing pains in the region of the stomach, an incli-
nation to bend over or sit down, in order to support the abdo-
men. Relieved by pressing on the parts, and by eructation.
The appetite has entirely disappeared, repugnance to meat, in-
clination for sweets. These troubles were attended with a man-
ifest prostration and a wretched feeling in the whole body. These
symptoms appeared in two cases (5 and 6), about one and a half
hours after taking D. 2 and they lasted for thirty-six hours.
The symptoms disappeared gradually. In one case (No. 5) there
was a violent thirst for cold water. Severe nausea, vomiturition,
severe vomiting of slimy, greenish masses, attended with dizzi-
ness, headache, convulsive, violent, constricting pains in the
stomach, relieved by external pressure, with manifest prostra-

270 Proving of Chininum Arsenicosum.

tion and inability to do even the least thing. Great thirst for
fresh water. All these symptoms appeared almost exactly two
hours after taking the crude substance, and they lasted for ten
to twelve hours. This proving was only made by No. 4.

Bowels. — Disagreeable sensations in the abdomen, slight,
pinching, drawing pains, which extend uniformly all over the
abdomen. Relieved by external pressure. Attended with a
slight, pappy stool about twice a day, more frequent than usual.
These symptoms appeared in four instances after taking D. 3,
about three hours later (1,3, 5, 6). More violent drawing pains
in the whole abdomen, colicky; inclination to sit down and sup-
port the abdomen. Relieved by pressure. Sensation of disten-
sion of the abdomen, passage of flatus of considerable violence,
followed by thin, mucous stool, voided with a colicky pain.
Great weariness and prostration. These symptoms appeared in
two instances (1, 5) after taking D. 2. Thin, watery, ill-smelling
diarrhoea discharges every hour with violent colicky pains, at-
tended with violent thirst and extreme prostration. No flatu-
lence. These symptoms occurred after taking the crude sub-
stance (No. 4). The first colicky symptoms appeared about one
and a half to two hours after taking the drug, and they, as also
the diarrhoeic discharges above described, reached their acme
about four to five hours afterward. The plainly toxical effect of
the arsenic continued for almost twenty-four hours, and the
bodily functions only gradually returned to their normal state.
The provings made with the 12 d. and the 6d. showed no results
at all with any of the provers.

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From these provings we would then compose the following
list of symptoms according to the schedule adopted for the new
Materia Medica:

Names of the provers\

1. Dr. Muhr, Allg. Horn. Zeit , Vol. VIII., p. 39-

2. Dr. Rischer and his society of provers.

1. Mental Symptoms. — None.

2. Nervous System. — The general state of health is disturbed
(2); for several hours weariness and soreness of the whole body
(2); prostration and inability to do the least thing (2); great
weariness and prostration (2); wretched sensation all over the
body (2); extreme prostration (2); lack of tone in the lower ex-
tremities (1).

Proving of Chininum Arsenicosun. 271

Clinical Use. — The nervous symptoms of themselves are but
slightly characteristic, although in theory hardly any other
remedy shows such pronounced asthenic phenomena. Only the
addition or rather antecedent appearance of other symptoms,
especially in the region of the bowels, yield a definite indication.

3. Sleep and Dreams. — Somnolence (1); interrupted sleep.

4. Fever a?id Feverish Symptoms. — Great excitation all over the
body with congestions toward the head (2); intensive redness of
skin, the chest and the abdomen after slight chilliness (2).

5. Skin. — Burning sensation all over the body, inciting to
scratch, followed by exceptionally intense redness of the skin;
aggravated by warmth, relieved by cold (2); intense redness of
the skin, the chest and the abdomen after a slight chill; this
redness lasts for one hour and is followed by an erysipelatous,
very severely burning and itching eruption, aggravation by
warmth (2); (slight) eruption between the shoulder blades (2).

6. Bones and Joints. — Painful relaxation of the shoulder joints
and the elbow joints.

7. Glands. — No indications.

8. Head. — Vertigo, headache (2); dulness in the head (1);
great excitation all over the body with congestions to the head
(2); slight pressure in the head with pains in the forehead and
temples (1); slight drawing pains in the forehead and the right
temple, gradually extend all over the head, external pressure is
easily borne (2); tension in the whole of the forehead (2).

Clinic Application. — The symptoms of the provings refer
chiefly to neuralgias in the forehead and the temporal regions.

9. Ear and Visio?i. — Painful lancination in the left pupil (2).

10. Eye and Hearing. — In the left ear a sensation and noises
as from locusts (1).

1 1 . Nose and Smell. — No indications.

12. Face. — Pain and heat in the region of the supraorbital sin.
nerve, appearing in paroxysms three times in two hours (2).

13. Mouth and Buccal Cavity. — Severe tearing toothache with
strongly swollen and reddened gums, as in the formation of a
gumboil (2); redness and swelling of the gums with great sensi-
tiveness there and severe pains in chewing (2); on account of
the painfulness of the gums for two days only liquid and pappy
food could betaken (2); redness and inflammatory swelling of
both corners of the mouth, so that the motions in chewing are
extremely painful (2).

272 Proving of Chininum Arsenicosum.

14. Fauces and Throat. — No indications.

15. Stomach. — The appetite disturbed (2); loss of appetite (2);
the appetite is quite gone, nauseates meat; inclines to sweets (2);
great thirst (2); great thirst for fresh water (2); violent thirst
for cold water (2).

Empty eructation, slight nausea and vomiturition (2); violent
eructation with severe nausea and vomiturition (2); vomiting
(2); violent nausea, vomiturition, severe vomiting of slimy,
greenish masses (2); convulsive, violent, constrictive pains in
the region of the stomach, relieved by external pressure (2);
pinching drawing pains in region of the stomach; inclination to
bend over or sit down, in order to support the abdomen, pressure
on the painful spot relieves, so also eructations (2); pressure be-
hind the stomach, not vanishing after dinner, which was eaten
with appetite (1).

Clinic Application. — Here the effects of the arsenic are pre-
dominant, indicated especially by the strong thirst, as well as
the violent pains in the stomach. The symptoms of acute,
feverish catarrh of the stomach, as they appear after taking a
general cold, and especially after taking cold in the stomach
from drinking cold beverages, are plainly developed. If to these
are added the symptoms enumerated under sixteen and eighteen
of catarrhal inflammation of the intestinal canal combined with
severe meteorism {China), we have a characteristic morbid
image, which our remedy rules supreme.

16. Abdomen. — In the evening very severe colicky pains (1);
disagreeable sensations in the abdomen, slight pinching drawing
pains all over the abdomen, relieved through external pressure
(2 repeatedly); violent drawing pains in the whole of the abdo-
men, like colic, inclination to sit down and support the abdomen,
relieved by pressure (2); distension of the abdomen (2); pressure
in the solar plexus, felt toward the back as a pinching sensa-
tion (1).

17. Colon and Anus. — No indication.

18. Stool. — Discharge of violent flatus, followed by thin, mu-
cous stool, voided with colicky pains (2); pappy stool (2, four
times); thin, watery fetid diarrhoeas appearing every hour with
violent colicky pains (2); stool of striking hardness (2).

19. Urinary Passages, and 20 Sexual Organs. — No indications.
21. Respiratory Organs. — The respiration very easy as if the

thorax were hollow (1).

Proving of Chininum Arsenicosum. 273

22. Chest. — No indications.

23. Circulatory Orga?is. — Sensation as if the heart stood still
(1); trembling of the heart with a cooing sound, could not dis-
tinguish the heart beats (1); palpitation of the heart, sensible
when resting the back against anything (1); the beat of the
heart is irregular, 200 beats a minute (1); cannot feel the pulse
in the left wrist (1); great excitation in the whole body with
congestions to the head (1).

Clinic Application. — In acute and subacute inflammations of
the heart and feverishness illness, accompanied with such weak-
ness of the heart that the heart beat and pulse cannot be felt,
attended with congestions to the head corresponding to the ac-
tion of China.

24. Neck and Back. — The spine when touched is painful and
pressive (1).

25. Lower Extremities. — Relaxation of the lower extremities

(0.

26. Concomitants. — (a) Aggravation: The cutaneous eruption
itches more in warmth (2); palpitation is felt when resting the
back against anything (1); spine when touched is pressive,
painful.

(b) Alleviation: Abdominal pains relieved by pressure (2,
twice); pain in the stomach, relieved by pressing upon the
affected part, as also by eructations (2); in headache external
pressure is easily borne (2); burning sensation in the skin,
alleviated by cold (2, several times).

REMARKS.

The list of symptoms shows several gaps which will have to
be filled out by later investigations, and which may, in the
meanwhile, be filled out by the several correspondent extensive
rubrics under Clmia and Arse?tictim in the new Materia Medica.
The theoretically presupposed effects of the remedy have at all
events been confirmed as to the most important points by the
provings made under the direction of my colleague, Dr. Rischer.

An especial physiological and comparative paragraph seems
unnecessary, as in the summary in the new Materia Medica
everything worth knowing is collected under China and under
Arsenicum.

274 Book Notices.

BOOK NOTICES.

The Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schussler, Comprising the
Theory, Therapeutic Application, Materia Medica and a Com-
plete Repertory of These Remedies Homceopathically and
Biochemically Considered. By Wm. Boericke, M. D., and
Willis A. Dewey, M. D. Fourth Edition. Rewritten and
Enlarged. 424 pages. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50; by mail, $2.72.
The third edition of this standard work on biochemistry,
which was issued in 1893, contained 384 pages, the fourth 424
pages, but the publishers have not advanced the price on this
new edition. Few medical works have enjoyed the popularity
of this one, and certainly none have merited it more, for it is a
thorough, conscientious and exhaustive study of that much-dis-
puted theory of the treatment of disease. Briefly stated, bio-
chemistry as advocated by Schussler consists in the treatment of
all diseases with twelve cell-salts, triturated to the 3d, 6th or
12th decimal potency. These "twelve tissue remedies" are
Ferrum p/ws., Calca?'ea p/ios., Natrum fikos., Kali fi/ios., Kali
mur., Calcarea fluor., Silicea, Calcarea sulph., Natrum sulph. y
Kali sulph and Magnesia phos. and there can be no doubt but
that they occupy a very important place in medicine, but
whether, as their enthusiastic friends claim for them, they are
all sufficient in all diseases is another question. Certainly they
are worthy of careful study, and by means of them the physician
will be able to easily clear up many a case to the patient's satis-
faction and his own profit. This fourth edition is beautifully
gotten up, and in view of the fact that it is the only authorita-
tive work ir> the field, outside of Schussler' s own monograph, it
ought to command a large and steady sale.

Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica. By J. T.
Kent, A. M., M. D. Complete in twelve fascicles. 1,349
pages. Price, unbound, $30.00 Bound, one vol., half
Morocco, $31.50; 2 vols., $32.50; 3 vols., $33.50.

I. Mind and Sensorium, $2.75.

II. Head (External and Internal), 3.00.

III. Eye and Ear. 2.00.

Book Notices. 275

IV. Nose and Face, 1 .75.

V. Mouth and Throat, 2.00.

VI. Stomach and Abdomen, 3.00.

VII. Rectum, Urinary Organs and Genitalia, 3. 25.

VIII. Larynx and Trachea, Respiration and Cough, 1.85.
XI. Chest and Back, 300.

X. Extremities, 6.00.

XI. Sleep, Fever and Skin, 2.50.

XII. Generalities, 2.00.
The complete work, unbound, $30.00.

The strength, and at the same time the weakness of the
homoeopathic Materia Medica lies in its enormous volume. No
symptom in a proving can be rejected as valueless, and yet, once
it has been incorporated in the Materia Medica, it is valueless
unless it can be readily found. Every one knows how tantaliz-
ing it is to remember that a certain "wanted" symptom is
somewhere in the Materia Medica, and yet be unable to locate
it, and because of such arises the necessity for repertories.
Many attempts have been made in the past to overcome the dif-
ficulties in the way of finding that state in the Materia Medica
analogous to the totality of the symptoms in the patient, and
the notable repertories of Boenninghausen and Jahr, which have
come down to us with Hahnemann's stamp of approval upon
them, are examples. Boenninghausen's work soon won for itself
a high place of esteem, but the profession found that, though it
was useful in generalizing, it could not be adapted to all the
needs of the homoeopath, and hence the appearance from time
to time of special repertories, the most useful being such as
Berridge's "Eye Repertory," Bell on "Diarrhoea." Allen's
"Intermittent Fever," Eggert and Minton on "Uterine and
Vaginal Discharges, etc," Guernsey on "Haemorrhoids." Com-
plete repertories had also been attempted, and of these the most
popular was Constantine Lippe's. But neither Lippe's small
repertory nor the above mentioned monographs, were able to
satisfy the demand for a full and complete repertory to our
Materia Medica. For fifteen years Dr. Kent had been compiling
for his own use such a repertory, and when it was nearly com-
pleted strong pressure was brought to bear upon him by many
leading homoeopaths to print the repertories for the benefit of
the profession. Agreeing to this, the work was published«by
subscription, about 200 physicians having signified their desire to

276 Book Notices.

possess the work. It was prophesied that the publication would
probably end about the middle of the work, but we are glad to
welcome the last fascicle and to note that all the expectations
of the subscribers have been realized, and we have at last a work
which is, what it purports to be, a complete repertory of the
Materia Medica. A superficial examination satisfies us that we
have in this a standard work which is worthy of being classified
along with Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura, the Encyclopaedia
and the Guiding Symptoms, as it is essential to these, and with-
out it they become terra incognita. A closer scrutiny reveals
the fact that the general rubrics are fuller and more reliable than
those the older repertories give. We note that revision has cor-
rected many errors and given us many new additions, and es-
pecially do we welcome the long array of modalities accompany-
ing the rubrics. The general plan of the work is simple and is
uniform throughout. Each of the twelve fascicles is alphabetic-
ally arranged, the rubrics first containing the general group of
remedies and then giving the time and circumstances (agg. and
amel.) of the symptom. Anything like a particular review is
out of the question, but we cannot refrain from detailing, as an
instance of the character of the work, Dr. Kent's treatment of
the rubric " Pain" in the Head repertory. Eighty-four pages
are devoted to this rubic alone, and in that space we can safely
say are included almost all the headaches of the race. First of
all comes "Pain in general" (undefined headache), with its
time and circumstantial aggravations and ameliorations, and
directions. Having exhausted this, the location of the pain is
next dealt with, e. g., brain, forehead, occiput, etc., with the
aggravations, ameliorations and extensions of these, and, lastly,
the nature of the pain, aching, bursting, cutting, etc., is de-
tailed with the time and circumstances of agg. and amel., ex-
tension and location. So thoroughly is this plan carried out
that it leaves nothing to be desired so far as arrangement is con-
cerned. The fascicle "Extremities" is the masterpiece, how-
ever, of the repertory, claiming 250 pages of the work, in
pages of which have been monopolized by pains of all sorts of
description, location and condition. "Generalities" is the
summing up of the symptons that refer to the patient as a whole
and takes the place of Bcenninghausen's pocket book, having all
its advantages without the errors he has made of considering
particular symptoms, referring only to one part, as general symp-
toms of the patient.

Book Notices. 277

This repertory is easy and pleasant to handle; it abounds in
cross references, its errors are few and easily rectified, its plan
admits of indefinite expansion by the addition of new symptoms
which can be easily classified. A little attentive perusal soon
brings familiarity with its contents, and the former dreary task
of working out the case by repertories is made both pleasant
and profitable as well as possible. The typography and paper
are good, and the wide margins give abundance of room for
notes.

Economy is a strong feature in this repertory, both time and
money being saved by its possession. When we consider that
it includes all that is found in all the special and general reper-
tories hitherto published, and a great deal more in addition, that
it has the special repertories as " Headache," "Eyes," "Diar-
rhoea," " Cough and Expectoration," "Haemorrhoids," "Neu-
ralgia," "Rheumatism," " Diseases of Women," "Skin Dis-
eases," that it has a repertory of " Generals," and that these
are bound together in one work, without the necessary duplica-
tions to be found in separate books, we can see how money,
time and labor are saved by investing in and using the latest
and best of repertories.

The work was published by the author as a subscription work,
but complete copies bound or in fascicles may be obtained
through the Boericke & Tafel pharmacies If wanted in foreign
countries it had best be ordered in the fascicles, as the bound
work is too large to be sent through the mails.

Saunders' Medical Hand Atlases. — Atlas of Diseases of
the Skin, including an Epitome of Pathology and Treat-
ment. By Prof. Dr. Franz Mracek, of Vienna. Authorized
Translation from the German, edited by Henry W. Stel-
wagon, M. D., Ph. D., Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Jef-
ferson Medical College, etc. With 63 colored plates and 39
full-page, half-tone illustrations. Cloth, S3. 50. Philadel-
phia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.

Another of the " medical hand atlases " series full of superb-
colored plates of skin diseases — very nasty to contemplate; evi-
dently the author has had the pick of the Vienna hospitals for
his "copy." Needless to add that if anyone is interested in
illustrations of diseases of the skin, this book is the best pub-

278 Book Notices.

lished. Treatment plays but little part in these atlases, and the
little there is does not commend itself to a believer in Homoe-
opathy.

An Epitome of the History of Medicine. By Roswell Park,
A. M., M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical Depart-
ment of the University of Buffalo, etc. Based upon a course of
lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. Second Edi-
tion. Illustrated with Portraits and other Engravings.
6^2 x 9% inches. Pages xiv-370. Extra cloth, $2.00 net.
The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street,
Philadelphia.

Dr. Park's very interesting work has reached a second edition,
revised and considerably enlarged. It is a useful work for one
who wants to get a broad view of the history of medicine — and
what physician should be without it ?

Viscum Album, the Common Mistletoe: Its Natural History,
Traditional Virtues, and Popular and Scientific Uses in the
Treatment of Disease, Together with New Provings of the
Drug. By George Black, M. B. (Edin.). 79 pages, paper.
London:] FE. Gould & Son. 1899.

A very interesting little work on one of the most ancient drugs
known; a drug, too, that seems to possess most marvellous
medicinal qualities. It has been successfully prescribed in
many diseases, but its greatest use seems to be in epilepsy and
" fits," and the provings seem to show that it is homcepathic to
the jerky patients. One prover, a woman, reported, " I couldn't
keep any part of my body quiet; a leg might jerk and then an
arm, but one or the other would keep on jerking till it was
over." And later, several days, " I didn't get any palpitation
last night before the twitching came on, but I had some funny
symptoms; the twitching lasted three hours." Months later this
prover was still affected with the drug; " she is utterly wretched
— that she thinks she will go out of her mind — feels that she
would have an epileptic fit, and says she would feel far happier
in an asylum." " All this state of mental and physical wretch-
edness she declares emphatically has arisen since she took
Viscum album with a view to proving it, and to it, and it alone,
she attributes her misery." This proving was made with the

Book Notices. 279

tincture. Another prover, 3d dilution, experienced jerking and
twitching of the muscles.

A third prover with varying strength of the drug did not at
once develop the twitchings, but they came later. "I have
had no pain [though previously she had experienced great pain
from the drug] but great twitching in my hands and legs for a
long time — just like a person with chorea. I am sure if I had
anything in my hand it would have gone." The fourth prover,
Dr. Black himself, also experienced the muscular jerkings and
twitching, but not to so marked a degree as the others. The
provings also strongly point to sciatica and rheumatism coming
in its sphere. It is also of decided use as an oxytocic. Dr.
Black has made a valuable contribution to medical literature.

On the Relation of Antitoxin Treatment to Homoeopathy.

Including a new Explanation of the Law of Similia. By

Emanuel M. Baruch, Ph. D., M. D. 71 pages, 16 mo. Cloth.

75 cents. New York, Boericke & Runyon Co. 1899.

The author says on page 30: " All antitoxins act as homoe-
opathic remedies, all homoeopathic remedies act as antitoxins."
In a sense that is true — anything that will cause a deviation in
the human body from the normal is homoeopathic to similiar
disease deviations. To ascertain these deviations the drug, or
substance, must be proved and must be simple, i. e., unmixed
with other drugs. Antitoxin has not been proved, and it is not
a simple drug, as the horse is first injected with glander anti-
toxin, and others, and then the serum is preserved from prutre-
faction by the addition of powerful drugs, such as Carbolic acid,
Camphor, Trikresol, etc., according to the manufacturer.

The starting point of all the antitoxins is the virus of some dis-
ease, so why would it not be better to potentize these viruses by
trituration and dilution rather than adopt the cumbersome and
expensive methods of Behring and the others ? As a matter of
fact, the whole sereotherapy is simply a bunglesome form of the
late Dr. Samuel Swan's isopathy that was in a certain sense un-
justly derided during his lifetime; unjustly, because all these
viruses are especially active poisons and if they can be proved
will be most potent remedies in the hands of homoeopathic phy-
sicians who are not afraid of a rather high potency. Time was
when they were called " nasty " and men were shocked at them;

280 Book Notices.

well, so they are, very nasty, but if they will restore health
when nothing else will are they to be tabooed on that account ?
All these viruses in high potencies, 30th, 200th, etc., seem to
have a beneficial action on those constitutionally tainted with
the- disease itself, or by heredity, as has been repeatedly demon-
strated by Bacillinum, Psorinum and others, but the antitoxin
men have got hold of the great truth at the wrong end and
simply bungle it with their horse juice, Carbolic acid and other
useless appendages.

It is but fair to state, however, that commercially they make a
great success of it. While we cannot agree with Dr. Baruch, he
has at least produced a book that will provoke discussion.

The Anatomy of the Central Nervous System of Man and
of Vertebrates in General. By Prof. Ludwig Edinger, M.
D., Frankfort-on-the-Main. Translated from the Fifth Ger-
man Edition by Winfield S. Hall, Ph. D., M. D., Professor of
Physiology in the Northwestern Medical School, Chicago,
Assisted by Philo Eeon Holland, M. D., Instructor in Clinical
Neurology in the Northwestern University Medical School,
Chicago, and Edward P. Carleton, B. S., Demonstrator of
Histologic Neurology in the Northwestern University Medical
School, Chicago. Illustrated with 258 Engravings. 6^x9^
inches. Pages xi-446. Extra Cloth, $3.00. The F. A.
Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street, Philadelphia.
This book, translation of the fifth German edition, is divided
into three general parts: I. Introduction to the Anatomy of the
Central Nervous System. II. Review of the Embryology and
Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrate Brain. III. Special
Anatomy of the Mammalian Brain, with Special Consideration
of the Human Brain, The whole is an original and learned
treatise on the subject that has met with great favor both in
Germany and among English-speaking physicians.

Dear Sir: You ask what I think of Malcolm and Moss's Re-
gional and Comparative Materia Medicas ? If you will consider
that this is a work on therapeutics, with the symptoms of a
hundred or so of leading remedies arranged by regions, you can
get a better idea of the sphere it fills. For example, you have a

Book Notices. 281

case of cough. You write down the kind of cough, when it is
worse or better, and any other striking symptom; now you turn
to this work and run over the cough therapeutics as there given.
You may note two or three drugs come near it. Now go to
your Materia Medica like Hering's condensed, and go over these
drugs. You may have concluded that you have only two to
choose from, and it may take Allen's Cyclopaedia to help you to
decide on one. How long to let it act and its succession is an-
other story. Now do you get the place for this so called "Re-
gional" Materia Medica. It is some like Lilienthal's Homoeo-
pathic Therapeutics. In this last work you get clinical views
and pathology, while in the former work only the pure symptoms
are given. Both books are helpful and should have a place on
our reference shelves. The repertory, or grouping feature, may
help you and may not. For many physicians it is too much
separation, like a fanciful index. When the repertory is really
a grouping under a pathological head, it is helpful to those of us
who have been trained along analytical lines.

Yours truly,

T. C. Duncan.

Independence, Mo., May 1, 1899.
Messrs. Boericke& Tafel, Philadelphia, Pa.:

I have examined the new Practice of Medicine by Dr. Arndt
and find it the most complete, thorough, practical, up-to-date
one volume work on the practice of medicine published.
It is a work of which our school may well be proud.
The arrangement is very satisfactory, the treatment of all
topics quite thorough for a single volume, and the indexing
complete, making it the ideal single volume work for the
student and practitioner alike.

Very respectfully,

F. J. Boutin.
Professor of Practice of Medici?ie in the Kansas City Homoeopathic
Medical College.

282 Book Notices.

(The following is an extract from a letter from Prof. E. E.
Reininger, of the Chicago Homoeopathic College, concerning
Nash's Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics:}

353 South Oakley Avenue, Chicago, May 10, 1899.

" I wish for more of just such convincing arguments in favor
of potentized drugs and the minimized dose as the writer gives."

11 The doctor ought to be encouraged to do more of such grand
work."

"I wonder if there are not others who can tell something
about homoeopathic medication as encouragement to young men
seeking more light."

" Alas, if I dare express myself here, the mind does not take
in only what can be actually seen, therefore I conclude that the
only clincher will be bedside."

11 Study of cases in hospital wards under a capable prescriber
and then the chance to observe the results during time of treat-
ment. I know from experience that it takes hard work to con-
vince young men that there is truth in our grand and only true
method to relieve suffering humanity."

"If only the underlying teaching of Hahnemann as to the
cause of the disease was taught and generally accepted, then
the rest would follow in logical order — but materialism, the
belief that disease is due to an entity, that it is a something
ponderable and, therefore, one must meet ponderable by ponder-
able and thus destroy life instead of saving it."

Veterinary Homoeopathy in lis Application to the Horse.

By John Sutcliff Hurndal, Member of the Royal College of

Veterinary Surgeons, England.

A book that carefully treats of the common and oft-repeated
ailments of his best friend should be available to every doctor
who does not creep around on foot, or commit himself to the
tender mercies of the wheel on the way to his patients. Briefly
this is the most thoroughly clinical veterinary work that we
have ever seen, and considering how very much can be done for
sick horses, as well as for other animals, by a proper application
of the homoeopathic principle; it is really a most useful publica-
tion. Written in a plain and simple style, it is suited for the lay-
man as well as for the doctor, and it merits a large sale. Its
" code of common suggestive symptoms " would put almost any-
body on the right diagnostic scent, while its pathology and
therapeutics are almost perfect — The Clinique.

Homoeopathic Recorder.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT LANCASTER, PA.,

By BOERICKE & TAFEL.

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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Leipzig Pop. Zeitschr.
f. Honi., November, 1898.

Last Call.
Editor of Homceopathic Recorder.

The time for the meeting of the American Institute of
Homoeopathy, at Atlantic City, June 20 to 24, is very near, and
this is the last opportunity to reach the profession through the
columns of the journals before that time. The profession have
been well-advised of the preparations for the meeting. The
most beautiful and unique meeting place in the world, with the
waters of the Atlantic rolling beneath us. Sections well filled
with scientific material from the best minds. Six strong papers
on Homoeopathy as related to the various branches of medicine
and to allied therapeutics. A lecture upon, and demonstration
of, that wonderful and new product, liquified air. Business ses-
sions the aim of which shall be a closer organization and better
known Institute, means for the more faithful preservation and
improvement of our Materia Medica; the consideration of our
relations to allied therapeutics; definite action upon the national,
state, county and municipal status of the homoeopathic school;
the practical working out of a determined effort for general and
universal recognition; the review and careful improvement of
our medical standard by which we may secure absolute unan-
imity in the requirements, methods and relations of our
educational institutions; together with plans for some legal
enactment that may secure to the possessor of a diploma from a
legal and properly chartered medical college equal recognition
in all States of the Union; and last, but not least, a report of
Homoeopathy in Canada and the counseling together with our

2 84 Editorial.

Canadian friends of how we may best, as the greatest organized
homoeopathic body in the world, serve their interests by our
friendship, fraternal association, and by the strength of prestige
that comes from so strong an organization as the A. I. H.; these
are the matters of scientific study and business which will come
before us. No man who desires to keep pace with the rapid ad-
vancement of his profession can afford to miss the yearly papers
and discussions of the student members of our school; and the
business session at Atlantic City touches the most vital points
of our professional life, and upon their decision rests our
strength, our advancement, our prosperity, in future years.

During the past year many of our old, faithful members have
laid down to silent dreams. They have borne the brunt of
battle and the heat of the day, while most of us have but reaped
where others have sown. This year we appeal to every member
of the homoeopathic profession who looks forward to a future for
himself and for his school to assume and recognize his own indi-
vidual responsibility, and to give to the American' Institute the
support of his membership, and, if possible, of his presence.
Blank membership applications may be secured of the secretary,
Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 181 W. 73d St., New York City, or of Dr.
Joseph P. Cobb, 254 E. 47th St., Chicago. Those desiring mem-
bership may send these blanks, properly filled, together with the
fee of $7, to Dr. Joseph P. Cobb, addressed as above.

Once more, fellow members of the profession, we appeal to
you earnestly; yes, with all the earnestness of which we are
possessed, to come with us, to help us. in the full realization that
a scattered profession is weak, but as a united and thoroughly
organized body under the banner of the American Institute,
which has made us what we are, we can forward the work so
well commenced by the fathers; we can keep our Materia Medica
well abreast of the times; we can winnow it, ' ' holding fast to that
which is good;" we can study the prophylactic power of our
school which is just begun; we can knock at the doors of con-
gress, of legislatures, of city councils; we can demand and en-
force equal rights in all places and all positions under the flag.
More cannot be said. Your future rests with you; my future
rests with you; our future rests in the united strength of us all.

Fraternally,

Bent. F. Bailey,

President.

Editorial. 285

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY.

RAILROAD FARES— REDUCTION IN

RATES— NOTICE !

A reduction of fare and one- third for the round trip has been
granted by the Trunk Line Association to those attending the
meeting of the Institute at Atlantic City in June on the certifi-
cate plan. The tickets will be on sale from June 15th to 21st
inclusive. Full fare must be paid for the going ticket, and a cer-
tificate, which is prepared by the railroads for the purpose, is
given to the purchaser. These certificates are not kept at all
the local stations; but if not, the agent there will sell a ticket to
the nearest station where they can be procured and the through
ticket and certificate will be taken there. Be sure to get the
certificate, for without it properly signed and vised the return-
ing ticket cannot be gotten at the reduction.

As soon as the place of meeting has been reached the certifi-
cates should be given to Chairman of the Transportation Com-
mittee, who will sign them and have the Special Agent vise them ,
when they will be ready for use when the time to go home has
arrived.

The limit for return expires on June 28th.

No refund of fare will be made on account of any person fail-
ing to obtain a certificate.

Those attending the meeting of the O. O. & L. Society, which
meets at the Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City, N. J., June 19-20, can
have the benefit of the reduction of fare by asking for tickets to
the meeting of the Institute and taking the certificates.

Hoping for a large attendance, I am

Fraternally yours,

J. B. Garrison, M. D ,
Chairman Transportation Committee.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC

MEDICAL PROFESSION OF THE

UNITED STATES.

The Commission appointed at the last Medical Congress in
London for the restoration of Hahnemann's tomb are actively
at work. All who have subscribed to the fund should send in
their unpaid subscriptions at once.

286 Editorial.

Any members of the profession, or laity, desiring to contribute
anything further towards this restoration of Hahnemann's
tomb in Pere La Chaise Cemetery, at Paris, France, should for-
ward the amount at once, either to me, as the American Repre-
sentative, or to Dr. Francois Cartier, the Secretary, at 18 Rue
Vignon, Paris. The Commission has thus far collected about
fifteen thousand francs, which will be utilized to the best advan-
tage.

Thanking all who have contributed, and trusting the work of
the Commission will be acceptable to the homoeopathic profes-
sion of the world, I am

Fraternally yours,

Dr. Bushrod W. James,
American Representative of the Commission.
N. E. Cor. 18th and Green Streets,

Philadelphia, Pa.
May, 18pp.

" I have always insisted and do now conclude that we should
believe nothing that we hear regarding doctors that is unkind,
and very little that we know to be true, and I argue further that
any member of our guild is better than he looks, for few men
have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Doc-
tors can safely keep in mind always that old German proverb,
which, freely translated, reads: ' To know all is to forgive all.'
And who has more to forgive than a doctor ? But, old fellow, go
on forgiving. Life is too short to retain for a minute unkind
feelings; they not only perturb the mind, but impair digestion,
check elimination, and indeed are the most serious general in-
terrupters of metabolism met with in the scheme of life." — Med-
ical Mirror.

Teste says of Plumbum that it is "adapted to adults, males
rather than females, and particularly to persons of a dry, bilious
constitution with a somewhat jaundiced complexion, irascible
hypochondriac or disposed to religious moyiomania." Long-
haired men, Christian Scientists, etc., might be cured by lead —
in pellets.

Editorial. 287

The epidemic is rapidly spreading. It has struck the Cali-
fornia Medical Journal, as witness:

EVERYTHING GONE.

The bills came in. The money went.

The sick man's hopes grew fewer,
And finally the doctor came

And took his temperature.

The following is from a published interview in the Pharma-
cutical Era of May nth of a tablet manufacturer, and the atten-
tion of those who are contemptuous when Hahnemann's dyna-
mization ideas are to the fore is respectfully called to it:

"The so-called regular school knew nothing of trituration excepting that
it was connected with Homoeopathy, and, linking it with that theory, dis-
missed both as unworthy of consideration; but the action and study of tablet
triturates showed them that much of the success of homoeopathic medicine
was due to trituration, the use of which is spreading wherever its influence
is felt."

To be sure much of the success of Homoeopathy is due to
Hahnemannian remedies, but these without the law would be
useless, even as the law is helpless without them.

The Journal of Homoeopathies says of Jones' Porcelain Paint
er's So?i : " Any work that adds lustre to the name of Hahne-
mann is welcome in these degenerate days. Dr. Jones, in this
extremely interesting book, has taken a few of the pearls of
Hahnemann's life and put them in a setting of gold, and our
only regret is that he has not given us more of the same. The
last chapter, ' Under Which King, Bezonian ?' is full of timely
warning. It sounds like a postscript to the Orga?ion, and should
be pressed upon the attention of all colleges professing to teach
students Homoeopathy, but supplying a very different article."

PERSONALS.

Dr. B. W. Severance, homoeopathic physician at Gouveneur, N. Y., has
been appointed Health Officer of that city. The appointment was unsolic-
ited and a surprise to Dr. Severance.

Dr. D. A. Lock has removed from Lansing to Potterville, Mich.

When you can get at what is back of bacteria you will have made a real
and a giant stride.

Some one advises doctors to " preach less and practice more," to which it
may be replied, " Well, send in the patients."

A Florida bacteriologist wants kissing prohibited by legislative enactment
so as to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. He is a scientist hunting trouble.

The Medical Record says that the recent petition to the new mayor of
Philadelphia for "a quiet Sabbath" is "gilding refined gold." Philadel-
phia's repose is that which marks the caste of Vere de Vere — you must be
born in it, as it can be acquired no other way.

Yes, John Henry, in a sense patients in famous articles are patients on a
monument. You are progessing, but do not go too fast, John.

The Medical Visitor says that Nash's Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeu-
tics is the best book published to be put in the hands of the allopath. Sure.
Give 'em straight Homoeopathy if you want to gain their respect.

We've all heard of the ass in the lion's skin, but occasionally a lion tries
on the ass's skin, which is worse.

Dr. E. P. Wallace has removed from La Crosse to Parmenter Block, Green
Bay, Wis.

Dr. W. B. Garsides has removed from East Orange, N. J., to 135 Gates
Ave., Brooklyn, Greater N. Y.

Emperor William terms tuberculosis the " national disease " of Germany.
Some " anti " crank may put the poser: Has that thorough-going, never-
ending, no escaping practice of vaccination anything to do with it, for time
was when it was not very prevalent there ?

Humor is humane; wit is not.

When we realize how little the world cares we make the old coat do duty
another season.

When Schiller said, " I feel an army in my fist," he must have had a pre-
monition of the microbe.

It is deuced difficult to determine whether a man is behind the age or
simply ahead of it.

We all want to think before we speak, but few do it.

The fourth edition of Boericke & Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies of
Schiissler is out. A big improvement over the others.

Dewey's name on the title page of a book seems to make it go galloping
through one edition after another.

The lions and the lambs peacefully browsed together at Cleveland the
other day.

One of the handiest of pocket books for the physician — Clarke's Pre-
scriber.

Send your paper to the Recorder so that it be not hidden.

Look at the mailing tag and see if there is not something due on that sub-
scription of yours.

Let the watchword be, " See you at Atlantic City."

THE

HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa, July, 1899. No. 7

CHLOROSIS— ITS SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT,
MEDICAL AND HYGIENIC.

By J. A. Clement, M. D.

One of the frequent disorders we are called upon to treat and
often one of the most perplexing is chlorosis. The definition of
chlorosis, according to Gould, is "a disease of young women
connected with anaemia and menstrual abnormalities."

Goodno tells us that chlorosis, or " green sickness," is a form
of anaemia occurring for the most part in girls during the period
of beginning sexual activity and characterized by diminution
of the corpuscular richness in haemoglobin. Raue says prac-
tically the same.

Etiology. The predisposing causes seem to be age, sex, nerv-
ous disturbances, ignorance or neglect of hygienic laws, and
Virchow believes that in some cases it is the result of develop-
mental errors, as he has observed an abnormal narrowness of the
aorta and of its branches in many cases. The disease is us
ually found between the ages of thirteen or fourteen (13-14) and
twenty or twenty-two (20-22). As far as sex is concerned,
some authorities claim it is confined entirely to the female, while
some report a few rare cases in young males. Under the head
of nervous disturbances may be mentioned, as causes, fright,
grief, and some say sexual eroticism. Chlorosis is not con-
fined to any particular class of society, but insufficient or im-
proper food, wTant of exercise, late hours, over study, etc., enter
largely in its production.

We cannot do better than to quote directly from Raue as to
the symptoms of chlorosis:

1. Color of skin. A conspicuous paleness, sometimes clear,
sometimes pale, sometimes yellowish, greenish, waxy. Lips

290 Chlorosis — Its Symptoms and Treatment.

and other mucous membranes pale: dark rings about the eyes.
In some cases there is oedema of feet, face and eye-lids; temper-
ature decreased; breath cool; lips, nose, ears, hands and feet
cold. The patient is very sensitive to cold and seeks a warm
room.

2. Circulation. The pulse is usually small and compressible,
varying in frequency, easily excited by any trifling cause. The
heart's impulse varies likewise in frequency and intensity, often
amounting to strong palpitation.

3. Respiration is frequently dyspnceic, especially after any
exertion; the patients sigh and cough occasionally.

4. Muscular system. Great weakness, easily tired and ex-
hausted.

5. Nervous system. Dizziness; headache; noises in ears:
pains in different parts of body, especially in stomach and back;
hysterical spasm; sadness; want of energy; frightful dreams;
melancholy and even mania and an inclination to self destruc-
tion.

6. Digestion. Want of appetite; digestion slow; sour and
foul eructations; often a desire for most indigestible things.

7. Genital sphere. There is generally amenorrhoea or irregu-
lar menstruation with pain; thin, watery leucorrhcea in place of
menses, or, in some cases, menorrhagia.

To the above symptoms we might add: A flushed face after
every exertion, constipation, an idea that "everyone is making
fun of her for being so thin," and an idea that " she will never
live to see another year."

Often the patient's condition is laid to a perverted sexual in-
stinct, a " need of sexual intercourse," erotic novels, etc. This
may hold true in rare cases, but such cases are rare. When the
proper period arrives, a woman (if she be a perfect woman) is
as much desirous of sexual intercourse as a man, but to blame
her (if chlorotic) and to assume a good percentage of chlorosis
cases due to unsatisfied sexual instinct seems to me absurd.

Goodno claims that an examination of the blood affords a
positive means of diagnosing chlorosis. He says: " The char-
acteristic feature is a diminution in the percentage of haemo-
globin, while the red blood-cells are but slightly diminished in
number. Thus the haemoglobin may be but 25 per cent, of the
normal standard, while a count of the corpuscles gives about
three and a half millions to the cubic millimetre, or about 75

Chlorosis — Its Symptoms and Treatment. 291

per cent, of the normal. The white blood corpuscles are only
slightly increased in number, bearing a ratio to the red of
about 1:400."

Treatment.

Hygienic. Chlorosis is a disease in which a strict application
of the laws of hygiene will do very much towards bringing our
patient back to health. Remedies will do a great amount of
good, but unless we attend to out-of-door exercise, good nour-
ishing food, bathing, etc., we will meet with poor success.

Diet plays an important role. The chlorotic girl craves peculiar
articles of diet, and rarely of her own free will does she submit
to a sensible dietary; but we cannot expect to find good, rich
blood on a diet of pickles and tea. A diet that embraces all foods
that produce fat and blood should be prescribed.

The following list will often be found useful:

Thick soups, fish, raw oysters, beef, mutton, chicken, game,
butter, raw, poached, and soft-boiled eggs. Bread and farinaceous
articles. All kinds of ripe and well-cooked vegetables. Egg and
milk puddings. Ripe fruits. Milk and cream in unlimited
quantities. Olive oil is excellent. Often the patient will object
to its use, but if she begins with a small quantity she can culti-
vate a taste for it.

Our patient should avoid pork, veal, salt meats, hashes, stews,
cooked oysters or clams, pickles and spices, pies, pastries and
preserves, tea and coffee.

Exercise. Exercise of the right kind is needed, for it will not
do for our patient to lie about the house and "mope." The
patient should be in the open air as much as possible. Severe
cases cannot be expected to take active exercise and in such
cases, Goodno recommends a systematic rest cure with over-
feeding and massage. However, as fast as improvement will
admit of it, get the patient out of doors ; have her take short
walks frequently, and when season and weather permits such
games as croquet, tennis, etc., will be found very beneficial. If
the patient's station in life permits, get her out into the country
or to some sea-coast, where she can have all the fresh air and sun-
light possible.

Bathing, in my experience, is a great aid. A cold plunge bath
in the morning, followed by a brisk rubbing with a coarse towel,
produces a glow in the skin, aids circulation, gets the various

292 Chlorosis — Its Symptoms and Treatment.

glands of the skin in working order and is followed by good
results.

Sleep, and plenty of it, our patient demands, and, eight (8)
hours at least out of the twenty four (24) should be devoted to
"Nature's sweet restorer," and better if that period be supple-
mented by a siesta in the afternoon.

Another point that we must consider is clothing. Tight lacing
and suspension of the clothing from the hips must be prohibited.

It is necessary that the patient should have cheerful surround-
ings and should not be allowed to brood and worry over her con-
dition. If she be a school girl it is best to remove her for a while,
as the close confinement and mental effort required to keep up
with her studies will certainly retard her recovery.

Medical Treatment. In our homoeopathic Materia Medica we
will find a host of drugs that will be useful.

Quoting directly from Goodno: " As to the remedies useful in
chlorosis, iron stands pre-eminent ; useful as it is it must not be
regarded as a universal specific. It is, however, the remedy
which will be found indicated in the majority of cases, and, as
Hughes has shown, is homoeopathic to this disease."

The indications for this drug, according to the same authority,
are the pale, waxen appearance of the skin, sudden flushing of
the face, gastralgia, pallor of the mucous membrane, aversion
to meat, profuse menstruation, chilliness, oedema of feet, head-
ache and vertigo. Raue also gives Ferrum an important place in
this disease. He also lays stress upon Cat. card., Arsenicum,
Graphites, Nux vom., Phos., Puis., Sepia, and Sulphur.

Lilienthal, among many other drugs, pays particular attention
to Alumina, Arsen., Cat. card., Cyclamen, Ferrum, Graphites,
Phos., Puis., and Sulphur.

The above remedies have been good friends to me, especially
Ferrum and Calcarea carb. 1 have found China useful in these cases
when there is profuse menstruation and Nux vomica for the
habitual constipation. Pulsatilla has thepeculiar disposition, and
where there is much crying and a very sensitive nature it is use-
ful. Belladonna in some cases seems to control the headaches, but
I have found ":hat as the quality of the blood improves the head-
aches disappear without any special treatment.

The question of tonics, their use and abuse, is a hard one to
solve. In the first place, the laity demand something of the kind;
and in the second place, we often meet a case of chlorosis when

Another Knight in the Lists. 293

something of the kind is indicated. There are a multitude of
tonics on the market, some good and some bad. Many advise
the use of cod liver oil as a food, but whatever its good qualities
may be it is seldom borne well by our patient. Some of the
hypophosphites of lime and soda are good, but do not always do
what is expected of them.

When we know that Ferrum is in its provings so similar to
chlorosis, we naturally turn to some of the iron preparations, and
I have found that Hensel's Tonicum (B. & T.) most nearly ap-
proaches our ideal of an iron tonic.

It contains the Ferric and Ferrous oxide simultaneously in the
same proportions as found in the healthy human blood. It is
readily assimilated and its use is always followed by good results.

Baltimore, Md.

ANOTHER KNIGHT IN THE LISTS.

In the Kansas City Medical Record of recent date Dr. J. K.
Cole, of Lamar, Mo., demonstrates, to his own and the editor's
satisfaction, "Why a conscientious physician cannot practice
Homoeopathy."

According to Polk's directory, Dr. Cole was graduated from
the Joplin (Mo.) College of Physicians and Surgeons in the
year 1882. The college was organized in 1880; graduated its
first class in 188 1, and became extinct in 1884. All which, of
course, has nothing directly to do with the question about the
Conscientious Physician and Homoeopathy.

Our friend, Dr. Cole (we always have a friendly feeling for
these brave knights who tilt against the impregnable fortress of
Homoeopathy — they are always in dead earnest, something to
be respected), opens his tilt as follows:

Similia similibus curantur is the insignia on the flag scientific with
which the homoeopaths go to battle with death.

There is, further, an invisible writing to all who disbelieve their faith and
practice and it reads as follows:

O death I am thy detention!

0 grave thy cursed invention,

Since Stephens' birth, don't mention!
Out, thou scoff eth at my pretention.

1 am a Homoeopath. I come, I come.
But an hundred I weigh, in name a ton.
The lame, the blind, they walk, they see.
I am a Nicodemus, up a tree.

294 Another Knight in the Lists.

And in reply we can only look on with a grin of amusement.
What the deuce does he mean ? "The lame, the blind, they
walk, they see," is comprehensible, for that so often happens
when true homoeopathic treatment is employed, but "I am a
Nicodemus up a tree" is Missouri Greek, to this quill-driver
at any rate, though it sounds rather funny.

Further on we read this:

The S. S. C. is the tube through which all homoeopaths must diagnose
disease, and it must be well shaded from the sunlight of reason. And an-
other positive and essential of him who looks through this tube is that he
must be well wadded with egotism and stuffed with deceit. The odor of
the visible mesmeric influence must be given off in chunks of the gusto,
"lam the all and a sure cure." And this is the positive and potential
power of all their drugs.

We regret that our friend should have indulged in this, for it
is — beside the mere questions of fact — bad taste, bad rhetoric
and bad English.

Again, further on, he hits hard, but it is at an unnamed indi-
vidual and not at Homoeopathy. It concerns prescriptions com-
ing from men who call themselves homoeopaths.

Here is one that I have, as a souvenir of homoeopathic wisdom:

#. Fl. ex. rhubarb dr. ii.

Fl. ex. opium dr. i.

Oil ricini q. s. oz. iv.

M. Sig. — A teaspoonful every two hours.
It was a prescription given for infantile diarrhoea, and fell into my hands
before it was filled. It may be homoeopathic with all the S. S. C. worked
out by the castor oil.

He dwells on this theme for a page or more, giving other sim-
ilar prescriptions, and we can only reply: Dear friend, you are
not hitting Homoeopathy but idiosyncrasy. There are, perhaps,
a considerable number of graduates of homoeopathic colleges
who have gone off into, may we say, "Allopathy?" and not
having been taught heroic drugging they may excite the ire, or
hilarity, of the men in the other ranks, but, we insist, that con-
cerns them as individuals and is no argument against Homoe-
opathy. Speak up Dr. Cole, is it ?

After mentioning the " Organum " of Hahnemann our dearly
beloved says:

Again tuberculosis is treated by the homoeopaths with Aconite, Arsenic,
Catcium, Carbo vegetalbiis, China, Cimicifuga, Dulcamara, Iron, Hepar
sulph., Iodine, Carbonate of lime, Lachesis, Lycopin, JMycrotes, Nitric acid,
Phosphorous, Sanguinaria, Celicia, Sponge, Stramonium, Sulphur and
Alcohol.

Another Knight in the Lists. 295

Which one of these twenty-one remedies will produce a tubercle in a
healthy lung? Which one will cure it? Which one will show a symptom
in its action like those produced by the tubercle bacilli ? Which cause the
spitting of pus, hectic fever, the night sweats, the waste, the pain and the
hemorrhage ? Did mortal man ever make such a proving under the law of
S. S. C. ?

Without pausing to correct the orthography, we might state
that in this paragraph Dr. Cole shows that he is sadly astray in
his conception of Homoeopathy, which he seems to confound with
Isopathy.

Has not our good doctor seen cases of tuberculosis that varied
greatly in their symptoms ? If so, should not the treatment vary?
A disease is not a foreign invasion that is the same in every
human being. Disease is an unknown something that causes a
disturbance of the vital force which disturbance as a whole is
read by the physician by means of the symptoms it causes, and
if he can cover these disease symptoms with a potentized drug
which causes similar symptoms in healthy human beings a cure
will almost surely follow ; this is one of the certain things in
medicine. No drug has ever produced a tubercle, but many have
produced symptoms, in the provers, similar to cases of tubercu-
losis and many a case of incipient tuberculosis has been checked
by the remedies and many another could have been saved but
for the rejection of Nature's therapeutic law by men.

Science in the hands of the " old school " fellow has proven that diseases
are due to bacteria, and that it is the bug that produces the symptoms, and
the symptoms are not the bugs.

So says our good Doctor Cole.

If you, and " Science," are willing to believe that human ills
are the result of bugs, crawling or flying about the world, so
be it ; a scientific-circle in which the cause produces the effect
and the effect the cause ad infinitum, is a science that is at least
new ; time was when the learned would have indulged in a laugh
at it — and they may yet.

Of our remedies Dr. Cole says:

Some of the eight hundred from the pharmacopeial list are a little peculiar
from a scientific standpoint. For instance, lachesis, from the saliva or slob-
bers of a mad dog.

Dear ! Dear ! Dear ! what a break. Good sir you should, really,
get at least a wee bit of primary information on a subject before
rushing in. Lachesis is the poison of perhaps the most deadly
serpent in the world and in high potency has rescued many from
death. A brilliant man of your own school, Doctor, was once

296 Another Knight i7t the Lists.

given over to certain death — blood poisoning from the dissecting
knife — and Lachesis saved him. His name was Carroll Dunham.
Also says our friend.

A tincture from the pus of clap has been used to medicate a victim of said
disorder.

Dr. Cole, we will bet ycu one hundred dollars to twenty five, the
money to go into the winner's pocket (charity begins at home),
that you cannot prove that assertion. Really, friend, you are all
balled up, as it were.

Dr. Cole's next move is into a field where we cannot so well
follow him, i. e., quoting from the various homoeopathic sources
to prove that Homoeopathy is an error ; but it seems to us that
this proves nothing save that certain men possess certain opinion,
on the subject. Only that and nothing more, for true Homoeop-
athy, we take it, does not recognize "authority" as it prevails
in the old school. We now come to a peculiar point, here it is:

Hahnemann taught when an insoluble substance was raised to the third
potency in sugar of milk, to make the fourth potency alcohol might be used,
as the drug becomes soluble at this dilution. Such chemistry ! This would
resurrect the alchemist of the dark ages and bring out of him a groan of en-
viousness.

It seems to us that we have heard something like this from
sources very much nearer than Dr. Cole, who is so vigorously
hurling brick-bats. Yes, that is what Hahnemann taught, and
that is what homoeopathic pharmacists have followed down to
within a year (they may all follow it yet, certainly some of them
do), and the medicines so produced have made tens of thousands
of the most brilliant cures the world ever witnessed, and are
making them to-day. Furthermore the chemists of the world no
longer positively dispute Hahnemann's claim on this point and
the most eminent among them agree with him.
However, let us get on to the end, which is this:
And, gentlemen, when we study the Hahnemann theory of practice from
A to Izzard, we are forced to the conclusion that were it not for ignorance
and credulity among humanity it would have no following, and were it not
a successful pecuniary "fake" it would have no profession.

And we are forced to the conclusion, O, Dr. Cole, that you
have never given the subject the least bit ot study else you would
never have written so vulnerable a paper. And are you not
aware of the flinty, Thomas Gadgrind, FACT that Homoeopathy
flourishes in the best educated circles only? That in the "hog
and hominy," calomel and quinine circles it is unknown.

Some of the Newer Re?nedies i?i Skin Affections. 297

The truth is that Homoeopathy is higher medical science, and
so far in advance of even this day that it may require several
generations for the gentlemen of Dr. Cole's persuasion to grow-
up to it. Then the practice of therapeutics will begin to be
scientific.

SOME OF THE NEWER REMEDIES IN SKIN AF-
FECTIONS.
M. E. Douglas, M. D., Baltimore, Md.
Asclepias Tuberosa.

Vesicles, pimples and pustules all over the body, especially
on arms, legs and face.

Itching of the skin of the thighs and nates without eruption.

Hot, feverish, but moist skin.

Concomitant symptoms are:

Pain in the forehead from coughing.

Fluid coryza, with much sneezing.

Dry cough, with constricted sensation in larynx.

Sharp pains shooting from left nipple downward.

Sharp cutting pain behind the sternum, aggravated by draw-
ing a long breath or moving the arms, by singing or loud
speaking.

Feeling as if a stream of fire passed through the abdomen, a?id
as if the bowels would co?ne out.

Sumbul.

Itching in the skin; miliary spots on back, wThich provokes
scratching till they bleed.

Skin dry, as if washed in acid water. Cold and dry, white
shrunken skin.

Tenacious yellow mucus in the nose and throat.

Abdomen full, distended and painful.

Urine clear, yellowTish-red, cloud in the bottom, and an oily
pellicle on the surface. {Puis., Sulph., Petrol.)

Tendency to faint from the slightest cause.
Bi-Sulphide of Carbon.

The following conditions have been cured with this drug:

Herpes phlyctaenodes covering dorsal surface of the hand;
vesicles appearing on a red, inflamed and swollen basis; partly

298 Some of the Newer Remedies in Skin Affections.

close together, but mostly separated from each other. They
contain an opaque, yellowish fluid, which is discharged, and
forms thick, yellowish scabs; sometimes the discharge excori-
ates the surrounding parts and produces violent itching.

A tetter-like eruption on the left cheek, for more than two
years, produced through scratching with the fingernails;
spreads, and is covered with yellowish-brown scabs, disfiguring
the face; almost unbearable on account of continued itching.

Itching on both thighs, right side of the back to the region
of the kidneys, and on the right forearm, which necessitates
scratching. On inspection, small, colorless pimples are seen,
which, on scratching, are more irritated, and through the fric-
tion they redden, get points, ard finally form an itch-like
eruption.

The report of the above three cases forms a tolerably correct
picture .of the eruption of Bi- Sulphide of Carbon.

The more important concomitant symptoms are:

Jerking, stitching, tearing, flying pains in the lower extremi-
ties, returning at regular intervals for a long time.

Continual backache and pain in the loins.

Constrictive, stitching, pressing pains in the chest.

Violent stitches and contractive pain in the left ear at night.

In the mornings after shaving a red eruption on the cheeks
and nose similar to the eruptions on the noses of hard drinkers,
looking like tetter, and lasting till night.

Eruption makes its appearance after drinking a glass of beer.

Frequent attacks of vertigo when sitting.

Papaya.

Excessive itching all over the body.

Itching of forearms and anterior portion of thighs, becoming
excessive and distressing, attended with slight diffused redness,
especially of the forearms.

Numerous elevated red sore points, like acne, on thighs.

Pimples on face and body.

Eruption in groins, in bends of knees and right elbow, extend-
ing along the flexor surface; also on right forearm and abdomen.

Numerous distinct and well defined small red elevations, itch-
ing violently, worse in evening and when getting warm in bed;
scratching relieves.

Persistent itching behind left ear.

Itching on mons veneris.

Some of the Newer Remedies in Skin Affections. 299

Scratching develops an eruption like nettle-rash.

Itching of right ankle on going to bed.

Itching eruption over right eye.

More itching of scalp, but less dandruff than usual.

Aggravation: Getting warm in bed.

Amelioration: From rubbing and scratching.

This remedy will be frequently called for in affections of the
skin, and when indicated gives prompt and permanent relief.
It has been about two years since my attention was first called
to the drug, and I have used it comparatively often since and
with remarkably good results.

For pimples on face and body dependent, or kept up by gas-
tric disturbance, it is an important drug to bear in mind.
Diminished appetite in the morning and eructations of tasteless
gas usually accompany the eruption when Papaya is indicated.

Sanicula.

The provings of this drug show it to be one of our most im-
portant remedies in affections of the skin. It will not, of
course, take the place of Calcarea, Natrum mur., Silicea, etc.,
but as many cases will be met with that have symptoms of all
these last named drugs and the physician is unable to decide
which one of them to use. If he will turn to the symptomatology
of Sanicula he will be surprised often to find how completely
Same, fills the picture and how quickly it will cure his patient.

The following are the principal skin symptoms:

Great accumulation of dandruff on top of head, with itching
on getting head warm.

Child sweats profusely about the back of head and neck dur-
ing sleep.

Hair thin, scanty, dry and lustreless; seems electrified, mak-
ing a cracking sound when combed.

Soreness behind ears with discharge of white, gluey, sticky
discharge.

Itching eruptions in beard, especially undtr the chin; worse
when warm.

Eruption on chest over the ensiform appendix, size of a silver
quarter, with intense itching.

Profuse sweat in axilla. Excoriation in axilla.

Hands swollen and stiff on awaking in morning.

Eruption on hands of small vesicles exuding a watery, sticky
fluid.

300 Some of the Newer Remedies in Skin Affections.

Cracks on hands exuding blood and watery fluid and forming
crusts.

On putting hands together they sweat until it drops from
them.

Reddish pimples on thighs (inside) with itching, particularly
the left; worse on undressing at night.

Burning of feet, especially soles; wants to put them in cool
place, in water or uncover them.

Cold, clammy feet. Sweat between toes, making them sore,
with foul odor.

Sweat on soles as though he had stepped in cold water.

Skin dry and flabby. Itching agg. by scratching. Skin cov-
ered with fine rash all over.

Soreness and burning of eruptions after scratching.

Child looks old, dirty, greasy and brownish.

Rhus Venenata.

Large fissures on the ends of the fingers, that bleed easily.

Fine vesicular eruptions on the forearms, wrists, back of the
hands, between and on the fingers, scrotum and ankles.

Large watery vesicles on the ankles.

Upper lip and ears much swollen, covered with vesicles.

Boils on the forehead, neck and arms, and right thigh.

Itching at night on the back, but in the daytime on the face,
neck and hands.

Vesicular inflammation of the ears, exuding a yellow, watery
serum.

Face very red, swollen, and covered with vesicles, itching and
burning.

Scrotum much swollen, deep red color, covered with vesicles.

Great swelling of the head, face and hands, with sharp, irri-
tating fever.

Eyes closed from the great swelling of the cellular tissue
around them.

Vesicles on the under side of the tongue with a scalde I
feeling.

Case:

Miss H., age 22. For three years has had every winter an
eruption of minute vesicles on the back of the hands and fin-
gers, and between the fingers, and extending halfway up to the
elbow, that itch excessively in the daytime, but does not seem
to trouble her much at night.

Intermittent Fever Homceopathically Treated. 301

On the fingers, palmar surface, are several fissures that bleed
easily.

There is no eruption on any other portion of the body, and
her hands are better during warm weather.

She has towards night dizzy spells. Tongue feels as if
scalded.

No other symptoms were to be obtained and I gave her, Dec
1 2th, Rhus venenata. Bv the 1st of February the eruption was
all gone, and her hand smooth for the first time in three years.
Stillingia Sylvatica.

Excessive itching of the skin below the knees upon exposure
to the atmosphere or cold, but no eruption; relieved by warmth
or covering.

Some months ago a gentleman consulted me for the following
symptom:

After bathing severe itching all over the body; no eruption,
but excessive itching. He had tried various lotions and soaps,
all to no effect.

I gave him a few#powders of Stillingia, with the result of en-
tirely relieving him of the disagreeable sensation.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does the cure
of one case make a remedy certain; but it is a hint to be fol-
lowed out, and as such I give it you.

Priosteum Perfoliatum.

Vesicular eruption on the forehead, over left eye, middle of
the chest and on the right arm.

Violent itching eruption of the skin.

Urticaria from gastric derangement.

INTERMITTENT FEVER HOMCEOPATHICALLY
TREATED.

By A. W. K. Choudhury, Calcutta, India.

1. Ammon. Mur. case.
A Mohammedan, aged about 18 years, was getting Rhus tox.
for an attack of intermittent fever. The first dose, which was
given on the 18th. Oct., 1898, produced that desired good effect
which often follows my first dose in treating intermittent fevers ;
I gave him another dose as usual ; no more fever. For some

302 Intermittent Fever Homceopathically Treated.

unknown cause he again became feverish. I gave him two doses
more of Rhus tox., but with no good effect, when I was compelled
to change the medicine. I gave him placebo for two days, and
then the following day he was given Ammon. mur. His symp-
toms were as follows : Pulse, small and quick; heat of chest and
abdomen, head and face, with cold greasy perspiration of soles of
feet and hands and cold ears. Increase of heat at about sunset with
chill with no thirst, perspiration of soles of feet and palms of hands.
During heat no thirst. Heat well developed on chest and abdo-
men. Bowels opened. The following evening the patient had a
severe paroxysm with shaking chill, with no thirst, but with fre-
quent micturition ; chill continued till 2 a. m.; then followed heat
without thirst and with no micturition ; then there was sweat
greasy all over body with no thirst. Chill predominant and long'
lasting. Apyrexia before next morning. Pain under percussion
on epigastrium and right hypochondrium. Inflation of abdomen
less.

Was given placebo. This was followed by no paroxysm of
fever at all, daily two stools and disappearance of pain under
percussion on epigastrium and right hypochondrium.

Here you see again one dose and recovery in treating a case of
intermittent fever.

Remark. Ammon. mur. may have no thirst \n its intermittent
fever, as we see in our present case, and in Bonninghausen's
Homoeopathic Therapia of Intermittent and Other Fevers ; but Dr.
H. C. Allen fails to teach us that. Again we see Dr. Hahne-
mann's Chronic Diseases and find a thirstless fever of Ammon.
mur. (See the work, S. 382 of Ammon. mur). We should re-
mark especially the frequent micturition of the patient during
chill after using the dose.

2. Another Ammon. Mur. case.

Patient, named Jatan Ali, Mahommedan, a school student,
aged about 16 years, came for treatment the 16th of October, 1898,
when he had been suffering three days from the fever, with the
following symptoms:

Type: Quotidian.

Time: Morning; 4.30 a. m. (about).

Prodrome: Burning of eyes ; no thirst.

Chill: Slight, no thirst, alternating with heat which compels
to uncover, which makes him again chilly ; duration about the
same as that of the heat.

Intermittent Fever Homceopathically Treated. 303

Heat: Xo separate heat.

Sweat: On soles of feet and palms of hands ; very slight, the
parts seem moistened ; no thirst.

Apyrexia: Remission after about two hours; incomplete.

Bowels open daily once, stool soft but scanty, and with bad
smell ; bad smell of mouth ; taste in mouth insipid ; appetite
good ; sleep good; urine reddish, with no burning in passing
water ; urging but insufficient stool.

Slept with windows open for nights, and then the present state
of health commenced. Slight enlargement of spleen. Pain
under pressure on right hypochondrium and epigastrium.
Tongue clean.

He was given a dose of Ammon. mur. 6.

The next morning he had the fever, but of less severity and
shorter duration, with chill alternating with heat compelling him
to uncover ; had no separate heat ; sweat only of soles of feet ; no
thirst all along the course. Xo fever when he was again seen ;
one scanty but better stool passed that morning ; stool with bad
smell ; bad smell of mouth continuing in the same state: no
change of other symptoms followed the first dose, but coughed
much with no expectoration.

Another dose of Ammon. mur.

Xo paroxysm of fever after the second dose, but as usual gave
one dose more.

A few days more with placebc and case was cured.

Remark. Something new to note in this case; the fever
stopped after the second dose. When he discontinued treatment,
he had no fever but pain under pressure on epigastrium and right
hypochondrium and enlarged state of spleen continuing.

In this case, too, there was no thirst during the whole course of
the paroxysm. In this case there was no interynediate heat
between chill and sweat ; and szveat was on the palms of hands a?id
soles of feet. These indicated the medicine.

3. Bovista in Intermittent Fever.

Case Xo. 329 of my Case-Book Xo. IX.

A Mohammedan of 14 years came to my dispensary for treat-
ment September 24, 1898. He had been suffering from the fever
since two years back, when he first came to dispensary. During
this long two-year period the fever had not been all along con-
tinuous; now there was fever for some days, and now there was
no fever. Present relapse has been since day before yesterdav.

304 Intermittent Fever Homoeopathically Treated.

Accession-time, after evening; type, quotidian; stretching before
chill ; chill, -slight, with no thirst, goose-skin; slight sweat on
forehead, the sweat disappearing on uncovering; no heat fol-
lowed; and no separate sweat; apyrexia, incomplete. Bowels
irregular, having alternate diarrhoea and constipation; thread-
worms with diarrhoea. Sleep after chill with no heat; spitting
of saliva in the morning; urine colored reddish; conjunctiva,
icteric; enlarged spleen and liver; tongue yellowish white pos-
teriorly and slimy; insipid taste in mouth.

Treatment: Bovista (trit).. about a grain a dose, one dose
given to be taken immediately.

Diet: Ifhoi and sugar candy.

Bathing stopped.

Next day when he came to dispensary he said he had no fever
after the dose of medicine; had no fever when he came to dispen-
sary; passed no stool; tongue improving. Four doses more of
the medicine were given.

He reappeared on the 5th of the next month and reported as
follows: No more fever; bathing daily, once; appetite good;
sleep good; daily two stools; stools changing; tongue slightly
yellowish; spleen somewhat reddened; less pain under pressure on
right hypochondrium and epigastrium. Icteric hue of eyes less
marked than before.

He was given no more medicine but placebo, and he recovered
satisfactorily.

Remarks: Here is another Bovista case of intermittent fever
with chill only, and no thirst. Here we may again remark the
enviably satisfactory result of a well- selected Homoeopathic
medicine in the treatment of intermittent fever. Bovista cured
here the fever, made the bowels regular, and caused the liver and
spleen complaints to disappear. This was a fever of two years'
standing.

4. Ignatia in Intermittent Fever.

Case No. 384 of my Case Book No. IX.

A distant relation of mine came under tieatment 2d Novem-
ber, 1898. Type, quotidian; accession-time 4 p. m., nothing
mentioned as prodromal symptoms; chill, severe, shaking, thirst,
aching of legs; unconsciousness; heat with no thirst, shorter than
chill; sweat during sleep.

She was ill since six days when she came under treatment, and
in that period she had no stool; appetite was dull; sleep good; taste

Intermittent Fever Homoeopathically Treated. 305

in mouth insipid; spitting of saliva; had an attack of intermittent
fever but used no medicine.

Was given Ig?i. 6, one dose, and ordered Khoi and milk for
diet.

No fever that day. The next day she was given another dose
and had aggravation oftener with chill, with thirst and then heat
without thirst. Given placebo the third day of her treatment,
and she had no fever. She continued under placebo for two days
more and recovered.

Re??iark\ The thirst of the patient (in chill, and wanting in
heat) made me select Ign. There are other medicines with this
peculiarity of thirst-symptom, but Ign. is well known among
them. The time of accession, sleep with sweat and the shaking
character of the chill all corroborated the selection. You see the
first dose stopping the paroxysm, the appearance of the fever
after the second dose being an aggravation of the medicinal effect,
as the fever appeared no more on discontinuing the medicine.

5. A Case Treated With Nux Vom., Stopping the Parox-
ysm With the First Dose.

Patient, named Fazor Sirdan, aged about 32 years, an opium-
eater, came to my dispensary February 1, 1899, for treatment of
intermittent fever of seven days' duration, with the following
characters of the case:

Type: Quotidian.

Time: 5 A. M.

Prod.: Yawning, stretching.

Chill: Shaking: no thirst; goose-skin; body cold; headache;
aching of joints of limbs; duration about two hours; cannot get
warm under cover.

Heat: Xo heat.

Sweat: Copious under cover at about 2 a. m.; no thirst;
slight chill after sweat.

Apyrexia: Complete.

Bowels open, stool hard and scanty; thread worms: urine red-
dish, with no burning during micturition; bad smell of mouth;
appetite not good; sleep not good.

Given Nux vom. 6, one dose. Milk and rice were given for
diet. Bathing stopped.

Xo fever after this dose, though another dose was given to
him.

306 Intermittent Fever Homceopathically Treated.

Remark: Thus we see every day the first dose stops the next
paroxysm.

This is a peculiar case commencing with sweat, and then comes
the chill with accession at about 5 A. M. having a good medicine
in Nux vom*

6. Another Bovista Case.

Before I describe the case let me speak something about in-
termittent fevers. Intermittent fevers may be of various sizes
and shapes, cuts and colors. The intermittent fevers may ap-
pear very like a remittent one; it may have all the stages fully
developed, may have its stages alternating, mixed and inter-
mingled; one or two of the stages absent; there may be thirst
or the fever may be a thirstless one; may be returning the
second, third, fourth, seventh or fifteenth day; may be returning
monthly or yearly.

We generally see in our practice patients suffering chronically
from an ailment consisting of heat only, having no chill nor
sweat. These are not pure and original fevers; these are results
of previous maltreatment of the original fevers. I may say
these are the productions of maltreatment. The heat has some
certain fixed time for aggravation. In the like manner there
are cases with paroxysms of sweat only, but these are very rare.
Cases with chill only occupy the middle position more frequently
met with than the sweat only cases.

To treat cases with chill only we can remember two prominent
medicines, Aranea diadema and Bovista. Bovista may have or
may not have thirst with the chill.

Our patient, a Mahommedan adult, named Didar Bukht, had
been under treatment for gonorrhoea, urinary fistula of penis,
fistula in ano and ulcers on both groins, sequence after bubo
operations. He was improving all very satisfactorily, when all
on a sudden had one night pollution about the beginning of
November, 1898. The following day he had chill only with no
heat (some heat of head along with chill). No sweat and no
prodromal symptoms. Had no thirst during the chill. Chili
was shaking, with amelioration in the open air and aggravation
in warm room. The aggravation in warm room and ameliora-
tion in open air reminded us of Puis. I did not venture to use

* The reader should note especially that the case (a well-indicated Nux
vom. case) had no thirst. — A. W. K. C.

Intermittent Fever Homoeopathically Treated. 307

Puis, in the case, as I did not remember Puis, having chill only.
In our patient the chill was an evening one. The patient had
been getting no medicine for two or three days back.

I gave him Bovista 3 (trit.), one dose.

After this dose no more chill; but one thing to note is that
he had burning of eyes of tertian type every other afternoon.
Bovista was given the 4th November, 1898. The following
day, the 5th inst., he had burning of eyes afternoon; no such
thing the 6th inst., but afternoon of the 7th inst. Received no
more Bovista. On the 8th inst., morning, just after sunrise, the
patient had nose-bleed from right nostril, blood fluid and deep
red with no premonitory symptoms, no headache or heaviness of
head.

Dr. H. C. Allen gives no type of Bovista. In our case the
aggravation of Bovista produced a feverishness (burning of eyes)
of a tertian type.

7. Capsicum case.

Patient, a relation of mine, was under treatment for enlarged
liver and spleen with slight feverishness about the middle of
July, 1898, and was almost restored to health under China 30,
when all of a sudden got ill owing to some irregularity of diet
and exposure to a wetting. The symptoms and history of the
case were as follows:

Type : Tertian.

Time: Evening (first paroxysm), between 7 and 8 A. m.
(second paroxysm), last part of last night (last paroxysm).

Prodrome: Thirst some hours before chill.

Chill-. With heat, with thirst, with sweat, headache, aching of
legs.

Heat: With sweat, without thirst, sleep.

Sweat: No separate sweat.

Apyrexia: Not clear.

With painful e?ilargement of spleen; face red, cries for aching of
head a?id limbs. Was given Capsicum 200, one dose.

The following night there was full remission before it was 12
o'cloek. The next day (28th July, 1898) she was given other
dose. No paroxysm followed the second dose, yet another dose
of the medicine was given. Placebo followed medicine for a few
days more. There was no fever, but enlarged spleen and pain
under pressure on right hypochondrium and epigastrium when
she discontinued treatment.

308 Intermittent Fever Homoeopathically Treated.

Remark: It was the prodromal thirst that made me re-
member the medicine. The italicized symptoms confirmed the
indication.

Here is another case that had required two doses of a medicine
before there was disappearance of fever.

8. Natrum Mur. case.

A Hindoo boy of 5 years was brought to my dispensary Nov.
11, 1898, to be treated for intermittent fever of three months'
standing. His case was as follows:

Type: Tertian.

Time: 8, 9, 10 A. m.

Prodomata: Yawning, stretching, thirst, coldness of feet and
hands.

Chill: Shaking, thirst, sleep, headache; body hot.

Heat: Severe, wishing for fanning which does not relieve; no
thirst, headache; no sleep.

Sweat: Slight, greasy, headache, no thirst.

Apyrexia: Complete.

Bowels open irregularly, no stool yesterday, no stool to day;
urine not colored; remission since about three or four hours after
accession; increase of urination at night, passes water three or
four times at night; some nights involuntary urination ; slight
enlargement of spleen and liver with pain under percussion on
right hypochondrium and epigastrium; tongue clean anteriorly
but yellowish posteriorly.

Treatment: Nat. m. 30.

Diet: Khoi and milk. Bathing not allowed.

This first dose was followed by no paroxysm. Another dose,
as usual with me, was given with no change of diet and bath-
ing. No more medicine was required, notwithstanding the
patient got a relapse, for indiscretion in diet, on the 16th inst.
He continued under placebo till the 19th inst.

Restdt: Recovery.

Remark: This is noteworthy that during convalescence after
intermittent fever under homoeopathic treatment a slight dis-
turbance of the convalescence by a relapse for irregularities of
diet, etc., may be put aright without administering any further
medicine with restriction of diet. This is one of the Sulpk.
cases. This case had a relapse for irregularities of diet, and no
medicine was given, yet he improved and recovered.

Thirst in the prodromata and thirst in chill; severe headache i?i

Intermittent Fever Homceopathically Treated. 309

chill; thirst wanting in heat; sleep or unconscious?iess in chill,
thirstlessness in heat and the accession-time all indicated Nat. m.

9. No More Paroxysms After the First Dose in a Case of
Intermittent Fever Treated With Pulsatilla.

Patient. Writer himself.

Disease. Intermittent fever, since about a week.

Date of commencement of treatment: 30, 1, '99.

Type: Double tertian.

Prodromata: Coldness of hands and feet, especially the left
hand and left foot; yawning and aching of limbs.

Chill: Without thirst, shorter than heat; aggravation by
movement; hands and feet cold; sleep; chilly all the day.

Heat: Without thirst, burning heat of feet and hands and
body. Sleep.

Sweat. No sweat.

Apyrexia. Incomplete.

Bowels open, drowsiness, caused after irregularity of meals;
insipid taste in mouth; salivation increased; slight pain in deglu-
tition; nausea rarely.

Took Puis, and no more paroxysms. Took another dose as
usual and recovery followed. Taken a dose of Sulph. 30 (a
globule) to complete the cure.

Result: Recovery.

Remark: We read in authorities that Puis, has no thirst in
intermittent fevers where there is no heat perceptible to touch;
but in my case there was heat perceptible and no thirst and yet
Puis, did good work here. One may be placed in a great diffi-
culty to select between Puis, and Sulph. in the treatment of in-
termittent fevers having no thirst with or without prodromal
thirsiy and burning of hands. In such cases casual dietetic irregu-
larities and drowsiness may well indicate Puis. In some other
cases there is difficulty to select between Puis, and Ipec. In
Ipec. cases of intermittent fever nausea is more prominent and
constant than in Puis, cases; both of them may have dietetic
irregularities as their cause. A clean tongue may indicate Ipec,
though Ipec. tongue may be yellow or white; Puis, has ameliora-
tion in the open air, whereas Ipec. has no such thing; and Puis.
(as we see in Sulph. cases) has burning hands which seek out cool
places, whereas Ipec. has no such a symptom; on the contrary,
you may see cold hands and feet or one hand cold and one hand

310 Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association.

hot in the hot stage of the fever of Ipec. cases. Both Ipec. and
Puis, may have no thirst. Practically it is almost next to impos-
sible to differentiate them by their accession-time.

Ipecac — " Short chills; long fever; cold hands and feet , — ."

Pulsatilla — " Long chill, short beat, — "

Previous quinine drugging may indicate both.

Right sided heat may invite you to recollect Puis.

The above, collected from my case-book, are among the many
satisfactory cases of intermittent fevers treated homceopathically.

SOUTHERN HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSO-
CIATION.

Editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder.

The Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association will hold its
next meeting at x\sheville, N. C, about the latter part of Oc-
tober.

This promises to be, and should be, one of the most successful
meetings in its history. It should be for the reason that North
Carolina has never been so favored, and the cause of Homoe-
opathy in this State is in need of stimulation. Not that its rep-
resentatives are lacking in quality, but in numbers.

A few of the faithful have passed the old school examinations
and are now contending with the widespread prejudice that
exists against our school.

It will require years of patient perseverence, arduous labor,
successful practice, and more or less preaching with possibly a
little prayer now and then for more light.

We need the great influence of a large gathering of our rep-
resentative colleagues within the borders of this State, and
there is no town in the State where that influence will be more
effective than in Asheville.

This is the most celebrated town in the State and one of the
most widely known health and pleasure resorts in the world.

The home either temporary or permanent of several celebrities,
and many people of wealth and prominence.

Asheville has been visited by hundreds of thousands of tour-
ists and invalids, and from thirty to sixty thousand arrive here
annually.

The health seekers come at all times, especially those suffer-
ing with pulmonary diseases. And though they come with the

Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association. 311

picture of woe stamped upon their countenances and well nigh
hopeless, hundreds of them recover from the ravages of phthisis.

When this formidable disease lays hold of an individual he
soon realizes that he is in the grasp of a monster. We have all
had colds with cough, fever and aching pains through the chest,
but we never gave our condition much concern; but when
phthisis becomes established in the lungs the individual instinct-
ively knows that there is something more intense in its persist-
ence and he is more or less alarmed. And then how futile drugs
appear to him, and he flies from one "cure" to another "cure"
and soon becomes discouraged over the sterility of them all.

Then it is that climate occurs to him, or to his physician, and
if the disease has not progressed too far while his doctor has been
losing valuable weeks and months waiting for the bacilli to
crawl under his microscope, and if he is directed to a proper
climate he still has a bright prospect of renewed health and
prolonged life.

Asheville is such a well-known resort for consumptives that it
is hardly necessary for me to go into details about the virtues of
this climate. That thousands have been restored to health many
of whom had entered the stage of softening of lungs is a fact.

I remember well the time when I was hurrying here to en-
deavor to check a well-established tuberculosis of my right lung,
I was in doubt whether true cases of phthisis really were cured
by this climate or only temporarily alleviated. I stopped over a
day in Knoxville and inquired of two physicians there, and also
of the proprietor of the hotel at which I stopped, if they had
known of any genuine cases that had been arrested by a residence
in Asheville. I was told by them that they had known of several
such cases. I took heart from that cheering information and have
since witnessed it repeated in many instances.

The famous Battery .Park hotel has been selected as head-
quarters for the meeting, and located upon the highest eminence
in the city, it affords an extensive and magnificent view over all
parts of the town and for miles away to the Smoky mountains.

An opportunity to visit the mansion and estate of Mr. Vander-
ibilt will in all probability be one of the pleasant features of
entertainment extended to the visiting physicians.

The writer of these lines being the local representative of the
homoeopathic school, will have charge of all arrangements for
the meeting at this end of the line, and will gladly furnish any

312 A Few Minutes With The Editors.

desired information, and heartily wishes for a large attendance
and an enthusiastic programme.

T. K. Linn, M. D.
Asheville, N. C.

A FEW MINUTES WITH THE EDITORS.

For us, as disciples of the great Hahnemann, there is no ex-
cuse if we fall into the cardinal error of treating the disease
rather than the patient. — Monthly Homoeopathic Review.

A fully developed woman, with suggestive breadth of beam,
pawing away like mad at the pedals, in more or less awkward
fashion, is about as ungainly a fowl as one could imagine. —
Clinical Reporter.

No one cares to listen to text book papers. The text book
can usually be read with greater ease than can a doctor sit on a
hard bench and listen to a long harangue largely copied from an
indifferent text book. — Medical Arena.

Our colleges, * * * they are homoeopathic colleges, and
unless they are intended to teach Homoeopathy they are super-
fluous; unless they do it they are frauds. — Hahnemannian
Monthly.

If every man who thinks he is alive was to be believed, it
would unsettle the foundations of modern society and commerce.
— L. A. W. Bulletin.

A malignant Fate, taking advantage of my incipient plasticity,
projected me into the altruistic chute. As a consequence I have
spent my worthless life in doing good — as they call it — to others;
and harm to myself and dependents. I realize now, when it is
too late, that I am a damned ass without recourse, and that some
beefy egotist ought to come along and kick the eternal cholera
morbus out of me. — C, Medical Gleaner.

No one could say that the old-age poverty problem (in Eng-
land) was due to the drinking habits of the working classes, for*
the evidence was directly contrary. — Health.

The fact that there is such a general belief in the contagion of
tuberculosis among the laity is to be lamented, yet the profes-
sion is to blame for writing great bugaboo articles on the con-

A Few Minutes With The Editors. 313

tagion of this dread malady. It seems that some doctors use
their very utmost powers to try and make believe that consump-
tion is a contagions disease, and that the consumptive should be
shunned to the extent of isolation from all friends and loved
ones. These men do not believe one half they say and are very
foolish for publishing theories that do not bear the light of
reason. — N. Am. Med. Review.

In fact, the absurdity of the whole force of Examining
Boards only comes in view when men of twentv odd years of
successful practice desire to change a location, a few miles from
one state to another, and where $50 to $75 expense is involved
in traveling, etc., with a probability (if you are not a favorite of
some member of the board, or if some underhanded competitor
poisons by letters the minds of the board) that you will be
rejected and stopped from practice. — Medical Summary.

But really we are as slow as the ancients. We of this gener-
ation only discovered the surgical uses of cocaine fifteen or
twenty years ago, and, worse than this, it was only a few weeks
ago that we commenced to use n methylbenzoyltetramethyl y-
oxypiperidincarbonicacidmethylester and benzoyl vinylbiaceto-
nealkamine (both of coal tar pedigree) in major surgical opera-
tions.— Pharmaceutical Era.

The very gravestones of each observer who falls by the way
will serve his successors as a plummet-stone from which to seek
the level and unfalteringly point the way. — Bulletin Cleveland
General Hospital.

When are our friends the allopaths going to learn whether
they may or may not meet a homoeopath in consultation ? They
seem to be perpetually asking the question, and for all the
answers they get they never seem to know — Honiaeopathic World.

The spirit of commercialism carried to its ultimate depravity
warrants a man in making a dollar by any and every means at
his command and to the careful investigator many so-called
drug stores seem to be run on this abominable principle. — Jour-
nal of Medicine and Science.

It is given to few medical men to be able to diagnose railway
diseases by auscultation and percussion of metal columns. In-
deed, New York has many reasons to be proud of its unique
health board. — Medical Record.

The day for genius has passed with the ignorance of past ages.

314 Wrong State ?ne?tts Corrected.

The hard-working, intelligent plodder, whose temperament is
balanced, is the man of the hour. — Charlotte Medical Journal.

The reason for the harmony was because there were not
enough members present to create a disturbance or even to pro-
duce a little excitement, if any had been wanted. — Pacific Coast
Medical Journal.

WRONG STATEMENTS CORRECTED.

By A. M. Cushing, M. D., Springfield, Mass.

MESSRS. Boericke & Tafee: Some one has sent me a circu-
lar recommending " The Newer Remedies," written by one Dr.
W. B. McCoy, from somewhere, making statements, to say the
least, one entirely incorrect. He says: " It is with the greatest
pleasure I greet my brother, M. D's., with a remedy, with the
assurance that after seventeen years of practical tests I am able
to give a clinical report that will stand away above par in behalf
of Mullein Oil as a standard remedy." "It is a king." He
also says: ' 'To a Western Homoeopathic Pharmacy Co. is due the
credit of placing the first genuine Mullein Oil before the profes-
sion." Also, " it will cure nearly every case of nocturnal enure-
sis." If he has had such success with the remedy, why has he
not told us of it before ? If the Pharmacy Co. has had it twenty
or twenty-five years, why have they not advertised it before ?
The facts are these: More than sixty years ago my father made
it in the only true way by explosing the blossoms in a tight
stoppered bottle to the sun's rays till a fluid called "Mullein
Oil" is extracted, and to my certain knowledge it has been
made in that way, and only in that way, except by now and
then an imitator pharmacist who had rather jump at conclu-
sions than try to learn the truth. Thirty years ago, at a meet-
ing of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, I gave
an account of its use in deafness, etc., a?id how to make it. It
was reported in the Boston papers and I was the recipient of
many letters from various parts of the country in regard to it.
Perhaps the Western parties who now claim its parentage
secured some back number of the Boston papers. Twenty- eight
years ago I made a proving of it upon myself, producing that
symptom that it so readily cures, involuntary urination, and re-
ported the proving and cures to the above named society.
L,ater you wrote me asking how to make it, and I gave you the

The Bicycle and Electricity. 315

correct method, and you soon placed the genuine article on the
market and have continued to do so, denouncing the " Olive
Oil " kind. I make no claim to the discovery, as the formula was
given to my father by a blind tramp more than sixty years ago
for kindness received; my father being very deaf at the time
from falling into the water. I do claim that I was the first to
introduce it to the profession. I was the first, and I think the
only one, to make a proving of it, producing symptoms that
it readily cures, and that your firm was the first to introduce
it in any quantity, although Otis Clapp, of Boston, had it for
sale about the same time, but in small quantities. I should not
wonder that if in a few years some enterprising young man or
company should discover virtues of the Homarns or Phaseolus
nana.

THE BICYCLE AND ELECTRICITY.
By F. W. Bentley, M. D.

I wonder if it ever occurred to the thousands of bicycle riders
that any of the glowT, refreshment, and exhilaration following a
brisk ride were due to other than exercise in the open air? I
have, and sought to discover why. My attention was first called
to the subject by a patient of an exceedingly nervous tempera-
ment, and subject to nervous headaches; he asked me wThy, if
when he had one of these severe headaches he got onto his
wheel and took a brisk ride of four or five miles his headache
disappeared, and he had the same exhilaration as after taking a
treatment of static electricity, which has the same effect on his
headaches. (He has verified this time and time again).

I have tried same experiment on other patients, but never with
such marked results, but always with appreciable benefits.

It is an easily demonstrated fact that a great many can by
briskly walking across the carpet light the gas with their fingers,
and do other things of a similar nature, and I think it is gener-
ally conceded that in all our bodily exertions we develop a cer-
tain amount of electricity, that amount depending largely on the
condition of the body and the extent of exertion; now in walk-
ing or standing this electricity passes off and is lost to the earth,
but on a bicycle it is different; then none of the electricity
escapes, we being perfectly insulated, the rubber tires being one
of the best non-conductors known.

316 Antitoxin and Diphtheria.

Now what becomes of the electricity generated by onr exer-
tions? It can not pass from the wheel and escape to the earth, why
not then re-enter the body ? a metabolic force direct from
nature's laboratory stimulating and invigorating the weakened
and depleted tissues? I would submit this as a possible explan-
ation of the benefits to be derived from the judicious use of the
wheel, other than that derhed from exercise in open air.

I should like the opinion of others on this subject.

North Tonaicanda, N. Y.

ANTITOXIN AND DIPHTHERIA.

In the Medical Record for May 27th, Dr. J. Edward Herman
has a very calm and dispassionate paper on the treatment of diph-
theria with antitoxin. The friends of this treatment, and the
manufacturers of the antitoxin, have laid especial stress upon the
lower death rate prevailing at present in diphtheria when com-
pared with that of a few years ago, but Dr. Herman very con-
clusively demonstrates that this is true to a still greater extent
in other diseases for which no scientific cure has been advertised.
Take typhoid in the German cities, in which the diphtheria death
rate has declined 59 per cent, since the introduction of the serum,
and the case stands thus in deaths per 100,000 from the two dis-
eases:

1877-94. 1895-98. Decline.

Typhoid 29 10 65 per cent.

Diphtheria 106 44 59 " "

In scarlet fever in the same cities the decline has been in the
ratio of 30 for scarlet fever to 20 in diphtheria. The same decline
seems to run through all other diseases of this nature, and diph-
theria so far from being marked in this direction rather lags in
the rear — retarded, probably by the very procedure that is said
to have so largely lowered the death rate. The real cause of this
decline in mortality is due to the superior sanitation now
enforced.

In the olden time, as Dr. Herman points out, when a case was
diagnosed diphtheria it was done so from clinical observations
and the case was genuine, and very dangerous even as such cases
are today. But now the official who never sees the patient diag-
noses the case. If he discovers in the swabbing what he is
pleased to determine " Klebs-Lceffier bacillus" it is a case of

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3*7

diphtheria, otherwise it is not. Allen, Archives of Pediatrics,
while treating a case of diphtheria, sent swabbings of all the
throats in the house, and all came back diagnosed by the officials
as diphtheria, although, clinically, there was only one case in the
house then or afterwards.

From the testimony freely adduced, it looks like the " Klebs-
Loeffler bacillus " was a harmless but gay deceiver.

The following suggestive bit we quote from Dr. Herman:
" The following table gives the morality rate in some cities
during antitoxin years, contrasted wTith the rate which prevailed
in the same cities during a corresponding number of years before
antitoxin came into use:"

Deaths per 10,000 Population.

With Antitoxin.

Without antitoxin.

Baltimore .
Boston. . . .
London. . .
St. Louis. . .
Philadelphia

2 years.
2 "
2 "
3
4

1896-67 6.4
1896-97 9.8
1896-97 5.7

1895-97 7-5
1895-98 11.0

Baltimore .
Boston. . . .
London . .
St. Louis . .

Philadelphia

2 years.

2 "
2

3 "

4 "

1888-89
1891-92
1886-87
1890-92
1887-90

5-3

8.2

2.4
5-9

5.6

The following table gives the same comparison in foreign

cities:

Antitoxin Times.

Before Antitoxin Times.

Per

Year. Deaths

Trieste 1895 271

Loudon 1895-97 2,533

Brooklyn 1895-98 1,126

St. Petersburg . . . 1895-97 1,276

Trieste . . .
London . . .
Brooklyn . .
St. Petersburg

Per
Year. Deaths
1888-90 100
1886-95 2,047
1882-85 486
1892-94 579

"The deaths from diphtheria in St. Petersburg numbered 333
in 1892 and 377 in 1893. In 1896 the number of deaths from
this disease was 1,118, and in 1897 1,905. Yet, in the summer
of 1897, despite these disappointing figures, Baginsky, with as-
surance unwarranted even by his own experience, told an
American physician that he had no more dread of diphtheria
since he was using antitoxin than he wrould have had years ago
of 'any simple ordinary constipation.' "

In summing up Dr. Hermann says:

" Diphtheria exerts its harmful effects especially through
sepsis, paralysis of the heart and other organs, impairment of the
function of the kidneys, and the mechanical presence of an ab-

318 Antitoxin and Diphtheria.

normal formation known as the false membrane. On none of
these does antitoxin act beneficially. It is not asserted that it
neutralizes the toxin already in the system, but only that it pre-
vents the production of more toxin after the antitoxin has been
injected. On the other hand, it has been demonstrated that
antitoxin acts injuriously by causing paralysis of the heart and
other portions of the body, on the kidneys, on the skin and the
joints, and that it causes septic pneumonia, etc."

" It has no effect whatever on septic diphtheria. Winters
has declared ' in not a single septic case has the antitoxin made
the least impression.' Chapin says the ' so-called septic type is
usually followed to a fatal termination by a persistent and pow-
erfully depressant action upon the heart.' All the septic cases
included in the first report by Baginsky were fatal."

"Concerning the effect of antitoxin on the heart Baginsky
reported: ' Heart symptoms, certainly systolic murmurs, were
more frequent.' He admits that some die of heart failure, even
when treatment is begun early. Korte speaks of 40 early-treated
cases, of which 19 were fatal b)r heart paralysis. A few years
ago a member reported to the Brooklyn Pathological Society
that he had lost from heart failure a case of diphtheria treated
without antitoxin. When a second child in this family devel-
oped the disease, the physician at once commenced antitoxin
treatment. While the second patient was convalescing, a third
child in the same family became sick and was also treated with
antitoxin. Both the second and the third child eventually died
of paralysis of the heart. Is any comment necessary ? Berlin
says post-diphtheritic paralysis is without doubt more frequent.
Goodall finds that in the London Metropolitan Asylums Board
hospitals diphtheritic paralysis has been rather more frequent
since antitoxin has been used. In 1894 paralysis developed in
13.2 per cent, and in 1895 in 23.2 per cent, of cases."

11 Of the effect of antitoxin on the kidneys, Bieser ' soon
learned that the patients developed acute suppression of the
urine after the antitoxin was injected.' In the London hospi-
tals the proportion of albuminuric cases was greater in 1896
than in 1894. Soerensen 'observed more albuminuria, neph-
ritis, toxic anuria, etc., in those treated with serum.' Lennox
Browne records 6 deaths from inflammation of the kidneys in
8 cases of diphtheria treated with antitoxin. Benda mentions
39 fatal cases, of which 33 had nephritis. Soltman found

Antitoxin and Diphtheria. 319

albumin in 72 per cent, after antitoxin which did not show it
before injection, and compares this with the record of 24 per
cent, in 1894. Ewing showed that antitoxin caused changes in
the leucocytes and diminished the number of red corpuscles.
Another investigator proved that the injection of plain horse
serum is harmful. Chapin injected it into children suffering
from marasmus, and all the cases did badly. He then injected
the serum into guinea-pigs and a large sheep, and found the
kidneys of these animals after the experiment to be the seat of
cloudy swelling. Using streptococcic serum on dogs and rabbits,
Thomson found that 20 c.c. caused a fall of blood pressure in
the kidneys. After the injection of 40 c.c. there was haematuria
and haemoglobinuria preceded by albuminuria and followed by
suppression of the urine. Small divided doses were followed
by albuminuria."

"There is no convincing evidence that antitoxin exerts any
influence on the false membrane in causing its early detachment
or disappearance, or in preventing it from spreading. Even if
it did, it would not signify much, for the membrane is simply
the effect of something; it is not the disease. Patients often die
after the membrane has disappeared. The diphtheritic lesion is
identical anatomically with croupous inflammation due to trau-
matic and other causes. Back of the formation of the false
membrane is that deranged condition of the system permitting
the growth of pernicious bacteria, which abnormal state is
really the disease. We do not know but what the formation of
the false membrane is nature's method of protecting the patient;
and until it shuts off the air from the lungs the membrane may
serve some useful purpose. Rupp couldn't see any effect on the
membrane in his twenty- four antitoxin-healed cases, 'in such a
way as to be beyond doubt.' "

" It is a common thing, in cases not treated with antitoxin,
for the membrane to begin to fall off after the first day and com-
pletely to disappear in three or four days. Rupp needed to
visit two cases which were not treated with antitoxin only four
days, and one, a croupal case, only three days. The diag-
nosis in each case was confirmed by bacteriological examination.
Bretonneau in his classical work on diphtheria distinctively
taught: ' You will remark that at the first day of the appearance
* * * a radical cure may be obtained in forty-eight hours.'
Yet antitoxin advocates claim everything, because in some cases

320 Some Causes of Disease.

treated with antitoxin the false membrane begins to disappear,
as they say, early; in two or three days (Wiemer), or three or
four days (Baginsky). This also happens earlier and later. In
fact, with antitoxin it is often very much later. Chapin speaks
of a seven-year-old patient receiving 4,500 units on the third
day, with the result that the throat cleared only after six days,
and later the membrane partly reformed. Winters saw it re-
main ten days in two cases, and in another at the end of the
twenty-second day it was still present."

SOME CAUSES OF DISEASE.
Wm. J. Murphy, M. D.

^Etiology is a science in itself. To understand it is the first
step in the cure of the various animal ills. Before we can pro-
ceed properly against an epidemic, we must understand the con-
ditions that favor its advance and the causes that permit its ap-
pearance.

The history of aetiology is an interesting study. Countless
theories have been promulgated only to be afterwards abandoned
as they were found upon investigation to be erroneous.

In the works of the early medical writers we can observe vari-
ous attempts to solve the problem. Among the ancients, disease
was supposed to be a punishment inflicted upon those who had
incurred the gods' displeasure. For centuries this view was
entertained, but with the divorcement of church and science and
when the priests could no longer control or prevent investigation,
facts were established and delusions were dispelled.

With the disappearance of the ancient alchemist, and the ad-
vent of the chemist, a new aetiology was born. The scientific
medical world rushed to its embrace, and it was claimed that dis-
eases were caused by the presence of this gas in too liberal a
quantity, or by that gas in deficiency. It was claimed that ozone
in a free state caused epidemics of disease. Any theory which
combined the various chemical elements was favorably received
by the "learned" medical profession.

This gaseous theory bloomed for awhile and gradually faded
away as investigation sought the truth. Then " science " went
further and the germ was discovered to be a cause of disease.
What rejoicing! The advent of the germ theory was welcomed

Some Causes of Disease. 321

as the deliverance of the medical creed from intellectual bondage,
and in a surprisingly short time every disease was due to the
presence of a germ — some living and some which had ceased to
live. If an animal slipped upon the pavement and broke its leg
the micro-coccus, fractuosis radii, or tibii could be found and
isolated in the system.

When I was a student at college, the cause of catarrhal pneu-
monia was ascribed to the presence of a particular micro-organ-
ism by the professor of pathology. A student in attendance at
the time — a resident of Denver, said that in the rarified air of his
native State, lung diseases were almost unknown. Where is our
germ theory now. Perhaps this microscopic notion had not yet
migrated to that locality. Possibly the operating force of gravity
prevented these minute bodies from ascending the elevations
where their victims dwelt.

Let us cease the consideration of possibilities founded upon
supposition. No doubt there are animals so small that their
presence can be revealed only by the microscope. Perhaps they
are sometimes instrumental in causing diseases of a certain
nature, but to ascribe every ill to the presence of a germ or every
epidemic to the existence in the system of these dangerous lili-
putians is to assume a position that is difficult to defend and
wmich in time will have to be abandoned.

So far we have been theorizing on the cause of disease. Let
us now consider a reality. There are conditions which we have
not yet enumerated that do produce disease by their effects, and
whose action cannot be ascribed to the action or presence of
micro-organisms. Nothing has been more destructive to the
health of animals and has originated more diseases and diseased
conditions than has the allopathic Materia Medica — that volume
of inconsistent conjecture. Its patronage has destroyed more
equine lives than have the ravages of glanders and fare}'. Its
use has abruptly terminated the earthly existence of more cases
than has contagious pleuro-pneumonia. It has sacrificed more
canine lives than have all the diseases to which the dog is heir
to, collectively considered, and if this medical delusion had been
persisted in, we would have been threatened with an extinction
of the various animal tribes, but fortunately its wild career has
been checked, and a dominant public sentiment is but awaken-
ing to the dangers associated with its use.

In a text book at my side is described a diseased condition

322 Some Causes of Disease.

Jabor — a tearing of the various coats of the oesophagus in forcing
bulky masses of irritant drugs down a horse's throat and the
subsequent accumulation of food in the rent. This is the pro-
duct of "scientific" drug administration. Can we find its par-
allel in homoeopathic practice ? No! To parallel such heinous
acts we must search through the barbarous practices of the sav-
age, of the uncivilized heathen, whose ignorance is responsible for
his barbarity.

Looking further through text-books of allopathic veterinary
practice we find described traumatic pneumonia from the use of
caustic drenches, artificial bronchitis from irritant fluids entering
the respiratory tract and inflaming its delicate structure. Enter-
itis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the intestines
caused by the action of powerful drugs given to relieve diseased
conditions. Pleritis is an artificial disease — a sequence to blood
letting, a practice once held in high esteem by the older school
of practice. Asophagitis would be unknown except for the arch
enemy of Homoeopathy. No germ ever caused its appearance in
the horse.

Acute laryngitis is a common disease in horses. The caustic
action of chloral on the laryngeal tissues is its frequent cause.
We see described ptyalism, mercurialism, iodism — diseased con-
ditions, the product of a "scientific" Materia Medica. These
diseases frequent in their appearance are only caused by the
action of powerful and irritant drugs on the tissues or organs in
which they come in contact.

Nothing can advance the science of medicine more than a study
of its aetiology, and when we thoroughly understand the cause of
disease we can make very rapid strides in its successful treat-
ment. When we eliminate those practices which endanger the
public good, and when we learn that the mission of the physician
or veterinarian is to aid nature instead of hindering her, we will
have advanced a step in the scientific treatment of disease, and
reduced the condition responsible for its appearance within a
sphere when if we cannot control them, we do not employ meth-
ods which favor its advance and with the elimination of heroic
allopathic practice — a system of medicine founded upon conjec-
ture and suppositions ill-conceived, will disappear one of the
most potent factors in the cause of disease, and its most difficult
apprehension.

New York City.

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STARTLING CURE WITH AURUM.
Aortitis.
By Dr. Goullon.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Leipziger Pop. Z.,
March, 1899.

The following case is of double interest, first because a single
remedy sufficed to cure it, and secondly because I never saw the
patient, who resided outside of Germany ; besides this, the dis-
ease is a rare one, difficult to treat. Some persons, indeed,
claiming to occupy the point of view of exact investigation and
science, will straightway talk of quackery when a case is treated
which cannot be visited nor seen, nevertheless when rationally
examined, there is not much point to this objection, if the nature
of the disease be once satisfactorily determined by a physician
of scientific culture, whether the same be an allopath or a
homoeopath ; for the art of diagnosing or determining the char-
acter of a disease is an art that is one and the same in both
schools.

Mrs. A. of V. wrote on the 22d of October, that one of her
maid servants had become ill, but that she felt, she ought to
consult a homoeopathic physician, as the disease could not, in her
opinion, be cured in the allopathic method.

The girl is large and vigorous, 24 years of age and has been
suffering for about six months from aortitis. This, as is well
known, is an inflammation of the aorta which conveys the whole
of the arterial blood from the heart into the whole of the body.
The aorta, of course, springs from the left ventricle of the heart,
and accordingly the ailment had its seat on the left side, " be-
tween the shoulder and the heart." The symptoms of disease
exhibited by the patient, set in toward evening, and made her
nights unbearable ; these symptoms consisted in alternate chills,
perspiration, trembling, oppression (z. e. fits of pressure on the
chest with anxiety). The whole of the left side is affected:
the arm, the leg and even the eye ; the place on the chest is
swollen. Bromine, which was prescribed by the allopathic phy-
sician, alleviated the attacks "but had no abiding effect.' '
With the exception of this ailment, which was designated as
angina pectoris, the girl was quite healthy and performed her
daily work without any trouble, only she had to guard against
any unusual exertion.

324 Startling Cure With Aurum.

The question will then arise ; Can this disease be cured by
any homoeopathic remedy ?

This question is not infrequently asked of the homoeopathic
practitioner after some chronic ailment has been endured with
stoical fortitude under fruitless allopathic treatment. If the
homoeopathic physician should answer this naive question with
a simple Yes ! I think he might rightly be numbered among
the quacks. But on the other hand it would be a cheap and
cowardly evasion to answer shortly with No ! The best plan is
to be somewhat diplomatic and yet humane. "I will try con-
scientiously to do my best," would then be the answer.

The patient was given Aurum 6 and the report on October
31st was : " The girl on the whole, feels easier. After the first
powder she had a sensation of obstruction in the left side of the
breast. After No. 2, on drinking anything, after the second
teaspoonful, water came from the eye, the nose and the mouth
on the left side of the face. After No. 3 she felt a dryness in
the throat and in the windpipe. She has had no severe attack.
The patient performs her daily work and has a good appetite ;
in the evening there are slight indications, she also has to lie very
high with her head, whe?i she goes to bed. ' ' (So-called orthopnoea) .

As there were no anamnestic points given, I had suggested
the question, whether there might not be some arseniacal in-
fluence, such as is caused by green wall- paper, etc. To this
there came the following answer: The girl was last June for
fourteen days at home with her parents in the country, where
she slept in a chamber which was white-washed and had a green
door. Immediately afterwards on her return she had her first
attack, which returned after fourteen days, and after that with
increasing frequency ; in her present chamber there is nothing
green." It seems quite improbable that the green door should
have caused the disease, as this only developed after she had
left the suspected environs.

" There does not appear to be any defective valve in her heart
but there is a decided inflammation of the aorta with nervous
complications. The (allopathic) physician excels in diagnosis,
as has been shown on many occasions and only gives his opinion
after a thorough personal investigation."

I continued with Aurum. But on November 12th, I heard
that the powders sent November 3d had not caused any notice-
able effect. "The girl feels on the whole decidedly better, and

Startling Cure With Aurum. 325

has not been compelled to use Bromine for alleviation. She had
been very much excited by her illness, but now as she has im-
proved, and there have been no more severe attacks, she is be-
coming more quiet. She regularly attends to her daily work,
which, indeed, she has done all along. Aggravation sets in
toward evening and at night ; she has when in bed, to keep her
head very high (see above) ; then she can sleep quietly. The
swelling on her neck and chest has passed away, only on the left
side of the abdoman there is still a place which is swollen and
painful."

I still continue A tirum, as it was manifestly in this case not a
palliative but a really specific remedy. I regularly sent her
four powders, each of which contained four drops of Aurum 6.
I do not consider that the form in which the medicine is taken
is immaterial. We must know how to keep the correct means
between too much and too little, and I think that in remedies
like Aurum (Tart, stibiat., Kali bichromic, Arsen., etc., belong
in this class) the sixth decimal is the right dose, while I would
not deny that in such heroic remedies even the sixth centesimal
might be found effective. I must in this connection express my
agreements with the words of Dr. Schwabe in your last number,
that besides the law of similars, Hahnemann's new method of
preparing medicines is the corner-stone on which Homoeopathy,
i. e. the new and immovable edifice of the new therapy, rests.
We may say that the one discovery supplements the other, as do
the railroad and the telegraph. How incomplete the one would
be without the other.

On the 26th of November, Mrs. A. wrote to me: " I am glad
to be able to inform you, that my patient is much better. Changes
of weather have no influence on her state of health — this and the
following points of information were given in answer to my
questions. The patient has never been troubled with rheumatism.
There is nothing unusual with respect to thirst. I repeat that
her health is strikingly improved, the symptoms are less violent.
The swelling that appears on the abdomen, on the chest, the
neck (always on the left side), is of the same kind, painful
whether pressed upon or not; the muddled state of her head has
also diminished."

The pertinacious painful swelling is remarkable, though in a
former report (see above) it was also said, that "it had disap-
peared from the neck and the chest."

326 Startling Cure With Aurum.

The patient has gone out into the town, which she was before
not able to do, and felt well after these excursions.

Before Mrs. A. had called the physician, she had thought that
the girl was exaggerating her dreadful state, " but the physician
was very decidedly of the opinion, that there was no exaggera-
tion in the matter, that the disease was rather rare, and as before
said, after some fruitless experiments, he had settled down to
Bromine, which merely alleviated without curing the ailiment"

Considering the rareness of the disease and the simple manner
in which the cure was effected, I may still adduce the following
two communications, especially as they through light on the
manner in which our opponents view such cases. They pass
"without making an impression" as if there was "no moral to
the tale."

On the 22d of December Mrs. A. wrote: "The patient has
now been without remedy for 14 days, as you proposed, and I am
glad to be able to tell you that our patient enjoys striking good
health. I would never have expected such a sudden improve-
ment, and both of us are very thankful to you for your able and
successful treatment. Most of the symptoms have disappeared;
the girl can sleep again in her usual position, there is no more
swelling, no discomfort, no trembling, chills, etc. Only the left
arm still shows a weakness, a sensation of lameness."

The final report came on January 27th of this year:

11 Owing to your skillful treatment, my patient feels so well
that I can hardly mention anything. I need no more have any
special thought for her, and it is a pleasure to see how happy the
girl is; small pains are quickly forgotten, but severe torments are
long remembered; and she was really in a sad state. Our
domestic physician examined her a few days ago, not knowing
what treatment she had received in the meanwhile; he wTas
astonished and said there were merely some traces remaining of
the disorder."

Mrs. A., who is of a candid nature, now confessed to him, and
did not conceal the fact that she had employed a homoeopathic
physician, etc. I have no doubt that, as she said, " he was un-
pleasantly affected." But would it not be more creditable in our
opponents if in such cases they would examine further, and en-
deavor to satisfy at least their curiosity, and see whether our
medical treasury does not offer some other remedies besides
bromide of Kali and some which really cure. Suffering humanity

/;/ the Zodiacal Sign of Influenza. 327

would be vastly profited by such mutual tolerance, and we would
meet with a greater number of cures, analogous to the one here
described, which, without lacking modesty, we can say, emulates
the brightness of the metal by which it was effected.

IN THE ZODIACAL SIGN OF INFLUENZA.

By Dr. Goullon.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Leipzigex Pop.
Zeitschr., April, 1899.

The pandemy of la grippe is still ruling — at the end of
March — over both the hemispheres of our globe. Yea, it even
impresses its own character on other diseases. It is fit, therefore,
that we should occupy ourselves with this pandemic disease again
and again; and this all the more since, like a chameleon, it now
prominently shows one set of symptoms and then again another,
now appearing mild and then again malignant; in short, the
genus epidemicus keeps changing. There is no universal influ-
enza-remedy, though there are remedies which fit in excellently
with its varying prominent characteristics. In the March num-
ber of this journal Gelsemium was mentioned, as also the treat-
ment of pneumonia which so frequently appears during the
course of la grippe and which is not always equally tractable.
To-day I would call attention to a remedy which has a magical
effect on one most troublesome symptom of this scourge; so
that I received a few days after prescribing it the following
grateful letter, which will best explain itself:

Miss L. writes as follows: " I wish in these lines to thank you
expressly for the remedy against that atrocious dryness. The
relief after taking it was so absolute that I am still amazed; so
also that morbid sensation in the bronchial tubes has entirely
disappeared. I would be very glad to receive from you the name
of the medicine for future emergencies."

I had given her Phosphorus, four drops on a powder of sugur
of milk, to be dissolved in 60 grammes of water; every 3 hours
two teaspoonfuls of the solution were to be taken. The effect
from the patient's account must have been most striking, as,
indeed, we ever and anon meet with such amazingly rapid ef-
fects of homoeopathic remedies. It is just this sensation of dry-
ness in the throat and the windpipe which is most troublesome

328 In the Zodiacal Sign of Influenza.

in the course of a catarrh. Tht patient longs for looseness, for
eructation, for moisture in the mucous membrane. Catarrh, it is
well known, may arise anywhere in the body where there is a
mucous membrane. So we also speak of a catarrh of the con-
junctiva of the eye (conjunctivitis), and also in it we distin-
guish between a moist and a dry kind (see A. von Grcefe). I
am not informed that Phosporoiis has also been found of use in
dry conjunctivitis, which is often chronical. But there is no
doubt that J dryness arising from grippe is removed by this
remedy.

We above mentioned Gelse??iium. The author of the article
there mentioned says that Gelsemium is a first- class remedy in
the fever of influenza where the organs of respiration are not
affected. But we can not think of any fever in influenza where
these organs are not affected. It is pathognomonic, i. e., insep-
erable from la grippe. Even in the very beginning a scraping
sensation in the fauces appears. With children this frequently
causes us to suspect croup or pseudo-croup. The respiratory
organs are always affected, and this is as essential a feature of
influenza as, e. g., angina is of scarlatina and as conjunctivitis
is of the measles. In any case we ought to remember Gelsemium
in all cases of the headache which is hardly ever absent, and in
which Belladonna seemed indicated, but refused to act. Gel-
semium has also been warmly recommended in hay fever — so, e.
g., in England — and this also is characterized by a very decided
catarrh, especially of the nose. But in hay fever even the
whole of the respiratory passage may be seized with a catarrhal
inflammation, even as in grippe, according to our estimation.

And even where a precursory stage of grippe is in question; £m
e., fever, pains in the bones, chilliness, thirst, etc., without any
manifest symptoms in the respiratory passages, I would, unques-
tionably prefer Gelsemium to Aconite. I have seen effects from
Gelsemium which amounted to a clean check to influenza. With
an outbreak of perspiration patients recovered over night.

A hydropathic treatment at the same time, the much lauded
packing, also has its good features, but the opponents of Ho-
moeopathy will always be ready in such a case to ascribe all the
credit for the cure in such cases to the water treatment, and in
such a case our experience respecting the real therapeutic value
of the homoeopathic remedy given at the same time is obscured
and may be invalidated. The main thing, of course, is the

Book Notices. 329

quick recovery of the patient. Everyone should, therefore, act
according to his best knowledge and conscience.

BOOK NOTICES.

Diseases of the Ear. Nose and Throat and Their Accessory
Cavities. By Seth Scott Bishop, M. D., D. C. L., IX. D.
Professor of Diseases of the Nose, Throat, and Ear in the
Illinois Medical College; Professor in the Chicago Post- Gradu-
ate Medical School and Hospital; Surgeon to the Post- Gradu-
ate Hospital, one of the Editors of the Laryngoscope, etc.
Second Edition. Thoroughly Revised and Enlarged. Illus-
trated with Ninety- four Chromo Lithographs and Two Hun-
dred and Fifteen Half-tone and Photo-engravings. 6^x9^
inches. Pages xix-554. Extra Cloth, S4.00 net; Sheep or
Half- Russia, S5.00 net. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers,
1914-16 Cherry St.. Philadelphia.

The preface to the first edition is dated " Chicago, February 7,
1897," and that to the second edition " Chicago, September 15,
1898," and in view of the multiplicity of books the author has
reason to feel proud of the reception accorded his work.

A Text- Book on Practical Obstetrics. By Egbert H.
Grandin, M. D., Gynaecologist to the Columbus Hospital;
Consulting Gynaecologist to the French Hospital; late Con-
sulting Obstetrician and Obstetric Surgeon of the New York
Maternity Hospital; Fellow of the American Gynaecological
Society, etc. With the Collaboration of George W. Jarman,
M. D., Gynaecologist to the Cancer Hospital; Instructor in
Gynaecology in the Medical Department of the Columbia
University; late Obstetric Surgeon of the New York Ma-
ternity Hospital; Fellow of the American Gynaecological
Society, etc. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. Il-
lustrated with Sixty-four Full-page Photographic Plates and
Eighty-six Illustrations in the Text. 6^x9^ inches. Pages
xiv-461. Extra Cloth, $4.00 net; Sheep, $4.75 net. The F.
A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914 16 Cherry St., Philadelphia.

33° Book Notices.

The mere announcement of a second edition of this practical
work is sufficient to those acquainted with the first edition. It
is divided into four parts. I, Pregnancy; II, Labor; III, Puer-
peral State, and IV, Obstetric Surgery.

The Newer Remedies. Including their Synonyms, Sources,
Methods of Preparation, Tests, Solubilities, Incompatibles,
Medicinal Properties, and Doses as far as known, together
with Sections on Organo-Therapeutic Agents and Indifferent
Compounds of Iron. A Reference Manual for Physicians,
Pharmacists and Students, by Virgil Coblentz, A. M., Phar.
M., Ph. D., F. C. S., etc. Third edition. Revised and en-
larged. 147 pages. 8 vo. Cloth, $1.00. Blakiston, Son
& Co., Philadelphia, 1899.

This book might be termed a dictionary of synthetic medi-
cines, and their uumber is bewildering from Abiaba, which opens
the ball, to Zymoidi7i, which closes it; interspersed are gentle little
things like Methylparaamidometaoxybenzoate and other ses-
quipidalians. However, if you want to know about these things
this is the only book that contains them all.

"What the doctor needs to know" is the title of a thirty
page, and cover, pamphlet by Dr. W. A. Yingling, Emporia,
Kansas, author of Accoucheur' s Emergency Manual. Though
one might infer so from the title, it is not instruction to the
physician, but intended for the patient, so that he may intelli-
gently state his case to the physician — give what the doctor
needs to know in order to properly prescribe. Published by the
author.

Prof. Dewey's "Essentials of Materia Medica," has been
recently translated into Spanish by Dr. J. N. Arriaga, editor of
"La Homceopatica," of Mexico. This is the fourth foreign
language into which this book has been translated, the others
being German, French and Portuguese. This is pretty good evi-
dence of its popularity. — Medical Coimselor.

Book Notices. 331

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics. By E. B. Nash,

M. D.

The first sentence of the preface shows the kind of stuff Dr.
Nash is made of. He says: " For offering this book to the pro-
fession, I have no apology to make, for I claim my right to do
so; and if any one finds imperfections in it, remember I lay no
claim to perfection."

Indeed, the doctor need fear no criticism. His book is what
he claims for it — "Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics," as
he sees them — and his own individuality upon the book is its
chief characteristic. Dr. Nash has had the courage to cut loose
from all leaders in book writing and write his book to suit him-
self and his subject. He is not hampered by classifications older
than the hills. He takes up the remedies that are to him
leaders, and he tells exactly what he knows about them. Some-
times it requires less than a page to tell what he knows of a
remedy, while another may require several pages. It makes our
ideal of a book. No man can read it without benefit, as Dr.
Nash knew what he was writing, while two-thirds of our book-
writers follow cut-and-dry forms, and fill it with hearsay matter.

While in this book there are about 160 remedies treated more
or less fully in the text, there are a very great many more men-
tioned in a comparative or relative sense. It starts off with dux
vomica, then follow Pulsatilla, bryonia, antimonium crudum,
mercurius, etc., each receiving the treatment no doubt due it, as
based upon the author's own experience. There is no preten-
tiousness about it, no attempts to brag or boast. There is no
discussion of dose, no disposition to quarrel or quibble over
symptomatology or pathology. He tells plainly what the drug
will do, as he knows from experience, and I wTill guarantee that
no physician, be he homeopath, eclectic, regular, or what not,
can read Nash's Leaders and not be a better physician. Every
doctor can use some drug or drugs in a superior manner, and
this is what we all want to know. Here we have Dr. Nash's
knowledge in an unvarnished state. You need it. — W. E. B.,
Eclectic Medical Journal.

CHANGE OF LIFE.

There is no medical writer of the present day who gives to the
w7orld so lavishly of the fruits of his clinical experience as Dr.
Burnett; and as Dr. Burnett emphatically believes in the possi-

332 Book Notices.

bility of cure, and makes curing his aim, his works have for the
clinical worker an amount of refreshment that we look for in vain
in books of the academic mould. In his preface Dr. Burnett
says:

" I have myself never heard a clinical lecture on the menopause that was
the least help to me in my medical work, or one that afforded, to my mind,
the least salisfaction; neither have I ever read any article or book on the
subject that afforded me any mental enlightenment. As far as I know my
way about in medical literature, the menopause is, to say the least, a very
dark region indeed, wherein we are left to grope about in quest of unknown
quasi-ghostlike awfulnesses.

• ' I have always tried at least to strike a match in any dark corner where
medical mysteries midst ghastly terrors most abound; and, although the il-
lumination emanating from one solitary match is not exactly binding, still
it is more hopeful than utter darkness."

We have no doubt readers will agree with us that Dr. Burnett
has thrown much more than a match- light on this dark subject,
though he has left plenty of exploring for others who may like
to follow him. There is much help on clinical matters in the
volume that is not directly related to his subject, but for which
readers will no doubt be grateful. We have sometimes heard it
said that Dr Burnett's style is too colloquial. That is a matter
of taste. What is more to the purpose is that his works have
good stuff in them and are eminently easy and pleasant to read.
— Homoeopathic World.

(i Hahnemann's Defence of the Organom," translated by
Dudgeon and issued by Boericke &Tafel, Philadelphia, is one of
the strongest presentations of the truths and beauties of the ho-
mcepathic Bible which has yet been given the profession. The
Organon is a masterpiece in medical literature. But it is difficult
for some physicians to become interested in it or to fathom its
depths. Anything which throws light upon it, which explains
or defends its precepts, which makes plainer to the ordinary
reader its great truths, should be warmly welcomed by those es-
saying to be homoeopaths in fact as well as in name. The
Defence was prompted by the attacks of Prof. Hecker, of Dresden,
on Homoeopathy and Hahnemann. This old-school author in-
dulged in ridicule and abuse instead of arguments in criticising
the founder of Homoeopathy and his therapeutic law, thus laying
himself open to the fierce javelins which this book hurls at him
and all intolerants like unto him. It is written in Hahnemann's
sharpest vein. There is no mincing of words. In defending his
system manfully Hahnemann also meets the antagonist in sharp
spirit and shows a capability in caustic debate which appears in
no other production from his pen. — Medical Century.

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THE MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD OF THE
KLONDIKE.

The Boston Transcript publishes a letter from Dr. Mary
Mosher relating her experience in the Klondike region; part of
it is reprinted in the New England Medical Gazette, from which
we gather the following:

Dr. Mosher is a homoeopath, graduated from the Boston Uni-
versity. Xo concealment was made of the fact that she would
have to pass an exceedingly difficult examination, and so it
was — full of catch questions, "and such queries as only a pro-
fessor of anatomy or a specialist could possibly know." The
net cost to the applicant was $50 and the result was a ukase
from the haughty Examining Board forbidding her to practice.
The candidate then set to work and studied night and day, and
paid a " professor" S75 to coach her; and finally, on the verge
of nervous prostration, came up again for examination. This
time she passed and one member of the Board " confided to me
that they decided not to trip me up as I had shown tremendous
pluck." Such, in brief, is the story told.

There are two rather striking points in the foregoing. One is
that this desolate, thinly peopled region should need an exam-
ining board to ''protect" it. The second is that the mighty
board magnanimously determined not to " trip " the candidate
a second time. The fact that a young man or woman must
spend four years in obtaining a degree, and then may be at the
mercy of a board, like that of Klondike, which may or may not
decide to " trip," ought to throw a damper on those who would
study medicine.

What, if any, benefit the public derive from these boards is a
question yet to be determined; it ought to be very great when
one considers the Czar-like power lodged in them.

334 Editorial.

CONGRATULATIONS.

Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.

Dear Dr.: I beg to inform you, for the benefit of your numer-
ous readers, that my colleague, Dr. E. A. Bradbury, of Norway,
Me., had a very premising son come a few days since, whom he
has named Samuel Hahnemann, after our " Immortal Master."

Fraternally,

Norway, Me. , June 8, 18pp.

Dr. Esmond.

At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, held June 2, 1899,
Dr. C. H. Vilas was unanimously elected President of the Col-
lege.

Dr. E. Stillman Bailey has been elected Dean of the
Faculty of Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago to succeed
Dr. C. H. Vilas.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., editor of Modern
Medichie and Bacteriological World, in an address delivered in
Massachusetts, is reported in the daily papers as having said:

" In India, not long ago, there was a case where one hundred and sixty
students in a school were vaccinated from arm to arm, and sixty of those
boys and girls came down with leprosy in three years. Think of that I
You see vaccination is not a thing that is entirely safe; but there is some
reason in it. But if you are vaccinated from a calf that has tuberculosis,
then you get consumption. So you see that is not altogether safe. * * *
The man who is vaccinated is a little lower in vitality after he has been vac-
cinated than before."

The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy has been examining the
quality of the drugs sold in that state and have unearthed some
rather striking facts. For instance, out of forty samples of
laudanum examined only two were of full strength; from this
they trailed on down to one per cent, in strength. We can im-
agine what a fine time the drummer who sold one per cent,
laudanum, " guaranteeing" it to be "just as good " as the men
who gave full strength, would have in scooping in the orders,

Editorial. 335

while the old houses, not "up to date," who want " extortion-
ate " profits, would look on, and, like Puck, think " what fools
these mortals be." But theirs is the wiser course; it is not the
" get rich-quick " plan, but the one on which a permanent busi-
ness is based; one by which all departures from the normal is
measured sooner or later. The man who offers marvelous bar-
gains may flourish for a while, but he soon peters out, for his
drugs would be costly as gifts, which even the bargain counter
haunter sooner or later discovers.

" Some interesting facts as to consumption were afforded at a
meeting of the Ventnor District Council, when the Medical
Officer of Health reported the statistics he had received from the
medical officers of other towns of similar population, but not
health resorts, as to the deaths of inhabitants from this disease.
At Ventnor for the past ten years the death rate of the inhabit-
ants from consumption was 0.8 per thousand. At a town in
Sussex it was 1.2 per thousand; at a town in Yorkshire, 1.6 per
thousand; and at a town in Devonshire, 1.5 per thousand. The
chairman of the cemetery committee said he had investigated
the burial books, and found that the burials of inhabitants con-
sisted almost entirely of young and old; therefore, the present
theory that consumption was infectious was absolutely knocked
on the head, as Ventnor had for fifty years been one of the chief
resorts for consumptives." — Health.

Some of our exchanges are highly pleased with Governor
Tanner's proclamation forbidding any transportation company to
receive for shipment into Illinois, or any person to drive into this
state, any dairy or breeding cattle without a certificate counter-
signed by the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners showing
that such cattle have been ascertained by test to be free from
tuberculosis. Every one knows that it was Virchow's statement
that Koch's " lymph," or tuberculinum, was a potent means of
developing tuberculosis that killed the article as a remedy to be
used on human beings. How our veterinarians can reconcile
this undisputed statement with their persistent use of this ex-
tract of consumption germs is something they have never deigned
to explain. They have had a bloody and an expensive career
now for several years, yet there is no sign that the " disease"
has been "stamped out" in the least, but if anything, is worse
than ever. Assuming that Virchow knew what he was talking
about, it will be readily seen that these veterinarians are them-
selves largely responsible for the spread of tuberculosis, and will
continue to be so long as they use the germs of the disease for
"diagnostic purposes."

PERSONALS.

Lancet reports death of a patient from a prescription of Liquor strychniae
and liquor arsenicalis; the strychnine was precipitated as a pure alkaloid.

Dr. F. E. Boericke, founder of the firm of Boericke & Tafel has removed
to his summer home on Lake Keuka, N. Y.

In reply to the Judge's query the African prisoner replied that he was not
the defendant, but the man who stole the chickens.

French duelling is now made antiseptic.

The California State Homoeopathic Medical Society has Resolved, That it
is "thoroughly in favor of vaccination and re-vaccination."

A French doctor has found microbes, streptococus pyogenes, in roses.
Well, dip your American Beauties in carbolic acid and be safe.

The troops in the Philippines have been vaccinated four times since enlist-
ment and yet the smallpox is among them.

JT0 R SALE '^O a physician. A Colonial house with fine grounds,
shade and fruit trees. Lot, 100x300, all modern con-
veniences, near Philadelphia. Owner going to retire from a twenty years'
good paying practice. Splendid opportunity, only one other Homoeopathic
physician first-class, field. Price, fifteen thousand dollars, part mortgage
if desired. Give full name and address when replying. Address, P. O.
Box No. 2892, Sub-Station S., Phila., Pa.

Man ariseth, fiouteth (more or less) Dr. S. Hahnemann and then is
heard no more. But the old man's works abide.

Life is an eternal now.

All great medical discoveries have been derided by the majority, hence
when the majority is on the other side it may be well to be cautious.

A "regular" journal intimates that Lycopodium is more efficient in
enuresis than Belladonna. How in the world did you find that out !

President-elect Walton's " don'ts " to institute presidential timber ought
to be preserved for future generations.

The "smoker " of the Germantown Club was a brilliant success and a
credit to the generous members of that organization.

So they say were the other social events of the great Atlantic City meeting.

In short, the whole affair, weather and all, was about the greatest of all
the meetings.

One sample of that batch of Ecchinacea tinctures that attracted so much
attention was " imported " — so the pharmacist furnishing it said.

" Unless you have uniform medicines," and true to the provings, "you
cannot have uniform success," was the burden of Dr. Boericke's paper.

Guess it's about right.

THE

HOMEOPATHIC RECORDER.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa., August, 1899. No. 8

PROVING OF ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA.*
By J. C. Fahnestock, M. D.

It becomes my pleasant duty to place before the American
Institute of Homoeopathy a collection of provings of Echinacea
Angustifolia.

Four species of this genus are recognized. Two of them, E.
Dicksoni and E. dubia, are native in Mexico.

There are two native in this country, E. purpurea, Mcench.
Leaves rough, often serrate; the lowest ovate, five nerved, veiny,
long petroled; the other ovate-lanceolate; involucre imbricated
in three to five rows; stem smooth, or in one form rough, bristly,
as well as the leaves. Prairies and banks, from western Penn-
sylvania and Virgina to Iowa, and southward; occasionally ad-
vancing eastward. July — Rays fifteen to twenty, dull purple
(rarely whitish), one to two feet long or more. Root thick,
black, very pungent to the taste, used in popular medicine under
the name of Black Sampson. Very variable, and probably con-
nects with E. Angustifolia, described as follows: Leaves, as well
as the slender, simple stem, bristly, hairy, lanceolate and linear
lanceolate, attennate at base, three nerved, entire; involucre
less imbricated and heads often smaller; rays twelve to fifteen
inches, (2) long, rose color or red. Plains from Illinois and
Wisconsin southward — June to August. This is a brief descrip-
tion of the botany of the plant under consideration.

Your chairman, T. L. Hazard, in his usual characteristic
manner, went vigorously to work and secured all the provers
possible. I was also fortunate enough to secure a number of
provers, besides proving and reproving it myself. The results

*Read before American Institute of Homoeopathy, Atlantic City, 1899.

338 Proving of Echinacea Angtcstifolia.

of all these provings were handed over to me to present to you
in such form as seemed best.

I must tarry just long enough to preface this collection and
tell you that explicit printed directions were sent to all the
superintendents of these provings. This being of too great
length, I will give you the most important points in these direc-
tions, viz. : Let each prover be furnished with a small blank book,
in which shall be written date, name, sex, residence, height,
weight, temperament, color of eyes, color of hair, complexion;
describe former ailments and present physical condition. In
concluding give pulse in different positions, respiration, tem-
perature, function of digestion, analysis of excretions, especially
the urine; analysis of the blood, family history, habits, idiosyn-
crasy, etc.

The different colleges and universities were called upon to
assist on these provings. The following institutions responded
to the call: Cleveland, St. Louis, Minneapolis, the Chicago,
Iowa City, and Ann Arbor. None of the eastern institutions
responded; don't know whether dead or just hibernating.

I wish to publicly express my thanks to all whom have taken
part in these provings. I think it but just to state that the
University of Michigan furnished the best provings. Thanks
also are extended to Boericke & Tafel for remedy furnished in
the 9, 3X, 30X, which were used in the provings. One lady, who
commenced the proving and had begun to develop valuable
provings, contracted a severe cold and stopped, for which I am
very sorry. All the rest of the provers were males; medical
students or physicians. Only a very few symptoms were pro-
duced by the use of the 30X attenuation, a greater number of
provers not recording any at all.

The symptoms here compiled were produced by the 3X attenu-
ation and the tincture, using from one drop to thirty drops at a
dose. In proving and then compiling the symptoms produced
by this drug, I am fully aware of the many difficulties to be met
on every side.

The one great trouble that I find is that those who are un-
accustomed to proving do not observe what really is going on
while attempting to make a proving, and are not capable of ex-
pressing the conditions so produced. I find that there are a few
who can take drugs and accurately define their effects. In
selecting and discriminating the effects of drugs there must

Proving of Echinacea Angustifolia. 339

exist a mental superiority, and no man had this genius so highly
developed as Hahnemann.

After making three different provings upon myself, I have
undertaken to select those symptoms which to the best of my
ability were found in all of these different provings.

I have taken special care not to omit any symptoms, even
though it may have been noticed by but one prover; but in the
majority of cases you will notice the symptoms occurred two or
more times in different individuals, thus confirming the genuine-
ness of the symptoms.

Not giving you the day-book records of these provers, a few
remarks, showing its general action, may not be out of place.
As stated before, only two recorded symptoms after the use of
the 30X attenuation.

After taking the tincture, there is soon produced a biting,
tingling sensation of the tongue, lips and fauces, not very much
unlike the sensation produced by Aconite. In these provers
there soon followed a sense of fear, with pain about the heart,
and accelerated pulse. In a short time there was noticed a dull
pain in both temples, a pressing pain; then shooting pains,
which followed the fifth pair of nerves.

The next symptom produced was an accumulation of sticky
mucus in mouth and fauces. Then a general languor and weak-
ness followed, always worse in the afternoon. All the limbs felt
weak and indisposed to make any motion, and this was accom-
panied by sharp, shooting, shifting pains. In quite a number
of cases the appetite was not affected.

Those using sufficient quantity of the tincture had loss of
appetite, with belching of tasteless gas, weakness in the stomach,
pain in the right hypochondriac region, accompanied with gas
in the bowels; griping pains followed by passing offensive flatus,
or a loose, yellowish stool, which always produced great ex-
haustion. After using the drug several days the face becomes
pale, the pulse very much lessened in frequency, and a general
exhaustion follows like after a severe and long spell of sickness.

The tongue will then indicate slow digestion, accompanied
with belching of tasteless gas. In most of the provers, however,
there was a passing of very offensive gas and offensive stools.

You will observe that the remedy exerts quite an effect on the
kidneys and bladder, but I am very sorry to say that the urinary
analysis made did not show anything but the variations gener-
ally observed in ordinary health.

34-0 Proving of Echinacea Angustifolta.

I must say that the provers did not go into the details as much
as was desirable. Likewise, I may say the same of the blood
tests made, but what was given is very valuable.

1 could give you an expression of its special action, but will
merely give you the symptoms collected and then you can make
your own deductions.

Echinacea Augustifolia.

A collection of symptoms from twenty-five different provers,
anatomically arranged:

MIND.

3 Dullness in head, with cross, irritable feeling.

2 So nervous could not study.

3 Confused feeling of the brain.

2 Felt depressed and much out of sorts.

3 Felt a mental depression in afternoons,
i Senses seem to be numbed.

5 Drowsy, could not read, drowsiness.

2 Vertigo when changing position of head.

3 Drowsy condition with yawning.

2 Becomes angry when corrected, does not wish to be contra-

dicted.

SENSORIUM.

5 General depression, with weakness.

8 General dullness and drowsiness.

4 General dullness, unable to apply the mind.

5 Does not wish to think or study.

3 Restless, wakes often in the night.

2 Dull headache, felt as if brain was too large, with every beat

of heart
5 Sleep full of dreams.

INNER HEAD.

5 Dull pain in brain, full feeling.

5 Dull frontal headache, especially over left eye, which was
relieved in open air.

2 Severe headache in vertex, better by rest in bed.
5 Dull headache above eyes.

4 Dull throbbing headache, worse through temples.

3 Head feels too large.

i Dull headache, worse in evening.

2 Dull headache, worse in right temple, with sharp pain.

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3 Dull pain in occiput.

3 Dull headache, with dizziness.

OUTER HEAD.
3 Constant dull pressing pain in both temples.
2 Shooting pains through temples.

2 Dull occipital headache.

3 Constant dull pain in temples, better at rest and pressure.
2 Head feels as big as a windmill, with mental depression.

EYES.

2 Eyes ache when reading.

1 Tires me dreadfully to hold a book and read.

1 Byes pain on looking at an object and will fill with tears,

closing them relieves.
1 Sleepy sensation in eyes, but cannot sleep.
1 Pains back of right eye.

1 Sense of heat in eyes when closing them.

2 Dull pain in both eyea.

1 Lachrymation from cold air.

2 Sharp pains in eyes and temples.

EAR.

2 Shooting pain in right ear.

NOSE.
2 Stuffiness of nostrils, with mucus in nares and pharynx.
4 Full feeling in nose as if it would close up.
2 Full feeling of nose, obliged to blow nose, but does not

relieve.
2 Nostrils sore.

2 Mucus discharge from right nostril.
2 Rawness of right nostril, sensitive to cold, which cause a

flow of mucus.
1 Bleeding from right nostril.
1 Right nostril sore, when picking causes haemorrhage.

1 Headache over eyes, with sneezing.

FACE.

2 Paleness of face when head aches.

1 Fine eruptions on forehead and cheeks.

2 Vomiting with pale face.

TEETH.

2 Darting pains in the teeth, worse on right side.

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3 Neuralgic pains in superior and inferior maxilla.
2 Dull aching of the teeth.

TONGUE.

2 White coating of tongue in the mornings, with white frothy

mucus in mouth.
2 Slight burning of tongue.
2 Whitish coat of tongue, with red edges.

MOUTH.

2 Accumulation of sticky, white mucus.

3 Eructation of tasteless gas.

2 Burning of the tongue, with increased saliva,
i Dry sensation in back part of mouth.

2 Burning peppery taste when taking remedy.

3 Bad taste in the mouth in the morning.
3 A metallic taste.

3 Belching of gas which tastes of the food eaten.

2 Dryness of the mouth.

3 Sour eructation.

i Sour eructation, which caused burning of throat.

THROAT.

3 Accumulation of mucus in throat.

i Mucus in throat, with raw sensation.

i After vomiting of sour mucus, throat burns.

2 Soreness of throat, worse on left side.

DESIRE.

5 Loss of appetite.

2 Desire for cold water.

EATING.

3 Nausea, could not eat.
5 Loss of appetite.

NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

2 Nausea before going to bed, which was always better lying
down.

2 After eating stomach and abdomen fill with gas.

3 After eating belching, which tastes of food eaten.
2 Nausea, with eructation of gas.

STOMACH.

i Stomach distended with gas, not relieved by belching.

4 Belching of tasteless gas.

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2 Sense of something large and hard in stomach.

2 Belching of gas and at same time passing flatus.

3 Sour stomach, "heart burn," with belching of gas.
1 Relaxed feeling of the stomach.

1 Pain in stomach, going down through bowels, followed by

diarrhoea.

3 Dull pain in stomach.

HYPOCHONDRIA.

5 Pain in right hypochondria.

ABDOMEN.

5 Full feeling in abdomen, with borborygmus.

2 Pain about umbilicus, relieved by bending double.

2 Pain in abdomen, sharp cutting, coming and going suddenly.
1 Pain in left illiac fossa.

URINE.

6 Desire for frequent urination.

4 Urine increased.

1 Involuntary urination "in spite of myself."

2 Sense of heat while passing urine.

3 Urine pale and copious.

1 Urine scanty and dark in color.

2 Pain and burning on urination.

MADE SEX ORGAN.

1 Soreness in perineum.

2 Testicles drawn up and sore.

1 Pain in meatus while urinating.

2 Pain across perineum.

2 Perineum seems stretched.
1 Pain in right spermatic cord.

FEMADE SEX ORGAN.

i Mucus from vagina in evening.

1 Pain in right illiac region, which seems deep, lasting but a

short time.

DARYNX.

2 Irritation of larynx.

1 Voice husky.

COUGH.

2 Constant clearing of mucus from throat.

2 Mucus comes in throat while in bed, must cough to clear
throat.

344 Proving of Echinacea Angustifolia.

lungs.
2 Full feeling in upper part of lungs.
2 Pain in region of diaphragm,
i Pain in right lung.

HEART AND PULSE.

2 Slight pain over heart,

i Rapid beating of heart.

4 Heart's action increased.

2 Heart's action decreased.

2 Anxiety about the heart.

CHEST.

2 Pain in pectoral muscles,

i Sore feeling in the chest,

i Feels like lump in chest.

2 Feeling of a lump under sternum.

NECK AND BACK.

3 Pain in small of back over kidneys.

6 Dull pain in small of back.

3 Pain in back of neck.

4 Pain in lumbar region, worse from stooping.

UPPER LIMBS.

3 Pain in right thumb.

2 Sharp pain in left elbow.

2 Pain in right shoulder, going down to fingers.

2 Sharp pain in left arm, going down to fingers, with loss of

muscular power
2 Cold hands.

4 Pain in wrists and fingers.

2 Pain in left shoulder, better by rest and warmth.

LOWER LIMBS.

2 Cold feet.

2 Pain back of left knee.

2 Sharp shooting pain in legs,
i Extremities cold.

3 Left hip and knee pains.
2 Pain in right thigh.

2 Pain in right leg.

LIMBS IN GENERAL.

7 General weakness of limbs.

i Pain between shoulders, which extend to axilla and down
the arms.

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POSITION.

Pains and sickness of stomach better by lying down.

NERVES.
7 Exhausted, tired feeling.

5 Muscular weakness.

2 Felt as if I had been sick for a long time.

6 General aching all over, with exhaustion.

SLEEP.

2 General languor, sleepy.

3 Sleep disturbed, wakes often.
5 Sleep full of dreams.

1 Dreams about exciting things all night.

2 Dreams of dead relations.

TIME.
Worse after eating.
Worse in evenings.
Worse after physical or mental labor.
Better at rest.

CHILLS.

1 Chills up the back.

1 Cold flashes all over the back.

2 General chilliness with nausea.

SKIN.

3 Intense itching and burning of skin on neck.

1 Little papules on skin, with redness, feeling like nettles;
this occurred on the fifth day of the proving.

1 Skin dry.

2 Small red pimples on neck and face.

blood
2 After proving found a diminution of red corpuscles.

THE THERAPEUTIC GUIDES.*

Primary and Secondary Symptoms, Their Relative Thera-
peutic Value.

By Thomas C. Duncan, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., Chicago.

The idea that induced me to take up this subject was to try to
throw some new light on drug stud)7, with the hope that the se-
lection of the remedy might be simplified, believing that the sec-

*Read before American Institute of Homoeopathy, Atlantic City, 1899.

346 The Therapeutic Guides.

oyidary and not the primary symptoms are the therapeutic guides,
according to similia.

It is one hundred years since Dr. Hahnemann wrote the essay
on " A New Principle for Ascertaining the Curative Power of
Drugs," in which he stated :

" Most medicines have more than one action; the first, a direct action,
which gradually changes into the second (which I call the indirect action).
The latter is generally a state exactly opposite the former. In this way
most vegetable substances act. Opium may serve as an example. A fear-
less elevation of spirit, a sense of strength and high courage, an imaginative
gaity, are part of the direct primary action of a moderate dose on the sys-
tem, but after the lapse of eight or twelve hours an opposite state sets in, the
indirect action, there ensues relaxation, dejection, diffidence, loss of mem-
ory, discomfort, fear."

This analysis of drug action is further explained in section 63
of the Organon :

" Every agent that acts upon the vitality, every medicine deranges more
or less the vital force and causes a certain alteration in the health of the in-
dividual for a longer or shorter period. This is termed primary action.
Although a product of the medicinal and vital powers conjointly, it is prin-
cipally due to the former power. To its action our vital force opposes its
own energy. This resistant action is a property, is indeed an automatic
action of our life-preserving power which goes by the name of Secondary or
counter action."

Then in section 64 he says :

" During the primary action of the artificial morbific agents (medicinal) on
healthy body, our vital force seems to conduct itself merely in a passive our
(receptive) manner and appears, so to say, compelled to permit the impres-
sions of the artificial power acting from without to take place in it and
thereby alter its state of health; it then, however, appears to arouse itself
again, as it were, and to develop (a) the exact opposite condition of health
(counteraction, secondary action) to this effect (primary action) produced
upon it if there be such an opposite, and that in as great a degree as was the
effect (primary action) of the artificial, morbific or medicinal agent on it
and proportional to its own energy; — or (b) if there be not in nature a state
exactly opposite of the primary action; it appears to endeavor to differentiate
itself, that is, to make its superior power available in the extinction of the
change wrought in it from without (by the medicine) in the place of which it
substitutes its normal state (secondary action, curative action)."

With this explanation these actions might be termed (1) dis-
ease producing or pathogenic and (2) curative action or thera-
peutic. It takes both, however, to record the full effect of the
drug.

It is a little singular that more attention was not given to
keeping the two classes of symptoms separate. Hahnemann, in

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his works, carefully noted the time of the appearance of the
symptoms (but rarely the dose taken or the description (tem-
perament) of the prover). The effects of large doses and small
in proving have been developed since his day.

The question of potency, it was thought, might be solved by a
study of primary and secondary effects of drugs, so this subject
was once before the Institute.

In 1875, at the Put-in-Bay meeting of the American Institute,
there were papers iead on this topic. These papers were not
printed in the transactions, but from the Medical Investigator,
that I had the honor to edit then, I find that " Dr. Dake thought
that Hahnemann was right in distinguishing symptoms as
primary and secondary." Dr. T. F. Allen's conclusion was,
"that we cannot arrive at anything definite until more careful
experiments are made with the same dose. What appeared like
primary and secondary effects often were but successive series of
symptoms. Aconite, for example, had four such series of symp-
toms." Dr. Wesselhoeft's paper "gave a series of experiments
with Glonoine. The effects were found to vary with the dose and
with the individual. He was not able to draw any practical in-
ference." Dr. Dunham believed that "as these symptoms (pri-
mary and secondary) can only be partially pointed out, no law
of dose can be established, nor can they be used in the selection
of the remedy." These conclusions should not deter further
investigation, however.

To properly comprehend the effects of drugs upon the healthy
body, the normal action of the various related organs must be
well understood. Action and rest is the order in all the system-
ic organs. The brain rests when we sleep, the digestive
organs have their periods of repose, and even the heart rests
two-fifths of the time. The temperaments emphasize certain
organic activities; the same is true of habits and environments.
So called foods like tea and coffee, and drugs like tobacco and
alcohol, also act upon the body to disturb the normal rhythm of
the organs.

(I often wonder if the symptoms attributed to certain tinctures
are drug effects, or alcoholic, or both.)

The systemic rhythm is exaggerated by Alcohol. The circula-
tion and respiration are quickened and the brain functions and
its nervous connections are stimulated. That is the primary
effect of a small dose. Then follows anaesthesia, and of neces-

348 The Therapeutic Guides.

sity, retarded circulation, respiration, mentality and various
other functions. That is the secondary effect.

But what shall we say when we find in experiments with
drugs, Strophanthus for example, that the circulation is first re-
tarded down to the point of an intermittent pulse and then the
circulation becomes quickened ? This is opposite to part of the
acticn of Alcohol and must be drug effects, and may also be classi-
fied as primary and secondary, as far as the circulation is concerned.
This rapid circulation of Strophanthus must also slow down,
and perhaps it drops below the normal and may oscillate, show-
ing a series of effects, if we everlook the normal activity and
rest of the organs.

Aconite may give rise to a series of effects, yet we all recognize
that its action upon the nervous system (giving a decided chill to
be followed by a " feverish, restless apprehension") is a sort of
grand outline of Aconite, — a therapeutic guide. We may, for
the sake of classification, call the chill action primary and the
feverish reaction secondary. When we come to examine the
effect upon an organ, the dual action may be found to be clearly
outlined. Among the organs is, perhaps, the best place to study
the consecutive action of drugs, as we must do in the specialties.
Hahnemann illustrates this in Sec. 65 of the Orga?w?i, to which
the reader is referred.

If, for example, the use of Alcohol is continued in large doses,
structural change in several organs develops. The tachycardia
is followed by hypertrophy and dilatation of the heart. A drug
to cure that heart must correspond. Stropha?ithus corresponds
to the secondary organic cardiac change and that explains its
remarkable curative effect here. (Seven drops of the tincture
cured an alcoholic hypertrophied weakened heart and the
alcoholic (brandy) appetite as well.)

That astute medical philosopher, Von Grauvogl, has pointed
out that the action of the organs is phoronomic; " the result of
the proportional oscillations of the organic activities." It is
these, as we have seen, that are affected by drug action. How-
ever explained, he is of the opinion that the symptoms are those
of drug action from start to finish. But that does not lessen the
therapeutic value of the dual set of symptoms.

In drug pathogenesis it is expected that the drug effects upon
all organs of the body will be so well developed that the full
"course of action" of the drug will be brought out, often by

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repeated provings. The materia mediea student recognizes the
fact that every record, obtained in the trial of a drug on the
healthy, is only fragmentary at best; a series of trials must be
instituted before anything like the full power, complete action
of the drug, is recorded and ready for classification, which for
our purpose should be physiological as well as anatomical. The
course of action, from start to finish, should also be outlined by
a master mind.

It is no accident, we have seen, that drugs produce dual or
successive effects. Hahnemann wisely noticed these, and the
problem given us by Dr. Dudley is to determine:

" What reasons are there for distinguishing the primary direct
and counter effects from the secondary direct and counter effects
of a drug." Taking the two extremes of drug action, our
answers would be:

1st That drug action, like diseased action, must follow a
definite course and develop a natural history. Some drugs
begin with certain organs, others with others.

2d. For classification of similar acting drugs, it is necessary
to know the trend of effects among the organs.

3d. How can we know dissimilar drugs if not developed in
the primary and secondary effects ?

4th. How shall we know the antidotal drugs and why they
antidote ?

5th. The therapeutic reasons are more decided still. If the sec-
ondary, or reactionary, or latest symptoms are the curative ones,
the full effect, consecutive effects, primary and secondary, must
be clearly developed.

6th. The order of the drug effects upon the organs must cor-
respond to the disease to be treated, according to Similia.

If, for example, a bronchitis begins in the pharyngeal mucous
membrane and passes into that of the larynx and trachea and
into the larger and smaller bronchi and gets well in a reverse
order, then a remedy selected, according to Similia, must have a
similar course of action to arrest the disease. Have we such a
remedy ? Are we not obliged to use two or more in succession ?
7th. Drugs do not seem to have the full history of most dis-
eases, hence as therapeutists we must select for successive stages
of the disease, and to do that we must know the successive re-
lations of drugs to each other.

8th. We need classification of symptoms into primary and

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secondary so that we know what drugs will succeed each other
in time, locality and severity.

If a bronchitis is so severe, or persistent, or aggravated in its
course as to pass the tidal barrier, and the inflammation extends
from the capillaries into the parenchyma of the lung, giving us
a broncho-pneumonia (lobular pneumonia), and this disease gets
well in a reverse order, we must select drugs with a similar lung
record; i.e., primarily, inflammatory and secondarily, catarrhal.

9th. The attention of the therapeutist will be centered upon
the secondary effects of drugs and the convalescent symptoms of
disease he seeks to hasten. The pathogenesis of drugs should
be so classified that the physicians may readily learn the second-
ary symptoms.

(There is something more the therapeutic student should have,
and that is a chance to study the persons and the order of devel-
opment in the different temperaments before classification.
Hahnemann was of a nearly pure nervous temperament, and
hence the mental and nervous symptoms are well brought out
in most of the drugs he proved. Take the proving of an acid,
and if the prover is a full-blooded alkaline subject the symptoms
would not be the same as in a nervous person. These points
have a practical bearing in developing pathogeneses, and they
should be noted for the guidance of the therapeutist.)

In practice, our effort in acute diseases is to cut them short by
selecting sharply acting similar remedies. It is the convales-
cent symptoms we desire to hasten.

If we can, for example, lessen the stage of congestion in pneu-
monia and hasten that of resolution, we feel that rapid convales-
cence is begun. As Prof. Mays (Phil. Polyclinic) says: " There
is a very close association between the crises of acute pneumonia
and the fatty metamorphosis of the vesicular exudation which
occurs in this disease. So soon as this chemical transformation is
complete, which takes place in a comparatively short period, the
time for the crisis is ripe; but if the vital forces are wanting in
vigor there is danger that the fatty metamorphosis will be sup-
planted by the still slower process of cessation. In either case
the crisis will be absent." Here is where Phosphorus, the simi-
lar remedy, has won its laurels in hastening fatty metamorpho-
sis, the secondary organic effects of Phosphorus.

In chronic (organic) diseases, following the guide of Hahne-
mann, we seek to recall the earlier symptoms as rapidly as we

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can. To accomplish that we must select a drug with a similar
train of symptoms, if the law of selection is similia. Hahnemann
calls the seco?idary effects " curative," and so it would seem that
the last symptoms are the restorative ones.

Hughes, in his Pharmaco- dynamics, seems to agree with this,
for he says that " the primary action of drugs are rarely avail-
able for true curative purposes." The materia medica men say
that it will be difficult to arrange the symptoms in any sequential
order, to divide them into primary and secondary symptoms. It
will not be so difficult if the symptoms of each organ are studied
separately, as is being done by the specialists. It is a great
work, and both therapeutists and drug students can assist when
they take the cure here outlined.

It is believed that the "characteristics" are chiefly found
among the secondary symptoms. Why they are often thera-
peutic guides we now find an explanation. The expert in cer-
tain sections of the body are busy sifting out the curative end of
drug effects.

In trying to condense the salient symptoms of the diseases of
the heart and the remedies therefor, I was struck with what
Baehr terms "the confusing, contradictory effects of drugs."
What to give students as characteristic and curative was a vital
matter. Should I tell, them for example, that Digitalis is used
by allopathic physicians to "bring down the pulse," and then
they complain of the cumulative depressing action of this drug ?
We must know this dual action of Digitalis on the circulation.
Turning to Allen's great and invaluable storehouse we find in its
pathogenesis no heart symptoms recorded, which should be
stamped upon the minds of the young practitioners. Turning
to Hawke's Characteristics, p. 69, we read under Digitalis, " all
heart troubles accompanied by an irregular or intermittent pulse;
pulse small and slow." Now ignoring all the primary rapid
heart symptoms of Digitalis, the secondary ones only were given
the students to memorize condensed as follows: " Very feeble and
irregular action of the heart with feeble, small, intermittent pulse.
Sensation as if the heart would stop, on motion." (Duncan's
Handbook on the Heart, p. 57.)

As far as the heart is concerned, the secondary symptoms seem
to be the therapeutic guides. Where did Prof. Porter (New
York Post-Graduate School) learn this therapeutic hint?

1 ' A more modern and better rule is to use Digitalis only when

352 The Therapeutic Guides.

there is ^general low tension of the vascular area, with a tendency
to venous engorgeme?it. When the tension has been restored and
the engorgement overcome, then stop the use of Digitalis. ' ' The
secondary disease effect is here to be met by the secondary (cura-
tive) effect of the drug.

The size of the dose in proving must enter into this problem.
As Dr. H. V. Miller well says: "The first symptom of a drug
proving may be primary or secondary, according to the size of
the dose. Comparatively large doses are required to produce,
upon the nerve centers, a decided and powerful impression. This
is primary, and may be either irritating and exciting or depress-
ing, according to the nature of the drug. The succeeing vital
reaction (organic) is secondary. But small doses produce a
prompt reaction without developing primary symptoms.''''

If the small dose realm is in the secondary field, that will ex-
plain why modern skilled men, like chest experts of all schools,
are giving small doses. This is especially true in the use of
Digitalis. (Vide Ellingwood's Mat. Med. and Therapeutics.)

If the secondary symptoms (on the organs) are the curative
guides, we must not underestimate the great value to the prac-
titioner of the most complete provlngs. He must refer to and
study such great collections of drug effects as Allen' s Encyclo-
pedia and Hering's Guiding Symptoms. He will long for more
complete provings on various parts (organs) of the body than
are given in the Cyclopedia of Drug Pathogenesy. Hahne-
mann's day books we should have to study the course of the
action of drugs — as being dug out by Woodward. Heinicke" s
Outlines help at this point also, so does Gross in a comparative
way. The condensed works of Lippe, Hering, Cowpertfrwaite,
Allen, etc., are made up largely of secondary symptoms of the
drugs. Some give both and confuse the practitioner thereby.

Teste, Dunham, Hughes, Burt, Farrington etal. are physiologi-
cal studies of value, read by the light of secondary curative
effects. The new crop of hand-books (Hawkes, Dewey, H. C.
Allen, Nash) in a measure give only the secondary symptoms
and are useful as therapeutic guides to a certain extent. The
arrangement should be physiological.

When therapeutics (drug therapy) comes to be recognized as
a separate department, and has a literature of its own, apart from
disease study on the one hand and drug study on the other, then
this drill of "the manual of arms" will not be so confusing.

Maryland's Homoeopathic History. 353

Pathogenesis and Therapeutics are as distinct as Pathology
and Therapeutics. In therapeutics we match, perhaps, a few
symptoms of disease with a few symptoms of drugs. To do that
scientifically and successfully implies acurate knowledge and
sound judgment. In this battle the coming symptoms, the sec-
ondaries, are anticipated and removed.

We might outline our conclusions as follows :

1. Drugs, like diseases, have a definite course of action pro-
ducing disease types.

2. Diseases take a definite course: (1) functional if acute, (2)
organic if chronic, and (3) in an abnormal constitution.

3. Secondary symptoms of disease are the convalescent ones.

4. The course of the remedy action and course of disease must
correspond, according to Similia.

5. Hence, the secondary drug symptoms seem to be the thera-
peutic guides.

A BRIEF OUTLINE OF MARYLAND'S HOMCEO-
PATHIC HISTORY.

By J. A. Clement, M. D.

We can truly say that the history of Homoeopathy in Mary-
land has been a history of progress. While we are not able to
show as rapid a growth in number of practitioners or institutions
as can some of our sister states, we must take into consideration
the fact that the people of Maryland are conservative and are
not prone to adopt new methods or patronize new institutions
until satisfied of their true worth. As the mercantile and finan-
cial institutions of this state are known all over the country as
conservative, but reliable, and based on solid foundations, so it is
with Homoeopathy — what has been gained has been gained
slowly but surely, and is here to stay.

When we consider that sixty years ago this community could
not show a single homoeopathic physician or institution, and
now, in 1899, we can number physicians, a hospital, a college,
two free dispensaries, several sanitariums, a state and local
societies, a good registration law, and recognition in public in-
stitution and in the health department, we can point with pride
to the fact that we have grown steadily.

In the following resume of Homoeopathy in Maryland I have

354 Maryland? s Homoeopathic History.

gathered data from various sources, and if errors have crept in
you must be merciful. You must remember that in the early
days of Maryland no health department existed, and even after
the formation of that department, for a number of years, homoeo-
paths received but scant attention. Some practiced the methods
of similia "sub rosa," and a few openly; but as to the positive
statement that such and such a one began homoeopathic practice
at such and such a date we must be a little careful.

According to Nelson's History of Maryland, the first physician
of any school mentioned in the State's History was William
Russell, and the first surgeon Anthony Bagnell. These gentle-
men came with Captain John Smith, in 1608, to explore the
shores of the Chesapeake and the Patapsco river, at the head of
which our beloved Baltimore now stands.

According to the same authority, as early as 1839 Dr. Felix
R. McManus, a graduate of the old school of medicine, embraced
the doctrines of Hahnemann and must be considered the pioneer
of Homoeopathy in Maryland. In 1841 a German physician,
Dr. Moritz Wiener, arrived in the city and commenced the prac-
tice of Homoeopathy. Three others followed in succession, Drs.
Amthor, Haynel and Schmidt.

Of the pioneers of Homoeopathy in Maryland history has but
little to say. But one in homoeopathic historical literature is
mentioned — Dr. A. J. Haynel.

Hartman says: " Hahnemann took two of his pupils to
Coethen, Drs. Haynel and Mosdorf." Hering says: "Dr. A. J.
Haynel died at Dresden, August 28, 1877, ^t- 81. He was an
inmate of Hahnemann's family for more than ten years, and
proved a number of remedies for him. About the year 1835 he
came to America, and resided first at Reading, Pa., then at
Philadelphia. In 1845 he lived in New York, and still later in
Baltimore, from whence he returned to Europe several years
ago. ' ' — Bradford 's Pio?ieers of Homoeopathy.

Other pioneers were Drs. Ward, Martin, Price, and Hammond.
As their history is only recorded in memory (with the exception
of Dr. Price), I have not attempted to record it in this paper.

Dr. Nicholas W. Kneass was the first homoeopathic surgeon in
Maryland, the date of his first operation (an amputation) being
1-871.

Dearly would I love to pay tribute to the pioneers of Homoe-
opathy in this State if data were obtainable, and in so doing

Maryland? s Homoeopathic History. 355

show my debt of gratitude to the men who were compelled
to fight their way through opposition, prejudice and personal
abuse in their efforts to inculcate the teachings of our Master,
Hahnemann; but the historian must confine himself to facts, and
I have done the best I could. But I cannot close this section
without urging the present generation to remember what the
past one has done for us; to remember such men as McManus,
Haynel, Schmidt, Martin, Hammond and others, who cleared
the forest that we might profit from the farm land.

Institutions.

The Maryland State Homoeopathic Society of Baltimore City
was organized at the office of Dr. E. C. Price, December 16, 1875.
In the following year it was incorporated. Officers were: Presi-
dent, Elias C. Price. M. D.; Vice-Presidents, Thom. F. Pomeroy,
M. D., H. R. Feltehoff, M. D.; Secretary, H. A. Underwood,
M. D.; Treasurer, J. Schmidt, M. D.; Censors: Drs. J. B. Crane,
George Fechtig, A. A. Roth. The Society was discontinued in
1882, and in its place the Maryland Institute of Homoeopathy
was organized November 15, 1882. On April 11, 1887, this body
adjourned sine die, and the present Maryland State Homoeopathic
Medical Society was founded. It now has 61 members, 45 in
the city and 16 in the counties.

The Baltimore Homoeopathic Medical Society was organized
at Baltimore, September 24th, 1874, but was never incorporated.
The officers were: President, E. C. Price, M. D.; Vice-President,
N. W. Kneass, M. D.; Secretary, T. S. Townsend, M. D.;
Treasurer. Thom. S. Shearer, M. D.; Censors, Drs. E. J. Hardy,
T. F. Pomeroy, Benzinger. This organization met monthly
until 1883, when it was discontinued.

The Medical Investigation Club of Baltimore was organized
in November, 188 1. The original members were Drs. Elias C.
Price, R. W. Mifflin, W. B. Turner, J. A. Gwaltney (deceased),
Eldridge C. Price. Later the following joined the club: Drs.
Henry Chandlee, G. F. Shower, A. H. Barrett. T. B. Mickle
(deceased), and Chas. H. Young. During the winter of '86-'87
the club limited its work to the study of materia medica. After
much good work had been accomplished, it was decided to pub-
lish the results in book form, which was done in 1895, under the
title, " A Pathogenetic Materia Medica."

The Homoeopathic Clinical Society of Maryland and the Dis-

356 Maryland^ Homoeopathic History.

trict of Columbia. — A union of the Homoeopathic Society of
Maryland and the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the District
of Columbia was organized at Washington, October, 1890.
Officers: President, Dr. C. H. Thomas; Vice-President, Dr. S.
S. Stearns; Secretary, Dr. F. C. Drane; Treasurer, Dr. T. F.
Macdonald. The society meets monthly alternately at Wash-
ington and Baltimore.

Dispensaries.

If free dispensaries are an indication of the charity of a city,
surely Baltimore is a charitable one, as we could name more
than a dozen, two of which are under homoeopathic control, one
at 16 W. Saratoga street and other at 1122 N. Mount.

The first homoeopathic free dispensary was " The Maryland Ho-
moeopathic Free Dispensary," established early in 1875 by the
Baltimore City Homoeopathic Medical Society. The members of
this society served in rotation gratuitously. It was incorporated in
December, 1877, with a board of trustees. The physicians were
at that time given a monthly salary of $15.00. November 10,
1888, this dispensary was transferred to the Homoeopathic Hos-
pital and Dispensary of Baltimore City. After July, 1890, it
was located at 323 N. Paca street, and became a part of the
Southern Homoeopathic College and Hospital. The dispensaries
are now conducted under the management of the college and
hospital staff.

Hospitals.

The first homoeopathic hospital in Maryland was opened, in
1890, at 323 N. Paca street, Baltimore. It had twenty -five (25)
beds, and, in connection with the hospital, a training school for
nurses. The patronage of the institution rapidly increased from
year to year, until the original capacity of the building became
too limited. The management secured a large building and
tract of land in N. W. Baltimore, and in 1894 the hospital was
removed to its present location, 11 22 N. Mount street. The
building has been improved from time to time and has always
been filled to its full capacity by private and free patients. It
now has sixty beds and a number of private rooms, and the re
suits obtained, both medical and surgical, compare favorably
with any similar institutions in the State.

The first resident physician was Bartus Trew, M. D., who
served until 1894, and was followed by J. O. Hendrix, M. D.,

Maryland" s Homoeopathic History. 357

Horace L. Fair, M. D., H. S. Stansbnry, M. D., O. S. Everhart,
M. D., and W. T. Willey, M. D., the present incumbent.

Sanitariums.
Perhaps there is no better evidence of the fact that the people
of Maryland have faith in Homoeopathy and in its disciples than
the cordial support of five homoeopathic sanitariums for medical
and surgical cases. The work done in these sanitariums is, of
course, private, and no records are obtainable, but they must do
good work or they would not be supported as they are.

Colleges.

About the year 1890 it seemed to some of the homoeopathic
profession that a homoeopathic college was needed here, and that
in Baltimore, a centre of educational institutions, a college to
follow the teachings of Hahnemann would meet with success.
On May 15, 1890, the Southern Homoeopathic Medical College
was incorporated and dedicated October 7, 1891.

The original faculty was as follows: Elias C. Price, M. D.,
Prof. Institutes; C. H. Thomas, M. D., Prof. Clinical Medicine;
N. W. Kneass, M. D., Prof. Gynecology; H. F. Gary, M. D.,
Prof. Eye and Ear; E. H. Holbrook, M. D., Prof. Chemistry;
John Hood, M. D., Prof. Hygiene; R. W. Mifflin, M. D., Prof.
Practice; E. C. Price, M. D., Prof. Materia Medica; O. E.
Janney, M. D., Prof. Paedology and Orthopedics; J. S. Barnard,
M. D., Prof. Surgery; H. Chandler, M. D., Prof. Physiology;
E. H. Cinden, M. D., Prof. Anatomy; Howard Lindley, M. D.,
Lecturer on Surgical Anatomy.

Thos. L. Macdonald, M. D., of Washington, was elected Prof,
of Principles and Practice of Surgery, May 29, 1891.

At different periods Drs. Thomas, Kneass, Gary, Holbrook,
Hood, Lindley and Drane left the faculty and their places filled
by Drs. J. B. G. Custis and Wm. R. King, of Washington; Drs.
G. T. Shower, C. L. Rumsey, E. Z. Cole and H. J. Evans, of
Baltimore.

The college has always been upon a liberal basis, admitting
women on the same terms as men, requiring each student to have
a good education as a foundation for the study of medicine, and
being one of the first colleges in the United States to establish a
four years' graded course of study.

During the first year seventeen students attended lectures, the
degree of M. D. being conferred upon six advanced students.

358 Maryland's Homoeopathic History.

The number of students has gradually increased, until it has
reached about forty.

The graduates of the Southern College have spread over the
country, and brought honor to themselves and to their Alma
Mater.

Legislation.

While not the first to demand a separate board of medical ex-
aminers, Maryland was not far behind, and in 1892 a new medi-
cal law was passed providing for two boards of examiners — one
for the old school and one homoeopathic. Some are opposed to
the examination law and some approve of it; many claim that
the simple registration law is best, but at any rate, as far as
medical law goes in this state, we are upon an equal footing
with our friend " the enemy."

In the political arena homoeopaths have, in the past few years,
had an equal chance with the old school. With the physician
to the city jail a homoeopath, and several homoeopaths as vaccine
physicians, we cannot feel slighted in that direction.

Pharmacies.

As Homoeopathy gained a foothold in Maryland the necessity
of a homoeopathic pharmacy became apparent. In 1835 Mr. J.
G. Wesselhceft conducted a book store at No. 17 Point Market
St., Baltimore, which in 1838 was located at the corner of
Camden and Eutaw Sts. As at this time he was selling Her-
ing's Domestic Physician with boxes of homoeopathic medicines
at his stores in Philadelphia and New York, it is probable that
these medicines were also sold at the Baltimore store.

The first regular homoeopathic pharmacy was opened by Mr.
John Tanner at the corner of Saratoga and little Sharp Sts., in
1850. Tanner had been cured by homoeopathic treatment, when
quite a young man, after the old school had given him up. He
went to Leipsic and studied homoeopathic pharmacy there.
Returning to Philadelphia, about 1840, he opened the first hom-
oeopathic pharmacy in the country. He removed from Phila-
delphia to Baltimore, and in connection with his Baltimore
pharmacy he practiced medicine. He sold out to Dr. Amelia
Hastings, a lady graduate. In April, 1865, she sold the pharm-
acy to Dr. EHas C. Price. He kept it for two and a half years,
selling to Dr. Boone, who removed it to No 16 Eutaw St. It
was afterwards removed to Green St., then back to 19 N. Eutaw.

Newer Remedies in Derr?iatology. 359

Dr. Boone sold out to Dr. F. E. Boericke, of Philadelphia, in
1868. In 1869 the firm became Boericke & Tafel. The phar-
macy was soon removed to 135 Fayette St., and later to 228 N.
Howard, where it is now located.

As we look back over the records of Homoeopathy in Mary-
land, we cannot but feel proud and encouraged to face the work
that lies before us.

SOME OF THE NEWER REMEDIES IN DERMA-
TOLOGY.

By M. E. Douglass, M. D., Baltimore.

Eucalyptus Globulus.

The following symptoms have been cured by the use of
Eucalyptus used locally and internally:

Ulcers from a varix, of a year's duration.

Fistulous ulcers, discharging ichorous matter of a foetid odor.

Eruptions on the skin, of a herpetic character.

It also is very useful to prevent gangrene, and in suppurating
wounds, to control the discharge of pus, used locally.

Concomitant symptoms are:

A desire to be constantly moving about.

Nervous headaches and other pains of the head, which are
not exactly periodic.

Thin, watery diarrhoea, preceded by sharp, aching pains in
lower part of bowels.

I have come to rely greatly on Eucalyptus wherever there is
suppuration of a wound, or where an antiseptic is needed.

In ulcerated conditions of the throat it is a sheet-anchor, used
locally and as an internal remedy.

Fagopyrum Esculentum.

The skin symptoms produced by this drug are quite numerous
and pronounced. They are:

Persistent itching of various parts of the body, especially of
left arm and alse nasi; worse from scratching.

Papillae sore and itch; worse from scratching.

Red blotches upon the face and body, very sore; they itch and
burn, but do not suppurate.

Itching of knees and elbows, also upon the scalp and face at
the roots of whiskers.

360 Newer Remedies in Dermatology.

Red, itching eruption on back, limbs and body generally; re-
sembling flea bites; also forehead and face.

Excessive burning and itching of the limbs after retiring.

Tickling, crawling feeling in various parts of the body.

The eruption nearly heals, then breaks out afresh.

Swelling in back of neck, nearly the size of a hen's egg;
another on the left shoulder; they resemble blind boils and dis-
appear without suppuration.

Heel blistered and suppurating, very sensitive to touch and
on walking.

Profuse sweating of genitals, of an offensive odor.

Ears itch internally and externally, and sounds seem muffled.

Juglans Cinerea.

This drug has caused and cured the following conditions:

A peculiar exanthematous eruption, very much resembling the
flush of scarlet fever.

Erysipelatous inflammation of the skin of the body and ex-
tremity s.

Erythematous redness of the face.

Eruption resembling eczema simplex.

Throat feels swollen, with pain on the right side.

My first experience with the butternut was when a boy of ten
years:

My younger brother and myself were gathering the nuts before
they were quite ripe, and breaking them open and eating the
meat.

The following morning when I awoke my tongue at the tip
was quite sore, and around my mouth was a red eruption that
itched and burned. A little cold cream, applied locally, caused
the eruption to disappear in a few days. My mother, who was
quite a nurse in those days, used a " tea " made by steeping the
leaves and inner bark of the limbs and roots in water, locally,
in various forms of eruptions.

My individual experience with drug leads me to prefer its use
in chronic rather than acute cases.

Lobelia Inflata.
The skin symptoms of this drug are few, and would indicate
its use in scabies — a condition that New England housewives a
half century back used a strong "tea" or decoction for — as a
wash.

Nezver Remedies tn Dermatology. 361

The recorded symptoms are:

Eruptions between the fingers, on the dorsa of the hands, and
on the forearms of small vesicles, with tingling itching.

Prickling itching of the skin all over the body.

Pressive headache at the occiput, left side; worse at night and
on motion.

Sensation as if the oesophagus contracted itself from below up-
wards.

Sensation as of a lump in the pit of the throat.

Flatulent eructations, with acidity and heat of the stomach.

The four latter are valuable concomitant symptoms, and when
present make the selection of the remedy comparatively easy.

I have had very little experience with Lobelia in skin affec-
tions, except as having seen it applied locally, with good results,
in scabies by the country women of New England.

Menispernum Canadense.

I have used this drug with the happiest results in two cases
of acne simplex, and failed to produce any benefit in three
others.

I believe, however, that were the drug carefully proven it
would give us some valuable skin symptoms, and be a valuable
addition to our list of skin remedies.

The symptoms thus far recorded are:

A few pimples on the face.

Itching all over the body, especially over the gluteal muscles
and thighs, aggravated by warmth.

Itching of surface, the pimples bleed easily.

It has proved curative in chronic herpetic eruptions and ter-
tiary syphilis.

Concomitant symptoms are:

Tenesmus, but stool natural.

Urine dark yellow and scanty.

Headache through the temples, extending to the occipital
region.

Tongue much swollen.

Excessive discharge of saliva.

Myrica Cerifera.

Itching and stinging sensation on the skin of the face, neck,
shoulder, forearm, and right leg.

362 Newer Remedies in Dermatology.

Persistent itching in different parts, worse near the point of
insertion of the deltoid muscles, in both arms.

Itching of the face, giving way to creeping sensation, as of
insects.

Yellowness of the skin of the whole body.

Concomitant symptoms are:

Dull pain under both shoulder blades.

Loose, light- colored stool, growing lighter colored daily, until
it became ash colored and destitute of bile.

Urine darker than usual; grows darker every day, until it is a
deep brownish yellow.

Urine scanty, saturated with the coloring matter of the bile.

Myrica cured for me, last winter, a desperate case of jaundice,
with the above symptoms. The itching was very annying.

Plantago Major.

The skin symptoms of this drug are very important.

The skin of the whole body is sensitive and leaves a burning
sensation when scratched.

Itching in the lower limbs, also in other parts of the body;
rubbing feels grateful, but does not relieve; when the rubbing
ceases a burning sensation is experienced.

Prickling or stinging pains in the skin of different parts of the
body and limbs; these pains are sometimes of a prickling char-
acter, as if produced by very fine needles; at others with a burn-
ing sensation, as if from nettles, always confined to one spot at
a time; worse in warm room and in evening, better during ex-
ercise in open air.

Eruption about the hips and thighs; the papulae are isolated,
hard, white, and flattened. Itching aggravated by scratching.

Papulae exude a yellowish humor, soon forming a crust.

The plantago is used with benefit as an application for lacer-
ated or incised wounds or injuries, and especially when attended
with painful swelling and tendency to erysipelatous inflamma-
tions.

I have often seen superficial burns of an extensive character
heal promptly from the local application of an ointment made by
simply stewing the plantain leaves in lard and straining while
hot to get rid of the leaves.

Official Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. 363

WHAT SHOULD CONSTITUTE AN OFFICIAL HO-
MOEOPATHIC PHARMACOPOEIA.*

F. A. Boericke, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.

It is not the object of this paper to defend or attack any ho-
moeopathic pharmacopoeia now in use, but to consider the funda-
mental principles which should serve as a guide in compiling
such a work and to show the danger to Homoeopathy in losing
sight of these.

The very first principle in the preparation of homoeopathic
medicines must be to adhere strictly to the original methods of
Hahnemann, and of those who were engaged in making the prov-
ings. A difference in the quality of the drug employed will
cause a difference in the effects produced, and when used for
making provings will produce different symptoms. Not even
the supposed progress of science should be allowed to interfere
with the upholding of this most important principle, for if Ho-
moeopathy is true real science will never conflict with it. Tbe
importance of this was seen by the American Institute of Phar-
macy, which laid down the rule (North American Journal of
Homoeopathy, August, 1869) that: — "The Manual of Symptoms
having been arranged from trials of medicines, its value to the
practitioner can be made available only by the use of remedies as
nearly identical as possible with those experimented with."
This was unanimously accepted by the Institute at that time.
This means that medicines should be made by similar methods
from the same substance, and, in the case of plants, from the same
species ; gathered during the same season ; and the same parts
as those originally used.

Hardly second in importance, and really making one with it,
is absolute uniformity in the mode of preparation. Let the
whole school combine in establishing a uniformity of prepara-
tion ; let the individual physician insist on this. If there is
sufficient cause to make any changes, then this should be uni-
versally adopted. When one physician successfully prescribes a
preparation made in a certain way, and another expects to reach
the same results with differently made preparations, there will
be disappointment and doubts, perhaps, of the truth of Homce-

* Read before American Institute of Homoeopathy, Atlantic City, 1899.

364 Official Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia.

opathy itself. The cause of Homoeopathy has suffered consider-
ably on this account.

There have been established rules for the preparation of ho-
moeopathic medicines which have been in use for many years, and
the resulting preparations have successfully served physicians
in the past ; a change in the mode of making these preparations
must be considered as an experiment, and may jeopardize the
welfare of Homoeopathy.

There are essential differences in the tinctures of Aconite,
Beiladotina, Bryonia, etc., prepared from the juice of the plants
and those prepared by macerating the whole plant in alcohol.
There are essential differences in a tincture made from the root
of a plant and one made from the leaves. There should be in-
struction on the differences of the methods pursued and a clear
understanding obtained from comparisons and experimenting.
To assist in the proper discrimination and identification of our
preparations it is of considerable importance to have a descrip-
tion of a standard preparation as to color, odor and any additional
indications that may assist to this end in an official pharma-
copoeia. It is to be regretted that in many cases the physician
does not take enough interest in the subject to make the neces-
sary investigations, and it is to be hoped that such an interest
may be aroused by this discussion and that the physicians will
thoroughly stud}- the matter.

It is well known that two tinctures from different pharmacists
rarely are the same, even where t( scientific accuracy " is claimed;
the physician should insist on knowing the reason. Without 7ini-
formity in the preparatioii you cannot expect uniformity in the results.

Consider well any proposed changes before making them, and
do not leave this to the pharmacist. The pharmacist is the ser-
vant of the physician, and the physician should assert his pre-
rogative by insisting on preparations which he knows to be made
\>y the best methods and which he k?iows will correspond to the
symptoms given us by the provers. When a change in the
method of preparation is proposed, it must be considered whether
the change is worth more than what may be sacrificed. In general
it is not useful to make a change unless it is absolutely necessary.
A change in the proportion of parts used is comparatively unim-
portant and the general idea of adhering to the proportion of 1-10
in the preparation of our tinctures, as the allopaths do, is in many
particulars very useful, and the difference will probably only be in

Official Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. 365

the strength of the preparation, but to change the mode of prep-
aration, to macerate a plant instead of using the juice only, or
substituting different parts of the plant for those originally used,
in my estimation, endangers the welfare of Homoeopathy.
No accurate prescriber would be willing to use tinctures made
from the dry plant where the fresh plant has always been
used, and it must make even more difference to macerate the
plant in alcohol instead of using the expressed juice only, as
heretofore.

It is not always possible to determine the exact method pur-
sued by the prover in the preparation of his medicine, and prov-
ings of the same drug may have been made from preparations
differing in some respects, but this cannot be used as an argu-
ment against endeavoring to follow the same methods where
those methods are known, or, in the case of Hahnemannian
remedies, to continue making them by the formulae laid down by
Hahnemann.

It is never in the province of a Pharmacopoeia to combat or
deny the practice or experience of any portion of the school. A
Pharmacopoeia should be a purely historical work. It is ''a
book of formulae or directions for the preparation, etc., of med-
icines" (Dunglison), and it is entirely beyond the scope of a
work of this kind to attempt to refute or defend any existing
theory. It is a serious mistake for a Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia
to repudiate the effects of dynamization on drugs, or to put a
limit on the potencies ; leave that latter to the individual prac-
titioner. As for the former, dynamization, we can establish its
truth by the experiments of old school scientists, who repudiate
Homoeopathy, yet who are at this late day slowly arriving at the
conclusions Hahnemann formulated over sixty years ago. Pro-
fessor Schulz, of Greifewald, Germany (reported by Dr. Heingke
in Populaere Zeitschrift fuer Horn., August, 1888), made a series
of interesting investigations which compelled him to this con-
clusion, namely: "Every irritant exercises an action upon the
living cell, the effect upon cell activity being inversely propor-
tionate to the intensity of the irritation." In him we have a
scientist demonstrating by experiment the very point that Hahne-
mann and the earlier homoeopaths contended was true, that is,
the curative powers of an indicated drug are greater the higher
that drug is potentized. Whether there is a limit to the develop-
ment of this drug power in exciting the cells does not enter into

366 A Pyrogen Case.

the scope of this paper, nor, it may be added, into that of a Phar-
macopoeia Prof. Jaeger, of Germany, by his Neural analysis,
gave a tangible demonstration by purely scientific methods of
the action of drugs attenuated to the 30th potency.

Carl von Naegeli's experiments are so recent that they need
not be dwelt on here at any length. Briefly stated, he dis-
covered that a solution of metallic copper of y^-g- o-Joo 00 *n water
was sufficient to kill spirogyra. The manner in which von
Naegeli made this copper solution brings up another point,
peculiar to the early days of Homoeopathy, which a homoeopathic
Pharmacopoeia should not deny, namely, the solubility of metals,
or the so called " insolubles." Von Naegeli obtained his solu-
tion by suspending four clean coins in a litre of distilled water
for four days.

More instances of the solubility of metals might be cited, but
as that fact is now no longer seriously questioned in scientific
circles it would be useless. The fact, of interest to Homoeo-
paths, remains, that the old Hahnemannian method of convert-
ing the so called insolubles into dilutions from the triturations
of those metals, or drugs, was the proper one. and to day has the
unconscious sanction of the most learned modern scientists. But
we should believe this, not because a tardy science now admits
it, but on account of the works of those old preparations. They
have been weighed in the balance and not found wanting.

A PYROGEN CASE.
By H. R Bellairs, M. A.

The patient, an elderly woman of slender means, has suffered
for years from an awful ulcerated leg. which was, so to speak,
riddled with deep, burrowing wounds, which discharged freely
and were extremely painful.

Various remedies were prescribed and taken without the slight-
est perceptible change — Hepar, Silica, Arsenicum, Hamamelis,
among others. Antiseptic dressings were equally futile in their
action.

Suddenly Pyrogen flashed, like an inspiration, into the writer's
mind. Its success in "bad legs" has previously been made
known in the pages of The Hom&opathic World A few
globules of the 200 (Heath) were dissolved in an 8-oz. bottle of
distilled water; a teaspoonful to be taken once or twice a day.

Dr. Mathews vs. Dr. Ruata. 367

The result was brilliant. To use the patient's cvords, " a large
boil" formed on the calf of the leg. after the discharge of the
contents of which all the various ulcers healed up directly.

There is no pain now, and but little irritation.

Pyroge?i is one of our most powerful weapons, if rightly u?ed.
It is invaluable in varicose ulcer, and has, according to Dr. Kent,
given great relief in the hacking night cough of phthisis, which
it often removes. Why it should have been omitted from Dr. H.
C. Allen's Keynotes is more than the present writer can conceive.

29 Banbury Road, Oxford, June, 1899.

Homoeopathic World, July, 1899.

DR. MATHEWS VS. DR. RUATA.

President Mathews has stirred up a decidedly lively hornet in
Dr. Charles Ruata, Professor of Hygiene and Materia Medica in
the University of Perugia, who, like so many European pro-
fessors, is at home in several languages. The following is the
way Dr. Ruata opens in a long letter in New York Medical Jour-
nal of July 21st. It is interesting reading.

Sir : In his Presidential address to the American Medical Association Dr.
Joseph M. Mathews had the goodness to call mad people, misguided people,
those who have not the good luck to be among the believers in the prevent-
ive power of vaccination against small-pox. It is not surprising to hear such
language from fanatics; in fact, it is most common to see ignorant men make
use of similar vulgar expressions ; but it seems to me almost incredible that
the president of such a powerful association as the American Medical Asso-
ciation, in his address, showed himself so enthusiastic in his belief as to forget
that respect which is due to his colleagues who do not have the same blind
faith.

It may be that we antivaccinationists are "mad" and "misguided," but
I feel that we are far more correct in our expressions, although we do not
believe, but are quite sure, that vaccination is one of the most wonderful
and most harmful mistakes into which the medical profession has ever
fallen. I can assure you that if I am a madman, my madness is very conta-
gious, because all my pupils for several years have become as mad as I am,
so that several thousands of medical men in Italy are suffering now with
the same kind of madness.

One of the most prominent characteristics of madness as shown in illu-
sions and hallucinations which are accepted as fundamental truths. Now,
let us see what are the main facts about vaccination and small-pox in Italy :

Italy is one of the best vaccinated countries in the world, if not the best
of all, and we can prove that mathematically.

All our young men, with not many exceptions, at the age of twenty
years must spend three years in the army, where a regulation prescribes

368 Some Homoeopathic Cases.

that they must be directly vaccinated. The official statistics of our army,
published yearly, say that from 1885 to 1897 the recruits who were found
never to have been vaccinated before were less than 1.5 per cent., the larg-
est number being 2.1 per cent, in 1893, and the smallest 0.9 percent, in
1882. This means, in the clearest way, that our nation twenty years before
1885 was yet vaccinated in the proportion of 9S.5 per cent. Notwithstand-
ing, the epidemics that we have had of small-pox have been something so
frightful that nothing could equal them before the invention of vaccination.
To say that during the year 1889 we had 16,249 deaths from small-pox,
18,110 in the year 18S8, and 13,413 in 1889 (our population is 30,000,000) is
too little to give a faint idea of the ravages produced by small-pox, as these
18,110 deaths in 1888. etc., did not happen in the best educated regions of our
country, but only in the most ignorant parts, where our population live just
as they lived a century ago — that is, the mountainous parts of Sardinia,
Sicily, Calabria, etc.

After giving columns of startling figures of the same nature,
Dr. Ruata concludes, as follows : —

After these facts I would most respectfully ask Dr. Joseph M. Mathews
if he can show that in considering them I have lost my mind. At any rate,
I do not consider it correct for a medical man to make use of such language
against other medical men, however few, who have the only fault of con-
sidering things as they are, and not as one wishes they should be.

The progress of knowledge has for its principal base truth and freedom,
and I hope that in the name of truth and freedom you will publish these ob-
servations, badly expressed in a language that is not my own, in your most
esteemed journal.

In view of such statements from no obscure or fanatical man,
would it not be well for our homoeopathic bodies to think twice
before they fall into step with the American Medical Association
on this subject? Perhaps the best course will be to leave each
physician in freedom to exercise his own judgment — as he will
do, resolution or no resolution.

SOME HOMCEOPATHIC CASES.

Dr. Majumdar's Indian Homoeopathic Review* just to hand, con-
tains some refreshing homoeopathic cases. One man who put a
dose of gonorrhoea and a big spree on top of a lingering case of
malarial fever was laid by the heels with an attack of Asiatic
cholera. Dr. Majumdar was called in and on the rather mixed
symptoms prescribed Nux vomica 30. Next morning as the case
was no better Sulphur 30 was given on the old plan of " clearing
up the case." It did ; in a short time the doctor was hurriedly
called as they said the patient was dying. Tie was found icy
cold, breathing hard, bad hiccough, and the typical cramps of

Hemorrhages From The Bladder. 369

cholera. Cuprum ars was given twice during the night, and the
patient was soon better. A sore mouth followed and was prompt-
ly cured by Lachesis 30, and since then the man is "in better
health than he has been for years." All which seems to show
that the Hahnemannian remedy in the 30th potency will cure
even in desperate cases.

Also the following from the same journal:

" Shib Xath Acharji an astrologer, aged 50 years was danger-
ously attacked with a malignant carbuncle on the left side of the
spine. It swelled to the left shoulder blade."

11 The astrologer went to the assistant surgeon to be treated.
When the doctor came out with his lancet to open it, he was
greatly frightened and came to me."

" At the very beginning we administered a few drops of Silica
to expedite the course of suppuration. After three days we
found some healthy pus coming out. Again after two days we
saw all the openings become one and then there appeared a
large white slough closely adhering. Next day we saw it be-
come bluish and administered two doses of Lachesis 1000 dil. It
was loosened and was hanging on the back. The next day it
dropped from the back and the patient was cured within a fort-
night."

HEMORRHAGES FROM THE BLADDER.

Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from Leipziger P. Zeitschr,

March, 1S99.

A short time ago I was called in to a little girl, nine years of
age. who since the previous day had suffered from haematuria.
It appeared to be a case, not of haemorrhage from the kidneys,
but from the bladder, for the blood was not intimately mixed
with the urine — as is usual in haemorrhages from the kidneys,
but it was discharged after urination without being mingled with
urine. Other symptoms also pointed to haemorrhage from the
bladder. As is well known in haemorrhage from the kidneys, the
blood is more light red and thinly fluid than in hemorrhages
from the bladder, it also usually contains much albumen, and
generally there are pains in the renal regions, especially on
pressure. In haemorrhages from the bladder, however, the pains
on the application of pressure are more in the region of the
bladder, and there is nearly always more or less of a pressure to

370 Toxic Properties of Beef Tea.

urinate; the patients have to rise several times in the night for
micturition, and the urine contains not only blood, but also pus
and mucus. The fact that, as the parents told me, the child had
suffered two years before, according to their former physician,
from a catarrh of the bladder which lasted some time — a conse-
quence of a gastric fever, also led me to think it a haemorrhage
from the bladder, though this is seldom found in children; I, at
least, have not in my fifteen years' practice found any other case
of baetnaturia with a child.

Besides absolute rest in bed and a diet consisting of milk and
fruit, I gave her, on the first day, even' two hours, one drop of
Cantharis 3 in a teaspoonful of water. In consequence the
haemorrhages diminished even on the first day. Next day I gave
her two drops of this medicine every 3 hours, and I promised to
return in 48 hours. When I returned after this lapse of time I
found the little girl completely restored; she was already out of
bed and at work on her lessons.

TOXIC PROPERTIES OF BEEF TEA.

(The following is from the editorial page of Modern Medicine
for June and is worthy of investigation):

In view of the fact now so well known respecting the toxic
character of beef tea and meat extracts of all sorts, it is certainly
surprising that physicians continue to prescribe meat extracts,
broths, bouillon, and similar preparations in all sorts of condi-
tions. It is indeed especially surprising that such pseudo foods
should be recommended in cases of acute general toxaemia such
as is present in typhoid, pneumonia, diphtheria, and allied con-
ditions. An eminent French surgeon not long ago remarked,
" Beef tea is a veritable solution of ptomaines." The analysis of
beef tea shows that it contains urea, uric acid, creatinin. and a
variety of other toxic substances. Grijins has shown that solu-
tions of urea have a most destructive effect upon red blood-cor-
puscles. Such solutions cause the corpuscles to swell up and
burst, as they do when exposed to the action of distilled water.

A most remarkable fact respecting solutions of urea is that the
addition of chloride of sodium in sufficient quantities to give the
solution the same specific gravity or osmotic tension as the blood
itself does not in the slightest degree prevent this destructive
action upon the corpuscles, thus showing that its noxious qual-

The Pepsin Craze. 371

ities are specific, and that it is not, as was suggested some years
ago by Bouchard, a comparatively neutral and innocuous sub-
stance. An extract from the tissues of a dead and decomposing
animal is about the last thing that ought to be given to a patient
who is already struggling against the toxic influences of a flood
of systemic poison. In the juices of fruits, nature has given us
a source of energy in the most available and acceptable form.
Fruit juices of some sort may be recommended as preferable in
every condition in which beef tea might be consideredfa desir-
able food. Properly prepared fruit-juices, preserved by steriliza-
tion without fermentation, actually present the body with stored
energy in a form available for immediate use; whereas, beef tea
is simply a solution of products whose energy has been ex-
hausted, and acts merely as an excitant without really augment-
ing the bodily energy to any appreciable extent.

THE PEPSIN CRAZE.

If some charlatan would put upon the market a brand of
ostrich pepsin, it would quickly attain great celebrity, and
would boast of the endorsement of any number of persons who
had realized good results from its use, even though it might be
nothing more than powdered starch or sawdust.

Morro's experiments showed long ago that the element lack-
ing in the dyspeptic stomach is not pepsin, but hydrochloric
acid, and his observations have never been shown to be faulty.
The writer has carefully studied the results of more than a
thousand chemical examinations of stomach fluids, made after
the methods of Hayem and Winter, and has to record that in
less than one per cent, of these cases has there been found any
deficiency of pepsin. Unless the peptic glands have been de-
stroyed by cancer or some other degenerative process, pepsin is
present in sufficient quantity to do all the work required of it.

The fact has been before the medical profession for years, and
yet we go on prescribing pepsin in all its combinations for our
patients from mere force of habit; or do we use it as a mind
cure ? — Modern Medicine.

372 Pure Water a Poison.

PURE WATER A POISON.

(The following is clipped from Foulon's Clinical Reporter and
will be comforting to drinkers of Schuylkill, Croton, Ohio
river and other waters that are not chemically pure):

We doubt whether Germany has any " Ralstonites." who in-
sist that only distilled water should be used as a beverage, but
it has a Dr. Koppe, who, in the Deutsche Medicinische Wochen-
schrift, knocks the pins from under the Ralston doctrines. The
National Druggist gives an abstract of the article, from which
we quote: " By chemically pure water, we usually understand
perfectly fresh, distilled water, whose behavior and properties
are well understood. It withdraws the salts from the animal
tissues and causes the latter to swell or inflate. Isolated living
organic elements, cells, and all unicellular organisms are de-
stroyed in distilled water — they die, since they become engorged
therein. They lose the faculty, upon which life depends, of re-
taining their salts and other soluble cell constituents, conse-
quently these are allowed to diffuse throughout the water.

"Distilled water is, therefore, a dangerous protoplasmic
poison. The same poisonous effects must occur whenever dis
tilled water is drunk. The sense of taste is the first to pro
test against the use of this substance. A mouthful of distilled
water, taken by inadvertence, will be spit out regularly. * *
The local poisonous effect of distilled water makes itself
known by * * * all the symptoms of a catarrh of the
stomach on a small scale.

"The harmfulness of the process, so much resorted to today,
of washing out the stomach with distilled water is acknowl
edged, and we find the physicians who formerly used that agent
are now turning to the ' physiological solution of cooking salt/
or ' water with a little salt,' or the mineral waters recommended
for the purpose. The poisonous nature of absolutely pure
water would surely have been recognized and felt long since,
were it not that its effects in their most marked form can seldom
occur, for through a train of circumstances ' absolutely pure '
water can rarely be found. The ordinary distilled water, even
when freshly distilled, is not really absolutely pure, while that
used in the laboratories and clinics is generally stale, has been

Pure Water a Poison. 373

kept standing in open vessels, generally in rooms where chem-
icals of every sort abound and whose gases and effluvia are
taken up by the water."

This poisonous action of pure water is, according to Dr.
Koppe, responsible for some of the unexplained effects of admin-
istering ice to invalids. He says:

"Patients with hitherto perfectly healthy stomachs, who,
after operations, are for any reason allowed to swallow 'ice
pills,' * * * not infrequently contract catarrh of the
stomach. There are well known sequelae of the use of ice, but
up to the present no reasonable hypothesis has been offered as
to the etiology of the same. It has been charged, it is true, to
the ' bacteriological contents ' of the ice, but examination of
the latter has demonstrated it to be almost free from bacteria
such as would account for the phenomena, though otherwise
frequently containing bacteria. As a remedy our clinicians say
we must use only artificial ice, made from distilled water. Well,
it is possible that artificial ice may be better borne than the
natural, but it is not because it is purer than the latter, but
exactly the contrary. It is simply because the melted water
thereof more closely approaches our ordinary drinking-water.

" This point in the care of the sick, which is certainly worthy
of investigation and explanation, finds its analogy in daily ex-
perience of the travelers in the high mountainous regions. The
guide books warn him against quenching his thirst with snow
and glacier water, and the waters of the mountain brooks as
well, for, as is well known, these not only do not quench thirst,
but give rise to much discomfort. * * * * * *

"The harmfulness of glacier water, like that of the pure,
cold mountain brooks, most of which, indeed, spring from
glaciers, arises from the fact that they are exceedingly pure
waters and produce identically the effect of the use of distilled
water, they are poisonous. The supposition that the coldness of
the water causes the sick, uneasy feelings cannot stand for a
moment, though this coldness is very probably the reason that
its unfitness for use is not at once recognized and the liquid re-
jected.

"The last link in our chain of prolegomena is found in the
case of one of the Gastein springs. The water of this spring
has an electrical conductivity of 31.9, therefore far excelling
ordinary distilled water in this respect, and hence, according to

374 Book Notices.

our proposition, its use should demonstrate the poisonous nature
of pure water. B>r a most strange coincidence, from the oldest
times, for hundreds and hundreds of years, this spring has been
known as the Giftbrunnen — the ' poison spring.' Its water is
never drunk, it is commonly regarded as poisonous, although no
chemical examination of it — and they are almost innumerable —
has yet been able to detect the slightest trace of poisonous sub-
stance. Its poison lies in the fact of its extreme purity ! This,
we know, is a proposition that nobody will take in earnest —
still it is devoid of anything wonderful in a physiological point
of view, and furthermore, it is borne out by fact."

" Cineraria Maritima seems to hold the attention of many
enthusiasts who believe its local application has considerable
power in curing cataracts. Others claim that its internal use is
sufficient to produce the same effect and with less danger. It
seems to have an affinity for abnormal tissue development affect-
ing serous surfaces; it is supposed to cause softening and absorp-
tion of opaque structures. The efficacy of the application of
this remedy locally and its internal use are not sufficiently set-
tled yet to warrant too enthusiastic commendation. It is a
matter, however, worthy of future investigation and we await,
with much interest, the reports of our ophthalmologists and the
general practitioner as well." — H. V. H. in The Clinic for July.

BOOK NOTICES.

Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Homoeo-
pathic Pharmacy, being a Quiz Compend upon the Princi-
ples of Homoeopathy, Homoeopathic Pharmacy and Homoeo-
pathic Materia Medica. Arranged and compiled especially
for the use of students of medicine. By W. A. Dewey, M. D.
Third edition. Revised and enlarged. 376 pages. Cloth, $1.75;
by mail, $1.87. Flexible morocco, $2 00; by mail, $2.12.
Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1899.

Some idea of the amount of revision and enlarging this edi-
tion has received will be had when it is known that the 2d edi-
tion contained 294 pages, while this, the third, runs up te 376
pages — and as good, solid, homoeopathic work as can be found

Book Notices. 375

in print. The student who can answer the questions in this
book is well up in homoeopathic theory, materia medica, and
pharmacy. As regards the latter feature, Dewey might well
supersede the warring pharmacopoeias, so far as the medical
student is concerned, for he will find in this book all that he
needs to know in the matter, tersely and accurately stated. As
for the remainder of the book, we need only say it is the third
improvement of Dewey's "Essentials of Materia Medica," and
that is enough, for it is known in all languages that have a ho-
moeopathic literature.

Supplement to Malcolm & Moss' Regional and Compara-
tive Materia Medica. A very convenient arrangement of
the most characteristic symptoms of four hundred and twelve
homoeopathic remedies as given by Hahnemann, Hering,
Guernsey, Hale,Hoyne, Hughes, Jones, Burt, and two hundred
other homoeopathic physicians in all parts of the world. By J.
G. Malcolm, M. D. 76 pages. Flexible leather, $1.50. Pub-
lished by the author at Hutchinson, Kansas.
The difference between a materia medica and a practice of
medicine is that the former takes as its pivotal point a medicine,
a drug, and discusses what diseases it is likely to cure,
whilst the latter takee as its pivotal point a disease, and
considers all the medicines likely to cure it. The Regional and
Comparative Materia Medica combines the two. In the first part
of every chapter is given the symptomatology; this is the Materia
Medica. At the end of each chapter is the Repertory; it is
the Practice of Medicine. In the former the medicines are ar-
ranged alphabetically, and in the latter the diseases are so ar-
ranged. It differs from the ordinary practice of medicine in
that it only gives a list of the names of the medicines to be used,
and refers the student to the Symptomatology for the symptoms,
whilst in the Practice of Medicine the symptoms are given after
the came of each medicine. In the Practice of Medicine there is
an endless repetition of symptoms. The same symptoms are given
from five to ten times in the treatment of the various diseases. No
such useless repetition of symptoms occurs in the Regional and
Comparative Materia Medica. There the symptoms are given in
one place, and the only repetition is that of the name of the remedy
in the repertory. This is simpler and better, and gives the same

376 Book Notices.

information in a cheaper and smaller book. The Regional and
Comparative Materia Medica is therefore not only the best ar-
rangement of themateria medica, but is the most convenient
and the best work, so far as it goes, on the practice of medicine.
It make the most convenient Comparative Materia Medica and
the most compact and convenient Practice of Medicine.

The Supplement is arranged on the same plan as the work of
which it is the supplement, and contains about one-eighth the
reading matter, but is printed in smaller type and has about
double the words to its page. It contains about 412 remedies,
200 of which are not in the original work, which contains 260
remedies, about 50 of which are not in the supplement. The two
books contain about 460 remedies. The Supplement explains
itself and will give the reader a good idea of the value of the
larger work.

Mr. W. B. Saunder, medical publisher in Philadelphia, as

all know, announces the following books for publication in the

early fall of this year:

The International Text-book of Surgery. In two volumes.
By American and British authors. Edited by J. Collins
Warren, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medi-
cal School, Boston.

Heisler's Embryology. A Text-book of Embryology. By
John C. Heisler, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Medico-
Chirurgical College, Philadelphia.

Kyle on the Nose and Throat. Diseases of the Nose and
Throat. By Braden Kyle, M. D., Clinical Professor of
Laryngology and Rhinology, Jefferson Medical College, Phil-
adelphia.

Pryor — Pelvic Inflammations. The Treatment of Pelvic
Inflammations through the Vagina. By W. R. Pryor, M.
D., Professor of Gynecology in the New York Polyclinic.

Abbott on Transmissible Diseases. The Hygiene of Trans-
missible Diseases : their Causation, Modes of Dissemi-
nation, and Methods of Prevention. By A. C. Abbott, M.
D., Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania.

Jackson — Diseases of the Eye. A Manual of Diseases of
the Eye. By Edward Jackson, A. M., M. D., late Profess* r
of Diseases of the Eye in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and Col-
lege for Graduates in Medicine.

Book Notices. 377

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical
Society, 1889 to 1899. Vol. XII. Published by the Committee
on Publication.

The Society having discontinued its arrangement with the
New England Medical Gazette fcr the publication of its proceed-
ings and having voted to have them published in book form, also
included a condensed report of the proceedings of the intervening
ten years. The result is a volume of 350 pages in brevier type,
full of many excellent scientific papers.

The Indian Homa>opathician, edited by S. B. Mukerjee, Luck-
now, India, is the last comer in the homoeopathic journal field.
Part of its platform is embodied in the following: "The much
neglected Philosophy of Homoeopathy— the exposition of the prin-
ciples laid down by Hahnemann in his Organon of the Healing
Art — will be a special feature of the journal." If this is followed
the new journal will soon make a place for itself, for the other
branches are over-crowded, but not this one.

We have been favored with a copy of Phials, published by the
Junior class of the University of Michigan for 1899. It is well
edited and full of local jokes, some of them good enough to go out
farther than the college, as witness : "The mental symptoms of
Antimonium crud.. Miss Wilson?" "Oh I remember them,
doctor. Poetical, you know, and romantic — a moonlight night
mood. Oh, I know all about that." Dr. Helmuth contributes
one of his inimitable poems to the number, " Semper paratus."

I'm young again to-night,

I'll send the old dean packing, and will he
Helmuth, a graduate of '53.

Good work, Mr. Juniors.

"The Fallacy of Vaccination," by Alexander Wilder, M. D.,
is the title of a twenty-four page pamphlet published by the
Metaphysical Publishing Co., of 465 5th Ave., New York.
Price, 15 cents. It is a strong paper and inditement of a practice
that for some unexplainable reason has taken a firm hold on
mankind. For instance, what is to be said to the assertion that
James Phipps, who, as the first vaccinated person, the centenary
of which act was recently celebrated in England, afterwards had
confluent small-pox ? Also of the statistical fact that 86 per cent,
of the millions who have had the disease since the introduction
of the vaccination had been vaccinated? Or of the assertion,
11 Consumption follows in the footsteps of vaccination as directly
as an effect ever follows a cause ?" We would like to see the
paper discussed in some of the great vaccination journals, in a
dispassionate manner ; it would be decidedly interesting.

378 Book Notices.

Our "regular" friend, the Charlotte Medical Journal, has the
following- to say of the fourth edition of Boericke & Dewey's
Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schuessler, just published, and it hits
nearer the truth than it wots when it mixes these remedies with
Homoeopathy:

Perhaps very few of us have an intelligent opinion of Homoeopathy; we
simply condemn it on general principles or use it tentatively when we only
want to be doing something. The case is presented for what it is worth,
and Drs. Boericke and Dewey give a reason for the faith that is within
them, and to get an intelligent idea of what Homoeopathy really is we
should read this book. The Twelve Tissue Remedies are Fluoride of Lime,
Phosphate of Lime, Sulphate of Calcium, Phosphate of Lron, Chloride of
Potassium, Phosphate of Potassium, Sulphate of Potassium, Phosphate of
Magnesia, Chloride of Sodium, and Silica or silicious earth. Therapeutical
application is from abscess to yeilow fever. The repertory is a well-
arranged index of diseases, symptoms and treatment.

By the way, Boericke & Dewey's work, aside from Schuess-
ler's own book, is the only one published that keeps up with
the progress of these remedies; all the others are "plated"
books while B. & D.'s is from type, and each new edition em-
bodies all that has been learned on the subject since the appear-
ance of the previous edition; for example, the first edition of this
book had 303 pages; that was in 1888, and now, in 189Q, it has
grown to 424. But evervone knows there is only one Schuess-
ler book, i. e., Boericke & Dewey's. It has been pirated twice,
but both the piratical editions are now out of date and have not
paid the publishers of them for their shady business It never
does, for the world neither likes nor trusts that breed.

This is what the Homoeopathic World has to say of our friend
— friend of all of us — Dr. Nash, and his Leaders, a book that has
caught on w'th the medical world as David Harum has with the
literary world:

This book is of the right sort. It is the work of a careful practitioner and
an acute observer who has the faculty of putting into practical shape and
homely phraseology the fruits of his long experience and observation. Dr.
Nash belongs to that branch of the homoeopathic body which numbers
among its representatives such names as Hering, Ljppe, Duuham, and H.
N. Guernsey. Following in their footsteps, he has confirmed their teach-
ings, and in the book before us has provided a series of drug sketches that
have seldom been surpassed. One great charm about the book is its spon-
taneity. It is unacademic to the last degree, and correspondingly vital.
There is no order in the book, not even the alphabetical but this is com-
pensated for by an excellent double index — an index of the remedies and a
clinical index. As one remedy suggests another the pictures are drawn and
painted, and illustrated from the author's experience. Further there is no
schematic order in the sketches. Dr. Nash begins to paint his pictures at
any point which seems to him the most desirable. Hence the work is emi-
nently readable. In a book of this kind, that is precisely what is wanted.
For materia medica reference work the schema is an absolute necessity; but
in comprehensive descriptive work all hard and fast lines break up the
unity of the picture and mar the effect.

Dr. Nash's book may be confidently recommended alike to student and to
practitioner. It will put the former in the right way of obtaining a vital
acquaintance with the forces he is to handle; and the latter will find in it
many a new light thrown on remedies he supposed he knew all about be-
fore.— Homoepathic World.

Homoeopathic Recorder.

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BLACK TRITURATIONS OF MERCURIUS VIVUS.

It has been asserted that black triturations of Mercurius vivus
are an evidence of superior trituration, i. e., that the particles o
the quick mercury are subdivided so finely that they turn black
this is decidedly erroneous, as any physician can see by a moment's
reflection, and the blackness of such a trituration is due to the
fact that it is black oxide of mercury. If it were truly live mer-
cury, i. e., Merc, vivus, it would of necessity be the color of mer-
cury, a light gray. The microscopic test will also confirm this,
as will, also, the " blue mass " and "blue ointments" of the
old school which are triturations of Mercury. It is well for phy-
sicians and pharmacists to know these little things.

MISSOURI VALLEY HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL

SOCIETY.

St. Louis, Mo., June 30, 1899.
Editor The Recorder,

Dear sir: Will you kindly state in your next issue that the
Missouri Valley Homoeopathic Medical Society will hold its 5th
Annual Session at St. Joseph, Missouri, the first week in October.
On account of the meeting of the American Institute at Omaha
last year no meeting of the Missouri Valley Society was held,
but it is proposed to make up for lost time this year in the size
of the Missouri Valley meeting and the character of the papers
read. The chairman of the bureau will be announced next
month.

By running the above you will greatly oblige,

Yours fraternally,

L. C. McElwel, M. D.,

President.
iiij N. Grand Ave.,
St. Louis, Mo.

380 Editorial.

THE DEATH OF DR. I. TISDALE TALBOT.

We, the members of the Consulting Board of the Westboro
Insane Hospital, shocked and profoundly saddened by the sud-
den loss of our honored chairman, Dr. I. Tisdale Talbot, desire
to express our grief and our sense of personal bereavement in
the sundering of the close ties which have so long united us as
men, as physicians and as co-workers upon this Board; as well
as our keen realization of the loss to this institution of his wise
counsels, his ever active interest and his ripened experience.

We desire, also, to tender to her who labored with him for the
welfare of this hospital, as in many other fields of usefulness,
and to the other members of his family, our sincere and heart-
felt sympathy.

Howard P. Bellows,
Chas. L. Nichols,
John Prentick Rand,

For the Board.

WELL SAID.

"The question of compulsory notification of tuberculosis in
Michigan has been brought to a climax by the arrest of a number
of well known physicians on a charge of not complying with the
law. It is questionable whether any infringement of the law
has taken place, but even if it has it is well that the breach has
occurred in order to bring several questions before the public.
The moral iniquity of creating a leper class out of the tuberculous
is too grave a matter to be lightly condoned. The degradation
of the physician's calling to that of an unpaid reporter for a
bureau of statistics is one that he may justly resent. If danger-
ous communicable diseases are to be brought within public ken,
let every alderman that has syphilis and every health commis-
sioner that has gonorrhea voluntarily make examples of them-
selves for the public good. There may be some wise reason for
a correct collection by the State of the statistics of tuberculosis.
This is best furnished by the death records. These statistics,
however, should find some higher use than that of providing
diversion for statisticians, nor should they be used as a means of
projecting hazy generalizations based upon unreliable data, nor

Editorial. 381

for the preparation of graphic curves of uncertain geometrical
purport. Unless some undeniable good can come to the living
from labelling the tuberculous as dangerous, this should be re-
sisted as an unwarranted encroachment upon the liberties of the
individual. The usual plea of the notificationists is that this is
the only way to educate the public to a sense of the danger of
the disease. This, of course, is not so ; but even if it were, to do
an act of injustice to one individual sufferer that the rest of man-
kind may profit thereby must fall short of any genuine ethical
conception of public or private duty." — Medical Age, July .

NEW ANN ARBOR HOSPITAL.

The following from the Ann Arbor Daily Argus, of July 6th,
will be good news to homoeopaths:

''The special election of last Monday, July 3, at which the
people of Ann Arbor by a practically unanimous vote, 660 to 16,
authorized the city council to donate a site for the new homoeo-
pathic hospital, is undoubtedly the beginning of a new era for
the homoeopathic medical college of the university and for the
profession generally throughout the state. The property which
it is expected will be donated is known as the Smith property,
situated on Washtenaw ave., across from the gymnasium, and
embraces about five acres. It is a fine location for a hospital,
being situated on the street car line and quite near the college.
The propert\' will cost about §17,000. There is already a large
brick house upon it which will be fitted up for a nurses' home.
It will probably cost $2,000 or §3,000 to do this, bringing the
value of the lot and the building now upon it up to §20 000.
On this property the board of regents have by resolution agreed
to build a hospital building which without the furnishings will
cost not less than §50,000. It may cost §60,000. The entire
property, including the site and the hospital with its equip-
ment and furnishings, all new throughout, will, when finished,
probably be worth §90,000. The hospital will be placed back
500 feet from the middle of the street. The surroundings are
beautiful and from the back of the hospital will be a delightful
view of the Huron valley. The location is in every way an
excellent one."

" This hospital will be for the exclusive use of the homoeo-
pathic department, the one now occupied by that department be-

382 Editorial.

coming a part of the university hospital. The new hospital
will be thoroughly modern and up to date in every respect. It
will probably have a fine lecture room in connection and a
capacity for 75 patients. The rapidly increasing patronage of
the new department makes this large increase of capacity a
necessity."

Odd things drift into a journal's mail. Here is a paper, four
pages, and not an advertisment in it, the Christian, run by a
male " Christian scientist," and here is a letter from one of his
patients:

(,It is with a heart full of joy and gratitude that I report to you my
daughter's convalescence. She is a living wonder. The doctor had no
hopes of her recovery. Temperature was 105. She was almost lifeless
when I wrote you, but there was a change for the better in a few hours
after I mailed the letter. Her little girl is so amenable to your treatments.
She, also, became ill. Imagine my mental agony ! I mustered mind and
courage enough to say: ' Hurry, Dr. Shelton ! She must not get sick, for
it will just kill her mother in her weakened state.' She stopped crying, as
quick as lightning, and was sweet and nice about being put to bed. Next
morning she was all right and quite content. Another peculiar circum-
stance. A few days before the mother went to bed so ill, the little daughter
sprained her wrist. She cried for three hours. I suddenly thought of you,
and said, in the Silence, ' Doctor, my granddaughter has sprained her
wrist.' To the wonder of her mother, father and nurse, standing around,
she stopped crying and called for the kitty. She was all right after that.
God is in you, and you are in God. I trust and honor you."

And we can only wonder whether the man paid the healer for
his marvelous work in money or gratitude, probably the latter,
for a man in God does not need cash.

Modesty has never been a prominent trait in the men who ad-
vertise a medicine, and what little they did possess seems to have
gone glimmering, as witness the following clipping from a six-
teen page dodger that is being showered on humanity as thick
as leaves in Vallombrosa:

The hand-scythe has given way to the mowing machine ; stage coaches to
the steam cars ; the tallow dip to the electric light. So it must be with
medicines — big doses of calomel, quinine, etc., must step aside for Im-
proved Homoeopathic Remedies, which have completely revolutionized
the old methods and traditions of medical treatment. While based upon
the leading features of progressive and enlightened Homoeopathy, his Rem-
edies are as far in advance of the regular school of Homoeopathy as Homce-

Editorial. 383

opathy is above all other schools. These Improved Homoeopathic Rem-
edies, which Professor has given to the world, combine all that is best

in all sysle/ns.

This sort of thing is made possible, only by the absolute ig-
norance of the people concerning the A B C's of Homoeopathy,
as persons with even the merest surface knowledge of Homoe-
opath) can see the gibbering idiocy of the above claim and all in-
terested in the good cause should do his best to let the people
know what Homoeopathy is.

The Eclectic Medical Jour?ial of July says:

We note that our homoeopathic friends are torn up concerning the infalli-
bility of Dr. Hahnemann. " One says he is and the other says he isn't." They
are now concerned over the suggestion by our Prof. Lloyd, to the effect that
in case Dr. Hahnemann were alive he would probably accept pharmacal im-
provements. One says he would, the other says he would not, all of which
is out of place if Hahnemann were superhuman, and in place if he was a
mortal.

The question hinges on his infallibility, and our homoeopathic friends
should settle that point first. If he was infallible he knew it all, and it is
useless for his followers to attempt to improve on his methods or his medi-
cines. If he was a mortal he did not know. Settle the point among your-
selves, gentlemen; don't let the if ot outsiders disturb your deliberations.

Hahnemann was not infallible, good sir; nor has anyone ever
said he was, and the " ifs" of outsiders will not disturb homoeo-
paths in the least — send them in as often as you please. Ho-
moeopathy, we would inform our worthy contemporary, is the
science of curing disease with drugs; in other words, the science
of therapeutics. It was built up so far with proving of drugs
prepared in a given manner, and it follows as day does night
that if anyone wants to " improve" the drug he should also at
the same time re-prove the improvement. The juice of fresh
plant Aconite is the same as it was a hundred years ago, and all
the "pharmacal improvements" under the shining sun cannot
" improve " it. That is all. Do you see the point ?

Every one should keep a stock of Biddle's Answers to Ques-
tions Concerning Homoeopathy on hand to give out to the public.
No better missionaiy pamphlet published.

PERSONALS.

Cooper, of the Gleaner, defines " heart failure " as " damfino."

Query. — Is there any stop to the "evolutionary" process? Please
answer.

Should he advertise the mosquito would make it: "Wanted: summer
boarders. ' '

Well, yes, John, in a sense a hennery is an egg-plant.

Dr J. B. Gregg Custis has removed to 912 Fifteenth St., McPherson
Square, Washington, D. C.

And now the odor of fresh earth is "due to microbes," cladothrix odori-
fero. How7 long, oh Lord, how long !

A "health" journal affirms that chair backs are unnecessary. We'll
take 'ern in ours, however.

Time was when Homoeopathy was even more "irregular" than
" Christian science," therefore do not be too lusty in hurling stones.

Plenty of toleration for the brother's fads and fancies is a very good
thing to cultivate. We all have 'em.

If he wants to spend his money for therapeutic prayers let him do it
without kicking. He'll be more apt to come to the tolerant man when he
recovers sanity.

Send your State Society, local society or American Institute papers to the
Recorder — big circulation and world wide.

No, John, it is not essential to use black tea while in mourning, though
there can be no objection should you wish to.

" This is unquestionably the best work on the tissue remedies that has yet
been published." The Critique on Boericke & Dewey's Twelve Tissue
Remedies of Schuessler . Fourth Edition.

Dr. Halbert calls attention to the use of Anacardium 6 5 drop doses
acute mental perversions. It has done good work in his hands.

If you have a " kissing bug " case rub it with Plantago major 0, and give
a little internally, so says our old friend, Dr. Cresson, of Germantown.

The British Medical Journal fears that beards are the haunt of bacilli.
God forbid !

We read of a doctor who administers antitoxin per rectum. Wise man.

There is not a great deal of difference in life between " taking the middle
course " and " sitting on the fence."

Certainly, Sarah, a preacher is a joiner, but he is not a mechanic.

" Shock " is chiefly important in damage suits.

David Harum says most men's hearts are located near their trousers'
pocket.

Dr. John C. Rolleman has removed from Burr Oak to Ann Arbor, Mich.

And the Homoeopathic Recorder is one dollar a year. Subscribe for it.

THE

Homeopathic Recorder.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa., September, 1899. No. 9

A STUDY OF ECHINACEA.

By Thos. C. Duncan, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., Chicago,

Prof, of Principles and Practices of Medicine, Etc.,

Dunham Medical College.

I have been very much interested in the report of Dr. Fah-
nestock on Echinacea, and also in all new remedies since 1866,
when, as Secretary of the N. W. Provers' Association, I assisted
in several original researches with new drugs.

Recently provings have had a new interest to me. I am look-
ing for the course of actio?i of the drugs, and especially the sec-
ondary or last effects.

In the outline of the action of Echinacea is first " a biting,
tingling sensation." This is a surprise to the system, that
should have, like Aconite, chilliness; the author says it has "fear."
This is followed by " rapid circulation" and "fulness of the.
head," due to the increased action of the heart. This cerebral
hyperemia seems to extend to the spine also, with the attendant
pain or myalgia. That is primary, and, as Hahnemann pointed
out, must have a counter-effect, which the expert student of
drug pathogenesis can fill out even if not in the proving. The
final effect is "weakness," mental and physical, due to the hy-
peremia. This hyperemia, like that produced by work, must
be followed and relieved by rest and sleep.

Here is something noteworthy and perhaps characteristic of
this drug. With the rapid heart and fulness of the head there
is not an increase of the mental activity, doubtless because of the
stuffy nose the respiration (and oxidation) is defective, hence
there is a rapid venosity and lethargy. This catarrhal condition
extends down the whole alimentary canal, thereby doubtless af-

386 A Study of Echinacea.

fecting the lymphatic glands — lessening the genesis of blood
and anaemia might result.

The hyperaemic, and finally the catarrhal condition, also ex-
tends down the larynx, trachaea to the lesser bronchi. This ex-
plains the blocking of the upper part of the lungs. The pain
in the right side is doubtless hepatic rather than pulmonary.

The increased action of the heart, the rapid venosity and hy-
peraemia explains the chest and heart symptoms.

More provings with day-book records will throw much more
light on the range of action of this drug. Certain symptoms will
doubtless be brought out more fully by certain temperaments,
and others in others. We shall not know more definitely what
may be the secondary or restorative symptoms until we see all
the records. Then we may be able to ascertain the related drugs
and determine the therapeutic range.

The profuse saliva, loose stools and profuse urination, as well
as enforced rest, is Nature's method of relief from the effects of
this drug.

The pale face, slow pulse and exhaustion are secondary effects
and may prove diagnostic.

It is from among the secondary effects that we must select the
therapeutic guiding symptoms. Possibly the pale face, slug-
gish circulation, lack of appetite, depression and weakness will
be the symptoms that Echiiiacea will cure. These symptoms are
not bilious, for the tongue is white — showing a nervous weak-
ness— like the onset of a fever.

A Proving of Echinacea.

March 10, 7 p. m., Dr. T. C. D. (Nervo-bilious lymphat.,
weight 180 lbs., 5 feet 5 inches in height, aet. 58, fair health,
pulse 72.)

After supper took 5 drops of Echinacea 0 in water.

7:15 p. m., Pulse 80, full and strong. Full feeling in temples.
Pain burning under left scapula. Sharp burning pain under the
sternum. Pain of supra-orbital nerve momentarily.

7:30, Temperature, 99!; pulse, 72. Full feeling in head.
Stitching pain in left chest (apex of heart). Dizzy feeling in
head. Chilly sensation in left occiput. Face flushed.

7:40, Perspiration chiefly on upper part of body. Pain in
right deltoid muscle (stitching).

7:50, Sudden pain in left temple.

The True Echinacea Angustifolia 387

7:55, Pulse full and strong, again up to 80. Face still flushed.

8 p. m.j Pain (neuralgic) in left upper branch of fifth nerve.

Painful fulness in both temples, as from blood pressure.

Profuse flow of saliva.

Eyes feel brighter than natural.

Sudden pain in left head, above coronal suture.

8:15, Pulse 84, full and strong.

8:30, Rumbling in bowels.

Slight pain in cardiac region.

10:30, Chilliness in right leg.

Brain weary. Felt moist in left hemisphere (am right-
handed). Weary all over; must retire. Next day felt wearied,
but no definite localized disorder except a weak back.

The first thing to note in this proving is that the pulse rose
at once, then fell, then rose again, while the temperature was
up nearly a degree. The pulse was taken by a young physician,
Dr. Dakin, and is accurate.

The flushed face, full head, chilly sensation and lassitude
resembled a coming fever. This drug will doubtless have more
effect upon a lymphatic temperament than one where venosity
cannot be hurried. The catarrhal and neuralgic symptoms are
early brought out in this proving. There was a weariness or
weakness of the back (small) next day, but whether due to the
medicine the prover was not certain. If this drug produces se-
vere spinal hyperemia a weak back should belong to its
pathology. This drug promises to be a valuable addition to our
armamentarium.

THE TRUE ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA.

Now that Drs. Fahnenstock and Hazard have succeeded in
thoroughly arousing the attention of the profession to this
remedy everything concerning it is of interest, and this is the
excuse for reprinting the following characteristic blast from
Cooper of the Medical Gleaner and also the letter from Prof.
John Uri Lloyd. This is from Cooper {Medical Gleaner, August) :

IMMITIGABLE CHEKK.

There is a homeopathic pharmacal establishment in St, Louis
which floats on gall. Its literary representative has a genius
for invention which, if it could be diverted to physics, would
make a multi-millionaire of him in almost no time. Amongst
his latest achievements is the following:

388 The True Echinacea Angustifolia.

"Echinacea angustifolia, the priority of the introduction of which is
claimed by some eclectics, was formerly made from the black Sampson, an
altogether different plant from the purple corn flower. Recognizing the
merit of this remedy, our investigations led to the discovery of the above
mistake. The echinacea we offer is made from the fresh green plants of
the purple corn flower."

If these people knew more about botany they would perhaps
appear less asinine in some of their mouthings. Xo one could
overlook the declaration that "echinacea angustifolia was
formerly made from the black Sampson, etc." now they make
"echinacea angustifolia from purple corn-flower." Certainly
they are magicians.

Now for the truth about this echinacea business. Prof. John
Uri Lloyd, who is built upon a very different plan from that of
the writer above quoted, in response to inquiries of mine in
reference to the development of echinacea, makes these state-
ments:

"Dr. King and I introduced echinacea, having obtained it
from Dr. H. C. F. Meyer, of Nebraska, who used it in a secret
mixture. It was the echinacea angustifolia, a western species of
echinacea.

"Imitators or substitutors put the old, well known black
Sampson on the market, or at least recommended it for our
echinacea.

" C. G. Lloyd long ago called attention in the E. M. fournal
to the fact that they are not the same.

" Felter and I repeated this notice in the Americari Dispen-
satory. I have taught these facts and given them to the world
upon every occasion offered. I challenge any man to show that
the foregoing statements are not true in every particular. What
next? Will some one soon claim that I buy my preparations
of hydrastis, or deny that I made wintergreen salicylic acid in
Cincinnati second to Prof. Wayne of this city ? The audacity
of some of these circular writers is marvelous. These people
not only try to take from eclectics the credit of introducing echi-
nacea, but attempt to show that eclectics use, as a substitute,
the old Black Sampso?i of King' s Dispensatory , 1845."

In the foregoing statements you get the truth from a man
whose world-wide fame depends scarcely less upon his immacu-
late probity, than upon his scientific and literary attainments.
Wonder if this remarkable St. Louis firm does make "echinacea
from fresh green plants ? " All the rest of their statements con-
cerning it being false, wouldn't the truth of this one have to
depend upon a slip of the pen ? C.

If the firm here alluded to is using the " purple corn flower "
their customers are being supplied with a tincture Centaurea
cijanus when they order Echinacea angustifolia. This shows
that Drs. Fahnestock and Hazard made no mistake when they
selected the B. & T. tincture of Echinacea angustifolia for their

The True Echinacea Angustifolia. 389

proving. It is also not a little amusing to see how carefully
the several journals which have published this proving have
deleted the fact that only the B. & T. tincture was used in the
proving. However, business is business, and they must not run
the risk of offending an advertiser by little facts of this nature.
The following is from one who speaks with botanical authority
in this matter, Prof. Lloyd, in same number of Gleaner:

AUTHENTIC MEDICINES.
John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati, O.

When a physician proposes to investigate a remedy scientific-
ally he seeks an authentic specimen. Not only does he demand
that the drug be authentic and true to name, but that the prep-
aration made from it be unexceptionally representative. Phy-
siological experiments on dumb brutes even are not made by
the experimentor with remedies that bear any question what-
ever. Great pains and expense are taken to make sure of
authenticity and of reliability. The drug must be true to name,
and the product scientifically exact. That this is true I know
from an experience of many, many years, wherein I have united
with famous physicians in America and abroad who came to me
personally because they wished to run no risk concerning their
work.

But if it is so important that a drug intended to be used in
experimenting upon an animal should be of unquestioned au-
thenticity, is it not doubly important that one destined to be
used for a sick child, or for any human being, be above sus-
picion ? I contend, yes. And I insist that the physician who
proposes to treat human beings should be no less careful con-
cerning his remedies than is the scientific experimentor who
wishes to establish the physiological action of a drug on ani-
mals. For this reason I have these many years insisted that it
is a crime to make one remedy for medical authorities and an-
other for the market.

I insist also that it is a double wrong to sell an imitation prep-
aration for the genuine, or to substitute one drug for another
that the physician orders.

And I have no patience with men who are willing to lend
themselves to a fraud, either by intent or purpose or interfer-
ence to fact. Have I not told my eclectic friends until I am
afraid of being wearisome that epilobium herb is not a willow ?
That there are two species of sesculus, and that black willow
aments are not the bark of either tree or root. That helonias is
not aletris, and that grindelia robusta is not grindelia squarrosa.
That apis should be made from live, vicious honey bees, etc.,
etc., until I feel ashamed to mention such facts again.

It is provoking to find pharmacists so careless as to pay no at-
tention to these facts, and more so to find physicians indifferent

390 Distilled Water.

to quality or origin. Do not forget the reputation of these
remedies was established by the use of authentic drugs and of
carefully made pharmaceutical preparations.

And now comes the last claimant for favor; a fine remedy is
true to name, echinacea. And now again I write, black Samp-
son of the East is not the plant Dr. Meyers used and Prof. King
introduced I speak by authority, for I insisted on its being
botanically identified. I obtained the first plant from Dr.
Meyers [and have that specimen yet]. Brother C. G. Lloyd
named it, and I published the record. I made the preparations
Prof. King employed, and I know that he used the true echi-
nacea angustifolia. C. G. Lloyd published in the E. M. Journal
that echinacea angustifolia is not the old black Sampson of the
East, and Prof. Felter made the same statement prominent in
the new American Dispensatory. And yet some physicians seem
to think that the remedy King introduced in 1885, as a new
remedy, is made from the old plant he described in his dispen-
satory in 1845. Bear this fact in mind, echinacea angustifolia
is a Western plant, while black Sampson [echinacea purpurea*]
is found in the East. Remember, too, that the remedy known
as echinacea, introduced by King and made first for the profes-
sion by me, is made from echinacea angustifolia, and has never
been made from the old black Sampson.

Notwithstanding the above, the substance of which I have
written more than once, it will not surprise me to hear some
physician ask, " Is echinacea made from Sampson?"

The foregoing also throws some light on that wonderful array
of Echinacea tinctures from fourteen pharmacists that was dis-
played at Atlantic City.

DISTILLED WATER.

J. A. Clement, M. D.

The exact percentage of morbid conditions caused by impure
water is hard to determine, but there can be no doubt that the
ingestion of water loaded with impurities, organic and inor-
ganic, plays an important part in causing and adding to those
diseases that all flesh is heir to. Not all the danger lies in the
presence of disease germs, but according to our knowledge of
drug action the presence of the sulphate of lead and zinc salts,
earthy carbonates, chlorine, etc., may have and very probably
does have a deleterious effect on the economy. Some of the

* Echinacea purpurea was known in King's Amer. Dispensatory as Rud-
beckia purpurea or Black Sampson.

Distilled Water. 391

diseases due to impure water are affections of the alimentary
canal, such as diarrhoea and dysentery. Cholera and typhoid
fever are probably the best examples of, and the most common,
diseases transmitted through an infected water supply. The
spread of malaria has been traced directly to the same source.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria seem capable of being distributed
by water, but this has not been proven conclusively. Goitre,
cystic calculi, boils, etc., have been supposed to be due to im-
purities in the water, the most acceptable theories tracing them
to variations in hardness. The production of metallic poisoning
in its chronic forms is extremely likely to occur from the use of
water containing poisonous metals in solution.

In most municipalities to-day the water supply is carefully
looked to, and in the majority of cases fairly pure, and it is now
rare that epidemics can be traced to this source; but if free from
microbes and disease germs there are other disturbing elements
that for the sake of health should be removed.

Three methods may be employed to remove impurities from
drinking water: Filtering, boiling and distillation.

The first method, filtering, has some advantages to recom-
mend it, but we must bear in mind that filtering is simply
straini7ig. As Dr. Nichols has pointed out, there is no material
known which can be introduced into the small space of a tap-
filter and accomplish any real purification of the water that
passes through it at the ordinary rate of flow.

Boiling all of our drinking water is a very good plan, as boil-
ing will rid it of disease germs; but we still have elements pres-
ent that are not desirable.

The third method, distillation, accomplishes all that is desired,
and the resulting distilled water is simply a chemical composi-
tion of oxygen and hydrogen and perfectly free from any sub-
stance, organic or inorganic.

The great objection raised to distilled water is its flat, insipid
taste. This unpleasant taste can be removed by aeration and
also by its continued use the palate becomes accustomed to it.
Most people do not drink enough water, and we will often find
that by increasing the quantity of drinking water and having
that water absolutely pure a better state of health can be main-
tained. In the exhibition of our medicines, when we realize
what absolute purity is demanded in their preparation, we can-
not fail to imagine that a remedy put into a glass of distilled

392 The Disease Rabies.

water has a better chance to bring about good results than the
same medicine dropped into a tumbler of water loaded with
various chemical substances. Some drugs are neutralized and
some form chemical compounds with the substances they find
there, and we are disappointed in the results we expected from
the drug's action.

One great objection to the use of distilled water in families is
the trouble of obtaining it. But there are a number of stills in
the market, inexpensive and easy to operate and this objection
to its use might not be allowed to interfere.

THE DISEASE " RABIES." DOES IT EXIST?
By Dr. Wilbur J. Murphy, New York City.

With the summer comes the usual reported frequency of rabies.
Almost daily the press describes in graphic style the ravings of
the victim of the rabid dog. There are a multitude of institutes
where those bitten by the supposed canine maniac can receive
hydrophobia preventive treatment and the system rendered an
inhospitable host for the growth and development of the microbe
of rabies, which, though supposed to exist, has never yet been
isolated, identified or revealed. Madstones have been sold for
fabulous prices and their virtues highly prized.

Notwithstanding the reported prevalence of this disease,
rabies is a very rare condition in the dog or any other animal, if
it exists at all or ever did exist. In ten years' s practice in the
city of New York, in a field largely canine, I never saw the
malady myself nor know of anyone who has encountered it. It
has been diagnosed many times, but it may be safely said that
other conditions have almost invariably, if not in every in-
stance, been mistaken for the disease so frequently mentioned
but so seldom met. I^ast week the Police Board reported the
destruction of 106 rabid dogs. There is little doubt but that
there were destroyed 106 dogs, not one among them rabid.

The literature upon the subject of rabies is vague and mis-
leading. Different accounts of the disease vary so much from
one another that we can scarcely recognize the same condition
from the many different descriptions.

Under the guise of rabies, any strange and unaccountable
action of the dog can be most easily disposed of, and the abuse

The Disease Rabies. 393

of the term has furnished an ever ready cloak for a multitude of
erroneous ideas and practices. Empirical acts have flourished
with seeming success, because they were directed against a dis-
ease that did not exist and the only virtues such practices pos-
sessed was in allaying the groundless fears associated with this
dreaded, imaginary ill.

No one doubts that at times the dog acts in a manner strange
and often unexplainable, but in every instance such actions are
from causes specific in their nature and properly understood are
simple manifestations of cause and effect. Thousands of dogs
have been destroyed as rabid, yet were victims of other ills, and
hundreds of people have been tortured by barbarous acts of
cautery and inoculation to cure a disease they did not have —
that probably does not exist, except in the brain of dreamy
diagnosticians, medical tricksters and such barnacles as live
upon the fears and apprehension of a terror-stricken, hydrophobia-
fearing people. The origin of the disease is clothed in ob-
scurity. Everything concerning it is obscure and uncertain.
In origin, its prevalence, its symptoms, its treatment. For this
reason it should be carefully studied, its truths revealed, delu-
sions associated with its name dispelled and a source of fear and
dread forever driven away. Whenever we find a malady with
conflicting descriptions we know that there is an ill not clearly
understood. Rabies has more varying descriptions than any
other condition ever discussed or mentioned, and when we
thoroughly understand what is now erroneously termed a
specific disease we will find that rabies will eventually be
recognized as some exalted nervous phenomena due to certain
and natural causes instead of to the antics of microbian
organisms.

Outbreaks of rabies are described among farm animals, where
there is no possible chance or trace of inoculation. Recently I
read an account of a number of cows which suddenly developed
symptoms of rabies. They were quartered on a small island,
in the middle of a wide, running stream. They were supposed
to have been inoculated by some passing rabid dog which
sought them in their distant sheds, swam the intervening river
and without leaving any trace of inoculation or laceration per-
formed its rabid mission and hurried on. It was argued with
logical force that the mad dog must have bitten the cows for
them to have developed the manifestations of rabies.

394 The Disease Rabies.

It is difficult to understand how such irrational suppositions
can be accepted without the slightest comment in this disease
rabies and the plain truths of Homoeopathy characterized as
weird and unacceptable — suppositions embraced, facts rejected.

There is no symptom or set of symptoms diagnostic of rabies
in the live animal — not the slightest sign by which this disease
can be told. The actions described to the rabid animal are com-
mon to a dozen canine ills. Mr. Fleming says that in rabies
there is a marked change in the disposition. Dyspepsia has
changed the disposition of more dogs than rabies ever will.

A tendency to bite is not suggestive of the disease. Many
writers agree that often the rabid dog displays no desire to maim
or destroy, and in the description of dumb rabies the aggressive
manifestations are entirely absent.

Neither are there any post-mortem lesions to identify the
malady. Foreign bodies in the stomach or intestines is no more
suggestive of rabies than it is of influenza. Dogs in perfect
health often have foreign bodies in the alimentary tract. It is
surprising that with a disease so frequently described and so
thoroughly feared there does not exist a single ante-mortem
or post-mortem sign to denote its presence.

The inoculation of a part of the spinal cord of a supposed rabid
subject into healthy animals unusually susceptible to its influ-
ence is supposed to be a positive method of determining the
presence of rabies in a suspected animal, but similar, if not
identical phenomena, can be produced by inoculation with the
spinal cord of animals known to be free from rabies. Animals
have been tortured into a state of frenzy, destroyed, and the
spinal cord inoculated into guinea pigs, and the operation has
been followed by a train of symptoms identical with those de-
scribed as rabies.

We have in rabies a disease of an obscure and questionable
origin. It is supposed to arise spontaneously when no better or
more plausible explanation can be advanced — a grotesque phe-
nomena. It has no symptoms or lesions by which it can be rec-
ognized either in the live or dead animal. No reasonable theory
of transmission has ever been advanced to explain its progress.
The microbe responsible for its presence has never been discov-
ered. The lesions obtained by the inoculation of supposed rabid
material can be observed in experiments with material known to
be entirely free from rabies. People have died from what was

American Institute of Homoeopathy. 395

apparently hydrophobia, yet had never been bitten by an animal
sick or well and at times and under conditions where rabid
inoculation was impossible.

The existence of rabies as a specific disease has long been
questioned. Several French experimenters many years ago
claimed that the disease rabies was but some nervous derange-
ment from ordinary causes — not a virile disease of bacteriological
origin and influence.

It is necessary that we should know the truth concerning this
disease. We live in an age of hydrophobia dread. Numerous
cures are recommended for the victim of the mad dog. The fear
of hydrophobia has worked a great deal of injury to people of
nervous temperament. This fear has agitated the weak into
serious ills, the timid into states of alarm and in many instances
paved the way for a breaking down of the system under the ap-
prehensive strain. Insanity has been a frequent sequel to the
groundless dread of rabies. Barbarous hydrophobia cures have
maimed and killed more people than ever died from the disease.

The science of medicine has advanced remarkably. New
medical truths have been recognized, old delusions have been
dispelled, cruel and barbarous practices have been abandoned
and a scientific materia medica has rendered the word incurable
almost obsolete, but if the approaching century shall witness a
revelation of the truth concerning rabies and herald to the world
the result of the discovery it will mark an era in the progressive
advance of the science second only to the introductory of Ho-
moeopathy and its employment in combating the ills of the
human race.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY.

Lincoln, Nebr., August 15th, 1899.
E. P. Anshutz, M. D., Editor:

The Atlantic City meeting of the American Institute was ad-
mittedly one of the greatest and most satisfactory meetings of
its history. This was the result of the more thorough appreci-
ation by the profession of its debt to the Institute for the past;
and a recognition of the possibilities of the future.

No business prospers that is only furthered by periodical
spasms of interest. There is the necessity for a watchful per-
sistent work twelve months in the year. The business of the

396 American Institute of Homoeopathy.

American Institute is no exception to this rule. The present
officers of the Institute desire to be faithful to their trust to the
very last minute of their tenure of office, that they may be able
to place the Institute in the care of their successors strong and
well equipped. Now, as in the earlier part of the year, this is
only possible by the faithful help of the individual members.
During the remaining four or five months of 1899 the canvass
for new members should continue, each member being loyal
enough to determine to secure at least one application for mem-
bership. This can easily be done, and we appeal to the Insti-
tute membership to give their attention to this promptly.

Application blanks may be secured of the Secretary, Dr.
Eugene Porter, 181 West 73d street, New York city, New York,
and when filled should be sent with the necessary seven dollars
to Dr. George B. Peck, Providence, Rhode Island, Chairman of
the Board of Censors.

And yet, after all, what does it profit a society if we enlist
new blood only to lose each year nearly as many who have only
joined from chance or some circumstance of social interest ? We
appeal to the "old guard" to stand firm, not merely retaining
their membership, but keeping in close touch with the officers
and committees of the Institute and doing continual missionary
and organization work in their respective localities. We want
every present member of the Institute to remain in the work.
We want applications and fees for 500 new members in the
hands of the Board of Censors by January 1st, 1900. So easily
done if each one does his duty.

To foster this work we request that those who have been
faithful members of the Institute give to the Medical Press in a
few words the reason for their faith and loyalty. We are sure
that the journals will be more than glad to give space for hun-
dreds of such short twenty or thirty word letters. You love the
old institute, tell your fellow why ! Arouse his interest, push
the work along. Don't wait. Write that word at once.

This is a work the body of the Institute can prosecute. That
the committees will vigorously execute the detail of committee
work we have no question; but there is a work resting in the
hands of one Committee that cannot be carried to successful
completion without the aid and abettment of the individual,
this is the work of the Hahnemann Monument Committee. A
monument already completed and ready for erection in Wash-

International Congress at the Exposition of ipoo. 397

ington, that noble Capitol City of our land. A work of art
second to none. When erected a constant reminder to an ever
passing public of our honor and gratitude to the father of our
faith. An argument stronger than words for the strength of
our school, and such an example of art that he who sees cannot
forget, and remembering he thinks again and gratefully of you,
of me, of all that school of medicine that through their love
and loyalty have given such a gift of love to the people.

Would we be known and respected throughout the length and
breadth of the land, we must write our history and work ou the
public scrolls. This committee under the direction of the
American Institute and the encouragement of the profession
contracted for this work. The Monument Committee have done
its work and done it well, and now asks you who gave them
your work to do for the necessary amount to meet their liabili-
ties so that this monument may be erected free from debt early
in 1900.

The Committee will make a most vigorous canvass during the
fall — the money must be raised — it will be raised. We know
enough of the personnel of our profession to rest assured that
early, yes, easy response and success awaits the work of this
Committee.

Proud of your inheritance, anxious for the perpetuity of the
memory of your benefactor in the faith, lay aside something for
this work.

Fraternally,
Benjamin F. Bailey, President,
American Institute of Homoeopathy.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES AT THE EXPOSI-
TION OF 1900.

Sixth International Homoeopathic Congress.

This congress will open to all persons legally authorized to
practice medicine in their country. Persons not having this
right may be present at the sessions, but will not be allowed to
take part in the discussions.

The Committee of Organization seeks to put itself in com-
munication with foreign physicians: First, to obtain special re-
ports for each country, giving all facts concerning Homoeopathy

398 International Congress at the Exposition of i poo.

since the last quinquennial report (London, 1896, the date of
the present congress having been advanced one year, on account
of the Exposition); secondly, to secure papers on the different
branches of homoeopathic theory and practice. The papers are
to form the subject matter of discussion during the sessions and
will be printed in the Report of the Congress. All papers should
be in the hands of the Committee of Organization by the 1st of
January, 1900. Such papers as may be approved by the commit-
tee will be printed beforehand and distributed to the members of
the congress who ask for them, instead of being read during the
sessions.

The subjects of discussion are divided into the following
groups:

1. General medicine, physiology, general pathology, bacteri-
ology, aetiology, diagnosis and prognosis.

2. Materia medica and pharmacy.

3. General therapeutics, posology, polypharmacy, isopathy,
serotherapathy, opotherapy, electrotherapy, hygiene.

4. Applied therapeutics, monographs and observations.

5. Specialties — Obstetrics and gynaecology, diseases of chil-
dren, dermatology, ophthalmology, otology, laryngology, sur-
gery, odontology, veterinary medicine.

6. Varia, history of Homoeopathy, professional interests,
(teaching, propaganda, press, hospitals, dispensaries).

Different members of the congress will be named beforehand to
examine the papers concerning each of these groups and to pre-
pare summary reports. Ten minutes will be taken for the read-
ing of each of these reports. The discussion will begin imme-
diately after; each speaker will have the floor for five minutes.
The discussion may be closed by the president if it threatens to
crowd out the discussion of other important subjects. The au-
thors of papers, if present, will have the right to speak last, dur-
ing ten minutes.

French is to be the official language of the congress, but Eng-
lish, German, Italian, and Spanish may be used during the dis-
cussions, on condition that an interpreter is found among the
members of the congress.

Active members pay a subscription fee of 20 francs; those who
are merely present at the sessions pay 10 francs. These fees,
which are intended to defray the expense of correspondence,
printing of papers, reports, etc., give a right, for both classes of

Escaping mn A

subscribers, to a copy of the Report of the Congre

The French hon

g :: associates.

ESCAPING AN AMPUTATION.
By Dr. Goullon.

Tra:> awEOPATHTC RECORDER :"r m the L

Zeii Hi '■:., June, 1S99.

Even if it were only a matter of the ig toe, it w
matter of regret to be del rived of it without a got d a
reason. It is a matter 0: deep regret that so many men ere still
ignorant of the use o: our homoe ; Lthic remc lies ' that to

thousands of physicians Homoeopathy is a tei g ■■:::.:. while

owing to the technical progress of surgery with re-; ect t the in-
dications for performing O] orations a certain Levity could enter.
and, indeed, has entered. Ana stili the very case we ere al out
to relate shows how defective and insufficient these operations
frequently arc: while if the right internal remedies were known
and applied everything might proceed much more simply
comfortably and in agreement with the best interests of the
patient.

These reflections naturally rose to my mind when Mr. K.
came to my office on the c_th of February to show me b

. se nag be lated back t the
[891. It e plantar sui

the big toe. Gradn erations and

tended w ins an I a cons - Ily

in Sept ^ ; n exam-

ination the .:::.- . ■. ;-' :'. s iStab-

arentl; - .ed,

in which some splint ones were removed. Ti

ich still remains shows to what extent I
its duty. Nevertheless, the result wa; sarad

On the - ly last

ina-
cious - n the] wer per:

opening on his the size of a dime, and the

tion 0: matter was continu >us. Ev - the path

could pass with a | robe I
had seen them □ L. Tb

400 Escaping an Amputation.

had requested him to present himself there every three weeks.
A plaster with Salicylic acid had violently increased his pains,
although Salicylic acid is a remedy of no light value in the usual
corns. (The following prescription is quite popular for this pur-
pose: Acid Salicyl., 2.5, Collod., 20.0, to be externally applied
mornings and evenings for 14 days). But frequently remedies
applied erroneously, with ever so good intentions, instead of
allaying only increase the pains. This applies especially to ex-
ternal applications in chronic ulcers of the legs, in which the
sensitiveness and irritability are frequently enormously increased
(in so-called erethic ulcers). In such cases Hamamelis ointment
of the usual strength cannot be borne, while what is called
Uhiua's Cooling Ointment has proved itself very efficient in my
practice. This consists of equal parts (aa 10. o) of Oil of Almonds
and .Rose Water, with equal parts (aa 1.0) of Cera alba and Ceta-
ceum. But this only in passing.

It was interesting to see how this patient under continual ho-
moeopathic treatment, though as a farmer he could not give him-
self any rest, nevertheless arrived at such satisfactory results. If
the patient had not told me, my exact examination would not
have disclosed the fact, that now and then a little humor is still
being secreted. There is not, however, any swelling or pain,
and he has a perfect use of his foot. An abnormally thick layer
of horny skin serves to protect the affected toe.

The satisfaction of the patient is the greater as he had been
requested to again appear in Iy., this time with the assured
promise that the toe would have to be amputated. But even
then he could not have been guaranteed a radical cure. On the
contrary, I know of a case quite analogous, in which, in spite of
the amputation of the toe — also owing to inflammation of the
periosteum — and though the operation was performed by one of
the most skillful surgeons, there was a fatal issue; for the vigor-
ous young man died in consequence of the operation, or at least
in spite of it.

Now I come to the gist of the matter. What preserved the
toe and perhaps the life of this patient? Even the same remedy
which has performed this same service in dozens of other cases,
which has performed wonders in cases of panaritium of high
grade, i. e., in affections of the periosteum or the loss of a pha-
lanx, and has made a seemingly unavoidable amputation unnec-
essary, namely, Silicea. And to tell the truth, the best progress

Belladonna in Certain Tuberculous Ulcers. 401

was made, not through the use of the twelve potency, which was
first prescribed, but on the use, once a day, of the third decimal
trituration of Silicea, thus a small triumph for Makrodosism.

An allopath would probably say: Small dose or large dose,
Silicea as an indifferent substance can help neither in small nor
in large doses. "Yes, if we knew no better," we have to ex-
claim, as we look back on the clinical experience of several de-
cennia. But our intolerant opponents who have no longing for
Hahnemann's theraTpy never get to see or to know of this ex-
perience. They would rather steer clear of Hahnemann, and
forgetting that their real duty in the interests of their patients is
to accept everything good they still cling to their surgical
therapp.

BELLADONNA IN CERTAIN TUBERCULOUS
ULCERS.

Translated for the Homeopathic Recorder from Allgem. Horn. Zeit.

Prof. Remy, in 1895, conducted an operation on a patient suf-
fering of tuberculosis of the right inguinal gland. In the part
operated there remained an ulcer, showing numerous tubercular
bacilli. Bandages with Iodoform, Sublimate, Salol, Chlorine,
Zincum, etc., remained without effect; the ulcer about as large
as a gold dollar underwent no change. When after six months
very violent pains appeared in it, the author had it dressed with
a salve made of Belladonna 3.0: 30.0 Vaselin. After using this
for four days the suppuration diminished, the pain had disap-
peared and a good granulation followed. When, after a treat-
ment of three weeks, the cicatrization was almost complete, it was
supposed that a dry Iodoform-gauze bandage might be substi-
tuted. But after three days a violent burning set in and the
ulcer again broke open. After again using the Belladonna-salve
the ulcer healed up in another three weeks, and has remained
well now for three months.

In a second case of a tuberculous ulcer in the temporal region
the salve effected a co?nplete cure in three weeks, after other reme-
dies had been used ineffectually for six weeks.

In a third case, a tuberculous ulcer of the skin accompanying a
tuberculosis of the tibia which lay bare, was influenced ??iost
favorably; before its use no cicatrice formed after the operation
had been performed.

402 Belladonna in Certain Tuberculous Ulcers.

In ulcers which are not tuberculous the salve is without effect.
That Belladojina will cause inflammatory processes with the
pronounced signs of " Color, Calor, Tumor el Dolor" on the skin,
with a tendency to suppuration, as also hyperemia, stasis and
exudation in the glands, with a passing over into suppuration,
is known from the provings of the remedy. According to the
nature of the remedy we must conceive in such cases a venous
stasis of blood. Hahnemann also observed the effect of Bella-
donna on ulcers already existing. We read'in his observations:

"The ulcer pains almost exclusively at night (from 6 p. M. to
6 a.m.); it burns as if it would squeeze out something, and as
if the part was, as it were, paralyzed and stiff (after 48 hours).

" The ulcer hardly exudes anything but a bloody ichor; it be-
comes painful to the touch, with burning pain (after 4 hours).

" In the ulcer there is violent itching (after 1 hour); a cut-
ting pain while at rest and a tearing pain while moving the
part (after twenty hours).

" Within the limit of the ulcers a sore pain (after four
hours)."

If we add to this the curative effect of Belladonna in scrofulous
diathesis, effects which have so frequently been confirmed by
clinical observations, it is incomprehensible to us that Dr.
Bcenninghausen could number it among the antipsorics. From
scrofulous to tuberculosis, especially to tuberculosis of the skin
with its glands, there is only one step. Hahnemann also speaks
of cold, painful knots of long standing, with swellings, which,
however, as he remarks in a footnote, seem tc him to be after-
effects. In any case the manifest curative effects of Belladonna
in the instances cited above, showing its effect on ulcers which
are indubitably of a tuberculous nature, and in an external ap-
plication, is worthy of consideration. It might be that this
remedy, which is homceopathically indicated in such cases,
would be equally effective when given internally.

" I can conscientiously recommend the work to all who wish to
get a modern text book on this subject as one in which he will
not be disappointed, and one that it will be a pleasure to
read." — From Review of Nor tori s Ophthalmic Diseases and Thera-
peutics, 2d Ed., in Eclectic Medical Journal.

Diseases of the Spinal Meninges, 403

DISEASE OF THE SPINAL MENINGES.

By Dr. Med. Mossa in Stuttgart.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Willst du gesund

werden ?

A boy of nine years, who had been hearty and bright, except
that two years ago he had had pneumonia, lost his appetite,
and on August 12 and 13 complained of weariness in his limbs
and also vomited once. On the 14th of August he showed
feverish symptoms, so that he had to go to bed. The mother
had given him a few pills of Aconite. When I visited him on
the 15th, in the morning, I found the following symptoms:

The little patient lay on his back, stiff, without moving; the
neck also was stiff, the head somewhat bent backward. The
face reddened, anxious, the eyes bright and staring, but able to
accommodate themselves. When I tried to move the stiff limbs,
he cried for pain; every motion, especially of the lower limbs,
caused him pain. The pulse was quickened, 120 beats, and of
very small dimension. The body was painful below the navel,
toward both sides. He also complained of pains in the throat,
so that he found swallowing difficult. He could stretch out his
tongue oniy a little ways by an exertion, and his answers to
my questions, which he seemed to find difficulty in comprehend-
ing, caused him much trouble, consisting in yes ! or no! uttered
with difficulty. In the evening before he had complained of
headache, so that his mother had applied cooling compresses.
His neck also was painful to the touch, his respiration short and
flat. From time to time he groaned for pain; he cried, as if a
sudden pain rushed through his limbs. The patient was thirsty,
but could swallow but little fluid, and no solids at all. The
skin felt hot and was covered with a warm, somewhat sticky
perspiration, which had already set in during the night. The
urine was dark red, the bladder and intestines remained free.
While I was synthetically combining these symptoms which I
had secured with considerable trouble, so as to make a regular
diagnosis, the thought first entered my mind that it might be
an acute general rheumatism of the muscles of the back. But
on further consideration I came to the conclusion that it was a
disease of the meninges of the spine, because the stiffness of
the muscles w7as entirely too great and the pains over the abdo-

404 Disease of the Spinal Meninges.

men reminded me too strongly of the " girdling pain;" the sen-
sorium was dulled, and the sudden twitching pains in the legs
had the spinal character. Besides there is only a step between
the rheumatic affection of all the spinal muscles, and especially
of those lying deeper, and the affection of the meninges them-
selves.

This scientific diagnosis was, however, of but little moment,
so far as the homoeopathic treatment was concerned. Whether
it was rheumatism or nascent meningitis, the remedy indicated
to me by the similarity of symptoms still remained Bryonia
alba. Of this remedy the patient therefore received two drops
of the 6th. potency in a tablespoonful of water every three hours.
The pains in the abdomen ceased within twenty- four hours, as
also the headache. But the face still retained its distressed ex-
pression, and the other ailments continued. The perspiration
still flowed copiously. The urine was scarce, dark-red; also, a
stool had been discharged. It was rather peculiar that the boy
who else lay so stiff in his bed, nevertheless, at night when the
watchfulness of the parents had much remitted, had gotten out
of his bed to urinate; still he could not regain his bed without
assistance and only with increased pains.

Later on he had received Bryonia 6, six drops in a tumbler"
full of water, one teaspoonful every three hours. On the third
day his eyes were not so staring, the expression of the face less
distressed, the stiffness of the neck less. He could more easily
swallow (milk and barley-gruel); but the answers were still
given very slowly and with a great effort. The arms were more
movable and not as sensitive to the touch, and the legs were no
more as stiff as a board. The perspiration continued, it was
especially copious at night. The last night the patient had an
undisturbed sleep, while the preceding nights had been very
restless. I could not give a more favorable prognosis.

In order that the organism might not be tired out in its re-
action against the remedy, I now gave a dose of Mercurius 30th.

On the 21st of August the whole condition showed a gratify-
ing improvement. The stiffness of the muscles had almost dis-
appeared, he was only fearful of moving his legs. He is now
able to swallow more easily, so that he could eat more solid
food. Both the stool and the urine (now lighter in color) were
normal. Only the pulse was not yet quite normal; it still
showed 100 small pulsations. At night the perspiration was

The Sick Child. 405

still copious; a dose of China 30. On the 23d of August I
found the boy sitting in his bed, bright and cheerful, with the
full use and enjoyment of his muscular activity. He soon made
a complete recovery and I often afterwards saw him playing
with his comrades on the street, blithe and active.

THE SICK CHILD.

Translated for the HomcEopathic Recorder from the Horn. Monatblatter.

When is a child ill ? The answer to this question is not
always easy, when the infant cannot speak as yet, nor utter his
complaints. The crying of children is not always an utterance
of pain, nor does it always show hunger. When a child cries
loud, continuously and vigorously, we may, at least, be sure that
there is no disease of the respiratory passages. It might, how-
ever, indicate a disturbance in the digestive canal. If an inflam-
mation of the internal ear is the cause of the crying — and this is
by no means a rare occurrence — or some other deep seated sup-
puration or inflammation of the periosteum, then the child will
cry louder when the suspected place is touched or pressed upon.
Single shrill cries, occurring also in sleep, should direct our atten-
tion to cerebral troubles; a soft, dull, discontinued crying, more
sighing and moaning, points to pulmonary disease. If the cry
is hoarse and toneless, we should think of laryngeal troubles. A
labored, softly moaning, whimpering is often found in severe, ex-
hausting diseases, or in infants born prematurely and appa-
rently dead. A soft, long- continued whimpering should cause
us to suspect an inflammation of the abdominal organs; a weak-
ened, but rather continuous, crying is a concomitant of the set-
ting in of fever.

In judging of the illness of children, the expression of the eyes
and of the face of the child is also to be noticed. A reddened
face, showing pain and distress, with irritation of the brain and
and a rush of blood to this organ, while the countenance has a
staring, motionless, indifferent expression, should make us think
of paralytic symptoms. A relaxed, peevish, old expression ap-
pearing on the pale, emaciated, wrinkled face, with narrow, thin
lips and pointed nose, points to long continued alimentary dis-
turbances, or severe loss of fluids through intestinal troubles and
by diseased states of the mass of the fluids. Transitory, painful
grimaces of the face point to colic troubles; an anxious expres-

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It is to be remembered, however, that it has a fixed relation
(i'3/4 or 4) to the number of the pulsations. Where this pro-
portion holds true, we are safe in excluding an affection of the
lungs from the causes of an increase in the respirations. A
slower respiration is an attendant symptom of diseases of the
brain.

The frequency of the pulsations in infants is subject to even
greater fluctuation than that of respiration. A normal frequency
of pulsations in the first half year is supposed to be 120-140; in
the second half year, 100-130; in the second year, 90-120; from
3-5 years, 72-110; from 6-10 years, 70-100. By crying and in
fever the frequency of the pulse is increased by 20-50 pulsations.
A retarded and irregular pulse is found most frequently in cere-
bral troubles, in every kind of jaundice (in older children); also
in gastric inflammation.

We shall return to the characteristics of the particular diseases
in the part specially devoted to this subject.

I shall append some general directions as to the nursing of sick
children.

For a sick room we should always choose a large room, which
may easily be heated and ventilated, remote from the noise and
dust of the street. Unnecessary furniture should be removed.
One window should be kept open night and day. The temper-
ature of the room should not exceed 63 ° Fahrenheit nor fall be-
low 540. At night and in winter, therefore, it should be heated
so as to secure the above temperature. There should be no
feathers in the pillow or bedding. Air, light, and the greatest
cleanliness (the latter especially also with respect to what is
worn on the body and with respect to the sheets) are to be
recommended as the most important curative factors! As to diet,
we will here only remark that we should not press anything on
a sick child which it is unwilling to take, and as far as practica-
ble all its " longings " should be satisfied. A child sick of fever
should not receive any solid food, but much liquid food; indeed,
as much as it desires, but no alcoholic liquors! — these should
only be given in moments of danger, on express prescription of
the physician. There are many children's physicians who are
unwilling even with sick children to give alcoholic liquids (beer,
wine, etc. ) under any circumstances.

4o8 Homoeopathic Treatment of Diphtheria.

THE HOMOEOPATHIC CURE OF DIPHTHERIA ES-
PECIALLY BY MEANS OF MERCURIUS
CYANATUS.

By Dr. Goullon, of Weimar.

The pamphlet of Dr. Villers embodying this treatment has
been published anew by Carl Gruner Homoeopathic Pharmacy,
Leipzig and Berlin. This is the eleventh edition of this pam-
phlet and has been revised by a homoeopathic physician.

Mercurius cyanatus continues to prove effectual in typical
diphtheria, as well as in the malignant gangrenous form, which
has proved most fatal. As a prototype of this treatment we
may consider the case of the little son of our revered, now de-
ceased, brother, Dr. V. Villers, at whose sickbed the despairing
parents were sitting, expecting the imminent certain death of
their beloved child, when Dr. Beck appeared as an angel of
rescue. He recommended, founded on purely theoretic homoe-
opathic principles, giving an appropriately diluted form of this
intense poison, and the miracle of a cure was effected. Since
that time Mercurius cyanatus has been used by the physicians of
both schools, but I think that the pamphlet is in error in alleg-
ing that the allopathic physicians have dropped the remedy be-
cause it is of homoeopathic origin. A Swedish allopathic physi-
cian has published a copious list of cases of diphtheria cured
with Mercurius cyanatus. He has had hardly any fatal issue in
his cases.

The small pamphlet insists on the necessity of highly potent-
izing the Mercurius cyanatus and old Dr. Villers never gave a
lower potency than the thirtieth. This course ought to be gen-
erally followed, but in case of failure we ought not to hesitate
to descend a few steps on our scale of doses. It is hardly likely
that the 12 and 9 dec. will produce toxic symptoms; allopaths
find even the 1st centesimal not too low, and also they have had
good results. We should, however, be very particular to use
freshly prepared medicine.

We would call especial attention to the fact that in Villers'
case there was actual diphtheritic croup (p. 10), in which the
old school knows of no other treatment than tracheotomy;
though we notice that a children's physician in Munich has of

Poisoning From Hydrastis Canadensis. 409

late introduced a treatment in which the membrane is removed
without the knife. So we may see that especially in such des-
perate cases of diphtheria we have a reliable remedy in Mer-
curius cyanatus, though we may expect the admirers of Acidum
nitric, to remain faithful to their panacea so long as it performs
its use.

A CASE OF POISONING FROM HYDRASTIS CANA-
DENSIS.

Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from Allg. Horn. Z., July,

1899.

Dr. Miodowsky has reported in the Berliner Klin. Wochenschr.
of the 30. January, 1899, the following case of poisoning from
Hydrastis :

A man 65 years of age had received, because of bronchitis
with copious expectoration, the fluid extract of Hydrast. Canad.
in doses of twenty drops. According to his own statement, he
had taken two doses, the last before going to bed. Soon after,
he had trouble in breathing, so that he had to get up and walk
about in the room. The symptoms became aggravated, and
when Dr. M. was called he found the patient leaning forward,
clasping the back of his chair with his hands. His face was
livid, the eyes wandered anxiously about the room. The respi-
ration was rapid with a great straining of the muscle which as-
sists in respiration. During inspiration there was heard a rattle,
even at a distance; the expiration was attended with a whistling
sound. The pulse was small, soft, easily compressible and
slow. The forehead was covered with cold perspiration. The
percussion of the lungs nowhere indicated any dullness, but in
auscultation there was heard all over (a fine or medium) crepi-
tation, especially on the left side, where there was in spots also
bronchial respiration.

The sounds of the heart were difficult of recognition at first,
owing to the pulmonary sounds, but later it was seen that they
were clear but retarded. The percussion of the apex of the
heart could not be felt. After using some stimulants (ether,
wine, coffee, mustard-paper, etc.) a gradual amelioration took
place. The respiration became slower, with less crepitation and
whistling, the pulse became stronger and more regular, the sen-
sory organs clearer, so that the patient could answer questions.

4-IO Bryonia as a Woman's Remedy.

Since the sounds of the heart could not be heard during this
attack, and the patient was otherwise a vigorous man, Dr.
Miodowsky believes that the remedy caused weakness of the
heart with secondary congestion and oedema of the lungs. This
explanation agrees with the results obtained by Felmer in his
experiments on animals.

BRYONIA AS A WOMAN'S REMEDY.

According to Dr. F. Hartmann.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Med. Monatshefte fuei

Horn., July, 1899.

Puerperal Fever. Cases suited to Bryonia, are according to my
experience, such as are connected with an inflammation of the
organs serviceable in parturition. Whatever the exciting cause
may be, fright, vexation, grief, sorrow, errors in diet or sup-
pressed perspiration, the homoeopathic physician will endeavor
to cause their consequences to disappear through means of the
suitable remedies; but they will always find themselves directed
to Bryonia when the patient complains of external chilliness,
even while there is internal heat and great thirst. The chief
criteria are supplied by severe pressive headache, especially in
the forehead and temples, which by its violence causes obscura-
tion of the senses and even delirium, and is nearly always at-
tended with a severely reddened, bloated face, lacking, however,
the shining, fiery glow as from fury, which points so distinctly
to Bellado?ina. Additional characteristic indications are: Con-
stipation (we do not mean during the first 5 or 6 days after de-
livery, for this may be esteemed a regular attendant of parturi-
tion); a more copious secretion of urine attended with a burn-
ing sensation during micturition; reappearance of the bloody
lochia which had already disappeared; these seem suppressed
only where inflammatory symptoms of the uterus or of the
ovaries are unmistakably present; these are indicated by burn-
ing, lancinating pains, increased by touch or motion, and by
pains in the thigh of the side affected; other characteristics are
the nightly sour perspiration and an unquenchable nocturnal
thirst; pressure of the milk into the breasts or an emply state (a
sudden disappearance of the milk in the breasts) afford neither
a contra- indication nor a call for the use of Bryonia, if the

Bryonia as a WomarCs Re?nedy. 411

symptoms are otherwise suitable. With this should be men-
tioned an irritable, depressed, gloomy, desponding disposition,
alternating with extreme irritability and bursts of passion.
These latter symptoms, where the other symptoms do not
plainly indicate this remedy, take away every doubt as to the
choice of Bryo?iia.

Rheumatism of the uterus. I have frequently noticed this ail-
ment during pregnancy, especially towards its close and found
Bryonia 18th very often useful, if the attack was brought on
by a cold in the feet, which caused a congestion of blood to the
uterus, and thus produced this state, which is also known under
the designation of false pains. This name is really inappro-
priate, for although the pain is periodically aggravated never-
theless the painfulness of the whole abdomen never disapppears
altogether. The pain in the small of the back is frequently in-
tolerable, especially at the least turn. The longer this ailment
lasts the colder the extremities, the head also participates ever
more distinctly in the pains. It is always attended with consti-
pation.

Inflammation of the ovaries. There is no remedy more suit-
able for inflammation of the ovaries than Bryonia 12th, which
seems to have a specific relation to this ailment, as I may assert
quite positively, founded on manifold experience. The symp-
toms pointing to the use of Bryonia are: A violent lancinating
pain, much aggravated by moving the thigh of the side af-
fected and by external pressure; the pain is in the groin, where
we may sometimes clearly recognize a hardish swelling. Fre-
quently the whole of the abdomen is painfully affected, the se-
cretion of urine diminished, and the stool obstructed. The
fever plainly shows its synochal character, on which account it
is also quite in place to give first a dose of Aconite; though this
may be omitted in a chronic inflammation of this organ.

Inflammation of the mammary glands and of the lactiferous
ducts. This most frequently occurs during the period of nurs-
ing and when weaning an infant. The cause is frequently quite
unknown. Bryonia 18th is indicated when there is a sudden
congestion in the breasts (distension of the breasts from milk —
in such cases Bryo?iia is a specific); this causes the breasts to
become indurated and knotty to the touch. The indurations
then begin to be inflamed, they become red and the patients
then feel a violent pain, a complication of tension, pressure,

412 A Case of Generalized Vaccinia.

burning and lancination, and this pain as the ailment increases
becomes even more severe and violent. If the physician is
called in time one dose of Bryonia is often sufficient to remove
the diseased state; but if it is already more advanced, the cure
will not always be effected by one dose, but it will be necessary
to repeat it; and even this may not be sufficient to check the
advance of the disease, but this must be effected by other appro-
priate means.

The milk fever, which appears at times during the first days
after parturition, consists of a slight shuddering, heat, anxiety,
distressed respiration and increased thirst; it is caused largely
by the great quantity of milk pressing into the lactiferous ducts:
it is largely favored by a suppression of the perspiration which
attended parturition; this fever often yields in a few hours, after
a single dose of Bryonia 30th. This is especially the case
when the patients complain of a headache pressing outward in
the forehead and the temples, which pain is only endurable
when they lie very quiet (fr. Dr. Gross On the Care of parturi-
ent Women and Sucklings).

Epistaxis and menstrual troubles. The epistaxis, which is
caused through a sudden suppression of the menses owing to a
cold, in persons with whom the menstruation generally sets in
too early, will yield to a single dose of Bryonia, which remedy
also, if repeated, will regulate the faulty menstruation; if the
trouble is carried to the higher organs by an orgasm of blood,
causing fulness of the chest, oppression of the same with disten-
sion of the pit of the stomach, sensation of fulness in the nose
and in the head, which gradually increases to a splitting head-
ache in the forehead and the temples, the violence of the pain
causing numbness or driving to despair, while the feet are icy
cold. This premature menstruation is cured by Bryonia, even
when it degenerates into actual metrorrhagia, in which dark-red
blood is excreted, which seems driven out by vio

A CASE OF GENERALIZED VACCINIA.*
By James Tyson, M. D., Philadelphia.
After two unsuccessful attempts at vaccination with the so-
called ivory points, a little girl, aged six months, was vaccinat-
ed on the right leg with the Alexander liquid lymph on Janu-
ary 9th. On the 12th I examined the seat of vaccination, and it

* Read before the Philadelphia Pediatric Society.

Hcb m optysis. 413

was evident that it was going to be successful. On the morning
of the 14th her mother noticed several pustules on one of the
arms, while there was also a punctiform rash on the back, which
subsequently became partly pustular. The isolated pustules be-
came umbilicated, and increased in number, until, on January
1 6th, there were about thirty perfectly developed umbilicated
pustules on the left arm, and nearly as many on the right. There
was also a smaller number on the legs. The pustules were large,
several at least half an inch in diameter. The average diameter
of the others was half as much. There was no serious constitu-
tional disturbance, and only slight fever, the temperature never
reaching 101 degrees. The most noticeable effect was that the
child wanted to nurse often. As early as the 17th some of the
pustules began to dry, although most of them continued puru-
lent and grew in size. They closely resembled the pustules of
smallpox in the umbilicated stage. Very interesting was the
fact that they did not appear in one crop, but continued to appear
in successive crops of one or more up to February 1st. The
later ones assumed various sizes, and one in the immediate vi-
cinity of the original vaccination was fully an inch in diameter,
and became eventually a large, angry-looking ulcer. The vacci-
nation pustule also became a large, ugly granulating ulcer, raised
one eighth of an inch above the surface. There was remarka-
bly little constitutional disturbance at any time, and the child,
on February 5th had no fever. On that date many of the origi-
nal spots were still present in the state of half-dried pustules.
They were slow to disappear, and on February 24th there still
remained on the right leg one angry-looking pustule. The oth-
ers, including the vaccination, were dried up. — Pediatrics, July
15. 1899.

HAEMOPTYSIS.

A short time ago I was call to see a girl fourteen years of age,
whom the messenger said was bleeding to death. At the first
sight of the room one would believe his statement. She went to
school considering herself well, but was taken very suddenly.
The sudden onset, the intense hyperemia of the lungs, and a
temperature of 1040, the hard, full, quick bounding pulse, with
short rapid respiration, led me to put fifteen drops of Veratrtim
viride ix in one third glass of water. A teaspoonful was given

414 Hcz m optysis.

every ten minutes for a few times, and then at lengthened inter-
vals, and relieved the patient as only a homoeopathic remedy
can.

When the nervous symptoms predominate, Aconite should be
given; when it is the arterial system, Veratrtim viride.

During the fall of '95 I was called to see a man who had been
spitting blood continuously for three weeks; the blood was dark
and came up without effort. There were varicose veins of the
legs, and a history of painful bleeding haemorrhoids. This pa-
tient was cured with Hamamelis. Ipecac is a remedy that every
homoeopathic physician has verified so frequently in haemor-
rhages that it requires but to be mentioned here. .There is the
marked weakness and aversion to food with great and long con-
tinued nausea. Hsemoptysis comes from the slightest exertion.

Phosphorus has frequently proven itself master in the typical
tall, slender individual with lively perceptions inclined to stoop
forward, with the empty, gone feeling of the whole abdomen,
and tightness across the chest. The haemorrhage is profuse,
will cease for a time and then return.

Ferrum has assisted in a few cases where the patient has been
weakly. The pale, anemic face becoming fiery red at times,
stools are undigested, oedema of feet and legs. Haemoptysis is
better when walking slowly.

Millefolium gives gratifying results in cases of haemoptysis due
to pulmonary tuberculosis with cavities. There is the profuse
flow of bright red blood without the fever or restlessness of
Aconite.

Geranhcm maculatum. A man in last stages of pulmonary
tuberculosis had haemorrhages that resisted all other forms of
treatment, but they were controlled readily by this remedy in
from ten to twenty drops every twenty or thirty minutes.

Ar?iica when there is a history of traumatism. The patient
feels sore, as if bruised. There is the hot face with cool body
and limbs. The patient is weakly and is troubled with pains in
all the voluntary muscles.

Bellado7ina in robust, plethoric individuals. The hemorrhage
comes on suddenly, and is worse toward night. The blood is
bright red, there is great congestion of the chest, throbbing
headache and aggravation on movement.

Pulsatilla and Crocus have each been of valuable service in
cases of vicarious menstruation.

Clinical. 415

Sulphur is valuable in cases that apppear to get about well
and then relapse.

China in great anaemia from loss of blood where debility is a
prominent symptom. There is a sensation of great distension of
the abdomen not relieved by eructations or dejection. Another
symptom is the sour stomach, associated with watery diarrhoea,
worse at night, with copious night sweats.

The patient should not be given China on the mere fact that
there has been a loss of blood, but the totality of the symp-
toms should be the guide in the selection of a remedy.

The remedies I have mentioned are not all that are of service
in haemoptysis, but are those I have verified.

In some cases it is necessary to compress the large superficial
veins, but not the arteries, that the blood may continue flowing
into the limb while the return flow is obstructed. By this
means the arterial pressure is reduced in the lungs. These liga-
tures with compresses over the veins should be worn from
twenty to thirty minutes and then removed one at a time.

The bowels should not be allowed to become constipated.
Should a large quantity of blood be lost at one time, and as a
result the blood pressure greatly reduced, there is danger of
death from heart failure. This may be avoided by using salt
water, a teaspoonful to the pint injected into the rectum or
under the skin.

In mild cases, rest, liquid food, and later semi-solid food,
such as milk toast, eggs and junket, are all that are necessary —
A. L. Blackwood, M. £>., in The Clinique, July.

CLINICAL.

The following items are taken from Dr. H. V. Halbert's " Hos-
pital Notes " in August Clinique:

Stigmata Maidis in Acute Albuminuria.

Mr. H. suffered with an acute attack of prostatitis, induced by
gonorrhoea and the careless use of injections. He was indiscreet
about getting his feet wet during convalescence, and before we
knew it all the old symptoms were augmented, and he was put to
bed with a fever, and soon albumin and blood appeared in the
urine. His condition was soon complicated by cardiac weakness
and considerable general dropsy. Every symptom grew worse

416 Clinical.

from week to week, and nothing, suggested by consultation and
the constant study of his case, seemed to offer any relief. At
last he was given Stigmata maidis in ten drop tincture doses six
times daily, and in a short time there was apparent improvement.
The remedy was faithfully continued, and in a few weeks not the
slightest trace of albumin was found. Then the remedy was con-
tinued less frequently, and he gradually progressed toward a per-
manent cure. There was no doubt of the efficacy of the remedy,
for he had been ill for a long time, and previous to its use there
was no evidence of any improvement.

The diuretic action of this remedy is well known, and it was
natural to expect an increase in the amount of excreted urine; in
this case, however, the contrary effect was experienced, for the
extreme polyuria gradually decreased. This was somewhat sur-
prising, inasmuch as such heroic doses were used. It is safe,
then, to assume that the action of this remedy so clearly affects
the kidney that it relieves the inflammatory invasions sufficiently
to decrease the polyuria and remove the albumin.

Echinacea for Boils.

Mrs. C, age forty, was always supposed to possess what was
termed a scrofulous diathesis. Every spring she suffered with
a periodic attack of those local comforters; for which she
usually took any "spring medicine" prescribed by her most
intimate neighbors. For some reason her last attack was appa-
rently aggravated by her patent prescription, and she went
through every sort of medical experience, from cathartics to
massage, and yet for two or three months these boils appeared
and increased in size and ugliness. For a month longer I worked
away at her case, but accomplished no permanent result. Per-
haps I did not get the right remedy or could not discover the
true simillimum. However, my attention was called by one of
the journals to echinacea. I had not used it before, but I am
able to record the most satisfactory result. I used the first deci-
mal potency, ten-drop doses, six times daily.

Ciiphea Viscossisima in Cholera Infantum. 417

CUPHEA VISCOSSISIMA IN CHOLERA IN-
FANTUM.

Ten years ago Dr. A. A. Roth reported his experience
{Homoeopathic Recorder, November, 1888) with this remedy in
the treatment of cholera infantum. It read like an Arabian
tale, but a little experience with the drug has taught us to have
a great deal of respect for the red pennyroyal. Dr. Roth no-
ticed that the best results were secured in those cases arising
from acidity of the food; vomiting of undigested food or curdled
milk, with frequent green, watery, acid stools; child fretful
and peevish; can retain nothing on the stomach; food seems
to pass right through the child. The symptoms remind one a
little of Chamomilla, but as they are studied it is seen that the
systemic affection is deeper than one finds under the latter rem-
edy. Dr. Roth used it in from one to five to ten- drop doses of
the tincture, which is a beautiful dark-green color when made. —
Pacific Coast Journal of Homoeopathy .

"HOUSE CLEANING."

Dr. G., set. thirty eight. Hard-working country practitioner,
exposed to all kinds of weather, after a winter and spring's
hard work was all played out; skin sallow; eyes slightly con-
gested; complained of lassitude; pains in head, also around the
heart; distress along the transverse colon; bowels irregular;
alternate constipation and diarrhoea; sensitive around umbilical
region; liver also sensitive; tongue coated yellow; appetite ca-
pricious; said he made seven different diagnosis of his case
every week, was sure he had cancer, paresis, some organic
heart trouble, or some incurable malady of one kind or another
and wanted to know just what.

Suggested a thorough house-cleaning; rest, massage, and a
liberal, simple yet nourishing diet, with remedies to cover the
general conditions as they should come up. About three weeks
later had the pleasure of seeing him again and his remark was,
" Doctor, I always thought I was a fairly clean man, decent in
my habits, but the amount of old sewerage I was carrying
around was a revelation to me. I can account now for the feel-
ings, it was simply slow suicide by poisoning."

41 8 Notes.

In closing permit me to say that I do not believe you can do
everything with any one remedy, be it mechanical or dynamic,
but the judicious use of all the means at our hands and the
treating each individual case as a whole and each system as a
complete system, each part depending on the proper function of
every other part being performed, then we may obtain some de-
gree of success in relieving the ills of our fellow man. — From
paper by Dr. IV. P. MacCracken in the Clinique, July.

" My second proposition is: The remedy should be adminis-
tered in the most suitable potency. I am going to say but little
on this proposition. The potency question always brings out
an amount of useless talk in all associations, so it will be dis-
missed now with the statement that when the chemists ascertain
which potency gives us the greatest number of free ions, that
will be the potency in which to exhibit the remedy. Until that
is done, we can only give a few general directions, viz.:"

" i st the metals should always be given in the 30th, or
higher."

" 2d. For chronic cases, use the higher potencies."

"3d. Nervous, susceptible patients should never be given
strong, crude drugs in the lower potencies."

" The third proposition is: That after improvement has be-
gun, the dose should not be repeated so long as that improve-
ment continues." — Dr. George Royal, Am. Institute, Atla?itic
City, Hahnemannian Monthly.

" Let hospitals and sanitariums for consumptives continue to
be established; let hygienics be applied more assiduously; let
foods and reconstructives for consumptives continue to be pro-
duced and improved; let antiseptics and the appliances for their
use multiply; but do not expect that consumption will be exter-
minated until we know what vital force is, and until we are able
to manufacture it at will. The treatment of consumption is far
more than 'bug fighting.' The patient is the first considera-
tion; the 'bugs' second." — Medical World.

Dr. Laura M. Plantz, of Putney, Vt., writes the following
for the New York Medical Journal of July 1st:

Notes. 419

Sir: Permit me, through the Journal, to call the attention of
physicians and others to the relief afforded by gargling the
throat in hiccough. I have had no very serious cases; but in
every case where a gargle has been used it has been prompt and
effective in its results. In most cases, one gargling has been
sufficient. Cold, warm, and slightly medicated waters have
been severally used, but the act of gargling seems to be the one
thing needful. I should like to have this method of relief
thoroughly tested.

Asclepias tuberosa is the finest, non- stimulating diaphoretic in
the Materia Medica. In former days, it was the sheet anchor of
the profession in the treatment of all pulmonary diseases. It is
still used, to a considerable extent, by practitioners who adhere
to principles of treatment acquired in the days when more atten-
tion was given to the practical side of the healing art.

The older practitioners will bear us out in the statement that
Asclepias tuberosa gives better results in the treatment of pneu-
monia, pleurisy, and other acute diseases of the lungs than
more modern methods. In fact, if the editor of the Brief were
restricted to the choice of a single remedy in the treatment of
pneumonia, he would select this drug. — Medical Brief.

Concluding a paper on " Does Tobacco Cause Amblyopia ?"
Dr. Willard H. Morse {Medical Summary, July) says:

I have made this matter the subject of extensive and long-continued
research, undertaking to present an indictment against tobacco, and it is to
be admitted that full justice requires that I dismiss the case. I have called
witnesses by the hundred, in this country, Europe and Australia, and,
whether tobacco is used for smoking or chewing or as a drug, the charge
goes unsupported, except, of course, as indicated in producing a mere con-
dition— a simulative condition. Tobacco, the narcotic, and tobacco, the
diuretic, do not, cannot cause amblyopia. Tobacco, as a nauseant, may
cause an amblyopic condition.

" An English journal of the icteric type recently published a
notice of Mr. Gladstone, in which it mentioned, as a partial ex-
planation of his power in debate, that he had nictitating membranes
in each of his eyes, and that he could by winking them during
argument so startle his opponent as to leave him speechless." —
Medical Record.

420 Baptism Disease

BAPTISM DISEASE.

From the remarks of a writer in La Progres Medical of recent
date, it would seem that in France they suffer more than else-
where from that unfortunate tendency to obscure medical termi-
nology by appending personal names to newly-discovered diseases
and newly-invented instruments. The writer alluded to treats
this tendency as a positive malady, and designates it " baptism
disease." The symptoms of this disease, he maintains, are gen-
erally cerebral ones, and the patient — usually a physician — is
seized with an irresistible impulse to discover some disease and
baptize it with his own name. The causes of the disease are not
numerous, but very active. The subject experiences an immod-
erate desire to diffuse his name throughout the scientific world.
In doing this, financial considerations are not the primary incen-
tives, though, of course, it is natural that an individual attacked
by Spitzbube disease would like to consult Spitzbube himself, so
the name- giver obtains some of the benefits. The differential
diagnosis of the disease is extremely difficult, as discrimination
must be made between those who consciously give their names to
instruments and diseases and those to whose discoveries the
medical profession have affixed the names of their proteges.
Paquelin's cautery and Potain's aspirator and the needle of some-
body else might be taken as illustrating this difficult}7 of differen-
tial diagnosis.

Among the conscientious savants who escaped this malady
must be mentioned the immortal Pasteur, who, seeing that no
particular use would come from calling microbes by his own
name, and distrusting his own knowledge of Greek, asked Littre
to suggest one. The great lexicographer suggested the term
"microbe," which he considered euphonious, and to which he
subsequently accorded philologic recognition. Microbes, how-
ever, did not entirely elude the vagaries of baptism. The strepto-
coccus and the gonococcus won their place in literature honestly
and by their own efforts, but the colon bacillus endeavored to
show its disputed parentage by calling itself Eberth's bacillus and
Nicolaier's bacillus. It must be said for them, however, that they
do not abuse these titles to nobility. The odorous bacillus of
ozena has distinguished itself by the title bacillus of Lewenberg,

Baptism Disease. 421

though Nasenberg would have been more characteristic and felic-
itous. Exophthalmic goitre is a disease of very aggravated pa-
ternity. Some call it by the name of Basedow and others by the
name of Graves. Observing the propensity of goitre to collect
proper names around it, one will not be surprised to learn that the
operation of exothyropexy should really be called the operation
of Gangolphe-Jaboulay-Poncet.

The manner in which these names come to be applied is very
various. For instance, Professor Jolinon, at the end of a brilliant
clinical lecture, designates one particular sign whereby he is able
to differentiate infantile pneumonia from senile gangrene, and his
admiring students immediately dub this " Jolinon's sign." This
habit has prevailed to such an extent that medical nomenclature
is now encumbered with such terms as the signs of Rosenbach,
Koplik, Kernig, Olivier, Philippowiez, Stellway, and Babinski.
We are stupefied by hearing of the symptoms of Millard-Gubler,
Weber, and Wichmann, and we are paralyzed by learning of
such diseases as those of Cherchewski, Barlow, Stoker Cadam,
and Rougnon-Heberden. Not one of these fervid name-givers
has so far bestowed his name upon syphilis. Diday maintained
that Job was syphilitic, but the term " Job's disease" has not
prevailed. During the famous outbreak of syphilis in the fif-
teenth century everybody endeavored to connect the disease with
his next-door neighbor. It was called the Spanish disease, the
French disease, and the Neapolitan disease. Some wished to
connect it with the new world and call it the American disease,
but Amerigo Vespucci protested. " If you wish," he said, " to
give my name to something I have not discovered, give it to the
West Indies." So America was called by his name, first, doubt-
less, by some one suffering from baptism disease.

In conclusion, the writer asks pity for those who invent for-
ceps and bistouries and those who cultivate microbes. He asks
pity for the students who cannot comprehend the significance of
these various terms, for the practitioner who cannot return to
school to learn them, and for the patient who does not want
"apocalyptic neologisms," but active treatment. He urges a
return to a simple and exact scientific terminology, and asks
that in naming new discoveries there shall be displayed more
modesty and less personal vanity. — Medical Age, August.

422 Book Notices.

BOOK NOTICES.

Mind and Body. Hypnotism and Suggestion Applied in Thera-
peutic and Education. By Alvin C. Halphide, A. B , M. D.,
B. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in
Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, etc. Illustrated. 231
pages. Cloth. Published by the author. For sale at the
Boericke & Tafel pharmacies.

In his preface Dr. Halphide says: " Many have come to me
for instruction in suggestive therapeutics and many others have
written to enquire about it. I have been asked to recommend a
suitable text-book. I could not, there is none. This little vol-
ume has been written to meet the demands for a simple state-
ment of the fundamental elements of the subject." That is
the case in a nut-shell. The book, so far as we can judge, is
just what it claims to be, and if any of our readers want to en-
quire into hypnotism, or suggestive therapeutics, this is the
book to buy.

A Text-Book of Diseases of Nose and Throat. By D. Braden

Kyle, M. D., Clinical Professor of Laryngology and Rhinol-

ogy, Jefferson Medical College, etc. With 175 illustrations,

23 of them in colors. 646 pages. Cloth, $4.00. Half morocco,

or sheep, $5.00 net. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.

This book is divided into twenty- three chapters, and its aim is

to present to the reader the subject of diseases of the nose and

throat in as concise a manner as is compatible with clearness.

The illustrations are mostly original, and, together with paper

and presswork, are fully up to the high standard that prevails

n all Mr. Saunders' publications.

The Hygiene of Transmissible Diseases: Their Causation,
Modes of Dissemination and Methods of Prevention. By A.
C. Abbott. M. D., Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology,
and Director of the Laboratory of Hygiene, University of
Pennsylvania. Illustrated. 311 pages. Cloth, $2.00 net.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.

Book Notices. 423

A very interesting and useful book, though, we think, the
author puts too much faith in the bacilli as the cause of disease;
however, as any other alleged cause than these wonderful things
would not be accepted, the reader will have to take them along
with the useful parts of the work. Some day the microbe will
be sized up to his true place, let us hope. To-day his place is
bigger than his importance merits.

The Treatment of Pelvic Inflammations Through the
Vagina. By William R. Pryor, M. D., Professor of Gyne-
cology, New York Polyclinic, etc. With 100 illustrations.
248 pages. Cloth, $2 00 net. Philadelphia: W. B. Saun-
ders. 1899.

To those who believe in the treatment of this class of diseases
through the vagina this is the book to get, for it embodies the
latest of that treatment. There are undoubtedly cases requiring
such treatment, but, perhaps, not so many as receive it. The
only way to eradicate a disease is by constitutional remedies; all
other treatment is but palliative, useful, but not curative.

American Pocket Medical Dictionary. Edited by W. A.
Newman Dorland, A. M., M. D. Containing the Pronuncia-
tion and Definition of over 26,000 of the terms used in medi-
cine and kindred sciences, along with over 60 extensive tables.
Second Edition. Revised. 518 pages. Flexible binding.
$1.25 net. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.
One wonders how many of these over 26,000 words could be
dispensed with to the advantage of the profession in the way of
greater simplicity. Why not say sea bathing instead " Thalas-
sotherapy ?" However, the words are with us, and when a
man hurls them at us if we would know the meaning (99 times
out of a hundred no one takes the trouble) we must go to the
word-book, and this is a handy one, pocket size.

Dr. Stacy Jones' Bee-line Repertory, a most successful book,
has been out of print for some time and his publishers, Messrs.
Boericke & Tafel, have about completed its successor, which can
hardly be called a second edition owing to its great increase in
matter and arrangement. Bee-line Therapia is the title of the
new book, and it will contain over twice the matter of the old

424 Book Notices.

Repertory and be far better arranged in all respects. All the
keynotes of Homoeopathy will be found in it and an immense
amount of other matter. It will be pocket size, and the most
useful companion a physician can have, whether he be high,
low or no potency, for Dr. Jones takes them all in. Get a copy
when it is out, which will be soon, perhaps as soon as this
number of the Recorder.

Dr. T. C. Duncan has a book going through the press of
Boericke & Tafel under the title of Acid and Alkaline Children.
It will be original and worth reading.

The same firm have also a new work by Dr. T. L. Bradford, a
complete collection of all the statistics of homoeopathic treatment
in comparison with that of other systems ever published. This
work has been needed for years, and Dr. Bradford's name is a
guarantee that it will be well done.

New, Old and Forgotten Remedies is also approaching comple-
tion. It is intended to meet the never-ceasing inquiry for the
many remedies not found in the materia medicas.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafee have in press a work on the
"Diseases of Children," by C. G. Raue, M. D., that promises
to be the most successful homoeopathic work on the subject ever
published. Dr. Raue, like his father, the author of the famous
Special Pathology a?id Diagnostic Hints, is a true homoeopath, yet
one fully up in all that is claimed by scientific medicine; he also
has the trick of conveying his meaning without burying it
under words; he also writes of what he knows, having been con-
nected with the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia for a long
time. It is hoped to have the book out by the time the colleges
open.

Dr. Oliver Edward Janney, Professor of the Principle and
Practice of Medicine at the Southern Homoeopathic College, Bal-
timore, writes of Arndt's Practice, just issued, that it is a most
excellent work and will be one of the works recommended to
the students of the Southern.

The Medical Record, the leading old school journal of the
United States, reviews the last edition of Boericke & Dewey's
The Twelve Tissue Remedies of Sch ussier as follows:

Book Notices. 425

This work, now well known, comprises the theory, therapeutic applica-
tion, Materia Medica, and a complete repertory of these remedies. The
present volume, more complete than its predecessors, one may say, exhausts
the subject of the so-called twelve tissue-remedies. The authors, who are
by experience abuudantly qualified to recognize and avail themselves of all
advances or knowledge pertaining to their task, have acquitted themselves
well, and now present to the school they represent a complete guide so far
as these "remedies" are concerned. There is first an introduction, then
follow the Materia Medica, symptoms, common name, chemical data, etc.,
followed by an alphabetically arranged therapy, and then the repertory ar-
ranged upon a pathologico-anatomical basis, the whole making a work of
four hundred and twenty-five pages.

The Syracuse Clinic says of Nash's Leaders in Homoeopathic
Therapeutics :

From the time of Hahnemann down to the present, it has been made em-
phatic by the physicians of the new school that " the sole duty of the true
physician is to cure the sick," and to do that so gently and so perfectly in
accord with the laws of nature that no after-effects are produced. There-
fore, it is with pleasure that we review a work giving in brief the result of
many years conscientious study of the law of cure by one who plainly states
that if there is any one point in the homoeopathic system of therapeutics
that recommends it before that of the old school, it is that we have discov-
ered a law by which we are able to apply remedies for the curing of the
sick without entailing upon them drug effects, often more serious than the
original disease.

Dr. Nash handles a very ready pen. He makes it interpret his moods,
opinions and experiences with rare facility. While not attempting to give
a complete system of therapeutics he offers a fine resume from Aconitum to
Zincum of 259 of our most frequently indicated drugs. It is eminently a
practical work for the busy doctor, written with the charming directness of
Hempel, Raue and Hering. Dr. Nash tells his experience with various
drugs, how he gives them, and the results he has obtained without circum-
locution, explanation, or apology. The strong points of each are made
duly prominent. All the way through the reader is impressed with the
fact that the author believes firmly in what he has to say. His motto is
" facts not theories." He records under each drug its true worth in curing
disease, and leaves it for more pretentious and less valuable works to waste
pages in theories. The student young or old need not wade through pages
of symptoms with nothing to indicate the relative value of the drug under
consideration. Comparisons abound on every page.

It is one of those rare books where a great deal is left to be said; one
which the reviewer lays down without a feeling of relief, and one which
will be a real addition to the library of any regular progressive physician
whatever his school of practice.

In the matter of typography, press work, paper and binding the pub-
lishers have no reason to apologize.

Homoeopathic Recorder.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT LANCASTER, PA.,

By BOERICKE & TAFEL.

SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00, TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES $1.24 PER ANNUM
Address communications , books for review, exchanges, etc., for the editor, to

E. P. ANSHUTZ, P. O. Box 921, Philadelphia, Pa.

HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACY IN ENGLAND

The pharmaceutical Cheap John, so rampant in the United
States (to the great detriment of the afflicted), has broken loose
in England. He has but one method, noisy claims of being
"just as good ", and cheap prices on inferior medicines. Those
who patronize this class of pharmacists lose whatever benefit
fhere is in medicine, and sooner or later have no faith in medi-
cine. The English homoeopathic press, however, size up these
pharmacists correctly and raise a warning voice to the profes-
sion. The Homoeopathic World says:

" ' Demoralization ' is the only word to describe this state of
things. It is impossible to have homoeopathic medicines cheap
and at the same time good. The expense is not so much in the
materials as in the character, honesty, and scrupulous care of
those who are employed to select, prepare, and dispense them.
If patients are not willing to pay for these, they deserve all they
get or fail to get by purchasing a medicine because it is cheap.
We know of one case in which a patient, who was a principal in
one of the great emporiums, purchased his homoeopathic medi-
cines at the drug department of his stores. He found he never
got any good out of them. Prescriptions made up there never
worked. His medical man discovered what he was doing,
showed him the error of his ways, and sent him to a homoeo-
pathic chemist of standing, when there was a different tale to
tell. Cheap homoeopathic medicines are very dear at the
price."

The Monthly Homoeopathic Review devotes four pages to the
question. Among other things it says: "If certain wholesale
manufacturers find it convenient to sell their goods at rates
which enable their customers to retail them profitably at ludi-
crously low prices, our withers are still unwrung, provided al-

Editorial. 427

ways that what they so vend corresponds accurately with its
title, and is so dispensed that it retains its essential characters
unaltered between sale and consumption. The proverbial asso-
ciation between 'cheap' and 'nasty,' and the fallibility of
the human conscience where a profit is concerned, make us fear
that the warriors in this war of rates may be tempted to over-
look the interests of certain non-combatants who are necessarily
concerned in the casus belli; we refer to the pharmacist, the pre-
scriber and the patient."

A firm determines to increase its business, and, as the average
business man is not very fertile in new ideas, the one plan
adopted is to slightly cut under competitors. Mr. Competitor
11 sees " him and goes him one better; then there is nothing left
for the original unoriginal business man but to go still lower.
Soon profits on properly made medicines vanish, and then the
cutting down in cost of production and quality begins and is
carried to extremes undreampt of by the physician. " How can
tablet- triturates be sold at those prices?" was the question
put to a man who knows, the other day. The grinning reply
was "they don't triturate."

You cannot buy a silk purse at the price of a sow's ear no
matter what the drummer says.

The Clinical Reporter, now edited by Dr. D. M. Gibson,
quotes the following from Alkaloidal Clinic: " There is no doubt
that many obscure country practitioners are successful in curing
and alleviating conditions with remedies, with the names of
which remedies many of our great men may not be familiar.
Each man's own experience is better for him than is the experi-
ence of others. If he finds that certain remedies relieve cer-
tain conditions, without evil results, that is the one he should
use, no matter what others may say to the contrary."

You will find many of these almost unknown remedies in
New, Old and Forgotten Remedies now running through the press
of Boericke & Tafel.

OBITUARY.

On July 4, at 11:30 p. m., at the age of 74, crowned with the
glory of a well-spent life, there passed away from earth to
Heaven the soul of Hervey Milton Cleckley, M. D., of Charles-
ton, S. C, for over fifty years a practicing physician of marked

428 Editorial.

ability and usefulness. He was pre-eminently the ideal physi-
cian, whose very presence was a benediction to his patients, his
gentle step, heard in the hallway, bringing relief and comfort
even before his noble, kindly face was seen in the sick chamber.

He graduated from the Charleston Medical College in 1847,
but later, his attention being directed to the study of a newer
and more scientific method of cure, his liberal mind, ever eager
and ready to hear and accept the truth, was soon convinced that
the new school of medicine was far superior to the old, and as
his conscience would no longer permit him to practice the old,
when something better was found, he gave up the practice of
allopathy, went to Savannah, Ga., to study under Dr. Montie
Schley, who had just returned from Paris, where he had gradu-
ated in the new science of healing. After studying under him
he went to Philadelphia and graduated in the Homoeopathic
College there. Thus he was better qualified and equipped than
most physicians, knowing the merits of both schools of medi-
cine. He was eminemtly successful in the treatment of chronic
diseases, also diphtheria and yellow fever in the epidemic of
1872, not losing a patient out of sixty who had that much
dreaded disease. In diphtheria he was never known to lose a
case.

A native South Carolinian, of noble and famous Revolutionary
ancestry, he loved all things high and holy, and his life was a
beautiful lesson of faith and trust in God and loving service to
humanity. His was pre-eminently the charity that suffereth
long and is kind, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and
his pure soul well merits the " Well done thou good and faith-
ful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

In 1852 he was happily married to one of Georgia's most lov-
able and noble daughters, Frances P. Schley, who proved a de-
voted companion through a long life of rare unselfishness. Of
these two faithful hearts it might be truly said their marriage
was made in Heaven; there it had its beginning, and there it
found its full fruition, for the devoted husband-lover could not
long survive the irreparable loss of his precious peerless wife,
and in three short years he went to spend her dear birthday
with her in Heaven. In his home life he shone resplendent
in all the beautiful virtues that make home a fit abode for the
angels, ever appreciative, terder, considerate, loving and true.
The sordid, selfish world has seldom seen such rare devotion as

Editorial. 429

exemplified in his life as husband and father, and sadly now is
that gentle, loving presence missed by children, patients and
friends, but they sorrow not as those who have no hope, for to
this pure, spotless soul death was only a glorious awakening to
a higher, holier, more beatific state of existence. This poor,
selfish world was not worthy of him, and God sent His angels
to waft his pure soul to that blessed home He had prepared
for him in Heaven. But the sorrowing hearts of his children
long for the touch of the dear vanished hand and the sound of
the gentle voice that is still. Hasten! oh bright-winged angel
of the Resurrection, sound the trumpet that shall usher in the
longed for glorious morn, when the darkness of this life shall
forever fade away and there shall be no more death, neither sor-
row, nor tears, for our Redeemer, Saviour, shall come to claim
His own, and there shall be no more partings forever more.

Emily Schley Cleckley.

PASSIFLORA INCARNATA.

The following is an extract from a paper by H. Fischer in the
Wisco?isi?i Medical Recorder:

The beneficence of Passiflora is nowhere more frequently
manifest than in the treatment of hysteria and neurasthenia.
The shifting pains, morbid fears and irregular motor phenomena
of the hysteric woman are dissipated as by magic and the whole
household released from the demon's spell. By anticipating ex-
plosions and keeping them in abeyance, removing apparent
causes and enjoining better habits of mind and body, one is
often able to materially improve the condition of those persons
who are doubly victims, subject to habit as well as disease.
Passiflora will enable the discerning physician not only to re-
lieve, but sometimes, with the other means at our command,
permanently benefit them.

Hystero epilepsy affords another useful field for its employ-
ment. It certainly lessens the tendency to exaggerate bodily im-
pressions and relieves the irritability of the neurasthenic.
Cardiac irritability, the insomnia, the haunting dreams, the
impotence, back pains, ocular disturbances; the feeling of
nervous and muscular uncertainty are allayed, physiologic bal-
ance restored, and self-confidence restablished — preparing the
way for the hygienic and therapeutic measures appropriate for

43° Editorial.

each individual case. The restless fretting of infants, the toxic
instability of the cigarette smoker's nerves, the tremors and de-
pression following alcoholic excesses, the distress of the opium
eater, the shopping-day headaches, the overtrained musician's
breakdowns, the student's undoing from long application to his
studies, the worried banker's collapse, and, in fact, brain and
nerve fag from whatever cause, with peevishness and irritability,
are all indications for the use of Passiflora.

Bearing in mind that reducing reflex irritability may serve a
purpose and tide the sufferer over many a stormy hour, to his
comfort and the physician's credit, even though no cures be ef-
fected, we may find Passiflora incarnata a valuable aid in the
management of many troublesome cases.

From a paper, " Some Neglected Remedies," by Dr. H. W.
Felter, Transactions of the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association^
we select the following notes on several drugs:

Lycopus.

Bugle weed takes a first rank among my steadily employed
medicines. It is second to no remedy for the control of passive
haemorrhages from the lungs, besides being a valuable heart
sedative. Wild and tumultuous beating of the heart is con-
trolled by it, and this is a condition frequently preceding or ac-
companying pulmonary haemorrhage. It alleviates the cough
of phthisis, as well as most remedies of balsamic class, and is
always kindly received by the stomach. It acts as a tonic and
appetizer.

Melilotus.

I have used melilot sufficiently to conviuce me that we are
overlooking a remedy of value for the control of pain when we
neglect melilotus. As a remedy for neuralgia, for which it has
been praised by some physicians, I have not used. But in
ovarian neuralgia it has operated as quickly and permanently as
any agent I have employed. White sweet clover I have not
tried, though it has been recently reported useful in conditions
similar to those for which the yellow species is employed. I
have thus far relied on a tincture of the fresh plant prepared
when in bloom, and the dose ranges from 5 to 10 drops every
hour.

Editorial. 43 1

Trifolium.

I have relied upon it solely in those disposed to cancerous
growths, and, in my opinion, when persistently given it retards
the progress of cancerous tumors and improves the general con-
dition of the patient. Though I believe it strongly antagonistic
to a cancerous cachexia, I do not regard it curative after an
active ulceration has begun. I am disposed to believe, how-
ever, that if given persistently, as soon as the growth is discov-
ered, it will in a large majority of cases be the means of pre
venting an early ulceration and the consequent involvement of
the lymphatic structures. I have known of cases in which the
breast was removed for cancer where no further trouble was ex-
perienced for years. These cases were given clover for periods
of three or four months and repeated from time to time. Clover
also assists in the cure of scaly and ulcerated conditions of the
tibial region of the old.

Ceanothus.

Jersey tea has given satisfaction in affections of the spleen,
especially enlargement of the spleen not due to malarial agency,
or at least not accompanied with any of the ordinary palustral
manifestations. As far as I have employed it I have found it to
be an admirable remedy, and another who employed it on my
recommendation reports perfect success with it in a case which
had resisted the wThole list of spleen remedies. It is not a new
remedy for this purpose, having been largely employed during
the civil war, but it has more recently been revived.

Achillea.

This common weed is the well-known yarrow. It is especially
adapted to certain forms of haemorrhage with debility. The
condition in which I have found it most useful is mecorrhagia
in patients of weak constitution, where the menstrual flow each
month is profuse and sometimes wholly sanguineous, some-
times partly leucorrheal. The condition is always one of marked
atony, and the debilitating discharges are often accompanied by
severe backache and not infrequently with sick headache.
When the haemorrhagic discharge is due to polypus or other
growths, fragments of membrane, etc., the remedy will do little
more than to slightly decrease the flow, but it is of no value in
accomplishing a cure. Here operative measures as the removal
of the growths, or the use of the curette, will accompany that
which no remedv will effect.

PERSONALS.

" Don't worry," is bully advice; it is as good as " take plenty of sleep "
to sufferers from insomnia.

An " advice trust " would goto pieces in a week. No company could
control the supply.

" A Syphilitic Congress " is the rather peculiar headline of one of our
esteemed.

When requested not to put his knife in his month when eating, the man
asked where else should he put it ?

The " Cheerful doctor " is O. K. if patient gets well, otherwise — .

Davenport, la., has passed an ordinance creating a Barbers' Examining
Board.

Dr. Thos. H. Mann has removed from Fitchburgh, Mass., to Uncasville,
Conn.

The several journals that printed Dr. Fahenstock's provings of Echinacea
carefully deleted the doctor's statement that only the tincture and dilutions
prepared by Boericke & Tafel were used.

'' Business " is the sole god of some "medical" journals — and the ad-
vertiser is his prophet !

The latest bray is " mosquitoes breed malaria."

"Major Ross has discovered the malarial mosquito, and asks that as-
sistance be sent at once!" Evidently too large for one man to tackle alone.

F*0 R SALE Modern sanitarium in magnificent location in Eastern
Pennsylvania for sale, or partner wanted. Address
"Sanitarium, care Homoeopathic Recorder, P. O. Box 291, Philadel-
phia, Pa."

Bradford's book on Homoeopathic Statistics is on press Everyone will
want a copy. Greatest homoeopathic " missionary " ever printed.

The Clinique says of Dewey's Essentials of Homoeopathic Materia
Medica: "We recommend it with pleasure."

Professor T. C. Duncan, whose papers have interested the Recorder's
readers during several years past, is now Professor of Principles and Prac-
tice of Medicine at Dunham College.

Dr. Wells LeFevre has removed from Hot Springs to Pine Bluff, Ark.

Dr. Jos. F. O'Connor has removed from 18 W. 43d St. to 29 W. 45th St.,
New York City.

That " ultimatum " is about the best bit of unconscious humor, and bad
English, that has yet been launched.

Detroit has a new college. The Detroit Homoeopathic College, Dr. D. A.
MacLachlan, Dean.

Dr. B. Kaffenberger is again in practice at Key West, Fla.

At Hull, England, 83 cases of small-pox. Mr. Chaplain, House of Com-
mons, said 62 showed evidences of vaccination.

"The anti vacs are making nuisances of themselves by asking ques-
tions."— London Letter.

THE

HOMEOPATHIC RECORDER.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa., October, 1899. No. 10

ACONITE.

By T. F. Allen, M. D.

One who studies cases of poisoning by Aconite, or who even
reads over a few such cases, is impressed by the remarkable uni-
formity expressed in the accounts presented to him.

Whether the record be one pointing distinctly toward heart fail-
ure, with increasing coldness of the body, increasing feebleness of
the heart, ending, finally, in complete collapse, and stoppage of
the heart's action (in diastole), or whether he follows the sub-
sequent history of a similar .-erious condition of affairs, terminat-
ing favorably, in a reaction attended by an increased temperature,
increased rapidity and force of the action of the heart, he is con-
scious of a remarkable similarity in the mental characteristics ex-
hibited by all such cases This similarity shows itself in a dread-
ful anxiety and fear, with a restless condition of body and mind,
which is intolerable One may read over scores of cases of poison-
ing and numerous ca-es of experiments on different people, pur-
posely undertaken to develop the action of the drug, and witness
a similar series of symptoms, with almost identical results. It is
the first and most prominent feature noticed, as the result of
Aconite poisoning, either in large or small doses, and it is the key
to the understanding, essentially, of the action of Aconite.

If the condition be one of heart failure, gradually ending in the
death of the patient, or of violent febrile reaction, continuing for
many hours, the same mental condition is found — one of restless
anxiety, a dread of impending misfortune, even of death, which
permits of no rest, generally with excessive thirst, etc., etc.

Unfortunately, cases of poisoning by this drug are not uncom-
mon.' They abound in European literature, for the shoots of the
plant, coming up in early spring, tempt people to use them as

434 Aconite.

salad, and the bulbous roots, tuber-like in character, contain a
large amount of starch, and are often eaten for the nutriment they
contain ; indeed, some species of Aconite are not at all poisonous,
and may be eaten with impunity, while others, especially the blue-
flowered species, and the species of East India and Japan, com-
prise the most deadly, poisonous vegetable substances known.
The study of the pharmacology of the different species of Aconite
is most interesting, with the varying amounts of alkaloids, and
the varying effects of each, but chiefly, the blue flowered species,
the A conitum napeltus of Linneus, Stoerckianum of Reichenbach,
are the ones which chiefly interest us, since they afford the prin-
cipal scources of the officinal drug called Aconite, the root of
which is chiefly used in medicine, which contains the greatest
amount of alkaloid, but which, however, is not the only source
of activity of the Aconite used in the homoeopathic school.

Aconite produces, in addition to the weakness of the heart, the
symptoms above briefly noted, paralysis of sensation, commenc-
ing in the periphery, and becoming more central as the poison ex-
tends. It shows itself in the lips, tongue and mucous membrane
of the mouth, especially, as numbness and formication. So dis-
tinct and characteristic is this feature of sensory peripheral par-
alysis that the symptom has been made use of to estimate the
value, commercially, of samples of Aamite by means of the
taste, which is, of course, a very crude, unscientific method, but,
in the main, sufficiently accurate to determine the relative value
of different samples. The formication and paralys;s, commenc-
ing at the tongue, lips, and extending to the cheeks and neigh-
boring parts, become quite violent, and speedily develop into a
pain which extends to and involves the whole of the ' ' trigeminies , "
and gives rise to a distinct neuralgia, involving the branches of
this nerve, attended with heat, swelling and pain that also is
quite characteristic of the action of Aconite.

But, without entering into any detailed account of the vary-
ing symptomatology of the drug, as developed in different parts
and organs of the body, we may enter into a discussion of the
febrile condition which Aconite produces. It seems certain
that, though this febrile condition, with rapid pulse, rise of
temperature, is preceded, early in the Aconite disease, by chilli-
ness, these chilly feelings are apt to be transient, and not to
persist for any great length of time. They also, like the
fever, are attended by the same mental characteristics, of a rest-
less anxiety, which is so profoundly characteristic of our drug.

Aconite. 435

The chills are generally transient, and rapidly alternate with
conditions of fever. Even within a few hours, or even within a
few minutes, a rapid alternation of chill and fever may be ob-
served, followed by outbreaks of perspiration, following- which
there may be a renewal of the chilly creeps and febrile condi-
tion. But, through all these varying phases of chill, fever and
sweat, the patient is unaccountably and intolerably restless and
anxious, fearing every moment will be his last. It is noticed
also, even at the beginning, with the earliest symptoms of
Aconite, that these rapid alternations of fiebrile conditions are
coincident with rapid alternations of other symptoms, for ex-
ample, the state of the pupil, which will alternately dilate and
contract within a few minutes.

But the point to which we wish to call attention, in connec-
tion with this phase of the Aconite disease, is that, from the pro-
nounced and unvarying effects of Aconite, it is properly con-
cluded that Aconite is useful in conditions of fever, with similar
characteristics, that is, with fever characterized by rapid alter-
nations of chill or fever or sweat; finally, by long continued
conditions of febrile excitement, attended by high temperature,
and especially by excessive mental anxiety. It has not been
found useful for any form of febrile excitement, associated with
a quiet, sensible condition of mind, or an apathetic condition of
body.

This condition of febrile excitement of Aconite finds its par-
allel, chiefly, in the early onset of acute inflammatory diseases,
in which the patient is attacked, as it were, with a perfect storm
of chill and fever. When the fever does not seem to have lo-
calized itself, as in the prodromal stage of any inflammatory
disease, a patient may be chilly or may be very feverish, always
very restless, generally very anxious and thirsty. The physi-
cian is scarcely able to determine what organ is or will be af-
fected by the inflammatory process. But, after some hours, the
whole aspect of the case changes. The inflammation seems to
have become localized, a definite lesion results, and the physi-
cian can determine, perhaps, that the lung is being involved, or
that some other organ is becoming inflamed. As this condition
develops, and the disease fairly localizes itself, the temperature
may be higher, but the prodromal storm has passed. The
patient suffers no longer from his undefined distress or mental
anxiety, and the disease seems definitely to have developed, and
the inflammatory process to have been fully declared. It is

436 Aconite.

then that the patient is not chilly, may have a higher tempera-
ture, but is not restless, is really more ill than at first, but does
not feel so himself. The stage for Aconite, however, has passed.
The indications for another remedy, such as Iodine or Bryonia
(if there be pain), or of some other drug, may be indicated.
But Aconite is no longer the appropriate remedy. Thus it hap-
pens that we are apt to say, that, in a stage of exudation, or of
true inflammation with exudation, Aco7iite is no longer re-
quired.

Aconite thus seems to be indicated rather in the prodroma
stage of inflammatory affections than in the stage of true inflam-
mation (that is, of inflammation with exudation). While this
is doubtless true of inflammation with exudation consisting of
plastic lymph, and is certainly true of an exudation with serous
effusion, and especially of an inflammation attended by purulent
infiltration, nevertheless, it is most assuredly true that, a stage
of exudation of any kind having been reached, Aconite ceases to
be the wholly appropriate remedy, and it also seems as though
the mental state of the patient might be taken as an index of the
applicability of Acoyiite.

This is so characteristic of Aconite that we may here fearlessly
give a challenge to any skeptical practitioner, who wishes to con-
vince himself of the truth of Homoeopathy, to make the follow-
ing experiments:

1. Purchase an imported tincture of Aco?iite, that is to say, a tinc-
ture prepared from the fresh green root, the only preparation at
all admissible, for Aconite must be prepared from the fresh green
root, and must never have been dried, lest some of the qualities of
the juice become impaired, and the virtues of the tincture lost.
So get some fresh green tincture of Aconite; then, having taken
any number of vials, I would recommend that the experiment be
made with thirty or less small vials, say, half ounce. Fill each
vial half full of alcohol, then add two or three drops of the tinct-
ure to the first vial and shake it well, and mark this one. Add two
or three drops of this to the second vial, and mark that two, shake.
Then, two or three drops of No. 2 to a third vial, and mark
j, and so on successively, adding two or three drops of each vial
to a fresh vial, half full of alcohol, marking them with consecu-
tive numbers, as far as you choose. I would recommend be-
ginning the experiment by using from a vial marked 10 or 11.
Now, select from your practice any patient you choose, attacked
in the way I have mentioned, with a chill, rise of temperature,

Aconite. 437

extreme restless anxiety and thirst, a full, hard pulse, a person
threatened with some inflammatory affection, such as pneumonia.
Put a few drops from the vial marked 10 into half a tumbler of
water, and administer to the patient a teaspoonful every half
hour for a few times, say, half a dozen. You will surely have
the following result: the restlessness, the anxiety, the tossing
about will be relieved, probably in thirty minutes, or, at least,
within a short time, and the effect of the Aconite will be shown
in the fall of temperature, the diminished distress of the patient,
perhaps the entire removal of the source of his discomfort and
of the whole threatened inflammatory affection. Should it hap-
pen that two or three doses fail to produce this result, add some
of the vials marked Nos. 3, 4 or 5, but, should you get the results
noted, you might try further experiments with higher numbers,
as far up as 30, for such results have been noted, even with the
30th dilution.

This experiment can be tried by any one, and will be a sure
test of Homoeopathy as exemplified in adaptation of the symp-
toms of Aconite poisoning to the cure of similar affections occur-
ring in the sick. I, myself, have witnessed results from one single
teaspoonful of the desired or appropriate dilution, which probably
will vary, according to the susceptibility of the individual, some
individuals being more susceptible to the higher dilutions,
others requiring lower dilutions, even as far down as the 1st or
2d. But it is probable that an appropriate dilution will show its
effects even after the first teaspoonful in water, and probably
within thirty minutes. The patient will become more quiet, per-
spiration will break out, and then, if the remedy be suspended im-
mediately and no more administered, the patient will continue to
improve until he recovers. It will be advisable, as my experi-
ence has plainly shown, when the first perspiration shall be
observed, to suspend entirely the medicine; otherwise the addi-
tional doses will cause a suspension of perspiration, and a
renewal of the febrile symptoms, which had already commenced
to disappear. My own habit in practice is to stop the medicine
just so soon as the improvement appears, and this will be found
advisable by those trying this experiment.

We cannot cease calling attention to the inflammatory affec-
tions produced and cured by Aconite, without directing the at-
tention of the reader to a few of the most frequently observed
conditions indicating this drug in a very characteristic manner.

One of these is an affection of the heart, not infrequently met

43 8 Aco7iite.

with in practice, which is quite obviously similar to a condition
produced by Aconite poisoning, namely, heart failure. By this
we mean extreme weakness of the heart's action, with tendency
to diminution of rapidity of the pulse, a general fall of tempera-
ture, even to collapse. A very characteristic instance of this
occurred in a man who recently had returned from the army.
He had been subjected to great fatigue, and had been through
some very trying experiences in engagements " at the front,"
and had been sent home in a state of complete exhaustion. He
was said to be suffering from dilatation of the heart walls, by
some thought to be aneurismal in character, by others said to
be associated with aneurismal dilatation of the aorta. He had
suffered from great precordial distress ; had been thought to be
suffering from acute inflammation of the aorta. Be that as it
may, the man's condition was pitiable. His heart's action was
very unsteady, and extremely feeble. When first seen, his ex-
tremities were cold, and his mental condition was very distress-
ing. He seemed to be in a condition bordering upon terror.
He had entirely "lost his nerve," so to speak; he was dread-
fully apprehensive of approaching death, concerning which he
talked almost constantly, and he was sure would speedily occur,
which, indeed, was the case. No remedies seemed to have had
the slightest effect on him, at least they had not relieved this
mental anguish. This case is instanced only to illustrate the
relief which Aconite will sometimes give in similar and hopeless
cases, though it seems to be powerless to cure. Certain it was
that a few doses of Aconite, of the 7th dilution, in water afforded
speedy and marked relief, and enabled the man to die peace-
fully, in the midst of his family, but was unavailing to do more.
In cases of acute inflammation of the membranes of the heart,
in endocarditis, and sometimes in the early stage of pericarditis,
and even in the distress attending attacks of angina pectoris, with
terrible anxiety, and sharp pains extending from the precordial
region, down the left arm, and even to the right side of the
body, this remedy has been found to afford very marked and
prompt relief.

In the onset of pulmonary inflammations, especially of pneu-
monia, before hepatization has taken place, while the patient
is suffering from general distress in the chest, with chills, a
high fever, but before the pneumonic process has become estab-
lished, with the restless anxiety which so commonly attends this
stage of pneumonia, we find in Aconite a much-needed and ex-

Aconite. 439

tremely useful remedy. But, so soon as hepatization shall have
taken place, the patient has become less restless, even though
he may still be very feverish, the utility of Aconite has probably
passed and may give place to the remedy next in order, perhaps
Bryonia, perhaps Iodi?ie, or some other remedy dependent upon
the peculiar symptoms of this stage of the disease.

But in no affection has the usefulness of Aconite been more
brilliantly demonstrated than in a form of acute laryngitis com-
monly known as " membranous croup." We have repeatedly
witnessed its marvellous action in the first stage, arresting and
entirely removing an attack which threatened the most serious
consequences. We have seen the little sufferer, with the
peculiar cough, with a high fever, restlessness, anxious tossing-
about, characteristic of the early stage of this form of laryn-
gitis, become quiet after a single dose of Aconite, the breathing
become less difficult, and the child drop to sleep, apparently
from exhaustion, break into a gentle perspiration, and wake
after a few hours, to all appearances, well, with no vestige of
the threatened trouble remaining. We have seen this result
accomplished not only in the so called spasmodic croup, but in
cases where the epiglottis was swollen and inflamed, and a
tough, creamy exudation had made its appearance lower down
in the larynx, with extremely difficult breathing, drawing-in of
the pit of the throat, after the croup-kettle, with lime water,
and a whole lot of other truck had signally failed to give the
slightest relief, that one or two other doses of Aco?iite would
afford almost instant relief, and in other cases a complete cure,
no further doses of Aconite being required after the patient
dropped asleep.

It is surprising that physicians will often allow their preju-
dices to stand in the way of administering a single remedy like
this, because it savors of being homoeopathic.

In a recent instance a variety of applications had been used
for several hours, and the child growing worse, with symptoms
of increasing stenosis of the larynx, apparently suffering from
sheer exhaustion, trying to get a little rest, but unable to do so,
on account of the distress on breathing, with a hot skin, the
stage for Aconite long since past, the case becoming apparently
desperate, it was found necessary to give Iodi?ie, which was done
in the first dilution, after which the patient fell asleep, had a
restful night, and the next morning was playing about the
room.

44-Q Aconite.

I instance this to show that Iodi?ie frequently follows Aconite,
and that should Aconite fail to relieve only the restlessness and
the fever and all symptoms of the stage of exudation and
stenosis simply remain, then Iodine should be administered, for
it has been found clinically that Iodine is quite as well indicated
in the febrile stage as Aconite; Aconite is not a remedy for fever
or inflammation per se, but only for the anxious restlessness
which is apt to accompany the febrile stage, and when the anx-
ious restlessness shall have subsided the indications for Acoyiite
have ceased. Then, if fever remain, with symptoms of exuda-
tion or infiltration, Iodine should be given, and, under such
conditions, its action is equally brilliant with that of Aconite in
its peculiar sphere.

It is interesting to observe, in this connection, that Bromine
differs widely from Iodi?ie, but that Bromine frequently follows
Iodine, as regards the indications for its application. Bromine
is quite clearly indicated by a tendency to spasm, especially to a
spasmodic cough, as in croup, but these conditions are not ac-
companied by fever. Indeed, Bromine is indicated rather in a
much later stage of the disease, after the febrile symptoms have
subsided. For example, we were once called upon to prescribe
for a child who was " suffering from croup." This child had
been sick seven or eight days, and was fighting for its life still.
It was lying limp, across the shoulder of its mother, almost
pulseless, and cold, with blue-cyanotic hue, wholly unable to
swallow even a little milk, or to nurse, as it could not spare the
time from the necessity of breathing to take even a swallow of
nourishment. It did not seem that the child could live an hour;
its condition was really desperate. It had a loose laryngeal
rattle, with at times a hoarse bark, with extreme difficulty of
respiration; it had been treated with all sorts of remedies, from
Tartar emetic to hot steam, and, while it seemed as though
nothing could be done, we hastily took out from our case a little
vial of Bromine. This vial of Bromine was filled with pellets
which from long disuse had become quite dry and discolored
from age. At the same time a few pellets were put upon the
child's tongue, and a messenger was dispatched to our office to
get some fresh Bromine, which we always prefer to use in the
dilution, freshly prepared. Before the messenger had time to
return, the child was breathing easier, had taken a little nour-
ishment, and had fallen asleep. The baby was not disturbed,

Aconite. 441

and on waking up was so much improved in breathing that no
further Bromine was administered.

This, and similar instances to the above, have led us to the
conclusion that the dilution and potentization of bromine seems
a possibility, and that freshly prepared and potentized Bromine
does not lose the medicinal power of the original drug; that the
potential activity of Bromine may be preserved, without chemical
change from Bromine to hydrobromic acid. This, however, is a
pharmaceutical problem, and an experiment in potentization
which should be cautiously and repeatedly observed before be-
ing declared even a probability.

The action of Aconite in neuralgic affections is extremely in-
teresting. We have seen in cases of poisoning that it affects
chiefly the " trigeminus" of the face. In this case it is always
associated with a feeling of heat, more or less diffused, spreading
over the face, with waves of pain shooting through the nerves,
spreading up to the forehead and over the scalp. The feeling of
heat which accompanies the facial neuralgia of Aconite is usually
very marked, and sometimes, but not always, attended by
numbness and formication in the affected parts. These symp-
toms of neuralgia are always associated with a peculiar mental
distress, so characteristic of all cases of poisoning by Aconite.

In inflammation of the nerves (various forms of neuritis),
especially from taking cold, with sharp, acute, sometimes shoot-
ing pains, usually with burning and numbness, sometimes with
stinging along the tract of the nerve, always with extreme rest-
lessness and anxiety, the peculiar mental conditions which pre-
vail when Aconite is indicated, it has been found of great value.
The pains, wherever they occur, are generally intolerable, being
sharp, tearing, cutting, apt to be accompanied by numbness and
formication, and generally also by heat, and always by a mental
distress, characteristic of Aconite.

We might devote much space to a detailed account of the
various diseases indicating this drug. Enough, however, has
been cited to enable the greatest skeptic to verify the conditions
above given. These are very simple and very brief, and may
always be relied upon : Never give aconite for fever;
it should not be nsed as an anti-pyretic. It is equally efficacious
when used for weak heart, as when used for conditions of a hard
bounding pulse. Follow closely the indications furnished by
the cases of poisoning and experiments on the healthy. Make
your experiments with the dilutions, as above indicated, using

442 Fraxinus Americamis.

always a fresh imported tincture as the basis of your dilutions,
never buy a cheap, inferior article, and you will be convinced
of the truth of Homoeopathy, and possibly of the higher dilu-
tions, though the latter may be problematical and wholly
unessential.

FRAXINUS AMERICANUS.

Mrs. Carrie P.. aged 25 years, married and mother of two
children, consulted me for severe pain in right ovary and prolapse
of uterus, her menstrual period occurring every two weeks and
flowing severely for about ten days each time. This condition
had existed for about two years, since the birth of her last child.
Subinvolution of womb very great and patient weak and very
nervous.

I used local treatment and indicated remedies for several months.
As she w?as upon her feet most of the time she improved
but little, and after reading J. Conipton Burnett's ''Organ Dis-
eases of Women " I gave her 10 drop doses three times a day of
Fraxinus Ameticanus — and stopped all other treatment. While
she still worked and walked as much as before, in three months
her periods were normal as to time and flow. Womb markedly less
hypertrophied and in normal position. Ovarian pain and tender-
ness gone and she felt well. As Frax. 0 is a remedy little known.
I report this case hoping other physicians may use it in similar
cases.

D. Deforest Cole, M. D.
Batavia, N. Y.

MALARIA OFFICINALIS.
Excerpts From a Report to the I. H. A., 1899.

By Dr. W. A. Yingling, Emporia, Kansas.

This remedy was originally introduced to the attention of the
profession by Dr. G. W. Bowen, of Indiana. In his experiments,
in 1862, with decaying vegetable matter in three stages of de-
composition he found most marked results, some of which were
as follows, from simple inhalation : —

First stage (or week of decomposition): Nausea, headache,
distress in stomach, white coated tongue.

Malaria Officinalis. 443

Second stage (or week of decomposition): Fearful headache,
nausea, aversion to food, distress through the hypochondriac
region, first in the spleen, the liver and stomach, and on the third
day chills.

Third stage (or week of decomposition): Extreme lassitude,
loss of appetite, continued fever, with an unlimited amount of
pains and aches and a lassitude that limited locomotion.

With direct provings of the remedy we have bilious colic,
nausea, cramps, diarrhoea and headache, the liver, spleen,
stomach and kidneys are apparently seriously involved, inter-
mittent fever with shaking, some daily, some tertian ; many
patients were confined to their beds with a typhoidal or semi-
paralytic condition.

For a further record of this very interesting remedy see Trans-
actions of Indiana Institute of Horn, for 1895 and Horn. Record-
er, Vols. X. p. 560; XII. pp. 387, 492.

Considering that the third degree of decomposition contains
all that is in the first two and much more, I secured some of the
30th potency of the original matter through B. & T. and had it
potentized by Dr. W. D. Gorton to the millionth potency.

C. F., aet. 28. A Kansas Volunteer.

Oct 18 After a week or ten days of rainy and chilly weather
in camp he came home sick. Had a chill on the 13th, followed
by a fever. Aching all over body. Nausea co?iti?iuous , vomiting
bile and retching. Wants cold drinks. Can't eat anything;
vomits everything, except once he. could eat raw tomatoes.
Craves sours. Tongue white and thick coated. Lips parched
and dry. Urine highly colored, like strong tea. Retching and
gagging from hawking mucus. Ipecac, c. m. (H S.)

Oct. 19. Nausea some better. Vomited twice since yesterday.
Thirsty, would like much cold water, but is fearful to drink, yet it
does not sicken Slight dizziness, especially on rising, or on
raising the head. No appetite, averse to all food, thoughts of it
sicken. Costive. Feels very weak and languid. Mouth very
dry ; saliva pasty. Skin dry all over. No sweat at all.
Bryoiiia 9 m. (F.)

Oct. 20. No nausea; sight of food does not nauseate now, but
the thought of his army life gags him. Mouth very dry sub-
jectively, but really moist. Thirsty, but desires less quantity.
Very weak and tottering. Great uneasiness through abdomen;
a sense of heaviness Has eaten nothing, but drinks some
cherry juice. Throat dry and sense of slight drawing in it.

444 Malaria Officinalis.

Face and eyes and skin very yellow. No stool for 48 hours.
Vomited bile this morning. Skin very dry, no moisture.
Malai-iaoff. 1 m. (G.).

Oct. 21. Feeling better generally. No nausea. Has eaten
twice for the first time. Bowels sluggish. No sweat, skin dry
and yellozu. Feels weak. Mouth less dry. S. L.

Oct. 22. Much better. Less thirst. Has eaten with relish.
Mouth less dry. Slept all night. No sweat, but some better in
color. £\ L.

Oct. 24.. Generally better. Eat a good dinner yesterday and
breakfast this morning, with relish. Feels like getting up.
No nausea. Less yellow.

Oct. 26. Doing well. Weak and totters yet. Appetite im-
proved, eats with relish. Tongue cleaner. Bowels moved
normally. Mouth dry at times with plenty saliva. Skin yellow
and dry, 710 sweat. Malaria off . 1 m. (G.).

Oct. 28. Doing finely. Walked a mile to the office. Yellow
eyes and skin fading. Rapid restoration to better than usual
health.

R. A., aet 22. Another soldier boy, with similar symptoms to
above, was promptly cured. When he returned to camp he called
to get some of " those magic powders."

Mrs. S. A. H., aet 63. Not well for some days. Shooting pains
all over in the muscles ; bones ache. High fever during the night.
Restless tossing about. Thirsty for lemonade, not so much for
water. Diarrhoea, 5 or 6 stools this morning, no pain, weakness
in bowels, tenderness in right iliac region ; stool watery, thin,
yellowish, somewhat foul. Bitter taste; mouth parched ; tongue
white. Ravenous appetite for some days past, but none to-day.
Dizziness on arising. Head feels badly as though it would ache.
Pulse 98. Skin hot and dry. Restlessness most marked in her
arms, tossing them about. Very stretchy, gaping this morning.
Malaria off. 1 m (G.). Relieved and up and about next day.

M. H., aet. 16. Had dumb ague a year ago. Last 4 days has
been very tired and languid. Backache in lumbar region, and
shoots up the back ; worse when first lying down, then gets
better ; worse after walking ; better lying on the abdomen.
Bowels loose yesterday, but no stool to-day. Aching through
forehead and temples. Feels well on arising in the morning,
worse after being about for awhile; worse toward evening. Last
fall had slight chills with fever, no sweat. Yawning. Malari-
ous feeling. Poor appetite. Thirsty all the time. Malaria off.

Malaria Officinalis. 445

6 m. (G.). Improved at once and said she felt no further need
of medicine.

Mabel H., set. 12. Peevish for a few days. Last night had
severe frontal headache. Restless tossing about all night.
Pain in chest, and upper abdomen, < breathing; may be from
indigestion. Fever during the night and also this morning.
Pulse 112, soft and yielding. Tongue white with brown streak
down the middle. Malaria off. 6 m. (G.). Prompt cure.

M. B., aet. 13. Each evening about dark, getting earlier each
day, he will be chilly with flushes of heat, great desire for fresh
air and ca?i?wt breathe on account of pain in the liver; worse lying
down, must jump up; (may be) better from hard pressure on
region of liver; duri?ig the day has no trouble and no tenderness,
seems perfectly well. Slight fever for a couple hours in the
evening; raves, sings and talks all night; restless. Appetite
variable. Craves potatoes, apples and beefsteak. Tongue about
clean. Malaria off. 1 m. (G.). Next morning eat breakfast
with family, the first time in several weeks; much > in every
way, and had no trouble with liver the evening following the
remedy. Cure rapid and remains, no more trouble.

G. C, aet. 28. Ague every other day, icy cold from hips
down, chilly all over, fever worse about the trunk and gen-
eral sweat, but slight. Begins about noon. Has had ague
bad when on the Pacific coast and is run down. Used to have
ague often and long at a time when in Missouri. Feels lan-
guid, weak and drowsy between attacks, unable to be up.
Pulse weak. Very poor appetite. Bad breath. Flashes of
fever all the time. Very thirsty. Has taken much quinine.
Dizzy when up, with nausea. Costive, has taken salts, stool
hard, and bleeding after stool at times. Intense headache as
though it would burst. Malaria off. 1 m. (G.). 3d. 2 hours.

Xo chill the next day except soles of feet very cold, almost
numb. No fever except very slight on back for a few moments.
Sweat over the body. Dizzy when up, with some nausea.
" Feels wonderfully better; did not think one could feel so
much better so soon." Head is heavy and aches some, he
thinks it is from the quinine. Bowels have moved twice, thin
water, foul odor (from salts?). Urine smells very strong and is
very red some days. Short hacking cough for some days, bet-
ter to-day. Not so languid and weak. Is sitting up reading.

He missed two or three chill days and made general improve-

446 Malaria Officinalis.

ment so as to be able to go home, and went from under my super-
vision.

F. B., set. 80. For three times, one week apart, has had
dumb ague, feeling bad all over; head feels thick and mean;
bones ache some; no chill, but profuse sweating. Sweats pro-
fusely very easily on least exertion. Right knee weak and
painful; worse when bending down to work and raising up;
must help himself up. Dizzy when getting up in the morning,
and on rising up "thirst like a horse;" sleepy, falls asleep
reading. Has had chills and fever several times. Malaria off.
6 m. (G. ). Prompt relief.

Three months afterward he came for help. "Feels bilious,"
as though he was " going to pieces;" feels tired, uncomfortable,
no pain, but languid; don't want to move, listless. "Feels
malarious." No chill nor fever. Dizzy when getting up, must
steady himself before starting to walk, sleepy and drowsy when
reading or sitting quietly. Malaria off. 6 m. (G). Prompt
relief again.

L. H., set. 50. For about three weeks has had pain in right
side of back about the floating ribs, hurting through the right
side; aching; < sitting, lying a long time, in the evening possi-
bly; better walking a little. Had something similar four years
ago and was sick for a long time. Doctors thought it might be
kidney trouble (?). Feels weak and languid. Good appetite,
eats a good deal without inconvenience. No trouble in urina-
tion. Costive. Drawing or puckering feeling in the region of the
liver, a kind of cramping. Tongue coated slightly yellowish
white. Had malaria and ague badly years ago; took lots of
quinine. Had dumb ague badly; took iron wood tea. Has
used much mercury and physics. Malaria off. 6 m. (G.). 2d. 2
hours.

Reports himself a great deal better; " feeling better than in a
long while." " The drawing feeling in liver let go on the
second dose and has not returned." Pain in posterior aspect of
liver much >. Could hardly walk to office before, but now
" feels that he could walk all over town." A month later, after
hard work and picking up potatoes, he felt some trouble in liver
which was relieved by the same remedy.

Mrs. H. H., set. 36. Complains of feeling "malarious" and
says she had the " dumb ague." Feels depressed and languid.
Is sleepy all the time, can go to sleep standing. Had a dumb
chill eight days ago and again in one week. Occasionally has a

Malaria Officinalis. 447

sudden cold spell at night. Back seems as if it would break, pain
comes into the hips. Limbs get numb and cold. Frequent
spells of headache, forepart of head. Malaria off. 6 m. (G.).
Soon feeling much better and over the " dumb ague."

Mrs. J. E. G., set. 25. Every day for four days at about 11:30
A. m. she has great aching all over, commencing in small of back,
then hot fever ; short of breath ; headache all the time, day and
night ; each day the trouble gets later ; during the morning feels
weak, head whirls, sense as if the head made the stomach sick ;
eyes feel heavy. When in the open air she seems cold and
shakes inside till she fairly cramps. Dull and stupid. Aching
under the right scapula. A kind of cramping in region of liver ;
very sore and sensitive in region of the liver, worse from pressure,
and at times has sharp pains ; sleepy and drowsy, but sleep does
not rest her, wakes up tired and feeling bad all over. No appe-
tite at all. No thirst. Breath seems very short. Eyes burn
like coals of fire. Must urinate often, urine high colored, very
strong odor, scanty ; feels like a burden, she wants to urinate,
but cannot. In the morning feels as if just getting over a long
spell of fever. Dizziness, feels that she does not have any sense,
worse walking or turning around, rising, stooping. Cannot have
the house closed up for it aggravates the head and stomach, but
fresh, cool air chills her. Very bad taste, bitter, nasty. Tongue
about clean. Headache in the forehead and down cheek bones.
Malaria off. 6 m (G.). Reported a very prompt relief.

H. F., set. 35. A farmer. Rumbling and hurting in the stom-
ach and abdomen, burning of stomach; feels very weak and
nervous ; frontal headache going all over head ; face feels stiff;
dryness at root of tongue, draws up like from green persimmons;
feels drowsy and sleepy ; aching all over body and in anus and
eyes; chilly feeling, then breaks out in a slight sweat for a while,
both come and go ; sighing, takes a deep breath ; restless and
nervous ; hands seem to be useless, but can use them by force of
will. Malaria off. 6 m (G.). Reports every symptom mark-
edly and promptly relieved.

G. E., set. 15. Chill every second day at 6 p.m., hard ; thirst
variable ; slight hot stage after chill ; sweats during the night,
profuse, wakes up chilly and gets cold from the sweat drying up ;
feels pretty well between times ; sleepy during day of chill ; lips
dry and parched ; a constant hacki?ig cough, half minute guns,
when talking and whe?i turning over in bed. Malaria off. 6 m (G.).
Reports a prompt cure, and no more trouble.

448 Phy so stigma Heart.

E. W. E., aet. 56. Pain i?i right side in region of the liver,
steady, dull ache, better after urinating; throbbing in scrobicu-
lum, lower part of stomach, worse lying down; very cold hands
during the day, and both hands and feet at night; skin yellow-
ish; piles of many years, external, bleeding some, not painful,
but unpleasant, < using tobacco; bowels inactive. Malaria off.
30 m (G.)- Report pain in liver all gone and all other symp-
toms greatly better.

THE PHYSOSTIGMA HEART.

By Thomas C. Duncan, M. D., Chicago, Professor of
Diseases of the Chest, Etc.

I have been curious to see what was said about the action of
calabar bean or Physostigma venenosum on the heart.

This bean is used in West Africa to prove the innocence or
guilt of persons charged with crimes. The fact is, if the person
vomits it up they escaped both death and punishment.

Physostigma has come into practice chiefly as an eye remedy.
It produces contraction of the pupil something like Opium. It is,
therefore, used to counteract, and antidote, the effects of atropine.
Some of your oculists can enlarge upon its value in eye diseases.
Turning to Hering's Guiding Symptoms we find only these car-
diac symptoms given, which we suppose are characteristic:
" Tremor of heart, due to emotio7ial disturbance ; violent palpita-
tion."

Turning now to that most invaluable work, Heinigke's Patho-
genetic Outlines of Drugs, under Calabar bean, p. 99, we read the
following general outline of the action of Physostigma :

" According to Fraser's investigations, Calabar acts with par-
alyzing effect upon the cardiac ganglion and spinal marrow as
reflex centre. There appears as early as five minutes afterwards
(taking it) a peculiar painful sensation in the gastric region
below the sternum, eructations, vertigo and weakness in the
muscles of the limbs, besides twitching in the pectoral muscles
and very violent vertigo. Decrease of sight, increased salivary
secretion, slight perspiration. Attempts at walking and moving
the limbs remained without result, consciousness undisturbed,
paralysis of the motor nerves. The effects upon the eye do not
set in regularly after the internal use, but unfailingly upon the
local application to the eye."

Physostigma Heart. 449

"After large doses: Pain in the bowels, slight diarrhoea,
moderate and long-lasting vomiting, muscular weakness and
paralysis, small and slow pulse ; sinking of strength; cold limbs
and cold perspiration; sunken in, ashy face; vertigo and double
vision. Profound, sound, long sleep followed, after which the
greater portion of the complaints disappeared. The grave symp-
toms continued only 24 hours."

"Post-mortem (of 15 cases of poisoning one death resulted):
Brain, spinal marrow and lungs free from any perceptible
change, cardiac muscles co?npletely relaxed, left ventricle flabby, in
all four cavities blood and coagula. (Heart stopped in diastole.)
Gastric and intestinal mucous membrane moderately inflamed.
In the stomach and duodenum emulsion-like masses."

Turning to one of the most recent allopathic works (Prof.
White's Materia Medica and Therapeutics, edited by Prof. Wil-
cox, New York Post-Graduate School), we read an outline of
action very similar to that so ably given by Heinigke. (By the
way Heinigke' s work should be in the library of every physician
who believes in accurate diagnosis.)

' ' The effect of Physostigma on the heart is obscure, but it ap-
pears that the irritability of the peripheral terminations of the
vagus is at first increased and that subsequently the heart is
slowed." "Very large doses are said to decrease the irritability
of the vagus. In addition to its effect upon the vagus, Physostig-
mi?ie (the active principle) powerfully stimulates the contractile
force of the heart. The beat is, therefore, both more forcible and
slower. Ultimately the organ is paralyzed and stops in diastole. ' '

"The blood-pressure rises very much; this is largely due to
the increased force of the cardiac beat, but, perhaps, partly to the
irritation of the muscular coat of the arteries by Physostigmi?ie}
for it stimulates most of the involuntary muscles of the body."

"Respiration is also first quickened, but soon retarded and
death takes place from asphyxia.

" The reflex activity of the cord is inhibited." This is believed
" due to depression of the anterior cornua of the cord. Later on
the pastern part of the cord is also paralyzed, so that there is a
diminution of cutaneous sensibility."

The dose indicated in this work is y2 to 2 grains. More than
that would be " a large dose." The comparative effects of large
and small doses are well brought out in the various experiments
with this drug, as we shall see.

The various experiments (provings) with this drug make in-

45° Physostigma Heart.

teresting reading. We will study now only the effect upon the
heart pump. We quote from Allen's Encyclopaedia. The fa-
mous author on poisons, Christison, in '55, ate }4> of a bean in the
afternoon and % next morning. The first effect he noted was:
" The heart and pulse extremely feeble and tumultaously irregu-
lar." (40 minutes after 12 grains.)

''Happening to get upon the left side my attention was, for
the first time, directed to the tumultuous action of the heart
(simulating hypertrophy), which compelled me to turn again on
the back, to escape the strange sensation." (After 12 grains.)
After his morning dose he "took a cup of strong coffee, after
which I speedily felt an indefinable change within me, and on
examining the condition of the heart I found it had become per-
fectly and permanently regular. " This is a valuable fact worthy
of memory and study. Coffee has a marked effect to stimulate
the heart. We read on, still quoting from that great storehouse
of drug pathogenesy, Allen's Encyclop&dia:

" Dull pai?i in region of heart lasting nearly an hour (after 3
hours). (From 3d trit. repeated doses)." 62.

"Violent palpitation of the heart, with throbbing all over the
body at midnight (first day). 43.

"Woke at 2 A. m., with a rapid tumultuous action of the heart
as in high fever; but there was no unusual beat (fourth day).
43. Dr. Swan."

"Uneasiness and distress about the heart, mostly without
violent palpitation, but with a -fulness and pulsation over the
body, so that I counted the pulse, 72, by the ear; this uneasiness
is principally at night causing restlessness, tossing from one side
to the other with dry heat all over. 43."

These symptoms are the reported effects of one dose 1 m.:

"Could readily count my pulse in the carotids and hear the
two sounds of my heart as my head lay upon my pillow. (Second
day). 58. Dr. Titus."

"While sitting still he felt a pulsation through the whole
body, particularly in the chest and temples (after thirteen
hours, third day, and other times) 26." C. Wesselhceft with
3d trit. repeated. Dr. W. is a nervo-bilious person, critical and
conservative. " Violent palpitation of the heart with the nervous
motions (fourteenth and fifteenth days). 33." (Lady prover
under supervision of Dr. H. P. Wesselhceft.)

Here is a most wonderful combination of effects, startling and
peculiar:

Physostigma Heart. 451

11 As the fresh bracing air strikes me, a choking sensation,
with fluttering of the heart (suffered frequently from this
nervous affection between the age of 16 and 20) overcame me
and oppressed me during the whole forenoon. I heard and felt
the fluttering of my heart in the throat, with the sensation of
faintness by motion, and some relief in a recumbent sitting po-
sition, not by lying down (Bromine 50 without relief); flutter-
ing keeps steadily on, with attacks of vertigo towards evening,
especially when changing position; heart's action irregular,

thus about its action v v v one, two intermission, one,

two, three intermission, one, two, three, four; the choking sen-
sation in pit of the throat is steadily present; sometimes it
seems to me as if I could hear every artery of my body; I took
a dose of Sulphur 30; in about 20 minutes afterwards a severe
aggravation set in; I had to lean forward to catch my breath;
deep sighing relieved me; hot sweat stood on my forehead; my
hands were cold and damp. This lasted about a quarter of an
hour, when the spasmodic action of the cardiac ganglia grad-
ually ceased and I had a comfortable evening (fifth day)."
After that storm he repeats again. Heart's action still ir-
regular and sometimes tumultuous; radial pulse weak, 75, every
eight to ten minutes bear intermitting (sixth day). 38. This is
a most remarkable record. This prover was old Dr. Lilienthal
of nervo-sanguine temperament. He called himself "a fire
brand " in a medical society. He tells us he formerly had while
young attacks of tremor cordis. He took one dose of the 30.
The effect of Physostigma is first to quicken respiration and then
secondarily to retard it. The fresh, bracing air inviting deep
respiration, but that we see produced "a choking feeling;" then
the circulation should also be quickened, but a flutter of the
heart is the result. This lasted all forenoon of the fifth day,
and as the blood does not get to the head properly faintness,
ensues on motion but relieved by recumbent position. Then
notice the heart, how like Muriatic acid (and most of the chlor-
ides). The heart is reinforced by arterial contraction, doubtless
due to the action of this drug. Was the aggravation due to the
Sulphur or the motion ?

The "tumultuous" action and irregular intermissions are
noteworthy. Six days after the one dose the action of the
heart is weak and it intermits. The other records are equally
interesting. We note the "dull pain" evidently from forcible
cardiac contraction. The palpitation at night is noteworthy

452 Physostigma Heart.

and doubtless characteristic. Dr. Swan, the prover, was a san-
guine, nervous man of strong feeling. The strong heart beats
" felt in the ears and all over the body" is unique. It looks
like a bad case of hypertrophy. We will now study the pulse.
The first record is made by Prof. Fraser, of Edinburgh, who took
six grains of Calabar bean.

"The pulse had been examined at different times within 15
minutes and found to average 68 (before the experiment); after
six minutes, 74; after 10 minutes, 72; after 15 minutes, 76; after
20 minutes, 75; after 30 minutes, 72; after 35 minutes, 69; after
40 minutes, 66; after 45 minutes, 68; after 50 minutes, 64; after
55 minutes, 65, full and regular; after 60 minutes, 62, and rather
feeble; after 65 minutes, 62; after 70 minutes, 60, very small and
wiry, but regular; after 75 minutes, 62; after 80 minutes, 60,
thready and difficult to count; after 85 minute, 60; after 90
minutes, 58; after 95 minutes, 59 and very feeble, with occa-
sional intermissions; after 100 minutes, 53; after 105 minutes,
56, thready and intermitent; after no minutes, 58; after 2 hours,
60; after 2 hours and 5 minutes, 59; after 2 hours and 10
minutes, 60; after 2 hours and 20 minutes, the pulse was 58."
The effect of the big dose first increases then rapidly depresses.
He made another trial. "Three calculations of the pulse
within 15 minutes gave an average of 74 per minute. Took 8
grains of bean. After 3 minutes, 76; after 5 minutes, 70; after

10 minutes, 72; after 15 and 20 minutes, 66; after 30 minutes,
68, soft and compressible; after 35 minutes, 62; after 45 minutes,
64; after 55 minutes, 58, and very feeble; after 65 minutes, 60;
after 75 minutes, 57; after 80 minutes, soft and compressible,
and with occasional intermissions; after 95 minutes, 57; after 2
hours, 63, rather stronger; after 2 hours and 10 minutes, 58.
The pulse continued to range between 60-70 till 3 hours after
the commencement of the experiment." The action here is to
decrease the frequency of the pulse.

Pulse averaged 70 before the experiment. He now tried the
effect of 10 minims of the tincture. " After 5 minutes, 76; after
one hour, 63, thready and feeble; after one and a half hours, it
was down to 54, and for an hour longer the pulse was between
52 and 60; after 4 hours, 68, full and strong." This dose ran it
down also.

An experiment with the 3d trit. gives this increase only:

11 Pulse averaged before the experiment 60-65, which was nor-
mal; at 5:30 p. m., 83, full and strong; third day, 74, full and

Physostigma Heart. 453

strong; next morning, 76, and not as full or strong; fifth day,
5 p. m., variable, 76, and quite weak. Not having taken any
medicine for three days it returned to 60 beats per minute."

Other experiments reported were:

"No change in frequency of pulse till 20 minutes, when it
began to diminish in frequency and strength; afterwards could
not be counted. (Effect of 10 grains of the powdered nut. )

" Pulse variable (after one hour); 36a, one dose 3d trit.

" Pulse variable, full and strong (after one hour and a half) >
36, effect of 30th trit., one dose.

" Pulse 60 at night (first day); 84 in the morning second day,
60, effect of 30th.

" Pulse 93 (second day); 58, Dr. Titus 3d trit., one dose.

11 Full pulse 72 (second day); 55, from 3d trit.

11 Pulse (before proving 70) reduced to 65; at times 52.

" Pulse slow (after 3^ hours and second day); 49a.

" Pulse slow by several beats (fourth day); 49, from 30th
trit., one dose.

"Pulse of right side nearly double in strength that of the
left side (fifth day); 44, one dose 30th.

" Pulse accelerated (fifth day); 37 (30th).

" Pulse 50 to 60, with feeble impulse (sixth day); 31, effects
of 1st trit.

" Acceleration of pulse to 96, usually about 74 (tenth day);
34a (Dr. W. E. Payne, 3d trit.).

" The pulse has been, through the whole time, from 66 to 69;
when well about 70; 54, effect of one dose 30th trit.

" Pulse small and frequent; 18, after eating a whole bean.

" Extremely feeble pulse; 14, effects of children eating 2 to
4 beans.

" Feeble pulse; 15, ditto in a woman.

" Pulse feeble and slow; 12, boy set. 3, ate one bean."

The dual action of this drug is very apparent. The large
doses decrease the irritability of the vagus and we have as a
result the " feeble, slow intermitting pulse." Small doses stimu-
late the heart and this lasts a long time.

Physostigma will, therefore, be similar and curative to palpi-
tation of the heart (tumultuous nerves). Not temporary but
paroxysmal and attended with dyspnoea. Hering has selected
the characteristic symptoms first quoted. It should also be cur-
ative for "tremor cordis" — that singular nervous fluttering of
the heart, for which we have few remedies and know less about
the disease.

454 The Elements of Materia Medica.

THE ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
By C. M. Boger, M. D.

It is with some hesitancy that I bring forward a schema for
the systematic study of our voluminous materia medica. If, how-
ever, this will be the means of advancing or simplifying our
methods it is well that the step has been taken and we may
hopefully look to the future for further advances. The method
of presenting a given remedy doubtless largely influences our
grasp on its pathogenesis. In the present series of papers it is
proposed to show the symptom picture from a somewhat new
point of view, hoping thereby to attain a more comprehensive
idea of each remedy as a composite entity, and being based on
the constituent elements of the pure symptomalogy it is believed
to be eminently practical in application as well as theoretically
and schematically correct.

The headings of the several columns are self explanatory.
Under "Thk Patient" are described those generalities which
indicate the mental state, the constitutional bias or peculiarity
and general sensibility.

Locality includes the organopathic relation of drugs as dis-
played by their primary action on the human economy, the
organs being placed in the order of their relative importance;
the combination of affected organs affords perhaps the most
certain guide for the correct homoeopathic prescription, Coccus
cacti, for instance, showing oftenest simultaneous or consecutive
and the action on the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory
tract and the kidneys; hence, in a given case, where such a com-
bination occurs our attention should at once be drawn towards this
remedy, when if the modalities agree the choice is almost certain.

Modality is so well understood that a mere reference to the
tabulated form, pointing out that general indications stand at
the head of the column and are followed by the special ones op-
posite their respective organs under Locality, is sufficiently
definite. < indicates aggravation and > amelioration.

Symptoms are so varying in their expression that it has been
deemed best to use them for the purpose of denoting states as
well as sensations. In their most expressive form they are known
as key notes and as such are largely incorporated in this division.

It will be observed that the use of the cochineal in spasmodic

The Elements of Materia Medica.

455

respiratory troubles is clearly set forth and denned in the prov-
ings. The genito-urinary phase of its action has, however, been
undeservedly neglected in those conditions where nephritic
symptoms accompany coughs, pneumonias, etc. I can positively
say it will earn for itself a high place in the estimation of the
careful prescriber; in diphtheria it is undoubtedly indicated by
several very distinct symptoms, as " sensation of a hair in the
throat," "Aggravation from Hawking," etc., always com-
bined with nephritic symptoms.

Many symptoms point to its usefulness in secondary nephritis
due to the irritation of uric acid.

COCCUS CACTI.

The Patient.

Locality.

Modalities.

Symptoms.

Exalted sensi
bility.

Aversion
warmth.

Mucous

MEMBRANES.

Fauces and
Larynx.

Group for com-
parison.

Canth.

Kali-bi.

Each.

Respiratory Or-
gans.

Urinary O r-

gans.
Female Sexual

Organs.

General.

Washing, espe-
cially in cold
water >.

Evacuations >.

Motion <.

Pressure <.
Special.

Hawking <.
Rinsing mouth<
Brushing teeth<

Warmth, espe-
c i a 1 1 y of
room <.

On waking <.

Morning <.

Menses flow only
when lying, or
intermittently.

Head.

Secretions, increased, clear ropy, tena-
cious, albuminous, thick.

Sensations of burning or swelling in
many parts.

Sensory illusions, as of a hair, a thread,
feather, being furred or dust in air
passages.

Sensation as if a cold wind blowing on
occiput, teeth or stomach.

Sore pricking in integument, in urethra;
as if glass splinters, especially under
nails.

Irritation of the faucial and respiratory
mucous membrane is so great that
coughing. hawking, rinsing the
mouth, brushing the teeth, or even
speaking, induces vomiting of
clear, ropy mucus, hanging in long
strings to feet; hence of great use in
whooping cough and phthisis.

Tickling in larynx, waking at 11:30 P. m.,
causing cough, with expectoration of
much tenacious mucus.

Cough, paroxysmal; with expectoration
of much viscid albuminous mucus.

Cutting pains especially from kidney to
bladder; urine heavy and thick, hot
excoriating; urinary calculi, red sand
in.

Strangury.

Menorrhagia, discharge of large clots.

Congestive symptoms; sensation as of a
hot constricting band extended from
one mastoid process to the other, at
last affecting the whole scalp, it seemed
as if the bones were drawn closer and
closer together.

Scalp feels as if drawn tightly over
skull; creeping at roots of and brist-
ling of hair.

DOES EXIST.

Editor of the Homoeopathic Recorder.

Dr. W. J. Murphy (Homoeopathic Recorder of September,
P- 392_395) doubts the existence of said disease. Last year a
case of rabies occurred in this city which, by the tragic death of

456 Helpful Hints.

its victim, proved only too plainly the existence of this horrible
disease. Dr. Todd, assistant physician of the Ohio State Insane
Asylum, in Toledo, O., was bitten by a stray dog, and a few
weeks later developed all the classical symptoms of hydrophobia,
followed by death. If anybody wants to know more about this
case ask Dr. H. Tobey, superintendent of said asylum.

Dr. C. Zbinden.
Toledo, Ohio, September 19, 1899.

HELPFUL HINTS GLEANED FROM THE TRANS-
ACTIONS OF THE HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL
SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK, 1898.

The following items for the general practitioner are picked
from this volume:

Quinsy.

Dr. H. Worthington Paige, after stating that "there is no
question if we could catch these cases during the first twenty-
four hours, in their incipiency, at the time of the initial chilli-
ness, when the first rise of temperature manifests, with general
achiness and malaise, thirst and scratchiness of throat, that
Aconite would many times prevent the threatened attack," con-
tinues as follows:

"I believe, too, that in these habitual cases of quinsy, if we
could be certain from the first that they were destined to go on
to suppuration, Hepar sulphur would be the only remedy to con-
sider in the vast majority, for by beginning its administration at
once we would limit the inflammation, hasten the breaking
down of tissue and the early, spontaneous evacuation of the pus,
thus shortening the course for the patient by many hours or
days. There is always the element of uncertainty, however, for
even the most habitual cases will occasionally have false alarms
or abortive attacks, which disappear under other remedies and
in which Hepar given low might induce suppuration when it
otherwise would not have occurred.

After the first few hours, or Aconite period, has passed there
is a stage of the disease when Belladonna may be indicated, but
in my own hands it has been of little service as far as I could
observe. A bright red, swollen throat, intensely stiff and pain-
ful so as to force tears from the eyes when swallowing, with dry

Helpful Hints. 457

tongue, little thirst, fever, flushed face, headache and throbbing
carotids make its picture. But in my experience as soon as the
initial stage passes the indications are generally clear for Mer-
curius biniodide. On the suppuration basis we are tempted to
give Hepar at once, though it may not be indicated otherwise.
However, symptomatically Mercury, and especially the Biniodide,
is more suitable. In my hands it has not infrequently caused
the abortment of the disease, even when so far advanced as this
and in persons whose quinsy habit seemed to make suppuration
inevitable if they were attacked at all. Besides the Mercury
doubtless paves the way for the prompt action of Hepar.

In this stage the tonsil and the subjacent connective tissues
are the seat of a deep phlegmonous inflammation. The glandu-
lar structures, muscles, and connective tissues are intensely
swollen; the inflamed region bulges into the pharynx and the
induration extends, via the palate, over to the opposite side; the
tissues are exquisitely sensitive; swallowing causes great anguish
and it becomes impossible to open the jaws but the briefest
space; the whole pharynx looks red and angry; the tongue is
covered with a thick, dirty yellow coating; the mouth is constant-
ly filling with sticky saliva and breath becomes foetid. The pain
and distress is worse at night and the patient, though in fever,
is disposed to perspire offensively. This is the time for Mer-
curius biniodide. The Biniodide seems better than the Protiodide
because of the activity of the condition. The fever, soreness,
swelling, pain and glandular infiltration are all intense. The
usual prostration is as much from lack of nourishment because of
the inabilty to swallow as from the disease itself. The Protio-
dide is of more service in less active conditions, leaning toward
the chronic; catarrhs, ulcerations, follicular conditions, etc.,
with less acuteness and glandular infiltration and fever. If after
twenty-four hours' administration of Mercurius biniodide the con-
dition is still on the increase, it is evident that pus is forming,
and Hepar sulphur, or, better still, the Calcic sulphide ix should
be given, a five-grain powder in half a glass of water, a teaspoon-
ful hourly. This I have found as effectual as a tenth of a grain
every two or three hours as administered by some. The Hepar
should be given, not only until the abscess is evacuated (sponta-
neously or by incision, as spoken of subsequently) but for a day
or two afterward to complete the inflammatory process. China
will then restore the patient's strength. Apis I have frequently
used, either alone or in alternation with the Hepar, in those
cases with severe oedema of the uvula and adjacent tissues.

458 Helpful Hints.

Pseudo Hay Fever.

Dr. Irving Townsend, of New York, says of the treatment of
this disease, not always distinguished from true hay fever:

"Remedies aid much in effecting a cure, and I depend more
than formerly on symptomatic indications. Arsen tod., Euphra-
sia, Sa?iguinaria, Ignatia, Strychnine and Gelsemium are benefi-
cial in many cases. Cold baths in the morning, and friction
with a coarse towel or brush are valuable adjuvants to treatment.
Attention to diet and daily routine, with assurance of ultimate
cure, is of much assistance. Tonics may be called for if nutrition
is faulty."

"Local treatment is necessary in most cases, and is advisable
in all, if only to obtain the mental effect on the patient. In
purely neurotic cases, a spray with the Normal Salt Solution, g i
to Oi of water, is all that is required. Operative cases, of course,
should have the necessary after treatment."

" In spite of the most careful treatment, many cases require a
change of climate and surroundings to effect a cure. A sea- voy-
age, or out- door life in a dry climate (at a moderate altitude), is
usually effective in giving relief to the most obstinate cases."

In the discussion of Dr. Townsend's paper, Dr. Paul Allen said:

11 1 have read Dr. Townsend's paper with a great deal of inter-
est; it touches upon a disease that is often seen and about which
nothing definite has been written. There are a few points that
I wish to mention: One, that we frequently find severe neuralgias
accompanying this trouble, particularly during its suppression
from an acute cold. Dr. Townsend says that hay fever is seldom
or never cured; I beg to differ with him. I have cured the large ma-
jority of my cases. It has taken time, to be sure — 3 to 5 years.
As Dr. Townsend states, if the disease is caused by a foreign
body (I class as such, spurs, polypi, chronic hypertrophies, etc.)
the cause must be removed. Nevertheless few of these cases are
permanently cured unless the properly indicated remedy is given.
In addition to the remedies named I would suggest the follow-
ing:"

" Kali iod. — Streaming of water from nose, << cold air, < early
morning."

"Nat. carb. — Total loss of smell and taste, > with perspira-
tion."

" Bromium. — With sensation of suffocation."

" Chlorum. — With spasm of the glottis."

" Lycopodium. — With extreme stoppage of the nose."

Helpful Hints. 459

11 Sabadilla. — Where there is < in the open air."
" Sinapis nig. — With oppression of the chest."

Appendicitis.

Dr.W. H. Nickelson, of Adams, presented the following paper
on appendicitis, short and to the point:

" My experience with appendicitis during seventeen years of
active practice has been confined to three patients."

" A. has had three attacks; I treated him during the last two.
His last attack was in the winter 1892, from which he made a
full recovery and has had no trouble in this line since, or for
over five years.

B. has also had three attacks, the last one in the summer of
1893. Has been entirely well for the last four years. Neither
of these patients had any pus or bloody discharge.

C, the only woman whom I have treated for appendicitis, was
taken sick in March, 1897. She made a slow but gradual recov-
ery after passing pus and blood from the tumor into the vagina.
I treat my cases on symptomatology, and find Aconite, Belladon-
na, Bryonia, Chamomilla , Colocyntk, and Dioscorea the remedies
usually indicated in the early stage, especially Belladonna and
Bryonia. I also order all the olive oil the patient will take without
nausea, and use as an enema every four hours one part Lobelia,
four parts valerian root, taking one tablespoonful of this powder
in as much water as the bowel will hold, using a long rectal tube
and throwing the water as far up as possible towards the appen-
dix. I find that after a thorough cleansing out of the bowels the
tympanites subsides and the patient begins to improve, I use
valerian for its quieting effects and the lobelia for its relaxing
effects."

"Since there has been so much written in the past few years
on this subject, I simply have given my experience in the short-
est space possible."

Eye Glasses.

Dr. A. B. Norton, in his paper on the Hygiene of the Eye,
said:

" The prevalent habit of going without glasses, for reading, as
long as possible is also a bad one. The public should be taught
that all normal eyes require glasses for near vision about the age
of forty or forty-five. That postponing their use later than this
age causes an effort of the accommodation which does harm. The
prejudice to the use of glasses seems to be dying out and the laity

460 Helpful Hints.

are realizing more and more the necessity of attention to the
eyes."

Antitoxin.

In the discussion of this much-lauded and much-condemned
remedy, Dr. W. L. Hartman said:

" Do those of us using antitoxine rely upon it entirely in the
treatment of diphtheria, or do we use other remedial agents ? I
think that upon asking physicians individually that question,
ninety-nine out of every hundred will tell you that they use other
agents. In one house where there were five cases, two treated
with antitoxine, one lived nine hours and the other lived eight-
een hours after its administration. Those treated homceopath-
ically were apparently as ill but all recovered. Those receiving
antitoxine sank so rapidly that they failed to respond to stimu-
lants of any kind. Of course they might have died under ho-
moeopathic treatment."

Appendicitis Again.

Dr. Homer I. Ostrom, in his paper, said: " I believe that at
least ninety-five per cent, of the cases of appendicitis should be
operated on, and must be operated on before the patient is cured.
By this I do not mean that unless an operation is performed the
issue must necessarily prove fatal, but that the individual who
has once suffered from an inflammation of the appendix will be
in better health if the organ is removed. I do not believe that
an appendix that has once been inflamed ever regains its normal
condition, or its relations with other organs; and while a return
of the inflammation is not the sine qua non, it is the rule, and
each subsequent attack of inflammation adds to the local pathol-
ogy, and increases the risk of delay in removing the diseased
organ."

The discussion developed a decided difference of opinion, as
witness:

"G. G. Shei/ton: I would like to say a word for the medical
side. I take exception to the classification of appendicitis as a
surgical disease; there are cases, doomed from the outset, that
will die from the best of care. I believe the appendix, like all
other portions of the body, is amenable to homoeopathic treat-
ment."

" E. P. Swift: My experience accords with that of Dr. Shel-
ton and Dr. Dearborn. During sixteen years of practice I think
I am safe in saying that I have treated at least twenty cases of

Helpful Hints. 461

appendicitis, with but one death, and that is the result (?) of an
operation. A saline laxative in the beginning, hot applications,
and our homoeopathic remedies, may be relied upon as a safe
method of treatment in the majority of cases."

Great Power.

In the Bureau of Public Health Dr. W. L. Hartman said:
"The health officer has unlimited power. You may not
realize this, but he has more power than a Supreme Court judge.
He can order a train or any public conveyance stopped or de-
stroyed, or a building torn down, if in his judgment it is neces-
sary for the protection of the public health; if the owner does
not pay for this work he can sell the property and give a clear
title, notwithstanding the fact that the property would be in-
cumbered. Such a bill of expense precedes all other incum-
brance on property."

Is the State Exceeding Its Privileges ?

Dr. F. Park Lewis: "Wholly aside from the merit and ef-
ficiency of vaccination as a prophylactic measure against small-
pox, it is a grave question, and one which should be tested,
whether the State is not far exceeding its privileges in infring-
ing on the constitutional prerogatives of the individual when it
forcibly compels the inoculation of a virus, the effects of which
may be serious injury if not, as sometimes occurs, death — and
making its evasion practically impossible by on the one hand
preventing attendance at school until this rite shall have been
performed and on the other making attendance upon school a
compulsory duty."

Kali Phos. in Nervous Dyspepsia.

Dr. W. T. Laird: " Clinical experience has shown that Kali
phos. frequently proves curative in those cases of nervous dys-
pepsia in which Anacardium is apparently indicated but fails to
relieve. In many symptoms these two remedies are almost
identical."

"Both have accumulation of gas in the abdomen, frequent
eructations and the same weak, gone, sinking feeling in the
epigastrium extending through to the spine. In both these
symptoms occur as soon as the stomach is empty or partially
empty, and in both the distress is relieved by eating. How then
shall we distinguish between them?"

" In Anacardium, the symptoms recur, with almost clock-like

462 Helpful Hints.

regularity, two hours after a meal; in Kali p ho s. the interval
may vary from one to three hours; but patients are not always
close observers, and we can therefore place but little reliance
upon this distinction. Neither can we depend upon the fact
that Anacardium has a more marked gastralgia than Kali phos.,
for many of our worst dyspeptics never have any severe pain in
the stomach."

"Clinical experience has taught me to rely upon the following
symptoms in making a differential diagnosis: [Both the Anacar-
dium and the Kali phos. patients have frequent aggravations or
relapses; but in Anacardium these are always due to dietetic
errors, while the Kali phos. patient is invariably worse after ex-
citement or worry, no matter how rigid the diet may have been.
In other words, the causes in the former are physical, in the
latter mental."

"Again the Kali phos. patient is always decidedly nervous, and
the more strongly the neurasthenic element is marked the more
surely is the remedy indicated. A third important distinctive
sign is the condition of the urine. Two years ago one of my
patients drew attention to the fact that every outbreak of the
gastric trouble was accompanied by a marked diminution in the
quantity of urine, wThich had a milky appearance and deposited
a thick, white sediment on standing; chemical analysis showed
that this deposit consisted of phosphates. Repeated observations
have shown that this condition is invariably present in nervous
dyspepsia when Kali phos. is indicated. The excess of phos-
phates varies greatly in different patients; in some instances it
is so great that the urine is turbid; while in others it is so slight
that it can be detected only by careful chemical analysis."

"Several other remedies beside Anacardium may be regarded as
analogues of Kali phos.: Kali carb., Nahum carb., Natrum phos.,
Phosphorus, Sepia and Sulphur resemble it in the weak, gone
feeling in the stomach; while Chelidonium, Graphites, Meze-
reum, Natrum phos. and Petroleum are similar in the temporary
relief of the gastric trouble by eating; but in other respects
these remedies differ so widely from Kali phos. that no compari-
son is necessary. The indications for this drug in nervous
dyspepsia may be summed up in four lines: A neurasthenic pa-
tient. " All gone " feeling in stomach temporarily relieved by
eating. Aggravation of the gastric symptoms by excitement or
worry. Diminished urine with excess of phosphates."

Helpfuv Hints. 463

Lycopodium. — Clinical.

In his paper on this drug Dr. Gordon M. Hoyt gave the fol-
lowing clinicals:

" Diabetes mellitus with aggravation of symptoms from 4 till
8 p. M., urinary sediment, constipation, mental indifference, de-
spondency, pain in kidneys ameliorated by micturition; curative,
no sugar traceable."

" Croupous Pneumonia. — Second stage. Temperature 1050,
expectoration of thick, stringy, offensive matter; awakens cross,
irritable; red sediment; soporific. Right side (sometimes left).
Complete absorption of exudation follows, no cough nor ex-
pectoration; temperature reduced to normal in two days."

" Peritonitis. — Excessive flatulency and distension; rumbling
in abdomen; " red sand; " aggravation of symptoms from 4 till
8 p. M.; when lying on left side feels as if a hard body rolled
from umbilicus to that side; sleeplessness.

''Liver Affections. — Congestion. Cirrhosis. Fatty liver.
Pain in right hypochondrium aggravated by touch, motion and
at four p. m ; eating suddenly repletes. Chronic liver trouble.
Jaundice with these symptoms."

" Rheumatism. — Chronic rheumatism when urine contains the
uric acid deposit, ameliorated by slow motion. Lumbago made
better by motion, where Rhus and sometimes Bryonia fail.,"

" Bronchial Catarrh. — Especially in the aged. Cough aggra-
vated at night; sweat at night; sallow, yellow complexion; pain
in lumbar region when he or she coughs."

"Mastitis. — Intense sensitiveness of breasts; pain aggravated
from four till eight p. m. ; flatulency, pyrosis; uric acid sedi-
ment."

"Constipation. — From inactivity of rectum; no desire; anus
contracts and prevents stool; flatulency."

" Skin Affections. — Ulcerations. Carbuncles. Boils with of-
fensive pus. Eczema on face, genitals, neck, hands. Herpes.
Psoriasis, fissures bleeding. Lupus, with characteristic symp-
toms."

" Phthisis. — Dry cough; febrile excitement from four till
eight p. m. Formation of cavities from old attacks of pneu-
monia that threaten phthisis. Badly treated cases of pneu-
monia with tendency to phthisis."

"Children emaciated about the neck, and with a dry cough,
night sweats, evening fever, nostrils distended, red sand in

464 Helpful Hints.

urine, four p. m.; aggravation; these symptoms will cause Ly-
copodium to relieve."

" Thus have we but suggested and generalized with regard to
the great uses of this wonderful drug."

"Several diseases have been mentioned where it may be
used, but wherever ' Similia similibus curantur ' calls for its ap-
plication there shall it do its work best."

Nervous Dyspepsia.

Dr. William Morris Butler, in his paper, on this disease has the
following to say on the subject of remedies:

" The selection of the proper remedy is often no easy task, as
almost any drug in the Materia Medica may be demanded. The
remedies most often successful are those which exert a marked
influence upon the nervous system and bring about their results
through an upbuilding of the lowered general vitality."

"The only remedy which in our hands has been almost a
panacea is Argent. ?iit. A glance at its provings will reveal how
close a similar it is to a large majority of these cases. Next in
value we rank Anacardium, Kali plws., Gels., Sepia, Nux mos-
chata, Ars., Nux vom., Lye, Ign., Carbo veg., Puis., Cinchona,
Sulph. The individual characteristics of these remedies are
known to you all."

Tonsillitis.

Of the remedies for this disease Dr. Walter Sands Mills says:

" Aconitum is frequently of value at the beginning of a case of
tonsillitis. If the disease assumes the follicular or suppurative
forms it has passed the point where Acoiiitum is of value."

"Phytolacca is the greatest remedy we have for glandular
structures. It is useful in all forms of tonsillitis, and at any stage.
It acts best, perhaps, in follicular tonsillitis. I have also found a
course of Phytolacca of value in chronic hypertrophy of the tonsil."

" If the temperature is high, pulse full, face flushed, eyes con-
gested, I find the most serviceable remedy to be Belladonna,
thiid dilution. The prescriber should know when to stop it. A
number of times I have seen the above symptoms aggravated
after a few doses of Belladonna. When that happens I stop all
medicine and give a placebo. A few hours finds the patient free
from fever and fully convalescent. These three remedies will
handle the majority of cases. The Mercuries I very rarely use."

"Apis mellifica I have used in one or two cases where the
cedematous condition and the absence of thirst seemed to call for
it."

Helpful Hints. 465

"In one tedious case that was previously prescribed for by
another physician I gave Sulphur 200 for the following symptoms:
voice thick; tongue red and raw looking, dry; temperature 990 F.
Next day the mouth was moist. Rhus toxicodendron 3 completed
the cure. The leading symptoms were: can swallow hot things
better than cold; cold always aggravates."

" If suppuration is inevitable Hepar 6 will bring it to a focus
and end the trouble more promptly than anything else."

Antitoxin Not a Drug.

In a discussion Dr. John L,. Moffat incidentally let fall the fol-
lowing rather interesting fact:

11 The proving of Behring's diphtheria antitoxin by the Kings
County Society was barren, with the exception of a few carbolic
acid symptoms. Behring uses (or used then) carbolic acid as a
preservative. This seems to bear out the statement that anti-
toxin is not a poison — not a drug in the ordinary sense."

MISCELLANEA.

Translated from Med. Monatsh.fuerHom., etc., July, 1899.

Strengthening the Vision.

To strengthen the eyes, the eyelids as well as the eyebrows
and temples should be moistened with cold water every day,
best before going to bed. There is nothing which will strengthen
the nerve- power of the eyes more and do so more lastingly, re-
moving at the same time congestion of the blood, than this sim-
ple and harmless remedy.

Hay-fever.

This unwelcome accompaniment of the fair season consists in
a catarrhal affection of the mucous membrane of the nose, eyes
and larynx, which is not infrequently extended to the bronchia,
causing attacks of asthma of greater or less intensity. Whether
the grainlets of the pollen of various grasses are really the
cause of hay-fever is not yet fully established. Dr. Ferber has
made the observation in himself that vigorous and continuous
rubbing of the tars is a grateful relief for this irritation.

466 Book Notices.

BOOK NOTICES.

Diseases of Children. By C. Sigtnund Raue, M. D., visiting
physician to Children's Homoeopathic Hospital and chief of
Children's Clinic, Philadelphia; also visiting physician to
Children's Wards in the Woman's Homoeopathic Hospital,
Philadelphia. 473 pages. 8 vo. Cloth $3.00; by mail, $3 22.
Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1899.

It requires no exceptional insight to see that Raue's Diseases
of Children will, when it becomes known, rank among the ho-
moeopathic standard works like Norton's Ophthalmic Diseases,
Wood's Gynecology \ Bell's Diarrhoea and books of that class. The
reason for this is very plain, the author has given us a thoroughly
conscientious book, has put hard work and hard study into it,
being at the same time a highly trained modern physician, and
homoeopath; that is a winning combination, for sometimes the
good homoeopathic prescriber is not quite up in modern medicine
and too often the man who is, knows little of genuine Homoeo-
pathy. Dr. Raue knows both — hence our predictions that his
book is destined to a high seat in homoeopathic literature.

The Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schuessler, Comprising the
Theory, Therapeutic Application, Materia Medica, and a com-
plete Repertory of These Remedies, Homceopathically and
Bio-Chemically Considered, by Wm. Boericke, M. D., and
Willis A. Dewey, M. D. Fourth Edition, Rewritten and En-
larged.

The Tissue Remedies from the pens of these two homoeopathic
authors is so well established that we have nothing to add be-
yond our usual recommendation that the homoeopath without
this book will miss a great deal of value in the treatment of his
cases — information that he will not find in other of our Materia
Medica. This system of medicine, when thoroughly under-
stood, as these eminent authors explain it, is very attractive and
a wonderful aid to the practitioner. Not least among its prac-
tical things is the admirable arrangement of its Therapeutics
and the succeeding Repertory. In expectation of soon prepar-
ing a paper on Natrum mur. we hunted through the mass of our
homoeopathic literature for some points of information which

Book Notices. 467

we had somewhere read in the times past. At last we picked
up The Tissue Remedies and there, to our great joy, we found
the information for which we had spent hours of fruitless search
in our other books. — The American Homceopathist.

A Practice of Medicine. By H. R. Arndt, M. D. Philadel-
phia: Boericke & Tafel. 1899.

This excellent book of over 1,300 pages, which looks like the
life-work of any one man, was received by us early in the year,
and a passing notice of its receipt printed in these pages. Press
of other work, especially that connected with the American In-
stitute of Homoeopathy, caused us to defer this review in hope
of having a better moment or two in which to do its excellences
that justice which they deserve at the hands of 'ever}'- homoeo-
pathic reviewer; but the moment does not come. We know,
however, that the delay has caused this book no injury, since
wo have seen other journals which have reviewed it, and all
unite in declaring the work one of imperishable value. We,
who have been repeatedly tempted by others to put our pen to
paper and add one more book to the already over-burdened book
shelf, always wonder, when we see so large and painstaking a
volume as this, how a busy practitioner finds the time in which
to put so much on paper — and that, too, of interest

The book, however large it may seem at first glance, is so ad-
mirably arranged that it is as handy as a pocket in a shirt. It
is divided into eleven grand divisions, each such division de-
voted to a consideration of all the diseases of that special di-
vision. For instance: Specific Infectious Diseases; Constitu-
tional Diseases; Diseases of the Nervous System (which, by the
way, is an exceptionally fine one); Diseases of the Muscles;
Diseases of the Digestive Organs, etc. Then each such grand
division is minutely subdivided. So that the special diseased
condition of which the general practitioner is in search may be
readily found and understood.

Those who have read after Dr. Arndt in his former works,
practically on the same subject, though far more limited in
scope and research, will not need to be told that his pen has lost
none of its attractiveness, and that his argument is as trenchant
and convincing as of former and earlier times. His description
of the diseased condition is always clear and terse, with no un-
necessary redundancy of speech, and his topic is brought down

468 Book Notices.

to the moment of publication. He writes, of course, for the ho-
moeopathic profession, but no allopath will find aught in these
pages to cavil at, and will find many things to commend. This
is especially true of the descriptive parts, having relation to the
forms and appearances of the disease under discussion, as well
as the treatment, aside from the distinctive homoeopathic thera-
peutics. And even here, in this holy of holies of our school,
there is never a trace of fanaticism or intolerance; but always a
fair tendency to be reasonable and just, and to bring about con-
viction and conversion from the coarser methods of the old
school to the milder methods of the homoeopaths.

We have browsed in these pages for many a spare hour and
have so far found naught to be hypercritical about nor even or-
dinarily critical. The text is well prepared; it shows in every
page care and study of a scholar, of one to the manner born.
There is a calm and studious revision and review of all the
modern theories in medicine, not least among these the bacterio-
logical addenda. Dr. Arndt handles this part of his work with
rare judgment and skill. He is absolutely honest in his de-
scription of its reputed value in the causation of disease; no
bacteriologist will find cause to be dissatisfied with its presenta-
tion. The treatment, wherever we have turned to its pages, has
been homoeopathic. The Division on Nervous Disorders ought
to be read a second and even a third time, for it is most thor-
oughly considered and treated. When the general practitioner
remembers how difficult it is to follow for a few pages some of
the text-books on this specialty he will appreciate our notice to
him, that in Arndt's Book the subject is put into living, every-
day language, that may be read by those who are not and have
no thought of being nervous specialists.

And if we may sum up its excellences in a paragraph it would
be to this effect: that Arndt's Practice of Medicine is the best
work on this subject to this moment of writing; that it is a
clean book, in that it is free of objectionable references to other
schools of medicine; that it is homoeopathic, the author never
for a moment forgetting his homoeopathic training with a firm
and steadfast faith in Homoeopathy; that it is concise and very
clear, so that everyone touching its pages will be refreshed and
instructed; that it is the consummation of all the best knowl-
edge on Practice in all the schools; and that it is from the
famous homoeopathic book- publishing firm Boericke & Tafel,
whose imprint upon any book is the "hall-mark" of homce-

Book Notices. 469

opathy, and means the very best on that subject that can be
found in our profession. If this paragraph doesn't say that we
admire and recommend the book from the bottom of our homoeo-
pathic heart, then we here and now do so declare. — The Ameri-
can Homceopathist.

Dr. H. Gross' Comparative Materia Medica. Edited by
Constantine Hering. Second edition. Philadelphia: Boericke
& Tafel. Price, half morocco, $6. net; by mail, $6.40.
This is a quarto volume of 520 pages. It was first issued thirty
years ago, and was well known and much consulted by homoe-
opathic physicians. The edition became exhausted, and it has
disappeared from the notice of the younger generation of our
school so as be almost unknown. Through the enterprise of the
firm of Boericke & Tafel it has been reproduced, and is once
more a candidate for professional favor.

For the information of those who never saw the first edition,
we may describe it as quarto page with double columns, the left-
hand column being given to the symptoms of one remedy and
the right-hand column to the symptoms of another, that the eye
may discover instantly the similarity of two remedies and the
points of difference. The first two remedies compared are Aconite
and Apis. The next are Aconite and Arnica, then Aconite and
Belladonna, then Aconite and Bryonia, Aconite and Cantharides ,
Aconite and Chamomilla, Aconite and China, Aco?iite and Coffea,
Aconite and Ignatia, Aconite and Nux vomica, Aconite and Opium,
Aconite and Phosphorus, Acoyiite and Pulsatilla , Aconite and Rhus
tox., and, lastly, Aconite and Veratrum. In the same way we
find comparisons of Alumina with various remedies, Arsenic and
various remedies, and so on. The whole is preceded by an in-
troduction by Dr. Gross; a pharmaceutical key by the indefat-
igable Dr. Hering, and some remarks by Dr. Hering. The
whole constitutes a book that must be a help to the industrious
practitioner seeking the true simillimum for his patients. The
labor of this search is so great that there cannot be too many
helps on our book-shelves. What we fail to find by one book
we may successfully get by consulting another. Doubtful
points of resemblance and difference may cause hesitation in
giving a remedy, but if we can consult an authoritative set of
comparisons like the book now under notice we may be able to
decide more quickly and confidently between the indications of
two nearly similar remedies.

47° Book Notices.

Most of the greater books that enabled the old masters to
make their wondrous cures have gone out of print. Yet they
are still needed. As was said by Dr. J. B. Bell, in his famous
work on diarrhoea, " Homoeopathy is not making that kind of
progress that renders a whole medical library obsolete every ten
years," and so these old works are still needed. Boericke &
Tafel are keenly aware of the need, and so we find them now
and then reproducing some old book. Hahnemann's Chroyiic
Diseases was a notable one of these, and was reviewed in The
Homceopathic Physician for April, 1896, p. 195. Now comes
Gross' Comparative Materia Medica, and we may expect others.
— Horn ceopa th ic Physicia n .

Leaders in Homceopathic Therapeutics. — By Dr. E. B. Nash,

M. D.

In this book of 380 pages Dr. Nash has condensed a vast amount
of highly important information for homceopathic physicians and
students. It is as he says, "not a complete materia medica,
nor yet an exclusive work on practice, but rather facts and ob-
servations in practice and principles which I have abundant rea-
sons for believing true and reliable."

The statement exactly covers one's impression of the book. Its
practical value is apparent on every page. Although one may
be perfectly familiar with the general tenor of what the author
says, yet his comparisons and acute insight into the very genius
of the remedies at once attract and hold the attention. Whoever
has this book will read it many times and each time with renewed
interest. The beginner will find it a steadfast companion and a
most reliable guide for the successful administration of our lead-
ing members. — The Critique.

In a personal letter, Dr. W. A. Yingling writes concerning the
David Harum of medical literature of the year, i. e. , Nash's Lead-
ers in Homoeopathic Therapeutics:

" I am very much pleased to see that Dr. Nash's ' Leaders ' is
taking so well among the profession generally. It is a fine book,
and reliable. Every prescriber should have it, study it and record
the ' leaders ' in the Materia Medica by placing a $k^ before each
symptom in the margin of book most used. By this means these
valuable symptoms would be available when desired. The 'lead

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er' or 'keynote' or 'general,' by whatever name you chose to
call it, is most valuable and helpful when used as it should be,
and not used as by the indolent prescriber."

And, while on the subject, remember that the one grand, reli-
able and most complete homoeopathic Materia Medica is Allen's
Handbook. There are many excellent condensations, but no other
full and unabridged work on the subject than this. Remember,
too, that a homoeopathic physician without a complete Materia
Medica is badly handicapped.

Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases is a powerful, masterful pro-
duction appealing to reason. Clear, clean-cut, concise, and
from my experience it is true. Read it and the Organon and
then read shallow, vacillating, shifting, experimental subterfuge
of allopathic methods, the more you read the less you are sure
of and ends in — oh, well, an anodyne — or some make shift.
Verily " A diarrhoea of words and a constipation of ideas." — A.
G. Dow7ier, M. D. , in Medical Visitor, September.

The Change of Life in Women, and the Ills and Ailings
Incident Thereto. By J. Compton Burnett, M. D.
This is another of quite a series of most interesting and use-
ful books by Dr. Burnett. He is a man who thinks and reasons,
and the outcome of these actions are these books. No physician
of any school can read any one of them without being made to
think, and the physician who thinks, like the religionist who
thinks, is bound to progress and to learn. How many new phy-
sicians think of the female breast as a part of the genital sys-
tem, and look in the pelvis for the cause of breast disease ?
Read this book to get at reasons for menstruation. Find in this
book how to cure the diseases falling within the subject. I like
it, and I think it is worth any man's dollar. — W. E. B. in Eclec-
tic Medical Jo7irnal.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafei, have in press a work on Diseases
of the Skin, by Professor M. D. Douglass, of the Southern Ho-
moeopathic Medical College. It will be out in November, hav-
ing been somewhat delayed by the numerous colored plates it
will contain.

The second, and greatly enlarged, edition of Dr. H. C. Allen's
Keynotes and Characteristics is nearly out of press.

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A BLOODY AND AN EXPENSIVE FAD.

The following is from a paper by Edward Moore, M. R. C. V.,
of Albany, N. Y., in the New York Medical Journal of Sept. 2,
on the subject of " Bovine Tuberculosis:"

"Legislative Appropriations for Stamping Out. — The chief
aim of health boards heretofore has been to destroy tuberculous
cattle; the greater the number condemned and slaughtered, the
greater the glory. No matter that it struck consternation into
the ranks of the proprietors of a great industry. No matter that
in many cases the richest blood of heredity in pure-bred herds
was forever lost — lost though it had cost lifetimes and fortunes
to obtain; lost through the wanton, needless, insatiable thirst
for a big killing bee. What did it matter that a great paying
institution employing many hands was wiped out; that the pro-
prietors were financially ruined; that employees were thrown
out of work; that great farms were deserted? Slaughter was
the war cry. Salvation they dreamed not of. If it were proved
that our people contracted the disease from the cattle, I would
heartily favor such slaughter. Or from the cattle- owner's stand-
point I would favor it if assured that the undertaking were
practical, and that its cost would not be too exorbitant, and that
the infection could then be kept out of the State. The framers
of the laws under which the inspections have been made and
the members of the State boards of health seem to have given
no thought to the immensity of the task, or the expenditure
such a plan entails. If they have, we have not been told how
they propose to succeed. The yearbook of the Department of
Agriculture for 1897 states that the government has made and
distributed to State authorities sufficient tuberculin to test
fifty-seven thousand cattle. The census of 1890 gave New

Editorial. 473

York State alone 2,131,392 cattle. How much tuberculin would
be needed then to examine the cattle in all the States ? The
United States Government reports for 1897 placed the number
of milch cows at 18,113,000; other cattle, 32,647,000. Total
valuation, $877,169,414."

"Tuberculosis in cattle does not necessarily kill; on the con-
trary, many animals maintain ordinary health and high condition,
apparently suffer no inconvenience from it, and finally die of
some other cause. In other instances there are signs of constitu-
tional disorder with more or less of the symptoms common to it,
and in acute cases followed by death within a few weeks or
months."

"Practically all the people of the State eat the products of
cattle all their lives, and tuberculosis in cattle is well distributed
throughout the State. Now, then, if the disease passes readily
to man, even laymen should be able to note the fact where large
numbers of cattle are infected. But they, and their physicians,
and their veterinarians have merely presumed, imagined , believed ,
supposed, and concluded that such ' might be the case.' "

If these "tuberculin bigots" are given free foot a great many
citizens of this country will be forced to become vegetarians be-
cause of the enormous rise in the price of beef. The price of
beef has been advanced, and the newspapers blame the "beef
trust" for it, but probably the blame lies in these half baked
"scientists" who are authorized to "stamp out" tuberculosis
and are only stamping out the cattle raisers' business.

WHICH IS THE HIGHER COURT?

The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Medical Journal Magazine is elated
over the fact — if it be fact — of the downing of Ostoeopaths, Chris-
tian Scientists, etal., by the State Board of Medical Registration
and Examination. They haled representatives of these two sects
before the lower courts and the jury lost no time in acquitting
them. "The cases were promptly appealed by the State Board,"
and Attorney General Taylor has given the opinion that the
practice of faith curing, christian science, ostceopathy, or any-
thing else that has not received the approval of the Examining
Board is illegal. The Medical Journal Magazine says of this:
"This opinion will have a wide reaching effect and it is hoped
will result in the practical abolition of Christain Science, Ostceo-
pathic and similar medical practice within the state of Indiana."

474 Editorial.

The jury decided in favor of the defendants, so it is safe to say
the people are against the State Board; if so, the latter might as
well hope to whistle down the wind as to suppress these " irreg-
ular" practitioners by legislative enactments. It would be a good
thing for all State Boards, and some medical editors, to get down
on their knees and prayerfully wrestle with this vexed problem,
and seek for the light. Their prayer should be:

"Oh Lord, why is it that these sinful, and irregular, practi-
tioners spring up as the weeds and flourish as the green bay tree ?
Is it that the people are hard of heart and a stiff-necked generation
refusing to believe in our science, or is it that we are remiss, and
are naught but blind leaders whom the people refuse longer to
follow ? Can it be as thou saidst of old to one who denounced the
sin of another — 'Thou art the man!' "

Something like this might clear the mists away, for it is a no-
torious fact that wherever they have the least freedom the ' ' ir-
regular ' ' flourishes. Is it because the people are fools and dupes ?
Abraham Lincoln would not have said so; he would, rather, have
trusted the instincts of the people. They are not satisfied with
"regular" treatment, for if they were the "irregular" would
vanish like mist. What show have these fakirs with the clientage
of a sound, straight homoeopathic physician ? None.

Verbam sap. Put not your faith in examining boards and the
vain traditions of the " regular," but in true Homoeopathy.

LITTLE PILLS

Most of our readers can recall the slurs cast by the regular profession
upon our Homoeopathic friends in times gone by. Among these, the most
common was that twitting term, "Little Pills." No meaner thing seem-
ingly could be said by these gentlemen of boluses and heavy doses, of
blisters, mercurials and emetics.

But times have changed. The most regular of the regulars ranges his
little pills, pellets and tablets in lines about his office, and counts them out
by the dozen, and measures them by the million, too, perhaps, judging
from the number they buy — counts them out and into the hands of his
patients who no longer patronize the pharmacist.

But there is one great distinction between the homoeopathic man of
little pills and the regular man of little tablets, a distinction with a differ-
ence. The homoeopathic physician uses pure sugar pellets, and medicates
them with tinctures that are medicines, and gives his patients real medi-
cated pellets. He uses medicines made by pharmacists in whom he has
confidence, and he pays enough for his medicines to warrant the pharmacist
in making the best medicines possible. But the regular physician falls

Editorial. 475

into the toils of the ready-made, hand-me-down stampers of tablets, cheap
enough to please any physican with a contract to supply the out-door poor.
Wonderful change this! the man, who a few years ago, sneered at him
who used little pills of unquestioned medicinal exactness, is now using little
tablets, that, so far as he knows, may have some medicine in them, and
may have none.

Another Sneer.

The foregoing editorial leads to another thought, which concerns another
sneer our regular friends used to get off on our homoeopathic brethren.
Do you remember, about twenty-five years ago, how they used to curl up
their lips at " tincture apis" of eclecticism and Homoeopathy? How they
used to sneer at men who gave medicines made of tarantulas and of bees?
Well, what are they doing now, these sneerers? Is there an organ of the
body of any animal the}T can get in sufficient amount that they do not
commend as a wonderful medicine ? Does the stomach of any hog in a
Chicago slaughter house go to waste? Go to, thou drawers of serum out of
decrepid mules and horses; thou driers and powderers of thyroid glands.
You have but one step further to take to get back to the medicine made in
medieval times — but one step, and then you will be using the fat of the
negro for love sick maidens, and the mould that grows on the skull of a
man who was hung for the cure of an evil conscience. And, judging from
the fads our regular friends take up and swallow, this day is not far distant.

Be Consistent.

But the foregoing is not intended other than as a pleasantry. We have
no ill will towards our rivals, be they homoeopathists or regulars. We be-
lieve each is relinquishing part of his dogmatism, and should be credited
for advancing. We believe that in a day to come the members of the
various schools in medicine will agree that their rivals are gentlemen, and
will be consistent then, for there are gentlemen in all schools. But not
while the dominant school claims that the others are all made up of ignor-
ant men; not while they pat the scalawag on the back in their own ranks,
and revile cultured gentlemen among their rivals, will this be true. And
not while they damn their rivals for doing the very things they do to a
greater degree, will they succeed in wiping them off the face of the earth,
or in crushing their reputations.

So long as there is oppression, ostracism, inconsistency, in the regular
school of medicine, so long will eclectics and homoeopaths thrive in this
land of America. But when the golden rule governs, when each school be-
comes content to go on in its own wa3T, seeking truth from nature's field,
and giving facts to all the others, then will dawn the beginning of the end
of factional antagonism and ill will.

And then, too, each will find a vast field before it — a field that will make
its votaries welcome the help of those working for the good of humanity in
other lines. Then will the medicated little pills of pure sugar of the
homoeopathists, and the specific medicines of eclectics, be a greater boon to
humanity than is possible now. — Eclectic Medical Journal, September.

476 Editorial.

STABILITY IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

" Through all the perplexities and doubts cf generations, the
theory and practice of medicine has survived every vilification,
overcome the criticisms of the pessimist, improved and devel-
oped its practical utility, and no doubt saved many undeserv-
ing lives. So far it has been supplanted by no 'ism;' the
'cure all ' theory or the furnishing of a remedy for the name of
every disease is not a part of its business; but as a result of the
sacrifice and the study of many unappreciated ' doctors,' the ap-
plication of a remedy in accordance with symptoms, the care and
nursing of the patient under correct principles, the prevention
of disease by sanitary foresight have minimized our mortuary
statistics. Who dares to say that medicine is not a science ?
Let those in the laity who are foolish enough to follow the in-
sane pretensions of a divine (?) healer (heeler) continue their
mad career; let those who honestly believe that ' Christian
Science ' (?) furnishes isolation from the possibilities of disease
get what comfort they may from such inconsistent hope; yet let
the profession have full appreciation of its own science and
hold to it, and perfect it and apply it with wisdom for the
dethronement of disease. That physician who wanders and
wavers in his practice always grasps the latest fad; but the
conscientious and successful doctor studies and learns to prove
all things and he employs as a means for the desired end only
that which science and consistent experience approve. — H. V.
H. in The Clinique, Sept.

ONE THING LACKING.

" Fifty years ago the New England Baptist preacher would
rather have seen his children attend a theatre than a Methodist
meeting; and in those days the theatre was nothing less than
the temple of satan. So in more recent times the hydropath,
homoeopath, and the eclectic were looked upon by those of us
who claimed to be regulars as little better than quacks. Any
recognition of them in consultation would have been beneath
the dignity of the profession. But the educated doctor of to-
day yields to no class of men the monopoly of the title eclectic.
He reaches out into the fields of discovery, and what he has
found to be of benefit in his practice he appropriates."

Editorial. 477

" Did we speak lightly of the pack sheet and shower bath of
the old water-cure doctors ? We have out-Heroded Herod him-
self in this regard. The manner in which our typhoid patients
are plunged for fifteen minutes several times a day into a bath-
tub filled with cold water would have astonished even the most
sanguine water-cure advocate of sixty years ago."

"We no longer sneer at the 30th dilution of our homoeo-
pathic friends. In fact, their colleges are presided over by emi-
nent and highly educated professors, and the progressive disciple
of Hahnemann is perhaps as near hearing the voice in the wil-
derness as his more regular compeer. Besides all this some of
our more advanced alkaloidal students are treading dangerously
near homoeopathic soil with their 1-300 of a grain doses. Even
the Woodbridge method of treating typhoid fever, which no
one ridicules and which some of us have tested with favorable
results, has as one of its doses a tablet containing podophyllum
resin grains 1-960. I am not certain that antitoxin serum is not
an illustration of microbic attenuation and of the principle that
underlies the motto, "Like cures like," more potent than
Hahnemann in his wildest nights of fancy ever dreamed of." —
From President' s address before Botna Valley Medical Association,
la., by S. D. Tobey, M. D.

But there is still one thing lacking, Dr. Tobey. The mere
fact of a small dose does not in any way make it homoeopathic,
even though it be "the 30th." Only when the genius of the
drug corresponds to the genius, or character, of the disease is it
"homoeopathic." There is a whole world more in Homoe-
opathy than small doses, a world with vast unexplored domains,
awaiting the man who can read the genius of things. In it is
found the true science of medicine.

OBITUARY.

Israel Tisdale Talbot.

At a meeting of the Committee appointed by the President of
the American Institute of Homoeopathy to draft Resolutions on
the death of Dr. Israel Tisdale Talbot, the following were presented
and adopted: —

In accordance with the inexorable law which governs all
created things, our colleague and ex-president of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, Israel Tisdale Talbot, M. D., has been
called to rest from his labors, therefore,

478 Editorial.

Resolved, That we deplore the loss of one who, having the deep-
est interest in the cause of Homoeopathy, had done more than any
other member to insure the growth and success of this Institute.
Possessing great executive ability, eminently gifted in the organ-
ization and government of large bodies, to him this Institute is
indebted for its admirable constitution and code of by-laws.

We shall miss him at our gatherings as he was rarely absent
from our meetings, miss his words of counsel, his mature judg-
ment in all matters appertaining to the futherance of this body,
miss his cordial greeting and his interest in each individual.

He could truly say, " I have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith." We are confident "that
henceforth there is laid up for him a crown of righteousness."

Resolved, That the American Institute of Homoeopathy extends
to his widow and family the deepest sympathy in their bereave-
ment; that these resolutions be entered on our record, and a copy
be transmitted to his family.

Henry E. Spalding, M. D. ")

Hiram L. Chase, M. D.

Conrad Wesselhoeft, M. D. \ Committee.

Adeline B. Church. M. D.

Frank C. Richardson, M. D. J

We have received a copy of " collective reports on Glycerin-
ized Vaccine Lymph," by Alfred C. Barnes, M. D., a reprint
from the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Journal for
September. One paragraph suggests a lot of things. It is
this:

Vaccine points are apt to lead to a false sense of security, inasmuch as
they induce a local staphylococcic, or streptococcic, infection, which is en-
tirely distinct from true vaccination. Such a result is not protective against
smallpox.

We have had the glycerinated lymph with us less than two
years and until it came we had no true vaccination, yet in spite
of that appalling fact the centennial of Jenner was celebrated.
Verily, this is a great world!

l< The medical journals are now all talking about the ' stand-
ardization' of medicines. If the effort to bring them to a uni-
form standard of therapeutic strength has also the effect of put-

Editorial. 479

ting none but those of known purity on the market, a great
good will be accomplished." — The Critique.

A great good would be accomplished were that to come about,
but it won't. Just so long as doctors patronize the cheapest
pharmacy, just so long will there be a struggle among the cheap
Johns, and the practice of making "fresh plant tinctures"
from fluid extracts and all sorts of games will continue. As a
matter of clinical fact, most of the cheap medicine would be
dear as a gift — from the curative point of view.

11 Ever since some of the health boards began to insist that
physicians should report their cases of tuberculous disease there
has been, besides resentment on the part of practitioners, the feel-
ing that, on the whole, such reports would do more harm than
good, unless great tact was employed. This feeling was well ex-
pressed by Dr. J. J. Mulheron in a recent case in which Dr. E. L,.
Shurly, of Detroit, the well-known laryngologist, was prosecuted
for failing to report a case. According to the Detroit Free Press,
Dr. Mulheron said: ' This measure will frighten people so that
relatives of consumptives will be dropped out of places of employ-
ment and worlds of injustice will be done through a foolish fad
of some theorists.' " — New York Medical Journal.

A correspondent of Medical Sentinel describes one of Koch's
private rooms in Berlin containing about fifty canary birds in
cages. The rooms are kept at a tropical temperature. " If you
now examine closer you will see that near, perhaps in the cage,
is a pool of stagnant water in which is some vegetation, moss,
and mold. If outside of the cage it will ba noted that there is
a passage therefrom to the interior of the cage where the bird is.
Now by a closer inspection the observer will note a single
mosquito, or perhaps two or three. Elsewhere in the room will
be seen generating pools, out of which the young mosquito is
first feeling his new wings. Out of these apparently trifling
processes have been elaborated the newer theories advanced and
to be advanced by Koch on the subject of malaria. The malaria
and the mosquitoes are both cultivated in the artificial tropical
stagnant pool. As the canary sleeps at nights the mosquito
awakens and with his infected proboscis carries into the circula-
tion of the canary the material which is to give the unsuspect-
ing bird a first-class attack of malarial fever."

We cannot prevent a lurking suspicion that, given a tropical
temperature and stagnant water and decaying vegetation, you
may look for the fever, mosquito or not. Koch seems to have a
fatal trick of always placing his cart before his horse.

PERSONALS.

The veteran Dr. A. M. Cushing, of Mullein oil, Homarus and Phaseola
yiana fame, has removed from 175 to 137 l/z State St., Springfield, Mass.

rp/'-x-p Q AT "FT Modern sanitarium in magnificent well-known and
popular location in Eastern Pennsylvania for sale or
rent. Satisfactory reason. Address "Sanitarium, care Homceopathic
RECORDER, P. O. Box 921, Philadelphia, Pa."

Dr. W. A. Fanning has removed to 115 W. 95th St., New York City.

Dr. Samuel Miller has removed from Pittsburgh, Pa., to 313 W. 42d St.,
New York City.

No, John, your joke about "telegraphing a skeleton" will hardly do
unless you wire its point to our subscribers.

" Good stories " age rapidly, and there are few things more melancholy
than meeting one in its old age.

The verdant think " life " consists in "seeing the elephant."

Whether it is better to get dog-tired walking in a " procession." or reach
the same condition watching your fellow citizen walk, is a question for de-
bating societies.

Dr. Ralph L. Souder has located at 1630 Pine St., Philadelphia.

"Great men reason; small men fight," scintillates one of our esteemed.
Now you can size yourself up.

Dr. \V. D. Foster, Professor of Surgery Kansas City Horn. Med. College,
has removed his office to the Altman Building of that city.

Dr. N. C. Conant has removed from Philadelphia to Clifton Heights, Pa.

The man who knows a lot can make his fortune in real estate.

1 ' Women organize to fight microbes, ' ' says a headline. Now, God help
the little bug!

"Saturate the patient," is an advertiser's advice to the doctor, which, if
followed, will make business good.

The Homceopathic hospital at Ann Arbor, Mich., is now prepared to take
charge of obstetrical cases at very reasonable rates.

The bug-man now says that roast turkey and duck, fried chicken, etc.,
are " dangerous "—" bacteria," you know.

The bug-man must be the original " bogie man."

Bradford's last book, Statistics, is an iron club to smash the jeerers at
Homoeopath v.

Duncan's Acid and Alkaline Children is worth reading if you have to do
with the little ones.

Removals and locations of physicians are inserted on this page free— as
we supposed all knew.

Send in your subscription now for the Recorder and we will send re-
mainder of this year free. Also send us your papers.

THE

Homeopathic Recorder.

Vol XIV. Lancaster, Pa., November, 1899. No. 11

GENERAL THERAPEUTIC NOTES.
By Dr. T. F. Allen.

Opium.

It is interesting to note, in connection with Aconite, that
Opmm, not far removed, botanically, from the Ranunculacece
(the natural order of plants, which comprises the " Aconites")
shows a definite, though unexpected, therapeutic relationship
to Aconite. Opium is frequently called for in a high grade of
fever, viz., a high temperature without the development of a
distinct inflammatory process. It seems like a ''prodromal
fever," similar to that calling for Aconite. The fever of Opium is,
however, characterized by intense thirst and great sleepiness,
but with no anguish nor fear and no restlessness. The fever of
Opium is sometimes associated with distinctly periodic recur-
rences, and so is sometimes applicable to a fever of a remittent
or intermittent type.

Gelsemium.

The fever which calls for Gelsemium is clearly without thirst;
in this respect quite different from that demanding Aconite or
Opium. The following observation may serve to illustrate the
applicability of Gelsemium: A lady suffered from fever recur-
ring daily about two in the afternoon, temperature 103 or above,
with vertigo, a decided dullness in the head, mostly behind the
ears, loss of control of coordinated movements, inability to
walk steadily, an increasing difficulty to think clearly, etc.
There was entire lack of thirst, no nausea, no perspiration.
After a few hours the febrile stage gradually disappeared, the
patient became cool and was simply lethargic till the next day.
The immediate cause of the fever seemed to be recurring,
malignant sarcoma which had twice been most skillfully removed

482 Slippery Places in Diagnosis.

with an immense amount of tissue, with lymphatics which, ap-
parently, had been involved, but the malignant growth had re-
turned on the forearm and had produced enlarged glands and
inflammatory symptoms in the arm when the increasing fever
and alarming brain symptoms demanded attention. Gelsemium
speedily, in a few days, dissipated the fever, caused a rapid dis-
appearance of the malignant growth which simply dried up and
vanished and the patient fully and completely recovered her
health.

SLIPPERY PLACES IN DIAGNOSIS.*
By L. Q. Spaulding, M. D., Ida Grove, Iowa.

It is not my purpose in this paper to treat exhaustively of the
subject of difficult points in diagnosis. I will attempt nothing
more than to~relate a few incidents bearing upon the subject
which have come within my knowledge, and which will serve to
remind us of the great variety of ways in which the practitioner
may find himself at fault in matters of diagnosis, as well as to
suggest in some degree how best to avoid falling into errors of
that nature.

Some years since I happened to know of an amusing blunder
in diagnosis. A little miss, eleven or twelve years of age, com-
plaining of a sore throat, was directed by her parents to stop on
her way to school at the office of a certain physician in order that
he might ascertain the cause of her discomfort. It happened that
an epidemic of scarlet fever was prevalent in the community at
that time, and it also happened that that particular doctor was
in the habit of making a diagnosis of scarlatina from inspection
of the tongue only. The patient appeared in the presence of
the physician, stated the nature of her ailment and desired an
opinion as to its cause. For answer the doctor requested the
patient, to put out her tongue. Inspection of that member being
conclusive to his mind, he assured the now thoroughly fright-
ened child that she had scarlet fever, that she was going to be
very sick, and advised her to return home at once. Presently
the candidate for a severe and dangerous illness perceived a way
out of the dilemma. "But, doctor," she interposed, "I have
had scarlet fever once. Do people have it twice?" "'Taint

* Read Sept. 13th before the Northwestern Iowa Homoeopathic Medical
Association.

Slippery Places in Diagnosis. 483

that then," promptly replied the doctor. The last diagnosis
proved correct but the incident was a source of much amuse-
ment to the little miss, who for years afterward was wont to re-
peat the story to her friends, laying particular stress on the
unlucky phrase, " 'Taint that then," and always ending with a
merry laugh.

It chanced that I once succeeded this same physician in a case
in which he had made a mistake of a more serious nature. Hav-
ing treated the patient, a little girl, seven years of age, about
five weeks for a disease which he called typhoid fever, he finally
told the friends that meningitis had developed and that the case
was hopeless. It was under these conditions that my assistance
was desired. I found the child in a profound stupor, almost in-
sensible to all external impressions and without control over the
bodily functions the temperature was over 1040 ; the skin showed
a pronounced yellowish cast and the patient was reduced almost
to a skeleton. A little inquiry in regard to the remedies in use
revealed the fact that Opium and Qui?iine were given in alterna-
tion in large and oft repeated doses, apparently with the idea
that these two drugs thus used would reduce the temperature and
control restlessness. It is doubtful if the temperature was ma-
terially reduced, but any possible tendency toward the manifes-
tation of restlessness was most effectually overcome. Taking
all things into consideration, I revised the diagnosis previously
made and substituted therefor a diagnosis of remittent fever
plus drugs. The event showed that the apparently almost hope-
less condition of the patient at that time must have been mainly
due to the latter cause. Within a week the child had nearly
regained her usual health.

Several years ago a farmer of middle age, who had been
bereaved of his wife a few months previous, called at my
office to obtain a remedy for his niece, a girl some fifteen years
of age, who was then installed as his housekeeper and charged
with the duty of looking after his numerous brood of young
orphans. According to his story, the girl had found it neces-
sary, a few days before, to leave a steaming wash-tub and go to
a distant part of the farm in a violent snow storm to search for and
bring home one of the aforesaid orphans who had been suddenlv
caught in the storm while out after the cows. All this had oc-
curred at a ertical time, and the result was a suppression of the
menses with much attendant suffering. Reflecting that such
heroism is worthy of the highest consideration, I prepared one

484 Slippery Places in Diagnosis.

of those prescriptions such as "can't do any harm if they
don't do any good," and directed the uncle to report re-
sults within a few days. Some four or five days later
he returned and reported no results, at the same time
insisting that a more effective remedy be given. Being deter-
mined to secure more exact information before proceeding
further, I suggested the propriety of driving out to the farm.
On my arrival there an hour later it was at once apparent that I
was expected to conduct my examination of the case in the
presence of the uncle and the orphans. What I most desired
was to hold a private interview with the patient without giving
the uncle a chance to interpose. In due time the opportunity
came. After a few moments' conversation and a merely per-
functory examination I seated myself at a table and began the
preparation of a remedy. The uncle, no doubt thinking the
most interesting part of the performance was concluded, there-
upon betook himself to the stable to care for his stock. As soon
as he was well out of the house I directed the girl to go into an
adjoining bedroom and lie down on the bed. Having made a
digital examination, which revealed nothing, but which im-
pressed the patient considerably, I began with the query: " Who
is the young man that you are intimate with?" The reply
was: "It isn't a young man." "Oh!" said I, "it's your
uncle, is it ? " Yes it was the uncle, and the diagnosis was there-
after fairly well established. That worthy visited me the next
day in a state of high dudgeon because of my ruthless betrayal
of his confidence. Such confidence is a beautiful thing to see,
and should never be betrayed — except sometimes. I have good
ground for believing that some person more or less skilled in
the production of abortion must have taken the case in charge
some two or three months later.

One cold day during the past winter I was called some ten
miles into the country to take charge of a case that had been
for several days under the care of a neighboring practitioner.
The patient was a young married woman of German descent,
about 23 years of age, with an infant child only a few weeks
old. According to the statements of the family the doctor had
made a diagnosis of quinsy, and, after the application of poul-
tices for two or three days, had lanced the swelling on the right
side of the neck. Failing to obtain pus, he had then stated that
the trouble was not quinsy and ordered a local application to
drive away the swelling. Immediately thereafter the symptoms

Veterinary Homoeopathy in New York. 485

became much more threatening. At the time of my first visit
the right side of the neck was enormously swollen and all the
tissues of the throat were much tumefied. Inspection of the
faucial region was difficult and unsatisfactory, owing to the
swelling and the rigid condition of the jaws; the temperature
was above 1030 and the pulse 120; the urine was scanty, was
loaded with sediment and highly albuminous. The patient was
unable to sleep and was delirious at night. I treated the case
on the theory that the original diagnosis of quinsy was correct,
and that acute nephritis had developed as a result of the absorp-
tion of decomposition products into the blood. By inserting a
grooved director through the cut already made and not less than
two and one-half inches into the tissues of the neck in the direc-
tion of the right tonsil, I succeeded in reaching and evacuat-
ing a considerable accumulation of pus. Under appropriate
general and local treatment the patient improved rapidly and
made a speedy recovery. To my mind it seems fairly certain
that had a deep exploration of the region been .made at the
time of making the first incision, whatever accumulation of pus
may have been present would have been drained away and the
whole disease arrested; also no change of diagnosis would have
been made or thought of. The above cases are presented, not so
much because of any unusual interest in themselves but rather
as showing how a certain shrewdness and keen insight in such
matters mav often enable us to succeed where others fail.

VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY IN NEW YORK.
By Dr. Wilbur J. Murphy.

The homoeopathic treatment of animals is at a low ebb in the
city of Xew York — the foremost horse centre of the universe. I
do not know of a single veterinarian who practices according to
its doctrines. There are some feeble attempts made at its use in
what is termed the simpler ills, but its general employment is
limited indeed.

Not long ago I tried to find a homceopathist, but the search
was made in vain. Few even understood the term. More had
an inspired prejudice against its use, and most of those with
whom I spoke had heard of Homoeopathy and its successes, but
feared to brave the ridicule of those arrayed against its use.
Long ago I was ostracised by practitioners and societies on account

486 Veterinary Homoeopathy in New York.

of homoeopathic tendencies, but I have experienced no inconveni-
ence from the weird decrees. For a number of years I employed
homoeopathic treatment for animal ills, with the most encourag-
ing results, and in the face of the most pronounced opposition.

Whatever progress Homoeopathy has made in this city has
been a forced one. It has been employed against the advice of
the most prominent, but not the most successful veterinarians,
and progressed under the most trying circumstances. It has
had but few advocates and many opponents, yet it has succeeded
in withstanding the united opposition of prejudiced and ignorant
antagonists.

When the various surface roads here were drawn by horse
power, Homoeopathy was the treatment the sick animals received,
and the results were satisfactory to owners of the stock. The
large stage lines used it and were enthusiastic in its praise. The
big menageries were^within its care, and in every instance it ful-
filled every requirement against the united opposition of the
veterinary profession generally.

Some concessions have recently been made to the virtues of
Homoeopathy. It is admitted in a half-hearted manner that
Homoeopathy is at times successful, but by the employment of
remedies used in the~older school of practice. Homoeopathy is
successful with Aconite, with Phosphorus, with Arsenicum, with
Belladonna, with Nux vomica because they are homoeopathic to
the ills they cure, and their employment is a recognition of the
law upon which the practice of Homoeopathy is founded.

Not long ago a young man came to me about the use of Homoe-
opathy. He said that while he was a believer in the virtues of
the practice, he was averse to putting the word Homoeopathic on
his sign and card. He feared that few would know what it
meant.

I advised the young man to put in bold type the word Homoe-
opathic wherever he put his name. " Write the two into a
single term, and say to those who ask what it means, here you
can find a man far more advanced than others whom you meet."
To those who are unfamiliar with the term, tell them it means
success. Tell them that wherever they see the wTord Hojyioeopathic
there can be found a man who cures when others fail — a man
with whom incurable diseases are the rarest that are met, and for
them to bear in mind that when disease withstands all other
efforts, when epidemics flourish unabated, wheu prayer fails,
when faith accomplishes but little good, when everything is dark

Convallaria Majalis. 487

and all is gloom, when appeals are made in vain, tell them that
is the time to seek the man who has Homoeopathic on his sign —
tell them better to come late than not at all and their reward will
be returning health from sickness and disease, convalescence
from draining ills and happy restoration from desparation and
despair.

Tell them that with Homoeopathy suffering will be abated,
pain will be assuaged, life will be prolonged, and in that way
Homoeopathy will become established upon a pedestal of ever-
lasting fame, to remain until the world passes from the presenjt
state of warmth and life into the future state of cold and lifeless
desolation for which it is destined.

CONVALLARIA MAJALIS.

By C. M. Boger, M. D., Parkersburg, W. Va.

The lily of the valley belongs to the natural order from which
we derive Aloe, Asparagus, Cepa, Colchicum, Helonias, Liliunt
tig., Paris quad., Sabadilla, Sarsaparilla, Scilla and Trillium
pend. Some authors also place Veratrum in this order, others
put in the related MelanthacecB . All of these have symptom-
ological points of contact with Convallaria; its nearest congener
is Lilium tig. In common with it it affects the heart and female
genital sphere conjointly; in the case of the latter, however, the
primary impression is on sexual organs, the heart and other
symptoms being generally regarded as reflex. In the former the
action is first manifest on the heart muscle, the general muscu-
lar system quickly following with analogous symptoms; its ho-
moeopathicity to rheumatic myocarditis is undoubted, but seems
to have been overlooked; it has the same muscular enfeeblement
of the heart and haemorrhagic tendency, as well as the general
sense of muscular soreness; its use in dropsies shows it to be
the true similar where due to myocardial weakness, as in the
case cured by Nash, using the 30th potency. It must, however,
not be supposed that a curative action can be obtained where
this muscle weakness is the result of leaky or stenosed valves.
This remedy pictures relaxation in its every phase, with mental
depression and tendency to chilliness, especially from drafts;
eating and rest ameliorate many symptoms, the system is evi-
dently poorly nourished and the stimulation of food therefore
helps.

488

Convallaria Majahs.

Labor-like pains better when standing is a very valuable hint
and differentiates it from numerous other remedies,

The comparisons embrace the botanically related remedies,
also Cactus and Digitalis; like Cactus, its picture embraces a
combination of heart and hemorrhagic symptoms its action on
the heart is most similar to Digitalis; it is similar to the Vera-
trums and Colchicum in the gastro intestinal sphere.

CONVALLARIA MAJALIS.

The Patient.

Depressed.
Irritable.
Dull.
Sleepy.

Relaxed with
tendency to
coldness.

Group for com
parison.

Cactus.
Digitalis.
Lil. tig.

Locality.

Heart. (Mus-
cle).

Gastro intes
tinal tract.

Female pelvic

organs.
Muscles.

Fever.

Modalities.

■ General.

Motion <. Ex-
ertion <.

Deep breath-
ing <. Sitting
straight <.

Draft or cold <.

Eating > many
symptoms.

Lying >.

Special.

Exertion <.

Ascending <.

Lying >.

Open air >.

Beginning to
eat < (coni).

Coughing

Pressure of
clothes <.

Walking <.

Passing stool or
urine >.

Sitting down <.

Standing or
leaning for-
ward >.

Lying on back >.

Bathing parts in
cold water >
itching.

Draft <. Cold
drinks <. Mo-
tion <.

Touching cold
things <.

Symptoms.

Weakness; relaxation; sensitive to cold,

chilliness from least draft.
Eyelids heavy; trembling of hands,

staggering o'r walking sideways.

Heart irregular; weak; as if stopped
then suddenly started, causing very
faint sick feeling; slow; uneasiness
about; reflex palpitation.

Prickling in forehead; feet numb as if
asleep.

Small wound bled profusely; (bloody
urine); epistaxis waking him from
sleep; slight loss of blood caused faint-
ness; (bloody expectoration).

{Dropsical effusions due to heart lesions;
muscular exhaustion of.)

Tongue feels scalded; on tip; water
tastes bitter; hydrose on left corner of
mouth and left nostril.

Sense of filling up causing dyspnoea, and
desire to breathe deeply.

Soreness in abdomen.

Alive sensation in, < if on feet.

Labor-like pains > standing.

(Soreness in uterine region, with sym-
pathetic palpitation.)

General aching and soreness.

Muscular relaxation.

Rheumatoid symptoms; in left elbow;
left scapula;' left nipple region; chill
with trembling hands, on right side;
interscapular; with hair sensitive to
touch; commingled with heat; worse
the harder it rains; cold sweat about
waist. (Verat. a.)

Suum Cuique. 489

SUUM CUIQUE.
By Eric Vondergoltz, M. D., New York.

Brilliant results in the homoeopathic practice on one side and
dire failures on the other side caused me to inquire into all pos-
sible methods of homoeopathic drug-selection.

In so hunting around my eyes were finally riveted on the
literature of Biochemy so on the three authors, O'Connor,
Shannon and Boericke & Dewey.

I began to study the publications of these authors, but I was
unsatisfied till either I could find Schussler himself or an abso-
lutely faithful translation of him.

So I came into possession of the translation by Professor Louis
H. Tafel of the twenty-fifth edition of Schussler's Abridged
Therapy.

The study now of this small and simple book gave a fully
changed picture. The doctrine and explanation of Schussler
based especially on the teachings of my teacher and friend,
Gustav Bunge, late Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the
University at Basel, Switzerland, showed at once a great differ-
ence that existed between especially the authors, Boericke &
Dewey, and old Schussler's booklet.

Every reader will understand the differences between these two
books, when we compare :

Schussler.
Specific remedy:
Kali phosphor.

Puerperal Fever.

Boericke & Dewey.

Kali mur. This remedy alone
may suffice for this disease.

Kali phos. Puerperal mania or
fever, when illusions, abused no-
tions, or violent madness set in.
Specific remedy.

Nat. mur. A useful intercurrent
remedy in puerperal convulsions.

Croup.

Genuine croup:

Calc. phos. to be altered with Kali
sulph., also this alteration with white
exudation.

Pseudo croup, Kali mur.

Kali mur. Is the principal reme-
dy for the membranous exudation,
alternating with Ferr. phos. The
chief remedy in false croup, etc.,
etc.

Calc. fiuorica is the chief remedy
in true croup.

49° Suum Cuique.

Influenza.
Na t. sulph. the only remedy. Besides Nat. sulph., Kali phos.

| and Magn. phos.
Typhus and Typhoid.

Specific remedy
Kali phos.
Stupor:
Nat. mur.

Ferr. phos. ; Kali mur. ; Kali phos. ;
Kali sulph.; Nat. mur.; Calc. phos.

I could go on ad infinitum.

So every reader will understand when I say that Boericke &
Dewey squeeze Sehiissler nolens volens into the service of
Homoeopathy.

So now such differences exist, we must only consider the
book of Boericke & Dewey as a very good homoeopathic one, per-
haps an exhaustive essay on twelve especially selected sulphates,
phosphates and chlorates, inclusive of Terra silicea or Silicinea
(both derivate from Silex), but we must deny to Drs. Boericke
& Dewey to call their book "The Twelve Tissue Remedies
of Sehiissler " no more, as Sehiissler and his teaching occupies
the smallest part of this book.

I have followed Sehiissler faithfully, no more, as I have to
deal very often with people by the aid of translations by rela-
tives (!). In these cases now the plain therapy of Sehiissler
proves itself. It's here in such cases Boericke & Dewey, with
their guiding symptoms as homoeopaths, could not work — as any-
body after pure Sehiissler always will be able. The physician is
not bound down to such guiding symptoms as necessary in
Homoeopathy, but is only depending on his knowledge and the
right understanding of pathology. The understanding of the
pathology calling for the right remedy is understood by the
term of Sehiissler — Facial Diagnosis — which cannot be described
by words, but must be acquired by actual study.

As a proof for the theory of Sehiissler the following cases may
serve:

Using the tissue remedies I made the following interesting
observation: That (not desirable but not injurious so far) the
patient will not be influenced beside taking the tissue remedies
— by taking of allopathic remedies in allopathic doses, as easily
to be understood that the tissue salts in their infinitesimal dose
are not interfered with by the clumsy and ponderous doses — as I
have observed more than once that a patient got better under the
biochemical treatment. So in a case of malaria under Natrum

Sun in Cuique. 491

muriatic, and besides taking a cathartic and then again a tisane
of flower Chamomillce — an absolute impossibility under true ho-
moeopathic remedies.

This proves that Schiissler's theory is a fact, based on the
deepest thinker next to Hahnemann — von Grauvogl — that the
blood corpusculum, etc., is only taking that minimal dose into
itself and that nothing in material dose can penetrate its
structure, etc., as on the other side I could not understand that
it happened to me that I saw patients taking drugs without
harm besides my homoeopathic treatment.

The records of these cases now prove that in that time I had
administered tissue salts unknowingly !

I do not swear off Homoeopathy, but at least I believe from
my observations that if we come to use Schiissler's remedies we
shall use them in the true sense of Schiissler's exposition as so ably
given to the American reader by Professor Louis H. Tafel.

Cases.

1. Inflammation of the only remaining kidney (right side),
with uraemic symptoms and high fever. Left kidney was ex-
tirpated one year ago for a tumor. Kali mur. cured the case in
24 hours.

2. Case of dysentery — given up by allopathic physicians —
drug-physiognomy — Kali phos. Case was cured 14 days, with
few intercurrent remedies: Magnes. phos. and Calc. phos.

3. Febris puerperalis, with all characteristic pathological facts
of metritis and perametritis with sanious discharge. Pulse
over 140, etc., Kali phos., changing later on to Magn. phos.
patient cured in 3 weeks.

4. Patient of Dr. S. had fallen down in a sitting position.
The next day patient could not move nor sit. Patient was
pregnant in the 3d month, had crampy sensation (like faint
labor pains) in abdomen, so that Dr. S. was afraid of an immi-
nent abortus.

Every effort to relieve the pains, etc., failed, even homoe-
opathically ( !) — patient was speedily cured by few doses of Natr .
mtir. given on facial diagnosis.

5. Hysterics. Patient was suffering from spasmodic cramps all
over, but mostly from hiccough, since longer than 10 years (ap-
pearing with married life) — Magnes. phos. without result ; — on
face and tongue-diagnosis — Kali sulph. speedily cured the patient.

In such a way I could give more cases, but enough. I have

492 Suum Cuique.

only to remember especially that these patients were all Hun-
garians ; and I do not speak that language. Few of them had
a limited knowledge of German.

It must be well understood that many times the book of
Boericke & Dewey will come to the same remedy; but their way
is a different one, and finally the coincidence of the remedy is
nothing else than an accident as we must finally compare the
symptoms of the drug.

So, for instance, Calcarea fluorica ; we will compare only the
most important moments :

Sc h ussier:

i. Hard lumpy exudations on the surface of the bone.

2. Relaxation of elastic fibers.

3. Crusts firmly adherent to skin.

4. Cephalotematum.

5. Hardenings in mammary gland, testes, etc.

6. Worse in damp weather ; relieved by rubbing and fomen-
tations.

7. Enlargements of the vessels, hemorrhoidal knots.

8. Relaxation and change of position of the uterus.

9. Relaxation of the abdominal coverings, sagging down of
the abdomen.

10. The after pains are deficient and so causing hemorrhage
postpartum.

This is the abstract of Schiissler's explanations and pre-
scriptions for the use of this remedy.

Boericke & Dewey:

Mental symptoms : Great depression, groundless fears of finan-
cial ruin, indecision, etc.

Head and scalp : Headache with faintish nausea in afternoon,
better in the evening, etc.

Eyes: Blurred vision after using eyes, eyeballs ache, better
closing eyes and pressing lightly. Cases of partial blindness,
etc., etc.

Nose: Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow
nasal discharge, etc., etc.

Face : Cold sores, etc., etc.

Mouth : Gumboils, great dryness.

Tongue : Cracked appearance.

Gastric symptoms : Vomiting of undigested food.

Respiratory System: The chief remedy in true croup, etc.,
etc.

Letter From an Old-Time Homoeopath. 493

Febrile symptoms : Attacks of fever, lasting a week or more, with
thirst; dry brown tongue, etc., etc.

It would go too far to reprint Boericke & Dewey's book from
page 37-41; but I believe that I gained my point in proving
that the true Schiissler book is quite different from this elaborate
symptomatology.

I say, therefore, let us first try Sehussler's Own, and then if
not satisfied let us remodel Schiissler into Boericke & Dewey's
Symptomatology, but before etandiatur altera pers — so that we
can see where faults and manifested weaknesses are to be ex-
pected and to be found. Only it must be ascribed to this mixing
of Homoeopathy and Schiissler that homoeopaths are attributing
and conceding a certain splendid auxiliary result to Schiissler' s
remedies — but these authors are overseeing that their results
are not their homoeopathic appliance of the tissue remedies, but
finally nothing else as — Schussleriana involuntaria (vide von
Grauvogl) as allopathic results are nothing else then — Homceo-
pathia involuntaria — as proved by von Grauvogl.

(If Dr. Vondergolz will turn to the title page of Boericke &
Dewey's book he will note that the tissue remedies are to be
" homceopathically and biochemically considered" therein,
hence it is to be expected that such a book will radically differ
from Schiissler' s Abridged Therapy. Furthermore it is a well
known fact that the great popularity enjoyed by the tissue rem-
edies is due almost entirely to the work of Boericke & Dewey,
of which four large editions have been printed, and two of them
(the first and the third) pirated by firms whose sense of honor —
if they ever had any of the latter — was conspicuous by its
absence. Editor of Homoeopathic Recorder.)

LETTER FROM AN OLD-TIME HOMCEOPATH.

Riverside, Burlington Co., N. J., Sept. 18, '99.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel:

I was much interested to see on your " Hints for Summer and
Fall" that " Ambrosia artemisifol." is recommended as a remedy
for hay fever. About the year 1882 I made a preparation of it,
and requested Dr. John Detwiller, Sr., of Easton, to make trial
of it for this disease, as I had found that whenever the Ambrosia
art. (" rag weed ") came into bloom I was seized with violent
hay fever symptoms which were greatly aggravated when I

494 An Outline of The Action of Aconite.

passed through a field covered with the noxious plant. My hay
fever, however, never occasioned asthma, but only a terrible cold
in the head, with itching of the eyes that was aggravated by rub-
bing, so that they would swell up. After about six weeks I had
several severe nightly paroxysms of coughing and spitting up of
quantities of phlegm, so that I felt quite weak next day ; after
which the disease quickly disappeared. Dr. Detwiller, Sr.,
recommended Melilotus alba for the asthmatic form of hay fever.
He died shortly after I had made his acquaintance.

I would be much obliged if you could give me your authority
for the recommendation of Ambros. art. for the disease in ques-
tion. * Was it Dr. Detwiller? altho' it is quite likely that some
one else also has observed the effects of the rag weed pollen.

I myself have been a sufferer from catarrhal hay fever for more
than forty years. For five or six years past the attacks had been
comparatively slight, lasting only for about three weeks. Am-
bros. art. did not cure or help me. I have derived much more
benefit from Artemis, absinthium and have found it admirable
when attacked by the grippe also. Perhaps the Artem. vulgaris
which I have also tried with benefit might be as good.

I have been a homoeopath since I was about six years old,
when my father got a box of Hering's Haus-Artzt from Dr.
Friday (Freitag), of Bethlehem, Pa. I am now in my 66th year.
This long homoeopathic experience will be my excuse for the
liberty I have taken in addressing the above to you.

Respectfully,

Rev. C. L. Reinke.

AN OUTLINE OF THE ACTION OF ACONITE.

By a Recent Allopathic Authority.

(T. C. D.)

" Applied to the skin, to a mucous membrane or to a raw sur-
face, Aconite or its alkaloid first stimulates and then paralyzes
the nerves of touch and temperature; it, therefore, causes first
tingling, then numbness and local anesthesia, which lasts some
time. Unless it is very dilute numbness and tingling are pro-
duced in the mouth. There are no other gastro-intestinal symp-
toms unless the dose is very large, when there may be vomiting.

* It was recommended by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh while editor of this jour-
nal about ten years ago. He had great success with it in his hay fever
cases. — Ed. Recorder.

An Outline of The Action of Aconite. 495

"The rate of the heart beat may be at first a little increased
by Aco?iite, but soon the pulse is very decidedly slowed, shortly
after that the force and te?isio?i become less. Finally the heart is
arrested in diastole. It is certain that towards the end of its
action Aconite influences the heart itself, for it will retard the
excised organ when applied directly to it. It is extremely
probable that in the early stages the drug acts upon the cardiac
nerves or their centres, but the details of such action are not
known. The effect upon the heart leads to a fall of blood press-
tire, but wThether this is partly due to an action on the vaso-
motor system itself is undecided. \Aconite has been named the
vegetable lancet.]

"The rate of the respiration is slowed, expiration and the
pause after it are considerably prolonged. This is chiefly due
to the action of Aconite on the centre of the medulla, but in
part to the paralysis of the peripheral endings of the afferent
vagus fibres.

The evidence is very conflicting, but it appears clear that
Aconite, whether given internally or applied locally, depresses the
activity of the peripheral terminations of the nerves; the nerves
of common sensation and temperature are affected before the
motor. Any pain that may be present is relieved. Later on the
paralysis of the motor nerves gives rise to muscular weakness.
It is doubtful whether the ear is influenced. The brain is not.
The pupil is first contracted and then dilated.

" Aconite causes a febrile temperature to fall. The cause is
not known. Aconite is a mild diaphoretic; in this case we do not
'know how it acts. Occasionally it produces an erythematous
rash.

" It is said to be feebly diuretic, but its effect is very slight.
We do not know the channel by which it is eliminated."

Toxicology of Aconite.

The toxic symptoms come on quickly; in a few minutes there
is a severe burning, tingling sensation in the mouth, followed
by numbness. Vomiting is not common, but may begin in an
hour or so and then is very severe. There is an intense abdomi-
nal burning sensation. The skin is cold and clammy. Numb-
ness and tingling, with a sense of formication of the whole skin;
trouble the patient very much. The pupils are dilated, the
eyes fixed and staring. The muscles become very feeble,
hence he staggers. His pulse is small, weak and irregular.

496 Cratcegus in Heart Disease.

There is difficulty of respiration. Death takes place from
asphyxia, or in some cases from syncope. He is often conscious
to the last. The usual signs of death from asphyxia are seen on
post mortem." — White 's Materia Medica and Therapeutics, p. 410.

CRAT^GUS IN HEART DISEASE.
By A. H. Gordon, M. D.

Case 1. Mrs. H., age thirty, became ill December, 1896 and was
attended by her regular family physician, who is a competent ho-
moeopathic practitioner. A diagnosis of enlargement of the heart
was made, and the case was carefully treated by homoeopathic
medicines for a period of six weeks. At the end of that time,
there having been no improvement, but rather an increase in
the distressing symptoms, at the advice of friends she consulted
a prominent allopathic physician. She was treated at home
for several months by this physician with no change for the bet-
ter; but on the contrary she became incapacitated by her afflic-
tion that she was unable to move about the house at all without
bringing on attacks of faintness and symptoms of complete col-
lapse. At the time, in accordance with the advice of her physi-
cian, she was removed to St. Joseph's Hospital, this city, where
she remained ten weeks in bed, under his constant attention,
with the hope that the much vaunted " rest cure " would relieve
her, for her condition was now so alarming that her friends had
given up all hope of her recovery.

At the end of the ten weeks, there being no improvement, her
husband took her home. At that time she was unable to walk
across the floor without the symptoms of heart failure appearing.
After a course of treatment by electricity with the usual result
— no improvement — I was sent for, having been recommended by
one of the students of my class, who was a friend of the family.
An examination of the heart determined the presence of hyper-
trophy with dilatation, displacement of apex beat, weak action,
heart sounds prolonged, but no valvular lesions. Further physi-
cal examination disclosed an irregular and intermittent pulse,
general anasarca, etc.; the least exertion caused dyspnoea, faint-
ness and symptoms of collapse. No special cause for the heart
trouble could be given by her, except many years of overwork
and the abuse of coffee.

After listening to her account of the several courses of treat-
ment she had received, I came to the conclusion that it was

Cratcegus in Hea?rt Disease. 497

wise to try a new remedy in her case, which I had been using
with good results when the usually indicated remedies had
failed to relieve. I therefore prescribed Crataegus oxyacantha,
five drop doses of the tincture in water every three hours. The
results were simply marvelous; in three weeks she was able to
visit me at my office, about two miles from her home, walking
to and from the car with very little assistance, and her improve-
ment was continuous from the first. In about three months the
dropsy had disappeared, the heart's action was strong and reg-
ular, with only an occasional intermittence, and to live had be-
come again a pleasure to her.

About this time she became pregnant (she was already the
mother of three children, all living and in good health), which
naturally alarmed her greatly, as she had no idea that it was
possible for her to endure such a strain, as she well knew from
past experience what was required, even in labor which was
fairly normal, as hers had been. However, I did everything
possible to get her into good condition before the time expired,
and she passed safely through the crisis, with no further
accident than a slight post-partum hemorrhage, which was
easily controlled. She is now fairly well, as well I think as any
one with an enlarged heart can expect to be. She does all her
work in her own flat, for her family of five, and has gained
greatly in weight and strength, although her nursing infant is
now only eight months old. In her case Crat&gus seems to
have made it possible for compensation to be restored with results
as stated.

Case 2. Mr. L., age thirty-eight, a foreman of stock room
in large shoe factory, came to me for treatment for what had
been called nervous prostration, in March, 1899. The history
showed progressive loss of strength, indigestion, palpitation of
heart, so severe as to interfere with rest at night; night sweats,
profusa and exhausting, and intemperate use of liquor "to keep
up on." He confessed to many forms of dissipation, late hours,
the abuse of stimulants above referred to, excessive venery, etc.
The rapid, irregular and intermittent pulse directed my atten-
tion to the condition of the heart, an examination of which dis-
closed hypertrophy, apex beat in sixth interspace to the left of
nipple line, increased area of dullness on percussion, and of car-
diac impulse which was of that heaving character noticeable in
enlargement of the heart. There was present violent palpita-
tion on excitement, and when more quiet distinct intermission
every four or eight beats.

498 Cratcegus in Heart Disease.

Having had gratifying results from Cratcsgus in several other
cases, as well as in the one previously reported, I administered it
to this patient also, five-drop doses of the tincture, four times a
day. His improvement was immediate, and after about four
weeks' treatment he felt so well I thought it unnecessary to con-
tinue the medicine, so dismissed him with careful directions as
to diet, habits of life, etc. On my return from my vacation this
summer I found an urgent call to Mr. L.'s on my book. Ar-
riving at his home I found him in a pitiable condition. It seems
that he felt so well after the attention in the spring he had
thought it possible for him to resume his former habits of dis-
sipation, which had culminated in a prolonged spree and had
laid him flat upon his back. Unable to reach me on account
of my absence from the city, he called in one of our allopathic
brethren, who dosed him with all sorts and combinations of
drugs, as evidenced by copies of his prescriptions, which I had
friends obtain for me from the druggist. The doctor had in-
formed the friends that unless he rallied under the influence of
medicines last prescribed it was useless to do anything more for
him, as death was inevitable.

Under the benign influence of Cratcsgus, however, he rallied
slowly, and with the help of some intercurrent remedies has
made a recovery which is fairly complete. He has resumed his
accustomed occupation, eats well, sleeps well, and feels well; the
disagreeable and dangerous symptoms have completely disap-
peared, although, of course, the hypertrophy still remains and
there is an occasional intermittence, perhaps once in fifty beats.
He is still taking the Cratczgus.

In conclusion would say that I have used Crat&gus with uni-
form success in weak heart accompanying or following la
grippe, diphtheria or any disease of like nature. I have also
used it in two cases of valvular disease, one of which was bene-
fited greatly and the other not at all. I will not give them in
detail, as I have already taken up so much time; suffice it to say
that I believe we have in Cratcegus oxyacantha an exceedingly
valuable remedy in many cases of heart disease, and no doubt
other diseases as well, and one that will be well worthy of much
study and investigation and infinitely superior in weak heart
and conditions of collapse to the Digitalis, in potency, which it
was custom formerly to use, or the Strychnia, Glonoine or the
diffusible stimulants used by our allopathic brothers. — The
Clinique.

Natrum Muriatieum as a Remedy For Women. 499

A woman, aged thirty, in her fourth pregnancy, had repeated
attacks of hydrorrhcea in the early months. In a few weeks
these watery discharges ceased and by the eighth month the ab-
domen was enormously distended. Inunction of olive oil
afforded some relief from the painful stretching of the abdominal
walls. But the pains from the stretched tissues did not entirely
disappeai. Solutions of Cale?idula were then applied, on the
supposition that some of the tissues of the abdominal or uterine
walls had been wounded from the excessive distension, but this
experiment was without avail.

I then gave her Calendula 6x, a dose each hour. After a few
doses she experienced relief, which continued up to time of de-
livery, when she gave birth to twins and in every respect got
along well. — B. in The Critique.

NATRUM MURIATICUM AS A REMEDY FOR
WOMEN.

By Dr. Mossa.

Translated for the HomcEopathic Recorder from Algem. Horn. Zeit.,

Aug., 1899.

In considering Natrum muriatieum as a woman's remedy, we
only mean to state that there are a number of morbid states with
the female sex which, according to physiological facts as well as
according to symptomatic phenomena, find their corresponding
counterpart or homoion and therefore also their cure in common
salt. We cannot consider it merely a chance that the female sex
in such numbers flock to the mineral springs containing common
salt.

Even in considering the provings of common salt, made by
Hahnemann and his co- laborers, with females, we see in part
very characteristic and far-reaching symptoms, and most of these
have been confirmed and supplemented by the secondary prov-
ings instituted by the Austrian homoeopathic physicians.

We here find images of the hysteric type, such as are hardly
found in any other remedy except Sepia, actual hysterical crisis ;
thus we read in Hahnemann :

"An attack : from the neck which was stiff it ran into the
head ; her eyes ached, she felt sick at stomach, with chill and
loss of consciousness (on the eighth day).

" Attacks like those of hysteria ; the pain drew from the left

500 Natrum Muriaticum as a Remedy For Women.

shoulder toward the head ; it then pressed in the temples as if
the brain would split ; the brain ached as if beaten and bruised,
with a constant drawing pain from the shoulder toward the head,
and a constant inclination to vomit, as if coming from the stom-
ach ; she had to lie down, with a chill and heat of the face (8th
day).

" An attack : about supper-time she occasionally felt sick at
stomach (without having eaten first), and at every paroxysm of
nausea she was seized with a severe chill. After lying down in
bed she soon got warm without subsequent heat, and woke up
twice during the night with an acute drawimg in the forehead,
to and fro, with a fine throbbing between the paroxysms.

"She is exceedingly excited, then with great anguish formi-
cation in the finger tips sets in, then in the hand and arm ; the
arm goes to sleep, as if it was dead, and the tingling and loss of
sensibility rises up in the neck even up to the lips, and to the
tongue (which becomes, as it were, rigid), while there is boring
in a tooth ; then weakness in the head, with defective vision ;
the lower limb also goes to sleep, and feels dead in the joints, —
chiefly toward evening (after 10 hours).

"Attack: early in the morning after drinking milk she felt
sick at stomach and trembling in all the limbs for one hour ;
she became dizzy, things turned black before her eyes, and she
would have fallen over if she had not held on to something.

" Attack of inclination to vomit in the forenoon, with vertigo
and a digging in the scrobiculus cordis, with a chill as if cold
water had been poured over her ; wherever she looked things
seemed to whirl around with her, as if she was about to fall for-
ward. Her head felt so heavy that she could scarcely walk, and
it seemed to her that her head was heavier than the rest of her
body.

"She was most tired early in the morning, in bed and while
sitting down ; while walking, she felt no weariness.

" She must not exert her lower limbs in walking, else she feels
quite weak and sick from weariness."

Many a one might think that the whole complex of these
symptoms are appearances hatched out by the fancy of a hys-
terical person. But we may here remark that since the publica-
tion of Charcot's treatise on Hysteria we cannot any more ap-
proach with such vague, contemptuous views this pathological
state which so powerfully affects the female organism and, ac-
cording to Charcot, even males ; and we may here add that

Natrum Muriatiaim as a Remedy For Women. 501

homoeopaths have even long before Charcot, acknowledged the
reality of these hysterical phenomena, and had regard to them
in their treatment of cases ; and homoeopaths have been led to
this just because of the strange and bizarre changes in the
corporeal as well as the physical states appearing during the
provings of remedies.

It is quite possible, indeed, that a hysterical disposition may
have existed in the case of this female prover of Hahnemann's ;
this may be granted, and it made the action of Natrum muriati-
cum in this direction all the more easy.

That Hahnamann, however, did not refrain from a critical ex-
amination of the provings of other persons and especially of
females may be seen from the remark of Dr. Watzke in his ex-
cellent summarizing of the later provings of common salt as
made by the Austrian homoeopathic physicians, where he says
that Hahnemann had not received in his register of the provings
of Natrum mur. the results which were obtained from common
salt in the provings of a girl of 18, which provings had been
made under the supervision of Dr. Schreter. And yet this
young girl was healthy, excepting a scale of the head, which
may perhaps have been still present during the provings. If we
consider the inner circle of the feminine domain, that of sexual
life and of the sexual organs common salt has a very pro-
nounced action upon it.

Dr. Reiss reported concerning one of his provers, a girl'of 24,
brunette and of lively color, choleric in her temperament, active
in spirit and strong of constitution, who had some time^before
become chlorotic, but was then menstruating regularly. He
noted the following symptoms as to her menstruation :

"Even before the appearance of the menses the prover had
lancinations from the loins even into the uterus ameliorated by
bending double and from sitting down, worse when walking.
The menstrual flow was stronger, the blood showed a darker
color ; during the menstruation there was a boring pain about
the umbilicus, nausea, palpitation of the heart, weariness all
over the body, trembling of the limbs and of the eyelids, a
pressive headache, a scraping pain extending over one-half of
the face ; she was at the same time fretful and sensitive. After
the cessation of the menses the following ailments appeared :
Lucorrhoea, a milky urine, colic with diarrhoea, dyspnoea, palpi-
tation of the heart, lancinating and cutting pains in the head,
twitching in the body before going to sleep ; acceleration of the

502 Natrum Muriaticum as a Remedy For Women.

pulse, paleness of the face. After getting vexed her menses re-
turned.

The sexual impulse was strikingly diminished during the
proving.

The quantity of common salt used in these provings was
large; in one case one drachm, then seven times at intervals of
several days 2 drachms of the crude common salt.

In the Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, by Trinks and
Clotar Miiller, we find the following summary of the symptoms
belonging here:

11 Pressure and urging from the side of the abdomen toward
the sexual parts early in the morning, compelling her to sit
quiet in order to avoid a prolapsus uteri. Itching and falling
out of the hair on the mons veneris. Dryness of the vagina,
while coitus is painful. After coitus, at first a sensation of
lightness and ease, but soon afterward great irritability and
fretfulness. The menses which she had expected shortly, set in
at once (almost immediately after taking the remedy) and more
strongly than usual; as an after- effect, the menses seemed to be
delayed and to become more scanty. In one case there was a
return of the menses which had been interrupted for 85 days,
with great heaviness in the lower limbs; and also reappearance
of the menses in a woman of fifty years after they had ceased for
six months. Very copious menses of blackish blood, also flowing
at night; the menses are more copious than usual at the proper
time, with less colic, but with a chill during the whole of the
first day, with much yawning, especially in the afternoon. The
menses were too early by 3 to 7 days, scanty, with headache
while coughing, stooping down and sneezing, as if the head
would burst. Increase in the menses, which were already flow-
ing; prolongation of the same up to 8 days. At first shortening
of the period, then prolongation of the same. Menses after 18
days, then after 7 weeks finally a total cessation; very perti-
nacious suppression of the menses, which before were regular.

"Before the appearance of^the delayed menses anxiety and
sensation of weakliness, a sweetish rising from the stomach,
and then a spitting out of bloody saliva. Before the menses a
great sense of sadness, of anxiety and of swooning, while the
pelvis is cold, attended with interior heat, tearing toothache,
with lancinations when cold air comes into the mouth. After
the menses appeared at night severe fever with violent thirst
and sleeplessness, very hard stool, heat in the face, in the even-

Natrum Muriaticum as a Remedy For Women. 503

ing; constriction in the abdomen, frequent burning and cut-
ting in the sexual parts while urinating, as also while sitting at
dinner.

11 After the menses the head felt heavy and benumbed, as from
congestion of blood to the head, female impotence, repugnance
to coitus, and dryness of the vagina. Flow from the vagina,
with itching of the parts, after previous colic, in the morning of
a contractive nature, pressing down as if for the menses; at
night, greenish appearance, worse when walking, very copious
flow from the vagina, with frequently changing pain."

The pathogenesis of the remedy supported by the physiologi-
cal changes caused by it in sanguineous life gives to us several
characteristic signs which may become of importance to us in
its therapeutic application. Common salt, when used for a
length of time, causes a dyscrasy of the blood whjch may man-
ifest itself as anaemia, chlorosis or even as a scrobutic diathesis.
While this dyscrasy is apt to disturb the function of the repro-
ductive organs, especially of the uterus and the ovary, so on
the other hand the disturbance of function in these sexual or-
gans may manifest itself primarily and thus cause a state in
the organism analogous to the symptoms of the disease caused
by common salt.

An observation made by Dr. Rowley, in the Medical Advance
of 1894, is very instructive in this direction:

A female who for years had used common salt to excess had
gradually been seized with anaemia of a severe degree. The
mucous membranes, as also the whole skin, showed an extraor-
ordinary paleness; there was also an excessive emaciation.
Chronic constipation — a very irregular menstruation — great
weakness and excessive hyperaesthesia and sensibility. Limit-
ing her consumption of salt and giving a dose of Natrum
mur. 200 gradually affected a complete cure.

The hyperaesthesia of the cutaneous nerves, which probably
arises from an irritation of the spinal marrow, and which often
appears among the clinical, though very indefinite image of
spinal irritation, has in Natrum muriaticum this peculiar char-
acteristic, that the patient feels better when lying on her back.
This sense of alleviation is observed in such circumstances even
when there is a change of position of the uterus, with its omi-
nous pain in the small of the back.

One characteristic of the Natrum mur. patient is her sensi-
tiveness to cold air, which she, therefore, avoids; and, still owing

504 Natrum Muriaticum as a Remedy For Women,

to her shortness of breath caused by her anaemia, she has a real
hunger for air and would gladly move about in the open air if
she were not compelled to rest owing to the acceleration of the
cardiac activity, palpitation of the heart and quivering or flutter-
ing of the heart caused by every exertion.

The wave of blood conveyed from the heart to the arteries is
so weak that the pulse easily becomes intermittent; in Natrum
mur. (as also in Acid muriat. ) the third beat is apt to fail or be
omitted.

A peculiarly striking symptom of Natrum mur. is said to be
coldness in the heart (or in the cardiac region ? ). The Natrum
mur. patient is in general apt to be chilly. Chilliness and a
chill running over the body, especially over the back, as also
coldness of the hands and feet, which it is very difficult to warm
by artificial n*eans, are not unusual symptoms.

And yet the Natrum mur. patient feels worse in warm
weather than in cold; the heat of summer brings with it an ex-
traordinary sensation of weakness, so that a walk in the heat of
the sun may cause a swoon (lack of oxygen, ozone in the air?).
Perspiration also appears too easily during movement, and this
is often very copious.

It may well be concluded that with such a bodily constitution
the psychical states of the mind are apt to be mournful,
anxious, solicitous and tearful, and thus are characterized by
melancholy.

Bnt this melancholy has, as it were, a salty admixture; it is
not the quietly enduring melancholy of Pulsatilla, but an irri-
table, fretful melancholy. Instead of being soothed and pacified
by consolation and sympathy, like the melancholy of Pulsatilla,
the Natrum mur. melancholy is only aggravated by words of
consolation. The Natrum mur. patient " will not be com-
forted."

At the same time the power of thought diminishes, the
memory is enfeebled; mental as well as bodily activity makes
the totality of the state worse.

A number of symptoms appear in the brain which have partly
the characteristic of congestion and partly that of anaemia. It is
well known how difficult and precarious the physiological inter-
pretation of the symptoms appearing in cephalalgia usually is;
and this classification is doubly difficult in the cases of headache
with chlorotic and anaemic patients, and if we in our therapy
merely rely on this support we eisily go astray anl mike mis

Success With Silicea. 505

takes. But if we keep to the quality of the symptoms then we
at times have a dull, stupefying pain; again, a lancinating pain,
radiating even into the temples and ears, alternating with a
pressure and heaviness over the eyes. At times there is a sen-
sation of looseness and flapping about of the brain, then, again,
a sensation as if the brain were too large and as if the head
would burst. There is especially a digging, beating, knocking
and pulsating, especially in the occiput, but also at the base of
the skull, and also in the temples and the forehead; often there
is a real hammering. The ciliary neuralgia, which we fre-
quently find in chlorotic women, is also found in Natrum muri-
aticum.

In spite of the marked agreement of these symptoms in the
female sex with those found in common salt our literature so
far shows but few gynaecological observations and cures by
means of this most important remedy, while balneolcgists never
weary in praising the curative effects in such cases of the springs
containing common salt.

SUCCESS WITH SILICEA.

By Dr. H. Goullon.

Translated for the Homceopathic Recorder from the Leipziger Pop. Z.
f. Horn., Aug., 1899.

Ar eminent gynecologist asserts that nature is the best
accoucheur. And it is astonishing what great things nature can
effect when it acts as surgeon or as an operator without a knife,
especially when nature is properly supported by specific internal
medicines. These must, however, be chosen and prepared ac-
cording to the homoeopathic method. The following case is in
this respect one of the most remarkable and astonishing in my
more than 30 years' practice:

On the 1st of January of this year Mr. R., whom I had been
treating since the 30th of October last, called upon me. On
that occasion I had treated him for a chronic, or at least subacute
case of intestinal catarrh with vomiting, diarrhoea, which con-
tinued also at night, the discharge being of blood mixed with
mucus, attended with a melancholy depressed mood. The case
was especially characterized by the formation of acid. There
was on this account also a considerable aversion to spirituous
beverages, which often, indeed, give the first impulse to the for-

506 Success With Silicea.

mation of acids. So also he could not assimilate vegetables,
and this even at a time when the process of the disease seemed
already ended. I may briefly mention here yet that the
patient, who was more inclined to leanness than to corpulency,
had good results from Nux vomica and Arsenicum. The vomit-
ing ceased, and he also could again eat anything; so that I could
note down on Nov. 18: No more trouble with his stomach, nor
vomiting; the stool is regular; no more call for medicine. Still
we had exulted to early. An error in diet (a dish of peas
which has been found almost as disastrous to some persons as
the dish of lentils was to Esau) produced a relapse, vomiting,
followed by a good deal of acidity, a watery mucous diarrhoea,
four to five discharges. This very unexpected, as well as unwel-
come, relapse was completely removed by Rheum in doses of five
drops of the 3 decimal.

On the 1st of January the patient returned to be once more
thoroughly examined. The examination did not develop any
unfavorable symptoms, and the patient was about to dress again,
when he called my attention to another point, which could not
have been considered in his first ailment, but which yet was
manifestly a great abnormity and was visible, even externally;
there was a swelling as large as an apple or a fist, a real tumor,
a new formation on or in the right nates, in the upper part, *. e.,
in the middle of the fleshy portion. The color of the skin was
unchanged, nor was either hot or painful. I could not conceive
that this tumor, which might be supposed to be an encysted
tumor, could be of recent formation, and still the patient assured
me that it had only come since a week, but had steadily in-
creased. This fact, as' well as the hard nature of the large,
well-defined new formation, which was sharply distinguishable
on every bide, allowed a sinister interpretation, as if it might be
a malignant sarcoma. In any case, even with a firm belief in
the power of Homoeopathy, the likelihood that internal reme-
dies might suffice to relieve it was minimal. It would seem in
this case, indeed, that a surgical operation was not merely the
ultima ratio but really the prima ratio. Still I had known of a
number of cases, well established facts, in which, after a steady
use of Silicea, tumors and especially encysted tumors, even
such as had existed for years, had been reabsorbed. In such
cases usually abscesses formed and, following these, a disappear-
ance of the swelling.

But despite the unusual size of the tumor, and in spite of its

Success With Silicea. 507

threateningly rapid increase, the result was quite different.
And in this respect I view the case, i. e., the successful cure, as
decidedly unique.

The patient received every evening as much of Silicea 3 d. in
trituration as would lie on the point of a knife. He returned
on January 8. The growth of the tumor had been checked, and
it has even become somewhat softer and smaller; though this
change was rather subjective than objective, i. e., I myself
could not find this to be the case as much as the patient him-
self. But a second examination on January 15 showed that the
patient had not been deceived. Of course Silicea had been con-
tinued in the same dose. But now I made a change in the dose,
and since I am no enthusiast with respect to low potencies in
the antipsoric remedies I continued Silicea 30 d., giving two
drops morning and evening.

On January 22 the swelling could hardly be noticed by exter-
nal inspection; the surface on the right and the left side show-
ing hardly any difference, and I could promise with absolute cer-
tainty the entire disappearance of the swelling within a brief
period. In examining the place with the finger lumpy in-
equalities could be plainly felt; especially was there such a lump
on the tip of the remnant of the swelling. There was no sign
of the formation of an abscess. It seemed best to me to allow
Silicea its full action, without, however, giving way to inactivity
on my part. After having prescribed that Silicea 30 should from
January 22-29 be given only every other evening, I also pre-
scribed Hepar sulph. 3 d., two doses a day. On the 29th of Jan-
uary the tumor of the size of a fist, which had four weeks before
been quite firm and homogeneous, was only half as large as a
walnut, with an appreciably lumpy surface. On February 5,
after using Hepar 3, the patient himself compared the place to a
pea. Only on grasping the spot more deeply we can distinguish
beneath this a basis distinguished from the surrounding parts
by something of an induration. The time of the complete disap-
pearance of this new formation, which is still a riddle to me as
to its origin and nature, seems almost indifferent in comparison
with the results obtained, which, we may well say, were bril-
liant and unexampled.

It remains yet to state that to-day (February 25th) nothing
but a prominence of the size of a pea can be felt of this exten-
sive tumor. The former indurated part cannot now be any more
distinguished from the other side. Nature in conjunction with

508 Some Cures.

a specific remedy has here performed wonders. No surgeon
would have supposed the absorption of the tumor possible. He
could not have resisted the opportunity of plunging his knife
into this inviting case.

The patient on further reflection has been enabled to throw
some light on the cause of the swelling; for he had over-exerted
himself on an excursion of several miles, in which he was pre-
vented by circumstances from returning by railroad. Thus an
over- exertion of the muscles and their sheaths used in walking
had been the antecedent cause, especially in the region of the
right buttocks. An admirer of Arnica would in this case have
first employed this remedy; but when the cause is remote in
time from the traumatic effect I have found that its aid is by
no means a reliable one.

SOME CURES.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Leipzig er Pop. Z.
f. Horn., Aug., 1899.

I. Lupus.

While on a visit in B. (December, 1897) I was asked by a
young lady whether I could not give her a remedy for her face,
which was much disfigured. She had been treated by several
physicians, by some for years; she had visited the university
clinic in the neighboring city, but all without the slightest ben-
efit. Her affliction had made steady, if slow, progress.

The patient is somewhat anaemic, but her internal organs are
sound. On her cheeks and upper lip there are several spots
affected with lupus. Naturally enough, there was much de-
spondency.

I answered her: "I will try." I prescribed Arsenicum 5 d,
three drops in water, morning and evening, besides this, twice
a day for one hour, an application of clay (after Kneipp) was
made to the parts affected. The mode in which this is applied
is as follows: Put a layer of potter's clay into a pan and heat it
on a moderate fire until the clay remains behind as a dry pow-
der. This is then mixed into a porridge with water that has
been boiled and afterwards cooled again, and this is applied to
the parts affected. Extreme cleanliness is of course necessary
in this process.

In the course of four months the affliction disappeared, with
the exception of a slightly reddened scar, and also this scar took

Some Cures. 509

on a lighter color within the months following. As I have re-
cently been informed, the lupus affection of the patient has not
come back.

II. Hypertrophy of the Prostate Gland.
On the 19th of April last there came to my office an old
farmer whom I had known for some time, and he complained of
an increased urging to urinate (every half to three-quarters of
an hour), and violent burning pains in the region of the bladder
and the urethra since several days, during micturition. Cause
unknown. An investigation showed what I had before known,
a hypertrophy of the prostatic gland — an ailment found more or
less with all older people and difficult to relieve; also an acute
catarrh of the bladder. The urihe did not show any albumen,
showing that the kidneys were not involved. The remedies
prescribed for this disorder, Cantkaris, Sulphur, Pulsatilla, Can-
nabis, etc., had no effect. While I got the patient to again go
over his symptoms, Petroselinum suggested itself to me on ac-
count of the sudde?i urgency to micturition. Since all the other
symptoms* were found in this remedy, I prescribed Petroselinum
4 d., every two hours, three drops in water. In a few days the
pains had disappeared and the urgency to micturition had re-
ceded to its former degree and urgency, which resulted from
prostatitis. This affection, as before mentioned, is almost incur-
able.

III. Dropsy.

On the 30th of March of last year a servant girl of 18 years
called at my house and her ailment was manifest at first sight.
Her face was violently swollen, her eyelids also, to such a
degree that the patient could only slightly open them. Her
skin appeared tense and pallid. The fact that pressure made a
dent which disappeared only slowly showed that it was dropsy.
That this dropsy was the result of an inflammation of the kid-
neys, was shown by the considerable amount of albumen in the
urine. Since inflammation of the kidne)'s frequently sets in
after scarlatina, even after four or five weeks, I inquired
whether she had had this disease, but was told that some time
ago she had had some sore throat, but no scarlatina. It may
have been that she had a mild form of this disease, with-
out becoming aware of it. For several weeks her body had
commenced to swell up, but she had, nevertheless, attended to

^Violent burning pains before and during micturition.

510 Blindness Averted by The Indicated Remedy.

her work, but now she was unable to do anything. It may be
mentioned in addition that the action of the heart was strong
and rapid, and that, besides her face, also her body and feet
were excessively swollen.

Prescription: Apis 3 d., every two hours three drops; com-
plete rest in bed, and a milk-diet.

On the 3d of April the swelling on her face and body had
gone down, and on the 5th the swelling disappeared from her
feet, so that the dropsy was at an end. The amount of albu-
men in the urine decreased in almost the same ratio, for while
it amounted on March 30 to 0.8 percent., an examination on
April 7th, as well as later, showed that the albumen had disap-
peared.

BLINDNESS AVERTED BY THE INDICATED
REMEDY.

By Dr. Goullon.

Translated for the HomcEopathic Recorder from the Leipziger Pop. Z. f.

Horn., Aug., 1899.

11 No joking with eyes! " is an old saying, well to be heeded
whenever anything more serious turns up than a stye or a cold
in the eye. But we may as truly say there is no joking with
the ears and the nose. And accordingly people often wander
from one specialist to another, but frequently find good reason
to rue their course. A good homceopathist ought not to despair
at once, but ought first to carefully consult the homoeopathic
Materia Medica and the homoeopathic literature before he fol-
lows the easier way of advising his patient to go to a specialist.
Of course everything has its limits, also our confidence in our
powers and our responsibility.

I will here give an instance of homoeopathic aid in a case in
which I might have appeared justified in refusing to undertake
the treatment, especially as the patient was too far away to be
visited and examined. In every case a physician should make
a scientific diagnosis and to collect all the material necessary be-
fore he proceeds to treat a case.

On the 28th of April Mr. R wrote to me from B. " Three weeks
ago there appeared small spots on the cornea of my wife's eyes,
which causes her to see grayish blue spots as large as plates on
all objects, and the eye thus affected quivered. I gave her Can-
nabis and Conium which caused these spots to become transparent

Blindness Averted by The Indicated Remedy. 511

and like a thin veil. But a draught of cold, wet air the day be-
fore yesterday aggravated the case, so that the affliction is worse
than before. She can now see hardly anything with the eye af-
fected."

Belladonna seemed in such a case indispensable; but seemed
insufficient of itself; so I prescr bed Acidum nitri in alternation
with it. I sent four powders, of which two contained four drops
each of Belladonna 6 d., and the other two four drops each of
Acidum nitri 6 d. I directed that powders one and two {Bella-
donna add Acidum nitri) should be dissolved in 60 grammes of
water each, and every two hours two teaspoonfuls should be
given in alternation. Thus the patient received every four hours
one and the same remedy, either Belladonyia or nitric acid.

The result was very satisfactory, for on May 6 Mr. R. was able
to report: "The powders sent me for my wife's eye have acted
well. The black veil before the eye affected has become lighter,
and especially more transparent, so that she can already distin-
guish again the hands of a watch, etc."

Enlargement of the Tonsils.

On March 29 I met Mrs. T., whom I had treated ten years ago
for large tonsils. She was then about fifteen or sixteen years
old. Everybody knows about large tonsils. Even if they are
not troublesome while in their normal state, they will yet become
very troublesome by their chronic swelling, during which these
appendices, the physiological use of which is by no means as yet
well understood, often appear like balls and occupy the whole of
the posterior faucal cavity. When this hypertrophy is limited to
one side, to one tonsil, it may be endured yet. But when, as in
this case, both sides are affected, the symptoms become very
troublesome. They cause snoring and sleeping with open mouth,
causing this to become dry, and making respiration difficult, so
also buzzing in the ears and hard hearing, because the enlarged
tonsil will occupy the opening of the Eustachian tube, that short
canal which maintains the ventilation between the tympanum
and the bucal cavity and is of great influence on the vibration of
the tympanum and on its ability to vibrate. It also serves for
the discharge of secretions of that mucous membrane, so that its
closing and obstruction may lead to many acoustic troubles. En-
larged tonsils also are said to be accompanied with enuresis noc-
turna (incontinence of urine and bed-wetting), though this state-
ment of celebrated clinical authorities does not seem to have

512 Blindness Averted by The Indicated Remedy.

much clear reason for its support. They allege that, owing to
the restricted respiration, the air is surcharged with carbonic acid,
causing paralysis of the sphincter of the bladder. Much more
frequently incontinence of urine is caused by irritation from
worms, which will be relieved by Cina 2 d.

Now what can we do in such a pathological enlargement of the
tonsils ? This affection also predisposes the patient to diphtheria.
Those affected with such an enlargement actually suffer more
frequently from diphtheria, because the enlarged tonsils expose a
larger surface to the invasion of the Micro coccus diphtheriticus .
But, howTever the case may be, observations like those we here
communicate must not be neglected in order to answer the ques-
tion properly.

Mrs. T., whom I had not seen for a number of years, permitted
me to examine her throat. To my great astonishment I could
not see anything, not even a remnant of the tonsils! I would add
that there was a tableau! if this expression had not been worn
out.

My first question was: " You have had your tonsils excised?"
" You have excised them with your remedies," was the prompt
answer. We then came to review the case and found that Phy-
tolacca had been the last remedy used. But before that Acidum
nitri, Calc. jodata, and Sulphur iodatwn had been used.

From this it would appear that by persistent treatment the ton-
sils may be absorbed and a surgical operation becomes unnecessary,
i. e., in a number of cases. It would be almost inexcusable if
we should not first try these healing factors before we grasp the
knife or use the guillotine; for the very useful instrument used
for the purpose realty lays the tonsil on its basis and cuts off its
head, pretty much like a guillotine decapitates the condemned
person. The process has at all events its terror for nervous chil-
dren, and where the patient is restless the operation is not with-
out its difficulties. Besides, we can never be sure that the tonsils
will not grow again. I therefore maintain that the internal treat-
ment is justified and is the most rational indication at least for a
certain length of time. The operators who are itching to use
their knife will, according to modern views concerning operations,
still find sufficient "objects" for cutting in other regions of the
body.

From Veterinary Practice. 513

FROM VETERINARY PRACTICE.

By Jos. Reisinger, Veterinary Physician.

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from the Leipz. Pop. Z.f.>

Horn. Aug., 1899.

Some years ago I was called by a mill- owner to treat a young
horse of three and a half years which, according to his state-
ment, was very sick. I diagnosed inflammation of the bowels.
Since the owner of the animal was opposed to all homoeopathic
treatment I used allopathic remedies, but without result. The
animal continued to lose strength, and I told the owner on the
fourth day that I had used all allopathic remedies possible, and
I finally advised him to try the homoeopathic remedies. I ven-
tured to propose this because I knew that nothing further could
be done with allopathic remedies and he had always full confi-
dence in me. He answered that he did not care what I did
with the young horse, as it was gone anyhow.

So I gave it Aconite 3, in alternation with Arsenicum 3, every
quarter of an hour, 10 drops being put on a wafer, and from that
hour the young horse improved. Next day I only gave it two
drops of Arsenic alb. every hour, later on every two hours; I
gave it flour and bran mixed with water and green fodder and
in two weeks the young horse had perfectly recovered, and half
a year later it was sold for 250 dollars.

The second case I would mention was that of a bull. I was-
called in on account of a painful swelling, as large as fist, on
the side of the neck. The swelling was hot and hard to the
touch. I gave Hepar sulph. calc. 3, in trituration, directing
them to give it to the bull three times a day, and stated that I
expected the swelling would open in a few days and discharge
matter. When I returned on the fourth day the farmer told
me that the day before, thus after three days' use of the powder,
the swelling had broken open of itself and discharged a quantity
of matter. He expressed his surprise at the action of the-
remedy and told me in his good-natured, frank way that he told
his wife after I went away, having merely prescribed an internal
remedy and only a teaspoonful of this, that he thought the vet-
erinary doctor who used to be so smart must have lost his
senses, else he would have ordered a liniment to rub in; still he
had given the powder, because he thought it could do no harm :.
but now he had seen the wonderful action of Homoeopathy..

514 Book Notices.

BOOK NOTICES

Repertory of the Urinary Organs and Prostate Gland, In-
cluding Condylomata, Compiled by A. R. Morgan, M. D. 318
pages. Genuine morocco, gilt edges, round corners, $3.00 ;
by mail, $3. 10. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1899.
" Homoeopathy," says Dr. Morgan, "is either wholly and ever-
lastingly true, or else it is a delusion and a fraud." This reper-
tory is the work of one of our veteran physicians who believes,
after years of trial, that it is everlastingly true ; to those who so
believe, and who therefore conscientiously seek the similimum,
this book will be a most useful and important aid. Dr. Morgan
has done the work of repertorying the urinary tract, and it need
never be done again in a lifetime. The book is well arranged,
and the running heading at the top of page enables one to easily
find what is wanted. The book, with its genuine morocco, and
gold edges, is a beautiful specimen of work, worthy of its con-
tents. It ought, and probably, will be accepted as one of the
homoeopathic standards.

The Logic of Figures, or Comparative Results of Homoeopathic

and Other Treatments. Edited by Thomas Lindsley Bradford.

212 pages. Cloth, $1.25; by mail, $1.34. Philadelphia.

Boericke & Tafel. 1900.

Dr. Bradford has raked our literature from the earliest days
down to date of publication and gathered in all the comparative
figures bearing on the results of homoeopathic and other treat-
ments ; the result is so overwhelmingly one-sided, so strongly in
favor of homoeopathic treatment, that it will be surprising if any
one who goes through this book will ever want any other. Open-
ing at random, we strike one of the most convincing table of
figures in the book, those of two military hospitals at St. Louis
during "the war." The "regulars" had 169 cases of dysen-
tery, typhoid, diarrhoea and pneumonia, while the homoeopathic
hospital 177 cases; the "regulars" lost 37.2 percent, and the
homoeopath 1.1 per cent. Who can explain away such figures !
and this is but one instance out of 212 pages. It is a book that,
for the good of humanity, ought to be widely circulated. In the
hands of aggressive homoeopaths it can be made a terrible

Book Notices. 515

weapon against the enemies of Homoeopathy, for the statement
that statistics are misleading will not go against this mass, cov-
ering the biggest part of a century, and all leaning in one direc-
tion.

Catarrh, Colds and Grippe, with Chapters on Xasal Polypus,
Hay Fever and Influenza. By John H. Clarke, M. D. Amer-
ican Edition Revised from Fourth English Edition. 122
Pages. Cloth, 75 cents; by mail, 82 cents. Philadelphia.
Boericke & Tafel. 1899.

A revised American edition of this popular homoeopathic
work on colds, grippe, etc., that has been so favorably received
by our English cousins in the past. For a short, plain and prac-
tical book on the treatment of that disease that is always — or
nearly so— in at the beginning of trouble we know of none
better.

Pocket Book of Medical Practice, Including Diseases of the
Kidneys, Skin, Nerves, Eye, Ear, Xose and Throat and Ob-
stetrics. Gynecology, Surgery by Special Authors. By Ch.
Gatchell, M. D. 392 pages. Pocket size. Flexible Bind-
ing, $2.00. Chicago. Era Publishing Co. 1899.
A handy little pocket practice covering the points enumerated
in the above title; by means of small type, closely set, and
very thin paper, Dr. Gatchell has managed to crowd a great deal
of matter into a very small space. All of Dr. Gatchell' s works
have been very favorably received by the profession and this one
will not, we think, prove an exception to the rule.

The International Text-book of Surgery. By American and
British Authors. Edited by J. Collins Warren, M. D., EL. D.,
Professor of Surgery in Harvard Medical School, and A. Pierce
Gould, M. S., F. R. C. S. Volume I. General and Opera-
tive Surgery. With 458 Illustrations in the Text and 9 Full-
page Plates in Colors. 947 pages. Cloth, $5.00. Philadel-
phia. W. B. Saunders. 1899.

Volume 1 st of this big work contains twenty-eight chapters
devoted to different phases, or subjects, of general and operative
surgery, the work of twenty eight men eminent in the surgical
profession. The work is brought out in good style as regards
illustrations, paper, binding, etc. Volume II is promised on
January 1st, 1900.

A Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry. By
Elbert W. Rockwood, B. S., M. D., Professor of Chemistrv
and Toxicologv in the University of Iowa. Illustrated with
One Colored Plate and Three Plates of Microscopic Prepara-

516 Book Notices.

tions. 5^x7^ inches. Pages viii-204. Extra Cloth, $1.00,

net. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street,

Philadelphia.

Running through the heads of the Table of Contents we find
the following heads which show the scope of this Manual of
Physiological Chemistry ; they are: Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins,
Fermentation, Saliva, Gastric juice. Pancreatic juice, Blood, Bile,
Bone, Muscular tissue, Urine and its sediments, etc. The chem-
istry and tests of these is the scope of the manual.

What the Eye Men Say of Norton's Ophthalmic Diseases
and Therapeutics.

Dr. James A Campbell, Professor Ophthalmology, Homoeo-
pathic Medical College of Missouri, writes:

My Dear Dr Norton : The second edition of your excellent
" Ophthalmic Diseases and Therapeutics" reached me a couple
of days ago. I have been waiting for an opportunity to look
over it carefully, but as yet have been too busy to do so. My
brief running through its pages enables me to say that I am
very well pleased with it. It is a marked improvement on a
good book.

I have always recommended it to our students and the pro-
fession at large, and it is with renewed interest that I shall con-
tinue to do so. It is an up to date book and you are to be con-
gratulated on the success you have made of it.
"Very sincerely yours,

"James A. Campbell."

Dr. Wm. R. King, Professor Ophthalmology, Southern Ho-
moeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Baltimore, writes:

"Allow me to tender you my congratulations and you deserve
those of the entire profession for the very practical work you
have placed in our hands. At my initial lecture to-day before
the class at the Southern College, Baltimore, I took pleasure in
highly endorsing and recommending it as the first text book on
this subject which a homoeopathic student, at least, should
possess."

F. M. Gibson, Professor Ophthalmology, College of Homoeo-
pathic Medicine and Surgery of the University of Minnesota,
writes:

" My Dear Doctor : I think it quite improved for the use of
students as a text book by the additions which have been made.
I shall continue to recommend it as there is no other single book
with which I am acquainted that covers the ground so well and
completely.

" Yours fraternally,

"F. M. Gibson."

Homoeopathic Recorder.

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Address communications, books for review, exchanges, etc., for the editor, to

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WHAT IS THE CAUSE?

That nothing happens without a cause is the flattest sort of a
truism. When the thing happening affects hundreds of thou-
sands of persons, perhaps millions, the cause seems to be some-
thing rather grave, and should not be lightly passed over, much
less remedied, if it needs a remedy, by legislative enactments or
examining board's say so, and general abuse.

"Prayer," "Faith," "Divine," "Christian Science" and
other similar " healers" have been with us now for many years,
and in spite of laws, examining boards, howls and sarcasm they
grow and the number of their adherents to-day, is perhaps,
greater than ever. This fact, and it will hardly be disputed,
demonstrates that the opposition to these " irregular practition-
ers " has not been effective; indeed, it is quite likely that the full
and free advertisements given them by the daily and medical
press have rather helped them along than otherwise.

Still, to revert to our truism, there is a cause for this persistent
movement, and it is evident that the cause is not in the " heal-
ers," but that it is something in, or needed by, the people that
make the healers possible — find that something, and you have
correctly diagnosed the case.

Assume that the cause of this in the people is an epidemic or
a distemper, what must be said of the methods adopted by the
profession to meet it ? Is a widely prevalent epidemic to be
combatted with abuse and the jail ? The physician does not
rail at his patient on account of the vagaries of illness, so why is
it rational to do so when the epidemic takes the nature of " faith
cure ?"

Per contra, if this movement is the result of a need in humanity
which the medical profession does not supply, what then?

5 1 8 Editorial.

Mr. Sedgwick, in a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly, in
referring to the sincerity and enthusiasm of these '' faith cure "
people, said, in effect, that it was the evidence, not very intelli-
gent, perhaps, but very sincere, of the revolt of a large class
against the materialism that has grown up in the world, and
especially in medicine. Medicine finds the origin of practically
all diseases in a material "germ." When it comes to cure,
theoretically it was to kill the germ, but as it was soon discov-
ered the patient succumbed sooner than the germ this was aban-
doned and what was left, therapeutically, where the germ
theory held ? Nothing. And the people not believing in the
germ theory turned to faith cure.

On this line of reasoning, then, the "faith cure cult" is a
sort of Frankenstein monster indirectly created by materialism
in medicine and in the world.

Furthermore, when a representative medical journal like the
Medical Record will print a letter such as is found in their
columns of October 7th it looks though the " craze " is still on
the increase. The letter in question, from N. C. Steele, M. D.,
begins as follows:

Sir: I have just read your article on " Faith Curing in Illinois." I am
not a Christian Scientist. There may not be any basis of truth for their
claims as to curing people, but I am inclined to think there is such a basis.
Of course Miss Eddy's book is mostly a conglomeration of nonsense, but
the fact that Christian Scientists cure the sick is what influences people to
accept their doctrine or theory as true. As far as human evidence can es-
tablish a proposition their ' ' healers ' ' cure as large a proportion of the sick
as drug-physicians. Or what is the same thing to the sick as the " science,"
they are made to believe that they are cured.

That is pretty strong, is it not ?

What is the cure ?

In our opinion it is in sound, clean Homoeopathy and in noth-
ing else, and the sooner Homoeopathy is cleared of "serum"
and all other old school abominations the better.

A NEW HOMCEOPATHIC PAMPHLET SERIES.

(Communicated.)

In connection with one of the medical clubs of Boston the
work of preparing a series of pamphlets on Homoeopathy, more
especially for the benefit of the laity, has been undertaken and
accomplished. The general ignorance which prevails upon the

Editorial. 519

subject is astounding. It is certain that but a small number of
our patients have a definite idea of Homoeopathy and few in-
deed could defend it against attack from its detractors. In these
days of general enlightenment many among the laity are quali-
fied to intelligently investigate this and kindred subjects, if
given the proper data. A thorough understanding of Homoe-
opathy, its principles and advantages would strengthen the be-
lief of its followers, and prevent some from drifting over to the
heresies and fads of the day. Such practical reading matter
could also be made the means of making man}7 new converts.

The treatises on Homoeopathy intended for lay readers which
we have access to, and we believe we have read most of those
that have appeared, are either incomplete or too voluminous. Such
treatises should be written in very simple language, the facts
presented tersely, and the logic unassailable. The matter of cost
must also be considered. Sharp's Tracts are written in a most
scholarly way and the style throughout attractive, but they com-
prise twelve closely written pamphlets, forming a volume of two
hundred and thirty pages. The bound set, which was the only
one the writer has been able to obtain, costs seventy-five cents.
The Homoeopathic League of England has published as many as
thirty-five tracts, many of which are ably written and present
strong arguments. The cost in lots is only a little over a cent
apiece, but owing to the large number of them required for each
reader their extensive use becomes expensive. If they had
been more condensed and fewer in number they would have se-
cured more readers. There are many other works on Homoe-
opathy of this kind, but they offer the same objections as stated.

There are five pamphlets in all in the series under consider-
ation ; each treats of one or more special phases of the subject,
is complete in itself and of convenient size. By the use of head-
ings throughout, details are easily grasped. The entire field has
been fully covered. Clearness and brevity have been aimed at
in every particular. Gems oc thought are quoted from promi-
nent homoeopathists, and extracts are given from recognized
allopathic authorities, vindicating the principles of Homoeopathy,
The fallacies of old school methods are made strikingly apparent,
not by resorting to abuse or ridicule, but by quoting statements
made by allopathic authorities against their own system of prac-
tice. Tne evidence in favor of Homoeopathy here gathered and
presented is seemingly overwhelming. It is the most conclusive
yet brought together in pamphlet form. Through the kind as-

520 Editorial.

sistance of two of the members of the Committee on Statistics of
the American Institute of Homoeopathy statistics up to the
present time are given, not in the form of tables, but under the
heading of each disease, ranging from cholera to measles. Com-
parative statistics from the health reports of nineteen cities ap-
pear. In this form the advantages of homoeopathic treat-
ment are readily seen. The difference between Homoeopathy
and Allopathy of the present day is also made plainly evident.
The great changes brought about through the influence of
Homoeopathy in abolishing obnoxious and injurious methods of
treatment are made strikingly apparent, and it is also shown
how much has been accomplished by Homoeopathy in other
directions. The pamphlets have been submitted to the profes-
sion and leading editors of our journals and are generally ac-
knowledged to be the best extant.

The method of the English Homoeopathic League in having
pamphlets issued without the author's name seems to be the
correct one. Reading matter of this kind should not be under
the suspicion of advertising the author, and the name of the
editor of these pamphlets will not appear.

Physicians will readily see the advantage of circulating such
pamphlets and of keeping them on the reading table in their
waiting rooms. If judiciously distributed among patients and
sympathizers they cannot fail to advance the cause of Homoe-
opathy and promote the interests of its practitioners. Since the
average physician would have to give his patients and friends
the whole set cf pamphlets, the expense must be reasonable.
The cost of one hundred of these sets will be but six dollars;
twenty-five sets, two dollars; a single set. ten cents. It will thus
be seen that the price of the series when ordered in lots is very
low, less than that of any others to be found on sale; in fact, it
barely covers the actual cost of publication.

These tracts are on sale at the Boericke & Tafel pharmacies.

OBITUARY.

Thomas C. Williams, M. D., one of the pioneers in Homoe-
opathy in this city and a practitioner for 46 years in Philadel-
phia, died at his residence, 567 North Fifth street, on Sunday
evening, October 1st, 1899, at the age of 85 years, after an
illness of several months incident to old age. He was born in
Bangor, Maine, in 18 14, a son of the Rev. Thomas Williams

Editorial. 521

and Sarah Cushman Williams. During his early life he taught
school in Massachusetts, and at the age of 19 was ready to enter
college but left home to go South to do missionary work and
teach the colored race, but poor health prevented him from con-
tinuing this work. He entered the Bangor Theological Semi-
nary and graduated from that institution in 1845. Failing
health finally compelled him to abandon the ministry.

In 1847 he came to Philadelphia and lived with his brother,
Dr. Theodore S. Williams, now deceased, who was at that time
the widely known pioneer homoeopathic physician of German-
town, and through whose influence he became interested in
medicine. He entered the Homoeopathic Medical College of
Pennsylvania, now the Hahnemann Medical College of Phila-
delphia, and graduated in the Class of 1853 Pie first located
at Kensington, where he practiced a short time, removing to his
late home in i860. He was one of the organizers of the Phila-
delphia County Medical Society and of the State Homoeopathic
Medical Society, both of which were organized in 1866. He
was a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the
Alumni Association of the Hahnemann Medical College and a
consulting physician of the Children's Homoeopathic Hospital;
also, a member of the Union League.

He was pre eminently a consistent Christian. All who had
the honor of knowing him felt the refining influence of his
peaceful Christian character, which was nobly manifested in his
work among his patients, whose devotion and loyalty he en-
joyed until the close of his life. He was a remarkably success-
ful practitioner and did a great deal to establish Homoeopathy.
His funeral was largely attended by his medical colleagues and
patients. Dr. Williams was buried at Laurel Hill.

The Medical Record of October 21st says: " Glycerinized vac-
cine affords absolute protection against smallpox; vaccine points
are uncertain in this regard."

Is it not rather late in the day to have discovered this ? The
same editorial also says that the glycerinized lymph is " free
from staphlococci, streptococci, and other pathogenic organisms
which are invariably found on vaccine points."

Here are two very grave admissions by the leading medical
journal of the country:

1 st. Vaccine points are dangerous.

522 Editorial.

2d. Vaccine points afford but uncertain protection.

Yet these dangerous and uncertain points have been used for
many years, and their use compelled by law at that. Men who,
in the past, affirmed what the Medical Record does to-day were
termed "fools," "fanatics," etc.

What is the truth of the whole matter? Is it that the manu-
facturers have bought up the medical journals — the glycerinized
lymph costs about i-io what the ivory point does and sells for
the same price — or have the editors really examined into the
matter and been convinced ?

Verily, it is a mess !

"It is stated that the attorney- general of Louisiana has taken
steps before the Supreme Court of the United States to obtain
an injunction restraining the Texas authorities from enforcing
an embargo against New Orleans on account of reports of the
existence of yellow fever in that city. Without going into the
merits of this particular case, we may express our decided con-
viction that the sooner the petty business of local quarantine is
given up for good the better it will be for the entire country." —
New York Medical Journal.

Amen !

Local quarantine, "stamping out" disease, and all manner of
fads and petty injustice are the children, the "germ theory,"
and the sooner they are dethroned the sooner will men return to
medical sanity.

In a paper read before the American Institute of Homoe-
opathy, at Atlantic City, on "The Treatment of Acute and
Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media," by Dr. Howard P. Bellows,
of Boston, the Doctor says, in conclusion :

" I am sincere in the assertion that without the aid which I
now receive from the homoeopathic remedy, internally adminis-
tered, in the treatment of cases of acute and chronic inflamma-
tion of the middle ear, as well as in many other forces of aural
disease, I should be loth to continue the practice of my spe-
cialty."

The Medical Record s summary of the opening address by Dr.
Geo. Wilson before the last assembly of the British Medical As-
sociation is interesting as showing " the drift," and may be use-

Editorial. 523

ful to those who are prone to be led by the majority. The
Record says:

"The address was from beginning to end a strong indictment of the
manner in which bacteriological research is carried on by present-day in-
vestigators, and, according to Dr. Wilson, the erroneous premises deduced
from these investigations. After offering up the usual meed of praise to
Jenner — we are pleased to observe that Dr. Wilson is a firm believer in the
efficacy of vaccination — he proceeds to show, at least to his own satisfac-
tion, that the modern bacteriologists, while admit ing that they base their
methods of prophylaxis and cure on Jenner's discovery, ignore the im-
portant point that no pathogenic microbe of smallpox or vaccinia has ever
been isolated with certainty. He, therefore, argues that there is no legiti-
mate analogy between Jenner's discovery and these newer methods of
prophylaxis and cure founded on that discovery. Dr. Wilson furthermore
contends that the almost universal use of antitoxins by the younger genera-
tion of medical men is chiefly responsible for the existing widespread prej-
udice against vaccination; in fact, he claims that the members of the med-
ical profession have to a great extent only themselves to thank for the
present unfortunate situation. The latter portion of the address is taken
up with the endeavor to demonstrate the worthlessness of most of the cura-
tive serums and of the mode of procedure of many experimental operators,
and concludes with a vehement diatribe directed against the commercial
methods of a considerable number of up-to-date bacteriologists.

An alkaloidal man, after describing his case and how he gave
the patient Atropine sulft/i., Hyoscyamine, Codeine and Brucine
concludes as follows, on the subject of dose:

Let no one think from what I have said and from the minuteness of the
dose of Atropine sulfi/i., gr. 1-3000, that this is Homoeopathy. Not bv a
jugful !

And the editor at this puts in his oar in brackets thus:

[And a big "jug," too. — Ed.]

If these estimable gentlemen had ever been blessed with
knowledge of Homoeopathy, even the most superficial, they
would never have been guilty the amusing disclaimer quoted
above. No one would mistake the prescription for "Homoe-
opathy " who knows anything of the " Science of therapeutics."

The following is from the Medical Brief, and is a good indica-
tion to slow down on "serum " therapy:

"Since the discovery that Carbolic acid, or other antiseptic,
was the only therapeutic agent in diphtheria antitoxin and
other serums, Carbolic acid has been freely experimented with

524 Editorial.

in the treatment of a number of acute toxic diseases, more espe-
cially tetanus.

" Previous to this time the mortality from tetanus had been
very great, ranging around seventy per cent. Under the new
treatment, with hypodermic injections of a Carbolic acid solution,
the percentage of deaths has been reduced in an astonishing de-
gree.

"The Carbolic acid keeps down the fever in tetanus, antago-
nizes the toxic action of the poison in the blood, and by its
sedative properties controls the convulsions.

"Prof. Baccelli, Director of the Royal Medical Clinic of the
University of Rome, deserves great credit for being brave enough
to employ plain hypodermic injections of Carbolic acid instead of
the numerous fraudulent tetanus antitoxins in the market. His
example has been followed by many members of the profession
in Italy, Germany, France, Russia, and not a few independent
therapeutists among our own readers.

" Statistics show that results obtained from simple Carbolic
acid injections are very much superior to those which follow the
use of any of the various tetanus serums.

" Tetanus is such a terrible disease, and so rapidly fatal, this
Carbolic acid treatment should have the fullest and fairest trial.
The strength of the Carbolic acid solution employed varies from
two to three per cent. It is made by dissolving the purified,
crystallized acid in distilled water. The hypodermic dose is
three to four centigrammes daily, although it is recorded that as
high as thirty-five centigrammes have been reached in a single
day without symptoms of drug poisoning developing.

" Since it has been amply demonstrated by the indisputable
logic of events that Carbolic acid, or other antiseptic, is the sole
virtue in all serums, and that the serum itself is simply a poison,
physicians who have consciences must abandon the filthy frauds
if they would be considered worthy practitioners of the heal-
ing art."

The publishers of the Medical Visitor still insist that "a
thorough trituration of Mercurius vivus should" be almost black, \
and indulge in some rather uncalled for personalities aganist us
for daring to differ. Boericke & Tafel recently put the matter
to the test by triturating a ix of the remedy for many hours,
until it got to the point where pestles would no longer take
hold, and the microscope showed that for the last six hoars

Editorial. 525

there had been no change. The color of the trituration was, as
always, a rather light gray. The Medical Visitor men assert
that their trituration "received as high as four hundred hours
continuous grinding," which equals forty days. That is utterly
abnormal, and if the product turned black it was simply because
it became oxidized. Common sense impels to the belief that a
trituration of so bright a metal as live mercury should not be
black, and experience proves it.

TEXAS HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

The Texas Homoeopathic Medical Association held its 15th
session at Dallas, October 16.

Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows:

President, Dr. J. R. Pollock. Fort Worth.

First Vice President, Dr. Geo. E. Blackburn, Vernon.

Second Vice President, Dr. Jno. E. Thatcher, Dallas.

Secretary, Dr. H. B. Stiles, Gainesville.

Treasurer, Dr. T. J. Crowe, Dallas.

It was resolved that all delinquent dues of old members be
considered cancelled and all initiation fees of new members sub-
scribing during the ensuing year be waived, giving old and new
members all a fresh start.

It was further resolved that meetings be held in the fall when
practice is light and at some State Fair town, or other point of
popular attraction, so that very low rates can always be secured
over the long roads of our big State. In this way we hope to
secure the largest possible attendance.

All Homoeopathic physicians in Texas and adjoining States
who have not received communications from the Secretaay are
invited to send in their addresses. We want all to join the
Association.

H. B. Stii.es, M. D.,

Secretary ,

The New England Medical Gazette says of the fourth edition
of Boericke & Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, just published,
that it is a complete exposition of the subject in all its bear-
ings." Also, "It will be generally agreed after a perusal of
this book that, while there are drugs other than the tissue rem-
edies without which the therapeutic resources of the profession
would be sadly lessened, those selected by Schiissler as of pre-
eminent worth are certainly deserving of more frequent applica-

526 Editorial.

tion than they have had heretofore. We think they should also
have a more thorough and systematic proving that their actual
value may be more accurately known, although a great deal of
reliable information is furnished in Drs. Boericke & Dewey's
latest work."

Not even the profoundest critic can tell us what it is about, or
in a book that gives it life; but whatever it is it will be found in
this work. Few medical works ever see a fourth edition.

Watekbury, Conn., Nov. i, 1899.
Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia, Pa.

I am in receipt of my first completed specimen of Morgan's
Repertory, and wish to express to you my satisfaction at its
artistic appearance.

The new comer is so admirable in arrangement; so comely in
form; so superior in typographical style and execution, and is
clothed so handsomely in morocco and gold, that the contents
should be of superior merit to deserve such excellent treatment.

Yours respectfully,

A. R. Morgan.
And we may add that the context is worthy of the fine setting.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel:

It has been said that a man may be a successful teacher and
yet fail in practice, but tell me how one can practice that he does
not know.

Here a scientific professor of ripe years has carefully sifted all
schools and given us what appears to him the surest indications
for treatment of all diseases, of course, laying particular stress on
that of Similiar Similibus Curantur.

I am a very old practitioner and wanted to see a resume in-
clusive of 1898. After going through its every article exclaimed
Eureka, with little more to be desired. Never have I received
my money's worth more than when I purchased a copy ol the
Practice of Medicine by Arndt.

Faithfully and fraternally yours,

T. Docking, M. D., etc.

San Diego, CaL, Sept. 12, iSpp.

A good tonic is something often needed even in Homoeopathy,
and the best all-round tonic in the world to-day is the Physi-
ological Tonicum (Hensel), "the tonic of civilization."
Some marvelously successful results have followed the use of
this strength builder and blood maker.

Editorial. 527

If any of our readers have any troublesome bronchial coughs
that refuse to yield to the selected remedies, remember that Nar-
cissus, 1 to 3X, is a grand remedy for such complaints. It has had a
reputation for the relief of bronchial catarrh as far back as medi-
cal history goes. To get the results the tincture of the young
buds and flowers must be used. We recently heard of a bronchial
cough of over three weeks' standing that was promptly relieved
by this Narcissus.

Bee-Line Therapia and Repertory is the title of a work
by Stacey Jones, M. D.. which has reached its second edition.
It is pocket size and numbers 333 pages, beautifully printed and
handsomely bound in morocco. It is a convenient index for
the determination of any given disease, or diseased or abnormal
condition. It also gives the hints for the use of a large number
of drugs. It is a veritable Vada mecum. Price, $2.06, postage
prepaid. Published by Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia and
Chicago. — People 's Health Journal.

THE "RELATIONSHIPS" IN BOENNINGHAUSEN'S
THERAPEUTIC POCKET-BOOK.

The following explanation of the " relationship" of remedies
that occupy about one hundred and sixty pages in Boenning-
hausen is from the Homoeopathic World:

"As no one has volunteered to enlighten our correspondent,
Mr. Kelkar, whose query we inserted in our September number,
we will endeavor to do so ourselves. (1) The 'relationships'
show the genius of a remedy by revealing those which are most
like the remedy compared, in each of the respects tabulated.
(2) By knowing the remedies most closely related in any re-
quired respect it is easy to compare them in their side relations
to see which most closely corresponds all round to the case for
which a remedy is sought. (3) Having found from the list of
relationships which remedies most closely resemble a medicine
which has ceased to benefit a patient, it is easy to find among
these the next best remedy to give. (4) Bcenninghausen means,
so far as we understand him. that some remedies cause concom-
itant symptoms much more markedly than others, and if a case
occurs in which the main symptoms are found, and in which
there are concomitants, be these what they may, if two remedies
correspond to the main symptoms and only one of these had
concomitants (of whatever kind), that would be the similimum.

— Ed. h. wr

PERSONALS.

Now we're shouting! Kansas has a journal named The New Man.

A suave doctor recently described a case of pregnancy in "a widow, though
practically married."

And now Michigan has a " barbers examining board." Wonder if it be
against the law to shave yourself out there without first passing an exami-
nation.

A "Christian Science" exchange threatens to drop all subscribers who
do not pay up. Bully for you! Money isn't mind else all wre uns wTould be
rich.

And the same one writes of "old mother Eddy" and "her coffers."
Looks like the end of this thing.

Confirming hobbies is often mistaken for "earnest seeking for the
truth."

The man who seeks a short, easy path to a knowledge of the homoeo-
pathic Materia Medica will never get there. As well expect a "short cut "
to the mastery of any other great science.

The trick of the Eclectic in always following the drug with the name of
its maker may be good business but it looks — well, you know.

If only an auto-bill-payer could be invented!

Don't think (as do so many of the sons of women) that your powers are
the limit of the possible in therapeutics.

And now the Don Quixotes propose to "wage war against the mos-
quitoes " because, they argue, no skeeter no ague.

Lord Bowen proposed the amendment "conscious as we are of each
other's unworthiness."

Dr. Stephen Hasbrouck has removed from 157 West 123 to 68 Broad street,
New York City.

Its mighty hard to keep a seal-skin wife on a musk-rat salary, says friend
John.

When you come to think it over "stamping out disease" is a very
peculiar expression and involves some very peculiar predicates.

How do the scientific gentlemen know but that the mosquito is more
sinned against than sinning in the matter of the mysterious " malarial
parasite ?"

Many a man has been rudely shaken by malaria contracted where was
ne'er a skeeter.

Don't be in too great a hurry to accept Koch's theories as the scientific
gospel — ee's only a bloomin' human being after all.

"Why" he is not a homoeopath still seems to worry Dr. Qiiine. The
" why " is his misfortune, not his fault.

They say that Physiological Touicum is "the tonic of civilization."

Hereafter Dr. Edward G. Tuttle, 61 West 51st street, New York, will con-
fine his practice to gynecology and surgery.

It is astonishing how fast a weak little woman can run up a bill.

Whether your hands be "sterilized" or simply clean, it comes to the
same — with a leaning to cleanliness.

If you are going to the International Homoeopathic Congress next sum-
mer, write Dr. Frank Kraft, 57 Bell Ave., Cleveland; he is getting up an
excursion, or club, for that event.

Dr. Allen's 2d edition of Characteristics and Keynotes will devote especial
attention to the nosodes, something that has long been needed.

THE

HOMCEOPATHIC RECORDER.

Vol. XIV. Lancaster, Pa., December, 1899. No. 12

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON MALANDRIUM,
By A. L. Marcy, M. D.

As cold weather approaches there is more liability of some
of us coming in contact with cases of small-pox or its milder
form, Variola.

During the past winter the writer came in actual contact for
the first time with this disease, it being at that time quite prev-
alent in this vicinity. One day. in response to a ring of the
door bell, I found myself confronted with a young woman who
said she came to get some medicine for her brother who had a
breaking out that for the last two days had been getting
worse instead of better. Upon inquiry I became convinced that
the brother had Variola, and I learned her address and resolved
to investigate. Giving her the remedies needed, she departed.
Investigation showed that the wrong number had been given, as
there were no such numbers found. The next week another per-
son, a young man came to the office and wanted some medicine
for his sister who had a breaking out.

I looked at him carefull}^ and saw he had unmistakable fresh
scars of small- pox on his face, but denied having been sick and
said he had lately been vaccinated, and showed me the scar,
which was a large one and a new one. He also gave me a wrong
address and could not be found. Thinking something must be
done to protect myself, vaccination was performed with fresh
reliable virus, and as an extra precaution I began the use of
Mala?idrinum, B & T. 30 — dose night and morning — with the
following result : the vaccination did not take, neither did two
after performed vaccinations, neither did the small- pox take. I
next had a call to vaccinate four children in a family, and when
I arrived, to my surprise, the mother of the children proved to

530 Some Observations on Malandrinm.

be the young woman who first applied for medicine for the
breaking out. Each child was vaccinated and I left a vial of
pills medicated with Malandrinum 30 to be given to three
youngest children, telling the mother that the oldest child
(seven years old) did not need it. The result was that only
one vaccination took and that was the oldest child who did not
take the Malandrium. This took vigorously and required a few
doses of the pills to allay the suffering of the arm and bring a
favorable termination. One of the remedies the mother had re-
ceived was Malandrinum i and she was only in bed two days and
the eruptions seemed to be absorbed and dried up, and there was
only one partly matured pox mark on the face. The three
youngest children were re- vaccinated, but neither took. They
were never vaccinated before this first that I performed. None
of the children contracted smallpox.

The next trial was with five children ranging in age from
six to seventeen years, the oldest boy had been vaccinated
before and he showed a fairly good scar, all the rest had never
been vaccinated.

Vaccination was performed on all but the oldest boy. All but
the oldest boy were given a dose of Mala?idrinum and a vial of
pills left for them to take from every day. Not one of the cases
took. The oldest boy in the mean time came down with small-
pox, but those that took Mala?idriuum were not affected by the
disease. The patient received Malandrinum as one remedy, and
in a few days was convalescent, having a very light case. Such
is my first experience with small-pox and a remedy which from
the experience detailed should be considered carefully
and given further trial. What then are the conclusions to
be reached from this trial : 1st. That not one person who had
been exposed to the disease contracted it when he took Malan-
drinum. 2d. That not one who was vaccinated and took the
remedy, had the vaccination work. 3d. That the remedy
evidently aborts the course of disease, and the pox marks dry
up before fully maturing. 4th and last. That it is the best
remedy with which I am acquainted to relieve the severe symp-
toms caused by vaccination and will so modify vaccination during
the latter part of its course that it is no more painful than the
first part. I should be very glad to learn the experiences of
other physicians on this remedy for the above conditions.

18 East Main St., Richmond, Va.

Liliu m Tig r inn m. 531

LILIUM TIGRINUM.
By C. M. Boger, M, D., Parkersburg, West Va.

In the last paper we spoke of the cold and relaxed Convallaria
patient exhibiting a tendency to bleed ; the Russian peasantry
have from time immemorial found it useful for ecchymoses, this
like man)7 domestic practices rests on a homoeopathic basis.

Lilium tigrinum also pictures relaxation, but after a different
manner. All the viscera of the trunk seem ready to escape thro'
the pelvis, so that the patient involuntarily holds her abdomen
or presses against the vulva with the hands. Nor does the heart
escape, for it is affected both directly and reflexly. The heart
muscle is weakened, especially on the right side, consequently
the veins feel full unto bursting. The lungs are surcharged with
blood, and the patient has a taste of blood in the mouth, and a
constant desire to take a* long breath. The latter symptom may
however have a nervous origin, for the Lilium- tig rinum patient
shows great erethism of the nervous system. She is always hur-
ried, but on account of the physicial relaxation is unable to ac-
complish anything. She uses forcible language, desires finery and
has an exalted sexual instinct, in other words she is the person-
ification of a certain type of sexual neurasthenia ; she often suf-
fers from neuralgia affecting the left side or the ovaries.

Thus we see this remedy offering a combination of symptoms
frequently met with in practice, female sexual organs, heart
and nervous system, with nervous irritability and weakness, of
the muscular system

This remedy in common with its botanical relatives Still<z
and Arum triphyllum produces excoriating discharges, This acrid-
ity is most intense under the Indian turnip. The patient has a
sense of duality like Baptisia Phosphorus, etc. Aurum also has
the symptom "the heart gives one hard throb."

The combination of heart and neuralgic symptoms is very
similar to Spigelia. Usually when pains go from the left ovary to
the heart Naja is indicated. It is, however well to remember that
Bromium and Lilium tigrinum both have that symptom
and have cured it.

532

Lilium Tigrinum.

Many authors call attention to the vesical and rectal
irritation produced by it, pointing out that it is caused by a pro-
lapsed uterus. That does not however explain why every proci-
dentia does not cause similiar symptoms. The fact is that the
general relaxation previously pointed out also involves these
organs and the sagging of the uterus aggravates the trouble.
The following outline will serve for the rapid differentiation of
the two most similar Liliae :

Convallaria

Coldness.
Dull and irritable.
Bearing down >.
Standing.
Sense of piling up.
Causing dyspnoea
breath deeply.

and desire to

Lilium tig.

Fidgety and irritable.

Bearing down, < standing > hold-
ing up with hands.

Sense of pressing out thro' vagina,
breathes deeply to draw up ab-
dominal walls.

Lilium Tigrinum.

The Patient.

Exalted sensi-
bility.

Irritability of
temper with
depression
of spirits.

Locality.

Modalities.

General.
Agg. Evening

and night.

Weight of

clothes. E x -

ertion.
A me I . Being

busy.
Pressure and

rubbing.
Deep breathing.
Fresh air (all

but head).

Special.

Agg. Eying on
side. Stooping.
Exertion.

Amel Pressure
and rubbing
Bending dou-
ble.

Rest.

Symptoms.

A very slow acting remedy ; affections
predominate on the left side, neu-

- ralgias, etc.

General muscular relaxation, es-
pecially RESULTING IN CONGESTION
TO THE PELVIC VISCERA AND HEART,

with coincident irritation of the
nervous system ; muscles obey the
will slowly ; weakness and heaviness
of the legs ; general aching and sore-
ness in muscles and bones; tremb-
lings.

Excoriating discharges, leucorrhcea,
stool, etc.

Many, especially mental, symptoms
alternate with or are reflex from
L uterine and ovarian complaints,
f Association of heart with sexual
or neuralgic symptoms.

Relaxes the heart muscle, at the same
time causing sensations of constric-
tion, being squeezed, grasped, etc.

Heaviness, > by sitting, standing or
walking ; pulsation through entire
body ; as if blood would burst through
veins ; taste of blood in mouth in
afternoon.

Heart beat intermits, followed by a
violent throb ; desire to take a long
breath.

Fluttering ; palpitation ; twitching at
heart.

Pain from heart to 1. scapula, or down
left arm; numbness of left arm.

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533

The Patient

Locality.

Modalities.

Symptoms.

Generally too
hot.

Sexual Or
gans (Fe-
male).

Comparisons.

convallaria

Helonias,

Aru-tri.

Scilla.

Spigelia.

Sepia.

Platina.

Agg. Touch and
weight of
clothes.

Stepping hard ;
jar. _

Standing.

Amel. Pressing

UP WITH

HANDS.

Rubbing.

Nervous sys-
tem.

Rectum and J
Bladder. \

A gg . Craves
fresh air, but
it < head.

Walking < neu-
ralgias.

A mel. Mental
exertion >
mind.

Agg. Morning.
Amel. Walking
or riding.

f Bearing down, with feeling as if

ALL INTERNAL PARTS WERE PULLED
OUTWARD OR DOWNWARD FROM
BREASTS AND UMBILICAL REGION
THROUGH VAGINA, WITH IRRESISTI-
BLE DESIRE TO PRESS HANDS
AGAINST VULVA; PRESSURE AND
WEIGHT IN HYPOGASTRIUM ; MUST
SUPPORT ABDOMEN ; WEIGHT, WITH
FEELING AS IF ALL PELVIC CONTENTS
WOULD PRESS OUT THROUGH VA-
GINA, if not prevented BY pressure

OF HAND OR SITTING DOWN.

Cutting, gnawing, dragging, burning
like fire, or loose sensation in ovaries;
pains extending from ovaries into
thighs.

Heightened sexual instinct in both
sexes ; prostration from coitus, but
irritability from suppression of de-
sires.

Menstrual flow ceases when she ceases
to move.
LAcrid leucorrhcea.

Feels hurried, yet incapable ; wants to
do something but has no ambition ;
restless, desire to keep walking.

Irritable weakness ; angr}*, profane,
full of obscene thoughts. Wants to
| be alone. >

Sense of duality ; of a lump or ball in a
part ; pains in small spots ; as if
cold wind or water on a part.

Chills going down over face, axillary,
I sweat increased.

Acrid morning diarrhcea with tenes-
mus, especially when associated with
or dependent upon prolapsus uteri
and ovarian irritation,

Bearing down on rectum and anus
with ^constant desire for stool (from
prolapsed uterus).

Constant desire to urinate; urine
scantv. then smarting and tenesmus ;
irritable bladder due to uterine dis-
placement ; if desire is not attended
to has feeling of congestion to chest.

THE CHICAGO MATERIA MEDICA SOCIETY.

Pursuant to call a number of physicians assembled in the
Sherman House Club Room, September, 15th 1899.

Dr. Duncan called the meeting to order and Dr. J. B. S. King
was elected Secretary pro tern.

In explanation of the purpose of organization the chairman
said: Fellow Physicians: We have assembled here to consider the
desirability and feasibility of a united study of the Materia
Medica. The plan proposed is to take up some one drug and
divide up its pathogenesis among those who are most familiar
with a given portion of the body for study, and then come
together at stated times and have a free exchange of views of its
general and special action from a physicial as well as anatomical
standpoint.

534 The Chicago Materia Medica Society.

One of the most interesting evenings I ever spent was at Dr.
Hering's residence when there were present, among others, Raue,
Guernsey, Morgan, Dunham, Allen and L,ippe; the drug action
was the favorite study of all. Hering was by far the best
informed, but each added an idea or asked questions on the
pathogenesis of Ars., Lack., Sulph., Nat. c, and Stan, that drew
out many new and valuable facts; disease was not mentioned
once.

We have not a Materia Medica Oracle like Father Hering,
but some as enthusiastic and we have many silent sources of
information, and these latter duly interpreted and simplified
will make very interesting conferences.

We all realize we should know more how drugs act. It has
been thought best to form ourselves into an orginization with
outlined duties and responsibilities.

A draft is herewith submitted for your consideration and
adoption. It has occurred to some that many nonresidents of
Chicago would like to be identified with us, so the dues and
limits will not be a bar to any one physician being elected a
member.

By-Laws.

Name — The Chicago Materia Medica Society.

Membership — Any physician interested in its objects may be elected an
active member, if proposed by an active member. Students of medicine
and others interested in the objects of the organization may be known as
elected associate members with all the privileges of active members except
voting and holding office.

Officers — The officers shall be a president, vice president and secretary,
who shall also act as Treasurer. The officers shall perform the usual duties
of such officers and also be the executive committee to arrange the time and
place of meeting, and also to select the drug for study and assign the dif-
ferent parts to the various members for study and report.

Meetings — The regular meeting shall be held every two weeks. These
by-laws may be altered or amended at any regular meeting of the society.

After the adoption of the by-laws the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:

Dr. T. C. Duncan, President.

Dr A. W. Woodward, Vice President.

Dr. P. S. Replogle, Secretary and Treasurer.

The committee on preliminary organization suggested that the
order of drug study shall be:

ist. Its identity, synonyms, description, chemistry.

2d. History of its development, parts used, who tested it and
how.

The Chicago Materia Medica Society. 535

3d. Order or sequence of effects, general action.

4th. Action on (1) the Visceral Organs, (a) brain, nervous
system; (b) thoracic; (c) abdominal. (2) Special organs, eye
ear, kidneys, bladder, sexual and skin, etc. (3) Conditions,
better, worse, Modalities. (4) Relations and comparisons.

The chair said: "Now that we are organized, the outline of
study and research it seems to me should elucidate the drug
action along Physiological and Pathological lines. In that way
we get at its general course of action and then we can take up
the symptoms of the various anatomical sub-divisions and explain
the reason for the symptoms. As stated in my paper to the
institute, I believe (1) drug action must follow a definite course.

(2) To classify similar drugs we must know the "trend" also

(3) dissimilar drugs, (4) and antidotal drugs, and why they
antidote.

If the curative end of the drug be the last or secondary symp-
toms, then the full course of the drug should be studied out.
We should know the organs or parts first deranged, and also
those last affected. Part of the work has been done; we should
take it up and complete it.

One of the first things we should all do is to become clear on
the physiological relations of the bodily organs and their func-
tions. Then it seems to me there should be selected four or five
expert physiologists who can read the actions of the remedy on
the various systems: (1) nerves, (2) thoracic, (3) abdominal,

(4) urinary, etc. Some expert should summarize its action in
an outline way. Then there should be regions assigned for
arrangement of the symptoms in a sort of sequential order.

Most of the small works give us the therapeutic end of the
drug and they can be used as bases. Hahnemann's Materia
Medica and T. F. Allen's works give the order or time of
appearance of the symptoms. We must remember that the big
dose brings out the severe or primary symptoms and there will
need to be care in determining the range of action. This study
and comparison will be perhaps the most profitable and interest-
ing.

The order once established, there will follow the amount of
trouble set up. The force of Aconite, i. e., seems spent upon
the nervous system, perhaps nervo- circulatory system, involving,
of course, the respiratory. The severity of the effect wi'l tell the
storm .

53 6 Studies of Aconite.

Then there arises another practical question, and that is, the
times and circumstances of aggravation, as, for example, the
force of Aconite is worse in the latter part of the day and early
evening, i. e.y when the bodily powers are fatigued and the sys-
tem loaded with part organic matter.

This latter department should be taken up by some one who
is familiar with the study of Modalities.

The President stated that Aconite had been selected for the
first study and called upon several members to present reports.

The meeting adjourned subject to the call of the secretary.

P. S. Rkplogle, Secretary.

STUDIES OF ACONITE.

The Active Part.

By Dr. J. B. S. King.

The Aco?iite plant is a perennial shrub, growing in the moun-
tainous regions of Europe; it varies from 2 to 6 or possibly 8
feet in height.

It has been cultivated in gardens as an ornamental plant and
thus introduced into the United States. Its active principle, the
alkaloid Aconita, when pure, is probably weight for weight the
most poisonous vegetable substance in existence. Considerably
less than 1 300 of a grain has produced serious results. In the
shops, however, it is seldon found pure and this irregularity in
quality together with its tremendous toxic power should, and
practically has done away with its internal administration
entirely. Its sole use is as an ointment.

The tincture of Aconite of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia is made
from the dried root about six (6) troy ounces to the pint, a fact
that should be borne carefully in mind, for this tincture D is
considerably greater in toxic power than the homoeopathic
mother tincture, which is made from the juice of the whole fresh
plant.

Few adults can stand more than four drops of the old school
tincture. Considerably more of our mother tincture could be
given, even although it is one-half fresh juice and one-half
alcohol.

I have seen several cases of Aconite poisoning. In all of them
there were early symptoms of prostration and collapse, pale face,
weak voice, small thready pulse and muscular weakness.

Studies of Aconite. 537

I was struck with the resemblance of the effects of a dose of
Aconite to stage fright and have used it successfully for that
condition. The pale face, sighing respiration, weak pulse, dry-
throat and lost voice all correspond closely with the symptoms
of AcoJiite. Fear as a cause of the trouble is an additional and
corroborative indication.

Aconite on the Nervous System.
By Dr. E. R. McIntyre.

Replying to a question as to the action of Aconite on the mind,
Dr. E. R. McIntyre said : "In my experience of twenty years,
I am lead to the conclusion that the drug produces (i) chill;
(2) frequent, full pulse; (3) elevation of temperature; (4) dry,
hot skin; (5) restlessness: (6) anxiety; (7) fear."

Now to get at the cause of fear, which is usually a late symp-
tom, it is necessary to go back to the chill and trace from cause
to effect, and the nerve relations one symptom bears to another.
Chills tell us of contraction of the cutaneous capillaries, owing
to irritation of the vaso-motor nerves presiding over these ves-
sels. This contraction forces the blood from the surface to the
internal organs, and since the cerebral vessels have less resist-
ance than others we get an undue amount of blood to the head,
causing cerebral irritation, affecting the cardiac acceleratory
centers, increasing the heart's action, which further increases the
determination of the blood to the brain, disturbs the caloric
centers, causing elevation of temperature with the logical results,
viz. : Restlessness, anxiety and fear.

Later, we get the reaction established, when the cutaneous
capillaries are thrown wide open, and profuse perspiration re-
sults; the vagus is irritated, producing a slowing of the heart's
action, sighing, breathing and frequently vomiting. All this of
course tends to relieve the cerebral vessels of their load, hence,
relief of the mental symptoms first, and very soon all others.

Aconite on the Respiratory Organs.
By Dr. T. C. Duncan.
I have been asked to explain the action of Aconite on the
chest. The Modus Operandi of the action of Aconite upon the
thoracic organs is worthy of deep study.

Upon the Respiratory Organs: If the first action of Aconite
is something of a shock, causing a chill, the result of the shock

53 8 Studies of Aconite.

or chill is to cause a deep inspiration, which at once inhabits
the blood flow through the capillaries about the twigs of the
bronchial branches. If with this there is here, as in the skin,
partial paralysis peripheral, then we will expect that there is an
emphatic order from the nerve centers to increase the force of
the heart pump. The constricted capillaries on the surface of
the body send the blood into the large vessels (vomiting is one
of Nature's methods of relief; so is stasis in the mucous surfaces
everywhere, as well as transpiration by skin and kidneys). The
secondary effect is rapid respiration.

When the systemic circulation is obstructed then the pul-
monary is surcharged. Now with the local condition of partial
paresis we have also a favorable state for pulmonary congestion
or stasis.

The paralysis of Aconite is not profound, but temporary, as in
elimination of any other acid from the body by the way of the
pulmonary mucous membrane hence, stasis and inflammation
are necessary results which are here as elsewhere blood extrava-
sations.

This congestion of the pulmonary tissue reaches the pleura,
and the friction of raw surfaces causes pain aggravated by the
arrested acids in the muscles (Lactic and acid potassium phos-
phate). The pain is, therefore, a double one. The history of
chill, the pain, the oppression of breathing, from interfered
respiration through the diminished bronchi, the rusty sputum
and reactionary fever all give a similar picture to pneumonitis,
produced by this drug.

We have also the systemic restlessness and mental anxiety
which attends this Aconite outline.

The congestion may, however, be localized as in the trachea,
due to a weaker point of nerve supply perhaps, or possibly to
chronic injection at this point. A chill has taken place
(primarily). Now, with the high fever, rapid respiration and
rapid heart, there is a constriction of the mucous membrane of
the upper trachea and the muscles become involved, and this
constriction frightens the system, and there is a violent effort to
breathe and cough. This is the Aconite Croupal expression.

The constriction may only affect the lesser bronchi (and with
the inhibitory paralysis), affecting the muscles of expiration,
and we have the prolonged expiratory effort, the Aconite
Asthma.

Studies of Aconite. 539

Aconite on the Heart : Coming to the circulation we see that
the Aconite starts the storm by capillary (peripheral) contraction,
and the heart starts slow and then rapidly responds to the in-
creased blood pressure, and we have a rush of blood sent back
to the peripheral capillaries and the Aconite storm is on. The
rapid respiration increases oxidation so that the mind is very
clear and acute. But motion changes the current, much leaving
the head, frightens the nerve centers and a fresh supply is tele-
graphed for which again comes with a rush, then motion is
compelled again. This continues and we can thus understand
the "feverish, restless, apprehensive characteristic of Aconite.'''
The partial anaesthesia that is observed aids in emphasizing the
anxiety. If part of the body is lost to feeling, the clear mind
computes "the day of death."

Any vegetable acid or wine, Hahnemann found, destroyed the
effect of Aconite as well as other drugs that start circulation and
nervous system in a similar manner.

There will be local congestions, blood stasis, under Aconite if
there are nervous constrictions or old obstructions anywhere.
The rapid respiration aeration does not favor venous stasis.

If we now take the Aconite symptoms given in Hering's
11 Condensed " we can understand them better.

11 Oppression about the heart, burning flushes along the
back." That is an early, secondary symptom. With it and
continuing is palpitation, we read "palpitation, with feeling as
if boiling water was poured into the chest." Now with this we
have the concomitant symptoms. ''Anxiety about the prae-
cordia, heart beats quicker and stronger." "Anxiety (mental),
difficulty of breathing, flying heat in face, sensation of some-
thing rushing into the head." During this storm may be
"Fainting with tingling " also "Fear of death." "Tremor
Cordis."

The pulse at first may be 60 or 70, small and soft; after this,
in one patient, it rose in an hour to 102, full and hard. With
this there was agreea.ble warmth over the body, followed by
perspiration; legs became cool. "Pulse hard and strong" is
secondary.

In toxic cases the pulse does not rise but " sinks " below nor-
mal, intermits every 14th or 15th beat, and stops; " that belongs
to the gross or primary effects and cannot be therapeutic guides."
But we are not studying therapeutics or drug application now.

54-0 Studies of Aconite.

Additional Remarks by Dr. Duncan.

There are other heart symptoms. The encyclopoedia has col-
lected 55 heart and pulse symptoms under Aconite. Three are
printed in large type.

" Anxiety about the heart."

"Palpitation and anxiety."

"Pulse contracted, full, powerful, febrile, exceeding 100
beats to the minute."

These are secondary and are characteristic, diagnostic and
curative ; verified hundreds of times by thousands of physicians
in my work on the heart. I have given

" Frightened feeling at the heart."

"Feverish, restless apprehension"

"Effects of cold and wet."

" Palpitation from wine."

These take in the local and general symptoms as well as
causes. The second symptom is diagnostic of Aconite, and is
therefore emphasized. Hering in his condensed work gives a
few pulse symptoms worthy of vote.

" Feeling of fullness ; pulse hard, strong, contracted ; stitches
at the heart ; lies on the back, with shoulders raised ; contrac-
tion of chest." That is an asthmatic picture, with an asthmatic
pulse. " During three beats the apex strikes only one," doubt-
less due to cardiac fright.

" Pulse full, hard, strong in fevers, inflammations ; small, in-
termittent, irregular in asthma; (pulse) quicker than the beat
of the heart ; quick, hard, small in peritonitis ; when slow, al-
most imperceptible, thread-like, with anxiety."

The last reference to "slow " pulse is, primary symptom and
is not a guide. The asthma pulse, then, is when the disease is so
severe, like a shock, so that respiration controls the heart beat.
It is easy to see that these are chiefly clinical symptoms, and
clinical experience has relegated Aco?iite to the stage of conges-
tion— the onset of the disease. " When once the tension of the
nervous system (fright) and circulation have been relaxed, and
the pent up beat liberated (by perspiration) Aconite has noth-
ing more to do" (Hughes). The Aconite field is the storm
burst.

Turning to the Pathogenic Materia Medica, we find that
these heart symptoms passed muster:

" Stitches in cardiac region " (5 provers).

Studies of Aconite. 541

" Pressive pain about the heart" (where?) (2 provers).

11 Palpitation of heart (15) with anxiety " (6).

" Precordial anxiety" (3).

"Pulse quickened (9), full (4), strong (3), hard (2)."

"Pulse slow (5), weak (5), intermittent (5)."

The last symptom is evidently toxic and primary, still we see
that is verified by 5 provers.

Therapeutists will discover that a symptom may be a true
symptom of a drug and still not be available in practice. A
cured symptom may not appear in any proving, and yet be veri-
fied so often as to make it a valuable one in practice. It is
usually a secondary symptom, showing that the projectile range
of the drug was not fully developed by the provers. We are
thankful for any verification that helps us out.

Observations on Aconite.

Charles B. Saunders. M D., Member Chicago Materia
Medica Society.

Aco7iite is indicated wThen the pulse is high and resisting.

Others have spoken of the use of Aconite in fevers, when there
is dryness of the skin, restlessness, fear of death, etc.

It is often indicated and curative in common colds and neu-
ralgia during wet weather, when the patient has no perceptible
rise in temperature.

I remember that Dr. Duncan prescribed Aconite for a member
of our class who had an attack of acute coryza. He (the
student) had prescribed for himself without avail. Then two
or three doses of Aco?iite completely cured him.

The workings of an indicated remedy was a marvel to him,
and he often ' advised the boys to take Aconite for colds (often
when it was not indicated).

In the initial stages of pneumonia there is a complete picture
of Aco?iite.

Aconite may be prescribed in any stage of pneumonia, but as
a rule is only indicated during the stage when there is a chill,
followed by the characteristic fever and congestion.

Aconite may be used to advantage in some cases of functional
disorders of the heart. It is sometimes employed in uncompli-
cated hypertrophy.

542 CEnanthe Crocata.

Outline of the Action of Aconite.
Prof. A. W. Woodward has given a good deal of study to the
course of action of drugs, and according to his study and obser-
vation of the action of Aconite upon the body it affected ist, the
skin and sensorial organs; 2d, the digestion; 3d, the respiration;
4th, the spinal; 5th, the mental functions. The chill was the
first stage and he cited a case of nephritis in the Cook County
Hospital that was cured with Aconite because the attack be-
gan with a chill and had at the time he saw it the apprehension
of Aco7iite.

CENANTHE CROCATA.
By W. A. Dewey, M. D., Ann Arbor, Mich.

CEnanthe Crocata belongs to the large family of the Umbellif-
erae which furnishes us with Co?iium and Cicuta. It grows in
marshy localities in England and France. In botanical works of
the 16th and 17th centuries it was often confounded with Cicuta
virosa, an error which has even been made in more recent times
in fact, only one botanist of the 16th century described the
plant with sufficient exactness for its recognition, and that was
De Lobel, who published his botany in 1581. It is one of the
largest plants of the family, being 3 to 5 feet high. Our tincture
is from the fresh root.

Historical. — CEnanthe was known to Galen and Dioscorides,
and numerous citations might be made to show that the drug
was used from the earliest times in various affections, affections
that nearly every drug was tried in; but it is in the i( Cyanosura
materiae medicae of Boeder published in 1729 " that we first find
a hint as to its true action. " Those who ate much of it were
taken with dark vertigos, going from one place to another, sway-
ing, frightened, turning in a circle, as Lobilus pretends to have
seen."

Hahnemann, in his Apotheker Lexicon (Leipzig, 1793), says of
the drug: " It is said that the whole plant is poisonous and causes
vertigo, stupefaction, loss of force, convulsions, delirium, stiff-
ness, insensibility, falling of the hair, and taken in large
quantities will cause death."

He says further: "That administered with great circumspec-
tion, it should prove useful in certain varieties of delirium, ver-
tigos and cramps."

CEnanthe Crocata. 543

This is interesting coming from Hahnemann at the time when
he had discovered the law but had not as yet given it to the world.
CEna?ithe was considered in the last century as one of the
most pernicious plants of Europe, especially for cattle who hav-
ing eaten it can neither vomit nor digest it and they soon die in
convulsions; this from the root, however, as they eat the leaves
with impunity. It is interesting to note that animals poisoned
with it decompose rapidly.

Much of the following study is taken from a series of excellent
papers on the drug which have been appearing for over a year in
" Le Journal Beige D'Homoeopathie " from the pen of Dr. Ch.
DeMoor, of Alost. Belgium.

General Action. — From a very large collection of observa-
tions of cases of poisoning with CEnanthe, dating from 1556 to
the present time and recorded in Allen's Encyclopaedia, the
Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogensey, and in the article by Dr.
DeMoor above mentioned, we find that CEnanthe crocata produces,
almost invariably, convulsions of an epileptiform character and
which are marked by the following symptoms:
Swollen livid face, sometimes pale.
Frothing at the mouth.

Contraction of chest and oppressed breathing.
Dilated pupils or irregular eyeballs turned upwards.
Coldness of the extremities.
Pulse weak.

Convulsions are especially severe, at first tonic then clonic.
Locked jaws.

Trembling and twitching of muscles.

CE?ianthe also produces a delirium in which the patient be-
comes as if drunken; there is stupefaction, obscuration of vision
and fainting. The Greek name of the plant signifies "wine
flower," and so-called on account of its producing a condition
similar to wine drunkenness, and there is a difference, so I have
heard, between wine and other beverages in this respect. Hic-
coughs are also produced by the drug.

There is also great heat in the throat and stomach, and a de-
sire to vomit and to have stool and a great deal of weakness of
the limbs and cardialgia. Like other members of the same
family, as Conium, it produces very much vertigo; this has always
been present in the cases of poisoning with the plant. In a
number of cases who had been poisoned by the drug the hair
and nails fell out.

544 CEnanthe Crocata.

Homceopathic Action And Applic ability. — The uses of
CEnanthe, homceopathically, have been taken from the reports
above mentioned; the drug has never been proved, and it is
doubtful if one could be found who would prove it to the con-
vulsion-producing extremity. All the evidence in all the
authorities shows clearly that the drug produces in man all the
symptoms of epilepsy and it is in that disease that clinical testi-
mony is gradually accumulating. Accepting the theory that
epilepsy is a disturbance or irritation in the cortex of the brain,
it would seem that CEnanthe crocata, which produces congestion
of the pia mater, would prove a close pathological simillimum
to epilepsy. Its usefulness in this disease is unmistakable and
only another proof of the homceopathic law.

Let us review briefly some of the evidence of its action: Dr.
S- H. Talcott in the Report of the Middletown Asylum,
1893, notes that CEnanthe possesses a marked power in epilepsy,
stating that it makes the attacks less frequent, less violent and
improves the mental state of the patient. He prescribes it in
the tincture. 1 to 6 drops daily.

In the Materia Medica Society of New York its use has been
verified several times. Dr. Paige greatly benefited a case with
the 3X potency.

Dr. F. H. Fisk reports the cure of a case which had lasted

two years with the tincture. This case during the last month

before the doctor took it was having from 6 to 10 attacks daily.

Dr. Garrison, of Easton, Pa., reports a case of reflex uterine

or hystero-epilepsy in which the 2x acted promptly.

Allen in his Hand Book mentions the cure of three cases with
the remedy.

Dr. J. Richie Horner reports that the remedy greatly modi-
fied the attacks in a lady who had had the disease over 20 years
and who for the two months previous had had a convulsion
daily. He used the 3X.

Dr. J. S. Cooper, of Chillicothe, Ohio, reports the cure of a
case of 25 years standing with the 4X,

Dr. Henderson reports the cure of a case of 9 years standing,
where the patient was almost idiotic, the convulsions were re-
lieved and the mental condition was greatly relieved and im-
proved. In two other cases equally satisfactory results were
had.

Dr. D. A Baldwin, of Englewood, N. J., entirely controlled
the convulsions in a young man of 16 with CEnanthe.

CEnanthe Crocata. 545

Dr. Ord reports a case of petit mal cured with the 3X, and in a
South American Homoeopathic Journal a Dr. Rappaz reports the
cure of a case of three years standing with increasing seizures
with the remedy in doses ranging from the 6 to the 12.

The late Dr. W. A. Dunn reported a genuine cure of a young
girl of 16, who had been epileptic for 7 years, latterly having
as many as 4 or 5 attacks during a night. The remedy caused
these attacks to entirely disappear. The girl commenced men-
struating at 12, so the establishment of the menses had nothing
to do with the cure.

Several cases of the cure of epilepsy with CEnanthe in alter-
nation with Silicea or some other drug have been reported, but
as the question, "which cured?" comes in they need not be
given.

In my own practice I have had some marked results from its
action and have seen it modify attacks when everything else
failed. In two cases, one a boy of 13, who had had the disease
five years and who had suffered much of many sphincter-stretch-
ing orificialists and " lots of other things," the remedy made a
complete cure; the other case was in a man of 30, who had the
grand mal, the petit mal and the epileptic vertigo. CEnanthe
removed entirely the two former conditions, leaving only the
latter, and that in a very mild degree. It also greatly improved
the mental condition of the patient.

I have several cases under treatment at the present time and
some of them are showing a marked effect from its use. The
question of dose I believe to be an important one. I used gener-
ally the tincture in water, but latterly I have been using the
third and I believe with better effect than I ever obtained with
the tincture, and I am now of the opinion that the lower dilu-
tions, say, from the 3 to the 12, will be found more efficacious
than the tincture and the higher potencies will suit certain
cases. In order to prescribe the drug with accuracy provings
will be necessary to develop its finer symptomatology.

Dr. Charles A. Wilson, of San Antonio, Texas, reports a
number of cases cured with CEnanthe in the 3X dilution and the
same potency greatly lessened the number of seizures in others.

Dr. Purdon, of the University of Dublin, relates a case of
epilepsy cured with this drug in one to six drop doses several
times a day.

Dr. F. E. Howard in a case which had three or four attacks a

546 A New Book About Babies.

week gave 5 drops of the tincture every two hours, which caused
violent pains in the head, but complete recover}- followed on re-
ducing the dose.

A NEW BOOK ABOUT BABIES.
A Review by Thomas Lindsley, Bradford, M. D.

The homoeopathic profession has reason to be glad that for once
the mantle of the father has fallen upon the shoulders
of the son. Thirty years ago, when the practice of medicine, and
especially of homoeopathic medicine, seemed to the writer a
golden opportunity to cure everybody Cito, tuto etjuncunde, and
when Hering's friend — Raue — had just given to us the Special
Pathology and Diagnostics ; that book with its plain, terse
and simple pathology and diagnosis of disease and its careful but
concise therapeutic hints became very valuable as an aid in curing
quickly and pleasantly. It stood with a few others, Guernsey's
Obstetrics, Lippe's Materia Medica, the Chronic Diseases, the Ma-
teria Medica Pura, on the top of the modest little desk in that
first office, and when the sapient new graduate got stuck it was
the book most often consulted.

Then as now the treatment of babies was my specialty, but
then I used to hunt laboriously through the Guernsey's Obstet-
rics for the hints on children through Ruddock, Teste, William-
son, and I remember once I found hidden away in a volume of
the American Institute of Homoeopathy an article on Measles by
Holcombe that became of great value. Now there lies upon my
desk a new book devoted to the babies ; a book with the simplest
of titles and a title page as plain and neat as the dress of a quak-
eress : — Diseases of Children .* Ana it is a book whose pathol-
ogy, and treatment is as plain and excellent as its title.

Its preface tells the story : In presenting this work to the
profession, the author has aimed to make it a purely clinical
one.

" He has endeavored to give his own experience as much as
possible, and has sought to exclude all doubtful symptoms and
theoretical indications."

This is no figure of speech, for Dr. Raue, during his experiences
as visiting physician to the Children's Homoeopathic Hospital of

* Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1S99. By C. Sigmund Raue, 31. D.

A New Book About Babies. 547

Philadelphia, and to the child-wards of the Woman's Homoeo-
pathic Hospital, has had large opportunities to test the hygienic
and dietetic methods recommended by the best paedologists of the
present day. And it is a fact that the directions for the care and
proper hygienic treatment so plainly given are the result of much
careful experiment by the author. He has tested the methods he
recommends and in a few plain and straightforward words told
us the results — there are no long spun theories — he takes the
baby — new born — and tells us how to wash and dress and feed it
— how to examine it when sick, and how to tell what ails it, in
the plainest sort of way. He takes up its diseases, their pathol-
ogy, diagnosis, hygienic, dietetic and homoeopathic treatment.
There are no useless words and the author seems to have the
same happy faculty of concise distinctness his father before him
so forcibly displayed in the therapeutics.

The book is divided into 18 chapters: Hygiene and Nursing;
Methods of Clinical Examination; Methods of Recording and
Prescribing; Infant Feeding; Diseases of the New Born; Dis-
eases of the Mouth; Stomach; Liver; Intestines; Peritoneum;
Respirator}- Tract; Heart; Kidneys; Skin; Blood; Nervous
System: Diathetic and General Diseases; Infectious Diseases.
And — there is both a table of Contents and a real Index.

We are told that a new born baby does not need a full bath
as soon as it enters this wicked world, that sweet oil is better
than old-time lard for inunction. He tell us of the suit invented
by Dr. Grosvenor that more physicians should know about, in
which a baby can kick and grow without restraint. He describes
all the minutiae of hygiene and nursing.

The chapter on clinical examination, which includes directions
for determining the temperament f which, of course, points to the
remedy), is not the least interesting. The directions for physical
diagnosis are especially clear. It would be a good thing if some
one would go farther with temperamental descriptions and the
remedies fitting each ; an article describing the Calcarea baby
and the Chamomilla baby and the Cina baby, and the other kind
of babies would be of value. The directions for feeding, are of
great importance, for it is upon the food of the child that its
health depends. In the earlier months of child life it is largely
a question of digestion. Our author compares human milk with
other milks and feeding mixtures, tells us the causes influencing
the composition of the breast milk, discusses the modification of

548 Veterinary Homoeopathy Should be Eiicouraged.

cow's milk, with rules for varying the proximate principles of
baby food ; lays down rules for time between feeds, gives direc-
tions for the preparation of barley water, oatmeal water, albumen
water, beef teas, etc. The great value of barley water in break-
ing up milk curds is very justly mentioned ; and the names of
the principal baby foods. The rest of this entertaining volume
is devoted to the diseases of children, including those of the new
born. Under each heading we find the pathology, aetiology,
diagnosis, prognosis and treatment set down plainly, precisely
and briefly.

In this, Dr. Raue's work is like that of his father. He seems
to have the same happy faculty of putting in a few words the
gist of a very great many ; he just states distinctly the symp-
toms of the disease, its causes, the means of simple and differen-
tial diagnosis, and the indicated remedies, in which one finds
many a familiar characteristic.

Dr. Leon T. Aschcraft, lecturer on Veneral Diseases in Hah-
nemann College, of Philadelphia, has presented a chapter on
the commoner skin diseases peculiar to children, in which the
general plan of the book has been followed and the pathology,
diagnosis, and local and constitutional treatment very clearly
given.

The section on Nervous Diseases was written by Dr. W. D.
Bayley, lecturer on Mental Diseases in Hahneman College, and
is not the least valuable chapter in the practical book.

It is a book for the student and will be valuable inasmuch as
its meaning is concise, plain, easily understood.

It is a book for the desk of the physician, for daily reference
and study, and is destined to be as valuable to the physician as
the Therapeutics of that pioneer of pathological therapeutics,
the father of this author-son.

VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY SHOULD BE
ENCOURAGED.

By A. P. Bowie, M. D.

The Homceopathic Recorder does right in calling the at-
tention of the profession to the subject of Veterinary Homoe-
opathy; and it has always appeared strange to me that we had
no college where this subject could be taught and the degree of

Several Errors. 549

Homoeopathic Veterinary conferred, for surely this is a field that
needs cultivating.

I doubt not but what every homoeopathic physician has had
more or less experience in the treatment of the various disorders
of our dumb animals. His exposition of Homoeopathy is pre-
sented in such a telling way that it deserves a separate publica-
tion in tract form to give to the laity — even doctors should
peruse it.

It has been said that Homoeopathy is only good for women
and children — but we in this line and the superiority of our
treatment has been made manifest on many a trial. What is
needed is to educate doctors for this specialty. Why could not
some of our colleges add this to their curriculum ? We have
several good works on this subject. The latest one by Dr. Tut-
hill Massey is a book every homoeopath should read, for apart
from the know-better man and the lower animals can be in-
cluded in the list, and let the good work go on till homoeopathic
veterinary colleges and hospitals are established side by side
with the old school institutions and when Dr. Bradford gives us
a new edition of his "Logic of Figures" we will have a map
of testimony showing as good results of Homoeopathy in animals
as man.

Why not veterinary college ?

Uniontowny Pa

SEVERAL ERRORS, A PARTIAL ERROR AND A

HIT.

By A. M. Cushing, M. D.

To the Editors of the Homoeopathic Recorder:

A well-preserved gentleman of 70 called at my office, saying
he was a well man, except for two years past he had had constant
bloody urine. During that time, at different times he had been
under the care of physicians of both schools without the least
benefit. They had examined the urine several times and some
said it was disease of the kidneys, others of the bladder. He
had never had any pain in kidneys nor bladder and no pain dur-
ing urination. I doubted their diagnoses and formed my own.
As he was to leave in one week for two or three weeks' vacation
I wanted to hit him all I could before he left, and gave him Saw

550 There is Good in All Fads.

palmetto 3X and Phaseohis nana 4X in alternation, four No. 35
globules every two hours, dry, on the tongue. In four days he
returned and said that morning he had some pain in urinating,
but the blood had nearly all disappeared. I told him to take no
more medicine, but report before leaving in two days. He did
so and reported all well, and has continued so. I think my
diagnosis, haemorrhage from the prostate, was correct, but I did
not know what cured him.

A few weeks later I wras called to see a man, 92 years of age,
passing bloody urine, apparently as much blood as urine, but
probably not. This had continued about one week. He had
previously some trouble in passing water, had to urinate sev-
eral times during the night and had to pass a catheter once
or twice every twenty-four hours. For a little time past had
not been obliged to use the catheter. I decided the trouble was
in the prostate and gave him Phaseolus na?ia 4X, a few No. 25
globules in one-half a glass of water, one teaspoonful once in
two hours through the day. In two days he was nearly well; at
the end of four days was well, and has continued so more than a
month. This was my hit.

Springfield, Mass.

THERE IS GOOD IN ALL FADS.
By J. C. Nottingham, M. D.

Prayer, faith, divine, Christian science and spiritual healers
all have in common what every true physician learned in human
diseases and dispositions have, viz.: A knowledge of the influ-
ence of faith as well as works.

To know when faith is necessary, and how to obtain that reli-
ance, and how to use it when secured, may puzzle some of us
often.

If we sift the chaff from the really golden grain in these
"fads," we will find that faith is the germinating element used
to control and direct the erring human applicant for cure of di-
verted nervous force or functional change.

Faith properly directed will enable us to suggest the diet, the
habit and mode of living, and the perseverance in the osteo-
pathic methods (massage), while the well-directed remedy will
aid in the restoration and cure of even organic and tissue

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changes, and the proper subjectivity to treatment is induced by
the operation of faith, while medicine, massage, dietetics,
hygiene, proper exercises, etc., will render most valuable assist-
ance

All these methods use the well-known influences, but neg-
lected "science of the mind" and mental influences which
quiets erythisms, sexual ecstacies, sensual, social or intellectual
illusions, and removes antagonisms by diversions, which is often
necessary to obtain before a cure can be induced by tbe best se-
lected or "indicated remedy," and in many cases will cure
functional errois without any medicine.

This statement is not intended for an argument, but as " sug-
gestions " to thoughtful, conscientious minds.

If the profession would end these "fads" they should learn
the good they have and how to use them. There is much chaff
to winnow over, but the sound kernel exists and will give a
necessity for the existence of the fact with all its blandish-
ments.

Who can blame humanity for flying to proprietory medicines,
or no medicines, to free themselves of the constant reminders of
an unnatural existence while they have no knowledge of Ho-
moeopathy and having no means by which they may select
a homoeopathic physician from the limited diplomied practi-
tioner or the spurious " any-practice " man or woman ?

Bay City^ Mich.

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM AND KALI MURIATI-
CUM— CLINICAL.

(The following is taken from a very interesting paper by Dr.
George Black, published in the Journal of the British Homoeo-
pathic Society, October, 1899, entitled " Some Experience with
the So-called Tissue Remedies of Schiissler." The first part of
the paper is taken up with a consideration of the theory of the tis-
sue remedies, in which Dr. Black gives credit to Boericke &
Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies for much of his information.
The second part, his own experience, runs as follows) :

Ernest R , aged 9, with light blue eyes and flaxen hair, pale
face, and of medium height and stoutness, was brought to me on
Monday, October 28, 1895. Twelve months ago he began to
wet the bed. According to his mother's account, he does so

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half a dozen to a dozen times a night. He does not retain his
water during the day, and when he cannot get out of school
when he wants he to wets himself. Ferrum phos. 5X trit., three
times a day. Monday, November 25. — When he first took the
medicine it seemed to have a magical effect, and for four nights
he did not wet the bed. Since then he has done so pretty fre-
quently, but, on the whole, he is decidedly better.

On July 24, 1893, I visited Gracie E., aged 5, fair, with grey
eyes. Yesterday morning, about 9, she lay down ; became very
feverish ; complained of pain in the back of the neck and a sensa-
tion as of a needle running into the stomach. She was very-
feverish last night, and her mother gave her Aconite. She says
she fought the air, that her eyes had a wild glare about them,
and the pupils were dilated. She points to the back of the neck
as the seat of pain ; complains also of headache. Pulse 120,
temperature of 101.80. Ferr. phos. 5X, every two hours. Tues-
day, 25. — Out in the garden this morning. Skin cool ; head and
neck better.

On Monday, November 13, I visited Mr. D. He complained
that for three days he could not get his feet warm. This morn-
ing he was very pale, and looked as if he were going to die. He
had a hot bath, and although the heat was great, he did not feel
it. Now he is reported to be as red as a turkey cock. He had
taken two stiff glasses of whisky before I saw him, to try to get
a sweat, but the only effect was to cause him to burn. I found
him in bed, complaining much of his left heel and left knee.
Pulse 80, large and full ; temperature 100. 8°. If he pulled his
leg up tightly against the thigh, it gave him ease, but on letting
go again it began to pain. No pain in any joint of the upper
extremities. Ferr. phos. 5X, every fifteen minutes till four doses
are taken ; then every one or two hours. Tuesday, 14. — Much
easier today. Had slight perspiration during the night. Very
little pain today in right knee and foot. Pulse 72, temperature
99. 20. Continue. Thursday, 16. — Pain gone ; up and dressed.

Mrs. A., aged 30, dark hair, grey eyes ; has suffered from cold
for a few days. Saturday, November 25, 1893. — She shivered,
her teeth chattered, and she could not keep away from the fire.
About 10.30 p. m. a misty sensation came over her eyes, and one
object looked like three. Her throat then became very bad, and
she could scarcely sleep all night. Monday, 27. — Yesterday and
today she has felt bad ; every limb has ached. When she at-

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tempted to drink yesterday it ran out of her nose. She com-
plains of great pain each side of the throat, smarting in char-
acter much increased by attempts at swallowing. The throat is
brightly congested ; the tonsils and surrounding structures look-
ing very red. Ferr. phos., every fifteen minutes, half hour, and
hour. Tuesday, 28. — Slept fairly well ; feels much better today.
Could swallow better very soon after beginning to take the medi-
cine. Pulse 80, temperature 990. Throat not so acutely con-
gested as yesterday. Wednesday, 29. — Can swallow much
better. Temperature, normal. Continue the medicine occasion-
ally.

On Saturday, January 21, 1893, I was called to Jack H., 8
years old, with dark hair and eyes. I found him in bed; his
face was flushed, his skin hot and burning, and his eyes glisten-
ing. Pulse 124, temperature 103. 6°. He complained of severe
pain in the back — lumbar region — and of great difficulty on
attempting to turn. He had been working hard for an examina-
tion. Thursday was a holiday; went and played football;
shivered afterwards; then became very feverish. Urine clear;
no cough. Ferr. phos 5X every fiifteen minutes, half hour, hour
and so on. Sunday, 22. — All right. Had wandered at night in
sleep, but since then been himself. Perspired very freely. Could
have wrung his hair, it was so wet with perspiration. Pulse 64,
temperature normal. No pain.

Richard G., aged 5, fair, light gray eyes; began to vomit
April 14, 1895, since which he has been sick quite ten times.
He complains of pain, the situation of which is in front of right
ear and up to the temple. He has had the pain in his head
quite a week, but till the day previous to my seeing him had not
vomited. Two or three weeks ago he received a blow on the
head from a stone; it struck him, and cut him over the posterior
part of right parietal bone; a swelling rose over the seat of
injury like an egg. Ferr. phos. 5X. April 15 — Has not vomited
since taking the first dose of medicine. Pulse 108, respiration
16, temperature 99. 8°, slightly less than yesterday. I have no
further note of this case, but if my memory serves me he was
soon all right.

I was consulted on August 16, 1894, by Alice W., aged 18,
a stout, well developed girl, with pale face, dark brown hair and
eyes, and prominent nose. This is Monday, and she says that on
Friday she experienced a severe, aching pain in the forehead,

554 Ferrum Phosphoricum.

which became worse on Saturday. Yesterday she'felt cold and
shivery, and on the left cheek a reddish patch appeared, which
spread towards evening. This afternoon I find an erythematous
patch, extending from the side of the nose close to the eye, down
under the lower eyelid and on to the cheek. It extends slightly
on to the nose at its upper part. There is also a slight blush
under the left nostril, and a patch of red at upper and inner
aspect of right side of bridge of nose. The'nose itself is swollen.
Pulse 116, temperature 99. 40. Ferr. phos. 5X, every two hours.
Wednesday, August 18. — -The redness and swelling are gone
from the face, and she feels and looks all right. Pulse 88,
temperature 97,4°.

Miss V., age uncertain (perhaps 60), stout, fair. March 15,
J893. — In bed; cheeks swollen and of a dusky red hue. There
is some redness on the forehead; the nose is swollen; the eyes
are partially closed. Pulse 100, temperature 1020. The swell-
ing of the face began the night before last in right submaxillary
gland, went up to the right cheek, across bridge of the nose,
down left cheek to corresponding gland on left side; now ex-
tended to forehead. Rhus fox. 30 given every two hours. 10
p. m. — Pulse 104, temperature 104. 6°. No delirium. Ferr.
phos. 5X, every fifteen minutes, half hour, hour, etc. Thursday,
16. — Lying on her back; face less swollen. Pulse 95, tem-
perature 102. 40. Complains of head feeling sore to touch and
on lying. No wandering in the night, but felt her breathing
short. Tongue moist. 10 p. m. — Condition very satisfactory.
Pulse 90, intermitting about once in a minute, but better in char-
acter than it was. Temperature 101.20. Tongue and skin
moist. Head and face less tender to touch; redness of cheeks
less intense; upper eyelids less cedematous, skin beginning to
have a wrinkled appearance. Continue. Friday. 17. — Had a
very good night. Temperature at 6 A. m. normal, and at 10 A. m.
980. Feeling much better. Right cheek much less flushed
and much less swollen; right eyelid ditto; left better. Complains
of pain at the back of the neck. Pulse 74, no intermissions in a
minute. Continue. Saturday, 18. — Doing splendidly. Pulse
60, regular, temperature 97 .4°. In this case a drain was found
choked leading to the sinkstone, and bad smells had been ex-
perienced by the servants for months, but they said nothing
about them to their mistress, whose sense of smell, since an at-
tack of influenza, had been perverted.

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Saturday, September 14, 1895 — On Wednesday evening, Miss
M. was at Chapel Hill, where she sat for a short time, then left
and went round the Sea Road, and was seized with pain in the
back which came suddenly across the loins. Began to shiver
immediately after and on arriving home continued cold and
shivery all night. Next morning the pain was very bad; she
used some Chili paste in the afternoon which did her good, but it
came on again very badly last night. To-day it has been bad all
morning and she has felt very cold. She complains now of
burning across the back, ''just as if someone were placing a red-
hot iron there." " All my limbs ache, it is one continual pain.
My head has been aching badly for two days and the back of my
eyes." The pain is not made worse by movement. Urine the
other day felt hot and scalding; it is rather deep in color now.
Temperature 1020. Ferr. phos. 5X every hour or two. Sunday,
15, much better. Pulse 72, temperature 98 6°. She still com-
plains of her back and of cold perspiration about the legs.
Tuesday, September 17, letter received: "I am happy to tell
you I am feeling very much better and the pain in my back is
nearly gone, only I am feeling very weak and shall be glad if
you would send me something to pull up my strength. I shall
go down to the office for part of the day."

Thursday, October 17, 1895. — On Sunday morning, Miss V.
awoke with burning heat over the entire body. When she got
downstairs she felt cold and began to shiver, then a terrible
throbbing headache came on. Her appetite failed suddenly,
but she was very thirsty. Limbs began to ache — legs and
knees — " in fact I ached all over worse than on Sunday. I was
in a perspiration and was cold and burning from head to foot.
In the night when I looked at my legs they were swollen and
sore, red blotches had come out upon them. They were hot at
night and I slept very little. Kept getting in and out of bed,
was in so much pain didn't know what to do." Began to suffer
from cough on Sunday morning, a short, hacking cough. The
urine contains a light orange-colored deposit. Pulse 88, respi-
ration 18, temperature 101.40. On examination I found a large
number of red lumps on the anterior surface of the legs, some
on the outer surface of the thighs, and on the buttocks, varying
in size from a lentil to sixpence or rather larger. There are
some also on the outer aspect of the forearm. They are elevated
and tender to touch. There are also spots on the face and

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amongst the hair. Her head feels as if it were parting right on
the top. She says her temperature varies very much, some-
times a degree in an hour. Ferr. phos. 5X. Saturday, 19, com-
plains of gnawing, aching pain in the knee-joints, restless feel-
ing in the legs — wants to keep moving them constantly. Right
down the bone from the knees to the feet there is a scalding,
burning feeling. She has a dry, rather loud-sounding cough.
She has lots of red blotches on her right cheek; they are ele-
vated above the surrounding skin and have little vesicular heads
that look as if they would become pustular. Right forearm is
dotted all over with red. erythematous nodules varying in size
and raised as the others; they are hot to the feel and hard. The
right arm aches — a gnawing aching in the bones. The legs do
not ache so much to day as yesterday, nor does the head.
Tongue red and rather raw. She keeps constantly moving her
legs about. There is great pain in both knee-joints. Pulse 92,
respiration 24 temperature 101.40. On examining the legs I
find them covered on their anterior aspect with red lumps, vary-
ing in size and exquisitely tender; there are also some on the
thighs and one or two on the hips. Kali chlor. 6 in alternation
with Ferr phos. Tuesday, October 22, letter received this morn-
ing in which her brother says: " The whole of Saturday she was
in great pain in nearly all her joints; her head also ached very
badly. Towards evening she began to get very hot, and after
being some time in a burning heat she began to sweat violently,
which continued about two hours. She had a little sleep during
the night. Yesterday on awaking two red lumps appeared on
the left wrist, causing great pain; these lumps partially disap
peared after taking a dose of the medicine (Kali chlor.) which
you sent yesterday. During last night she slept several hours
quietly, and this morning feels somewhat better. The spots on
the legs are fading and she is not in such intense pain. Her
temperature on Saturday was as follows: 4:35 p. m., 1020; 7:20
p M., 103. i°; 9:30 p. M., 101.30. On Sunday, 3 A. m., 1020; 7
A M., 100 40; 1 1 A. m., 100. i°; 2 p. m., 1020; 5:15 p. M., 101.40;
9 p. m., 102. i°. On Monday at 3:30 A. m., 100. 30; and at 8:30
A. M. the same." I visited her to-day, Monday, about noon;
she was coughing a great deal — a loud, barking, brassy cough,
and complained that it hurt her left side a good deal to do so.
"My bones ache," she said, "a good deal, but I'm perfectly
easy compared with what I was. I was bad the other day and

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did feel ill." Pulse 70, regular, respiration 18, temperature
99. 40. The erythematous lumps are fading from back of arms,
front of legs, and side of thighs, and hips. Continue as before
till fever is gone, then take Kali chlor. 3X. October 26, much
better. She gradually got well.

On Saturday, October 22, 1892, I was sent for late at night
to see Mrs. L-, whom I found in bed suffering from her back and
throat. It came on yesterday. She felt stiff in the arms last
Monday: that passed away. Yesterday her throat became af-
fected, and she was unable to swallow anything. Has as much
difficulty in swallowing today. To-day it took her in her back,
she says, so that she could not move. She was cold, and
shivered, and wanted to sit over the fire. Has headache ; also
disagreeable taste in the mouth. Pulse 144, respiration 54,
temperature 101.60. On examining the throat I found the ton-
sils and adjacent structures greatly congested. On the left ton-
sils were a number of small mattery-looking spots, and on the
right a dirty yellow-grey patch, about the size of a threepenny-
bit. Ferr. phos. 5X every two hours. Sunday, 23. — Got relief
from the pain in about half an hour ; can swallow rather better
this morning. Kali chlor. 3X every two hours. Monday, 24. —
Throat much better. The patches are nearly gone ; the parts
about are still much congested. Pulse 126, temperature 99. 20.
Tuesday, 25. — Doing well ; no pain whatever in the throat.

Miss P. was visited for the first time on Friday, November 24,
1893. She complained of her throat ; had not been quite right for
two or three days, being hot and cold by turns. She has much
difficulty in swallowing, and her throat is very painful all
round. Voice is nasal. Pulse 104, temperature 1010. Both
tonsils much enlarged, and very congested ; surrounding tex-
tures present a similiar appearance. The right tonsil is studded
on its inner aspect with numerous follicular ulcers. The left is
not so dotted, but a streak of pus hangs down its inner aspect,
close to the uvula, which is in contact with this tonsil. Ferr.
phos. 5X every fifteen minutes, half hour, hour, and so on. Sat-
urday, 25. — Did not sleep very well. Pulse 88, temperature
102. 20. Many of the ulcers are gone. The redness and swell-
ing are less. Monday. 27. — Slept much better: voice less nasal;
less swelling and redness than yesterday. Pulse So, tempera-
ture normal.

I saw Xiss X. on August 9, 1894. She is 25, above medium

558 Ferrum Phosphoricum.

height, stout, has dark brown hair and grey eyes. On the 5th
her throat felt as if swollen on the left side, had dreadful head-
ache in the temples as if they would burst. Monday, the 6th,
was hot and cold alternately, felt light-headed and as if her
strength were gone. Sunday afternoon had pain in the left side
from the heart to the shoulder. On examination the throat was
found to be greatly congested, both tonsils much swollen and
congested with greyish- looking patches. These had very much
the appearance of a diphtheritic membrane ; and some of those
cases of suppuration of the follicles, in which the pus has become
matted so as to form a patch of greater or less extent on one or
other or both tonsils, are often difficult at first sight to determine
the character of. In this case, on closer inspection, I was able
to detect the individual points of suppuration, and often in a
doubtful case by scraping a little of the purulent matter that has
become caked on the surface aside we are helped to a true de-
cision. There was considerable subsequent oedema, but under
Ferr phos. and Kali chlor. the swelling declined, the patches dis-
appeared, and she was soon all right again.

In another case of follicular tonsilitis in a young woman, aged
21, there were the following symptoms : Shivering, flushed
face, sore throat, pain and stiffness in the nape, nasal tone of
voice. Pulse 112, temperature 1030. Arms presented a rosy
red appearance, but there was no rash on chest or legs. Her
hands steamed when taken from under the bedclothes. Many
follicles on both sides were in a state of suppuration. Ferr. phos.
5x was given frequently, and on the 7th, the second day after
I had first seen her, the pulse was 88, temperature 99. 6°; after
this she was soon all right.

I was called to Annie D., aged 9, on Thursday, March 21,
1895. She is fair with blue eyes and rosy complexion. On going
to bed the previous night she was a little hoarse. She has a
dry, brassy, ringing cough, and complains of pain over the
larynx. Pulse 142, temperature 101.40. Ferr. phos. 5X and
Kali chlor. 3X alternately every two hours.

Friday, 22. — Cough was very troublesome till 1 A. m. after
which she coughed scarcely anything, and it is looser when she
does so. Pulse 88, temperature 98. 40. Tongue moist, slightly
coated with thin grey fur. Continue, but take Kali chloricum
more frequently than the other. Saturday, 23. — Slept well ;
cough rather troublesome last evening, since then has coughed

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little. Pulse 84. Temperature' subnormal. Allowed up. Mon-
day, 25. — Going on nicely.

I was called on Wednesday, March 20, 1895, to Percy C,
aged 5, a stout little fellow, with light brown hair and grey
eyes. On Sunday he was hot and burning all day, and had a
hard, dry cough. The cough has continued since then and is
now harsh, brassy and croupy in sound, but with a tendency to
soften and a little phlegm to be dislodged; pulse 112, tempera-
ture 1020, respiration 40. Tongue covered except at tip with
grey fur. Ferr. phos. 5X every two hours. In the evening his
temperature was 103. 20, pulse 142. Coughing almost incessantly
while I was in. Kali chlor. 3X in alternation with the other.
Thursday 21, at 10 p. m., he dropped off to sleep, and slept a
nice long time without coughing. This morning he is much im-
proved ; has not coughed once during my visit. Pulse 92, res
piration 36, temperature 98. 8°. I am told, when he coughs, it
is much softer in character. Continue. Saturday, 23. — Doing
well.

In a few instances I have used Ferr. phos. with advantage in
epistaxis; it is also of service in feverish conditions following
blows upon the head.

Wednesday, November 21, 1894, I saw Jamie H., aged 5. A
week ago yesterday, while playing about in the back premises,
he fell down a flight of eight steps; he struck his head, it is
thought, upon a bairow that was lying at the foot and made a
clean cut down to the aponeurotic fascia, which was exposed,
but as far as I could ascertain the bone was not bare. The
parents seemed averse to its being stitched, and having already
plastered the part up with ordinary sticking plaster I removed
this, and endeavored to bring the edges together as well as I
could with strips of arnica plaster. He was also given Ar?i. 3
internally. Next day things seemed to be going on satisfac-
torily, but in two or three days more it was not so. By this
time very offensive pus was oozing from the wound and his face
was swollen, the lower lids cedematous. and there were several
red spots about the face and neck. Next day he was rather bet-
ter. I bathed off the strips of plaster and applied glycerole of
calendula. The day following I found him with a temperature
of 1020, pulse 120; numerous red patches and an appearance as
of vesicular erysipelas about the face; the left cheek was flushed,
and it and the forehead were dotted over with little vesicles.

560 Ferrum Phosphoricum.

Ferr. phos. was given every two hours. Yesterday morning his
temperature was normal, by afternoon it was 1020. The wound
was gaping, the edges red and irritable-looking, tongue rather
dry with a red triangle at the tip the rest was coated with
whitish fur. He complained of pain in the umbilical region; no
sickness. Continue the Ferr. phos. Very restless last evening,
muttering in his sleep; towards night, better. To-day, at 2 p.
m., temperature normal, pulse 100, wound looking better; tongue
cleaner and more moist. Friday. 23. — All fever gone, bright
and cheerful; the wound is converted into a granulating sore
and looks much more healthy.

In a case of measles in which the rash came very imperfectly
out, and which was complicated with croup and alarming bleed-
ing from the nose, I found Ferr phos. of the utmost service in
controlling the epistaxis and mitigating the patient's condition.
I gave Aeon, and Spongia for the croup, and under these the
stridor left the breathing and the cough* softened. Just then his
nose bled ten or twelve times, and when I saw the amount of
blood he had lost (for his mother had preserved it in a vessel for
me to see) I could scarcely think it possible that a little fellow
of eight should lose so much blood and not be in a state of col-
lapse. His pulse was very weak and compressible, and the fol-
lowing day it was 124, temperature 103. 40; there was also con-
siderable muscular twitching. During the succeeding night he
was very restless, and at times delirious. The rash had now
come out well, pulse 124, respiration 28, temperature 1010. No
return of the epistaxis. He was now troubled with retention of
urine, which was remedied by the application of a hot sponge;
10 p. m., pulse 118, temperature 100. 40. For two nights more
he wandered a good deal, but the pulse decreased in frequency
and the temperature steadily fell, and if your experience is sim-
ilar to mine delirium during the subsidence of acute diseases is
nothing to be alarmed at.

Amongst other diseases that I have treated with these two
remedies are scarlet fever and diphtheria. Had time per-
mitted, I should have liked to place before you a detailed ac-
count of some of these, but already I have trespassed too long
both on your time and patience.

This is the first time thatl have had the privilege of address-
ing this society, although it is not the first time you have
honored me with the request to do so. I thank you for your

Some Neglected Remedies. 561

kindness, and only wish that it had been in my power to traverse
a wider area and give you something more uniform and con-
secutive than I have been able to do to-night.

However, such as my papsr is, I leave it with you in the be-
lief that as you pass judgment upon it it will be in that spirit
of charity which is the finest trait in the character of the indi-
vidual, and the grandest ornament of any profession.

SOME NEGLECTED REMEDIES.

(The following paper by Prof. H. W. Felter we reprint from
the Eclectic Medical Journal; it originally appeared in the transac-
tions of Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association:)

From a Materia Medica so rich in excellent remedies as that
of our school, it is practically impossible for a practitioner to
become familiar with the actual values of but a comparatively
few medicines. It is not overstating the fact, perhaps, that no
practitioner uses more than fifty or sixty remedies in his daily
work. Occasionally a difficult case will present itself and then
he is compelled to seek something outside of his ordinary list,
and in doing so he is more apt to look for some new, rather than
for some old remedy. We have in our Materia Medica an
abundance of remedies that meet as fully, if not better, the
conditions sought to be cured or relieved than the so-called
newer remedies. Again, we are apt to select (and this is a
habit borrowed from the old school) a remedy of a certain
group — as digitalis for heart affections —and think because it is
ar " heart tonic" that if it does not relieve there is no need of
searching further for aid. Perhaps Apocy?ium will be the exact
remedy we desire, but we have not been in the habit of regard-
ing it as what it really is, a most excellent remedy in many
affections of the heart. We are too apt to think if ergot does
not control haemorrhage, nothing will. Here we neglect Ipecac,
Oil of erigeron, Cinna?non and Lycopus. Too many times, when
we have exhausted the ordinary remedies in cholera infantum,
we give up the case as lost, when Erigeron or Epilobium might
save our little patient. The intractable diarrhoea of typhoid
fever may resist all medication, until Epilobium is brought into
use.

The many remedies that are sadly neglected by physicians
can not be considered in a brief paper of this character. It is

562 Some Neglected Remedies.

my purpose, therefore, to briefly touch upon a few of those which
have served me so well that I do not feel equipped without them.

Achillea. — This common weed is the well known yarrow. It
is specially adapted to certain forms of haemorrhage with de-
bility. The condition in which I have found it most useful is
menorrhagia in patients of weak constitution, where the men-
strual flow each month is profuse and sometimes wholly san-
guineous, sometimes partly leucorrhoeal. The condition is al-
ways one of marked atony, and the debilitating discharges are
often accompanied by severe backache, and not infrequently
with sick headache. When the haemorrhagic discharge is due
to polypus or other growths, fragments of membrane, etc., the
remedy will do little more than to slightly decrease the flow,
but is of no value in accomplishing a cure. Here operative
measures, as the removal of the growths, or the use of the
curette, will accomplish that which no remedy will effect.

sEsculus. — The smooth buckeye furnishes a medicine of limited
usefulness in disorders affecting chiefly the intestinal tube.
Th it it mitigates the discomfort of piles is well known, and
give 11 internally and applied externally well within the rectum
in the form of an ointment, it has yielded fully as good results as
any medicine I have ever used. In very few instances, however,
have I found it curative, though it appears to contribute to the
comfort of the patient, and assists other agents, particularly
Collinsonia and Hamamelis, and remedies to obivate bowel ob-
structions, and to improve the abdominal circulation. Vague,
uneasy, and deep seated pain of dull character, evidently due to
some abdominal neurosis, or possibly to pancreatic involvement*,
has yielded to s£sculus in my hands. I have also used it suc-
cessfully in some cases of sharp neuralgic viscereal pain, though
it has failed more often than it has relieved. Whether this is
due to non adaptability of the remedy to these conditions, or
whether my diagnoses have been inperfect, I am unable to say,
for I consider it very difficult to diagnose abdominal affections
merely by means of pain in the abdominal region.

Agrimonia. — I have found this to be a useful remedy, and one
frequently demanded to meet the conditions which have been
named in the ind c itions given by Prof. Locke, viz.: deep seated,
aching pain in the loins, and the voiding of badly smelling,
muddy urine. In one case under my observation of a man who
sufferei for week«s with dull, undefined piins in the region of

Some Neglected Remedies. 563

the chyle receptable, was relieved only by an infusion of agri-
mony.

Apocynum. — As a remedy for cedematous infiltration, Apocymim
has achieved a high rank among medicines. That it does so is
probably due largely to its action upon the heart — a fact which
wTas not recognized until a few years ago. Since good clinical
results have been achieved with it in heart affections, physio-
logical provings have been made, showing that its control over
the heart is nearly as decided as that of digitalis. I have wit-
nessed good results form it in angina pectoris, and for oedema
with irregular or feeble heart action, it has given the best results
of any drug employed.

Ceanothus — Jersea tea has given satisfaction in affections of the
spleen, especially in enlargement of the spleen not due to ma-
larial agency, or at least not accompanied with any of the ordi-
nary palustral manifestations. As far as I have employed it I
have found it to be an admiral remedy, and another who
employed it on my recommendation reports perfect success with
it in a case which had resisted the whole list of spleen remedies.
It is not a new remedy for this purpose, having been largely
employed during the civil war, but it has more recently been
revived. It will repay investigation.

Chimaphila. — Without prince's pine I would be at a loss to
know how to treat certain chronic affections of the urinary tract.
For this purpose I prefer the infusion to any alcoholic prepara-
tion. The indications for which I administer it are those which
accompany a lax and a tonic state of the parts involved, vis: dull
pain, often of a drawing or dragging character, extending from
the loins to the prostrate portion of the urethra, with scanty
urine loaded with mucus or muco-pus. Blood may be voided
also. The heavier the discharge of mucus or muco-pus, the
better the agents appear to act. Acute inflammatory symptoms
should be absent, and the infusion may be freely administered.

Epilobium. — Willow herb is my main remedy for the control
of the diarrhea of typhoid fever. Not that other remedies will
not sometimes check this complication, but thus far with Epi
lobium I have been able to control it with as much certainty as
Morphine will relieve pain. * * * Equally as good results are
obtained from it in the summer diarrhoeas of chiidren, partlcu
larly in the chronic stage of cholera infantum, with profuse
watery and debilitating discharges, andin sub-acute cases of

564 Some Neglected Remedies.

muco enteritis. It also serves a good purpose when the dis-
charges are of half digested food, and are accompanied with
colicky pains.

Erigeron is generally thought of only as a troublesome weed to
farmers. It appears to be present everywhere. Few think of it
as an excellent remedy for copious diarrhceal discharges of a
watery character. If the discharges be slightly mixed with blood,
its value as a remedy is increased.

Etiphrasia. — Eyebright is a remedy that has been very much
neglected by our physicians, while homceopathists have for years
added to their reputation through its judicious use. Its field of
action is in catarrhal affections, both acute and chronic. In
acute colds, with hot, thin nasal discharges, and with incipient
catarrhal conjunctivitis, I use the remedy with confidence;
usually, however, with veratum, and less frequently with aconite.
But I value it more in chronic catarrhal affections of the nose
and throat, giving in conjunction with Phytolacca and Iris; none
of these remedies alone doing the good accomplished by their
combination. These I use without regard to particular indica-
tions, except that there is a catarrhal involvement of the Eu-
stachian tube, and a partial occlusion of the same, due to
enlargement of the tonsils. From the encroachment of these
bodies, as well as the catarrhal condition, there is usually more
or less deafness. No treatment has given me such satisfaction
in nasal and post nasal catarrh.

Lycopus. — Bugle weed takes a first rank among my steadily
employed medicines. It is second to no remedy for the control
of passive hemorrhages from the lungs, besides being a valuable
heart sedative. Wild and tumultuous beating of the heart is
controlled by it, and this is a condition frequently preceding or
accompanying pulmonary haemorrhage. It alleviates the cough
of phthisis, as well as most remedies of the balsamic class, and is
always kindly received by the stomach.

Melilotus. — I have used melilot sufficiently to convince me that
we are overlooking a remedy of value for the control of pain
when we neglect melilotus. As a remedy for facial neuralgia,
for which it has been praised by some physicians, I have not
used it. But in ovarian neuralgia it has operated as quickly and
permanently as any agent I have employed. White sweet clover
I have not tried, though it has been recently reported useful in
conditions similar to those for which the yellow species is em-

Some Neglected Remedies. 565

ployed. I have thus far relied on a tincture of the fresh plant
prepared when in bloom, and the dose ranges from five to ten
drops every hour. This plant (melilotus officinalis, resembles
the common and everywhere abundant white sweet clover (meli-
lotus alba) but has yellow flowers. It will repay a thorough in-
vestigation.

Podophyllum. — Podophyllum is mentioned merely to state that
in my hands, it has accomplished better results in controlling
the actions of the bowels than has the resin of podophyllum —
podophyllin.

Trifolium. — In search for more active remedies, physicians
have quite generally passed over red clover.

In those conditions calling for the so-called alterative — a term
at once elastic, vague and indefinite, yet expressing to us a dis-
turbed balance of the system, or a cachectic state — I regard tri-
folium as a remedy of the first importance. I have relied upon
it solely in those disposed to cancerous growths, and, in my
opinion, when persistently given, it retards the progress of can-
cerous tumors, and improves the general condition of the patient.
Though I believe it strongly antagonistic to a cancerous cach-
exia, I do not regard it curative after an active ulceration has
begun. I am disposed to believe, however, that if given per-
sistently, as soon as the growth is discovered, it will, in a large
majority of cases, be the means of preventing an early ulceration
and the consequent involvement of the lymphatic structures. I
have known of cases in which the breast was removed for can-
cer, where no further trouble was experienced for years. These
cases were given clover for periods of three or four months, and
repeated from time to time. Clover also assists in the cure of
scaly and ulcerated conditions of the tibial region in the old.

Aris&ma. — I desire to close this paper with a mention of In-
dian turnip, a remedy scarcely ever used by any one in general
practice.

My experience with it is a local application in severe sore
throat, particularly when deep or purplish red, ulcerated, fetid
and intensely painful, has led me to regard it as a valuable med-
icine. I prepare a strong tincture of the fresh corm and employ
it freely as a gargle mixed with water and with or without
glycerine. I intend, as soon as I may procure a fresh supply of
the conn, to gives it a more extended trial. The dried corm is
practically worthless.

566 Book Notices.

That which I have stated in this paper is nothing more than a
brief series of notes on the remedies considered. They are drugs
largely neglected, but each has a special place in my practice,
and I hope that the mere mention of them may lead those who
have not employed them to give them a trial.

BOOK NOTICES.

Bee-Line Therapia and Repertory. By Stacy Jones, M. D.
Second Edition. 333 pages. Flexible Morocco, Round Cor-
ners, Gilt Edges. $2.00; by mail, $2.08. Philadelphia:
Boericke & Tafel. 1899.

It was hardly fair to call this beautiful little book of practice,
Materia Medica, repertory, and what not, a second edition, for it
has been enlarged to considerably over double the size of the
old Bee Line Repertory, and every word of it re- written by the
author, who entirely discarded the printed copy of the old work
and sent in the new one in manuscript from title page to remedy
list. Well, what of the book ? Why it is doubtful if you can
think of a disease or a condition to which this book will not
put you on the track of a remedy or several of them. The book
is arranged alphabetically, including the whole human anatomy —
Abdomen, Anus, Back, Bladder, Bowels, Brain and so on to
Womb — the names of every disease from A to end; aggrava-
tion, amelioration, antidote, anaesthesia, weather, time and all
that sort of thing, and then such remedies as Acetanilide,
Alcohol, Alum, Amyl nitrate, Benzoin, Bismuth, sub-nit., Car-
bolic acid, hot water, cold water, earths and the like, as to be
simply amazing as to the amount of matter crowded into so
small a space. And then, too, if you want a certain symptom we
know of no better book in which to find it. For instance, shortly
after the appearance of this book the inquiry came to the
Recorder for the remedies having pain from nape rising up;
turned to " Head " and, under sub-head, " Pains in the head
located or extending into:" found in a moment the Allow-
ing— "Rising from the back of head or nape of neck, Cimi.,
Fl. ac, Gel., Kal. C, 141. t., Sa?ig., Sil. — " There you have
them. Now suppose some had wanted the remedy with pain
going the other way, why, there it is — "Extending from head

Book Notices. 567

down the spine, Cimt." Or suppose you wanted the remedy,
or remedies, with, say, the sensation of "A hairy tongue:"
running the pages over and watching the heading we soon come
to "tongue — see mouth." Back in a moment to "Mouth,"
rundown the subheads to "tongue;" then down the page to
" sensation" and there it is — " Hairy, Therid — As if a hair lying
on it, Kal. bi., Nat. m., Sil. — Or loose skin, Rhus," and so on.
The uses of all ointments are given. And the remedies, even
such simple ones as hot water; of this there are given twelve
uses that may come in very handy at times; of Hydro-
gen per oxide over thirty diseases are included with directions.
In short, as Friend Cooper, of the Gleaner, said of it — he got his
review in ahead of the Recorder — "No wide awake homoeo-
path will be long without it, and it will pay any modern eclectic
to own it and frequently refer to it," and he might have included
the other fellows, too, for they could find lots of use for it. It
is, in short, a cosmopolitan therapia and repertory.

Saunders' Question Compend. No. 11. Essentials of
Diseases of the Skin. Including Syphilodermata, Arranged
in the form of Questions and answers prepared especially for
Students of Medicine. By Henry W. Stellwagon, M. D.,
Ph. D. Clinical professor of Dermatology in the Jefferson
Medical College, etc. Fourth edition, thoroughly revised.
Illustrated. 276 pages. Cloth, $1.00. Philadelphia: W. B.
Saunders 1899.

Another of the well-known blue bound " Question Compends"
that has reached the fourth edition. The publisher struck a
popular chord in the medical heart, for up to date 175,000
copies of the Question Compends have been sold.

Saunders' Question Compends. No. 4. Essentials of
Medical Chemistry Organic and Inorganic. Containing also
Questions of Medical Physics, Chemical Philosophy, Analyt-
ical Processes, Toxicology, etc., prepared especially for
Students of Medicine. By Lawrence W. Wolf, M. D. Dem-
onstrator of chemistry, Jefferson Medical College, etc. 5th
edition, thoroughly revised by Smith Ely Jelleffe, M. D.. Ph.
D., Professor of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy of the

568 Book Notices.

City of New York, etc. 222 pages. Cloth, $1.00. Philadel-
phia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.

The title tells of the subject matter, and this is the fifth
edition. Enough.

A Text Book of the Practice of Medicine. By James M.
Anders, M. D., Ph. D., L. L. D. Professor of the Practice of
Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the Medico Chirurgical
College of Philadelphia, etc. Illustrated. Third edition, re-
vised. 1292 pages. Cloth, $5.50 ; Sheep or Half Morocco,
$6.50. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1899.
Another well-known book brought right up to the close of the

century. It is very thorough and complete old school practice.

A Text Book of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Phar-
macology. By George Frank Butler, M. D., Ph. D., M. D.,
Professor of Materia Medica and Clinical Medicine in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of
the University of Illinois, etc. Third edition, thoroughly re-
vised. 874 pages. Cloth, $4 00 ; Sheep or Half Morocco, $5.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1899.

A materia medica and therapeutics of our friends in the other
medical field brought right up to the end of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and if any reader wants such a book, this one will serve
him probably better than any other. Large type and well
printed and bound.

The Surgical Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Tract, Vene-
real and Sexual Diseases. A Text book for Students and
Practitioners. By G. Frank Lydston, M. D , Professor of the
Surgical Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs and Syphiol-
ogy in the Medical Department of the Stite University of
Illinois ; Professor of Criminal Anthropology in the Kent
College of Law ; Surgeon in Chief of the Genito-Urinary De-
partment of the West-Side Dispensary. Fellow of the Chicago
Academy of Medicine ; Fellow of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science ; Delegate from the United States

Book Notices. 569

to the International Congress for the Prevention of Syphilis
and the Venereal Diseases, held at Brussels, Belgium, Sep-
tember 5, 1899. etc. Illustrated with 233 Engravings. 6>^x
9% inches. Pages xvi-1024. Extra Cloth, $5.00, net.
Sheep or Half Russia, $5.75 net. The F. A. Davis Co., pub-
lishers, 1914-16 Cherry St. Philadelphia.

A very handsome and complete work on the surgical diseases
of the very important parts of man named in the title. In his
short preface the author says: " I have embraced the oppor-
tunity herein afforded me of airing a few heresies of my own in
juxtaposition with as much of the accepted and standard teach-
ings, as it is practicable to present in a work chiefly designed for
the student and general practioner rather than the specialist."
Dr. Lydston's "heresies" are rather more advanced ideas than
prevail and will in time become respectable and accepted prac-
tice. The book ought to prove successful.

Loveliness. A Story by|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 43 pages
Square, 12 mo. $1.00 Houghton Mifflin & Co. Boston and
New York. Philadelphia: Strawbridge, Clothier & Co.
Here is a case of sentiment, pure and simple, running square
against science as it is embodied in vivisection. Haughty science
does not recognize sentiment — even though it be sentiment that
moves the world, even the world of science to a very consider-
able extent — yet sentiment sent thousands on the crusades, the
Puritans to the bleak New England coast, and several other
things of like nature. The pen that wrote The Gates Ajar has
not lost its cunning. Loveliness is worth reading and if you want
to employ sentiment against vivisection here it is. When the
waist-coat of science becomes broader and its spirit less severe,
and with more of the milk of human kindness in it, there will
be no need of these books, or of every freshie cutting up a cer-
tain amount of live stock.

A Manual of Veterinary Practice. Designed for Horses and
all kinds of Domestic Animals and Fowls. Prescribing
Their Proper Treatment When Injured or Diseased, and
Their Particular Care and General Management in Health.
684 Pages. Half-Morocco, $5.00. Philadelphia: Boericke
& Tafel.

57° Book Notices.

Messrs. Boericke & Tafel have reprinted their Veterinary
Manual that has been so long and favorably known to physi-
cians, veterinarians, farmers, horsemen and stockmen. The re-
print is an immense improvement in paper, general appearance
and binding. This book is easily the best one for the general
practice of veterinary homoeopathy ever published and ranges
from the noble horse down to the insignificant hen in its scope.

Surgical Abuse of the Rectum is the title of a 36-page booklet
by Dr. W. C. Brinkerhoff, Chicago, 111. It opens this way:
" The object of relating the following experiences and observa-
tions is to afford the general practitioner of medicine knowledge
of some facts which are rarely made public. In truth ' the
least said about it the better ' is generally considered correct
when unfortunate results follow surgery upon the rectum." A
blast against orificial surgery as a profession in itself; of the
merits of the case we know nothing. If anyone wants to read
a rather grisly tale (and incidentally of the "injection"
treatment), he can get a copy of the booklet free by addressing
the author at McVicker's Theatre Building, Chicago, 111.

Repertory of Urinary Organs by Dr. A. R. Morgan.
This great work, on which the author, Dr. A. R. Morgan, has
expended nine years of hard labor, is at last accessible to the
profession and is without doubt the best Repertory of the
Urinary Organs yet presented to the homoeopathic physician.
It is a magnificent work, tastefully printed from new type, gilt
edged and substantially bound in flexible leather.

It is a credit alike to the author and the publishers, and will
prove to be a valuable addition to the literature of the homoeo-
pathic school.

E. G. Whinna,
Physician to Philadelphia Home for Infants.

Nove?nber i^th, 18 pp.

New York, November 16th, 1899.
Messrs. Boericke & Tafel,

ion Arch Street, Philadelphia.
My Dear Sirs: I am in receipt of your favor of the nth inst. also the
" Repertory of Urinary Organs'" — which you were requested to send me
by the author.

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The series of Materia Medica studies by Dr. C. M. Boger,
now running in the Recorder, and of which we are promised
more, are very valuable. Dr. Boger is doing good work, work
that will stand the test ef time. The doctor has also completed
a transition of Bcenninghausen's Repertory of the Antipsoric
Remedies, a work, we believe, that has never before been trans-
lated. The early homoeopaths valued this repertory highly as
it went through three editions in the German, the last one ap-
pearing in 1833. Messrs. Boericke & Tafel will publish this
translation and thus add another rare jewel to their book
catalogue.

Says Dr. J. W. Lockhart, in Wisconsin Medical Recorder:
" Under the germ theory the various treatments vaunted as successful in
malarial diseases is a confused mass of contradictions and absurdities that
are a disgra( e to science and philosophy. The germ theory has not pro-
duced a single rational improvemeut in the treatment of this disease."

Very true. When it comes to curiyig, the homoeopathic
Materia Medica must be brought into use, even though Dr.
Quine says it is humbug !

Dr. Wm. J. Clary, as quoted by King's Dispensatory, has the
following to say of that grand old healer, Calendula: "As a
local remedy after surgical operations it has no equal in Materia
Medica. lis forte is its influence on lacerated wounds, without
regard to the general health of the patient or the weather. If
applied constantly gangrene will not follow, and I might say
there will be but little, if any, danger of tetanus. When applied

Editorial. 573

to a wound it is seldom that any suppuration follows, the wound
healing by replacement, or first intention. It has been tested
by several practitioners, and by one is used after every surgical
operation with the happiest effect. You need not fear to use it
in wounds, and I would not be without it for a hundred times
its cost."

"To sum the matter up in a nutshell it would be better
stated in this wise: Fifteen cases of diphtheria were treated by
the writer, of that number six had antitoxine and every one is
dead. Xine others, subjected to the same influences, receiving
precisely the same nursing, were treated as nearly homceopath-
ically as ability permitted and recovered. There is something
in the inexorable logic of facts that one cannot easily get
around. We give these facts for the consideration of those
who are still looking forward for a specific stating that in
our honest belief there will never be found a specific for any-
thing."— Harvey B. Dale, M. D., in Medical Visitor.

" Xo physician, however naturally gifted for the calling, can
practice medicine with honesty or success unless he keeps in
touch with current medical thought through the journals.
Xo doctor should consider himself too poor to take less than
five medical journals, and he should not only read but digest
them, advertisements and all, for reputable journals aim to
exclude the advertisement of fakes and frauds in favor of things
which are useful and helpful to physicians." — Medical Brief .

The fable runs: " A skunk once challenged a lion to single
combat. The lion promptly declined the honor. ' How,' said
the skunk, 'are you afraid? ' ' Very much so, 'said the lion ;
' for you would only gain fame for having the honor to fight with
a lion, wThile every one who met me for a month would know I
had been in company with a skunk." '

There may be a great deal of difference between faith cure
and hypnosis, but there is a great similarity in their marvellous

574 Editorial.

results. Mrs. Eddy tells of a " mashed " foot that she cured
without even ever having seen its owner ; this is matched by the
following which the doctor tells in his own words, in a "hyp-
notic " journal:

I give this case because it seems to be of a character that hypnosis could
not reach. He was a merchant aged twenty-eight, strong and active. Had
fallen from his bicycle which injured his hip and leg. Was in bed three
weeks. Hip and leg very sore and stiff. He could scarcely endure any
pressure on account of the soreness of the parts. He was walking at the
time by the aid of a very heavy stick. He had great pain when walking.
Was hypnotized and went into the lethargic state and was then made cata-
leptic. He experienced instant relief, and had no pain, stiffness or even
soreness of the flesh and muscles when I awoke him, and never felt any
thereafter.

The following extract from the Berlin Letter to Medical
Record, of August 26, is respectfully commended to the veteri-
narians who are using the "tuberculin test" which seems to
be no test after all:

"I visited the large dairy of Grube, in Vistoria Park, and was favored
with a view of one of the largest milk establishments in Germany. All
cows are given dry fodder, are kept scrupulously clean, and subjected to a
careful tuberculin test. I was very much interested to learn that one large
batch of one hundred cows (Swiss breed) was examined with the test, and
eighty-five gave positive tuberculin reactions. Further inquiry elicited the
following very interesting information, which when I transmitted it to our
director, Professor Baginsky, he was not willing to indorse. A great many
cows, in fact, almost all, react with the tuberculin test "when tubercle is
present," but — and here is what I regard as vital — some cows, although
tuberculous as proven by a post-mortem, did not show any reaction."

"Again: cows that were not tuberculous, i. e., in which no positive evi-
dence of tubercle in the shape of lymphatic glandular swellings could be
found, gave very strong reactions; so that we cannot yet absolutely say that
none but tuberculous cattle will react."

And never will.

It has been frequently asserted that the sole virtue in the
whole outfit of " serums " or "antitoxins" lies in the Carbolic
acid used to preserve the animal fluid from decomposition. This
seems to be comfirmed in an editorial in the December Pediatrics
where the editor says :

Tetanus antitoxin seems to be of service in chronic tetanus, but we can-
not say that we have not been disappointed in the results obtained from its
use in acute cases, whether it was administered hypodermatically or in-
jected into the cranial cavity.

Editorial. 575

He then quotes a case of tetanus treated by Dr. F. H. Woods
(N. Y. Med. Jour.), with a ten per cent, solution of Carbolic
acid followed by complete recovery with no complications. On
this the Pediatrics man comments :

Carbolic acid pushed cautiously may prove a valuable adjuvant to tetanus
antitoxin, until the latter has been rendered more efficient by further ex-
perimentation and study.

What would you more than complete uncomplicated recovery?

The best paper we have yet seen on the boiling subject of
faith cure, christian science and the like, is by Dr. George E.
Gorham, of Albany, X. Y., in the August 19 Outlook, a weekly
journal. Dr. Gorham, a graduate of a homoeopathic college,
looks at the subject from the physiological point of view, and
shows how a fear or dread of any kind, will powerfully affect
the digestive functions, and thus either produce illness or retard
the return to health. "Is it any wonder that when we elimi-
nate fear and implant a steady, serine faHh our bodies recover
from many ills?" He cites three cases that had bafHed the most
skilled men in the profession, one of a woman paralyzed, hysteri-
cal paralysis, one of a girl who could not rise without fair ring
and the last thau of a young man whose stomach rebelled and
everything was vomited. The phvsician who cured these cases
first, after a very careful examination, arrived at the conclusion
that there was no functional troubles and then set to work and
made the patients have confidence that certain treatment would
surely cure — they were not indicated — and in each case the
result was complete recovery. Had these cases fallen into the
hands of a christian scientist who could have induced the
patients to believe in recovery, induced the "serene steady
faith" the result would have been the same. While a serene
belief in recovery is a good state in all diseases, yet there are
not many, like the above, in which it is the sole thing needed,
yet when they do occur they make a profound impression on all
who know of the case and give the christian scientist a standing
that in reality they do not deserve. It will be well for ph\ si-
cians to recognize the facts as stated by Dr. Gorham and thus
be able to intelligently refute the claims of these people, who,
having hold of one important medical truth", reject all others.

PERSONALS.

We are told that Lincoln, Loudon County, Va., is said to be a good place
for a homoeopathic physician to locate.

Whatley says that honesty is the best policy even though "he who acts
on that principle is not an honest man."

According to Professor Mechnikoff old age is the result of the subjugation
of the macrophagi by the microphagi. Hurrah for Mac. and down with
Mic.

The true remedy for professional and business over crowding is for every
one to do less work and charge more for it.

" Disinfectants stink so," said the Medical Freshman " that people open
the windows and pure air gets in," and thus they do their good work.

It is easy to take some things as they come — five dollar bills, for example.

When told not to say " won't " she asked what word could she use that
meant the same.

Dr. Quine advised the rou.ng.. medics: "Be honest; if you can't be that
then be lawyersf. "< ■/«, J • • « " • ; * ; I ;

Garth Wilk'i'ivWjs dead. October iSf-i. . A orand man gone.

One.ofi£*ife''s girls hoped' ^&e,r* another would go to Heaven because it
wou>gV.*U& 'awkward you know UoT have it known pne's mother was in bad
socfety j * c e

If 'you are .thitiVltig,,of g'omg 'to 43urope ne::c. year write to Dr. John B.
Garrison, iif 'fris'c :70th, ,s£Wt« ,(foe« of tlie Uo)h. Eye,' Ear and Throat
Journal), for particulars of his six tours. Will save you money and worry
and put you in good company. Write !

Plans for the new homoeopathic hospital at Ann Arbor have been ac-
cepted. Six wards, besides sundry rooms for operating, etc.

Some of our journals are getting so deuced "liberal" that they look
down on poor old Homoeopathy with almost regular contempt.

Howsomever Homoeopathy will be flourishing when this generation's toes
are turned up to the daisies.

Dewey — the admiral — may well feel the sentiments of Coriolanus after
the way the American press turned on him.

A rather interesting number of the Recorder, this ?

Papers always welcomed by the Recorder, and free, courteous speech
always allowed.

They say that when a man says his " totiicum " is "just the same " as
the Physiological Tonicum he capitally plays the part of Anannias.

What Dr. Marcy says of Afalandrininn 30 in this Recorder is curious
and suggestive — suggestive of protection against small-pox and vaccination,
and of the power of the potency over the crude stuff. Doubters can easily
test it.

Every horse owner should possess a copy of Hurndall's Veterinary Ho-
moeopathy. It may save the price of the horse in a pinch.

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